April 2015 Catalog 2
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Yesterday’s Muse Books APRIL 2015 CATALOG 2 1. [Adventure; Africa] Johnson, Martin Lion: African Adventure with the King of Beasts Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1929. ix, 281 pp. 1931 5th printing. 8vo. Black & white photographic plates. A firsthand account of time spent in Africa along Lake Paradise, by the author of Safari and co-author of I Married Adventure. Martin Johnson and his wife Osa were accomplished travelers who spent a great deal of time in Africa and other exotic locales during the early twentieth century. Very good. Spine a bit faded, corners lightly rubbed. $15 2. [Adventure; Polar Expeditions] Welzl, Jan; Weatherall, M. & R.; Golombek, Bedrich; Valenta, Edvard The Quest for Polar Treasures New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition. 352 pp. 8vo. An arctic travelogue by the man also known as Eskymo Welzl and Arctic Bismarck. Welzl was an outdoorsman and a gold prospector, and served as Chief Justice on the island of New Siberia. He also wrote Thirty Years in the Golden North. Very good, good jacket. Jacket rubbed with minor loss along edges, jacket edges faded & spotted, jacket flap corners $45 trimmed. Some pages unopened. 3. [American History; Frederick Douglass; Abolition] Thompson, J.W. An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument: Biographical Facts and Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglass - His Death at Anacosta, D.C., and Funeral at Washington, D.C., and Rochester, N.Y., together with Portraits and Illustrations of Important Incidents of the Four Years’ Struggle to Complete the Work. Rochester: Rochester Herald Press, 1903. First edition. 204 pp. 8vo. Includes 16 black & white photos. A history of the monument erected $150 in honor of abolitionist and African-American intellectual Frederick Douglass, published in Rochester, NY, where Douglass printed his newspaper the North Star. Good. Spine repaired, edges rubbed. 4. [Americana; Great Lakes] Disturnell, J. [John] A Trip Through the Lakes of North America; Embracing a Full Description of the St. Lawrence River, Together with All the Principal Places on its Banks, from its Source to its Mouth: Commerce of the Lakes, Etc., Forming Altogether a Complete Guide for the Pleasure Traveler and Emigrant. With Maps and Embellishments. New York: J. Disturnell / J.J. Reed, 1857. First edition. xi, 366 pp. 40 pages of advertisements, numerous ads for railroads following text. 12mo. A natural history of the Great Lakes region and the St. Lawrence $325 River, with information on railroad and steamboat routes. Includes frontispiece and 12 illustrations in text, large fold-out map follows text. Sabin 20324. Wright-Howes catalog: “Contains much on Lake navigation and commerce and a list of all steamers built on Lake Erie from 1818 to 1857.” Near fine. Includes map. Minor bookplate remnant on front endpaper, minimal wear to corners, a few folds of map splitting but reparable. 5. [Biography; Anarchy] Goldman, Emma Living My Life, in Two Volumes New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. 993, xvi pp. 8vo. Illustrated with black & white photographic plates. In Living My Life, Emma Goldman, called ‘Red Emma’ or ‘The Anarchist Queen’ by the United States government and other detractors, describes her philosophical and political journey through her life. Goldman remains an important figure in the history $195 of political activism, anarchist thought, and the spirit of rebellion. She served as a champion for many causes, including free speech, free love, atheism, and homosexuality. The original edition of this autobiography was published in To order or inquire, call 585-265-9295, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.websterbookstore.com 3 two volumes in 1931, with a single-volume edition following soon after in 1934. Good. Spine of first volume repaired, edges of both volumes rubbed with loss from corners and along joints of first volume, ink gift note (‘To Ella - my darling, from Pent, Feb. 1932’) on front endpaper. 6. [Biography; October Revolution] Sorokin, Pitirim A. Leaves from a Russian Diary and Thirty Years After Boston: The Beacon Press, 1950. First thus. Revised & enlarged edition. ix, 346 pp. 8vo. Originally published in 1924, this edition includes a revised version of the main text, with an additional essay entitled ‘Thirty Years After’. Near fine, very good jacket. Jacket spine faded, minor wear to jacket corners. 7. [Books & Printing] Brown, Peter Ogden Walter Goodman’s The Printseller’s Window $75 Memorial Art Gallery, 2009. Information on the lesser-known artist Walter Goodman, illustrations throughout. Fine. $15 8. [Books & Printing] S.D. Warren Company Better Paper, Better Printing on Warren’s Cumberland Coated Book, with Supplementary Exhibits of Halftone & Border Finishes Boston: S.D. Warren Company, 1920. 