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187119973Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt 1871. original cloth. thick 4to. original cloth. 512 pages. First edition. Bigmore & Wyman II 259. With twenty plates including a full color frontispiece and a full-page example of raised lettering used for printing for the blind. About 1700 articles covering all aspects of the book and its production have been written by the famous authorities of the day. The many illustrations in the text are especially useful. Covers rubbed with worn spots along hinges and edges. Worn at spine ends. Front inside hinge partially broken. Menamin & Ringwalt unknown books
18719027291Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt and J. Lippincott 1871. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and front cover elaborately stamped in gilt rear cover elaborately stamped in blind. Edges worn through at extremities half-inch tear at head of spine small chips at heel of spine front hinge separated. Text block is sound. All pages are present intact cleam and bright. Contains many elaborate illustrations of the printer's craft including a two-page color facsimile of illuminated text from a Bible printed by Gutenburg and Fust about the year 1455 following p. 240 printers' coat of arms granted by Frederick III printers' devices by Caxton and numerous technical tables. <br/><br/> Menamin & Ringwalt, and J. Lippincott hardcover books
193796096N.P.: n.p. 1937. stapled stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. 5 pages. Third issue. Reproduced from typescript. n.p. unknown books
196940134Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1969. Hardcover. Very good. viii 168pp. Very good hardback in a lightly edgeworn jacket. <br/><br/> Westminster Press hardcover books
196940194Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1969. Hardcover. Very good. viii 168pp. Ink name on front free endpaper else a very good hardback a slightly tanned and edgeworn jacket. <br/><br/> Westminster Press hardcover books
1838707231838. Massachusetts Addresses the Effects of the Panic of 1837 Cushing Luther Stearns 1803-1856. An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Equal Distribution of Their Effects; Passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts April 23 1838. With an Outline of the System Thereby Introduced And Forms of Proceeding Under the Same. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1838. vii 1 93 pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Original paper-covered boards with decorative blind stamping printed paper title label to front board. Light rubbing to extremities some soiling and staining to title panel corners lightly bumped and worn moderate toning and light foxing to text. $250. Only edition. This annotated edition of the newly-passed laws on debt and insolvency at a time when federal and state law was attempting to devise legislation to remedy the effects of the Panic of 1837. Cushing was an important Massachusetts jurist and expert on parliamentary procedure. He was clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives when he published this book. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2499. unknown books
1834WRCAM55483Boston: Published by the Author 1834. 43pp. Modern green cloth gilt spine title. Faint foxing small American Antiquarian Society deaccession stamp on verso of last text leaf. Very good. A rare early work by Rhode Island labor organizer Seth Luther following his first printed work AN ADDRESS TO THE WORKING-MEN OF NEW-ENGLAND. and his AN ADDRESS ON THE RIGHT OF FREE SUFFRAGE published the previous two years. Seth Luther 1795-1863 was born in Providence Rhode Island and worked as a carpenter by trade. Like his earlier publications the present ADDRESS was printed from a speech Luther delivered this time before the Union Association of Working Men in Charlestown Massachusetts in late January 1834. Setting the tone for the speech in the first paragraph Luther rails against those "clothed in purple and fine linen" on the backs "of those who labor day after day." The present work is further described by the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY as follows: "A denunciation of political and religious as well as economic oppression.the author laid down the following program of reform: universal equal education by means of manual labor schools supported at the public expense; abolition of all licensed monopolies; abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt.equal taxation for property; and an effective mechanic's lien law. His deadly sincerity forceful language grim humor and biting sarcasm made his pamphlets valuable weapons in the labor movement." <br> <br> This title is rare with this copy being the only one appearing in Rare Book Hub formerly offered by M&S Rare Books. Not in Sabin. OCLC seems to report about a baker's dozen physical copies over several records. This is the first copy ever handled by this firm. Adams RADICAL LITERATURE IN AMERICA p.43. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25382. ANB 14 pp.151-52. DAB XI p.511. Published by the Author hardcover books
54597Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1940. Covers show some soiling and scuffing to edges previous owner bookplate otherwise Very Good. . Other hardcover books
180035808Boston 1800. 19 1 blank pp. With the half title. Light to moderate foxing disbound Good.<br/><br/> Unlike most countries we assemble "not to pay the servile homage of adulation for the birth of kings and despots." Our revolution was not the "demon of anarchy"-- as in France-- and there are "no provinces defolated to mark the flaming path of Equality." <br/>Evans 38402. unknown books
