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195221275Warrenton VA: The Virginia Horsemen's Association 1952. First Edition. Map. Printed in brown ink on textured ivory paper 22" x 27-3/4" ca 56cm x 71cm. Map size within neat-lines 14" x 25" decorated with insets of horses and riders by Wesley Dennis. Legend identifying farms by breeder farm name map location and county occupies lower third of sheet. Few tiny edge-nicks else a fine unmarked unsoiled copy never folded. An uncommon Wesley Dennis item. The Virginia Horsemen's Association unknown books
1907006192London 1907-1913. Full Morocco. Very Good. A strange lyrical manuscript that celebrates the spiritual the mystical and the beautiful. Oblong 25.5 by 37 cm. 49 pages with content many of which are illustrated with watercolors until the last few unfinished pages which have illustrations sketched in pencil. 21 pages have watercolors not counting painted letters. Two pages have finished well-executed pen-and-ink drawings. Followed by blank leaves constituting half of the album. John de Kay 1872-1938 was an American entrepreneur millionaire author and eccentric. With earnings from publishing ventures he invested in the Mexican meatpacking business becoming in the process the "Sausage King of Mexico". By 1909 his meatpacking business in Mexico had a book value of $22 million which translates to about $500 million in today's dollars although he sold his interest in the business to the Mexican government five years later for just $5 million still over $100 million in today's dollars. With his fortune he produced his own play "Judas" on Broadway with no less a star than Sarah Bernhardt as Mary Magdalen. The play with its depiction of a vampish heroine was shut down by the police after its opening night. It was also banned in Boston and Philadelphia. De Kay reportedly infatuated with Bernhardt showered jewelry and other gifts on her. De Kay went on to pen many other works on a wide range of topics including women's rights the labor movement Mexico and world peace as well as at least one work of poetry. As a man of great wealth de Kay owned substantial properties in both France and England as well as having a lavish apartment in New York. We have not been able to discover anything about the presumed illustrator credited in pencil on the cut out back of the FEP Winifred Elliot whose enchanting work is to us the glory of this manuscript. As far as the manuscript this is an anthology of disparate pieces including poetry prose meditations and apercus some of which might be rightly deemed ruminative essays except the organization tends to be somewhat discursive and the purpose is not so much the setting forth of an argument as much as the gathering of loosely linked insights and observations. The writing style can be epigrammatic but also pompous and pretentious perhaps deliberately so as the tone desired would seem at times to be biblical and prophetic. Topics include the law of beauty the soul on being etc. In one essay entitled "On Civilization" de Kay appears to propound rather radical notions. He writes for instance: "The individual is not to expect any help from a Government so long as that Government is organized upon the theory that it is right that a few men may claim the ownership of the earth. . . " If we wish to flatter de Kay we could say some of his writing prefigures that of Kahlil Gibran. On the other hand it shares some kinship with the fusty belletrists of the Late Victorian period as well. However one might assess the writing on its own we would maintain it has merit in how it complements the artwork which it deserves credit for having inspired. The artwork generally has a strong affinity to the pre-Raphaelite style. Here are opulent floral borders seraphs aplenty Medievalist historicism and fantasy. We especially like a page which abounds with butterflies painted with magnificent detail. Condition: Rebacked with matching navy morocco with most of original spine re-mounted but loss of everything from lowest raised band to below from the original spine. Considerable amount of rubbing of leather along edges with a few minor abrasions to leather elsewhere. One shallow but wide ding on rear upper edge. Silk moire endpapers suffering some edge tattering. The FEP is deliberately scooped out neatly so by edge of turn-ins to reveal on back pencilled information about the book. We have relied on this information for the title and also as solidifying the attribution and dating. The pages have light edge toning and an occasional stray mark or smudge. <br /><br /> books
1953132111London: Eagle-Lion Distributors 1953. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1953 UK film. Features Tessie O'Shea. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. Rubber-stamped on the verso by the distributors and the photography studio Cannons. <br/><br/>An aging stage performer heads to London to be the star of a new show but when another performer is given the lead role his daughter sets up a scheme to get him back in the limelight. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with discoloration from the glue on the verso. Eagle-Lion Distributors unknown books
2010SKU1017446University of Pittsburgh Press 2010-07-10. PAPERBACK. Very Good. 0822959496 Clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Light wear. University of Pittsburgh Press paperback books
1949010557New York: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill 1949. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. 64 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear; almost near fine condition. Price-clipped dustjacket with one small chip a few small tears and creases with slight soiling and shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Circus. First edition. Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Hardcover books
