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1833240340London: Effingham Wilson 1833. First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece dated 1833 vignette on title illustrations in text. 6 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary blue cloth backed boards later paper label. Notes on pastedown. Very good. First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece dated 1833 vignette on title illustrations in text. 6 96 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Lovely contemporary copy of this well illustrated angler's companion. Westwood & Satchell p. 13 Effingham Wilson unknown books
1933146070Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. First Draft script for the 1933 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Lt. Henry Crocker a blithe Royal Air Force pilot realizes that the constant violence of war is beginning to take a harsh toll on Lt. Jerry Young his flying ace buddy who is showing signs of cracking up. When Young breaks down and eventually commits suicide Crocker decides to stage his death as an in-air combat casualty in order to save his friend's reputation. The script's original ending seen in this early version depicted Crocker years later as a bedraggled old man homeless and alone staring at a memorial plaque with an epitaph praising Young's heroism. <br/><br/>Tall peach titled self wrappers noted as FIRST SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 451 dated January 30 1933 with credits for screenwriters Bogart Rogers and Seton I. Miller. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeographed on peach stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with creasing to the top left corner of the rear wrapper side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
196731087New York: Columbia University 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Folios. Newsprint. Six early issues from the first year of publication of Columbia University's student answer to their west coast counterparts in the world of underground newspapers. Columbia definitely took the higher ground with less psychedelia and more serious content. Still issues covered varying subjects of protest and the Viet-Nam war. Issue size varied but all include anywhere from 10 to 18 pages. Some light expected tanning to paper else very good indeed. Roughly 11 x 15" tall. Surprisingly uncommon. Columbia University paperback books
1961128445New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. <br/><br/>Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8 1961 opened the following day an for over 200 performances and closed on June 2 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award as were producers Coe and Cantor. <br/><br/>Gideon Campbell witnesses the Angel of the Lord March who enlists him to perform a miracle in battle and to kill an idolatrous Hebrew. Gideon refuses and suggests that his pity for man is above God's law. God begrudgingly concedes. <br/><br/>Basis for Wilhelm Semmelroth's West German film 1966 and for George Schaefer's Emmy nominated television movie 1971. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with paper title label on the spine. Title page present undated with a credit for playwright Chayefsky. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-2-41 Act 2 Scene 2 Page 41. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor unknown books
1329822A watercolor landscape by California-born artist James March Phillips 1913-1981. Condition: very good with no apparent flaws. Currently housed in a protecting frame but can be shipped without.<br /> <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Dimensions<br><br /> <br /> frame w 17 in x h 14 in<br><br /> painting w 12.75 in x h 9.25 in. 1329822. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown books
19071776Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1907. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. Charming and acclaimed collection of early 20th century children's stories and poems complete in 10 volumes. 1907 stated first edition limited to 1000 copies. All vols. VG in their uniform brown cloth with brown paper spine labels. Each volume clean and bright and internallly free of any markings. A bit of light fraying along the spine crowns of several of the volumes and very minor light wear at the tail of the spines of several volumes. Nonetheless very presentable and attractive. Octavos roughly 5000 pgs. all told. Deckled fore-edges and bottom-edges. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1930152279N.p.: Caddo Company 1930. Vintage program for the premiere of the 1930 Pre-Code film which was famously held as a gala event at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.<br/><br/>Howard Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer" 1927. Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. <br/><br/>8.75 x 11.75 inches bifold. Very Good with a few light dampstains to the front wrapper and a short closed tear to the bottom fold. Caddo Company unknown books
1930148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout.<br/><br/>Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. <br/><br/>James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
