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2000C87178YUP. As New. 2000. Hardcover. 0300081618 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 312 pages; 226 illustrations in black and white. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . YUP hardcover
1994C102785Wienand. As New. 1994. Hardcover. 3879093946 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 247 pages; a number of color illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Wienand hardcover
1992C93651G. Hatje. As New. 1992. Hardcover. 3775702997 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 551 pages; illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . G. Hatje hardcover
606100New York: Royale Theatre. Softcover. Near Fine. Broadside. Measuring 13¾" x 21¾". Screenprinted on stiff cardstock. Near fine with a touch of rubbing and foxing on the rear as well as a touch on the bottom edge. A handsome and vividly colored poster for the 1954 production of The Immoralist which debuted on February 8th 1954 at the Royale Theatre in New York. The play was adapted from the Andre Gide novel by Ruth and Augustus Goetz and starred Tony Award-winner Geraldine Page Louis Jourdan and James Dean at least initially. The production proved especially difficult for Dean who was fired during rehearsals until Page in his defense threatening to leave as well. As fate would have it Dean's performance on the final night of previews so impressed director Elia Kazan that he offered Dean the lead role in his forthcoming film East of Eden. While not signed by Dean the poster is Signed by Page Joudan Charles Dingle Phillip Pine who replaced Dean and several other cast members. While the production was a moderate success running for just under 100 performances it's now most noteworthy for launching the career of Dean an icon of American cinema. Royale Theatre unknown
1964140944054Austin: University of Texas Press 1964. First American Edition. First American edition. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges on the series half title; scholar and translator Robert Lima's copy. Lima wrote the first critical work on Borges in English. Rare black-and-white press photo of Borges from 1967 laid in; "Return to Bob Lima" written by him on the verso in pencil. xviii 205 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with gray and silver spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with trivial wear and toning. A collection of essays by the famous Argentinian author one of his early works to be translated into English. University of Texas Press unknown
20069795Stillwater ME 2006. Unique artist's book all on handmade papers by Katie MacGregor and Th Saunders as well as found papers decorated with postage stamps signed and dated by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt. Page size: 5-1/2 inches x 8-1/2 inches 72pp. Bound by Joelle Leavitt Webber of Mermaid Bindery in found papers with fabric decorated postage stamps housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box lined with calligraphic fabric. The text is written in gouache and consists of four delightful correspondence poems by Emily Whittle of Red Springs North Carolina. unknown books
198611363Amherst MA: Tomato Press 1986. Artist's book one of 25 on Arches each signed and numbered by the artist / author Nancy R. Leavitt. This is the artist's / author's first book featuring her own science-based text. Page size: 15 W x 11-1/8 H inches; 9 leaves including TP and Colophon. Bound: loose as issued in black portfolio case housed in custom-made black cloth clamshell box with white label lettered in black with title on spine. This is an early work by the artist and the first in which she has illustrated her own science-based text with eight original woodcuts each hand-numbered and signed in pencil The original eight cuts illustrate life in the Sargasso Sea "as it exists for several species of sea turtles who inhabit the weedlines" of this circle of currents in the north Atlantic Ocean . bordered by the Azores in the east and the Bahamas in the west. The woodcuts all convey the mysteries inherent in the natural phenomena and the motion implicit in the story of these turtles and the world they inhabit. Each print has a hand-lettered title above and hand-lettered text below consisting of words associated with the naturally-occurring events of the Sargasso Sea: migrate swim frenzy instinct weedline algal mats air seeds plankton tunicates etc. An elegant harbinger of things to come. Tomato Press unknown books
