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2002426j1182USA: Barricade Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1569802351 . "Most Americans are unaware of the interaction between Zionists and Hitler and Mussolini. The reason is simple: the Zionist record was dishonorable. This book brings to light through historic documents the approaches that Zionists made to the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. Some were published in English decades ago and are unknown to the general public. Others are completely translated into English for the first time. Contains explosive information historians ignore." - dust jacket. xii 342 pages. Glossary. Index. Clean bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A high-quality example. ; Sm 4to . Barricade Books hardcover
1963338H1200London: The Illustrated London News & Sketch 1963. Magazine. Illus. by de Grineau Bryan. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pages 185-220 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Sensational page of six photos with text illustrating Dubai the primary port and one of the most progressive towns in Trucial Oman - includes the Customs Building the new bridge Shaikh Rashid Bin Said a general view of the town the Al-Gaz Hotel the old palace and more; Cover photo of the Queen Mother upon her 63rd birthday; Article on the Moscow Test-Ban Treaty with photo of DeGaulle; Photo of the Vickers Hovertruck in action; Photo of the Corporal missile on parade at Larkhill; Photo of Mr. David Tapp driving his tractor The Seahorse across the English Channel; Photo of champion racing driver Graham Hill aboard replica of a Ford Quadricycle marking the centenary of Henry Ford who is shown separately driving a Quadricycle in 1904; Photo of spectators swarming onto the pitch at Headingley after West Indies triumph in fourth test match; Illustration of the eminent conductor Mr. Basil Cameron; Page of fascinating text and photos explain war in Yemen between the Royalist and Republican forces; Photo of engine of wrecked WWII British bomber found in Dutch field; Photo of examination of first wreckage recovered from the U.A.R. Comet which crashed in the Indian Ocean on July 28 killing 62 persons including 26 Boy Scouts from the Philippines; Photos of Japanese Emperor Hirohito examining marine life on Hayama Beach Japan; Dramatic photos of rescue efforts at Skopje Yugoslavia after earthquake; Photo of Peru's president-elect Signor Fernando Belaunde Terry; Amazing photo of huge Australian wedge-tailed Eagle named 'Widgie' landing on the arm of young John Ryder who rescued the bird when it fell from its nest in its youth; Photo of the Bishop of Caltagirone blessing and Italian cradle bound for the unborn child of President Kennedy; Photo of disarmament conference at Geneva; Photo of Orville Freeman presenting Indian peace pipe to Khrushchev on July 30; Book review of "Dieppe - The Shame And The Glory" by Terrence Robertson; Page of news and illustrations from 100 years ago includes New York riots reoccupation of Jackson Mississippi by the Confederates and balloon reconnaissance at Aldershott; One page photo of London Heliolaters swimmers at the Oasis Pool Holborn during the fifth day of the current heatwave; Delacroix Centennial exhibition in the Louvre; Illustrated article on the highways and houses of Salsisbury before redevelopment; Major coverage of biblical Shechem in Jordan - its history and current excavations; Photo of Chesterfield Cup horserace at Goodwood on July 31; Aerial photo of Eastbourne showing the Devonshire Park lawn tennis courts; Photos of personalities of the week include Dr. Carl Borgward Lady Hudson Sir Horace Clark Sir Robert Chapman Miss Claudia Mcpherson of Canada the youngest Channel swimmer Miss Jane Allday six railwaymen who have become mayors in South Wales Harold Philby granted asylum in Russia Jazzman Don Aloysius Gordon freed on appeal of assault charge John Grigg Lord Stansgate with his wife now Mr. Wedgwood Benn and a commoner and Mr. St. Clair; Four photos and text of 100 foot first century Roman ship discovered in the Blackfriars mud; Two pages of amazing photos and text describe dystopian life inside a communist Chinese agricultural commune - an exclusive glimpse of life behind the bamboo curtain; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this wonderful issue. The Illustrated London News & Sketch Paperback
