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18604301Eldorado & Iowa Hill 1860. Good. Four manuscript documents including three letters totaling six pages. Old folds moderate toning minor edge wear a few tears a small hole in one letter. A neat group of four manuscript letters and documents all related to the mining activities of L.D. Davis of Georgia over a four-year period during the latter years of the California Gold Rush. Davis appears to be a lawyer living somewhere back east and may have been an investor in California mines or managing the financials for some mining concern from afar. The documents include an 1856 promissory note regarding "noted for collection" a long undated letter likely from California to Davis detailing amounts of gold taken from an unspecified mine and the mine's ownership situation and two letters overtly datelined from California -- the first from Iowa Hill in 1859 and the second from Georgetown in El Dorado County in 1860. Each document presents a unique set of concerns for Davis. Notable details of the three letters are as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 Autograph Letter Signed from A.J. Huff to Mr. L.D. Davis. Iowa Hill Ca. April 17 1859 2pp. The text reads in part "I have been very very sick for the last three weeks but am at this time improving.the disease is caused by the exposure of this last winter having worked continually in the rain and snow preparing my claim for the season. Times are very hard in this country now everyone has to work hard and is in big luck if he makes a decent living. A great many are making money very fast but in comparison not one in ten to the number than used several years back to make money or in other words the chances are about one in ten when they were one in fifty two and three in this country. If a man can get a good claim he can make more clear money out of it than he could then owing to the fact that everything is cheaper and experience has taught the People of California a great deal in respect to saving the gold and expediting the work. I think I have a very good claim which will last for a long time three or four years. It has been very expensive opening it but that is pretty well all over with now."<br /> <br /> 2 Autograph Letter Signed from J.D. Arranaut to L.D. Davis. Georgetown Eldorado County Ca. April 28 1860 2pp. Here a colleague of Davis's in California seems to be struggling and writes thanking Davis for a loan. The text reads in part with spelling normalized: "I was glad to hear from you and to.learn that you would comply with my request by letting my wife have $25 worth of corn for her use and please find enclosed a bank draft. I take it as a great favor as I am far from home. Let me know how my wife is getting along and if she stands in need of anything."<br /> <br /> 3 Autograph Letter Signed from J.H. Worley to L.D. Davis Esq. N.p. n.d. 1p. The letter concerns percentage ownership in an unspecified mine and opens with a four-line listing of the "amt. of gold taken from mine 513.51.1 while under my control." The author then writes in part: "The rent and expenses were take out of the above account and after the gold was sold one half after paying expenses. I know you are too well positioned in law to know that I dare not have settled with any other person unless I had been so instructed according to law. When Mr. Findley returned from Burke County he stated to me that one half the mine was for Mr Adams and myself and the other was for himself and his friends but did not say who they were. unknown
3733512<p>Atlanta: Foote & Davies 1892. Small 8vo. Frontis. 41 1pp. Pictorial wraps with later tape reinforcement to spine small tears and light soil. With a two-page introduction by William Tertsh Whilden Williamston Female College professor.</p> <p>Written through the lens of the “Lost Cause†ideology this life sketch of Juno Waller Seymour d. 1883 was crafted by a member of the Whilden family of Charleston South Carolina—possibly Ellen Ann Whilden 1822–1895 or W.G. Whilden to whom she was enslaved as a domestic servant. While presented as a memorial tribute to Seymour’s life its text blends plantation and evangelistic literature folklore and perhaps occasional kernels of biographical truth.</p> <p>According to the narrative Seymour’s given name was Cumba and she claimed her lineage as a member of West Africa’s Fula tribe and the daughter of a king. She was captured by slavers as a child and initially brought to the French colony of St. Domingue now Haiti. Amidst the tumultuous backdrop of Toussaint Louverture’s Revolution she was sold and transported to Charleston in 1800 where she came under the ownership of Bayfield Waller a city merchant.</p> <p>Seymour was subsequently given to the prominent Whilden family with Joseph Whilden Bayfield Waller’s stepson and co-founder of the City Gazette and Advertiser in 1816 serving as the family patriarch. To the Whildens she became known as “Maumer Juno†or “Maum Juno.