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195453063New York: Der Wecker 1954. Hardcover. 412p. very good hardcover. Text in Yiddish. Der Wecker hardcover books
1950263146New York: National Executive Committee Workmen's Circle 1950. 422 pages hardcover light shelfwear. Text in Yiddish with additional English title "50 years of the Workmen's Circle in Jewish Life. National Executive Committee, Workmen's Circle unknown books
1950263147New York: National Executive Committee Workmen's Circle 1950. 422 pages hardcover light shelfwear smudges of soil to textblock edge. Text in Yiddish with additional English title "50 years of the Workmen's Circle in Jewish Life. National Executive Committee, Workmen's Circle unknown books
1965WRCLIT74050Jones Beach NY: Jones Beach Marine Theatre 1965. Quarto. Color pictorial wrappers. Black & white and color photographs and illustrations. Minor bump on right bottom corner of upper panel else near fine. A souvenir program for this stage review featuring Louis Armstrong David Atkinson Karen Shepard Ralph Purdum Fran Stevens Joel Grey and a cast of 200 others along with Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. The production featured a full-size pirate ship but more significantly Armstrong receives a full-page bio and there's a two page center- spread history of Mardi Gras. Jones Beach Marine Theatre unknown books
1947192843Ithaca: Thrift Press 1947. 47p. mildly worn wraps. Music and lyrics for Russian folk songs with English translations at the end. Thrift Press unknown books
19301521Glacier National Park: T.J. Hileman 1930. Hand colored view 15 cm x 25.5 cm on a cream colored sheet 27.5 cm x 35.5 cm blind stamped border around image. Better than very good. In original printed mailing envelope that show some wear. Nice hand-colored image from T. J. Hileman 1882 - 1945 who for decades worked and photographed Glacier National Park originally for the Great Northern Railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo studios in Glacier Park Lodge and for many years he produced and sold countless photographs of the area. [T.J. Hileman] unknown books
193015221930. Hand colored view 16.5 cm x 26.5 cm Better than very good. Nice hand-colored image likely from T. J. Hileman 1882 - 1945 who for decades photographed in Montana primarily Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park originally for the Great Northern Railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo studios in Glacier Park Lodge and for many years he produced and sold countless photographs of the area. unknown books
19592206781Thomas Yoseloff 1959. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1959 reissue of 1887 original. Lacks jacket lighly rubbed. 1959 Hard Cover. A history of Lee's deadly foray into Pennsylvania territory. Thomas Yoseloff hardcover books
19591298635New York & London: Thomas Yoseloff Publisher 1959. new edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; blue spine with white text; dust jacket is covered with mylar; dj has minor edge wear exterior just has light rubbing; dj has price clipped front flap; cloth has slight smudges on panels which are otherwise strong & intact; text block has minor wear & pages have tight binding; previous owner's name on ffep; small tear at fore edge of p 613; deckled fore edge; pp 613. 1298635. Full-priced Rockville. Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher hardcover books
30782<p>two letters octavo 5 pages written in ink on State Department letterhead paper lightly tanned else in very good clean and legible condition.</p><p> Hollander writes:</p><p> "… I have received your letter of the eleventh instant with the copy of the Official Gazette enclosed. I thank you very much for the trouble to which you have gone and shall welcome any further material you may obtain. President Roosevelt has asked me to supplement the preliminary reconnaissance which I made in Santo Domingo with a detailed written report. I shall begin work upon this at once and it is very likely that in connection therewith I shall revisit the Island late in the summer. </p><p> It will be important for me to remain in as close touch as possible with political and other developments in the Island. You of all persons are qualified to give this information with respect to perhaps the most serious phase. I should therefore be very glad indeed if you could write me from time to time as fully as practicable concerning the situation…"</p><p> "… thank you for the documents … viz. the budget and the list of licenses of the municipality of Monte Cristi. I hope to return to Santo Domingo later in the summer and would be very glad to hear from time to time in regard to any developments that may occur before my return …"</p><p> The Dominican Republic which shared the island of Hispaniola with Haiti