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1931233868New York: Forverts 1931. Five-volume autobiographical work in Yiddish by the Jewish socialist and longtime editor of the Forward. Two volumes have internal rubberstamps of a Yiddish club with the author's initial on the spine as if for shelving in the club's library; another volume has a private ownership stamp two others are unmarked. Forverts unknown books
177339528Pennsylvania: Hall and Sellers 1773. 1st printing. Buff printed paper. Expected wear to paper age-toned and faint horizontal crease. Some black ink worn to red three owner's signatures to front side. Very Good. Single sheet of paper printed both sides. Engravings to both sides of the note. 3-5/8" x 2-7/8" <br/><br/> Hall and Sellers unknown books
1945319762Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. Illus. 4to. Green printed wrappers. Front cover off and chipped. Illus. 4to. Inscribed on the title-page "With my compliments to Percy Mackay from Abraham Wolkowitz April 19 1948." Signed also on the front cover and with a note with Wolkowitz's address on it. Haldeman-Julius Publications unknown books
181619535Rutland Vt. n. p. 1816. Second edition. A bit browned and worn; a very good copy. Stab-stitched unbound pamphlet stitching appears renewed at an early date 7.25 x 4.5 inches 12 pages untrimmed. The subject of the following letters has excited a very considerable degree of curiosity among the inhabitants of this place and its neighborhood; and as various representations respecting this business have been made the printer hereof solicited and obtained the privilege of the original papers with a view of introducing them for the perusal and patronage of the public. It is highly probable that the Prophet was a disciple of Brothers for like him her pretends an immediate commission from Almighty God although he does not claim a new relationship. . . . From motives of delicacy his name will be suppressed in the publication as it may injure the feelings of his family." An uncommon account of a curious attempt at divine extortion: beginning on August 5 1796 Abraham Morhouse began to receive letters from a self-styled prophet of God who wrote that he had been commanded by the Lord to order Morhouse to take "the exact sum of two thousand pounds current lawful money truly told and bear it hence to the bridge across the stream near the old potash works adjacent to town; cross the bridge and turn to the right hand and place the same down at the bottom of the bridge in plain open view." As the days drew on and Morhouse quite sensibly refused to make payment the letters became increasingly threatening "I tell thee that if thou now refusest to comply with what my Lord and master hath sent me unto thee to demand in this extraordinary way and manner that thou shalt so sure as thy soul liveth before many days be convinced of his power; for the one half of thy body and the one half of thy limbs and thy joints shall become as dead flesh whilst thou art alive: Wounds shall be grievous and past cure in thy secret parts; works shall gnaw thy flesh" until the erstwhile prophet was taken up and clapped into jail--at which point his correspondence to Morhouse takes on a rather more servile and flattering cast until after four days of incarceration Morhouse has asked the local magistrates for clemency and sent along a little money to help the scoundrel out as "the consequences to his family may be serious by deranging his pecuniary affairs which I fear are already in a state of embarrassment." Morhouse himself appears to have been something of a scoundrel; DeWitt Clinton wrote that he was "a complete villain who was pardoned when under sentence of death" and indeed he moved to Louisiana and became among other things a bigamist; he apparently died in 1812 and the reasons for the republication of this account in Vermont remain something of a mystery--though one suspects that perhaps the anonymous prophet had settled in Vermont. There do not appear to be any extant 18th century editions despite references in Sabin etc. and the 1802 Bennington edition is noted at UVM and AAS only on OCLC 12/2019. Sabin 105630; Shaw & Shoemaker 39883; McCorison 1891. An ex-library copy a surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress with their small ink stamps on the verso of the title page and small perforated stamp to the lower margin of the title. n. p.] unknown books
1903284655Guildford: A. C. Curtis The Astolat Press 1903. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Title leaf printed in red and black and printed with red initials throughout. 23 pages. Attractively bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in green morocco with floral devices and lettering in gilt; boards ruled at the perimeters turn-ins with inner and outer rules and a rule to the edges of the boards. Very Good binding. A. C. Curtis, The Astolat Press unknown books