18743390119New York: D. Appleton & Company 1874. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Full morocco leather with blind-stamped border design gilt-stamped title with previous owner's name on Volume I five raised bands on spine gilt page edges all around. Edges and spine worn with light scuffs on covers. Exlibrary spine stickers and minor markings including vintage bookseller sticker foxing endpapers brittle moiré with some chipping and title pages tears with no loss. Volume I: viii 568 pages illustrated plus 24 full-page plates with steel engravings including frontispiece and title. Volume II: vi 576 pp. illustrated plus 25 full-page plates with steel engravings including frontispiece and title. Ex-Library; Engravings; 13" tall; 1144 pages. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1806046466London: John Stockdale 1806. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes in contemporary leather bindings rebacked with the spines laid back down inner joints strengthened with cloth tape. Modest browning and foxing occasional light stains and wear to page edges some offsetting but generally clean and a very good copy overall. With 104 engraved plates 57 maps mostly folding and a 1 paginated folded chart. ccvi 415 1 blank2 ; iv 518 2; iv 527 1 blank 29 1 blank; iv 570 30pp. Brunet I 1511. <br/><br/>The second edition of Gough's Britannia the first was published in 1789. "bien préférable aux précedentes" Brunet. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Geography & Maps. Inventory No: 046466. John Stockdale hardcover books
1806046466London: John Stockdale 1806. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes in contemporary leather bindings rebacked with the spines laid back down inner joints strengthened with cloth tape. Modest browning and foxing occasional light stains and wear to page edges some offsetting but generally clean and a very good copy overall. With 104 engraved plates 57 maps mostly folding and a 1 paginated folded chart. ccvi 415 1 blank2 ; iv 518 2; iv 527 1 blank 29 1 blank; iv 570 30pp. Brunet I 1511. <br/><br/>The second edition of Gough's Britannia the first was published in 1789. "bien préférable aux précedentes" Brunet. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Geography & Maps. Inventory No: 046466. John Stockdale hardcover
1988112H4096Kingston Ontario: The Limestone Press 1988. Book. Illus. by Later Hedy; Grounds Chris. Good. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed "For Robert Conquest with admiration" atop title page apparently by Luciuk at Kingston Ontario in 2008. Conquest 1917-1915 was a renowned author and sovietologist once described by a close adviser to Margaret Thatcher as Britain's greatest living historian. His landmark 1986 treatise 'The Harvest of Sorrow' documented the Ukraine's great terror-famine of 1932-1933. 493 pages. Footnotes bibliography and index. Fold-out colour map. "The documents reveal that even at the height of the famine the Soviet authorities denied that there was starvation rejected foreign aid and exported food and that senior British officials refused to alert the public and discouraged private relief. This collection thus furnishes evidence about the causes course and consequences of one of the great politically engineered famines of the twentieth century." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and special association copy of this important historical record. The Limestone Press Paperback
16373Civil Rights Movement Four First Edition government reports related to the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The reports cover issues such as the ongoing struggles to desegregate schools problems with voter suppression for African-Americans and the ongoing struggles for equality. Comes with 2 original press photos of the Civil Rights Committee with President Eisenhower in 1959 and photo of new members the following year. This collection documents racial inequality in the 50's and 60"s that the government sought to address.<br/><br/>Two reports on the "Civil Rights Hearings before the Congressional Committee on Civil Rights": the 1959 report details proposed bills to strengthen the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and addresses issues such as Poll Taxes and the violent ways that white segregationists intimidated Black students from integrating such as making threats to bomb schools. The 1963 document includes a statement from President Kennedy that recognizes the progress made yet outlines priorities for Civil Rights legislation in the US including: voting rights and integrated education. "Civil rights USA: Public Schools Southern States 1963 North Carolina" details the barriers that President Kennedy spoke about with many examples of de facto segregationist policies in public schools. Many of these issues were addressed in the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 yet the "Hearing Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights" from 1966 includes over 600 pages of testimony regarding the ongoing fight for racial equality in the US with maps charts graphs and photographic illustrations throughout to support various testimony. All in very good condition with original wrappers; some minor soiling and discoloration. unknown books