†Apart from tending to her daily domestic duties Seymour looked after the growing family’s children and continued to do so across several generations.</p> <p>The front wrapper and frontispiece of the Life of Maumer Juno feature an identical image of Maumer Juno gently cradling a baby in her arms accompanied by the caption “Minding the great great-daughter of her first owner 1853.†Known as the “chattel Madonna formula†this visual motif was employed by 19th-century photographers to portray enslaved African American women as the benevolent care-takers to the children of their enslavers. Matthew Fox-Amato</p> <p>Support for this construct is found in elsewhere in the text but in words not images. In one passage Seymour is found to be “surprised and delighted when for the first time a tiny white babe was placed in her arms.†Seymour’s exuberant expression of joy is juxtaposed with a passage elsewhere in the text that underscores the fact that she never bore any children with her enslaved husband.</p> <p>Enlarging the “Madonna formula†further Seymour is posthumously labeled by the author as being a “saint of African birth†on the day of her funeral. This resonates with the author’s intention of depicting this faithful yet enslaved servant as deeply religious truly Christian and in fact purified as exemplified in an earlier passage where Seymour declares “I am black outside but inside I am white for every day my heart is washed in blood.â€</p> <p>Following the primary text there is an additional seven-page profile of Seymour penned by “Mrs. J.C.H.†The reliability of this white woman’s observations seem questionable as when she writes: “She Seymour told me that when first dressed in our clothing she thought she was being prepared for sacrifice and fled away hiding in an outhouse while she took off her garments tearing them almost into ribbons in her fright.†p30</p> <p>Still at least one observation may be deemed reliable such as this passage: “Of her native land she talked often and as the days of her pilgrimage lengthened her memories grew more bright and strong of her life in the far-away land. The customs of her people their worship of the new moon the wearing of cloth their method of preparing food all seemed vivid mental pictures…†p30</p> <p>LCP Afro-Americana 5921. See the image “Old Maumer selling Groundnut candy in the Streets of Charleston†taken by G.N. Barnard 1819–1902 South Carolina photographer.</p> unknown
613836 pp. Small 8vo attractive antique calf-backed paste paper boards spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Musier 1774. The uncommon sale catalogue of a distinguished collection belonging to Antoine Antonin duc de Gramont 1722-1801 who inherited the title in 1745. 106 lots thoroughly described including works by Albani Guerchin Wouwermans Jordaens Watteau etc. Nice copy despite inoffensive marginal worming to first five leaves. ❧ Lugt 2348. hardcover books
59282 p.l. 280 pp. 8vo cont. green sheep-backed marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Paris: A. Labitte 1873. The first and most important private collection ever formed exclusively devoted to festivities; this sale catalogue has remained an indispensable work of reference to the present day. The 1200 lots are arranged under the sixteen different countries in which these festivities took place except for two amazing special sections: the first catalogues thirty-eight books published between 1515 and 1559 describing festivities and solemnities in honor of Emperor Charles V. The second describes almost 400 pieces concerning festivities held during the French Revolution offered in one lot but catalogued separately on pp. 259-277. Ruggieri d. 1885 was the last of a long line of Royal and Government "artificers" i.e. pyrotechnists which had been founded in 1730 when five Ruggieri brothers transferred themselves from Bologna to Paris. Fine and attractive copy. Original printed upper wrapper bound-in. ❧ Blogie col. 126. hardcover books
01-085816th Century . Bartsch XV no. 2. Engraving. 133 x 154 mm. 16th Century unknown
199116697New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1991. Boards. Fine/Fine. A remarkable one-of-a-kind copy of Brian Wilson's 1991 autobiography. INSCRIBED BY THE BOOK'S DEDICATEE BRIAN WILSON'S PSYCHIATRIST DR. EUGENE LANDY WHO HERE WRITES IN A BURST OF SURPRISING CANDOR: "FOR ASHLEY-- THIS BOOK TELLS WHAT & HOW I SPENT THE LAST 9 OR SO YEARS OF MY LIFE -- A GREAT CHALLENGE AND A WASTE OF TIME -- I MEET YOU RIGHT AFTER I LEFT -- I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR LUNCH LOVE EUGENE LANDY". In other words the book's dedicatee appears to be renouncing in this inscription the work he did with Brian Wilson. A sharp near-pristine copy to boot of the 1991 stated --and true-- 1st edition which correctly starts the number bar on the copyright page with "1". Tight and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp price-intact Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo written with the assistance of Todd Gold. <br/><br/> HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