186047254Chicago: Press & Tribune Office 1860. Reproduction ca 1955. Mounted on stiff card stock. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. 1 cm discoloration spots in margin corners glue. Small paper snag to top edge of upper margin. A Very Good copy. Broadside. Patriotically themed wood engraving in masthead. 13-15/16" x 8-15/16" 35.5 cm x 22.8 cm. <br/><br/>The 1860 Republican National Convention met in Chicago Illinois from May 16 to May 18. The convention selected former Congressman Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president and Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for vice president. The platform of 17 declaration of principles was drafted by the Platform Committee chaired by Judge William Jessup of Pennsylvania the entirety of which was adopted by the convention members verbatim save for the insertion in the Second clause of famous language from the Declaration of Independence that "All men are created equal; and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Regarding the platform 10 clauses dealt directly with the issues of free soil principles slavery the Fugitive Slave Act and the preservation of the Union while the remaining 7 dealing with other issues. Clauses 12 through 16 of the platform called for a protective tariff enactment of the Homestead Act freedom of immigration into the United States and full rights to all immigrant citizens internal improvements and the construction of a Pacific railroad. In addition to the preservation of the Union all five of these additional promises were enacted by the Thirty-seventh Congress and implemented by Abraham Lincoln or the presidents who immediately succeeded him. Wiki. In a presumed later printing of the platform we find added after the 17th declaration a Supplementary Resolution not present on our copy but present on one held by the Clements wherein the Committee expresses its sympathies "with those men who have been driven . and are now exiled from their homes on account of their opinions; and we hold the Democratic Party responsible for this gross violation of that clause of the Constitution which declares that the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States." The original is quite rare known in but a few copies. The one here offered was apparently reproduced in the mid-20th C as it is accompanied by a 1955 letter from the LoC to a Mr Chester Arthur of Oakland acknowledging receipt of a "copy of the recently published reprint of the original broadside containing the Republican Platform of 1860 which is in your possession.” Even in this mid-20th C. reproduction this platform a rare & important document. in which it guides and outlines the philosophy "all men are created equal" policies "True to the Union" & direction "Slavery . is a dangerous political heresy" for the United States as well as its future president Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of one of the nation's most turbulent times. Press & Tribune Office unknown books
1952140938441London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1952. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Very Good. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities previous owner details and ownership stamp to front free endpaper and title page light ink underlining in text Else Near Fine. In a Very Good dust jacket unclipped though with revised price over-sticker; toning and edge wear with a short slightly open crease at the head of the rear spine joint. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd unknown books
500809from an etched portrait on a 1/2 length pose of Lincoln with full beard as President. Photograph is on the original mount. Very good. 2 1/2" x 4 1/4" ca. 1861. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
186521167Washington: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1865. Very good. Single leaf 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches possibly originally issued with two leaves the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text signed in print by Lincoln William Seward and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11 1865 this was the second of two general amnesties issued by the President during the Civil War. These proclamations were intended to bring deserters and draft evaders back into the fold and encourage loyalty to the Union. The first issued on March 10 1863 gave all deserters a full pardon with no consequences if they returned to their units by April 1. Those who did not would have their citizenship revoked and were subject to court-martial with penalties as severe as death. This second proclamation offered the same basic terms but allowed deserters 60 days to return to duty. War Department, Adjutant General's Office unknown books
186436792Ohio 1864. Broadside ticket listing Union Ticket candidates for elections in 1864 beneath illustration of the American Flag. Several candidates are listed for "Supreme Judge" plus candidates for Secretary of State Attorney General Comptroller of the Treasury Board of Public Works; and for Congress John A. Bingham. Some edge wear text complete horizontal fold. Good. unknown books
12982Original Civil War dated newspaper. The Republican Herald and Post dated Providence Saturday morning September 27 1862. 4 pages recto verso. Includes a front page print of a September 22 proclamation from Abraham Lincoln. The proclamation reads in part: "I Abraham Lincoln President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter as heretofore the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relations between the United States and the people thereof. Abraham Lincoln." Newspaper is in excellent condition with some minor chipping to the edges. unknown books
