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1960013476Grabhorn Press 1960. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco September 17-18 1960". 123 listings on 49pp. . First Edition. Cream Wrappers. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Small Octavo. Grabhorn Press Paperback books
196088668vo. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1960. 8vo 48pp. In cream-colored wrappers with printers' logos in red title in black. Covers lightly soiled spine sunned. Very good. § First edition. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco September 17-18 1960. Grabhorn Press unknown books
200268967New York: The Bibliographical Society of America 2002. cloth. 8vo. cloth. lxii i 2551 pages. First edition. Adam Smith's great work of political economy reached French readers through reprints of English editions; a number of translations directed towards different audiences; and a host of summaries extracts and reviews in magazines and journals. Combining cultural history and bibliographical analysis Carpenter traces the transmission of this text and assesses the implications of its paratext - occurring in reviews and advertisements and in the front matter footnotes format and typography of more than thirty monographs and periodicals. He provides full bibliographical descriptions necessary for identifying these works and understanding their interpretative agenda as well as extensive quotations showing how translators commentators editors and publishers mediated Adam Smith's ideas. This publishing history also serves as an anthology of contemporary critical response to a text at first marginalized by the government and the book trade then adopted by intellectuals seeking an ideological basis for the French Revolution and ultimately established as a canonical work of economic thought requiring commentary and scholarly apparatus. An extensive introductory essay describes the textual transformation of the French editions and explains how French readers sought in them "a tool for creating a new society." With thirteen black-and-white illustrations and an index. The Bibliographical Society of America unknown books
198635607Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1986. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xii 216 pages. Describes the history of the library buildings and the holdings of the Harvard University Library. Harvard University Library unknown books
199658974Washington: Library of Congress 1996. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 40 pages. A lecture given by Kenneth Carpenter at the Library of Congress on September 25 1995 in which he calls for a new collaborative history of libraries and their role in American culture Library of Congress unknown books
2002178803New York: The Bibliographical Society of America 2002. Hardcover. VG. Blue cloth boards with gilt design on front cover red title block with gilt lettering on spine bw frontispiece LXIII 255 pp several bw illustrations. Text in English; Excepts from many different French translations of Adam Smith's Wealth of nations. Includes bibliographical references and index. The Bibliographical Society of America hardcover books
198622727Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1986. First edition 8vo pp. xii 216; illustrated; fine in original taupe cloth gilt. <br/><br/> Harvard University Library hardcover books
198632724Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press 1986. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy. No dust jacket as issued. xii 216 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Gift letter from the library laid-in loose. Harvard Univ. Press hardcover books
199162211Cambridge: Harvard 1991. stiff paper wrappers. Harvard. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv 74 pages. Report of the Harvard University Library Task Group on Collection Preservation Priorities. With chapters on Book Collections and Other Types of Material Needing Preservation Treatment. Illustrated. Being the Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Summer 1991 Volume 2 Number 2. Harvard) unknown books
1991108575Cambridge: Harvard 1991. stiff paper wrappers. Harvard. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv 74 pages. Separate issue of Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Summer 1991 Volume 2 Number 2. Report of the Harvard University Library Task Group on Collection Preservation Priorities. With chapters on Book Collections and Other Types of Material Needing Preservation Treatment. Illustrated. Harvard) unknown books
1995102500Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1995. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 761 pages. A special issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Fall 1995 Volume 6 Number 3. Includes several essays on the importance of the Widener Library. Paper loss in corner front cover. Covers lightly soiled. Harvard University Library unknown books
1997147858Cambridge MA: Harvard University Library 1997. Softcover. Clean and tight interior but with fading to covers and bump to lower right corner. Canteloupe wraps with black lettering. 74 pp. with occasional bw illus. This entire issue features the formation of Harvard's Collection of Incunabula by James E. Walsh. Harvard University Library unknown books
1991102464Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1991. stiff paper wrappers. Harvard. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 84 pages. New Series Fall 1191 Volume 2 Number 3. Included are: "Looking at Books Learning From It Passing It Along" by Roger E. Stoddard "Librarian on the Road To Morocco and Beyond" by Fawzi Abdulrazak and "The Authorship and Purpose of the Histoire Naturelle et morale des iles Antilles an Early Huguenot Emigration Guide" by Everett C. Wilkie Jr. Pencil markings on front cover. Harvard University Library unknown books
199525927Oldenburg Germany: Oldenburg. Near Fine. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. nice clean copy light handling wear only. Trade PB B&W and color illustrations "Robin Hood has been one of the most enduring heroes of popular culture ever since his deeds were first celebrated in medieval English ballads. The steady flow of books and films about this 'noble outlaw' in recent years demonstrates the legend's continuing appeal throughout the world and its astonishing amenability to fresh interpretation. The first part of this book is a collection of fourteen essays examining the legend from a variety of angles. The second part consists of the catalogue of a touring exhibition to be shown in six European countries in 1995-97." The essays are in both German and English some in both or a mixture but not a perfect one-to-one correlation i.e. not everything that's in German is also presented in English and vice versa; however the descriptive caption material related to the exhibition is consistently in both German and English for all items. . Oldenburg paperback books