15546266Venice: Ad Signum Spei 1554. First edition. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. 1696pp. Title page with a large allegorical woodcut vignette. BOUND WITH: Campeggi Tommaso. OPUS. DE AUCTORITATE & POTESTATE ROMANI PONTIFICIS & Alia Opuscula Quae Indicantur in Sequenti Pagina. Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium Aldi F. 1555. Sm. 8vo. ff.12223. Lg. woodcut anchor & dolphin printer's device on title. Both works nicely bound together in 19th century brown morocco gilt decorated spine over marbled boards. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox on front pastedown. First editions of two of Campegii's main works. The first is his tract on celibacy the second is his treatise on the power of the Pope ff.1-116 followed by 19 other theological treatises. I. BM STC Italian p. 142. Not in Adams. II. BM STC Italian p. 142. Adams C477. Renouard ALDUS p. 164. Ad Signum Spei hardcover books
16691149Paris: Claude Barin 1669. <br/><br/>Corneille Thomas 1625 1709 translator. Ovid 43 B.C. 17 or 18 A.D. Les metamorphoses d'Ovide Traduites en vers Francois par T. Corneille. Paris: Claude Barin 1669. Original edition of the first two books of Ovid translated by Thomas Corneille. The full translation was not published until 1697. <br/><br/>12mo. Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands. Rubbed. Leaf with engraving on verso; leaf of title verso blank; 8pp. ded. to La Dauphin signed T. Corneille; 4pp. Av lecteur; 234pp. text with one engraving for book II on I viverso; 12pp. priv. dated 12 Aout 1668/31 Jan 1669. Collation: 1 a6 A-T6 V3 . STC French 1601-1700 O-236. An elegant edition with beautiful typography and ornamentation. <br/><br/>Thomas Corneille 1625-1709: playwright poet. To distinguish himself from his brother Pierre Corneille Thomas was known as “Monsieur Corneille.†He was one of the leading authors who began to produce plays during the Fronde and brought out even more plays than his brother Pierre: thirty-eight plays composed alone or in collaboration. His first tragedy Timocrate 1656 helped to restore the genre to popularity after the troubles of the Fronde. Although he was more attractive in manner and in conversation than Pierre he lacked Pierre's genius. Still "with Quinault he filled the interval in the history of the French drama between the zenith of Pierre Corneille and the advent of Racine" Harvey and Haseltine. <br/><br/>Although not as important a playwright as his brother Thomas wrote with great facility. He is credited with perfecting the French language as can be evidenced by this translation of Ovid begun shortly after he left school his notes to Claude Favre Vaugelas Remarques su la langue Francais 1647 his compilation of a dictionary of arts and sciences for the Academie Francaise 1694 and his editorship of Mercure galant with Donneau de Vise. <br/><br/>The artist of the two engravings fronting the books is the son of Hermann Weyen or Weyher Laurent Weyen 1643-1672 a Flemish engraver who died in Paris. Laurent also engraved illustrations for the works of Moliere. <br/><br/>Provenance: Goodspeed's Bookshop/Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. Claude Barin hardcover books
1609WB17560London: Print. for Math. Lownes 1609. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 parts in one volume folio 286 x 188mm. Pagination: 8 1-7 1-204pp. i. e. 208; 1-218pp. 2 with final blank. Signatures: A4 3 frontis. B-R6 S5 Cc4 B-V6 some signatures missigned. Engraved title of architectonic frame pair of Roman soldiers and at top portrait of Henry Frederick Prince of Wales; through the arch a military camp on either side of a river with shore in the foreground and hills in the background Imprint details are an after addition. Full-page woodcut oval portrait frontispiece of Julius Caesar wearing laurel wreath inscribed Ivlivs Caesar Dictator Perpetvvs Veni Vidi Vici Aestatis Svae 56 present and bound in before the note to the Reader A1. 12 engraved plates of various battles military formations and encampments of Caesars Roman army including Battles with the Helvetii Ilerda and the Gallic wars one labeled Cicero Besieged all but 2 double-page or folding. Woodcut engraved chapter head and tailpieces. Dedicated to the soldier Sir Francis Vere d. 1609. Verses by William Camden Joshua Sylvester Samuel Daniel and Ben Jonson. Contemporary calf gilt scrolling arabesque centerpiece on covers manuscript binders waste remnants in front hinge; extremities somewhat rubbed spine chipped at top and missing bottom compartment lacking ties and front endpapers; light marginal dampstaining some folding plates closely cropped some marginal fraying of title and two preliminaries small crack in inner portion of plate facing p. 86 in the first part later marginal note in ink on p. 190 in second part; overall a solid copy with all plates present. Later signature of Rebecca Ayre on title verso; a person seemingly untraceable it is notable at least this name suggests female ownership over some point in the life of the volume. <br/><br/>First