1865WRCAM31223New York 1865. 8pp. Large folio newspaper. Split along fold with loss to a few words. About very good unopened. The main news in this edition concerns the ongoing events in the assassination of President Lincoln. A long story from Springfield Illinois reports on the arrival of the funeral procession and there are several stories about the pursuit of the conspirators in the President's murder. One story calls Jefferson Davis "a fugitive from justice with a price set on his head as an assassin." Another long piece brings news from the South as military action in the Civil War winds to a halt. The last page is taken up by an account of the Irish Independence movement and a profile of "Fenians at Home and Abroad." unknown books
1865WRCAM31127New York 1865. 8pp. Large folio newspaper. Moderate foxing. Very good. The assassination of President Lincoln on April 14 1865 came on the same day Gen. Joseph Johnston of the Confederacy contacted Sherman to discuss the suspension of operations under similar terms granted to Lee. The present issue of THE NEW YORK HERALD treats both events with an account of Johnston's actual surrender under desired terms along with a relation of the progress of Lincoln's funeral train across America. The previous day the President's body was in Cleveland on the 29th the body was in Columbus. A poignant slice of America at the close of the Civil War. Long E.B. THE CIVIL WAR DAY BY DAY pp.675- 76684. unknown books
1865WRCAM31216New York 1865. 8pp. Large folio newspaper. Lightly tanned. Split at one fold with loss of a few words. Good unopened. Assassination edition of this weekly version of THE NEW YORK HERALD newspaper dated exactly one week after Lincoln's death. With all the columns bordered in black the paper contains all the news of the previous week from the details of the assassination to the attacks on other government officials and the search for Booth and the conspirators. There is also a long story containing details of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox and a few stories regarding travel abroad. unknown books
1865851301865. PHOTOGRAPHY 19TH CENTURY - LINCOLN Abraham. UNCOMMON CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CA. 1865. Providence RI: Salisbury Bro. & Co. n.d. ca. 1865 "Manufacturers of Gold and Plated Jewelry Also Carte de Visites of all Noted Persons." Pale embossed paper mount is 4 x 2 1/2 inches with 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 inch oval photograph a bust of a bearded Lincoln. Very good light soil to the mount with the photo contour partially cut through from being pressed into the paper mount. The embossed design features an eagle laurel leaves flags shield and cannons. The photo is in excellent condition the President's gaze clear and sharp. Free of the toning often seen on this cdv. unknown books
19373751Los Angeles: California Laboratory Supply Co. 1937. Second printing. According to the review article in THE ANATOMICAL RECORD of January 1938 "the fact remains that the chick still profvides the most available and perhaps the simplest laboratory approach to an understanding of the differentiating germ layers in warm-blooded vertebrates. 113 1 photographic stereoscope cards in box and one printed card. Cards 1-109 14 x 9 cm. Cards 110-113 15 x 10 cm. Folding stereoscope viewer. Box worn but entire. California Laboratory Supply Co. unknown books
1719007802Lugduni Batavorum : Theodorum Haak 1719. 832 pages with 83 pp.Index. Title page illustration lacking the frontispiece illustration. Bound in contemporary vellum boards age-toned back stamped and lettered in gilt. Very Good end pages toned and soiled text clean with widely scattered small spots of toning binding quite tight and sound. Text in Latin. . First Edition. Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Theodorum Haak Hardcover books
1929127469New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1929. Octavo cloth. Photoplay edition. Photoplay edition with eight stills from the 1929 film. "7 FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN was released as both a silent film and as a sound film with Vitaphone musical score sound effects and some dialogue sequences. The film received generally negative reviews including from such publications as THE NEW YORK TIMES VARIETY -- which called it 'An utterly moronic sound film . all hokum' -- and the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER in which Mildred Martin wrote 'after all the screams and creaks and thumps it reaches a somewhat tame conclusion .' Despite this it performed well at the box office. A companion Photoplay edition of the Merritt novel published by Grosset & Dunlap and featuring several stills from the film also sold extremely well. The sound version of the film is presumed lost . and the Vitaphone soundtrack for recording is also lost." - Wikipedia. A 2014 restored copy of the silent version is available on YouTube. A very good copy in an about very good pictorial dust jacket with mild wear to edges and 2-inch long chip at lower edge of rear panel near the spine fold. #127469 Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