194098733London Sept. 1 1939-Dec. 31 1939. April 1 1940-July 2 1940. 1940. 1940. Fine. - Folio 17-1/2 inches high by 13-1/2 inches wide. A manuscript scrapbook consisting of 62 leaves 124 pages bound with 2 silver clasps between brown Masonite-like boards. The contents of the scrapbook are for the most part tipped-in articles cartoons and images clipped from newspapers of the period. These are accompanied by the sometime profuse handwritten comments of the scrapbooker. These comments are occasionally personal but mostly historical. The handwritten text begins on September 1st 1939: "At 5:30 this morning Germany started marching into Poland - which means that England & France must & will declare war against Germany." On Sept 2 she comments: "Poor dear Germany. There are so many thousands of people - fine people. To think that they must all go out & fight for some one they hate against some one they like." On September 3 she writes: "Went to church & Mass at 11. Half way thru Mass an officer came in & whispered to some soldiers hearing Mass. They got up & left - On getting home we found that at 11 a.m. England had declared war on Germany." And the next day: "Archie her new husband went off to the office to say goodbye. They were very nice & thank heavens he gets his job back after the war - if any of us are alive.The street corners are painted black white so you can see where you are at night." On September 17th there appears a nasty cartoon featuring Chamberlain roughly translated: This German woman was tortured and murdered by Polish beasts in Bromberg as a result of England's blanket authority. What will Mr. Chamberlain tell you Next to it is pasted an article reporting on Russia's invasion of Poland. A Soviet dispatch reads "The Polish-german war has revealed the rottenness of the Polish State and its Government". A newspaper copy of Hitler's September 19th Danzig speech attempting to justify his invasion of Poland is tipped in. The scrapbooker writes on September 24 of the terrible plight of a friend: ".she is sleeping in an old Warehouse with 35 other girls and the place isn't even water-proof to say nothing of being unheated. Their job is to act either as chauffers to all the officers or else as ambulance drivers." Hitler's October 6 Reichstag speech as published in a newspaper is tipped in. A newspaper article states "RED TERROR COMES TO POLAND. Ninety-Nine per cent of the people of Poland consider the Russian invasion incomparably worse than the German because of its infinitely greater cruelty." On November 5th "Black-out deaths are becoming alarming. Now that it is dark at 6 - just at the rush hour there are a lot of accidents." Articles on Mussolini and on the Graf Spee start appearing. On December 2nd the scrapbooker writes: "USA has threatened to stop selling arms to the Soviet. Oh yeah They'll sell anything in order to make money." And on December 9th: "Because everyone had their pets killed at the beginning of war London is now overrun with rats".<p>The first part of the scrapbook ends on December 13 1939. She picks up again on April 1st 1940. Here is tipped-in the newspaper printing of Churchill's "Finest Hour' speech of June 18 1940. On June 29 1940 The Times of London prints a large image of the Churchill "Deserve Victory" poster. David Lloyd George's article "France: The Terrible Warning" appears in the "Sunday Pictorial". The scrapbook ends on July 2nd 1940. Superb source material. <p>The 23-year-old creator of the scrapbook was at the time of her death the widow of U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh. Born on September 12 1916 Virginia "Bimbetta" was the daughter of Marchese and Marchesa Agostino Ferrante di Ruffano. Her mother Virginia Cameron MacVeagh came from a line of important American government officials. Her father served as consul general of Italy in several countries. She accompanied her family to the diplomatic postings of her father including Istanbul Boston Ottawa Philadelphia Sydney and finally Dresden in 1938. Bimbetta married Archibald J. Coats in Frankfurt on April 27 1939 and the couple settled in England. Coats was called up by the military in 1939 and fought in the Sudan. Bimbetta left England in 1940 settling in Cazenovia New York. She and Archibald Coats divorced in 1950. In 1952 she moved with her children to Madrid. It was there that her relationship with Lincoln MacVeagh the Ambassador to Spain took root. After MacVeagh's retirement the couple resided in Estoril Portugal and were married there in 1955. Bimbetta died in Cazenovia on April 13 2014. London, Sept. 1, 1939-Dec. 31, 1939. April 1, 1940-July 2, 1940. [1940]. hardcover
1897441j1133London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Limd. Good. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. "This volume contains the first attempt to give a connected view of the whole of this subject. Various portions have been full treated by previous writers; but they have hardly attempted to gather up the scattered threads and to show the influence which aliens have exercised in all districts of the country and on every side of English life." - Preface. "If all the volumes of the Social England Series contain as much valuable and interesting matter as this book the projectors of the series may congratulate themselves. It is clear terse and full of information." - The Economic Journal Vol 8 Issue 30 1 June 1898. "William Cunningham 1849-1919 was a university lecturer in history from 1884 to 1891 in which year he was appointed Tooke Professor of Economy and Statistics at King's College London a post he held until 1897. He was lecturer in economic history at Harvard c. 1899 and Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge 1885." - Wikipedia. xxiv 286 pages. Index. Footnotes. Original green cloth nicely lettered in gilt. Average wear. Binding tight. Former library copy with relatively discrete markings. A sound example.; Social England Series; 12mo . Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Limd hardcover