published in 1600 in London by Peter Short dwelling on Bredstreet hill at the signe of the Starre two new editions of the Observations upon Caesars Commentaries appeared in 1604 one issued for Mathew Lownes and one for William Ponsonby and again three more editions appeared in 1609 two are linked to the printers office of Mathew Lownes ESTC S121465 as here and ESTC S91812 and the third ESTC S121472 indicates no publisher. All of the 1609 issues have variations in the titles and imprints as common. Mathew Lownes was a prominent bookseller in London at the Bishops-head in Pauls Church-yard from at least 1595 to 1625; Lowness activity is associated with several important publications on Roman imperial history between 1604 and 1623 which likely put him into the milieu of the author Sir Clement Edmondes d. 1622 who was by 1600 also an influential government official in the House of Commons and City of London. Edmondes wrote his observations on Caesars Commentaries the Gallic and Civil Wars to propagate the ways he believed ancient Roman military tactics might aid contemporary warfare. ODNB and larger scholarship notes that Edmondes carefully molded his remarks and included additional subjective material which was later seen as an attempt to influence the readers experience. This is an important publication thus for exemplifying the intent of some Roman histories written in the early Stuart years. It was popularly received in his time and Edmondes believed his efforts to draw out the true heroism of an ancient republic would help among other ideas the question of how to deal with an invasion of England. ESTC S121465. Print. for Math. Lownes hardcover books
15616593Basil: Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam 1561. First collected edition. Vellum. Very Good. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 each with its own title page see below. 16240;18010pp. With the final leaf of errata and colophon. Orig. limp vellum inner hinges reinforced with linen cloth strips. Later endpapers. The first part is a description of England Scotland Ireland the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands with a long English historical chronicle. The second part separately collated is the author's "Moschovia in qua Situs Regionis Antiquis Incognitus." a description of Moscow but it also includes his description of Lake Como the place of the author's birth and a text on Italian fish. VD 16 G2058; BL German STC p. 360; not in Adams. Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam hardcover books
193059487New York: Horace Liveright 1930. Second Printing same year as the first. Octavo 21cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; 1213-3093pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in year of publication the half-title page: "To Erskine and Sara / with never-ceasing affection / Sincerely & fraternally / Michael Gold." Further inscribed by Wood: "From Erskine & Sara to their dear friend Max Rosenberg - echoing the above - The Cats / July 1930." A tight clean copy in the original cloth binding; board corners lightly bumped and a few mild taps to board edges the endpapers illustrated after woodcuts by Howard Simon. Solidly Very Good lacking the scarce dustwrapper. <br /> <br /> A great association copy inscribed by Gold to one of the leading leftist intellectuals and authors of his time. Wood 1852-1944 was a self-styled anarchist aesthete and painter. As an attorney in the 1920s he defended a number of prominent figures on the left including the anarchist lecturer Emma Goldman and contributed prolifically to the radical periodicals of the period. With his second wife Sara Bard Field he was a long-time resident of Los Gatos California and was known for entertaining visitors at the estate "The Cats" mentioned in the present inscription. Interestingly Wood did not have a reputation for sympathy with doctrinaire Marxist thought; it seems unlikely that Gold would have written Wood such an effusive inscription even a few years later as during the Great Depression he would rise to become one of the leading apparatchiks in the CPUSA. Horace Liveright unknown
1705OB993<p>London: Printed for R. C. Richard Chiswell S. S. S. Smith or Samuel Sprint B. W. Benjamin Walford. 1705. Hard Cover. x 30 23-286 289-392 351-553 1 p. plates portrait; 38 cm. The account of Hooker's life is by Izaak Walton 1593-1683. The first edition of 1553-1597 is Printing and the Mind of Man 104. Pages 211 220 276 432 437 and 445 are misnumbered 221 200 476 434 435 and 436; text and register are continuous. Added engraved title-page: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie Eight Books. Edited by John Gauden 1605-1662. Bound in contemporary leather rebacked by Hope Bindery with gilt spine; very good. Stock#OB993.</p> Printed for R. C. [Richard Chiswell?], S. S. [S. Smith or Samuel Sprint?], B. W. [Benjamin Walford?]... hardcover
