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192125752Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company 1921. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 258pp. Slightly shaken; spine gilt dulled legible with difficulty; internally clean tight and unmarked. A solidly VG copy lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Extremely uncommon survey of vice and crime in the Windy City presented as an exercise in "psychopathology" but written in a flat hard-boiled style by the enigmatic "Prince Immanuel of Jerusalem" whose true identity is shrouded in mystery. This pseudonym turns up in a number of unexpected locations: as a steerage immigrant to California in 1909 where he is described as "the son of the Sultan of Turkey and an Arabian Jewess" and is apparently seeking to raise funds for the construction of a "Universal University" on the site of King Solomon's Temple see The Lompoc California Journal for Jan 3 1909; as the headmaster of an institution called the "University College of Africa" in Cairo Egypt ca. 1917 see Hill The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers v.11 p.769n; and as the creator of an invented language "Universal" ca. 1914 see Okrent In the Land of Invented Languages p.296. In the first two sources he is identified as "I.E. Goldreich" and "Eleasar Isaac Goldreich" respectively and he appears to have been a one-time British citizen. He was responsible for at least two other published works: Postcards of Palestine Cairo ca 1912 and Chaos: Written for the Illiterati Columbia City IN: 1947. A scarce and somewhat mysterious Chicago item. Roxburgh Publishing Company unknown books
1962150547N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Peter O'Toole Gamil Ratib and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence.<br/><br/>An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence Peter O'Toole in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46 we then follow in flashback Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo assigned to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks. <br/><br/>Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.<br/><br/>Shot on location in England Saudi Arabia Spain and Morocco. <br/><br/>10.25 x 8 inches. Some edge and corner wear else Near Fine.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert I. N.p. unknown books
186927439Vicksburg 1869. 3 1 blank pp. Folded. Toned old folds with a short closed margin tear. Title printed within a border. Good. Signed in ink by Brevet Major John Tyler Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant General. <br/><br/> The pamphlet lists Staff Officers Quartermasters at the Vicksburg Depot and Commanding Officers of troops stationed at Vicksburg Jackson Natchez Grenada Columbus Corinth Holly Springs and Lauderdale. Rare.<br/>See OCLC 48113898 1- NYPL. unknown books
190820467London: Archibald Constable 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. xvi 403 pp with color frontispiece many illustrations from photographs some folding five folding maps appendices index. Original red cloth boards rubbed at the edges and corners minor damage to cloth at upper spine. Mild spine slant but binding sound text unmarked and clean with almost no foxing. A detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the expedition Filippi led from April to September of 1906 to explore the snow range of Ruwenzori upon the borders of Congo and Uganda in the center of Equatorial Africa. Neate F27 describes this as the "classical reference work on this tropical range" noting that the party succeeded in climbing all of the principal peaks. Archibald Constable hardcover books
1880165878San Francisco: Published for the Writer 1880. Octavo pp. 1-5 6 7 8-9 10-11 12-18 19 20-208 fly leaves at front and rear original decorated green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind rear panel stamped in blind. First edition. "A spirit conducts that of the narrator to a Mars twice as old as and of moral and spiritual status superior to that of Earth. Technological attainments include high-speed airships and education aids such as hypnosis recording devices and picture machines; and women are considered the superior sex. A trip to Saturn was promised for a second book never published" - Locke Voyages in Space 82. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 857. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 203. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 413. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p 66-7. Locke Voyages in Space 2011 V 297. Bleiler 1948 p. 124. Reginald 05838. Wright III 2133. Cloth stained on front and rear covers a very good copy with tight and clean interior. #165878 Published for the Writer unknown books