180028346Boston: Printed by John Russell 1800. First edition. Self wrappers. Stitching absent else a very good copy with scattered foxing. 19 1 pp. Sm. 8vo. Engraved title-vignette and tail piece. Half-title is: Luther Richardson's oration. Evans 328402. ESTCW28799. Sabin 71074. Printed by John Russell unknown books
16101Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Crisis in America's Cities; An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty Discrimination and Racism in Urban " First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover. King's nationwide call to action against urban poverty the most ambitious Civil Rights Campaign in the Northern United States culminating in the 1968 Fair Housing Act with significant differences from King's final speech. King authored this brief but influential treatise after riots spread through the urban north due to intense discrimination and poverty. "The white society did not move and Newark came after Watts and was followed by Detroit. We will have to make them move. We will have to remind them that in the 18th century Thomas Jefferson said 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.'" First Editions of the original speech made by King are extremely rare with only one known in the holdings of the King Center archives. This earlier draft held in the files of King's organization the SCLC is the only known draft of this speech in existence. <br/><br/> On August 15 King delivered what is probably the most fiery of his speeches entitled "The Crisis in American Cities." He pointed a finger at hypocrisy declaring "if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots the hardened criminal would be the white man." The blame for the situation he placed upon "the policy makers of the white society.they created discrimination; they created slums; they perpetuate unemployment ignorance and poverty." With aching eloquence King declared that "Discrimination is the hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." His mission was to end the housing segregation that forced blacks into unsafe and unsanitary ghettos of the urban north. With tensions boiling over during the "long hot summer" of 1967 high unemployment discrimination and unsanitary an crowded living conditions led to riot after riot in cities across the urban north. King's message in "Crisis in America's Cities" was that love not hate was the answer to racial violence. <br/><br/>This speech was never formally published or collected but was released in small numbers of staple-bound 6 page copies with green covers and as a tri-fold printed pamphlet. The King Center Archives holds a single copy of the 6 page green variant. The copy here is an unknown earlier draft 5 pages plus a cover mimeographed all on yellow paper. This draft of "Crisis" is absent from institutional collections and auction records and it is possibly the only copy left in existence. While the theme and most content of this draft is the same as the final it is driven by emotion which is captured and organized by the time the speech reached its final form. Some cuts appear to be for clarity including a sentence on the first page which is lacking from the final draft and reads "After establishing the general cause of outbursts have an emotional content that is a reaction to the insults and depravity of the white backlash." Missing from this early draft is numbered list of points for introduction as well as numerous typos and typed over corrections which are visible through the mimeograph and differences in the distribution of paragraphs. <br/><br/>Period sources state King handwrote his speeches before handing them off to aides who would type a clean copy then mimeograph them for the press typically in a run of about 200 copies. Most if not all were distributed to the press and then lost. Today most documents from the SCLC files exist only in the collection of the King Center. Like those in the King Center this document escaped destruction because it were never distributed but rather remained as the personal copy of King or his top staffers. This can be proven by the fact that all press copies were carefully inscribed with a copyright symbol © while King's copy brought with him to the podium and other internal copies remained blank. This document spent decades in an SCLC filing cabinet where it was exposed to dampening on the left side but is otherwise untouched. It now presents in only fair condition with water staining and rust around the original staple which is still holding. Light grey water stains to left side of document and bottom left corner frayed. All text legible. The right side of the document was apparently more protected in its file and is in very good condition. It was gifted from the Estate of Thomas Offenburger to Stoney Cooks. Both Offenburger and Cooks worked with King at the SCLC with Offenburger as publicist and Cooks as a young Director of Student Affairs. King's mission was rewarded the year after "Crisis" by the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 barring racial discrimination in real estate. Unfortunately King did not live to see it. King's indictment of government for causing urban suffering is extremely rare today with only one final draft Edition of "Crisis" in the King Center Archives and no copies of this early unpublished draft recorded anywhere. unknown books
1947197452Washington D. C.: Public Utilities Reports Inc 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering. Boards clean binding sound. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Public Utilities Reports, Inc unknown books