18115659Cambridge MA: William Hillard 1811. 12mo. xvi 217 1 pp. 3 ff.; 4 maps. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 22481. Contemporary sheep; spine with red leather title label gilt-lettered. Leather dry cracked and abraded with some loss at head and foot of spine. Pages and maps with light to moderate browning; many leaves dog-eared not maps though. All edges speckled blue. Ownership inscription in ink on front pastedown. William Hillard hardcover books
1987246452New York: Simon & Schuster 1987. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 304 pages 8vo purple cloth-backed boards dust wrapper. New York: Simon & Schuster 1987. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Inscribed in red ink on the front free endpaper: "July 1987 To Joyce - who gets better all the time. With the affection of the author and appreciation for all she has done by having faith in budding authors - Liz Carpenter."<br/><br/> Simon & Schuster unknown books
1987166978New York: Simon and Schuster 1987. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 304 pages. A clean and tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some sunning to the spine. Signed and nicely inscribed by Carpenter on the front free endpaper: "To Lois- a fellow traveler from the Lady Birdy trails - Liz Carpenter. A nice association copy as the recipient Loise Wille was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist. Simon and Schuster unknown books
107616hardcover. near fine/very good. Illus. 341pp. 8vo cloth d.w. Garden City 1970. First edition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1962102763New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First edition of this first-hand account of the genesis of America's manned space program. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers illustrated. Signed on the half-title page by John Glenn Scott Carpenter Wally Schirra Gordon Cooper and comedian Bill Dana aka Jose Jimenez. Jimenez was a fictional character created and performed by comedian Bill Dana on The Steve Allen Show in 1959 and who became increasingly popular during the 1960s and is cited in this volume on several occasions. This character introduced himself with the catch phrase: "My name. Jose Jimenez". The character of Jose Jimenez caught on with the seven real Mercury astronauts and Dana became good friends with them: "Okay Jose you're on your way!" Deke Slayton quipped as Alan Shepard's famous first flight launched. Jose became the program's unofficial mascot and Dana was even made an honorary Mercury astronaut. Coincidentally there was a real test pilot named Bill Dana who flew as high as 59 miles up and qualified for NASA's Astronaut Badge. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. A unique signed example. The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort. In volunteering to entrust their lives to Mercury's spirit and Atlas' strength to blaze a trail for man into the empyrean they chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance circumstance technology and history had prepared for them" Swenson Grimwood & Alexander 164-65. We Seven chronicles the beginnings of American manned space exploration from the perspectives of those who pioneered it with each member of Project Mercury contributing at least three essay-length sections. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
16337Mary Carpenter English educational and social reformer. 19 cent original CDV photo Signed Photographed by T. R. Williams of London. Considered by many of his contemporaries as 'first among equals' A slip of paper bearing the inked inscription of the sitter has been pasted across the lower margin of the mount.<br/><br/>Mary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. she founded a ragged school and reformatories bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders. She was also active in the anti-slavery movement and became known as one of the foremost public speakers of her time. She also traveled to India where she visited schools and prisons and worked to improve female education establish reformatory schools and improve prison conditions. unknown books
16330Mary Carpenter - Female Leader in Women's Education who opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor. Autograph Letter Signed Red Lodge House 4 pages folded from a single sheet. 4"x6". To "Dear Esther." Signed at the closing "M.C." Feb. 13 187 Her signature and closing lines trail onto the adjoining first page. She writes in part: <br/><br/> "Will you kindly send at once and by parcel delivery a copy of the 2nd volume of 'Our Convicts' to the editor of the Illustrated News at their office 198 Strand. Mr Acton says he has not received a copy. I fear there have been many mistakes this time as I have too many 2nd vols. Please to keep a list of what copies of those 10 are sent off. I have had very favourable and friendly reviews; the 'Inquirer' as usual on that subject cold & dry; not one has yet grasped however the meaning of the book in the smallest degree. It is a comfort however that those who understand the subject are perfectly satisfied; the Baron Von Wollenberg & Mr M. wrote very warmly and I have reason to hope that many thoughtful persons are reading it so I must wait patiently for the rest to spring up & am only thankful to have been thus enabled to bear a testimony which will remain to principles of the highest importance to the well being and morality of the country:- if one tenth of this kind of thought which are devoted to speculation and theology were given to extending the reign of God by converting sinners how different would the world be! I shall be glad when you have finished theology and are engaged in the spread of religion. Reading Miss Aitkin's letters has led me to open Channing and I am interested in perceiving how completely my reformatory work is in accordance with his