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1941442j1512New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. "Mein Kampf is not literature any more than a gun in your face is literature. It is action. With this introduction Mr. Hackett proceeds to take the reader on a personally conducted tour through the most important political document of our time" - dust jacket. "Depicts Hitler as a would-be world conqueror who must be stopped. Strongly suggests that only the United States is capable of preventing Hitler's conquest of the world. Maintains that all Hitler's plans are spelled out in Mein Kampf." - Paul Madden at p. 109 of Adolf Hitler And The Nazi Epoch. First printing. xxii 288 p. Index and Appendix. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper. Faint blindstamp to title page otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Toning to fixed endpapers. Binding sound. Moderate wear to publisher's cinnabar cloth lettered in gilt. Somewhat above-average wear to complete dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. Kehr & Langmaid 730. ; Sm 8vo . Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
1938426j1645London: The I.F.L. Imperial Fascist League Printing & Publishing Co. Good. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. "The subject of Ritual Murder has always been one that the Jewish Money Power which controls this country as well as most others has taken all possible steps to suppress. The reason is that Ritual Murder was the dynamite which finally blew the Jew out of England in 1290 out of Spain in 1942 and out of Germany in our time. The Jews know it; and I know it too!" - Introduction. "Dr. Arnold Leese 1878-1956 was a British veterinarian and politician. He specialized in camels and wrote a book that was to remain a standard work in the field for nearly fifty years. As an animal lover he was a staunch opponent of kosher slaughter and all other forms of animal cruelty." - Goodreads website. "The most extensive English-language source in support of the charge of ritual murder among the Jews." - Singerman 0441. 6 1-57 stapled pages. Bibliography. Clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Peripheral toning to first and last pages. A sound example. ; 8vo . The I.F.L. (Imperial Fascist League) Printing & Publishing Co. paperback
1923227j0885Philadelphia: Dorrance Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. "We are too much under the influence of others - just a few - some of whom we are taught to worship while still others whom we seldom even know control the things that control us." - page 9. "Provides more of the same information as was provided in Lindbergh's 1913 'Banking and Currency and the Money Trust' with added facts about the state of affairs ten years after the adoption of the Fed." - A Populist Bibliography p.163. 8-249 pp. Index. Unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate wear to original dark maroon cloth lettered in black. No dust jacket if one was issued. A sound and rare first edition example of this classic work by Charles A. Lindbergh 1859-1924 father of the famous aviator of the same name. Weems p. 163 ; Sm 8vo . Dorrance Publishers hardcover
1927313a1752London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Good. 1927. First English Edition. Hardcover. "This is a book written by a German after a war which brought defeat to his country and a great civilized people to a condition of dependence and subordination. The German Inflation can only be understood as part of the general history of the time. May we all learn from the past and emerge from the destructive era of reciprocal hostility into a new constructive period of international well-being." - Foreward. Chapters include: The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the Stabilization of the Mark; The Stabilization of the Mark; From Rentenbank to Golddiskontbank; From Currency Crisis to Economic Crisis; The Dawes Plan; The Reconstruction of German Money and Capital Markets; Foreign Credits; International Co-operation. "Schacht became one of the directors of the Reichsbank in 1916 and in 1923 became currency commissioner for the Reich. After his economic policies helped reduce German inflation and stabilize the German mark Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank. He collaborated with other prominent figures in economics to form the Young Plan to modify the way that war reparations were paid after Germany's economy was destabilizing under the Dawes Plan. Though on March 7 1930 six months after the beginning of the Great Depression he stepped down from the position of Reichsbank Chairman but returned on March 17 1933 after Hitler's rise to power." - Wikipedia. 247 pages. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of author. Binding intact. Unmarked with average wear. Bright gilt lettering upon black cloth backstrip. Mild foxing to endpapers. A sound copy. Aldcroft & Rodger p.83 Peterson p.367.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Schacht Dr. Hjalmar Deutsch Mark Germany Currency Inflation Weimar Republic Weimar Devaluation Debasement World War One 1 Reichsbank The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the S . George Allen & Unwin Ltd. hardcover
1946214h6069London: Duckworth. Fair with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. "This book is a story of personal experience at Belsen Concentration Camp during and after its liberation. I and two members of my small unit Sergeant Eric Clyne and Lance Corporal Sidney Roberts were the first British troops to enter the camp. It was on Sunday April 15th 1945. We stayed in Belsen until August. Between us my N.C.O.'s and I spoke five European languages so we had opportunities of gathering knowledge about the problems of Belsen and its inmates. We came to know something of what the men women and children there had experienced what they felt and what sort of people they were." - Foreword. Describes the hellacious wholesale deprivation disease and death encountered by the British when they took over the camp efforts made to keep the survivors alive and steps taken to return them to post-war life. Includes a forty-six page chapter entitled "How We Lived in Belsen - A Retrospect" by journalist Rudolf Küstermeier1903-1977 an implacable opponent of the Nazis whom Sington befriended at Belsen. pp. 208 8 black and white photos. Four-panel foldout diagram of the camp's layout. Above-average wear to publisher's red cloth. Binding intact. No dust jacket. Former library copy with usual markings. A worthy reference copy of this incredible eye-witness account. Kehr & Langmaid 6094 Laska 1378 Weiner Library Cat. No. 7 - 1693 Enser p.115. ; 12mo . Duckworth hardcover