190940825NY: Moffat Yard 1909. First Edition. 8vo pp. ix 176. Illustrated with reproductions in black and white. Ex library; pocket date slip and bookplate removed. Cover little scuffed at edges o/w a VG tight copy. Moffat, Yard unknown books
1992034789Kingston: Kingston Publishers. 1992. "The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew." Campbell's autobiography which deals to a great degree with the obscenity case brought against him and the Two Live Crew for their lyrics on an album with the same name as this book. When the album was declared obscene and illegal to sell Campbell and two others were arrested after performing songs from the album at a club in Florida. They were acquitted in their court case after Henry Louis Gates Jr. among others spoke on behalf of their lyrics. This book was published in Kingston Jamaica with a "Parental Advisory" notice on its cover because it was thought that it might not be publishable by an American publisher. When it was published in America after the trial and appeal had ended it became a bestseller but the Jamaican edition which is the true first is quite scarce. OCLC lists only 6 copies of the Kingston edition. Light wear to spine and corners; near fine in wrappers. Softcover. Near Fine. Kingston Publishers paperback books
197679933Los Angeles: Ascension Press 1976. 59p. scattered drawings first printing previous owner's name on front blank end paper wraps. The African American poet from Los Angeles has also used the name Luther Keyes. Ascension Press unknown books
1914160644New York: Frederick Keppel & co 1914. Paperback. NF contents; small sticker on front cover and light shelf wear to covers. Tan textured wraps; black lettering. 33 pp. with 11 bw illustrations. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Small monograph of the life and work of French engraver and painter August Lepere. Frederick Keppel & Co. dealth in books prints and paintings from 1868 to 1940. Frederick Keppel & co paperback books
1855274329Charleston VA 1855. unbound. 1 page 9.75 x 7.5 inches Charleston Virginia October 1 1855 to Dr. Rufus Woodward during Bell's brief retirement in full: "Your letter was received just as I was leaving home and with some others accidentally overlooked until to-day when the application of an interested party to learn where a patient could be sent when insane to a State Hospital reminded me of it. I need scarcely say that I shall be very willing to be referred to via connection with your.for which I wish all success. Hoping that this reply may not be too late for your purpose." Irregular left margin; natural folds but otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: The Rufus Woodward Archive: sold at Alexander Autographs February 2007; The Richard Manzi Collection; Argosy Books.<br/><br/> American physician and one of the most important figures in Mental Health during the early 19th century. He was one of the founders of the Association Institutions for the Insane now the American Psychiatric Association -- the first Medical Society in the United States. During the Civil War he was assigned a commission as a surgeon in the U.S. Army 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. He took part in the Battle of Bull Run but became ill and died several months later on February 11 1862. His papers are housed in the University of New Hampshire Library.<br/><br/> unknown books
15233029<p>Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger 1523. </p><p>Price: $5500.00 </p><p>Quarto: 20 x 15 cm. 8 pp. Collation A4</p><p>One of five editions all printed in 1523.</p><p>Modern boards. A fine copy with a beautiful four-part title page border the lower register of which shows a stag hunt. There is also a small woodcut of the Virgin balancing on the crescent moon and holding the infant Christ.</p><p>A sermon for Lichtmeß Candlemas the feast of the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple and the purification of Mary February 2. Jesus takes as his text Luke 2:22-39.<br /><br />For the complexities of Luther's evolving Mariology see Thomas O'Meara Mary in Protestant and Catholic Theology 1966. "Luther's attitude toward the theology of Mary and toward the devotion which a Christian should have to the Mother of God is a small-scale representation of his entire religious accomplishment. During any discussion of Luther and the Blessed Virgin we must keep uppermost in our minds that there was a development in his ideas a change more or less drastic in each aspect of Marian theology. This development has its beginning in Catholicism; it passes through contradictions struggles and uncertainties and terminates in a new Marian viewpoint one which Luther decided was Christocentric biblical unexaggerated and edifying."p. 123.</p><p>Benzing 1746; VD16 L-6084</p> Melchior Ramminger, books
1948139693Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1948. Collection of three vintage vintage black-and-white double weight matte finish studio still reference photographs from the 1948 film. From the collection of actor Van Heflin who played Thomas Brett in the film in his personal tabbed file folder. Numerical rubber stamps on the versos. <br/><br/>Based on John P. Marquand's 1946 novel. Released in the UK as "Polly Fulton" because "B.F" is a British euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly Stanwyck is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist about to marry a lawyer. Then she meets Tom Heflin who blames the world's problems on the rich. Despite their differences they fall in love and marry. WWII takes Tom to the nation's capital and their relationship begins to spiral into turmoil. <br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1947130829Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Actor Van Heflin. <br/><br/>Based on John P. Marquand's 1946 novel. Released in the UK as "Polly Fulton" because "B.F" is a British euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly Stanwyck is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist about to marry a lawyer. Then she meets Tom Heflin who blames the world's problems on the rich. Despite their differences they fall in love and marry. WWII takes Tom to the nation's capital and their relationship begins to spiral into turmoil. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Lacks front studio wrapper and title page rear wrapper is gray. 131 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-10-47 and 9-30-47. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
