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1976134946San Francisco CA: San Francisco Socialist Workers Campaign Committee 1976. Four page tabloid-format campaign brochure printed on newsprint evenly browned else very good condition. Scenic view of the "painted ladies" Victorian houses on the front panel; platform and candidate photos inside. San Francisco Socialist Workers Campaign Committee unknown books
1856006302Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1856. This was the platform for the first national Presidential election 1856 with a Republican candidate John C. Frémont. A RARE publication in its own right Rare Book Hub notes last copy appearing in a dealer catalog in 1970. This copy rendered unique and historically significant by the original owner's addition of 78 blank pages which he mostly filled with pasted in contemporaneous newspaper clippings including 7 pp. of the Democratic Party Platform of 1856. Other significant clippings are headed: The Sanford Letter Wash. Aug. 21 1848 2 pp.; Kansas Affairs-Official Instructions to Gov. Geary and Gen. Smith Wash. Sept.3 1856; Kansas Slave Code 4 pp.; Who Are the Disunionists ; 4th of July Toasts in South Carolina: The White Man Shall Be a Slave If a Laborer: Slaves Horses and other Cattle a Sale by J.B. Sproull & Co. 1855; and The Buchanan Democracy Hate Freedom. Overall approximately 40 newspaper clippings pasted in with some marginal writings and notations in ink in the handwriting of the original owner who although unnamed appears to have resided in Greene Co. OH and was most definitely a Republican ! Very Good bound in sewn brown leather 78 blank pp. with contemporary newspaper articles pasted onto most of the blank pages; the Republican Party Platform 36 pp.; Declaration and Constitution 32 PP. Whenever any other copy of the 1856 Platform comes to market it is unlikely to be as intriguing to historians and collectors as this copy. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. John P. Jewett & Co. Hardcover books
188036562New York: David H. Gildersleeve Printer 1880. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good copy faint fold. 4 pp. 16mo. Scarce Garfield campaign piece for the 1880 election. Also issued as "Why young men should vote for Gen. James A. Garfield." Argues that the Republicans have brought prosperity by limiting free trade and by returning the county to the gold standard; by 1880 the nation's money was backed by gold alone though the issue would continue to be hotly debated for years. OCLC shows three locations: Hagley Western Reserve and Rutherford Hayes Pres. Ctr.; the variant title is held at the first two locations. David H. Gildersleeve, Printer unknown books
60173Bound volume of newspapers. Double-folio 79 issues plus one prospectus and two extras approximately 440 pages representing the "Albany Argus Daily Semi-Weekly and Weekly" "The Sober Second Thought for the Presidential Campaign of 1844" "Clay Tribune" "New-York Weekly Tribune" and the "Freeman's Journal." The newspapers represented different sides of the 1844 campaign for the Presidency between James K. Polk and Henry Clay. This hotly contested election which Polk won by a narrow margin hinged on the question of the admission of the Republic of Texas to the Union and the issue of territorial expansion in general with its effect on the balance between slave and free states. The Prospectus issue for the Sober Second Thought prints the "Treaty of Annexation concluded between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas at Washington the 12th day of April 1844" accompanied by Martin Van Buren's response Van Buren was competing with Polk for the Democratic nomination but his opposition to Texas annexation proved costly. The New-York Weekly Tribune Extra of Oct. 10 1844 reports that "New Jersey is Whig All Over." Printed label of W.S. Fritts Travelling Jobber Dealing in Most Kinds of Staple & Fancy Goods of English French German and American Manufacture" affixed to front pastedown. Cloth-backed boards paper label with manuscript title on front board. Very good. Issues included in this bound volume: Weekly Argus Albany NY: E & S. Croswell advertisement for the publication of the Albany Argus Daily Semi-Weekly and Weekly Sept. 27 1845 2 pp.; Weekly Argus Vol. V New Series No. 39 Whole No. 692 Saturday Sept. 27 1845 defective pagination erratic Vol. IV New Series No. 24 Whole No. 625 Saturday June 15 1844 through Vol. IV New Series No. 49 Whole