17893236<br /><p>The scarce first edition of this delightful collection of moral tales attributed to the prolific children's writer Richard Johnson. Illustrations by Bewick were added to the second and subsequent editions of which there were many including four in America in Philadelphia Wilmington and New York. The author is given on the title page as 'by the editor of the Looking Glass for the Mind' which was printed by Newbery in 1787 and which was actually by the French children's writer Arnaud Berquin. It was translated by 'J. Cooper' one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Johnson.</p><p>In his preface the editor praises Berquin and other foreign writers whose books for the juvenile market 'merit the highest encomiums' and who have humbled themselves to deal in 'the plain language of youth in order to teach them wisdom virtue and morality'. The text comprises some 23 short stories of varied length style and setting including such titles as 'Juvenile Tyranny conquered' 'The Book of Nature' 'The happy Effects of Sunday Schools on the Morals of the rising Generation' 'The Happy Villager' 'The Indolent Beauty' and 'Female Courage properly considered'. </p><i>12mo 170 x 100 mm attractive engraved frontispiece and pp. vi 212 engraved title-page vignette tear to p. 85 through text but with no loss</i> <i>in contemporary plain sheep spine cracking some scuffing to covers plain spine ruled in gilt with faded ink title headcap chipped worn at extremities with the contemporary ownership inscription of Ann Elliot on the front pastedown.</i><p>Roscoe J39 1; Osborne II 900. </p> Elizabeth Newbery
1702007452Augsburg 1702. First Edition. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Very Good. A fine collection of highly detailed Baroque copper engravings. 8vo. 18.5 by 13 cm. 188 leaves of plates. Plates most often have two copper engraved illustrations each approximately half the page but a good number of plates two or more smaller vignettes in lieu of a larger rectangular illustration in the bottom half of the page. There are also an abundance of title pages -- these are included in the pagination -- with two title pages per section each with a frontis and also a title for the work overall. Well over 300 separate illustrations. Printing on only one side of each leaf. Condition: rubbing along joints and some other scratches and wear to straight grained morocco. Scattered foxing and/or other soiling never disconcerting fortunately. A few short-ish closed tears. unknown
6413viii 120 pp. 4to cont. pale blue paper wrappers spine defective. Vienna: La Société Typographique 1790. The uncommon sale catalogue of the collections formed by the founder of the famous Viennese music publisher. Originally from Lucca Mechetti c. 1745-1811 encountered financial troubles and was forced to sell his collection of thousands of items primarily Italian prints and paintings. In the introduction Mechetti highlights certain pieces in his collection which was apparently not for sale by auction but rather private contract. Pages 113-20 describe a large library rich in books on the arts and history. Nice copy. This copy was inscribed on the inside front wrappers to the amateur geologist Baron de Beroldingen see Zittel. From the library of His Serene Highness Prince Fürstenberg at Donaueschingen with his stamp on title. ❧ Cicognara 4548. unknown books
19594585New York: Vanguard Press 1959. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo charcoal cloth <br/><br/>Advance Review Copy with Review Slip and glossy drawing laid in. Author's first book. Extraodinarily fresh condition. Vanguard Press hardcover
1901215<p><strong>CRIPPLE CREEK: A Standard Handbook of the Mines and Mining Companies 1901</strong> of America's Greatest Gold Camp and other Mining Camps of Colorado U.S.A. Correct To Date. Compiled from the Land Office Records and Official Reports of the Various Companies Mentioned Herein By O. R. Salmans and J. M. Auld No. 19 Midland Block Colorado Springs Colorado January 1901 App-Stott Co. Engravers and Printers Denver Colorado "Compliments of Herbert S. Shaw Mines ands Mining Stocks Rooms 14 and 15 Brown Palace Hotel Denver Colorado" printed on front cover. Handbook dimensions: 4-1/2 inches by 10-1/4 inches; 96 pages. Condition: very good plus to near fine; light chipping near spine ends; internal pages brtight and clean; complete with front and back wrappers. Stock broker's investment handbook detailing property production development and other details for mining companies throughout the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District of Colorado. Hundreds of mining companies listed. Numerous mining plat maps. One 2-page township map of the Cripple Creek Gold District.</p><p>Excellent reference for collecting Cripple Creek mining stock certificates and finding mining properties in the district. COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL.</p> App-Stott Co., Engravers & Printers paperback