views. <br/><br/>Mary Carpenter was one of the foremost public speakers of her time and is best remembered for the huge contribution she made to educational and penal reform. She opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor and introduced reformatories which took a caring and constructive stance for young offenders. Mary Carpenter also campaigned for better education for women and reforms to prisons. Following a meeting with Frederick Douglass Mary Carpenter became a fervent opposer of the slave trade particularly the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. She travelled extensively in America Europe and India where she also sought reforms similar to those she pursued in Britain. She was a pioneer in the field of equality for women and stood almost alone as a female orator who was widely listened to and respected. Not all criticism was favourable however and in 1864 the year prior to this letter her books and her work were condemned by Pope Pius IX. unknown books
16339Mary Carpenter : Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol-Edition First Book signed by the pioneering Leader in Girls' Education published in 1875 signed "with Miss Carpenter's Complements". Free front end paper and engraving of the school separated. This slim volume is a history of her work at the school and its mission. <br/><br/>Mary Carpenter was one of the foremost public speakers of her time and is best remembered for the huge contribution she made to educational and penal reform. She opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor and introduced reformatories which took a caring and constructive stance for young offenders. Mary Carpenter also campaigned for better education for women and reforms to prisons. Following a meeting with Frederick Douglass Mary Carpenter became fervenlyt opposed of the slave trade particularly the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. She travelled extensively in America Europe and India where she also sought reforms similar to those she pursued in Britain. She was a pioneer in the field of equality for women and stood almost alone as a female orator who was widely listened to and respected. Not all criticism was favourable however and in 1864 her books and her work were condemned by Pope Pius IX. unknown books
16342Early Advocate for educational and penal reforms. Original Autograph letter signed of Mary Carpenter to Alderman Mansfield of Northampton and original mailing envelope are pasted into the volume along with 2 obituaries of Mary Carpenter who died June 15 1877. Letter is 1 page Jan 10 1877 signed at closing "Mary Carpenter" regarding the election of a woman to the School Board.<br/><br/>The letter states in part "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at bottom signed M.P. Mansfield explains the meaning of Carpenter's letter "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Carpenter was one of the foremost public speakers of her time and is best remembered for the huge contribution she made to educational and penal reform. She opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor and introduced reformatories which took a caring and constructive stance for young offenders. Mary Carpenter also campaigned for better education for women and reforms to prisons. Following a meeting with Frederick Douglass Mary Carpenter became fervenlyt opposed of the slave trade particularly the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. She travelled extensively in America Europe and India where she also sought reforms similar to those she pursued in Britain. She was a pioneer in the field of equality for women and stood almost alone as a female orator who was widely listened to and respected. unknown books
16340Mary Carpenter. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. Book with Autograph Letter Signed of Mary Carpenter Pasted in 1879 Carpenter J. Estlin M.A.--The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter First Edition 1879. Bound in green leather with marbled boards. 495 pages.<br/><br/>Carpenter was one of the foremost public speakers of her time and is best remembered for the huge contribution she made to educational and penal reform. She opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor and introduced reformatories which took a caring and constructive stance for young offenders. Mary Carpenter also campaigned for better education for women and reforms to prisons. Following a meeting with Frederick Douglass Mary Carpenter became fervenlyt opposed of the slave trade particularly the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. She travelled extensively in America Europe and India where she also sought reforms similar to those she pursued in Britain. She was a pioneer in the field of equality for women and stood almost alone as a female orator who was widely listened to and respected. Not all criticism was favourable however; both her books and her work were condemned by Pope Pius IX. unknown books
16333Carpenter Mary- Autograph Letter Signed August 12 1875 Red Lodge House Bristol letterhead. 2 pages folded from a single sheet. 4"x6". To "Dear Madam." Signed at the closing "Mary Carpenter." Discussing the education of each child and mentioning that she is about to start her fourth visit to India. Stating in part: "Private enterprise begins. I have State endorsers.inspects I pay a certain sum for each child. This is supplemented if necessary by private benevolence. At any time the certificate may be given up withdrawn by the State with one teacher. The state of the history of our school herewith will fully explain this. Please as soon as I send you a complete copy. As you do not appear to object to your name appearing in the list of those who.writing to . him in information & introduction to any.who may be.I will . I start on my fourth visit to Inidia on Sept 18th."<br/><br/>Mary Carpenter visited India in 1866 1868 1869 and 1875 in support of girls' and women's education. he opened "ragged schools" to give an education to the children of the poor and introduced reformatories which took a caring and constructive stance for young offenders. Mary Carpenter also campaigned for better education for women and reforms to prisons. Following a meeting with Frederick Douglass Mary Carpenter became a fervent opposer of the slave trade particularly the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. She travelled extensively in America unknown books