55428Los Angeles: Contemporary Crafts Publishers 1971. First printing. Very good plus in very good jackets. First editions both of the complete two-volume set inscribed by editor Samella Lewis to contributor and noted Harlem Renaissance artist Loïs Mailou Jones. Self-published in 1969 this "influential" Jo-Ann Morgan Black Arts Movement visual anthology was the brainchild of editors Lewis and Waddy along with E.J. Montgomery. It was dedicated to "the unique vision of African American artists the need for the mainstream to expand notions of aesthetic beauty" a project that eventually grew into the magazine BLACK ART the "first periodical devoted to African American and African Diaspora artists" Jones 56-7. This set is inscribed to contributor Loïs Mailou Jones Lois Jones Pierre-Noel whose work appears on pages 97-8 of the first volume. Jones's work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art the National Museum of Women in the Arts the Hirshhorn the Brooklyn Museum the Museum of Fine Arts and The Phillips Collection. Other noted contributors include: Betye Saar Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Carlett among more than 100 predominately West Coast artists. As the 2022 exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum based on BLACK ARTISTS attested: "BLACK ARTISTS ON ART brought attention to the many notable Black artists who were neglected or overlooked by the mainstream art world. More than 50 years later the book is foundational to the arts community acting as a record of the collaborative effort of Black artists throughout the country to unite and discuss their work." An important association of this uncommon and historic collection. Two volumes; 10.25'' x 7''. Original full dark-grey cloth both. In original unclipped $14.50 and $12.50 respectively color photographic jackets. xi 132 1; xii 140 pages. Loosely laid in are a promotional brochure for Volume 1 as well as an invitation to a 1977 Studio Museum exhibition of Black artists. Inscribed by editor Lewis on the front endpaper of Volume I: "Many thanks / for your contribution / Samella Lewis / 1969." Contributor Loïs Mailou Jones's copies with her Cranston King-designed pictorial bookplates to the front pastedowns of each volume and her ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Volume 2. Volume 1 jacket with several closed tears and one tape repair to verso. Some creasing rubbing. Minor edgewear to jacket of Volume 2. Order form for the book taped to rear pastedown of Volume 1. Faint toning internally. Touches of shelfwear overall. Else clean and sound. (Contemporary Crafts Publishers) unknown
1951WALTER-FILM004180<p><em>Ruth Gordon Garson Kanin screenwriters George Cukor director Vintage original film script USA. Culver City: MGM June 6 1951. Quarto printed wrappers brad bound mimeograph chipping to blank back wrapper 142 pp. overall near fine.</em> <br /><br /><em>Pat and Mike</em> was the second romantic comedy written for director George Cukor by the married screenwriting team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin that was specifically tailored for its stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy who were friends of Gordon and Kanin. The first film written by Gordon and Kanin for the Cukor/Hepburn/Tracy team was the very successful <em>Adam's Rib </em>1949 about a pair of married lawyers. Prior to that Gordon and Kanin had written the screenplay for Cukor's <em>A Double Life</em> 1947 starring Ronald Coleman as a contemporary actor who identifies too closely with Shakespeare's Othello. All three of the Gordon/Kanin screenplays mentioned above received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. <br /><br />With respect to <em>Pat and Mike</em> Gordon and Kanin were inspired by Ms. Hepburn's formidable athletic abilities particularly with regard to golf and tennis and the film was designed to show off those abilities with Hepburn performing most of her own stunts. <br /><br />Ruth Gordon 1896-1985 was a Jewish-American stage and film actress as well as a screenwriter most fondly remembered for the mischievous elderly women she played in <em>Rosemary's Baby</em> Roman Polanski 1968 for which she received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and <em>Harold and Maude </em>Hal Ashby 1971. <br /><br />After <em>Pat and Mike</em> Gordon and Kanin co-wrote the screenplay for Cukor's <em>The Marrying Kind </em>1952 while Gordon received sole screenplay credit for writing Cukor's <em>The Actress </em>1953 based on her own autobiographical stage play <em>Years Ago</em>. <br /><br />Garson Kanin 1912-1999 was a stage and film director as well as a playwright and novelist best known for his 1946 play <em>Born Yesterday</em> filmed by George Cukor in 1950 and for directing the films <em>Bachelor Mother </em>1939 <em>My Favorite Wife </em>1940 <em>They Knew What They Wanted </em>1940 and <em>Tom Dick and Harry </em>1941. He was married to Ruth Gordon from 1942 until her death in 1985. <br /><br />While both <em>Adam's Rib </em>and <em>Pat and Mike </em>have strong feminist overtones <em>Pat and Mike</em> is more overtly concerned with class. In <em>Pat and Mike</em> the street-wise sports promoter played by Tracy is clearly not in the same social class as Hepburn's upper-crust athlete so much so that he doesn't even consider having a romantic relationship with her until late in the film. <br /><br /><em>Pat and Mike </em>is also the more purely feminist of the two movies. <em>Adam's Rib</em> ends