196315874Garden City: Doubleday Crime Club 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good . Police novel which was made into the Steve McQueen film "Bullitt". Bump on bottom front board corner. Two tiny specks at top of front free endpaper. Dust jacket with $3.50 price has a little rubbing on the rear panel. Jacket is bright except for the publisher's name at bottom of spine which is somewhat faded. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Crime Club hardcover
17776329The Hague but Paris: Gosse et Pinet; Humblot 1777. First edition. Fine/The collected works of Restif de la Bretonne would probably fill an entire wall case. He wrote tirelessly producing some 250 books--a considerable physical task if not the intellectual achievement of some of his contemporaries in the French siècle des Lumières. Restif was a libertine and he wrote quite a lot about sex. He also bravely ignored standard literary forms forging his own way into autobiography polemic essay pornography and fiction leaving trails that are yet to be explored. The volumes offered here in their completely original unsophisticated state form a part of an ambitious series of books that appeared over two decades under the umbrella title "Idées singulières" Modest Proposals an extensive compendium of rules and regulations for the creation of a utopia. Each title in the series proposes a reform project for a particular aspect of society. In the case of Les gynographes that aspect is the status of women in society. While not entirely a 21st-century feminist disappointingly he is unable to exceed received patriarchal attitudes Restif makes some presciently modern arguments including that gender inequality is a social construct and is not biologically determined and that education is the key to gender equality. Indeed the text betrays a disconcerting mix of statements that can be interpreted as misogynistic alongside truly revolutionary ideas about the condition of women in society. Even the 19th-century bibliographer P.L. Jacob notes that "some very singular and very original ideas" occur juxtaposed against "severe and unjust comments" about women. . 2 volumes octavo 22; viii 238; 239- 567 1 pages. Unbound untrimmed unmarked and completely unsophisticated copy in original publisher's marbled paper wraps. Pages not bright. Some dampstains and occasional spots. References: Courbin "Rétif et son oeuvre" #14595; Rives Childs XVI p. 245; Jacob XVII p. 143. Gosse et Pinet; Humblot paperback books
1949131899Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film dated Nov. 24 1948. <br/><br/>Fuller's auspicious directorial debut one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment the film based on the life of Robert Ford displays many of the hallmarks of the iconoclastic director's subsequent career. <br/><br/>20 x 15 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of small closed tears to the bottom edge. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 5. Lippert Pictures unknown books
19476055131947. 8 3/4" x 11 5/8"; 1 page recto and verso; very good fresh; 1947. Rare and unique! Signed on the front by: Agnes Moorehead; Brian Donlevy; Robert Walker; Tom Drake; Beverly Tyler; Audrey Totter; Hume Cronyn; Hurd Hatfield; Joseph Calleia; Godfrey Tearle; Jonathan Hale; Henry O'Neill; Warner Andersen; Art Baker; Ludwig Stossel; Arno Frey; William Wright; Erville Alderson; Nella Walker; Barry Nelson; Moroni Olsen; Trevor Bardette; Robert Considine - story; Frank Wead - writer; Ray June - Cinematographer; Stanley Goldsmith - assistant director; Joe Edmondson - sound technician; Samuel Marx - producer; Signed on the back by: George Boemler - film editor; H.T. Wensel Harry - technical advisor; Tessa Primock - script; Gertrude Kupwood Ward; Hans Peters - art direction; Dick Campbell - sound; Frank Myers - assitant director; and many others! Although contemporary sources indicate that Leon Ames and Agnes Moorehead were cast they did not appear in the released film. The film marked the motion picture debut of Guy Williams who played the title character in the Walt Disney television series "Zorro" 1957-1959. According to HR news items in June 1946 a controversy erupted when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt objected to the casting of Lionel Barrymore as Franklin D. Roosevelt alleging that the actor had made desparaging remarks about the late president. Production on the film had already begun when the studio decided to replace Barrymore's scenes with actor Godrey Tearle. "The Beginning or the End" was released February 19 1947 directed by Norman Taurog. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. paperback books
First Edition (?) of thisColophon on m7r: Basel: Joannes Oporinus March 1551. 2 Parts in 1 with separate titles. 8vo. pp. 188 4incl final blank; 90 30index. woodcut initials. 17th century vellum title backed repairing 2 marginal holes resulting from erasures light dampstaining in first gatherings some light foxing & a few underlines [Colophon on m7r:] Basel: Joannes Oporinus, March 1551 hardcover
