E-List #35

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Item #1267 "It Happens Here": Just a few incidents within the last year to show how free speech...

American Civil Liberties Union

"It Happens Here": Just a few incidents within the last year to show how free speech is gagged and the rights of labor are attacked, and how methods which look a good deal like European Fascism are used here

New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1936. One black and white photo illustration. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 20 pages. This pamphlet deals with the central struggle between capital and labor in the United States, and the points at which labor's rights to peaceful agitation had recently been attacked. Compiled and printed..... More

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Item #1289 Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the...

Aristotle, translated by Thomas Twining (1735-1804), edited by Daniel Twining

Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original; and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation

London: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1812. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xxxii, 344 and [iv], 499 pages. Thomas Twining had produced the first useable English translation of Aristotle's Poetics in 1789. This is the second edition of 1812, edited by his nephew. This 2-volume set has..... More

Price: $750

Item #1276 Black and Brown Stamp Album. Black, Brown Advertising Company

[Black and Brown Advertising Company]

Black and Brown Stamp Album

[San Francisco]: [Black & Brown Trading Stamp Corporation], [c.1970]. Advertising illustrations. Stapled wraps. Oblong sixteenmo. [48 unnumbered pages]. Scarce African American community loyalty stamp album from the San Francisco area. Participating merchants in the community would give stamps with purchases. These stamps would then be pasted into one of these..... More

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Item #1271 This Side of Jordan. Roark Bradford

Bradford, Roark

This Side of Jordan

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Drawings by Erick Berry. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Octavo. [x], 255 pages. From the jacket: "A novel of negro life, of elemental passion and tenderness." Attractive dust jacket. More

Price: $200

Item #1275 A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States....

Channing, William E[llery]. (1780-1842)

A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States

Glasgow: James Hedderwick & Son, 1837. From the Fourth Boston Edition. Morocco-backed marbled boards. Duodecimo. 52 pages. Channing was a prominent Unitarian clergyman and very much opposed to the annexation of Texas, which he believed would in essence amount to a deliberate spreading of slavery in the nation. Channing blamed..... More

Price: $125

Item #1280 Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures. Winston Churchill, pencer

Churchill, Winston S[pencer]. (1874-1965)

Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait, drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 320 pages. An intra-war collection of Churchill's essays on a wide variety of topics, from U-boats to espionage, from politics to the effects of modern life. Importantly, this is the first..... More

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Item #1288 The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. Stephen Crane

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

London: William Heinemann, 1896. Early London printing. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo.[viii], 194 pages, plus [i-xvi] pages of publisher ads. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel of cowardice and redemption. This is the sixth London printing. There is an illustrated front flyleaf decorated in green, yellow, and black oddly depicting..... More

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Item #1279 Holograph Letter to James Vaux, Regarding a Lease. John Dickinson

Dickinson, John (1732-1808)

Holograph Letter to James Vaux, Regarding a Lease

Wilmington: 1807. Single sheet, folded in half to approximately 7 7/8" x 9 5/8" Handwritten letter from Founding Father John Dickinson just months before he died. The letter is to James Vaux, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker, regarding an apparent shared interest in a lease. Dickinson writes: ------ "Esteemed..... More

Price: $1,000

Item #1285 Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in the Albany...

Dyer, David

Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in the Albany Penitentiary, a Military Prison of the U. S. Wednesday, April 19, 1865

Albany: Edward Leslie, Printer, 1865. First edition. Disbound. Octavo. 20 pages. Rev. Dyer was the chaplain at the Albany Penitentiary. His memorial sermon, given in the prison's chapel, coincided with Lincoln's funeral in Washington on April 19th. He finds the circumstances of Lincoln's death to be "of a painfully instructive..... More

Price: $225

Item #1277 There is Life in the Old Land Yet [and] Southern Cross (along with 30 other pieces of...

Gibson, A. F. [and] Charles Ellerbrock [Sheet Music, Civil War, Maryland, Confederate]

There is Life in the Old Land Yet [and] Southern Cross (along with 30 other pieces of sheet music)

Baltimore: Various publishers, 1860s. Some illustrated title pages. Cloth over boards. Folio. Various original paginations. This is a bound volume of individual pieces of sheet music, mostly published in Baltimore in the 1860s. Most appear to be popular songs of the day but two are rare and decidedly pro-Southern songs..... More

Price: $500

Item #1282 California, Wine Land of America. Amado Gonzalez

Gonzalez, Amado (1913-2007)

California, Wine Land of America

San Francisco: Wine Advisory Board, [early 1960s]. Color offset lithography. Poster. 21" x 28 1/8" Colorful California wine poster by Amado Gonzalez California Wine Advisory Board. Gonzalez was born in Mexico but immigrated to San Francisco in 1927 and studied at the California School of Fine Arts. He painted murals..... More

Price: $300

Item #1266 Researches and Experiments in Aerial Navigation. Langley, amuel, ierpont

Langley, S[amuel]. P[ierpont]. (1834-1906)

Researches and Experiments in Aerial Navigation

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First printing, thus. Black and white plates. In original wraps. This is a collection of four articles on early mechanical aviation by Samuel P. Langley. These were originally printed in various Smithsonian Reports between 1897 and 1904 but were collected and published here together for..... More

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Item #1269 South Sea Tales. Jack London

London, Jack (1876-1916)

South Sea Tales

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. First edition. Color frontispiece. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 327 pages plus 8 pages of ads. A collection of eight intense stories set in the turn-of-the-century colonial south Pacific, inspired by London's personal experiences and adventures. Nice first edition in blue cloth binding decoratively..... More

