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1973225867Toronto: ¡Amnistia! 1973. 9p. single issue of the 8.5x11 inch bulletin address label on rear cover horizontal crease from folding for mailing. Includes discussion of the Carabanchel Ten and other efforts to free political prisoners in Franco's Spain. ¡Amnistia! unknown books
2013259734Istanbul: Patikakitap 2013. 192p. very good paperback. Turkish translation of "Evaluating the cultural revolution in China and its legacy for the future. Patikakitap unknown books
1777BB002<p>CLINTON George First Governor of New York State 1777-1795 1801-1804; also 4th Vice-President of the United States 1805-1812 under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.<br /></p><p>"Kingston laid in ashes by the Enemy" . <br /></p><p>8vo 7-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches 1-1/2 pages on laid paper with integral address leaf remnants of wax seal some fading to text and signature scattered minor<br /></p><p>It should be noted that Clinton was sworn in as New York's first governor on 9th July 1777 shortly after Kingston was established as its first capitol 20th April 1777. Thus the burning of Kingston and change of capitol to eventually Albany was a consequence of the War for Independence. <br /></p><p>Remarkable handwritten manuscript explaining that the British troops arrived at Kingston before his own re-enforcements whereupon 1000 men burned the town and immediately returned to their ships warning that a similar fate awaits the settlements along the shore and that forage and property should be moved from the path of the enemy reminding him to take the sleigh from the barn as it is all the personal property that remains to him after the destruction in Kingston noting that the enemy is advancing up the river to Saugerties with Tryon commanding on the east side and Vaughn on the west.<br /></p><p>Transcript</p><p><i>Head Quarters Hurley 17th October 1777</i></p><p><i>Dear Brother</i></p><p><i>"Before this can reach you you will receive the – disagreeable account of Kingston being laid in ashes by the Enemy. They landed before my troops arrived after a little opposition by the few militia Cols Pawling & Snyder could collect and marched about 1000 Men immediately up to Town - where they were told by some Tories who continued in it that my People were advancing on the Hurley Road & they immediately set it in Flames and extracted precipitately on Board their Vessels tho their Orders were to proceed to Hurley & the adjacent Neighborhoods to give them the same Fate so that tho I was not able to get my Troops Time enough to save Kingston they saved this and the other Parts of the Country near it. This will show you the Fate New Windsor & the other settlements along shore are to partake on the Enemy's Return down. Therefore the Necessity of removing the Forage &c from the Banks of the River among which remember my Slay in the Barn as it is now the only moveable Property I have left the Best being removed to Kingston shared its Fate tho indeed a great share of Property has been saved out of Town. The enemy sailed up the River this Morning as high as Saghertyes burning along Shore as they go. When they go a little higher I will follow them. They have Parties on both Sides of the River. Tryon commands those on the East & Vaughan on the West Side of the River.</i></p><p><i>Yours Sincerely</i></p><p><i>Geo Clinton</i></p><p>On Friday evening 16 October 1777 a British fleet commandeered by James Wallace and John Vaughn the latter on board the 'Friendship' which had anchored near Easopus Island the day before came into the mouth of Rondout Creek and engaged the gallery "Lady Washington". Shortly after noon the British landed on Rondout Creek and the Cove above Columbus Point. Vaughn personally led the march capturing and forcing a negro to lead them into town without meeting resistance. The troops went through the streets in parties led by Tories setting the whole place on fire in response to the occasional resistance lodged by residents from within their houses. There was looting and vandalism. Meanwhile part of the fleet went a bit up the River and creek to destroy landings and sloops. By the time George Clinton arrived into Kingston the whole town was ablaze and the British party had set out to return to their ships.