1918544G2333London: Edward Arnold & Co. Good. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 356 pages. Index. Fold-out map. Tissue-protected frontis portrait of author. Black and white photographic plates. "During the past fourteen years I have been an eye-witness of events in Russia and able to study at first-hand the manifold aspects of Reaction and Revolution as each in its turn was exploited by our relentless foe. I was the only non-Russian civilian who participated in all the phases of the collapse of Socialism as a national force in July last during the short-lived offensive and disastrous retreat of the armies in Galicia which was also the death-knell of the Revolution. The men who have figured in Russian affairs during that long period are personally known to me and thanks to my relations with the Army I have been able to study the Russian soldier under all conditions of service."- from Foreword. A tightly rebound former library copy with usual markings. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Smele 427. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Russian History Russian Revolution Bolshevism Communism Bolsheviks . Edward Arnold & Co. hardcover
180126901T. Cadell Et Al. Near Fine. 1801. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto hardcover in one-half leather over marbeled boards First Edition complete Title vii Preface cxxxii 412pp errata two pages. The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author. Light wear to edges spine very clean marbeled boards marbeled edges hinges strong gutters likewise notation of being Mary Bouromeo Collection on front endpaper faint stain on frontis maps In nice untorn and unworn condition else VG to NFINE. Contains 3 folding maps on heavy paper one reinforced but not torn. A cornerstone of N American exploration narrative. Mackenzie became the first European to reach the Pacific by a cross country voyage in 1793 on his second attempt the first ending in the Frozen Artic. He ended up near Bella Coola B. C. This was years ahead of Lewis and Clark. Inquiries for pics answered quickly. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 412pp pages . T. Cadell Et Al hardcover
1588044443Seville: Fernando Diaz 1588. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Later tree calf worn front hinge split rear starting front endpaper torn at the top corner as is the title with an old repair and manuscript UZIA in the title to replace the missing letters. A few paper repairs in the margins touching a few letters a few short tears with no real loss scattered pencil marks and a few minor marginal marks in an old hand. One group of pages trimmed a little close with loss of some text to the table on leaf 53 of the genealogy of the Kings of Austria. Generally minor scatterd foxing browning and staining - mostly quite clean. Magnificently illustrated throughout with armorial devices - first and only edition of an outstanding work on the Andalusian aristocracy. 10 348 ff.<br /> <br /> Argote de Molina great humanist and librarian also edited the first Spanish book on hunting 1582 and a history of the embassy sent by Henry III of Castille in 1403--1406 to the Court of Tamerlaine at Samarkand 1582. Graesse A195 noting that the title page is often lacking. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044443. Fernando Diaz hardcover
1567046211Petri: Heinrich 1567. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Modern half leather over marbled boards author penned to page edge lacking any blanks and lacking the full page map of Northern Europe with a facsimile tipped in. Collijn in his Swedish Bibliography suggested that the map was printed and inserted separately and only in some copies of the Basel edition. First Basel and Second Latin edition a reprint of the Rome edition of 1555. Illustrated with small woodcuts throughout. Dampstain to upper right from around page 500 on a few scattered dampstains modest foxing - generally a clean copy. 96 854 2 pp. Brunet III 1302. Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046211. <br/><br/> Heinrich hardcover books
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original leather bdg. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script. [1], 555 p. Hegira-Hijri: 1251 = Gregorian: 1835. One of the classic works of the Eastern literature, Kalila and Dimna is a book full of stories and tales written with advice to assist rulers in state administration. The work, which is inspired by Indian-origin Panchatantra tales, was written by Bidpai, Brahman Priest from the Vishnu religious sect, in Kashmir around the 3rd century. The work also known as five books on the art of politics and administration consists of five books on politics and administration each of which is called tantra (the case, right way by which man uses his intelligence). The book was written in Sanskrit language, and it aims to teach wisdom to rulers by means of animal fables. The work was translated into Turkish in the 14th century for the first time. Nasrallah's Persian translation constituted the source text for the translation by Kul Mesut. Kalila and Dimna, titled as Humâyûn-nâme, was presented to the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Abdulhamid II. It is understood that the work was presented to sultans during the Ottoman's earliest days. Baydaba's masterpiece 'Kalila and Dimna' also was an important narrative used for education of masses. This Indian-origin work was a common work used in the education of the masses in both Iranian and Turkish literatures. This Edition is the First Printed Edition in the Turkish / Ottoman world printed in Bulaq Printinghouse. Özege 8084. Chauvin II, 17b [Chauvin says 'C'est le texte de de Sacy, avec l'addition de la fable de la Colombe et le Renard (No. 113,81)']. Extremely rare.