183428325Boston Philadelphia: Office of the New Baltimore Magazine Adonis Howard Clark and Raser Allen & Goddard Otis Clapp 1834. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good copies with some scattered foxing edgewer to a few issues light soiling light dampstain along bottom edge of one issue. 32; 24; 20; 16; 21; 32 pp. 8vo. The New Church or Church of the New Jerusalem was based on the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg and spread to America fron England in the late 18th century. While confined mainly to the Boston New York and Baltimore areas its missionaries reached into the frontier regions of the midwest especially through the effort of a unique Swedenborgian convert John Chapman better known as Johnny Appleseed. Each issue includes proceedings letters reports list of ordained ministers and lists of places with societies or receivers. Rear wrappers list books for sale. The six issues are: 1 Journal of the Proceedings of the Ninth General Convention of Receivers of the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem in the United States held at the Temple in Baltimore June 7th 8th and 9th 1827-71. 2 Eleventh General Convention. held at the Athenaeum Lecture Room in Boston August 13th 14th and 15th 1829-73. 3 Twelfth General Convention.held at the Temple of the Second New Jerusalem Church of Philadelphia June 3d 4th and 5th 1830-74. 4 Thirteenth General Convention held at the New Jerusalem Chapel City of New York June 2d 3d and 4th 1831-75. 5 Fourteenth General Convention. Held at the Hall in Phillips' Place City of Boston August 16 1832-76. 6 Sixteenth General Convention.Held at the Temple of the Second Society of the New Jerusalem in Philadelphia June 5 6 and 7 1834-78. Scarce. OCLC shows single copies of the first three issues at the AAS and no copies of the last three. See Sabin 53248n for 8th convention. Shoemaker 29958 39776. Amer. Imprints 2762. Office of the New Baltimore Magazine, Adonis Howard, Clark and Raser, Allen & Goddard, Otis Clapp unknown books
179936252Germantaun: Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer 1799. Bound in original sheep raised spine bands lacking the clasps some chipping but a firm binding. Frontispiece. pp 8 148 8 585 9- Register 26 pp. Printed in two columns per page. Very Good. Some music is included.<br/>Evans 35453 36193. ESTC W6294. Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer unknown books
1812007813Paris: L. Duprat - Duverger 1812. Four volumes 5 1/4" x 3 3/8" From the library of John Masefield O.M. Poet Laureate his small bookplate front paste down Vol. I. With gift inscription to Masefield recto of frontispiece dated Geneva 1921. Very Good bound in contemporary quarter red morocco over diced red calf the backs ornately gilt page block edges marbled the marbling dulled the boards lightly rubbed. . New Edition. Quarter Morocco . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. L. Duprat - Duverger Hardcover books
1831008694London: William Pickering 1831. Two volumes in fine stamp-signed bindings by Hayday of full polished calf gilt backs marbled end papers tops gilt. Very Good title labels mostly lost hinges showing some wear scattered spotting to end papers only corners rubbed small stamp of Tilden Library dated 1895 verso of title pages. Interiors clean and lovely. A rather uncommon Pickering publication with a quite interestin New York City provenance. Samuel Jones Tilden 1814-1886 was a former New York governor who had run for U.S. president in 1876. He went down in history as the first man to win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote. His personal book collection comprising some 20000 volumes along with a good portion of his estate became the driving force behind the foundation of the New York Public Library. . First Collected Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. William Pickering Hardcover books
186335178San Francisco: Bell & Lampman 1863. 111pp. Disbound with a bit of loosening last leaf detached. Good. <br/><br/> Bishop Colenso's work is an amalgam of "blunders of the grossest description" but is nevertheless "important and dangerous" for its "attack upon the veracity of the Bible" particularly because the source of the assault is "a high dignitary in the Christian Church." <br/> Thus the Hebrew Wood Chopper defends the Pentateuch against Bishop Colenso's calumnies. He uses the remarkable sudden and unpredicted growth of California in the preceding fifteen years to refute Colenso's attack on the Pentateuch for implausible chronology. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Singerman 1802. Cowan 618. Not in Stern CA Jewish History. Bell & Lampman unknown books
1971WRCLIT84752Baton Rouge: The Blotter Press 1971. 12 leaves. Oblong folio 10.5 x 13"; 26.5 x 34 cm. Plastic comb bound paper wrapper lettered in gilt. Text printed on gold-colored stock alternating with color screen prints incorporating text with printed text on the facing versos. Outer wrapper faded and somewhat used internally apart from an occasional fingertip spot of tarnish to the foil about fine. First edition. A curious artist's book comprised of eight brightly colored screenprints each incorporating a short poem printed in such a fashion as to be separately framed an act sanctioned by a printed statement on the colophon. The illustrations are the work of Don Herron Jim Anderson and Bill Batic. Information about the Press is sparse other than that it was organized as a student workshop at Lamar Tech College in Beaumont Texas in 1962 and a handful of publications followed. Herron 1941-2012 pursued further work as a teacher artist and photographer in Austin San Francisco and New York. and is well-known for his series of photographs TUB SHOTS published in the VILLAGE VOICE NEW YORK MAGAZINE and ART FORUM. OCLC / Worldcat locates four copies of this production three in Louisiana institutions and one at TCU. OCLC / WORLDCAT: 10889863. The Blotter Press unknown books