</p><p>In a letter on 18 October penned at Little Britain NY in response to this letter his brother B. Genl. James Clinton writes:</p><p><i>D'r Brother</i></p><p><i>Yours of yesterday's Date I have just received. I am sorry for the Loss of Kingston &c. </i><i>Five of the Enemy's Shipping Returned Down the River last night without Doing any Damage Except fireing Some Cannon and small arms at our men and wounding one of ours on Board of a Ferry Boat…"</i></p><p>The war became personal for the governor specially after what had happened to Kingston. In a letter to William Smith @ 31 October 1777 his sentiments and commitment are laid bare:</p><p><i>"The Cruelties as well Cowardice with which this Warr has been conducted ag't us must I think be sufficient at this late Hour to convince every Man that all connection with Great Britain is at an End…"</i></p><p>Reference: <b><i>Public Paper of George Clinton</i></b> First Governor of New York War of the Revolution Series. New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1900. Volume II pp. 457-459. Our letter of 17 October 1777 appears to be unknown to the editors of the Clinton papers although they do list and transcribe the 18th October response by his brother James. Consequently our letter appears to be the only firsthand account by the governor of New York on the actual burning of Kingston an event historically reenacted locally each year within Ulster County.</p> Autograph Letter Signed, “Geo Clintonâ€, written to his brother Gen. James Clinton in New Windsor (“Dear Brotherâ€), from books
179890506a<p>ChÅ Gessho 張月樵 and Kazaore YÅ«jo 風折有丈 artists.<b> Zoku Koya Bunko 続姑射文庫 5 vols.</b> Nagoya Kansei 寛政 10 1798. 5 volumes 27 X 18cm string-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. Original format with original covers and title labels housed in a modern striped chitsu with clasps 27.3 x 19cm. Original monochrome woodblock prints many double page with Japanese text. Edited by BÅkŠ暮雨巷. A sequel to Koya Bunko 姑射文庫 done in 1768.</p><p>The "Sequel to the Koya Library" done by principal artist ChÅ Gessho 張月樵 1765-1832 and Kazaore YÅ«jo 風折有丈 is a remarkable rarity that captures the vibrant world of art and poetry centered on haikai and haiga in Nagoya. It is justly celebrated by critics from Brown to Hillier and was featured in the Library of Congress' major Japanese art exhibition "The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows Dreams and Substance." With hundreds of full-page black and white woodblock images it is probably the most extensive original example of the Haiga aesthetic in existence. Vol 1 has 52 cho Vol 2 has 50 cho Vol 3 has 53 cho Vol 4 has 53 cho and Vol 5 has 56 cho including colophon. Identical to Volumes held in ARC Koten Seki portal database online Ritsumeikan University ç«‹å‘½é¤¨å¤§å¦ with the exception of an added modern page to their introduction in Vol 1.</p><p>In very good condition throughout worn original covers and title labels worming on rear wrapper of vol 5 very good impressions. Mitchell 564</p><p><br /></p> books
193115861New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. nice solid copy light soiling to bottom edge internally clean; jacket is edgeworn small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel faint dampstain near top of front panel nearly split along rear foldover still quite attractive. Futurist fantasy in which a young Greek war refugee introduced to the wonders of modern machinery works his way up from garage mechanic to member of an airline crew. This gets him mixed up with a mysterious American arms merchant and he eventually finds himself a stowaway on a gigantic Russian airship the "Zodiak" operated by the Militant Anti-God League which of course! takes its marching er flying orders straight from Moscow and whose mission he discovers is to blanket the world with Communist propaganda leaflets and thereby lay the groundwork for a World Revolution. The book appears to be chock-full of mystical symbolism and stuff check the signs of the Zodiac on the jacket spine and in its closing pages the author quotes that well-known mystic Henry Ford: "Shall we not some day reach a point where the machine is becomes all powerful and the man of no consequence" Shall we not indeed . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1988240195San Francisco: Self-published by the author & Power to the People 1988. Single 8.5x11 handbill printed one side only on yellow stock with parody lyrics to song "If We Owned Our Power" sung to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man" very good. Gilbert Block was one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and he wrote this ditty to increase awareness of Proposition Z the Hetch Hetchy Power Contracts proposition which sought to create a San Francisco power company. It failed. Self-published by the author & Power to the People unknown books
26228Los Angeles: Friends of the USC Libraries. Near Fine. First Edition. Stapled wraps. printed wrappers teensy-tiny bump at top of spine otherwise as-new. B&W photo frontispiece A transcription of an event held in honor of longtime 20th Century-Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck. The evening was hosted by Hal Kanter and among those who spoke were Philip Dunne David Brown Frank McCarthy Mary Anita Loos Jane Withers John Payne Cesar Romero Sammy Cahn Roddy McDowall and Richard Widmark. Zanuck's son Richard D. Zanuck was present but apparently had nothing to say apart from introducing his mother Virginia who received a nice round of applause. . Friends of the USC Libraries paperback books