was politically unstable and financially bankrupt when Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States. Unable to pay its national debts the country faced the threat of military action by France and other European creditor powers. To prevent European intervention and thus protect the routes to the future Panama Canal then under construction Roosevelt pursuing his own version of the Monroe Doctrine and "Big Stick Diplomacy" assumed a virtual protectorate over the country guaranteeing its territorial integrity against European intervention while agreeing to help pay its European debts by taking over the Dominican Customs the Republic's main source of revenue. With the unstated threat of landing US Marines if necessary Roosevelt also sent Jacob Hollander head of the Department of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University to the island to make sure that the country put its "financial house in order." </p><p> Hollander descended from German-Jewish immigrants and a leader of the Baltimore Jewish community had already served President McKinley Roosevelt's predecessor by negotiating a monetary agreement with the leading European powers; and by revising the tax laws of Puerto Rico. After writing these letters he was to spend the next five years in the financial reorganization of the Dominican public debt. </p> Hollander's correspondent US Naval Commander Edwards F. Leiper was serving as Executive Officer of a US Navy warship sent to the Dominican Republic "to protect American interests" when the Admiral commanding naval forces in the Caribbean of orders from Washington "peaceably" – with an accompanying Marine guard – installed Leiper as Customs Collector at Monte Cristi a little town on the northwest coast of the island on the very day that an armed mob attacked the Customs House. Despite the outrage of the local Dominican Governor the Admiral made it clear that if any "harm befell" Leiper he would not hesitate to land a full detachment of Marines. By the time Hollander arrived for his "preliminary reconnaissance" the Dominicans had become angrily accustomed to indefinite US domination books
197050884NY: Augustus Kelley 1970. Reprint of 1912 Holt edition. 8vo pp. v 380. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Reprints of economic classics. Edges very slightly soiled o/w a nice copy. Augustus Kelley unknown books
197023950New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers 1970. Hardcover. 380p. very good condition. Reprint of 1912 edition. Reprints of economic classics. Augustus M. Kelley Publishers hardcover books
186318422Copehagen: Wøldikes Forlagsboghandel 1863. First Edition. Slim octavo 19cm; rebound in black paper-covered boards and quarter black leather with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 123pp; illustrated with 6 tinted lithographic plates with text in Danish. Wear to corners joints and spine ends with shallow chipping at the crown; occasional scattered foxing else fresh and clean throughout; Very Good. Scarce account of a mid-19th century Danish expedition to St. Thomas and St. Croix beautifully illustrated. None in commerce 2013 with OCLC locating 2 copies in the U.S. both at Harvard one in the British Library and 5 more in Danish institutions. Wøldikes Forlagsboghandel unknown books
1863bas176Kjobenhavn: Fr. Woldikes 1863. First Edition. Octavo half black roan & patterned boards gilt-stamped title on spine iv 123 i pp. Lithographic frontis. and five lithograph plates. An account of a Danish expedition to the West Indies mostly St. Thomas and St. Croix. Plates appear to be lightly damp-stained; otherwise Very Good. Fr. Woldikes, 1863. First Edition. hardcover books
20037HOLTZAPFFEL John Jacob. THE PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF ORNAMENTAL OR COMPLEX TURNING. New York: Dover 1973 8vo. Cloth dust jacket. xxiv 656 pages. Being a reprint of this definitive book on ornamental and complex turning originally published as volume five of the 1894 edition of Turning and Mechanical Manipulation. It is an incredible text book based on the Holtzapp family's work in perfecting their craft over a period of one hundred and thir years. Very good. unknown books
1970009788Westport: Greenwood Press 1970. 246p. brown cloth. Reprint of the 1881 edition. Greenwood Press unknown books
1881WRCAM36827Chicago 1881. 246pp. Original cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth a bit sunned and slightly rubbed 1/4-inch stain on spine else fine. First American edition after the London edition of the same year. Holyoake was a Chartist and Owenite in early life. He visited America for four months with a view to investigate social and political conditions in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. Chapters include "The Republican Convention at Saratoga" "City of Holyoke - Discourses in Free Churches" "State Socialism in America" "Co-operative Emigration - Visits to the Premier of Canada and President of America" and "Manners and Opinions in America." hardcover books
