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1911WRCLIT19288New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley 1911. Gilt red cloth t.e.g. First American edition. Bookplate else near fine. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
1911200598New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley 1911. Hardcover. 199p. very good first Kennerley edition in red cloth and gilt. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
190623266Chicago: Chicago H. Kerr & Company 1906. Hardcover. 162p. notes appendix cocked mild shelfwear good in green cloth boards. International Library of Social Science. Chicago H. Kerr & Company hardcover books
1911WRCLIT55161New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley 1911. Gilt red cloth. First American edition unidentified impression with p. 200 blank and the top edges not gilt. Pencil erasure from front endsheet last gathering carelessly opened a few spots from once laid- in floral bits; a sound copy. BOICE 1911.31.b. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
191139393NY: Mitchell Kennerley 1911. Small 8vo pp. 199. One hinge tender some water-staining along edges of first and last few pages o/w VG. Carpenter 1844-1929 visited the US in 1877 meeting US writers and later devoted himself to the Socialism of Morris and Hyndman. His discussion of sex roles mirors his understanding of power in contemporary society. Includes chapters on "Woman the Serf" "The Free Society" etc. Mitchell Kennerley unknown books
195736955Austin: University of Texas Press 1957. Hardcover. Very good. xxii 119pp. Very good hardback in a price clipped and lightly rubbed jacket. <br/><br/> University of Texas Press hardcover books
9753AUSTON UN TX PRESS 1957. AUSTON, UN TX PRESS, 1957 unknown books
1957UCARLUC00LWUniversity of Texas Press 1957. Very Good. Carpenter Will Tom. Lucky 7: A Cowman's Autobiography. Miles editor Elton. Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1957. 119pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Very good with light fading of top edges and spine; gift inscription on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with spine faded and top edge of spine lightly crumpled; short open tear at bottom right of front cover. University of Texas Press hardcover books
2002178972Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2002. Oversized Paperback. 126p. double-column text with numerous period images on magnificent glazed paperstock; 12x9.5 inch frenchfold wraps one corner mildly bumped a near-fine copy. Universidad Complutense de Madrid paperback books
190329184Parigi: Au Ménestrel Heugel et Cie. PN H. & Cie. 20505 1903. Folio. Full dark blue cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 1f. recto dedication verso blank 1f. recto title verso copyright statement i notes on first performance and named cast list ii contents i copyright statement 331 i blank pp. Text in Italian.<br/><br/>Named cast includes Marta Rioton Deschamps-Jéhin Tiphans P. Vaillant Foqué Derougeais Garcia Eyraud Brossier Maréchal Fugère Carbonne Vieulle Belhomme Dufour Rothier Dangès Viannenc Rapaport Devaux Troy Viaud Huberdeau Clasens Micheau Petit Georges Sigri Éloi Schindler Jullien Gilly Larroque and Edea Santori.<br/><br/>Binding very slightly worn and rubbed. Slightly worn and browner; minor creasing to upper outer corners; ex-library with library and publisher's handstamps first four leaves and page 7. First Italian edition of the second version of the opera. <br/><br/>First performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on February 2 1900 under the direction of Albert Carré.<br/><br/>The composer's most famous work. "All Charpentier's works have contemporary pictorial or literary bases and it should be remembered that Louise was conceived as an opera before the verismo works of Puccini Mascagni and others had been staged. Décor is an all-important factor in his art; the real heroine of Louise is Paris." Robert Orledge in Grove Music Online. Au Ménestrel, Heugel et Cie. [PN H. & Cie. 20505] 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
199694539Ithaca:: Cornell University Press. Near Fine. 1996. Paperback. 0801480620 . Second paperback printing. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Cornell University Press, paperback books
19881302118New York: Rock Foundation 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Folios 3 volumes VG/no DJs as issued; gray cloth boards black lettering to spines: very mild overall wear to boards spines faded beige lettering clear and legible; minimal wear to clean text-blocks; interiors clean; VOLUME 3.1 COSMIC GAMES;<br /> VOLUME 3.2 THE LABYRINTH & OTHER PATHS TO OTHER WORLDS; VOLUME 3.3 THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN; frontispieces; volumes housed in VG- brown cloth slipcase; shelved front table. 1302118. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Rock Foundation hardcover books
35543New York: Rock Foundation 1986. Hardcover. Volume I in four books. 14.5" x 11.5". 1073 pp. Illustrations and diagrams throughout. Gray buckram with spine titles stamped in black gray patterned endpapers; housed in matching gray buckram slipcase. A Very Good set showing uniform sunning to spines and some shelfwear and sunning to slipcase. Edited and written by Edmund Carpenter assisted by Lorraine Spiess. ISBN 0937691038 . VeryGood. Hardcover . Rock Foundation 1986 hardcover books
190726228Boston: American Gymnasia Company. 1907. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy illustrated with diagrams and photographs of various dances to do around a May-Pole. Very charming.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pp . American Gymnasia Company hardcover books
18402026804A. Waldie 1840. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Former copy of Genesee County Medical Library only a few marks. Boards rubbed front joint cracked pages faintly stained. 1840 Full-Leather. 345 pp. 8vo. Includes six fold-out maps. A collection of medical and surgical monographs by various specialists. Topics included: Asiatic cholera; club foot; the heart; fibrinous concretions of the nervous system; perforations of the stomach; syphilis; typhus fever; incisions of the uterus. A. Waldie hardcover books