1797042012-EBoston Mass. USA: W. Spotswood & J. Nancrede 1797. Book. Illus. by Various Map Makers. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st. American Edition. 1st. Edition USA 1797 . 1st. Printing Walnut brown leather with gilded letters on the spine. Volume 1 536 page book with 11 fold out maps . Both volume have been rebound with new leather and blank end papers aging and light staining on some pages and maps. Volume 2 573 page book with 5 fold out maps and errata at back page with directions to the binder for placing the charts with a list of books by the publisher Joseph Nancrede. Condition : Very Good see Image . Note no international sale. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. W. Spotswood & J. Nancrede Hardcover
17229900002372London: James and John Knapton et al. 1722. Hardcover. Maps engravings. Folio. Two large volumes in original full leather bindings. Title pages are printed in red and black with an elegant full-page copper engraving of Camden as the frontispiece of the first volume. There are 50 double-page maps of the English counties Ireland Scotland and 'the Islands'; six of the maps are folding. There are also twelve large full-page engravings and numerous smaller engravings in the text. There is a comprehensive index and the errata page is present. A previous owner has reinforced the hinges with linen-like binding tape. The boards are quite worn and rubbed but a competent bookbinder could restore both bindings. The contents are remarkable clean with only occasional foxing and a few stained pages. The maps by the cartographer Robert Morden and which are usually removed and sold individually are all in excellent condition. Overall a good set. William Camden 1551-1623 was an English antiquary and historian who during the reign of Queen Elizabeth travelled throughout England collecting material for 'Britannia' which was first published in 1586. Initially written in Latin it is a survey of the British islands; its archaeology geography institutions monetary system and inhabitants 'chiefly intended for the instruction of foreigners' or so Gibson states in his Preface to this edition. It was first translated into English in 1610 probably under Camden's direction see Ency. Brit. 11th vol. V p. 101. Gibson's revision was first published in 1695. Our set is the undated 'Second Edition' but by comparing particulars with available bibliographical resources we believe it was published in 1722. Printing and the Mind of Man 101. James and John Knapton et al. hardcover
17211314654Leipzig, diverse Verlage, 1600-1721. Hprgtbd. Einbd. berieben. Rücken etwas rissig. Vord. Vorsatz erneuert. Teilw. stärker gebräunt. Ränder etwas scharf, vereinzelt unter Beschädigung d. obersten Zeile bzw. d. Randbuchstaben beschnitten.
in-8, ff. (4), 367 (per errore num. 369; con vari altri errori, completo, 1 f. in fine con impresa tipogr.silogr. del Giunti, caratt. corsivo. Bella legatura fiorentina del tempo in piena pelle bruna decorata a secco con bordura a motivo floreale e figure di delfini sui piatti, fregi al centro, dorso a nervi (alcuni lievi restauri ben eseguiti). Sul primo foglio: "M. F. Quinti/lianus", al verso dedica di Filippo Giunta a Roberto Acciaioli. Bella e rara edizione, a cura di Niccolò Angeli, della celebre opera del grande grammatico e retore latino (nato in Spagna tra il 35-40 d.C. e morto a Roma verso la fine del secolo), considerato un'autorità della cultura per tutto il Medioevo, meritevole di un posto importante nella storia dell'educazione, della retorica e della critica letteraria romana. Esempl. genuino, assai fascinoso nella sua preziosa legatura coeva (con due ex-libris manoscritti sul titolo.. Decia-Delfiol, I, 77: «Edizione poco conosciuta». Renouard, Notice, XXXIX.72. Bandini II, 93. BMC 546. Adams Q-53. Graesse V, 528..
4 volumes in-8° (188 x 122 mm), plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de caissons cloisonnés et fleuronnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin bordeaux et havane, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches rouges. Tome I : (1) f., viii, (2), 466 p., (5) p. de privilège et errata - Tome II : (2) f., 407 p. - Tome III : (2) f., 384 p. - Tome IV : (2) f., 455 p., 5 planches par Eisen gravées par Le Grand, de Longueil et Pasquier. Véritable édition originale, la première mise en vente, conforme à la description donnée par J.-A. McEachern (1A) et par Gagnebin (IV, p. 863, n°1), à l'adresse de La Haye et le privilège en hollandais ainsi que le second feuillet d’errata à la fin du tome premier. "L'’Emile' est imprimé et mis en vente fin mai 1762 chez le libraire N.-B. Duchesne à Paris. En homme d’affaires avisé et prudent, celui-ci a pris soin de préparer deux éditions portant chacune une fausse adresse différente: 'Amsterdam, chez Jean Néaulme' pour l'édition in-12° et 'La Haye, chez Jean Néaulme' pour l'in-8° [qui sera la première commercialisée]. En échange de la paternité fictive de ces éditions, Néaulme, libraire à La Haye, reçut le monopole des ventes hors du territoire français" (Sté Internationale des Amis du Musée J.-J. Rousseau). Si l'ouvrage connut un succès commercial immédiat, on trouva dans le livre IV un passage, "la Profession de foi du Vicaire savoyard", qui suscita les foudres du pouvoir civil et religieux. Le 7 juin, la Sorbonne censurait l’ouvrage; le 9 juin le Parlement de Paris emboîtait le pas pour le condamner "à être lacéré et brûlé" en raison de ses "principes impies et détestables". En outre, le Parlement ordonnait "que le nommé J.J. Rousseau sera pris et appréhendé au corps, et amené ès prisons de la Conciergerie du Palais". Rousseau considérait "l' 'Émile" comme son oeuvre la plus importante, celle qui manifestait au mieux les principes de son "système", selon sa propre formule dans 'Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques'. Quelques traces de restauration à la reliure, auréoles et rousseurs éparses. Petite tache d'encre en marge supérieure des premiers feuillets du t. IV. Bon exemplaire, bien relié à l'époque.