No. 650 Saturday Dec. 7 1844 26 consecutive issues pp. 193-400; The Sober Second Thought for the Presidential Campaign of 1844 banner headline Vol. I - Prospectus Number New York Saturday May 18 1844 "Published weekly at No. 25 Pine St. for an Association of Democratic Republican Young Men of the City of New York edited by Daniel E. Sickles 4 pp.; we have been unable to trace another copy of this prospectus; The Sober Second Thought for the Presidential Campaign of 1844 banner headline Vol. I No. 5 New York Saturday July 6 1844 through Vol. 1 No. 21 Saturday Oct 26 1844 17 consecutive issues each issue 4 pp.; Clay Tribune by Greeley & McElrath New York No. 1 Saturday May 4 1844 through No. 27 Saturday Nov. 2 1844 27 consecutive issues each 4 pp.; New-York Weekly Tribune by Greeley & McElrath Vol IV No. 5 Whole No. 161 Saturday October 12 1844 4 pp. plus the "Extra" of Thursday Oct. 10 1844 4 pp. Vol. IV No. 6 Whole No. 162 Saturday Oct. 19 1844 through No. 10 Nov. 16 1844 each issue 8 pp. and two earlier issues of the New-York Weekly Tribune Saturday Sept. 18 and 25 Vol. I Nos. 1 and 2 each 8 pp. a total of eight issues; Freeman's Journal Cooperstown N.Y. Monday July 8 1844 Vol. XXXVI No. XLV single issue 4 pp. John H. Prentiss publisher; Freeman's Journal Extra Cooperstown N.Y. Monday Dec. 23 1844 Official Census of the Electoral Vote of the State of New-York - 1844 single sheet 2 pp. The final two issues are laid in at the rear. <br/><br/> hardcover books
CA12A-00259Associazione Internazionale Amici Della Scuola Grande. Collectible - Like New. Venice Italy: Associazione Internazionale Amici Della Scuola Grande Grande Dei Carmini 1984. 2 Volumes. Folio Black white and green glossy pictorial paperwraps with flaps and a black cloth slipcase with silver decoration on front and white ribbon. 43 63 pgs. Italian and English text. Color photographs. Signed and inscribed in Italian; signature and most of inscription illegible but inscription starts "A Franck Gouin" and is dated 11/19/1996. Fine Books. Fine Slipcase. Inquire if you need further information. Associazione Internazionale Amici Della Scuola Grande... hardcover books
1997158141Quezon City Philippines: Gabriela 1997. 83p. very good in wraps. Includes a contribution by Joan Hinton from Beijing. Gabriela unknown books
1995215500San Francisco: No on O Campaign 1995. 12p. 11x14 inch staplebound brochure illustrated with many sepia photographs of Chavez through the years list of cities honoring Chavez by naming schools streets plazas and other buildings after the United Farm Workers leader who died two years earlier. Color portrait of Chavez by Ocampo on the cover. Light handling wear. A lovely tribute and campaign booklet fighting a proposition to return Cesar Chavez Blvd. to the original name of Army Street. No on O Campaign unknown books
1995180271San Francisco: No on O Campaign 1995. 12p. 11x14 inches illustrated with many sepia photographs of Chavez through the years list of cities honoring Chavez by naming schools streets plazas and other buildings after the United Farm Workers leader who died two years earlier very good in stapled pictorial wraps featuring a full-color portrait of Chavez by Ocampo on the cover. A lovely tribute and campaign booklet fighting a proposition to return Cesar Chavez Blvd. to the original name of Army Street. No on O Campaign unknown books
1978161607San Jose: Lambda News 1978. 4p. brochure 8.5x11 inches neatly fold-creased for mailing cover photo of Johnie Staggs and Sal Accardi very good. Introduces the write-in candidates Johnie Staggs for Mayor of San Jose and Sal Accardi for Council Seat 3 whose campaign was a response to the San Jose city council rescinding its Gay Pride resolution. Concludes with a call to vote against the Briggs Initiative. Black and white photo of the candidates on front cover. Johnie Staggs was Nicols's lesbian lover. Lambda News unknown books