194414708JNew York: Simon & Schuster 1944. Two copies of this book one belonging to Fredric March and the other to his wife Florence Eldridge. The poem was written during World War II and was presented in adapted dramatic form several times over the NBC radio network. The copy belonging to Fredric March is a second printing and is signed by him in pencil on the flyleaf - Fredric March November 1944. With some pencil notes by him referring to the text. At a later date the author has inscribed the book to his friend - For Fred March - Concerning whose reading of this poem words fail me - Russell Davenport. On the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945 the NBC Radio Network had March give a dramatic reading of the poem as part of its tribute to the fallen wartime President. The first printing copy belonging to Florence Eldridge is heavily annotated by her in pencil for an earlier radio reading in which she acted. Her copy is a first printing and inscribed by the author - For Florence Affectionately Russell Nov 30 / 44 And don’t for Dec 11!. There is an Autograph Letter Signed by Russell Davenport to Eldridge taped to the front pastedown tape browned dated December 12 1944 written after her radio reading - Dear Florence- This is just a little note wholly inadequate to express my appreciation for all your effort and care in the reading of My Country. You gave a superb performance. If there is ever anything that an unlikely scrivener can do in return you know where to come. Let me see you soon. Affectionately Russ. Both books are enclosed together in a custom clamshell box. Russell Davenport 1899-1954 was a very interesting man and close friend of the Marchs. As Wikipedia notes he “.served with the U.S. Army in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre. He enrolled at Yale University and graduated in 1923 where he was classmate of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden who founded Time magazine. While at Yale he became a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In 1929 he married the writer Marcia Davenport; they divorced in 1944. He joined the editorial staff of Fortune magazine in 1930 and became managing editor in 1937. At age forty-one he turned to politics and became a personal and political advisor to Wendell Willkie. Willkie was the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election and lost the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Willkie's death in 1944 Davenport became a defacto leader of the internationalist Republicans. Following World War II he was on the staff of Life and Time until 1952.†Simon & Schuster unknown books
1947145972Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint holograph pencil annotations and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout.<br/><br/>Based on the 1946 Broadway play and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden Alabama the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation and cruelty. A searing portrayal of racism and class privilege in the post-Civil War American South.<br/><br/>Set in Alabama. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7494 dated June 9 1947 with credits for screenwriter Vladimir Pozner. Title page integral to the front wrapper. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the left edge bound with three gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown books
189011240NY: Ruder Photographer 1890. Original photograph 5-3/4 x 4-3/8 inches mounted on grey board 8 x 12 inches within triple rules some sunning to top inch of board on which photo is mounted lacking tissue guard was was previously affixed photograph is fine. This is a handsome image of the pianist and composer seated on a rocker on a proch most likely in the country reading a book. The tree outside the porch and the light colored and light-weight dress indicates summer. Amy Beach 1867-1944 composer and pianist showed her musical precocity early on; by four she was composing waltzes. her mother a talented singer and pianist undertook her daughter's first musical education; later she studied Ernst Perebo Junius W. Hill and Carl Baermann. During the winter of 1881-1882 Hill taught her harmony 'the only formal instruction in music theory she ever received. lNAW At the age of 16 she debuted with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a pianist and finding favor with critics and public alike continued to give recitals. Her marriage in 1885 to Dr. H.H.A. Beach a distinquished surgeon and colleague of Dr. Oliver Wendell olmes considerable altered the course of her career. her husband appreciated and supported her music but disliked her performing in public. With his encouragement she focusted on composing teaching herself the priciples of musical composition. Her Mass in E Flat major for vocal quarter chorus orchestra and organ was first performed in 1892 by the Handel and Haydn Society with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was the "first work by a woman performed by this oldest and most conservative of American choral organizations." NAW remarkable for any composer all but three of her 150 works were published. She also sought to encourage other woman in music founding in 1926 and serving as first President the Association of American Women Composers. THE BOOK OF WMEN'S FIRSTS Highly regarded throughout her career Beach's music fell into oblivion after her death; new recordings in the 1970's reawakened interest in this fine composer and musician. AMERICAN COMPOSERS pp. 44-46. DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY V. II pp. 41-43. THE NATIONA NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. Read THE BOOK OF WOMEN'S FIRSTS FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN pp. 25l-26. TIMELINES pp. 342 347 351. Ruder Photographer unknown books