197017866Westport: Greenwood Press 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardback in publisher's cloth and issued without a jacket. <br/><br/> Greenwood Press hardcover books
1902RHOLLOG00ECWatts & Co. 1902. Very Good. Holyoake George Jacob. Logic of Death. London: Watts & Co. 1902. 16pp. 12mo. Pamphlet wraps. Book condition: Very good with lightly browned edges and light spotting. In plastic protector. Watts & Co. paperback books
185121515London: James Watson 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth small water stain on front board paper cracked over front hinge but hinge secure. Foxing to title page only otherwise interally clean binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake was mainly self-educated and a vigorous campaigner for secularism and freethought during the 19th century. He wrote 160 books and pamphlets and edited several magazines including The Movement and The Reasoner. Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned on a charge of atheism for saying at a public lecture in Cheltenham in 1842 at a time of economic hardship: "If I could have my way I would place the deity on half pay as the Government of this country did its subaltern officers" Humanists UK. James Watson hardcover books
2005413612005. ISBN-13: 9781584775539; ISBN-10: 158477553X. Holyoake George Jacob. The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy. Originally published: London: James Watson 1851. vi 100 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775539; ISBN-10: 158477553X. Hardcover. New. $24.95 Holyoake 1817-1906 a notable free-thinking socialist lecturer and self-described "agitator" was the last person in England indicted for blasphemy based on remarks during a debate after one of his speaking engagements. Though convicted he emerged the moral victor. As his account of the trial indicates he defended his position eloquently. And his stirring critique of the blasphemy laws did much to undermine their validity in the popular mind. unknown books
189734202Leeds: Central Co-operative Offices 1897. First Edition. 8vo pp. 260. Bound in some worn publisher's cloth spine lacking cloth at extremities corporate library bookplate inscribed on the end paper to "My dear & life long friend Dr. F. Hollrik sp. A good copy. Large fold-out map of the city of Leeds with the stores run by the Industrai Society noted. Illustrated with photos. Holyoake 1817-1906 was an English social reformer and Owenite minister. He wrote a number of books on similar topics. Central Co-operative Offices unknown books
173866890An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England CHARLES I King of England. HOOPER Jacob. An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. During the Reign of King Charles the First. London: Printed and Sold By All the Booksellers in Town and Country 1738. Quarto. Contemporary calf boards rebacked with a new spine and black morocoo label. Frontis. 628p 26 plates. Measures 29 1/2 x 18 cm. Complete with frontispiece and 26 plates. A very good copy. HBS 66890. $1250 Printed, and Sold By All the Booksellers in Town and Country hardcover books
1701046917Jena: Birchner 1701. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled frontis and title page stained and detached with some chipping and old tape marks wear to first few pages a few old marks and notes but very good otherwise. Three works bound in one the first two by Hoping typically found together the last with added engraved title published in 1692 in Frankfurt Illustrated throughout endpapers with notes and a few hand sketches. The Ingeber work is a first edition. 155 7; 183 61; 180 4pp<br/><br/>Three early chiromancy volumes bound up together Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Magic Paranormal & Occult. Inventory No: 046917. Birchner hardcover books
1732WRCAM55846London: Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward. 1732. 2214197-40016 of 24pp. plus seven plates including frontispiece. Lacks the final four leaves of the index. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Light shelf wear corners worn. Contemporary bookplate and presentation inscriptions see below. One plate torn lacking the lower left quarter of the sheet repaired with blank paper. One page with early manuscript marginalia. Scattered light foxing. About very good. A remarkable association copy connecting two significant members of the Revolutionary generation who were also united by family intermarriage and whose friendship was riven by their divergent loyalties during the American Revolution. This copy bears the bookplate of Francis Hopkinson 1737-91 signer of the Declaration of Independence author and poet composer judge and Pennsylvania government official. The ANB calls him "arguably the most versatile American of the revolutionary generation." This book was given to Hopkinson by the noted minister Jacob Duché who would shortly thereafter marry Hopkinson's sister and who famously broke with the cause of liberty during the Revolution. <br> <br> A front fly leaf bears the presentation inscription "The Present of Mr. Jacob Duché Junr. to Francis Hopkinson December 1757." The same hand has signed the titlepage with the names of Jacob Duché and Francis Hopkinson and the date 1757. On that page Duché's name has been crossed out indicating that the inscriptions are likely in the hand of Duché and that he crossed out his own name on the titlepage when he gave the book to Francis Hopkinson. Jacob Duché and Francis Hopkinson had a long and complicated friendship dating back at least to their college days at the College of Philadelphia later the University of Pennsylvania. In 1760 three years after giving him this book Duché married Hopkinson's sister Elizabeth. Francis Hopkinson was a prolific author and musician and published forty poems before the Revolution. A copy of HUDIBRAS Samuel Butler's famous satirical poem on English politics would have been a welcome and influential gift. "During the Revolution Hopkinson wrote a number of ballads and essays poking fun at the British cause and the Loyalists. 'The Birds the Beasts and the Bat' written in Hudibrastic verse served to ridicule those persons who tried to take both sides during the Revolution" - ANB. <br> <br> It is impossible not to believe that one of those targets of Hopkinson's ridicule was the gifter of the present edition of HUDIBRAS his brother-in-law Jacob Duché. Duché 1738- 98 born into a wealthy Philadelphia family was only twenty-two years old when he married Elizabeth Hopkinson. He would go on to become a prominent minister and religious leader in Philadelphia noted for his well- written sermons and essays. In 1774 he was asked to serve as the chaplain to the Continental Congress and he therefore gained political prominence as well displaying an apparent zeal for liberty. Duché resigned his official position with the Congress in October 1776 having concluded that the Declaration of Independence - signed just three months earlier by his friend and brother-in-law - would not serve as a tool for reconciliation with England. When the British captured Philadelphia Duché was imprisoned by General Howe and came to a permanent change of heart regarding the revolutionary cause. In 1777 he wrote a rash letter to George Washington urging that Washington undo the Declaration of Independence and negotiate a peace. The publication of the letter destroyed Duché's career and "those whose hearts had thrilled to Duché's eloquence now cursed him as a traitor and even Hopkinson wrote him a burning letter of protest" DAB. Duché and his family soon exiled themselves to London. The conclusion of the Revolutionary War did not provide Duché with an opportunity to return to the United States - anti-Loyalist sentiments were still too raw. It was not until 1792 having by then taken up the tenets of Swedenborgianism that Duché and his family finally returned to Philadelphia where he lived the rest of his life. <br> <br> Francis Hopkinson's bookplate was engraved by the noted artist and engraver Henry Dawkins one of the early engravers in the colonies. Dawkins was born in England but came to New York City in 1754. He found work engraving bookplates maps and music in New York and then in Philadelphia before returning again to New York in 1774. He was arrested there in 1776 and charged with counterfeiting paper money apparently not for the first time for which he was jailed. Later that year he petitioned the New York Provincial Congress for release but the record of Dawkins's life ends there and we do not know what became of him. <br> <br> This is a later edition of Samuel Butler's famous epic poem first published in three parts in London beginning in 1663. An edition containing all three parts together was first published in 1684. This edition contains seven engravings by William Hogarth. In the present edition parts two and three have separate titlepages and that of part three bears the imprint "printed for B. Motte. The text is continuous despite the pagination. <br> <br> A remarkable volume - a gift of youthful friendship inspirational to a signer of the Declaration of Independence whose long and close friendship with his brother-in-law would become a casualty of conflicting loyalties during the American Revolution. ESTC N17078. DAB IX pp.220-23; V 476-77. ANB 11 pp.190-92; 7 pp.4-5. Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward... unknown books