12 pp., plus [32 pp.] (16 sheets) of blank 80 lb. sheets perforated along binding edge. From the advertisement following text: ‘Printers and advertisers have in the Warren Service Library the material to lay out new work and to show how it will appear when finished. Specifications for the $40 production of work similar to this volume, except for such variations as may be made in end leaves and cover papers, are as follows: 48 pages Warren’s Cumberland Coated Book, 25 x 38 - 80 lb.; Type, Cloister Oldstyle and Cloister Oldstyle Italic.; Illustrations from lead-moulded, steel-faced electrotypes of 133-line halftone engravings.; Ink, Sinclair & Valentine’s Cumberland Black.; Sewed and trimmed to 9 1/4 x 12 1/4.; Board sides in full cloth binding, end leaves drawn on. The blank pages in this volume are perforated, and they can be used as the exact specification of stock required; as a sample of stock on which a quotation is made; for engraver’s proofs on the exact stock to be used; for making dummies any size up to 8 1/2 x 12 inches.’ Sized and weights of Warren’s Cumberland Coated Book, and distributors of their printing papers, are also listed. Very good. Front & end matter faintly foxed. 9. [Cookery] Berolzheimer, Ruth The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book: Wartime Edition, with Victory Substitutes and Economical Recipes for Delicious Wartime Meals The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1943. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; $125 How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur. Near fine. Includes publisher’s box, with list price of $3.75 (equivalent to over $50 today). Numerous additional recipes laid in. Box lightly rubbed. 10. [Cookery] Child, Julia The French Chef Cookbook Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1968. First edition. xxxiii, 424, xvi pp. 8vo. From The French Chef, the PBS series that began it all, here are all the recipes that introduced $40 Julia Child to an American public hungry for more sophisticated cooking techniques. Fine. An exceptional copy. To order or inquire, call 585-265-9295, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.websterbookstore.com 4 11. [Cookery] Rochester Advisory Nutrition Council / The Dept. of Public Welfare, Rochester, NY 1933 Department of Public Welfare Cookbook [Great Depression] [Handwritten Recipes Bound In] Rochester Advisory Nutrition Council / The Dept. of Public Welfare, Rochester, NY, 1933. 1-12, 21-48 pp. Includes weekly menus designed to help those receiving assistance plan their meals and receive adequate nutrition within the allotments provided to them. Rare - none found in OCLC, the trade, or auction records. SOLD 12. [Disabilities; Hearing Loss] Jackson, A.W.; [Shedd, Kendrick Philander] Deafness and Cheerfulness Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901. First edition. [iv], 191 pp. 8vo. Jackson provides a firsthand account of the effects deafness has on one’s life, providing useful (and at times somewhat surprising) information on the nature of deafness. Correspondence related to this work was included in the 1904 publication American Annals of the Deaf Vol. 49. Good. Former copy of the Rochester Socialist Party, on $40 loan from Comrade Kendrick Philander Shedd, with his bookplate on the front board. Usual library ownership marks inside. Light stain to spine base, ink & pencil underlining & marginalia throughout, front hinge just starting. Following the text are two single-page manuscript writings by Shedd, one commenting on the valuable lessons within this book, the other waxing philosophical about the nature and origins of humor. Both are initialed, and the second is dated 1904. Mr. Shedd was a professor specializing in modern languages at the University of Rochester, but was forced to leave in 1912 due to his association with the Socialist party (specifically a speech he gave in its support). 13. [Disabilities; Speech Impediments] Bogue, Benjamin N. Stammering: Its Cause and Correction Indianapolis: Benjamin N. Bogue, 1919. 127, [1] pp. 11th printing. Stapled wrappers. Two- column format. A guide to overcoming speech impediments, describing both their causes and possible methods of correction. The author stammered for nearly twenty years, and provides a great deal of firsthand experience with the negative impact of speech impediments on one’s life, and on the relative success and failure of various attempts to correct his own, which resulted in the development of the Bogue Unit Method, and the foundation of the Bogue Institute for Stammerers. Details of 25 case histories are also $10 provided. The process appears to have gained a good deal of popularity, resulting in numerous reprints of this book in the twenty-five years following its original publication (1919). Very good. Ink name & address on title page. 14. [Engineering & Machinery] Adams, Julius W.; [Templeton, William] Templeton’s Engineer, Millwright and Mechanic’s Pocket Companion..