with Tracy putting Hepburn "in her place" the usual outcome of most of the Hepburn/Tracy films while at the end of <em>Pat and Mike</em> the Hepburn and Tracy characters have achieved a relationship that is truly "50-50" as Tracy's character describes it thanks to the pair's shared enthusiasm for sports and their gradually learned mutual respect. <br /><br />This particular draft of <em>Pat and Mike</em> is in some ways quite different from the completed movie. Both this draft and the completed film are structured around a romantic triangle consisting of Hepburn's athlete her significant other and Tracy's sports promoter and in both versions Hepburn's significant other is the major obstacle preventing her from reaching her full potential as an athlete and woman -- until she dumps him and replaces him with the more understanding and supportive Tracy. <br /><br />However the role of the significant other has been completely reimagined in the completed film. In this screenplay draft the significant other is Hepburn's husband named Joseph P. Ford and he owns a car dealership Consolidated Motors. In the movie the significant other is Hepburn's fiance he has an upper-crust name Collier Weld and he is the handsome but patronizing Assistant Administrator at a college where Hepburn a widow is working as a physical education instructor. Consistent with the radical differences between the significant others in the screenplay draft and the film the screenplay draft and the film have completely different openings. <br /><br />The screenplay draft opens with Hepburn and her businessman husband in their bedroom where the husband receives an important phone call from a client. The movie opens at a college where we see the fiance leaving his administrative office to meet Hepburn's character who we see instructing the girls in one of her phys. ed. classes. <br /><br />After the disparate openings the two versions follow comparatively similar paths. The second big scene in both versions is a couples golf game at a country club where the husband/boyfriend insists that Hepburn win against her female opponent in order to impress a client/potential donor and the husband/boyfriend's patronizing presence in fact causes her to lose. <br /><br />After the game the club's bartender who has seen her play outside the influence of her demeaning husband/boyfriend tells her she has the potential to become a major professional athlete and this precipitates the remainder of the story in which Hepburn acquires Tracy as her promoter and manager and ultimately her romantic partner. In both this draft and the completed film Tracy's character gets the movie's most famous line appraising Hepburn: "not much meat on her but what there is is choice." <br /><br />This screenplay draft and the film also diverge radically in their final acts. The climax of the screenplay draft's last act is the staging of a major public event in which women compete against men in various sports. The climax of the movie involves a trio of mobsters including a young Charles Bronson who are pressuring Tracy's character to throw a game and how Hepburn's character rescues him when they are about to beat him to a pulp. <br /><br />One of the screenplay's conceits is that the audience will see Hepburn successfully playing professional golf and tennis alongside some of the major sports figures of the day and the film does indeed feature such famous players as Babe Didrikson Zaharias golf and Don Budge tennis. In the screenplay draft's final scene Hepburn is playing baseball with the great Joe DiMaggio and strikes him out! <br /><br />The movie on the other hand does not include the baseball scene and ends with an affirmation of the Tracy/Hepburn relationship with her reversing roles and asking Tracy's character the litany of questions that he beforehand routinely asked of all the players who were under contract to him</p><p><em>"Who made you Who owns the biggest piece of you What would happen if I dropped you" </em><br /><br /><em>Answer: "I'd go right down the drain."</em></p> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paperback
19291049144<p>THOMPSON Ruth Plumly. <b><i>Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz</i></b>. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co 1929. 8vo 253pp 2 advts. Green cloth with spine stamped in black and color pictorial label affixed to front. Pictorial endpapers; 12 color plates. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners pages a bit yellowed else an exceptionally clean tight copy with cover label exceptionally clean and bright and in original color pictorial dust jacket several small chips and tears at edges 3½" closed tear at base of hinge where front and spine panels meet and a 4½" closed tear at upper hinge of rear flap.</p><p>First edition first state being from the collection of the late Fred Meyer long-time Executive Secretary of the International Wizard of Oz Club. Peter the lad from Philadelphia joins forces with Jack Pumpkinhead to rescue Ozma and the Emerald City from conquest by Mogodore the infamous Red Baron of Baffleburg. Even with the help of Belfaygor of Bourne whose beard grows at an alarming rate and the consistently charming and rhyming Iffin — which as everyone knows is a griffin who's lost his <i>grrrr </i>— their efforts seem in vain. Bienvenue p.111.</p> The Reilly & Lee Co hardcover