1964688551964. Paperback. Very Good. Includes: 1 Small photo; 2 large broadside headed "Wactor for Bishop Out of the Depths" 44 x 65cm. later folds; and 3 five mimeo single-page letters in support of his candidacy from Edgar L. Hatwood L. W. Watts L. C. Holifield and from 18 women from Alabama or New York. Also included are a manila envelope stamped Wactor for Bishop which held this material. Bishop Wactor appears to have been born in North Carolina in 1908 graduated from Livingstone College and before securing election as a bishop served pastorates in North Carolina Tennessee and New York serving for a number of years as pastor at The Greater Hood Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in New York City. <br/><br/> paperback books
1891291050Sackett & Williams 1891. Map. Original color lithograph. 20.25 x 17.5 inches.<br/><br/> The Aleutian Islands are included as an inset in this unusual map of regional linguistic data. Special attention given to the West Coast. Henry Gannet produced the Seventh Annual Report for the Bureau of Ethnology. Repairs to original folds.<br/><br/> Sackett & Williams unknown books
1970275572Woodland.: Majestic Press. 1970. trade paperback. very good: shelf wear on cover. 8vo. inscribed and signed by the author on the front free end paper. Majestic Press. paperback books
19536883Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress 1953. 44p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Wells was an African American inmate in San Quentin prison sentenced to death for throwing a cuspidor at a guard while serving a life sentence. Attorney Charles Garry later known for his work with the Black Panthers filed a suit on his behalf attacking many of the racist policies of the prison system including its segregation policies as failure to provide true rehabilitation. His case and the support campaign around it has been discussed relatively recently in Theodore Hamm's "Wesley Robert Wells and the Civil Rights Congress Campaign. Civil Rights Congress unknown books
1953140938190Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress 1953. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 4 44 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good with wraps a little edge-worn. Letters from an African-American inmate on death row. Civil Rights Congress unknown books
2007UTILLEM00AFPalgrave 2007. Very Good. Tillman Barrett. Lemay Lessons in Leadership Great Generals Series. Clark Foreword Wesley K. NY: Palgrave 2007. 205pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Palgrave paperback books
19511331436Chicago New York San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company 1951. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 172; VG-/G; brown/blue pictorial spine with ivory text; dust jacket has modestly sunned exterior; few chips to corners; John Newberry Award 1949 winner sticker to front; light foxing to front; mylar wrap; cloth shows little wear to exterior; strong boards; text block edges have light foxing; illustrated endpapers; tight binding; frontispiece; illustrated; interior clean. 1331436. FP New Rockville Stock. Rand McNally & Company hardcover books
19275215Warehouse Point East Windsor Conn: The Church 1927. Octavo 23 x 15.5 cm. 92 pages. Includes table of contents. Advertising interspersed. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook with two hundred eighty attributed recipes from the North Central Connecticut community of East Windsor. Meat dishes document the "international" interest of the 1920s: English Hotch Potch Hungarian Goulash Italian Spaghetti Dutch Casserole and jarring though it always seems Arabian Pork Chops. Elsewhere an effort to include local American regions crops up: Virginia Vegetable Soup Philadelphia Cinnamon Buns Vermont Canned Chicken. A reference to whole grain in baking seems evident in one recipe calling for "entire wheat." ~ Warehouse Point is a historic neighborhood in what since 1768 has officially borne the name East Windsor. The area had been known as Warehouse Point since the mid-1600s when it functioned as a river transport station at the southern edge of Springfield Massachusetts Colony. The Wesley Church at 55 Main Street - now Wesley United Methodist of East Windsor - prospers its white clapboards rounded chancel stunning stained glass historic organ not to forget the bell dedicated in April 1900 all faithfully maintained. ~ The signature of the book's original owner may have belonged to Ruth Ethel Humason 1893-1949 who according to census records that place them in Warehouse Point had a younger sibling named Ina Louise 1895-1982. The identification rests on the slender evidence that a handwritten recipe labeled "Ina's Choc Frosting" is folded on a loose leaf within the pages of Junior Aid Recipe Book. ~ Shelfworn. Stapled in green wrappers now soiled with black lettering and a photograph of the church within a black border; back chipped and separated save for four strips of white cloth tape applied by a previous owner. Some pages splatter-stained and page fore-edges soiled with chipping and marring of text. Owner's name in ink on front cover: "Ruth E. Humason June 3rd 1927." Good only. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown or Cagle. The Church hardcover books
1989UWESJUM00CZCBlack Swan 1989. Good. Wesley Mary. Jumping the Queue. London: Black Swan 1989. 202pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed extremities. Black Swan paperback books