1871425H2080London: W. Tweedie 1871. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Engish Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by Translator atop front free endpaper. xii 197 pages. After the flight of France's Empress Eugenie to England after the Battle of Sedan in 1870 Napoleon's private papers and correspondence fell into the hands of the new Government of the National Defense. A Commission was immediately appointed to examine these documents. The Commission then published certain of these documents creating a profound impression throughout France. The documents are presented without note or comment beyond explanations appended by the Commission. - paraphrased from Preface. Text in English. Erratum slip inserted at page v. Brown cloth attractively embossed and decorated in black with gilt lettering. Binding intact. Slight lean to spine. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound and special copy of this fascinating Napoleonic documentation. W. Tweedie Hardcover
156298780Milan 1562. 1562. - Folio 12 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. 1-page on bifolium with a red paper seal. On the 4th leaf with the seal the letter is addressed "APRmo 5 Mons : Vescovo di Cremona". The letter realized in a secretarial hand is dated April 5 1562 from Milan and is boldly signed by Francesco Fernando dÁvalos d'Aquino d'Aragona.<p>Philip II King of Spain and Duke of Milan chose Francesco Fernando dÁvalos to be his envoy at the Council of Trent. He arrived in Trent on March 14 1562 and attended the sessions of the council. He pressed the Spaniards to not offer up anything against the interests of the Holy See. Upon his return to Milan he charged his secretary Ercole Pagnano with the task of generating a report. As the Governor's agent Pagnano had defended the privileges of the Sicilian monarchy and worked with the Spaniards to quell the controversy regarding the jurisdiction of bishops. In this letter to the Bishop of Cremona the Governor is offering Pagnano's report to him. Loosely translated he states that Pagnano is well informed about these things and that "V.S." Your Excellency should be given his account.<p>The letter was once folded into 4 panels and there very minor breaks along 3 of the folds. There is some minor browning especially to one of the folds. <p>An advisor to King Philip II of Spain Francesco Fernando dÁvalos c.1530-1571 took command of the Spanish army in Lombardy and Piedmont succeeding the 3rd Duke of Alba who had become the Governor of Milan. From 1560 to 1563 Francesco Fernando served as the Governor of the Duchy of Milan. He was the viceroy of Sicily from 1568 to 1571.<p>The Bishop of Cremona was born Niccolo Sfondrati in 1535 in the Duchy of Milan. Philip II of Spain appointed him to be a senator in Milan in 1552 and at the urging of the Spanish government the Pope appointed him Bishop of Cremona in 1560. He participated in some of the sessions of the Council of Trent from 1561 to 1563. In 1590 he was one of seven cardinals that were acceptable to be pope by Philip II of Spain. He was elected Pope and took the name Gregory XIV. He died less than a year later in October 1591. Milan, 1562. unknown
1595044181Paris: Pierre Mettayer 1595. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes bound in 2 rebound in modern half red leather over decorative paper in an antique style. Old library stamps to title index and occasionally to the top right corner. Slight soiling to title quite clean otherwise and an attractive and attractively printed copy. 12 328 3 leaves; 8 195 10 130 124 10 leaves. <br /> <br /> Monstrelet meant to carry on the work of Froissart and extended the Chronicles from 1400-1444. Additions were pieced together and tacked onto the end of his work extending it to 1515. Monstrelet who was present when Joan of Arc was interrogated by Philip the Good includes a great deal of primary source material that otherwise would have been lost to history. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044181. Pierre Mettayer hardcover
237c7616USA: The Truth Seeker 1970. Book. Good. Paperback. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 322 pages. Translated from the first Russian edition. Contents include: Jews in the land of Kiev Russia and the Moscow State; The first Jews in Russia; The further growth rate of Jews in Russia; Politics of the Russian Government with regard to the Jewish question; How Jewish capital was created in Russia; The social structure of Russian Jewry; Jewish participation and their role in the cultural life of Russia; Jews in Russian literature and criticism; Jews - Russian lawyers; Russian Jewry at the beginning of the twentieth century; The Balis Affair; The Jewish question from February to October 1917; Jews in USSR; Personal-national autonomy; Thirty-year total; The war years; The post-war period; The state of Israel and the problem of double citizenship; Supplements I and II. Apparently the author self-published a first English edition in New York in 1967. This copy may be a later reprint as a small Truth Seeker address label has been placed over original text on the copyright page. Regardless this copy appears to be circa 1970s or prior. Brown stains to lower portion of back cover modestly affect last three pages - text unaffected. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. The Truth Seeker Paperback