184120011<p>Julius Rubens Ames and Gilbert Vale compilers.<i> The Bible of Nature and Substance of Virtue.</i> Albany: C. Van Benthuysen 1842. </p><p>Bound with:</p><p><i>The Bible of Nature Comprising the Moral State of Nations the Revelation of Nature and the Substance of the Essay on Materialism and Extract from the Lectures and Discourses and from a Translation of the Philosophy of Nature by John Stewart the Pedestrian Philosopher.</i> Albany: C. Van Benthuysen 1842. </p><p>Bound with: </p><p><i>The Moral State of Nations or Travels over the Most Interesting Parts of the Globe</i> . . . Granville Middletown N. J.: Printed by George H. Evans 1840. </p><p>Bound with: </p><p><i>The Revelation of Nature </i>. . . London: Printed for J. Ridgway 1790; from the original edition revised and re-printed by G. Evans 1835. </p><p>Bound with: </p><p><i>Opus Maximum an Essay on Materialism . . . by John Stewart the Pedestrian Philosopher.</i> New-York: n. p. 1841. <br /></p><p>5 vols bound into contemporary cloth 7.25 x 4.63 inches frontispiece 202; 2; vii-viii ix-xxv 1; 4; frontispiece 4 126; 122; 74 pages. Excised leaf of an advertisement also laid in. First American editions of the <i>Bible of Nature</i> and of the <i>Opus Maximum</i>.</p>An interesting example of an early American radical book publishing consortium. Pedestrian Stewart 1742-1822 was by all accounts a brilliant eccentric who had traveled across Europe and England and large chunks of North America on foot all in an attempt to reform both men and their minds; his ideas tended toward the radical if perhaps at times unreadable. See the DNB. <br /><br />The two volumes here of <i>The Bible of Nature</i> were published together by a consortium of free thought and radical publishers including expatriate English free thought emigrants Gilbert Vale and George Evans and by J. P. Mendum; the second volume as collected here appears either to be fragmentary or published solely as an introduction to stereotype editions of the Evans editions of <i>Moral State of Nations</i> and the <i>Revelation of Nature</i>. <br /><br />Something of a bibliographical tangle given that the stereotype plates were evidently available free to the asking for American radical publishers of the period and completeness of the second part of the <i>Bible of Nature</i> is unclear and may have been included here simply as a sort of table of contents to the volumes that here follow; whether this sammelband is as published and sold by the radical reformer George Henry Evans or had collected by an early reader is unclear. The New-York edition of <i>Opus Maxium</i> not located in OCLC. <br /><br />Somewhat rubbed bumped and a trifle shaken; some foxing and light staining; a good copy. [v. p.] books
1882291905Philadelphia: Gorton 1882. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with 6 exquisite color aquatints and six black & white steel engravings. 685 pages very thick tall 8vo full brown morocco with elaborately carved and pictorially gilt front and back covers all edges gilt. Philadelphia: Gorton 1882. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Gorton unknown books
1928105118New York: Covici-Friede 1928. First Edition. First Edition.<br/><br/>Basis for the seminal 1949 film noir directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Wise and Audrey Totter. An epic poem about an aging African-American boxer extremely popular on its release resulting in a number of later printings. While the poem's ominous mood was maintained in the film its racial issues were replaced with a complex psychological study more consistent with the noir style. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight spine lean with two small taps along the top board edges. Jacket is faded along the spine with two small closed tears to the front hinge. Covici-Friede unknown books
1898WRCAM34106Boston: Bates & Guild Company 1898. Two volumes. 680pp. plus fifty photographic plates; 4528pp. including numerous in-text illustrations and plans plus 100 loose photographic plates. Each plate is 9 1/2 x 12 inches and mounted on a heavy card 15 1/2 x 19 inches. Half titles. Large folio. Gathered signatures laid into original half cloth and paper board portfolios paper labels on covers. Portfolios shaken and worn particularly along spines. Minor dust soiling in margins. A few plates with slightly greater edge wear. Contemporary ownership inscription on paper labels. Overall images bright and clean. Very good. From an edition limited to 500 copies. An impressive tour of Boston municipal architecture divided into two parts. The first part features "schoolhouse architecture" almost entirely while the second part features hospitals institutions and miscellaneous buildings. The text accompanying each portfolio offers a detailed description of the buildings illustrated in the large plates. In the plates the buildings are usually shown from the front; but these views are often supplemented by side detail or interior shots. Some of the plates are photographic reproductions of relevant architectural plans. <br> <br> "Wheelwright's architectural imagination was wide; he sought the monumental the classic solution. Stylistically he was catholic even erratic. Some of his schools are Italianate some Georgian some rather nondescript; the half-timber of the hospitals and the Marine Park Bath House illustrated here is blatant.Yet in all the work there is counter-trend apparent based on strict practicality and basic simplicity; and some of the municipal work like the Hook and Ladder House No. 1 and the Eustic School both also shown here has a colonial style remarkably pure and charming for its date" - DAB. <br> <br> An unparalleled visual exhibition of Boston civic infrastructure at the close of the 19th century and an important American architectural work. Wheelwright is perhaps best known for being a founding member of the Harvard Lampoon. He later designed the publication's enigmatic Lampoon Castle in 1909. DAB XX pp.61-62. Bates & Guild Company hardcover books