18142677Hunthill House Scotland 1814. 4to 230 x 185 mm. 10 233 4 pp. Written in an italic hand in English with occasional corrections or additions in a different hand on wove paper watermarked Budgen & Wilmott / 1812. Four unnumbered pages of French text at front and four at back the latter dated 27 May 1814 in a different hand apparently the author's on different paper with no visible watermark. Very good; some occasional spotting. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt edges scuffed and scraped joints strained head of spine chipped. A first-hand unpublished memoir by a French army officer of the terrible Peninsular War. The narrator was one of few survivors of the surrender of French forces after the Battle of Bailén in July 1808. The background to this event was Napoleon's attempt to complete the isolation of England from the continent by sending a French army into the Iberian Peninsula to seize the coast of Portugal and occupy Spain. Napoleon later referred to the Peninsular War characterized by appalling cruelty on both sides as the 'Spanish ulcer'; it was to be one of the primary factors in his downfall. Although written in a matter-of-fact tone the details of this memoir are searing. General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang was charged with securing French control of the major cities in Spain. Dupont's 20000 men had initial success but as they penetrated deeper into Spain they faced increasing resistance. The present diary traces the route and experiences of Dupont's army to its furthest point of penetration into Spain: Córdoba. There after a particularly bloody and cruel occupation the army was forced to withdraw and was soon overwhelmed. Dupont surrendered his army at Bailén. Originally promised safe passage most of the French were slaughtered immediately after their surrender. The start of the Peninsular War marks the commencement of the memoir written by H. de Montvaillant an officer from Montpellier who was serving in the second Corps d'Observation of the Gironde placed under the direction of General Dupont. Although the starting date of the campaign is generally accepted as March 1808 by Montvaillant's account the French had already occupied the town of Vittoria 50 miles west of Pamplona by Dec. 22 1807. By January 9 1808 French troops had advanced to south of Burgos heading toward Valladolid. At every stopover small detachments were left behind to guard the roads thereby diminishing the strength of the army as it travelled. Spanish guerrilla activity took a toll on the troops; so much so that the author records that the troops had to "redouble our vigilance and take measures the most severe ever adapted to ensure our safety" p. 58. On Feb. 16 they entered Medina del Campo on their way to Madrid. Montvaillant records his impressions of the city its palaces and inhabitants. Toledo was the next destination where he notes a visit to the palace library and the suppression of an uprising led by monks. By the end of May the French had occupied Consuegra and entered La Carolina in Andalusia. It is at this point that the narrative takes on an ominous tone. About to enter Seville Montvaillant notes a change in circumstances in the countryside and the inhabitants. The population is abandoning villages and fleeing. He records that the senior officers assumed that the army would only be harassed by small bands of "brigands" p. 84 a far cry from the massive insurgency that it encountered: "We learned that the insurgents each day gathered strength and that the Junta of Seville was determined to stop us in our march. The following days we got to the little town Baylen Bailén in whose plains two months afterwards our destiny was decided" p. 86. The French attacked and sacked the city of Córdoba: "Neither tears promises or humble supplications could arrest the thirst for pillage." p. 89; discipline was nonexistent and the drunkenness and looting continued for eight days. Soon after Montvaillant is ordered back to the village of Alcolea not far from Bailén to guard a bridge crossing. While there he discovers the slaughter of the French sick and wounded who had been left along the line of march while the main body of General Dupont's troops had taken Córdoba. The army had moved back to Andujar near Bailén and encamped. Montvaillant records that the general staff soon realized that the French were now outnumbered and that the opposition had organized itself. Dupont's army was isolated without hope of reinforcement or re-supply defending a garrison at the village of Andújar situated on a flat plain in the scorching sun. The narrative is now of troop dispositions losses tactical mistakes errors of the general staff and increasing difficulties. Dupont's surrender came on July 20 1808. The officers were segregated from the defeated army before being escorted supposedly to France. Most of the remaining army was slaughtered within days. Montvaillant records the details of his months-long "death march" southwards to the coast finally arriving at Jerez de la Frontera near