1941028483Los Angeles: Art Center School 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Photographs. 35 Pages In Red Plastic Binder 13" X 10 1/4" With White Plastic Comb Spine. The Book Consists Of 32 Pages Of Photographic Paper On Card Each With A 10 1/4" X 8 3/8" High Quality Photographic Image At Top On Each Side Documenting All Kinds Of Class Settings In The Studios And In Outside Locations And 3 Pages Of The Same Paper Each With Four 4 3/4" Square Photographs Attached To The Pages On Each Side Portraits Of The Teachers For A Total Of 88 Photographs. There Is No Text Or Writing Of Any Kind Anywhere In The Book But It Is Very Similar To A Set Of Pages In The Art Center School Of Design Archives In Pasadena Punched For A Spiral Binding But Unbound Having Four More Pages Than This Set But Lacking Some Of The Photographs Present Here. Ansel Adams Is Shown Instructing Many Of The Classes As Are Fred Archer Clarence Bull James H. Doolittle Edward Kaminski Paul Dorsey C. K. Eaton Otto Hulmer A B Shore Herman Wall And Others. The Photographs Are Very High Quality Showing Excellent Composition And Detail. This Particular Collection Of Photographs May Be Unique And In Any Case A Quite Rare And Desirable For Collectors Of Photography And In Particular The Ansel Adams Collector. Adams Developed His Zone System Technique Of Photography In 1941 While Teaching At The Art Center. <br/> <br/> Art Center School hardcover
175013363London: printed for C. Hitch in Paternoster-Row and R. Akenhead jun. at the Globe opposite the Bridge-End Coffee-House Newcastle 1750. Fifth edition. 6 149 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. neatly rebacked flyleaves removed some light browning or spotting mostly marginal ink date 1759 at foot of title page a few pen or pencil marks on title and in margins. Fifth edition. 6 149 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First published in two editions in 1696 and reprinted in 1697 1721 and the present edition ca. 1750 with changing subtitles. Variously attributed to Mary Astell Judith Drake and H. Wyatt.<br /> The present edition includes an ad for The Universal Library kept by Newcastle bookseller R. Akenhead jun. The date is conjectured from the R. Akenhead junior imprint which surfaces briefly in two other works dated 1750.<br /> A curious note on the verso of the dedication explains the lack of a subscriber's list. Apparently most of the "generous Encouragers" did not want to have their names included so "no List is printed lest Offence might be given."<br /> The author observes: "we are taught only our Mother-Tongue or perhaps French which is now very fashionable and almost as familiar amongst Women of Quality as Men; whereas the other Sex by means of a more extensive Education to the Knowledge of the Roman and Greek Languages have a vaster Field for their Imaginations to rove in and their Capacities thereby enlarged."<br /> <br /> RARE. ESTC T123106 BL NLS Smith College; Wing A 4058 printed for C. Hitch in Paternoster-Row, and R. Akenhead, jun. at the Globe, opposite the Bridge-End Coffee-House, Newcastle unknown
192121397El Paso Texas: Not Published 1921. The collection includes over 150 dated and signed letters written to and a few items from Dr. Lucinda DeLeftwich Templin 1888-1969 author historian & collector ".one of El Paso's best-loved and most distinguished educators - in 1916 she took her undergraduate and Master's at U. of Missouri and became Dean of Lindenwood College in St. Charles MO. did doctoral work at Harvard and Columbia and took over as principal at the Radford School in 1927 at the time called El Paso School for Girls; Dr. Templin interested Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Radford of Webster Grove Mo. in the school and the Radfords paid off the mortgage provided an endowment fund that insured the institution's stability and the name of the school was changed in honor of these benefactors. During Dr. Templin's administration Radford School grew to a nationally accredited school for girls in the Southwest and when she retired in 1967 the 22-acre campus had more than $1000000 in physical improvements and was debt-free. Dr. Templin had also completed plans for construction of a $400000 library and museum on property owned by the school; she was a member of the nation's leading educational organizations and honorary societies named consistently to Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Education; author of numerous publications most of which were concerned with the field of education. The above material from her obituary; This wide-ranging diverse collection has three intertwining themes - letters concerning Dr. Templin's ongoing interest in education and educational materials for her school letters which relate to the business and academic part of Radford and letters of reference for applicants and correspondence which relates to the creation of her War Museum where she collected military autographs uniforms photographs paraphernalia weapons from around the world. A sampling of what is found here chronological order: 1921 Dr. James G. Kiernan writing about some autographs he was sending to Templin - he was famous for the earliest-known use of the word heterosexual in the United States; 1921 Ellen Shaw Barlow writing in relation to the national Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor requesting Templin's presence for a meeting of the Committee on the Care and Training of Delinquent Women and Girls; 1926 Roy Franklin Nichols 1896-1973 American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner writing regarding one of Templins' publications; 1928 Breckinridge Long 1881 - 1958 diplomat and politician served in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Democratic National Committee letterhead - regarding a portrait of Rev. John Breckinridge his great-grandfather Templin was sending in appreciation of his " defense of Religious Freedom "; Federico de Onis Sánchez 1885 - 1966 Spanish writer and literary critic taught Spanish literature at Columbia University in New York concerning a recommendation of one of his students for a position at Radford ; educator John L. Bergstresser; Jessie H. Humphries Associate Dean Texas Womens University; Butler Ames 1871-1954 American politician engineer soldier and businessman; Richard Fenner Burges 1873-1945 Texas legislator and conservationist; Alice Mildred Burgess; William Blair Roberts 1881-1964 Episcopal Suffragan Bishop