P6161Moscow: Informatsionnyi Tsentr Moskovskogo Narodnogo Fronta 1988. Octavo 19 à 14 cm. Original side-stapled blind card wrappers: 123 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; some rust to staples. Internally very good or better. This samizdat directory of "amateur socio-political organizations" published by the Moscow People's Front is a remarkable record of the burgeoning civil society in the late Soviet period as well as such phenomena as environmentalism and urban conservation. The Moscow People's Front MNF was founded in June 1988 when members of some forty amateur organizations convened to draft a ratification document and elect a governing body. According to this document "The objective of MNF is to aid in the democratic self-organization of the masses and to fight for socialist renewal of society for a democratic socialism." While the group advocated democracy "freedom of press and speech freedom of public protest" as well as for "a democratic planning of the economy" they saw this reform happening within the framework of socialism and "respect for the principles of socialism" was discussed as being of key significance. MNF further advocated for all government to be given over to "democratically elected Soviets" for labor unions to exist outside of government control and for ecological concerns to be taken seriously in the management of country's natural resources. The organization held weekly protests at Pushkinskaia Square in Moscow throughout the summer of 1988 to draw attention to its goals. This directory of socio-political organizations throughout the Soviet Union was created by MNF in the same year for internal use. <br/><br/>The first "amateur organisations" sprang up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s during the Thaw. However these were mostly non-political in nature cultural literary scientific or sports clubs. Emboldened by Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika Transparency and Rebuilding the amateur organisations took on an increasingly political bent. In 1986 a new decree "Regulations on Amateur Associations" legalised the registration and functioning of amateur or "informal" associations in the Soviet Union. Observing this movement in 1990 Lyudmila Alekseeva wrote for the Helsinky Watch Committee: "The emergence of so many spontaneous free associations since 1986 is working a fundamental change in Soviet life. What was for so long a grey and mute mass is now speaking out in a chorus of vigorous dissonant voices. A society that was atomized by Stalinist terror has begun to restructure itself. . Nicknamed by the Soviet press as neformaly or "informals" to distingush them from participants in officially organised and controlled bodies these millions of historic preservationists environmentalists political activists nationalists human rights campaigners body-builders pacifists sports fans Afghan war veterans hippies rock-music devotees and others are the grassroots activsts and sometimes the strategists of the new social movements" Neformaly: Civil Society in the USSR. New York: Helsinki Watch 1990. Despite the publicaton of this report the burgeoning of civil society in the late Soviet period was quickly forgotten. It comes to light in this directory.<br/><br/>The directory is organized by republic and city and each entry gives the name of the organization the organization's focus and objectives as well as a brief history of its formation closing with contact information. Nearly 200 socialist anarchist nature and historical preservation organizations are listed all across the country each ranging in size from just a dozen to hundreds of members. The primary purpose of many of the associations listed in the directory is a kind of whistleblowing. For example the Moscow based "press-club" Glasnost defined its mission as "helping the individuals whose rights are being trampled by local authorities. . The aid is provided by publishing their story in the eponymous journal printed and distributed by the organization." Demokraticheskii Soiuz Democratic Union defined its mission as "opposition to totalitarianism" by organizing events and protests "promoting pluralism." Another Moscow based organization "Narodnyi arkhiv" People's Archive was actively compiling an archive of all manner of Samizdat self-published materials. The Leningrad based Demokratizatsiia profsoiuzov Democratization of Worker's Unions advocated "the creation of worker's unions that would be independent from the state." Arkhangelsk based "Ekologiia severa" Ecology of the north is one of many environmental organizations listed in the directory. The volume closes with organizations with a nationwide presence such as "Memorial" а group for the "preservation of memory of victims of Stalinism" and "providing aid to the victims of Stalinism" headed by the Soviet scientist and dissident activist Andrei Sakharov. Together the organizations in the directory provide a broad overview of the social concerns of Soviet citizens as well as the mechanisms that were available for their organizing. The volume is a remarkable time capsule of the burgeoning civil society in the last years of the Soviet state. Many of the organizations went on to achieve significant results often on the regional level and some of their initiators were to be elected to political positions. KVK OCLC show various copies of the first part suggesting that no further issues were published. Scarce in the trade. unknown books