1947463c6242London: Boswell. Good. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 163 pages. The author was "prescient enough to foretell the coming of globalisation and the globalisers with his perfect short description: '.no territorial limits and respects no human ideals but regards the whole world as one glorious financial playground to be used for its own benefit.'" - Ian Buckley. Average wear. Binding intact. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket not included. Underlining and various markings throughout text. A worthy reading copy. Singerman 706.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Domville Admiral Sir Barry K.B.E. C.B. C.M.G. Judmas Freemasonry . Boswell hardcover
1954126H2134Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press / University of Tokyo Press. Fair. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. xv 1 293 pages. Index. Bibliography and Abbreviations. "The first comprehensive history of the Khazars in any Western language. Traces their beginnings their possible relations with the Persians before Islam their contacts with the Greeks and wars with the Arabs their conversion to Judaism the alleged correspondence with Spain the relation with the Russions and finally the collapse and disappearance of the Khazar state." - from dust jacket not included. "Dunlop 1909-1987 taught history at Columbia University in the 1950s and '60s and was a highly-regarded scholar of the Khazars as he had command of the many languages required to study them". - Wikipedia. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Slight bow to front board. Binding intact. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this excellent reference.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Judaica History Khazars Ashkenazi Kagan Judaism Conversion Caucasus Princeton Oriental Studies Volume 16 . Princeton University Press / University of Tokyo Press hardcover
1953622h5992Ottawa: Minister of National Defence. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. This two-volume set includes a most distinguished provenance. Each volume bears the bookplate of Arthur C. Singleton M.D. M.B.E. inside its front board. Dr. Singleton 1900-1968 was affiliated with the Department of Radiology Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Laid inside Volume II is a two-page typed letter to Dr. Singleton dated 1953 and signed by Brooke Claxton Minister of Defense in which the Minister expresses his personal appreciation to Dr. Singleton for his efforts "in preparation of this work as well as his own military service and his continued association with the armed forces medical services." The Minister goes on to explain that he is presenting this volume to Dr. Singleton in appreciation for said service. Volume I dated 1956 includes a gift bookplate from then Minister of Defense Ralph Campney Q.C. upon front free endpaper. xii 568 xvi 537pp. Index and occasional colour and black and white plates in each volume. Colour map endpapers in Vol. I which includes nineteen maps in colour and black and white many of which fold out. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear to maroon boards handsomely lettered and illustrated in gilt. Bindings intact. Dust jackets not included. A special set. Cooke 3e p. 242 Enser p.93.; 4to . Minister of National Defence hardcover
183063Bergamo: Dalla Stamperia Mazzoleni 1830. 24mo. 130 x 85 mm 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches. 32 24 pp. Contemporary red morocco gilt-tooled borders and spine. A lovely copy. First edition. Superb copy of this seemingly unrecorded volume designed to raise funds for the maintenance of girls' schools north of Bergamo near the Swiss border. It is published by the 'Pia opera di Santa Dorotea' an Italian movement founded in 1815 to provide education for female orphans. The volume contains two separately paginated parts each in the form of a letter. The first describes in a cheerful style the work of the schools the directors and assistants all female and the flavor of the education the girls receive; all the girls learn to read and write and educated in virtues of piety and charity. Contrasting the petulance nascent malice and puerile nature of many girls with that of those in the care of the Santa Dorotea schools the author notes that 'the education of these peasant girls is a miracle.' The author describes some of the highlights of the school year including the feast of St. Tecla 'a spectacular event'. At the end of the first part there is an advertisement for the charity's publication Pia opera di Santa Dorotea Bergamo 1830. The second part consists of a dialogue between the author of the first letter and two potential donors to the charity who after more discussion about the administration of the schools agree to make a donation. Not in cited in NUC SBN or OCLC. 63. [Dalla Stamperia Mazzoleni] unknown books