South Dakota; Katharine Denworth president of Bradford Academy regarding an article on sororities in colleges; N. Floyd Templin of the Ohio House of Representatives writing on Templin family genealogical matters; John G. Barry consulting mining geologist and engineer of El Paso regarding an educational alliance between the Radford School and the Texas College of Mines; Arthur L Burroughs publisher writing about the subject of grammar in education; Harriet M. Chase of the National Education Assoc.; Jack Braveheart regarding a talk on the American Indian; Ivan Lee Holt Methodist bishop of St. Louis; Cornelia McKinne Stanwood of the Sarah Dix Hamlin School San Francisco; Joseph Dorfman economic historian at Columbia Univ. asking Templin about her studies with Thorstein Veblen; an interesting 2-page letter from Dr. J. Travis Bennett of El Paso regarding the setting-out of a chart for the physical examination and reportage on condition of applicants to Radford with suggestions; Bertha Baur 1858-1940 directed the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; A.F. Kuhlman Assoc. Dir. University of Chicago regarding research work on childrens' reading habits information; Dr. William S. Gray 1885-1960 American educator and literacy advocate also of U. of Chicago on the same subject; Sallie Caldwell Teachers College Columbia University regarding early learning & English curriculum materials; Mrs. Florence F. Osgood of the Neshobe camp for girls in Vermont requesting an alliance with Radford School; U.S. Army major later colonel Livingston Watrous; Colonel D.C. Pearson New Mexico Military Institute; Ruth Elliott of Wellesley College; Chris P. Fox sheriff El Paso regarding falling down on the job for police protection near the school; Brent N. Rickard American Smelting & Refining Works; Louise Traxell Greeley Dean of Women at U. of Wisconsin Madison; Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Aleshire Fort Bliss Texas; Mrs. L.J. Calvocoressi Chairman of the Women's Auxiliary of the Greek War Relief Assoc.; Lt. Col. later major-general Ray. T. Maddocks; Robert E. McKee Sr. 1889-1964 major U.S. contractor engineer builder; Columbia Broadcasting System program press information director George Crandall; Colonel later Brig. General Charles G. Sage; Elmer Davis 1890 1958 news reporter author the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient; William McChesney Martin Jr. 1906-1998 ninth and longest-serving Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve serving from April 2 1951 to January 31 1970 under five Presidents; Bernard Hoffman 1913 - 1979 American LIFE magazine photographer and documentary photographer first American photographer on the ground at Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945; Alfred E. Stearns Chairman Overseas Schools Committee; Colonel Hugh J. Deeney Chief of the Adjutant General Division; Col Harold R. Turner first commander of White Sands Missile Proving Ground; Guy Sylvestre Jean-Guy Sylvestre OC FRSC 1918 -2010 Canadian literary critic librarian and civil servant; Rear Admiral Barry Kennedy Atkins 1911 -2005 officer of the United States Navy best known for his achievements as a destroyer captain in World War II; R. Burdell Bixby prominent Republican of NY State; Robert W. Hamilton justice of the Texas Supreme Court regarding a Radford school girl reference; Colombian world federalist Santiago Gutiérrez; M.S. Sundaram Head of Education Indian embassy; Raymond L. Telles Jr. b. 1915 was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city El Paso Texas 3 letters; Ángela Acuña de Chacón Chilean who served as commissioner 1960-1972 on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; William G. Stark Consul General of Canada; Rene Mascarenas Miranda Municipal President mayor of Juarez; Gordon Llewellyn Allott 1907-1989 Republican politician; Mrs. William Barclay Parsons president of the National Council of Women of the United States; John Koehler Gerhart 1907 - 1981 United States Air Force four star general; J. T. Rutherford 1921 - 2006 United States Representative from Texas; R. G. Follis Chairman of Board. Standard Oil Company of California; Robert John Morris 1914-1996 President of the University of Dallas American anti-Communist activist 2 notes; Karl Robin Bendetsen 1907 -1989 remembered primarily for his role as architect of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; Elmer Ellis 1901 - 1989 American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri; historian C.L. Sonnichsen; Marshall S. Carter Deputy Director of Central Intelligence CIA; Millicent C. McIntosh 1898-2001 fourth dean of Barnard College 1947-1952 and the College's first president - this is the last letter dated 1962 and in it Dr. Templin is asking for McIntosh to help with providing a successor to the headship at Radford - Templin was soon to retire and died relatively soon afterwards. Some of the letters and notes are very short with limited content; others more voluminous.Additional materials include: letters to another Templin family member from Scott Wike Lucas 1892 - 1968 two-term Democratic United States Senator 1939-1951 from Illinois and Joel Bennett Clark 1890 -1954 better known as Bennett Champ Clark Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945 later a United States federal judge; and a few other letters; an undated letter to Templin from pianist Ola Gulledge; a two -page undated letter on The American School Foundation Mexico letterhead; a few letters from Frank S. Ross Major Gen. U.S. Army regarding the Templin War Museum project; a clipped signature of Alvan Tufts Fuller 1878 -1958 and one of John Kieran; and a unidentified sepia-tone matte-finish photograph circa 1920s that may be Dr. Templin or perhaps a friend; a few of the items with the original mailing envelopes; many letters with old adhesive residue from being mounted at some time some with old tape marks in the corners some of the items trimmed as if to accommodate in a smaller frame or album not here; old fold lines ageing; some with corner-attrition due to being removed; in overall good to very good condition and an interesting group of material encompassing the rich educational business and personal life of this well-known Texas woman educator whose contacts spanned the United States and the world. . Unique. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