W1731BGreen cloth with black lettering on upper board. A very neat and clean book with wonderful tales about the many Beesons. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Genealogy. Hardcover books
17561258103Regensburg: Zunkel 1756. Text in German Translated to German by D. Martin Luther; Elephant folio; VG-/no-DJ; Thick dark brown leather spine with gilded text "BIBLIA". Boards have shelf wear crease lines on spine aged two bronze colored metal clasps on fore edges triangle metal fixtures on front rear and corners apart from that binding strong corners sharp metal clasps are still functional and closed tight; Textblock has some wear and age toning on edges foxing and age toning on pages cracking on hinges cracking on gutters between p.544 and p.545 minor soiling from handling on end papers bubbling on paste downs otherwise free of writing marks on pages letters still very legible no missing pages; Old Testament pp 1116 New Testament pp 309; May require extra pricing for shipping international.<br /> <br /> <p>Book shelved in upstairs bookshelf perpendicular to copier. 1258103. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Zunkel unknown books
1717LD13010Nurnberg: Andreä Endters seel. Sohn und Erben 1717. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full black morocco spine ruled and lettered in gilt 5 raised bands gauffered gilt edges lovely decorative endpapers; thick 4to 225x156mm; pp. 38 1192; 4 336 8; with engraved vignettes 13 copper-engravings including main title-p. 2 inter-titles Altes- and Neuen Testaments a portrait of Luther and 9 portraits of other prophets 39 numbered plates; collates complete. Binding just a little worn with some scuffing here and there; but nice and tight and internally clean and unmarked. A few plates with discreet paper repairs on the verso. Bookplate on verso of front flyleaf Private Library of William Alston Duggan. <br/><br/> Andreä Endters seel. Sohn und Erben hardcover books
181935804Lüneburg: Der Sternschen Buchdruckerey 1819. Octavo. Full dark brown leather all edges yellow. 1f. title printed in black and red 9ff. Vorrede 1156 Old Testament 323 New Testament 9 Index pp.<br/><br/>Binding somewhat worn and rubbed; spine slightly defective. Very minor scattered foxing. 1819 issue of Ebeling's 1760 edition of Luther's Bible. Der Sternschen Buchdruckerey unknown books
176636853Halle: Waysenhaus 1766. 4to 22.2 cm; 8.75". 10 2 1079 1 308 4 pp. <br><br>This Bible was specifically designed and printed for the reader to annotate: the pages measure 8.5" x 6.75" and the text area only 5.5" x 2.875" leaving 1.5" to 2.25" of margin for notes on either side and 1" in the upper margin with 2" in the lower. => An early owner did just that not heavily but here and there in both the Old and New Testaments. It was owned by a member of an American scholarly and clerical family that had not one but two generations of association with the city of Halle which was a mecca and fount of the Pietism that drove so much of the early German religious migration to America.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Signature of G. Henry Muhlenberg dated 1784 on the front free endpaper; later ownership signature of Jacob Strein 1814 on same. Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg 17531815 was the son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg one of the founders of the German Lutheran church in the U.S. and a pastor of Pietist background whose first post after completing his studies was a teaching position at the Francke Foundation's Historic Orphanage of which the Waysenhaus that printed this volume was the working press. His son born in Trappe PA and recorded above as owner of this book was sent to be educated in Halle starting in 1763 entering the University in 1769. After his return to Pennsylvania in 1770 he was ordained a Lutheran minister and later received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Princeton University while becoming known as a significant American botanist; in 1787 he was made the first president of Franklin College now Franklin & Marshall College. Strein was a fellow Lancaster County pastor.<br>Â Â Â Â => Of this scholar-serving production of this scholarly press in its hyper-scholarly city we find but three library copies reported all in Germany. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4251. Contemporary plain brown calf rebacked original spine retained with modest ruling at cover edges rubbed and abraded with offsetting to edges of first and last leaves from the leather; round plain spine with five raised bands and no label leather lost at top and bottom with rear joint opening and leather wanting to peel over spine generally. A little foxing with in a few signatures a bit more than that. => A good overall solid and clean copy of a Bible having multiple points of significance. Waysenhaus hardcover books