B1040London: John Long. First. Hardcover. Ruth Rendell Baroness Rendell of Babergh CBE 1930 – 2015 was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. She is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford. A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels that explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.<br /> <p>This title was her first published book and thus had a relatively small print run. As a result it is quite scarce in jacket and signed copies are exceedingly uncommon and sought after. Many of her early books went to libraries in the UK and not to public sale. <br /> <br /> This copy is ex-library but the only traces are a light ink stamp on the copyright page and a slight mark on the front flyleaf where a label was removed. There is what appears to be a small water stain on the page fore edge but it does not intrude into the pages themselves. The book is otherwise in excellent condition with no other marks or damage. The unclipped dust jacket is also excellent with just slight edge wear and minor spotting on the jacket rear panel. Signed by Rendell on the title page.</p> . John Long hardcover
1931BRNYY005New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1931 First edition first printing. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in darker blue with an illustration of Babe Ruth to the front cover; original dust jacket with matching illustration to the front panel lettered in dark red. Near fine book with light rubbing to front board and a hint of fading to spine; near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a few small nicks and creases to edges and corners some toning to spine and a bit of wear to lower spine. Overall a handsome and sturdy copy. How to Play Baseball is a book on baseball fundamentals by the legendary player Babe Ruth. Each chapter covers a different element of the game such as "The Batting Stance" "How to Throw a Curveball" and "Blocking the Plate." The book also includes over thirty full-page photos of Ruth instructing young players. Ruth was a big advocate for children playing baseball famously saying "I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat." Ruth played in the MLB from 1914 to 1935 and revolutionized the game with his incredible home run hitting ability. Many consider him to be the greatest baseball player of all time. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation hardcover
19532306057New York: Viking 1953. first. hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Robert McCloskey. A fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket inscribed by Ruth Sawyer. Viking unknown
1945422939Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania and Iowa 1945. Unbound. Good. An archive of 16 disbound pages each measuring 12" x 10" containing 28 photographs news clippings and other ephemera. Pages are good only with chips and tears with very good or better contents. Ruth M. Sullivan was 26 when she left her job as an executive secretary to become one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve on March 4 1943. She reported to the U.S. Naval Training School at Hunter College in the Bronx where the curriculum had been modified and Marine drill instructors added. Training included drill physical training map reading defense against air attack aircraft identification etc. Sullivan performed well; after a short time she was promoted to Technical Sergeant and sent to the Marine Corps First Sergeant School at the Philadelphia Naval Yard's Marine Barracks where she completed one of its first if not the first co-educational courses. During her World War II service Sullivan served at the Marine Corps Procurement Office in Des Moines Iowa and as the First Sergeant of Marine Operational Training Squadron 81 at the Cherry Point Air Station in North Carolina.<br /> <br /> Sullivan's scrapbook includes magazine and newspaper clippings documenting her military service. One magazine article reads "First Girl Joins the Marines" and includes a photo of Sullivan. Other clippings read "Top Kick" "We Bow Once More to the Marines" and "Women Marines are Here." She also collected photographs of herself and fellow Marine women in uniform. Other assorted items include two certificates for marksmanship a clipping announcing she placed 7th out of 14 competitors in a rifle and pistol competition in Des Moines a lengthy illustrated article about the co-educational First Sergeants Course and a portrait photograph of Sullivan in an American Legion uniform from the late 1960s.<br /> <br /> An excellent firsthand visual record of one of the first Women Marines to serve in World War II. unknown