1944214h1991New York: Poland Fights. Fair. 1944. First American Edition. Paperback. "The moving and almost incredible story of Oswiecim Auschwitz concentration camp. Written under the tension of the vibrant poignancy that is an inseparable part of the miseries Poland has endured. Written by a Polish Underground Labor 'historian' experienced in the underground struggle who drew his material from actual contact with persons who underwent and saw others suffer the things that he describes. A compilation of the viciousness of Nazism as seen at Oswiecim so that all who read might understand and make a just evaluation of that which Poland faces of the problem of ridding all Europe of a scourge that gives rise to such things as Oswiecim." - Foreword. 48 page stapled booklet. Includes a one-page facsimile of the cover of the 1942 Polish first edition published underground. Full-page map shows locations of major concentration camps in Poland. According to Wikipedia this book was written by Natalia Zarembina 1895-1973 and was the first documentary about the Auschwitz concentration camp based on reports from refugees or people dismissed from the camp mainly Eryk Lipinski Henryk Swiatkowski and Edward Bugajski. Also includes information about the network of slave camps in Poland including Camp Districts Temporary Concentration Camps General Concentration Camps Forced Labor Camps Concentration Camps for Clergy Concentration Camps for Women Concentration Camps for Jews Camps for "Improvement of the Race" where "the only duty that is absolutely enforced of the young defect-free Polish and German inmates is the regular performance of sexual intercourse with the partner assigned" Camps for "Correction of Youth" and Concentration Camps for Children So-Called "Educational Institutes". Front cover loose but present. Lacking back cover. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Moderate tanning to contents. Binding intact. A rare copy of this early Auschwitz exposé. 8.25" x 5.4". Weiner Library Cat. Series 7 - #1660.; Cover Art; 8vo . Poland Fights paperback
728H4404United Kingdom: Thoemmes. New. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. The product of twenty-five years of meticulous research this essential Churchillian bibliography exhaustively covers thousands of books pamphlets leaflets speeches letters and more. All three volumes new and unread in original shrinkwrap in publisher's box. We believe this to be one of only four hundred sets printed. 25 x 17.5 x 13cm. 4.2kg. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Winston Churchill - Bibliographies . Thoemmes hardcover
1938566j1985London: Frederick Muller Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First English Edition. Hardcover. "There is no question of the depth or of the luminous quality of the reasoning with which the author combats the deification of the State and demolishes the Hegelian conception of the State as 'an end in itself'. I welcome this book as a contribution of outstanding value to the clarification of thought at a moment of supreme crisis in the political history of the world. Its author believes that against the 'totalitarian State' the ideal and the faith of "totalitarian man' will arise and prevail and that 'the blackest cloud which has overshadowed the history of humanity is beginning to pass away." - Introduction. "The object of this book is to introduce clarity into the confusion of demagogy and lying which to-day so obscures the grave problems of our time that even politicians can only with difficulty recognise the forces and ideas which underlie the events and changes of our day. Further it attempts to indicate to all men of good will a way into a better and clearer future out of the labyrinth of unsolved problems which vex our age." - Preface. "Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi 1894-1972 was a politician and philosopher. A pioneer of European integration he served as the founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years. His Pan-Europeanism earned vivid loathing from Adolf Hitler who excoriated its pacifism and mechanical economism and belittled its founder as 'a bastard.' Nazi criticism and propaganda against Coudenhove-Kalergi and his European worldview would decades later form the basis of the Kalergi Plan conspiracy theory which claims he conceived of a plot to mix and replace white Europeans with other races via immigration." - Wikipedia. 4-196 pp. Translated from the German. Unmarked with average wear and soiling to original dark maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Binding intact. Slight bow to back board. No dust jacket. A sound example. ; 8vo . Frederick Muller Ltd. hardcover
1902142a9606Philadelphia PA: Lincoln Publishing Co. 1902. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 20 644 pages. Index. Twenty-six black and white photographic plates. Leather binding. "Comprising a history of Egypt with a comprehensive and authentic account of the antiquity of masonry resulting from many years of personal investigation and exhaustive research in India Persia Syria and the Valley of the Nile." - title page. After first receiving the Light in India the author was moved to "investigate to the fullest extent the meaning and purport of the numerous hieroglyphic inscriptions symbols and characters found upon the ancient tombs and temples so that the Masonic Fraternity might understand appreciate and apply the teachings of the hierophants and sages of bygone days." - Preface. Chapters: Alexandria - the Antiquity of Masonry; Ruined Temples - Masonry and Masonic Symbols; Ancient Cities - Soirian Myth - Karma; the Nile - Origin of the Name Free Mason - Scottish Rite Philosophy; Ancient Mysteries - Scottish Rite philosophy; Suez Canal - The Druses Their Manners and Customs; Agriculture - Irrigation - Lotus - Papyrus; The Supreme Architect of the Universe; Mosques - Tombs - Massacre of Mamelukes - Heliopolis; Esoteric Teaching of the Scottish Rite - Brain and Thought; Pyramids - Sphinx - Tombs; Solomon - Death of Hiram - Cross - Swastica; Mummification - Transmigration - Re-incarnation; Sixteen Saviours - Lost Knowledge; The Golden Fleece - Roman Eagle - Masonic Apron - What it Teaches; Pyramids of Sakkarah - Lisht - Medum - The Fayum - Labyrinth; Sun Worship - Zodiac - Masonic Allegories; A Voyage up the Nile - Description of Tombs and Temples - Pro Doric Columns; Ineffable degrees - Thoughts on Ecclesiastes - I.N.R.I. - Voyaging up the Nile - examining Tombs and Temples - Paintings - Sculptures; Masonic teachings - Hindu beggar - Roman Catholicism; Thebes - Colossi - Der-El-Bahari - Luxor - Karnak; Ceremonies - Initiation - Blue Lodge - Transmigration - Mystery Language; The Gawazee - exploring Temples and tombs - Philae and its ruins - Nubia; Jewish Traditions and customs - Cable tow - Ceremonies of ancient Initiation - book of the Law; Circumsision - upon what the Ancient Craftsmen were obligated - the lost word. All edges gilt. Protected frontis portrait of author. Ornately embossed boards. Raised bands to spine. Partially rubbed gilt lettering and decoration upon back strip. Marbled endpapers. Hinges intact internally open or opening externally. Front board partially detached. Somewhat above-average wear to boards. Unmarked. A worthy original copy of this monumental work. 12" x 9.5" x 2.5". 11 pounds. Lincoln Publishing Co. Hardcover