Cádiz to await embarkation to France. This never occurred. The officers' captors kept them in Jerez having discovered that the ruling Junta of Seville had abrogated the surrender treaty and that the inhabitants were waiting to massacre the French on their approach to Cádiz. Montvaillant now fills his account with anecdotes of captivity and of the officers' horrendous treatment at the hands of their escorts and guards. He is unclear as to exact dates but it seems that the French captives were held at Jerez until mid-December before being hastily driven aboard ships to sail for the Balearic Islands p. 141. A severe storm intervened and they were blown off course to Africa finally coming to port at Gibraltar; several days later they were already back in Andalusia at Málaga. Then after more storms and much sailing they finally made the Balearics where they were exiled to the desert island of Cabrera. There some 4400 surviving men and officers were forced to survive as best they could p. 148. Almost 250 officers were collected from this exile after a month and taken to the capital Palma. Imprisoned there though in better conditions than previously this group of officers waited; nearly half would be massacred during a riot and assault on the prison by the inhabitants of Palma. By March 1809 only 140 of the original 250 rescued officers were alive and were returned to Cabrera where the living conditions were desperate pp. 155-165. Despite this the officers were able to conjure up distractions. There is an account of theater productions dances and the jealousy and bickering among those playing female roles in these performances. Montvaillant comments that the theatrical chronicle of Cabrera would make quite a book. Eventually the officers were placed aboard an English ship. On August 4 when they were off Cape Palos near Cartagena there were rumors of a prisoner exchange which again did not occur. After several weeks aboard the English ship Montvalliant and his companions were disembarked at Portsmouth. He continued on to Salisbury then embarked again for Leith en route to his final destination in Scotland Jedburgh where he remained in exile until the accession of Louis XVIII in 1814. The text is written in an occasionally stilted English. Eight pages of notes in French by the author are inserted four at the beginning using wax seals to insert the bifolium and four at the end dated May 27 1814. The French preface consists of a romanticized fictionalized account of the author's Scottish sojourn including a temptress fairy and concluding with the author's promise to never forget his friends in Scotland. The English text is preceded by the title-leaf and a one-page dedicatory poem introduced by a statement that these "`Recollections' in an English Garb are presented by the sincerest of Friends to the Author" and dated Hunt Hill 1 January 1814. The first of the four final pages in French provides some information about the history of the manuscript the remaining pages contain literary notes including translations into French of poems by Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. According to these comments the diary was originally written in French and was translated into English by the narrator's benefactors in Jedburgh. During his years of exile Montvaillant had befriended a well-off family Rutherford the owners of nearby Hunthill House to whose three young daughters he became deeply attached. Without them he claims he would not have survived the loneliness of his exile. To pay them homage and in acknowledgement of his gratitude he dedicated his memoir to them. His friends retained the original French version as a valued keepsake of their friend and an engrossing biographical narrative and presented him with this translation which he brought back to France planning to render it anew into French to share with his family and close friends. The annotations in the text appear to be the author's. He emphasizes that he plans to keep the manuscript unpublished; perhaps the memories were too painful. unknown books
19297265Mexico City: Self published 1929. First printing. Quarto pp xviii 454. Very early history of the religious conflict in Mexico during the Calles regime the Cristero revolt. Undoubtedly because of its Catholic bias the book was printed anonymously and without any publisher being names. A thorough-going history of Church -State relations in Mexico from the beginning of the Republic up to the Cristero conflict. Wrappers very good. Scarce. <br/><br/> Self published unknown books