1966List1023New York Taken in Mississippi: Associated Press 1966. First. Silver gelatin wire photographs most 8x10 inches. Editorial marks to versos else about fine near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon collection of photographs documenting the March Against Fear in several cities in Mississippi in June 1966 including several photographs of the tear gas attacks by the Mississippi Highway Patrol in Canton. Photographs from earlier in the march show marchers and belligerent protesters lining the streets. In the latter section particularly in Philadelphia and Canton the governor's promise to protect the marchers disintegrated at the hands of the Mississippi Highway Patrol National Guard and local police James Meredith was of course shot earlier in the parade - no photos of the shooting are included here. The marchers succeeded in registering over 4000 voters despite enduring a wide range of abuse from authorities and bystanders. Associated Press unknown books
1928008397Covici Friede 1928. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in near fine jacket first Edition.$2.00 on flap.Small loss at Crown & Heel of jacket.Epic Poem on Boxing.Very Scarce. Covici Friede Hardcover books
1898WRCAM54953Puerto Principe Cuba 1898. Broadside 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Toned old folds and creases minor edge chipping short closed tear slight fold separations. Very good. A very rare possibly unique surviving example of a Cuban broadside dating from the month after the conclusion of the Spanish- American War. The war ceased with a truce between the United States and Spain on August 12 1898; the official end of the war came a few months later on December 10 when the two parties signed the historic Treaty of Paris. Here on September 10 in the interim between truce and treaty the outgoing Spanish colonial governor of the south- central Cuban city of Puerto Principe present-day Camagüey Emilio March y Garcia calls for reinforcement of the truce agreement that would ensure free and open commercial trade in the region in the face of continuing interference by Cuban insurgents. March y Garcia claims that the Cuban revolutionaries are illegally detaining people interrupting the cattle trade trampling property rights carrying arms in flagrant disregard for the law and more. The ARIZONA REPUBLICAN published an English translation of this proclamation in its September 26 1898 issue. The translation reads: <br> <br> "I hereby inform the commanders of insurgent bands who are pillaging in the neighborhood of this city; who not observing the agreement between the Spanish and American governments with regard to the freedom of commercial relations are illegally detaining the country people; who are obliging the land owners to procure special passes and permits in order to put in order their plantations and will not allow them either to sell their cattle under the absurd pretext that the estates are the property of the nominal Cuban state and that its government alone can distribute and sell them and turn their products to what uses it sees fit thus trampling under foot the rights of property whereas on the part of this government the most absolute liberty in making contracts has been allowed and will be allowed in the future thus demonstrating the respect it has for the rights of all persons within its jurisdiction. I must call to notice with real sorrow that if these towns are suffering almost the horrors of starvation it is the result of the measures adopted by the chiefs of the insurgent bands who are impeding free traffic by forbidding the entry of all kinds of provisions especially cattle into the towns. In view of what I have already explained I consider it necessary to publish the following warnings: Article 1. I repeat my order of August 23 last permitting free entry and exit to all towns of this province subject to my authority and the most absolute freedom of trade between all the inhabitants of the province. Article 2. The prohibition to enter towns with arms remains in force and whoever is found with arms in his possession will be punished in accordance with the laws." <br> <br> Don Emilio Augusto March y Garcia Mesa was a career Spanish military commander who spent at least three stretches of time in Cuba the last as military governor of Puerto Principe during the Spanish defeat in the Spanish- American War. He also served as the colonial governor of Puerto Rico and general captain of Arago the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. <br> <br> The present broadside is exceedingly rare and quite possibly unique with no copies listed in OCLC and no records at auction. unknown books
194119801ENew York & Los Angeles: Whittlesey House / Warner Bros 1941. Later printing. Signed by thirty members of the cast and crew for the Oscar nominated film One Foot in Heaven to the young actress Carlotta Jelm who played the character Eileen Spence the daughter of William and Hope Spence played by Frederic March and Martha Scott in the film and whose signed inscriptions read: “All happiness to Carlotta Frederic March.†and “To my daughter Eileen - my best wishes always Martha Scott.†The book is also signed by Norman Vincent Peale who served as a technical advisor for the film “To Carlotta with best wishes Norman Vincent Peale.†With signatures of director Irving Rapper cinematographer Charles Rosher assistant director Jesse Hibbs Peter Caldwell who played her brother “It was good being your brother Peter Caldwell.†and others. Near fine copy with a trace of use in a very good lightly used and dust soiled dust jacket with thin tape repaired splits to the spine folds and a few small chips and tears. With four production stills: two of Frederic March and Martha Scott on their wedding day posed in front of an oversized prop of the book; one of Fredric March Martha Scott Carlotta Jelm and Peter Caldwell the young actor playing the son and the book’s author Hartzell Spence all posed as if for a formal family portrait and one of Frederic March and Peter Caldwell sitting in an audience as March gives the boy a stern look. All stills are in fine condition and three have binder punch holes. The book and film tell the true story of a happy family headed by a warm and dedicated pastor who with his wife and children moved from one parish to another serving each community with dedication wisdom and humor. The fil also starred Beulah Bondi as a wealthy member of his congregation Gene Lockhart as a member whose wife sings poorly in the choir Grant Mitchell as the architect of the church improvements and a skeptic played by Jerome Cowan. Whittlesey House / Warner Bros unknown books