1993V8-504nyJ.V. Newman 1993. hardcover. Like New. 11x8x0. J.V. Newman hardcover
198831027Somerset New Jersey U.S.A.: John Wiley & Sons Inc / Wiley - Liss. New. 1988. Hardcover. 0471629243 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED-- 380 pages. "Tourette's Syndrome is now recognized as a common lifelong condition and a ``model'' disorder reflecting the interaction of genetic vulnerability and environmental factors. Along with progress in research on Tourette's and other tic disorders new approaches to treating this neuropsychiatric disturbance are now attracting wide interest among mental health workers. This book provides the broadest most up-to-date account of this group of disorders their features symptoms etiology and diagnosis and various psychosocial disorders with similar symptoms. It also presents a variety of environmental and pharmacological therapeutic approaches that underscore areas of disagreement in the field as well as new genetic neurochemical and pharmacologic knowledge. Contributors to this work are all leading researchers or clinicians." -- with a bonus offer-- . John Wiley & Sons Inc / Wiley - Liss hardcover
51548American Psychiatric Press. New. Paperback. 0880484349 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - ND; copyright 1996. 386 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . American Psychiatric Press paperback
200130923Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 2001. Hardcover. 1585620491 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- 408 pages. "DSM-IV-TR® Case Studies: A Clinical Guide to Differential Diagnosis will help the reader gain an understanding of how to use DSM-IV-TR in actual clinical situations. This book co-authored by Allen Frances Chair of the Task Force on DSM-IV translates the clinical concepts and terminology of DSM-IV-TR into vivid three-dimensional examples to help the clinician take full advantage of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria. The case studies bring to life the process of differential diagnosis and illustrate how important this process can be for treatment planning. This casebook follows the organizational pattern of DSM-IV-TR and provides examples of the most commonly encountered disorders. For each case the book provides A five-axis DSM-IV-TR diagnosis A discussion of the most likely differential diagnosis and how to choose among them A review of treatment optionsThe final chapter titled 'Test Yourself' includes a number of complex cases each accompanied by a brief discussion which allows the reader to compare notes with the authors." -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc hardcover
200170186Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 2001. Paperback. 1585620556 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - 386 pages. Book description: Focuses on the process of differential diagnosis. Follows the organization pattern of DSM-IV-TR and provides examples of the most encountered disorders. For each case the text provides a five-axis DSM-IV-TR diagnosis discussion of differential diagnoses and a review of treatment options. -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
19712183Garden City NY: Anchor/Doubleday. As New. 1971. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - -- with a bonus offer-- May be either: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition . Anchor/Doubleday paperback
199611113New York New York U.S.A.: Crown Publishers. New. 1996. Paperback. 0517887347 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- with a bonus offer-- . Crown Publishers paperback
1992C91261University Libraries. As New. 1992. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 47 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . University Libraries paperback
2006C90387Libraries. As New. 2006. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 80 pp. ; 34 ills. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Libraries paperback
19420002274SUDAN NIGERIA BRITISH WEST AFRICA. Very Good. 1942. On offer is a super group of 12 fascinating original manuscript and typed letters written by American missionary Ruth Warfield born circa 1910 of the Sudan Interior Mission from northern Nigeria British West Africa circa 1942 - 1949. The letters are full of insightful and significant entries detailing her life as a missionary in remote parts of Nigeria in the 1940s with the looming backdrop of World War II. Wonderfully detailed we learn that she travels by bicycle takes her Hausa native language exams mentions the conditions of fellow missionaries visits remote villages a large baptismal of 300 a tragedy at a village where fire had destroyed the entire area a plan of new church building and use of made bricks. A letter of her recent visits with Miss Helen Watkins who fell ill and needed to get to a remote clinic. She mentions the death of Dr. Stirrett's in detail at his home in Nigeria and subsequent funeral. There are some very detailed descriptions of long journeys into