19470001605ASHLAND DAYTON ORRVILLE OHIO OH. Good. 1947. On offer is an original very intriguing 1947 manuscript diary and journal of a terrible post World War II child custody case and divorce. Unique for the times this was handwritten by an unidentified rural Ohioan who may have been either a Myers or Garver as he identifies 2 uncles. The author tells of his daily life which usually revolved around his large extended family the churches he attended and automobiles which he repaired and worked on all the time though he did do other work including farming. But right from the start the reader sees a pattern begin: the first entry is January 5th where he writes he has loaded up his car went to Ashland by 6:30 pm and then slept on his mother's davenport. He is also sick with a cold that never seems to end. Other entries mention more family travels large amounts of cash buying a car selling a house long and late hours weather reports and concerns and social observations. Yet all the while in the background are his health and the ups and downs of his divorce. He appears to be ill a lot perhaps the stress he sees the doctor many tests different shots and so on. In July he is in trouble with the law who seem only too glad to give him a hard time even though he has legal counsel. A part of the diary tells of his struggles with his own child custody case in which he is trying to get custody of his child. He notes trial dates of which he was never informed. The custody case and visitation get very dramatic as his ex-wife or girlfriend tries hiding the child from him in Alabama. He travels to Jacksonville to talk to the Mayor who took him to the High School where he had traced his daughter Sylvia. He also travels to Alabama and Florida searching for his high school age daughter Sylvia. Later he went to Birmingham to enlist the help of the Sherriff. This whole case would have been very unusual for the time. He does a super job recording each and every visitor companion and family member: Uncles Charles Myers Uncle Newton Garver Woodford Howard Leroy Reynolds Glen McFern Paul Sharpe heard Dr. Davis missionary 35 years in India at a lecture sleeps at the church one night Joe Bagelys Chippewa Lakes Park Lattasburg downtown Dayton Mansfield Perrysville Jeromeville plus dozens of places on his travels. The 7 1/2" x 5" book is has a broken rear hinge but is overall G.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF RAILROAD RAILWAYS FIREMAN ENGINEER WYOMING STEWARTSVILLE STOKER AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown
41377Lyon. Pierre Bailly. 1645. 8vo. 8's 17cm xii590p. bound in early full dark brown calf raised bands gilt center panel decorations and gilt borders and title neat restoration to edges of binding and original spine laid down new endpapers contemporary ink signature on first prelim. and title; a very good to fine sound copy ho8.4. ~ Brunet V-795; vide Graesse VI2 p.122 vide Tchemerzine V: 866. ~ This French poet 1591-1626 was the acknowledged leader of a group of Parisian "libertines"; he was a Huguenot and a freethinker and made good use of his sharp wit in writing about the Church and the government. He wrote and produced his work on "Pyramus and Thisbe" around 1623 and wrote several satirical pieces as well as poetry. He was banished from Paris several times on grounds of blasphemy indecency etc. yet managed always to return usually under the protection of the Duc de Montmorency and in fact died in Paris. Lyon. Pierre Bailly. 1645 unknown
1818ABC_45491Haarlem 1818. Large 8vo. A. Loosjes Pz. Contemporary half calf marbled sides. 4 IV 127 pp. Very rare first and only edition of the only Dutch translation of a Russian description of the United States of America. The title-page notes that it is translated from the German translation 1816 and the preface notes that the first edition in Russian appeared in 1815. A second Russian edition appeared at St. Petersburg in 1818 and has sometimes been described as the first.The great Russian author Pavel Petrovic Svinyin or Svin'in here westernized to "Paul Swinin" is best known for his Sketches of Russia published in the West under the name "Suinine". The identity of the Dutch translator of the present work is unknown. It gives an interesting "picturesque" travel account of the United States spanning the year 1813 and provides five main accounts covering different subjects: a statistical survey; a religious overview with descriptions of the several Christian communities naming Methodists Quakers Shakers Baptists and more; a description of the different types of steamboats used in North America; a biography of the French general Jean Victor Moreau who lived in exile in the United States from 1805 to 1812; and a description of the dancing rituals of indigenous American "Indians" naming the Osage Arkansas Sioux and Saki tribes which the Russian author interestingly compares with tribes in the Caucasus.With the bookplate of the society Doctrina & Amicitia on the front paste-down. Some browning on the first and last few pages. Covers very slightly rubbed. Otherwise in very good condition.l NCC; Sabin 93997; WorldCat 10553560 & 656756512; not in Howgego. ABE CAT Anthropology & Ethnography unknown