1982140020Los Angeles: Mel Mason for Governor Campaign Committee 1982. 8.5x14 inch handbills reprinting an article from The Militant critical of Bradley the Democratic candidate for Governor. Mel Mason the black Trotskyist city councilman from Seaside CA ran on a platform opposing US intervention in El Salvador anti-nuclear weapons/power and full employment. Mel Mason for Governor Campaign Committee unknown books
1977214955San Juan PR: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 1977. Paperback. 145p. text in Spanish a few b&w photos very good first edition pocket-size paperback in white pictorial wraps. Serie Literatura Hoy año II núm. 12. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña paperback books
1840WRCAM28485N.p. but Andover Ma. 1840. Broadside 15 x 22 inches. Moderate wear at edges and along horizontal and vertical creases including slight closed tears where previously folded in half. Extensive editorial copy beneath bold heading and patriotic woodcut vignette. Very good. An 1840 campaign broadside on behalf of Amos Abbot distinguished Massachusetts public servant and founder of the Boston & Portland Railroad. His campaign was successful and he returned for three consecutive terms. He retired from Congress in 1849 and died in 1868. REYNOLDS p.455. unknown books
2003165500Mexico City: Juntos Actuando Por la Superacion2003 2003. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with black stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with black and gold lettering. 524 pp. Lavishly illustrated in color. Shipping weight is 8 pounds. Catalogue of the impressive private collection of Juan Antonio Perez Simon. Absolutely beautiful book! Juntos Actuando Por la Superacion2003 hardcover books
2008165504Mexico D.F.: Juntos Actuando por la Superacion 2008. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with black stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black and brown lettering. 662 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Shipping weight is 10 pounds. Drawings and paintings from the private collection of Juan Antonio Perez Simon. Text in Spanish. Juntos Actuando por la Superacion hardcover books
1997256522New York: Putnam/Tarcher 1997. Paperback. viii 291p. introductions contributors personal inscription signed by the editor on the title page very good firs5t edition first printing stated trade paperback in wraps. Putnam/Tarcher paperback books
1978237966London: Legalise Cannabis Campaign 1978. Pamphlet. 30p. stapled wraps 5.5 x 8.25 inches corners bumped pen notation on front wrap staple through front wrap else good condition. Legalise Cannabis Campaign unknown books
197926470London: Labour Abortion Rights Campaign n.d. 1979. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp. Fine. Includes a history of abortion rights by Mary Donnelly and the essay "The 1967 Abortion Act and its opponents" by Ann Kingsbury. 3 copies in OCLC as of May 2015 UC Davis & Northwestern only in North America. Labour Abortion Rights Campaign unknown books
1991165603San Francisco: Joni Jacobs for Mayor Campaign 1991. Eight panel brochure 3.5x8.5 inches illus. very good condition. Joni Jacobs for Mayor Campaign unknown books
1991182626San Francisco: the Campaign; Socialist Action 1991. 11x17 inch poster red and white design with a vague hint of a raised fist behind lettering; very good. Also included is an orange and black poster plain text only headed "Human needs are human rights! the Campaign; Socialist Action unknown books
1991182627San Francisco: the Campaign 1991. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one side very good on white stock. Flyer distributed at Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day in SF; calls for linking with the women's movement and the labor movement. the Campaign unknown books
1991185169San Francisco: the Campaign 1991. 2.25 inch pin all text very good condition. the Campaign unknown books
19871226346Washington DC: Author 1987. Thin pamphlet quarto size in purple black and grey; VG- condition paperback; covers clean some wear to edges; paper heavily discolored; text clean; pp. 72.<br /> <br /> <p> Shelve in "13 ephemera" box in Netdesk office. 1226346. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Author unknown books
199996022New York: Painted Leaf Press 1999. Paperback. 220p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Painted Leaf Press paperback books