remote areas by bicycle or on foot these are her long trips visiting SIM schools with a Miss Watkins a fellow missionary. A nice map is included on hand laid paper of Nigeria showing SIM mission stations. Here are some snippets: Sudan Interior Mission Jos Nigeria British West Africa 1948 "On our arrival at Zampur Helen became very ill with a high temperature and a bad chest cold The next day she developed Pleurisy and for several days couldn't even turn over in bed with out help. There we were miles out in the bush and there was no possible way to move her and get her to a doctor." "Just about two weeks ago now Miss Watkins and I drove up to Kono 372 miles from here .She had to go to help give some of our missionaries their second Hasa exam examination and since she has an infection in her foot and had orders from her doctor to stay off her feet I did the driving. Roni is 60 miles from Kano. On that road besides the washboards. There are holes and if we went to fast to avoid the washboards we hit these holes and if we went to slow we bounded all over the place. The boys in the Roni School are all waifs that have been sent from." British West Africa 1949 "These past few weeks have been busy ones for me. I went out on trek the last of Oct. and was gone for two weeks. I spent five days in one village where no white person had ever slept before. I stayed in the chiefs compound in a grass hut- grass mats formed the walls and than there was a grass roof. I certainly was a curiosity as was everything I had and did. I woman asked me if I had toes on my feet like they did SO I proceeded to show her!" "When we reached the town we found that disaster struck. The people had been dismayed a week or so earlier because of several sudden deaths in the town and now just the night before I reached there fire had swept through and nearly half the town. Most of the people had lost everything. The roofs were made of grass and so burned readily and many had dug out the back walls of the houses to save their own lives and what possessions they could. We are out traveling again as usual and have been away from Jos now for over three weeks. This has been a hard trip and it seems everything has gone wrong. First we had trouble with the car. Then I went to a school where I had to walk just over four miles not far but it was up one steep hill and down another. In getting there I was soaked through with dew and coming back drenched with rain. Another school I had to get to be 12 miles from where we were staying. Another school I was trying to get to be about 8 miles to get there and was carried on the back of an African across five streams." BACKGROUND NOTES: One online source provides: Lifelong Missionaries: Women Return to Africa and 'a Place in the Heart' November 25 1987 MICHAEL GRANBERRY Times Staff Writer: Helen Watkins 83 and Ruth Warfield 77 have crisscrossed Africa on bicycle and foot by car and train. They have eluded pagan spirit warriors and towed 17-foot mobile homes over choppy African roads. They have heard the too-near roar of lions. They've brought the Gospel of Jesus into Muslim-controlled areas and faced what they termed "serious hostility." They persuaded the men of the Kagoro tribe to stop beating their wives only to be told by one man "We don't know if we like this Christianity. How can we free ourselves . . . of our frustrations" Watkins and Warfield are lifelong missionaries retired and out of Africa since 1979. They live in Carlsbad in a mountainside development owned by Sudan Interior Mission the interdenominational delegation both have served for more than three decades. Recently they decided to go back to Africa--for a three-month visit. "Imagine that 'at their age' " Warfield said. "I'm sure people will think that; some may even say it. But we feel great. We can't wait to get on that plane." Overall VG.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF RUTH WARFIELD MISSIONARY MISSIONARIES SUDAN INTERIOR MISSION NIGERIA HAUSA YAREN HAUSA HARSHEN HAUSA CHADIC LANGUAGE AFRO-ASIATIC LANGUAGE BRITISH WEST AFRICA DR. STIRRETT CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROSELYTIZING EVANGELICALS EVANGELICAL RELIGION CHRISTIANITY HELEN WATKINS AFRICANA AMERICANAHANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . hardcover
1967355490718738London: John Long 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with gilt spine lettering. A first edition first printing published by John Long in 1967. A near fine copy with a touch of foxing to the top edge and with a 1cm closed tear to the edge of the front free end-paper and a slightly larger one to the bottom of the rear free end-paper. The D/W is also in near fine condition with some rubbing and surface loss but no chipping and with a small nick to the top edge of the rear flap. A very nice copy indeed. Along with "Vanity Dies Hard" "Wolf to the Slaughter" is the most difficult title to acquire especially in collectable condition. Photographs/scans available upon request. John Long hardcover