15265Extensive correspondence collection 1920-1940s. 66 letters by various authors mostly women native to the Indian sub-continent all very unusual in the fact that they are highly educated and in the midst of further studies or early in their careers decades prior to Indian Independence. The letters are addressed to a young teacher Probha who was former classmate to most of the writers as well as a few to her sister Rani or to both and follows them as they finish school enter teacher training college and ultimately fan out over India as bearers of a new generation of independent Indian women. In 1931 Indian female literacy hovered at just under 3% making the experiences of these forerunners and their correspondence incredibly rare.<br/> <br/>Prior to Indian Independence from Britain Gandhi called for uplifting the status of women through education and recognition of their inherent worth as human beings. Determined to inculcate the equality of the sexes into Indian culture Gandhi publicly did household tasks that were traditionally women's work and declared that "the future is with women." Indeed other activists also equated India's independence with new freedoms for women. However by 1931 Indian female literacy hovered under 3% and was often lower in the rural provinces where schools were few child marriage was prevalent and patriarchal norms dominated society. On the cusp of vast cultural change educated women and female schoolteachers and professionals were the rare exception. <br/> <br/>These letters record the interactions between a rare group of highly educated women their thirst for personal and financial independence as well as their conflicting feelings regarding the traditions that defined their lives and restricted them. Their nexus was the Queen Victoria Girls' High School in Agra a small city in the rural northern province of Uttar Pradesh most notable for being the home of the world famous Taj Mahal a symbol of reverence to a much-loved wife of antiquity and of honor to the traditional woman. In its tall shadow young sisters Probha and Rani Thomas attended high school at "QVHS" in the late 1920s-early 1930s where lifelong friendships developed with female students Libawati Ivy Monica Lila Mercy Winnie among others. Most of them became teachers where the extraordinary nature of their achievement stood in stark relief to the lot of most other women "This year only one out of five girls has passed from our village schools." As their lives continued and they spread across the country education became the uniting factor that drove the young women forward and brought them back to each other. "Probha what are you going to do now I am going back to old Q.V. to become a teacher and I am feeling very sad as my dear old class girls won't be there. All these past years seem like a dream. So soon the parting took place.No more Tenthies no more H.M. Club. All have faded like a passing cloud.I shall never find such a jolly set again Probha. This future seems very hard." They were witness to an extraordinary moment in history when the world was changing particularly for women and with their education they are in a unique position to describe the change "It is funny that when it is time for us to be silent we have to look after our visitors and perform useless ceremonies-someday we'll change but not yet." One recalls a train ride in which she sat near "a bold Gandhi's follower.In his eloquent poetical language he was telling people that he had been to jail and was saying that for the love of country he can endure anything." Probha and Rani's father a judge had lessons for them about the danger of Revolutionary activities when one of their friends gets involved "Arel De is intelligent and emotional but he has no self control.You may write to him but make it plain that you will drop correspondence if he writes politics again. He is either already on Police books or will soon be." Though they shied away from direct involvement in politics they encapsulated Indian women's liberation in the early century: striving after independent employment deferring marriage yet with respect for their elders. In one letter Monica sadly reports to Probha "I am not coming back to school. Although I am feeling very bad but yes father has done what is good for me. I asked many times to let me go but he forced me to stay here." And in another poignant letter "Lovey" writes "Rani sis do you remember once we were talking about this problem of getting married Now very soon I shall be facing it. John wants to settle down after my working for one year only & I wish to work for at least two years. I think I shall have to do my parents will decide. Please pray that I may get a chance of working for at least two years."<br/> <br/>In tone the women are warm and sisterly to an extent not found in letters of Western cultural origin and also profoundly honest in reporting to one another their successes and failures; a good or bad test score the struggle to study while encountering difficulties such as lack of clean drinking water and large snakes and even having the security of their families placed on their young shoulders "May God help me. May I pass in the 3rd division only for it is difficult time for us two sisters. Our father's money is nearly spent and if I pass I go for training. Please remember us in your prayers that we may soon become independent." As one of the young women finds out who goes back to QVHS as a student teacher life becomes more complicated as time goes on "My examination result is so bad.my poor mother is working so hard at home. It was too much to disappoint her.I know you would ask me but why have you done so badly The only answer I can give you is that I got 7 periods a week to teach & being a slow writer the notes of lessons & the preparation took all my study time." What they share is a clarify on the value of their education to all their future lives: "All the Normal Students High School and the middle candidates.tell each one of them that I wish them a very brilliant success. Tell them that I remember each one of them in my prayers that they all may pass in the 1st Division with scholarships."