195838022New York: John Wiley & Sons 1958. First edition of this classic in management science. Octavo original cloth. From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist John Harsanyi with his signature on the front free endpaper . 'Outside the Carnegie group we should like to acknowledge especially our many hours of fruitful work and discussion with Robert A. Dahl on the subject of influence measurement and the help and guidance that John C. Harsanyi provided for our treatment of the relation between game theory and other theories of conflict' p. vi. 'Simon was attracted to the exciting intellectual environment emerging at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. After moving to Carnegie in 1949 Simon stayed there for more than five decades. At Carnegie Simon collaborated on work that established the field of organization theory. The founding work was a major study done with James G. March published as Organizations. The book continued the argument that decision makers are not able to act in an objectively rational manner; rather they are constrained by both cognitive and external limitations. So instead of assuming that each decision maker scans all possible alternatives and chooses the one that maximizes expected utility Simon argued that decision makers instead use 'satisficing' as a criterion for making decisions; they choose the first alternative that looks 'good enough.' March and Simon wrote in Organizations 'Most human decision making whether individual or organizational is concerned with the discovery and selection of satisfactory alternatives; only in exceptional cases is it concerned with the discovery and selection of optimal alternatives.' . . . One of Simon's insights was that the observed complexity of human behavior arose from simple and general underlying mechanisms that were applied to a complex task environment. Simon illustrated this with his famous metaphor of 'the ant on the beach.' The ant's goal is to reach some distant food. While the ant's path to the food seems very complex twisting and turning most of the apparent complexity is due to the grains of sand to be traversed. The complexity of the environment rather than the complexity of mechanism within the decision maker gives rise to the observed behavior. 'In solving problems' March and Simon wrote 'human thinking is governed by programs that organize myriads of simple information processes - or symbolic manipulating processes if you like - into orderly complex sequences that are responsive to and adaptive to the task environment and the clues that are extracted from that environment as the sequences unfold' ' Mie Augier & Edward Feigenbaum 'Herbert A. Simon: 15 June 1916 - 9 February 2001' Biographical Memoirs Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 147 No. 2 June 2003 pp. 196-7. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable with a noted provenance. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
89136Collection of twelve rare graphite artist's sketches of Hollywood actors and actresses each one signed by the respective actor. Signed by Faye Dunaway Roy Rogers Bruce Dern Frederic March Cliff Robertson Janet Leigh Richard Rodgers Carol Channing Jeff Bridges Jean-Paul Belmondo Liv Ullman George C. Scott and George Raft. Each drawing additionally signed by the artist P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. In fine condition. A unique collection. Influenced by Classic Hollywood and French New Wave Cinema the New Hollywood movement in American Film History emerged with a group of young new generation directors including Arthur Penn and Peter Fonda. Notable films of the era include Bonnie and Clyde 1967 The Graduate 1967 Night of the Living Dead 1968 The Wild Bunch 1969 and Easy Rider 1969. unknown books
1963List919Washington 1963. First Edition. Paper pennant measuring 10 1/16 × 16 7/16 inches. Tip detached and toned but easily restorable some wear and small amount of loss at shortest side very good minus condition overall. Very Good. One of only a few known copies of this American flag-themed pennant from the March on Washington notable for its incorporation of the American flag motif. Adaptations of the flag design were common in political graphics of the nineteenth century though the tradition dwindled in the twentieth century. The forty three stars shown appear to have no significance nor do the seventeen stripes. As many of the items created for the March on Washington were made by different groups attending the event most ephemeral items do not survive in any quantity. This pennant is featured in "For Whom it Stands: The Flag and the American People" by Michelle Joan Wilkerson 2015 Reginald F. Lewis Museum for Maryland African American History and Culture p. 22 and 61 and a copy is held at the National Museum of African-American Culture. unknown books
1963List918Washington 1963. Felt pennant measuring 11 ½ x 23 inches. A particularly fine example with two small chips to white felt at border and slightest rubbing to the "f" in "for all" else fine. Fine. A striking large and apparently unrecorded pennant from the 1963 March on Washington with Lincoln's profile under the Capitol dome and the caption "Let's All Join for Equality Now For All Americans / They Shall Not Have Died in Vain."Various banners were produced for the event we find a single record Swann Galleries African-Americana sale 2562 lot 163 of this particular version which is larger than any others and to our knowledge the only one with Lincoln's likeness. unknown books