188010960Detroit: The Post & Tribune Co 1880. 1st edition. Brown decorative cloth. A Fine bright copy. 396 pp 36 pp appendix. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Post & Tribune Co hardcover books
1968245759New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1968. Hardcover. 406p. separating at title page first US edition in black cloth boards and unclipped dj with closed tear on spine tape-repaired on back of dj. Basis of the film. The novel was banned in Greece when published in 1966. On the government assassination of a socialist deputy. Farrar , Straus and Giroux hardcover books
194096408New York: New Age Publishers 1940. 76p. wraps minor foxing on fore edge. Reports by Max Weiss Henry Winston John Gates Bob Thompson and Carl Ross Seidman Y35. New Age Publishers unknown books
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1962SGG313A-18N.P: Marineland of the Pacific 1962. Brochure Pamphlet. Very Good. 1 Your Fun Never Stops at Marineland of the Pacific World's Only 3-Ring Sea Circus. N.P.: Marineland of the Pacific 1962. Brochure. 9 x 4 inches. Opens to 9 x 16 inches four panels each side. Full color photographic illustrations map; text clean unmarked minor shelf wear. Near fine. 2 Tim and Sally's Adventures at Marineland. N.P.: Marineland of the Pacific 1957. Pamphlet. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 16 pp. Full color halftone illustrations; text clean unmarked previously folded down the center. Near Fine. Marineland of the Pacific unknown books
195943493Cambridge: Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival 1959. First Edition. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 84pp. Wrappers a bit toned else Very Good or better. Having struggled to find work in New York City 25-year-old Gloria Steinem moved to Cambridge in 1959 to assume the position of co-director of the anti-Communist program the Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival. The Service masquerading as a private enterprise whose aim was to send democracy- and capitalism-loving American youth to the communist-run Festival was funded by an anonymous donor later revealed to be the CIA though Steinem would have been aware of this from the start. The present pamphlet was issued a month before the Festival began and provides a detailed critique of the quality of Soviet literature: "The trouble with Soviet literature as Ilya Ehrenburg sees it is that Soviet writers say things they do not believe" p. 5. Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival unknown books
195526398New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good in Good dj. c.1955. First American Edition. Hardcover. moderately shelfworn book a little fading to cloth at spine extremities age-toning and light soiling to edges of text block; jacket chipped in several places along top edge and at lower corners of spine and is missing a small triangular piece from the lower right corner of the front panel. Autobiographical novel originally published in 1906 about the traumatic experience of a boy at an exclusive Austrian boarding school where he both participates in and endures psychological physical and sexual abuse. A scandalous novel in its day it later came to be regarded as a prefiguration of the fascist mentality that led to the rise of Nazi Germany. A 1966 film adaptation was directed by Volker Schlöndorff. . Pantheon Books hardcover books
1958171474New York: Noonday Press 1958. Paperback. ix 217 p. preface by Alan Pryce-Jones good trade paperback first Noonday press paperbound edition in pictorial wraps. Originally published in German and the British first is Young 2825. Noonday Press paperback books
196343008New York: Simon & Schuster 1963. First edition of this collection of songs from the 1960's folk music scene. Quarto original cloth with 112 pages with photographs. Signed by Bob Dylan in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Features photos and tabulature of music by Joan Baez Bob Dylan Jack Elliott The Greenbriar Boys The New Lost City Ramblers and Peggy Seeger. Introduction by Pete Seeger. Notes by Earl Robinson. Rare and desirable signed by Dylan. Bob Dylan often performed and sometimes toured with Joan Baez starting when she was a singer of mostly traditional songs. As Baez adopted some of Dylan's songs into her repertoire and even introduced Dylan to her avid audiences a large following on the folk circuit it helped the young songwriter to gain initial recognition. By the time Dylan recorded his first LP 1962 he had developed a style reminiscent of Woody Guthrie. He began to write songs that captured the "progressive" mood on the college campuses and in the coffee houses. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1819307861London: printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode. for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1819. First Edition. vii i errata 1-322pp. 8vo. Original boards uncut with original paper spine title label. First Edition. vii i errata 1-322pp. 8vo. ORIGINAL BOARDS. printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode. for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown unknown books