1809132382Printed for the Purchasers 1809. Hardbound. Condition is good as follows: Olive green library cloth ancient with small "s" on mid-spine of each volume as well as faint printed call numbers and name of former institution. Mostly uniform age-toning with scattered foxing. A few tiny dogears in volume 2. Formerly in the Apprentices Library then in the Franklin Lyceum of Wilmington Delaware and finally in the Wilmington Institute Free Library whose bookplate is inside each volume. card-pocket in each volume. Overall tight and clean a very presentable set of these rare books. Old olive library cloth. Two volumes title page replaced with typewritten tp in Volume 1. Vol. 1: iii iv since title page lacks 404 pp. Vol. 2: ii 434 pp. A rare set sold with all faults as described. An excellent reading or reference set not for the overly discerning collector however. Could easily be rebound. Appears to have been printed in New York. Howes describes this rare work as "Venomously critical; said to have been suppressed" due to its scathing description of Jefferson's years in public office and his foreign policy once president. A book with a curious history. It was copyrighted by "Thomas Hall" but contains neither the author's nor the printer's name. Tompkins 27: "Suppressed by the printers on account of the libels it contained. Parton calls them 'two octavo volumes of vituperation.' " It is said that the printer fearing the libel law submitted the book to a lawyer Samuel M. Hopkins of Auburn who after reading 20 or 30 pages reported that he found an average of a libel per page. Howes C164; Sabin 11004; Shaw & Shoemaker 17514. Printed for the Purchasers hardcover books
1809299716New York: Privately Printed 1809. First. hardcover. very good. First edition of Carpenter's privately printed anonymously published Federalist attack on Jefferson apparently suppressed and subsequently very scarce.<BR><BR>2 volumes. iv 404; ii 434 pages. 8vo rebound in recent tan polished calf with red & black spine labels ownership bookplate on pastedown with owner's initials stamped at foot of spines. New York: Printed for the Purchasers 1809. First edition. Expected light toning and foxing; spines sunned still a very good copy.<br/><br/> South Carolina journalist and passionate Federalist Stephen Cullen Carpenter authored and anonymously published "Memoirs of Jeffereon" amid controversy over Jefferson's Embargo Act and the same year increasingly Antifederalist James Madison was inaugurated as the nation's fourth president. Carpenter accuses "Jefferson of being a captive of dangerous French revolutionary ideals" Kaplan 187 and "criticizes very severely the character and administration of Thomas Jefferson" Sabin. 11004. The book argues that Jefferson's "known imbecility" and "zeal in favour of the French republic. seems to have been so violently hot at times as to have bereft him of all discretion as a statesman. unmindful of his duty as a citizen of prudence of every thing but his perverted ambition" II: 166-80. "Venomously critical; said to have been suppressed" Howes C164. Shaw & Shoemaker 17154.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1850289813New York: Baker and Scribner 1850. Hard Cover. Good binding. The First Edition of the only book of poetry by Marcus T. Carpenter of Jackson Miss. and native of New York. Scattered spots of soiling to the text; lacking the front endpaper. Wear to the edges of the binding and loss to the head of the spine. Embossed black leather with gilt decorations. All edges gilt. OCLC notes two institutional holdings. Good binding. Baker and Scribner unknown books
1999165415Singapore: Archipelago Press 1999. First edition. Softcover. Features text by Jerome Feldman Bruce W. Carpenter Arnold Wentholt Scott McCue and Frank Wiggers. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. Archipelago Press unknown books
19052Single sheet of fifty four-cent stamps signed by all of the Mercury Seven as follows: Malcolm Scott Carpenter; Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.; John Herschel Glenn Jr.; Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom; Walter "Wally" Schirra Jr.; Alan B. Shepard Jr.; Donald "Deke" Slayton. The signatures of Shepard and Grissom are faded. Matted and framed opposite a copy of Life magazine featuring the Mercury Seven. Entire piece measures 20 inches by 26 inches. An attractive and desirable piece signed by all of the Mercury Seven astronauts. "The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort. They chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance circumstance technology and history had prepared for them" Swenson Grimwood & Alexander. NASA introduced the seven astronauts in Washington on April 9 1959. Although the agency viewed Project Mercury's purpose as an experiment to determine whether humans could survive space travel the seven men immediately became national heroes and were compared by TIME magazine to "Columbus Magellan Daniel Boone and the Wright brothers" TIME 1959. unknown books
201129907No Place: Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club 2011. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine/near fine. Elephant folio. Stiff paper wrappers in decorated paper dustwrapper. Brief text by Jacob Proctor. Catalog from a 2011 exhibition. Illustrated in color. One minor blemish to the front cover and a little bit od edge wear to the delicate dustwrapper. Nice copy of an already uncommon book. Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club paperback books
1976265277New York: Michael Giammetta 1976. Magazine. 72p. including covers 5.5x8.5 inches illustrated with photos and ads lightly-worn first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Guide to gay entertainment in NYC and on Fire Island including plays bars baths etc. As mentioned in the 5th episode of "The Deuce" on HBO. Cover photo of Jon Michael & Rod Toddy snogging from "Mondo Nexus" "The Unexpurgated Lotman" by old friend of yours truly. A lengthypiece replete with great photos on the life and career of favorite singer/dancer/novelist Carpenter. Reviews of "No Man's Land" by Pinter with Richardson and Gielgud and of the SM film "Maitresse Michael Giammetta unknown books
1965175974np: np 1965. First edition. Softcover. Includes 9 loose sheets. Text in English and French. One sheet features a short essay by Denys Chevalier one sheet includes a chronology and another a llist of previous exhibitions. The other six sheets include a total of 17 black and white illustrations and information about them. All sheets in close to near fine condition with a few small spots and in a near fine folded cardstock sheet with some minor wear and it features a black and white image of Charpentier. Uncommon with only 5 copies listed in OCLC. np unknown books