1915113c5137London: Cassell and Company Ltd. Good. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Chapters include: The Genius of the Jew; What the Jews Have Done; The Jew in America; American Jews and Their Occupations; The Jew in Great Britain; The Jews in the British Dominions; The Jews in Germany and Austria; How the Jew Stands in France; Russian and Polish Jews; The Jews of Southern Europe; The Jews of Lesser Lands; The Jews of the East; The Jew in the World of Art. 304 pages. Index. Average wear and soiling. Binding sound. Bit of writing atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Half-inch opening to bottom of backstrip. Gilt lettering and adornment upon front board and backstrip clearly visible. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Jewry History Business Success America; American Jews and Their Occupations; The Jew in Great Britain; The Jews in the British Dominions; The Jews in Germany and Austria; How the Jew Stands in France; Russian and Polish Jews; The Jews of Southern Europe; . Cassell and Company, Ltd hardcover
1954337h5865London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. "Tells the story John Renshaw Starr an officer of the SOE sent to establish the Acrobat Network in north-eastern France during the Second World War. He was subsequently captured tortured and imprisoned in Fresnes prison at 84 Avenue Foch and in Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps. Based upon Starr's own account of his activities captivity and survival and the subsequent investigations concerning his suspected collaboration with the enemy." - Wikipedia. "The War Office in consultation with the Foreign Office have held that no security objection can be taken to the publication of this book. They add that the departments concerned in no way vouch for its accuracy or otherwise." - dust jacket. 222 pages. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of Captain Starr. Chronology. Index of names and brief 'Who's Who'. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Enser p.397.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; John Renshaw Starr Starr Affair SOE War Office Foreign Office World War 1939-1945 Acrobat Network Special Operations France Traitors . Victor Gollancz Ltd. hardcover
18543249N.P 1854. Complete 28 page handwritten manuscript play prompt drawn directly from Julia Corner's 1854 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Stitched at spine and holding though some pages are loose or delicate. Occasional staining largely confined to margins or rear blanks. Composed in one woman's hand in ink throughout with what appears to be a much younger girl's annotation in pencil to the final pages. The text throughout corresponds with Corner's book with the exception of stage directions occasionally being abbreviated or simplified. We have been unable to locate the "Miss Lacy's School" mentioned in the younger girl's note.<br/><br/>Julia Corner the daughter of a printer became a prolific children's author in her time; and her adaptation of Beauty and the Beast was hailed for "creating quite a sensation among all the middling-size children" according to Eliza Cook's Journal from that year. At a time when there was debate about the morality of performance and theater Corner was noted for "wisely sympathizing with child-natures and she declares her belief in the propriety and profit of theatrical amusement among children"; and Eliza Cook's Journal documents instances of girls in particular gravitating toward the play "settling all the characters for all available friends" and performing at home or school Cook Vol 10. Here we see first-hand evidence of this phenomenon: girls in a ladies' school taking on roles and acting them out for classmates. Further research into the school its location and its class of girls would be enlightening -- uncovering for example if there were multiple prompts for girls who could not access Corner's text whether the manuscripts were done as a handwriting exercise in addition to the performance or whether one individual simply copied this play out as a souvenir of the event. The hand used throughout is elegant and well-trained -- seemingly a grown woman whose spelling corresponds with contemporary American rather than British expectations. <br/><br/>The choice of a fairy tale like Beauty and the Beast also deserves study as it promotes particular feminine qualities -- including respect for authority filial affection and self-sacrifice and modesty -- even within the darker setting of fairies sorcery and punishment. <br/><br/>A unique opportunity for research in fields including but not limited to the trans-continental transmission of fairy tales girls' education the history of performance didactic literature and performance in schools gender studies and paleography. unknown books