19759091975. Softcover. VG. Red wraps. 79 pp. 4 color 45 bw repros. Catalogue lists 48 works by 40 artists. Preface by John McCoubrey introduction by Louise L. Lippincott and Richard J. Boyle. Selected bibliography. Shown at two locations in England one in Scotland and finished at the Whitney. unknown books
1954123021Seattle WA: Seattle Joint Branches Industrial Workers of the World 1954. 7p. foxed wraps. Rubberstamp of the Oakland branch on the back. Seattle Joint Branches, Industrial Workers of the World unknown books
1957102326New York: the NAACP 1957. 4p. fundraising brochure focusing on the integration of Little Rock Central High. the NAACP unknown books
19611607New York: The Living Theatre 1961. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Oblong 16mo 6 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 165 x 130 mm 4 pages in stapled red white and blue wrappers. <p>Invitation for a Champagne party and auction at the studio of artist Larry Rivers on May 2 1961 to raise money for the Living Theatre and its forthcoming European tour. The auction included art works and manuscripts most notably the entire manuscript of Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish" as well as works by John Cage Louise Nevelson Robert Rauschenberg Grace Hartigan Jasper Johns Willem De Kooning Helen Frankenthaler Franz Kline and others.<br /></p><p>Rivers's studio was at 102 West Third Street in the West Village. The invitation requested a contribution of $25 per couple and assured attendees that the evening was "informal." The guests of honor were Eva Gabor Denise Darcel Arlene Francis Shelley Winters and Kim Stanley.<br /></p><p>The evening was a huge success according to The New York Times raising about $20500 equal to around $180000 in 2021. Foundations had promised an additional $5000 while $18000 had already been raised in previous months thus assuring that the Living Theatre's European trip would go ahead.<br /></p><p>The Living Theatre planned to perform in Paris Rome London Turin Milan Amsterdam Glasgow and Florence with plays by Bertolt Brecht In the Jungle of Cities William Carlos Williams Many Loves Jack Gelber The Connection and Luigi Pirandello Tonight We Improvise.<br /></p><p>An interesting snapshot of the New York art literary and entertainment worlds of 1961. And of course a rare piece of Living Theatre ephemera. <b>RARE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Near Fine with trivial hints of edge wear. Sharp clean and fresh.<br /></p><p><br /></p> The Living Theatre books
1980138930Washington: Government Printing Office 1980. Single sheet. 59.2x41.8 cm folded to 10x21 cm 13 illustrations 2 maps. General information for park visitors. Verso is large map of Yosemite National Park. Reprinted several times probably seasonally without changes. Reprints dated 1981 and 1985 have been noted. A fine copy. #138930 Government Printing Office unknown books
19761334254Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1976. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 253; VG-/G; black spine with red and white text; dust jacket has slight wear to exterior; some minor chipping to edges as is; cloth shows light shelf wear to exterior; mildly rubbed edges; strong boards; text block has light tone to exterior; frontispiece; previous owner's label to ffep; illustrated; tight binding. 1334254. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
1995198751West Hollywood: Planet Homo Pub. Corp 1995. Magazine. 40p. includes covers 7x10.75 inches features reviews entertainment listings local ads photos very good LGBT entertainment magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover photo of the Twins. Planet Homo Pub. Corp unknown books
20042310707Cambridge Massachusetts: Candlewick Press 2004. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. First American edition thus. No jacket. A very nice copy. 2004 Large Hardcover. "Once upon a time or maybe twice some 80000 leagues beneath the sea there lay a colorful land of song and laughter called Pepperland where Sergeant Pepper's Band was always playing your song Candlewick Press hardcover books