199026145Ouagadougou Burkina Faso: Institute of the Black Peoples 1990. First Edition. Quarto 29cm. original tan pictorial staplebound wrappers a few soil spots; 2157 typescript leaves; title page illustrated in color. Old tape residue to spine edges of both wrappers indicating previous tape cloth backing . Edges slightly rubbed else Very Good and sound. Publication for this short-lived Pan-African organization's first and only convention held April 7-10 1990. The Institute was originally the brain child of Burkina Faso's president Thomas Sankara in 1985 two years before his assassination. However this appears to be the only convention held by the IBP created in order to "enable Black People to commit themselves more fully to their history and to play their part in that Promethean history of which the West claims to be the sole possessor" p. 9. OCLC also notes an abridge French-language publication for this convention translated as the Institut des Peuples Noirs/IPN. Of this edition OCLC locates one copy as of April 2015 at the NYPL. Institute of the Black Peoples unknown books
18237506London: Printed for A. Constable & Co.; printed by James Moyes Greville Street 1823. 24mo. 19.5 x 12 cm. xx 484 pages. Appendix of marketing tables; index. Stated Fifth Edition"the whole work has again been carefully revised by the author of "The art of invigorating life by food" &c." Originally issued London 1817 as Apicius Redivivus. this pre-title was dropped after the second edition of 1818. One of the most popular of early 19th century cookbooks both in England and America. William Kitchiner 1775-1827 was known to travel with his Portable Cabinet of Taste containing mustard and sauces so it's not surprising that the book contains eleven ketchup recipes and the recipe for Wow-Wow Sauce for which Kitchiner is credited as the inventor. This book also contains what is considered to be the first crisp or potato chip recipe titled Potatoes Fried in Slices or Shavings; "peel large potatoes slice them about a quarter of an inch thick or cut them in shavings round and round as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth and fry them in lard or dripping" recipe no. 104. ~ Printer's binding; untrimmed some signatures a bit shaken but still sound; some light spotting to the first few leaves. Hinges visible; it's unclear to me whether this book originally had free endpapers or came from the printer like this. In full natural linen with paper title label to spine "Price 9s. Boards"; label worn and soiled but legible. Near very good. Scarce example of a printer's binding on this important work. OCLC locates twenty-four copies of this printing; Bitting page 262 ff.; Cagle 798 ff. other editions. Printed for A. Constable & Co.; [printed by James Moyes, Greville Street] hardcover books
1860226397Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1860. First American edition. Frontispiece folding map. xl 464 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in pebbled original purple cloth. Almost fine. S.C. Hodges Oxford Mass. bookplate. First American edition. Frontispiece folding map. xl 464 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Very Scarce. Krapf went to East Africa in the service of the English Church Missionary Society arriving at Mombasa in 1844 and staying in East Africa until 1853. While stationed there he was the first to report the existence of Lake Baringo and a sighting of the snow-clad Kilimanjaro. Krapf besides being famed for this important work is also known for his English Swahili Dictionary the first of its kind and the standard text book for many years. Hilmy I p. 349; Pankhurst 23; Winterton sale lot 464 for London ed. Ticknor and Fields unknown books
19385428Virginia City MT 1938. 45 items. Varying sizes. Printed and manuscript. All material very good. This collection of material was archived by Flora McKay McNulty with the vast majority of it concerning her in particular either as correspondence or records kept by. McNulty acted in a variety of positions and capacities in both the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World and the Ancient Order of United Workmen it appears to be primarily she was the recorder for both. Both of the groups appear to have been very active in the Montana mining town of Virginia City Montana. <br/><br/>The Ladies of the Maccabees of the World were the female auxiliary for the Knights of the Maccabees a fraternal organization that primarily offered low-cost insurance to members. The Degree of Honor were the female auxiliary for the Ancient Order of United Workmen which was a fraternal benefits society that was formed shortly after the American Civil War. <br/><br/>Flora McKay McNulty 1861-1945 was an influential community leader in Virginia City where her accolades