192690791New York London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1926. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-iv v-vi 1 2 3-326 327-328: blank note: final leaf is a blank original red-brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in cream. First edition. An early copy of Merritt's second book. Although Wentz notes "several printings" and G. Gordon Dewey in FANTASY ADVERTISER December 1948 notes five "printings" there was but a single printing. ". Putnam had been unable to sell a pitifully small edition of a thousand copies of THE SHIP OF ISHTAR in book form and the sheets for the last three hundred copies were finally purchased by Munsey and were bound and distributed to readers of ARGOSY-ALL-STORY Magazine." - Sam Moskowitz Explorers of the Infinite Cleveland: World 1963 p. 203. This book is found in numerous variant bindings no priority established this copy bound in red-brown mesh weave cloth with yellow stamping and top edge not stained. ". the most fully realized of all his fantasies." - Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 36. "The most romantic of Merritt's works. Very uneven as a novel. Sometimes fascinating sometimes dull; pretentious yet with a knowing wink of humor now and then; finely imagined if not always executed." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1157. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 3-42. Ashley Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction pp. 130-31. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-246. Bleiler ed Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror pp. 838-39. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 559. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 156. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 746. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III pp. 1407-11. Tymn ed Fantasy Literature p. 140. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 138. Reginald 10070. Currey p. 365 binding C. Slight spine lean a bright nearly fine copy. #90791 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
179334890Newburyport: Printed by Blunt and Robinson 1793. 34 2 blanks pp with the half title. Disbound rubberstamp in blank upper corner of half title. Good.<br/><br/> A scarce Sermon. "The constitution of man is truly mysterious." <br/>Evans 25835. ESTC W15570 recording nine institutional locations as of April 2018. Printed by Blunt and Robinson unknown books
1923223924Soho: The Nonesuch Press 1923. Number 487 of 725 copies. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden title page head-piece to the first Ode 4 full-page engravings of Cupid Bathyllus Europa & Venus & a tail-piece to the last Ode. 52 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Parchment-backed gilt-papered boards. Fine copy in original gilt dust jacket slightly worn. Gooden Stephen. Number 487 of 725 copies. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden title page head-piece to the first Ode 4 full-page engravings of Cupid Bathyllus Europa & Venus & a tail-piece to the last Ode. 52 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
1979WRCLIT54944Np 1979. 1124 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Boltbound into plain stiff wrappers. Scattered and occasionally detailed revisions deletions comments and annotations in an unknown hand in pencil and ink otherwise very good or better. Denoted a "Final Draft" of Abraham Polonsky's adaptation to the screen of Jack-Alain Léger's novel. However many subsequent revised drafts followed and the script for the 1982 film release directed by Frank Perry was credited on screen to Wendell Mayes who wrote at least one early draft in February 1979. In spite of that drafts as late as October 1981 bore only Polonsky's name. This was the last film with which Polonsky was associated as screenwriter though to what degree it was a collaborative effort is unclear. As screenwriter for BODY AND SOUL 1947 and writer/director of FORCE OF EVIL 1948 Polonsky was well on his way toward a distinguished career in film when he was blacklisted and fired by Fox for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. He continued to work during the Blacklist either uncredited or pseudonymously and in 1996 the Writers Guild restored his real name and credits. While the authors of the annotations may not be identifiable at this point the notes/revisions were surely made by someone intimately involved in the process. unknown books
192662435Sighetul-Marmatiei Romania: Tipografia A. Kaufman 1926. First Edition. viii. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth backed boards. Shaken acidic paper somewhat toned and brittle. Good plus. Rare. First Edition. viii. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scholarly aid to understanding common and uncommon Hebrew abbrevations compiled by Abraham Isaac ben Jonah Stern principal rabbi of Orastie Translyvania. Tipografia A. Kaufman unknown books
1743185338Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green 1743. Hardcover. Good pages are clean and clear. Missing title page and last two sermons. Rebound in white thick cardboard covers with cloth ties along spine; vi 110 pp. Full title: The necessity of holding fast the truth : Represented in three sermons on Rev. III. 3 : preached at New-York April 1742 : with an appendix relating to errors lately vented by some Moravians in those parts : to which are added a sermon on the priestly-office of Christ and another on the virtue of charity : together with a sermon of a Dutch divine on taking the little foxes faithfully translated. <br/>Includes: To the Reader on pages i-vi and signed by Benjamin Colman Thomas Prince John Webb William Cooper Thomas Foxcroft and Joshua Gee. The necessity of Holding Fast the Truth; Sermon II Sermon III Appendix. S. Kneeland and T. Green hardcover books
19481894Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1948. Paperback. Very Good. 26pp of drawings by author/artist. Signed on front cover. <br/><br/> Haldeman-Julius paperback books