2001407144New York: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center 2001. A fine copy with slightest of shelfwear at jacket edges but no tears or nicks. 13 x 10 inches. 200 pages. 51 color and 76 black-and-white illustrations. Cloth; dust jacket. Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Alanna Heiss Brian O'Doherty. "Accompanying a retrospective at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York this new monograph documents the work of painter John Wesley covering his entire career from 1961 until today. Wesley is known for his consistency of palette--baby blues and cotton pinks--his use of painted "frames" within his pictures his early emblem paintings his cartoon Bumstead works--and ultimately for his representations of an inner erotic voyage where the viewer is both voyager and voyeur. Initially considered in alignment with pop artists of the early 60s Wesley consistently produced works of such a subtle and subversive nature as to put him in a category of his own. He used the early tools of advertising production--like tracing paper and stock photography--and was the subject of a wide range of influences from Surrealism to Art Nouveau from ancient Greek poetry to Matisse. The result is an oeuvre that has challenged and rewarded viewers for forty years" the publisher. <br/><br/> P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center hardcover books
1990173622Marfa Texas: The Chinati Foundation 1990. Softcover. VG. White stapled wraps with bw illustration and black lettering on front cover unpaginated 14 bw illustrations. Featuring 14 black and white plates by artist John Wesley January - April 1990. The Chinati Foundation paperback books
19781330821Santa Fe: School of American Research 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; First edition; G/G; Ex-library; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with white print; DJ in mylar light edgewear barcode label on rear mild shelfwear price-clipped; Boards in cream cloth with green print protective plastic and paper cover adhered to cloth and to interior pastedowns; Text block has library stamp on top edge and inked-out stamp on rear flyleaf stain to top edge of front flyleaf and initial pages else clean and tight; xii 260 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w drawings color plates. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1330821. FP New Rockville Stock. School of American Research hardcover books
1978165187Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1978. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated in color and in black & white with photographs and maps and over 100 detailed drawings by the author. 4to white cloth d.w. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1978. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> University of New Mexico Press unknown books
1978194184ALBUQUERQUE/SANTA FE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS 1978 1978. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED VERY GOOD-FINE. Hardcover. ALBUQUERQUE/SANTA FE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 1978 hardcover books
1949Z1756Boston:: John W. Luce 1949. 1949. 8vo. 168 pp. Light green cloth dark blue stamped spine title dust-jacket. Fine. Clarke patented a lantern for identifying stars and constellations and wrote a pamphlet to accompany it. John W. Luce, (1949). hardcover books
1913233758New York: Leo Feist 1913. 4p. 10.5x13.5 inch sheet music with a picture of male impersonator Tempest on the front. Tempest's first name was various spelled Florenze and Florence; after WWI she usually seems to be listed as 'Florence.' She and her sister Marion Sunshine appeared as Tempest and Sunshine with Flo usually assaying the "male" roles.In this case the song is a more typical paean from a woman to a man. Leo Feist unknown books
1999140743New York: Columbia University 1999. Softcover. VG No illus. from original were photocopied. Dissertation copied from microfilm by UMI 419 pp. spiral bound; no illus Dissertation "concerned with the philosophical and aesthetic implications of the appearance of the train in the eastern landscapes of the mid-nineteenth-century American artist." abstract After addressing the topic in more general terms Maddox devotes separate chapters to four specific works: "River in the Catskills" by Thomas Cole; "Progress" by Asher B. Durand "Starrucca Viaduct Pennsylvania" by Jasper F. Crospey and "The Lackawanna Valley" by George Inness. Maddox went on to become an expert on the collected works of Jasper F. Crospey. Columbia University paperback books
1880012142Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Stated Second Edition--With Charts. Original brown cloth boards with gilt imprint have rubbed and bumped edges and corners and scratches across the boards. Spine ends worn off sunning and fraying on spine front board starting. Light soil creasing and toning on pages and and a few tears and chips on endpapers. The front endpapers have the signature of N. H. Mitchell dated 1882 with Mitchell's stamp on the front pastedown. Newton Horace Mitchell was a geologist who accompanied Custer's Black Hills expedition in 1874 and produced a multi-volume work on Minnesota's geology. At the rear is a pocket with four kinship charts. The book is organized as a field guide with pages 75-228 laid out as worksheets with vocabulary and sentences to collect with blank ruled pages at the end. ; 11 3/4" x 9 1/2"; 228 pp . Government Printing Office hardcover books
1999181106Ilford: A Frank Cass Journal 1999. Paperback. 259p. softback item glossy 8.5x6 inch journal wraps. Mild edgewear with a light vertical cover crease table of contents page is marked in pencil we find one pencilled bracket also in main text good copy. Laid in are Frank Cass promotional materials. Featured articles are "Espionage and the Cold War: Oleg Penkovsky and the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Len Scott and another similar by Gil Merom. A Frank Cass Journal paperback books
2002132190Toronto ON Canada: Toronto Public Library 2002. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. Table of contents introduction acknowledgments. An exhibition at the Canada Trust Exhibition Gallery and two other venues of the work of eleven artists artisans and designers working in the book arts. Color illustrations. Toronto Public Library unknown books