are lengthy McNulty was a doctor one of the first female M.D.s in the state was instrumental in the building of the Library patron of the arts paid for the higher education of numerous local young adults and with her sister Mary were at the center of social life in Virginia City for many years. The McNulty home is intact and located in the Virginia City National Historic Landmark District. <br/><br/>This collection spans four decades but most of this collection dates from 1896 to 1902. Includes a manuscript roll-call; printed notices from the L.O.T.M.O.T.W headquarters in Port Huron Michigan; printed L.O.T.M.O.T.W. reports with blanks to be filled in; TLS on L.O.T.M.O.T.W. letterhead; various printed ephemera from the L.O.T.M.O.T.W.; manuscript financial report for the L.O.T.M.O.T.W.; program for Madison County Federation of Women's Club; semiannual reports for the A.O.U.W. that are printed with manuscript entries; Degrees of Honor from the A.O.U.W.; printed/manuscript receipts from the A.O.U.W. unknown books
181514450Paris: Chez Alexis Eymery 1815. 1st edition. 19th C. red qtr calf with marbled boards & eps. 4 gilt 'N' & crown devices on spine. Deckled edges. VG bpt 2- J. G. Bertrand & Robert Florey. 203 pp. Frontis engraving. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chez Alexis Eymery hardcover books
197341784N.p.: Vietnam Veterans Against the War 1973. First Edition. Original offset lithographed poster in colors 56cm x 43cm 22" x 17". Fine fresh apparently unused example. Poster sold as a fundraiser for the defense of the Gainesville Eight a group of Florida Vietnam veterans who were accused on dubious evidence of conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. All eight defendants including the reputed ringleader Scott Camil were eventually acquitted. A rare poster and this is a lovely fresh example. Not catalogued in OCLC; we note only one institutionally-held copy Library of Congress. Vietnam Veterans Against the War unknown books
186435942Philadelphia 1864. 15 1 blank pp. Stitched. Caption title as issued. Near Fine.<br/><br/> The pamphlet is a lurid exposure of the origins and activities of the Sons of Liberty a traitorous underground society seeking to sabotage and subvert the Union from within working hand in glove with the Democratic Party. The pamphlet warns that a Democratic victory in the upcoming November presidential and Congressional elections would be a disaster. "The danger of the future lies in the cooperation of the 'O.S.L.' with the Democratic party. The former is contained within the latter and though the organizations may as yet be independent still there is ample proof that they are working in harmony with each other and that there is a perfect understanding between their respective leaders." <br/> With Northern success at Atlanta O.S.L's only hope is a violent uprising which would result in Lincoln's assassination: that is exactly what OSL is plotting. <br/>Sabin 28457. Not in Monaghan Bartlett. unknown books
1788WRCLIT56785Nottingham: Printed by Samuel Tupman 1788. 111pp. plus plate. Oblong small quarto. Contemporary sewn marbled wrappers. Old vertical crease with short break in lower margin at crease small tidemark in gutter at crown of spine modest foxing early ink name inside upper wrapper otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this work commemorating the 1688 Revolution accompanied by an engraving of the house near Chesterfield Derbyshire by Hayman Rooke. The whole including the text derived from a letter from Pegge was prepared by Rooke for presentation to friends and his prefatory note to that end has a small textual revision in ink. Both Rooke and Pegge made considerable contributions to the antiquarian and topographical studies of the area. An uncommon production; ESTC Online locates six copies: BL Bodleian Nottinghamshire County Library Yale Harvard and UCLA. ESTC N9997. Printed by Samuel Tupman unknown books
184564426Washington DC: The newspaper edited by Theophilus Fiske and Jesse E. Dow 1845. 8vo. 353-368 pp. printed double-column. Polk's first Annual Message to Congress covers pp. 353-367 of this issue of the newspaper preceded by short reports on the opening two days of the congressional session on the first page and followed on the final page by reports of congressional activities on two succeeding days and several news and commentary shorts. In his first "State of the Union" message Polk gives an update on the annexation of Texas which he signed into law later in December after all the remaining procedures outlined here had been fulfilled: "The terms of annexation which were offered by the United States having been accepted by Texas the public faith of both parties is solemnly pledged to the compact of their union . questions deeply interesting to Texas in common with the other states the extension of our revenue laws and judicial system over her people and territory as well as measures of a local character will claim the early attention of Congress and therefore upon every principle of republican government she ought to be represented in that body without unnecessary delay . if we consider the extent of the territory involved in the annexation its prospective influence on America the means by which it has