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Item #1278 Blood Meridian. Cormac McCarthy, b.1933

McCarthy, Cormac (b.1933)

Blood Meridian

London: The Folio Society, 2022. First edition thus. Illustrated by Gérard DuBois. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 303 pages. McCarthy's masterpiece, and to date his only novel based on historical characters and events. Set in the American Southwest just after the Mexican War, McCarthy brings some unforgettable characters to life--including the landscape..... More

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Item #1268 Tiro Aereo [with] Tiro di Caduta [with] Appunti di Armamento e Tiro. Military Aviation

[Military Aviation]

Tiro Aereo [with] Tiro di Caduta [with] Appunti di Armamento e Tiro

(S.l.): (S.n.), [1920s?]. Diagrams, some tipped in photographic illustrations. Cloth over boards with vellum spine and fore corners. Folio. 100 pages [and] 127 pages [and] 113 pages. Three instructive texts, all in Italian, concerning the accurate use of mounted machine guns and the dropping of bombs from airplanes. These are..... More

Price: $450

Item #1283 Out of the House of Bondage. Kelly Miller

Miller, Kelly (1863-1939)

Out of the House of Bondage

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 242 pages. Miller was an important African American intellectual, mathematician, and Dean of Howard University. This is a collection of Miller's essays dealing with the principles which he thought were fundamental to any solution to the..... More

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Item #1270 Peace with Honour. Milne, lan, lexander

Milne, A[lan]. A[lexander]. (1882-1956)

Peace with Honour

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1934). First U.S. edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 219 pages. A traumatized veteran of the First World War, Milne describes war as both wicked and very silly. Published in a critical moment between World War I and World War II, he makes..... More

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Item #1286 Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet? . Edward Newton, lfred

Newton, A[lfred]. Edward (1864-1940)

Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet?

[Philadelphia]: Privately printed, 1929. Edition limited to 950 copies. Black and white frontispiece portrait, facsimile letters. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 39 pages. Why did Thomas Hardy, at the height of his career as a novelist, give up fiction and devote the last 30 years of his life to writing poetry? Famous..... More

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Item #1272 Norris's Hand-Book for Locomotive Engineers and Machinists: Comprising the Proportions...

Norris, Septimus (1818-1862)

Norris's Hand-Book for Locomotive Engineers and Machinists: Comprising the Proportions and Calculations for Constructing Locomotives, Manner of Setting Valves, Tables of Squares, Cubes, Areas, &c. &c.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1852. First edition. Frontispiece illustration, cuts, diagrams, tables. Original leather over boards. Octavo. 302 pages plus 23 pages of ads at rear. Septimus Norris was a mechanical engineer and steam locomotive designer whose brother, William Norris, had built the first locomotive in the United States. At..... More

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Item #1284 Elements of Yacht Design. Norman Skene, ocke

Skene, Norman L[ocke]. (1878-1932)

Elements of Yacht Design

New York: The Rudder Publishing Company, 1904. First edition. Diagrams, plates of drawings. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 77 pages plus plates and ads. First edition of this now classic work. Norman L. Skene was a graduate of MIT in naval architecture and worked with Starling Burgess, the designer..... More

Price: $175

Item #1287 King's Handbook of Boston Harbor. Sweetser, oses, oster

Sweetser, M[oses]. F[oster].

King's Handbook of Boston Harbor

Cambridge: Moses King, Publisher, 1883. Second edition. Over 200 original illustrations by various artists. Original decorative cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. x, 276, xi-xxix pages. Profusely illustrated Victorian era travel guide to Boston and environs. Both illustrations and text are indexed at the front. Contains numerous advertisements at front and..... More

Price: $300

Item #1281 Map of Historic Baltimore, Showing Main Traffic Routes and Points of Interest. Edwin...

Tunis, Edwin (1897-1973)

Map of Historic Baltimore, Showing Main Traffic Routes and Points of Interest

[Baltimore]: Tourist Develpment Bureau Baltimore Association of Commerce, 1936. Colored pictorial map. Single sheet. 16 3/4" x 27 3/8" Striking 1930s pictorial map of Baltimore showing streets and points of interest, with key at bottom. Decorated with ships, caricatures, and a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe. A full map of..... More

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Item #1273 New York Subway Guide. Massimo Vignelli

Vignelli, Massimo (1931-2014)

New York Subway Guide

New York: New York City Transit Authority, 1972. First printing. Color-coded route map. Single sheet approximately 18" x 21" printed on both sides. Folds to about 3 1/2" x 7" Here is the important first printing of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 NYC Transit Authority map. Vignelli sacrificed geographic accuracy for simplicity..... More

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Item #1265 To be performed at the Old South, on Saturday, February 8, 1800 [Odes upon the death...

[Washington, George (1732-1799)]

To be performed at the Old South, on Saturday, February 8, 1800 [Odes upon the death of Washington]

[Boston]: Young & Minns, Printers, 1800. Single sheet. 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" (approximate). Rare broadside printing of two memorial odes on the death of George Washington. Performed at Boston's Old South Church on February 8, 1800. Just 7 copies in OCLC. Ref. SABIN 95893; EVANS 38642. More

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Item #1274 A Temperance Arithmetic for Schools and Families. Julia McNair Wright

Wright, Julia McNair (1840-1903)

A Temperance Arithmetic for Schools and Families

New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1889. Sewn wrappers. Sixteenmo. 32 pages. This is an interesting relic of the Temperance Movement, and a solid example of a political organization using a school curriculum to advance their agenda. Comprised of some brief instructions for teachers, followed by word..... More

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