<br/> <br/>Cultural references show the writers and recipients of these letters were generally native of India although they often went by Western cognoms. A few of the letters from British servicemen or coworkers offer an interesting perspective on intercultural understanding and friendship in the days when Indian Independence loomed so closely on the horizon. A serviceman befriended by Probha writes "In those days we were very ignorant. We knew nothing at all of the country or the people and their ways and customs. I think we were most surprised to find that you spoke English.We were astounded to see such bad conditions existed for some people and very upset to find such a feeling of bitterness between our two peoples." Reflecting the dichotomy inherent to the lives of these girls several letters are from their mother who simultaneously pushes them on to achieve independence and reminds them of their cultural anchor. anxious for them and resolute that they will have every opportunity possible. An intelligent woman in her own right Probha's mother offers advice on her exams "Your last quarterly should have had better marks. I wrote a few little hints in my last letter. Please keep them in mind.I'll send your saris in a day or two.I couldn't get even a bit of voil in the bazaar. There was no chance of getting it from any out station. I've used the bits I had at home.I pray God to be with my baby & help her to be a true hearted & brave soldier." <br/> <br/>The letters are in English except for a few brief passages in Hindi as English was the primary language of education and commerce prior to Independence. A few are from an object of romance; a male teacher who courts Probha with poetry but does not succeed in convincing her to give up her freedom as a single woman. A rare archive of letters from an extremely uncommon cross-section of pre-Independence society: the forerunner of the modern educated and independent woman of India. unknown books
1927169H4514Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. "There is no man living who from the beginning or in the progress or at the ending of federal reserve legislation was more closely or constantly than I privy to and identified with the consideration and enactment of the law under which the federal reserve banking system was set up. Ever since the enactment of the federal reserve law it has been my intention to write some day a story of the many inside events word of which never reached beyond a closely restricted circle and had no such thing as current newspaper attention. Very likely my desire to tell the dramatic story would have abated if not for the recent publication of the 'Intimate Papers' in which the paternity of the Federal Reserve Act and its particular management are placidly ascribed to Colonel E.M. House." - Introduction. Accordingly Chapter III of this book is devoted to a scathing critique of the veracity of 'The Intimate Papers of Colonel House' first published in 1926. Colonel House was an intimate confidant of Woodrow Wilson President when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. Latter day conspiracy researchers argue House successfully advocated for the interests of the House of Rothschild during the development and passage of the Federal Reserve Act. In response to Glass's book Paul Warburg also instrumental in the founding of the Federal Reserve was "impelled to lay down in black and white my recollections of certain events in the history of banking reform." - Preface to his two-volume work The Federal Reserve System Its Origins and Growth - Reflections and Recollections published in 1930. Commenting on Glass's book James Grant of Interest Rate Observer fame notes "the story of the creation of the Fed by its chief progenitor Carter Glass makes you doubt he would recognize today's Federal Reserve were he brought back to life to inspect it. He explodes in indignation at any who would impugn the proposed Federal Reserve note as mere fiat money. In fact he considered the currency to be as good as gold - or better." Clearly Glass's recollections herein represent a profoundly important chronicle of the origins and founding of the Federal Reserve System. Frontispiece photo portrait of Woodrow Wilson. x 2 423 pages. Index. Former university library copy with usual markings. Sturdily rebound in navy buckram.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Senator Carter Glass Federal Reserve Act - history Federal Reserve Paul Warburg Henry Parker Willis Central Bank - United States Edward M. House The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Edward Mandell House The creature from jekyll Island . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1971734j0655Los Angeles: Nash Publishing. Good in Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0840212399 . Signed and briefly inscribed by Meir Kahane upon first blank leaf. "Meir David HaKohen Kahane born Martin David Kahane 19321990 was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi writer and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset before being convicted of acts of terrorism. He founded the Israeli political party Kach. A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League JDL he espoused strong views against antisemitism." - Wikipedia. "Includes a detailed discussion of the philosophy of the Jewish Defense League a philosophy based on: hadar - dignity and pride; barzel - strength; mishmaat - discipline and unity; bitachon - faith in the indestructibility of the Jewish people. Relates the history of Jewish oppression and proclaims the birth of a Jewish resistance with well-trained well-organized chapters throughout the world." - dust jacket. Bright gilt JDL logo of fist on Star of David emblazened upon black cloth of front board. Book clean tight and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality signed copy.; 8vo; 287 pages; Signed by Author . Nash Publishing hardcover