been accomplished springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union the world may be challenged to furnish a parallel." Much of the rest of the first half of the message covers other situations that would lead to further expansion by the United States during Polk's term as he related in detail problems with Mexico that would lead to war the following year and negotiations with Great Britain over the status of the Oregon Territory; in the second half Polk addressed financial issues and other domestic policy closing with a short eulogy for Andrew Jackson his mentor who died the previous June. OCLC records 8 copies of this issue as part of runs Stanford Library of Congress Newberry American Antiquarian Society New York Public Dickinson College Texas-Austin Western Reserve Historical Society. Completely untrimmed and unopened quite rare thus; accompanied by two other issues Vol. 1 Nos. 17 and 23 the former with a celebratory poem on the prospect of Texas becoming a state the latter with a note that Ex-Republic of Texas President Mirabeau Lamar and Gen. Thomas J. Rusk had been nominated to be the first U.S. Senators from that state Rusk and Sam Houston were elected to fill the seats. Original self wrappers a little soiled. 10775. <br/><br/> The newspaper (edited by Theophilus Fiske and Jesse E. Dow) unknown books
180620018Philadelphia: Pr. by Jane Aitken 1806. 12mo 17.5 cm. xiv 470 pp. <br><br>Jane Aitken the printer of this first edition of the revised and amended constitution as per the 1805 General Assembly was one of the U.S.'s most distinguished and accomplished printers having apprenticed in the shop of her father Robert Aitken. Each section except for the Confession of faith and the Directory for the worship of God has a special title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 11205; Hudak Early American Women Printers and Publishers 20-30. Contemporary sheep much abraded with title gilt-stamped on a chipped red leather spine label. Ex-library with area of spine blacked out where call number once was evidence of shelf label now removed on spine bookplates and rubber-stamped five-digit number on front pastedown library rubber-stamp on title-page penciled call number on verso of title-page and on p. iii and paper label affixed to top left corner of rear pastedown. Evidence of readership: Several instances of penciled marginalia and pencil marks partial underlining of title on title-page with blue crayon and slip of paper with extensive handwritten notes in ink affixed to rear pastedown. Some pages with light foxing. Top inner portion of pp. 316 and 317 browned resulting from insertion of a slip of paper in between the pages. Occasional fold marks. Pr. by Jane Aitken hardcover books
1831287215Richmond: Printed by John Warrock 1831. First Edition. Half Leather. Good binding. The ordinances of the city of Richmond Virginia published in 1831. No earlier publication on Richmond city ordinances found in Haynes. Binding is soiled with scuffing to the spine. Foxing and toning throughout. Half calf over marbled paper boards with a red morocco label on the spine. 180 pp. including the index. Haynes 15584. Good binding. Printed by John Warrock unknown books
1974List923aBoston: Ad Hoc Committee for December 14 1974. Printed poster 17 x 11 inches folded. Somelight wear crease to center ownership marks to verso very good plus condition overall. With the ownership stamp of J. Wesley Miller with "J.W. Miller - duplicate" written in ink. Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled in 1974 that Boston must integrate its school system. The group ROAR or Restore Our Alienated Rights led a broad effort against integration supported by the School Committee most members of the City Council and many teachers and police. Early efforts to block the desegregation efforts centered around South Boston High School where some parents of white students harassed and threw stones and bottles at arriving African-American students scenes repeated in some other white middle class neighborhoods. <br /> <br /> On December 14 over fifteen to twenty thousand people marched on Boston Common in support of the desegregation efforts. Offered here is a poster from the event published by the Ad Hoc Committee for Dec. 14. The poster shows an image from the Central High School desegregation efforts in 1957 above an image from Boston in 1974. No copies located though one is likely held at Miller's unprocessed as of 2021 archive at UMass-Amherst. A note on the front reads "10-11x-1974" suggesting that he found the poster over a month before the planned event. Ad Hoc Committee for December 14 unknown books
012298London: Hutchinson & Co. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition circa 1930 large 4to 500 copies this numbered 198 three-quarter crimson morocco over red cloth gilt to spine aeg xxxiii 450; 451 - 871 copiously illustrated. The definitive compilation of principally British and some US and continental roadways and all manner of coaching and highway travel thereon. Includes thoughts on the subject from the likes of most English writers from Shaksepare to Dickens. Some wear to spines mostly volume 1. Internals near fine. CARRIAGES HORSES EQUESTRIAN. Hutchinson & Co hardcover books