1967864H4387Manila Philippines: Bookmark 1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed without inscription by author upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. xvi 662 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Except for the last few chapters this entire work was written from day to day during the three years of the author's internment in Santo Tomas and is therefore to be considered as a prison document. The writing of any such record as this was forbidden by the Japanese under strong menace. In the end they destroyed their own records and those of the successive internee executive committees but the author's voluminous typescript carefully hidden away was never found by them. Every story is based on interviews with numerous persons who participated in the events they talked about." - Foreword. No dust jacket. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to grey boards. Binding intact. Please note that we are offering volume one only of this important two volume chronicle. Bookmark Hardcover
1618044725Geneva: Pauli Stephani Paul Estienne 1618. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf worn foxing and browning to text heavy in spots light dampstains occasionally including to the plates Babel map adhered to the final preface page in the gutter. With the four plates depicting Babel the tower and Semiramidis the latter plate later appeared in Kircher's Turris Babel. The text is Valla's edited by Henri Estienne - two columns in Greek and Latin. xii 708 30pp. Graesse T3 255<br /> <br /> First published in 1592 it includes a great deal of material related to Persia including the plates in addition to the Histories. It was with Herodotus that Estienne first made his name with his 1566 Latin edition and accompanying apology in French. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044725. Pauli Stephani (Paul Estienne) hardcover
1958222j2706New York: Philosophical Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. A classic of Zionist literature first published in German in 1862. "In this his magnum opus Hess argued for the Jews to return to Palestine and proposed a socialist country in which the Jews would become agrarianised through a process of 'redemption of the soil.' Initially met with a cold reception this book prefigured ideas laid out by Theodor Herzl in Der Judenstaat by some thirty-five years." - Wikipedia. 13-89 p. Black and white frontis portrait of Hess. Book very clean tight and unmarked with light peripheral wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example. ; 8vo . Philosophical Library hardcover
425j2236Argentina: Editorial Revision. Good. 1991. First English Edition. "On August 17 1987 it was announced that Rudolf Hess had committed suicide in the Spandau Four-Power Prison at the age of 93. Within a few days the Allied Prison Governors came up with four different versions of the alleged suicide each one of which raised more doubts as to credibility. In this sensational book Rudolf Hess' only son proves that his father was the victim of a murder and exposes the men responsible for the cowardly conspiracy. An extensive Foreword is provided by Alfred Seidl defence counsel for Rudolf Hess for several decades." - inside front cover. Translated from the German. Rudolf Hess a Hitler loyalist secretly flew to Scotland in 1941 to negotiate peace but instead was imprisoned for the remainder of his life. 270 pages. Glossy color and black and white photos. Reproductions of documents. Clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound and rare example of this penetrating and troubling investigation. ; 8vo . Editorial Revision unknown
1955106j0219London: Burke Publishing Company Ltd. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here for the first time are disclosed secrets of the Nazi regime which were only known to two people - Hitler and his friend Hoffmann. For more than twenty years Heinrich Hoffmann was Adolf Hitler's most intimate and trusted friend. They were inseparable from the days when Hitler was an unknown Munich rabble-rouser to the end in the bunkers of Berlin in 1945. Hoffmann was a photographer: one of the world's greatest and probably the most famous of the present era. His position is unique for he not only lived through the most chaotic years in history as the Fuhrer's confidant - but is still alive to tell of them. Based upon personal knowledge rather than rumour and supposition Heinrich Hoffmann's story is one of the social documents of our time." - dust jacket. iv-xiv 15-256 pp. Over one-hundred black and white photos. Index. Illustrated endpapers. Unmarked with average wear. One-inch archival-tape repair to top edge of page 78. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this informative and fascinating account. Laid-in is a brief undated news clipping of Hoffmann's obituary. Madden p.104 Stachura p.229. ; 8vo . Burke Publishing Company Ltd. hardcover
