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A Declaration . . . Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms. 1775.
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1. [ART] Loomis, Andrew. The Eye of the Painter and the Elements of Beauty. Viking: New York, 1961. First printing.
Price: US$ 450.00
Quarto. Complete with 144 pages.
Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages; faint ghost of a small price sticker on front free endpaper. Almost no cover wear. Priceclipped dust jacket has some edge wear, light soiling, and a small triangular chip at top right corner of back panel.
Loomis’s rather elusive last book; printed posthumously.
Bookseller Inventory # 007715
2. [CHILDREN’S] Bonte, Louise Quarles and George Willard Bonte. ABC in Dixie: A Plantation Alphabet. Ernest Nister and E P Dutton: London and New York, circa 1905. Price: US$ 1,200.00 Sold Quarto. Complete. Sound binding with intact spine and hinges. Clean, thick card pages with occasional finger smudges, many with chipped lower right corners not affecting text or illustrations; several with near invisible archival tape mends and reinforcement. Bright colors. Some cover wear and soiling.
Scarce alphabet book depicting African-American residents of a post-Civil War plantation.
Bookseller Inventory # 007882
3. [CHILDREN’S] Chapman, Thomas. Thomas Chapman: His Book of Arithmetic. Spotsylvania, Virginia, 1769. Price: US$ 1,500.00 Sold
Folio. Very early home-made colonial era ciphering book. 42 pages of arithmetic exercises including two calligraphic tables.
Sound binding. Clean pages. Some cover wear and soiling.
Topics include: Numeration, Addition of Integers or Whole Numbers, Addition of Money (farthings, pence, shillings, and pounds), Addition of
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Cloth Measure (nails, quarters, yards, Flemish/English Elles), Liquid measure, Dry measure, Land measure, Adding Time, Subtraction of Sundries (money, weights, measures, etc.), Multiplication, Division, Division of Crops Reduction The book was created by Thomas Chapman (b. 1754) and also references two of his older brothers, James and Benjamin. Their father, John Chapman, resided in St. George Parish, Spotsylvania County and owned over 1000 acres there and an additional 300 acres in Orange County. For more information about Ciphering Books, see Ashley K. Doer's master's thesis: Cipher Books in the Southern Historical Collection. University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, 2006.
Bookseller Inventory # 007823
4. [CHILDREN’S] Ten Little Nigger Boys (Cover Title: Ten Little Niggers). Charles A. Graham: New York, 1900. Price: US$ 500.00
Oblong vicesimo-quarto. Hard cover. 12 pages including the title. Six pages with color illustrations. Other b/w illustrations throughout.
Sound binding. Clean pages. Cover has light soiling. Spine present but heavily worn.
Uncommon edition of the now notorious nursery rhyme.
Bookseller Inventory # 007763
5. [CHILDREN’S] Very, Lydia L. Red Riding Hood with Original Envelope. L. [Louis] Prang: Boston, 1863. Price: US$ 650.00 Sold
Duodecimo. First edition of the first die-cut shape book published in the U.S. 16 pages with verse and colored illustrations.
Just like new but for a tiny scuff near the fourth button from the hem of the dress. Bright coloring; sound binding. I imagine that it is in such nice shape because it has been stored in its original envelope. The envelope has very light brown printing with illustrations of Red Riding Hood and the wolf on either side of the booklets title. It shows some wear and soiling, and is missing the top flap. An 1864 gift inscription and the owner's name are in pencil on the reverse of the envelope. Bookseller Inventory # 007790
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6. [COOKING & ALCOHOL] Edwards, Bill. How to Mix Drinks (Cover Title: Drinks: How to Make and Serve Them). David McKay Publisher: Philadelphia, 1936. First edition. Price: US$ 300.00 Sold
Duodecimo. Hardcover with dust jacket. Complete. 102 pages.
Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Very light wear to cover. Dust jacket has some wear, heaviest along the lower spine. The original red hanging string is present.
Classic cocktail book with approximately 300 recipes for cocktails, sours, toddies, flips slings, shurbs, eggnogs, sangarees, highballs, fizzes, coolers, rickeys, daisies, fixes, juleps, smashes, cobblers, frappes, punches, and cups. Stylized art-deco cover and dustjacket illustrations show a red, white and blue American flag made from redgloved hands and a sparkling cocktail glass.
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7. [COOKING & ALCOHOL] Embury, David A. The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. Illustrated by Marvin Gluck. Doubleday, Doran and Co.: New York, 1958.
Price: US$ 425.00 Sold
Octavo. Hardcover with dust jacket. The New Revised Edition with "over 700 superb recipes." An exceptionally nice example of Embury's classic cocktail book. Complete. Sound binding with intact hinges. Almost no wear to book. Light wear to the dust jacket with a small piece of tape at top of spine. Small owner's stamp inside front cover. Bookseller Inventory # 007773
8. [ENTERTAINMENT] Buffalo Bill (Col. W. F. Cody). Buffalo Bill's Wild West Historical Sketches And Daily Review. Strobridge Litho. Co. for The Courier Co. of Buffalo: Cincinnati & New York, 1907. Price: US$ 400.00 Sold
Octavo. Program for the week of 17-22 June 1907 while the show was in Boston, Massachusetts. Un-paginated, but 60 pages including the wrapper. B/w photographs and line drawings throughout. An exceptionally nice example of a Buffalo Bill's Wild West Program. Colorful wrapper shows an older Buffalo Bill on horseback with buffalo hunters in the background; the reverse is an advertisement for Waterman pen's and shows cast members throwing fountain pens into the air where they penetrate a picture of a globe. Almost no wear. Binding staples Read’Em Again Books – Kurt Sanftleben
are a little rusty, but they firmly attach the cover and pages. Two leaves have marginal tears, chips, and/or corner folds. Much details, including illustrations, of the show and its performers. Many illustrated advertisements. Bookseller Inventory
9. [ENTERTAINMENT] Darling, Jim and Renee. Photographic archive documenting the vaudeville and circus career of Jim and Renee Darling, 1940s-1960s. Price: US$ 900.00 Sold
The collection consists of over 90 publicity and photographs, advertising cards, posters, flyers, and one full-page newspaper article.
About half of the items are related to the Darling's act and show how it evolved over the course of their career. The act started with outside performances on a sway pole at fairs and small circuses. After several friends were killed or seriously injured during sway pole performances, the Darlings switched to a revolving ladder. After Jim was badly injured in a fall from the ladder, the couple began to train chimpanzees "to do everything but talk." Their chimpanzee act was a major success on the theater circuit where they played with major acts like Kate Smith, Martha Raye, and the Mills Brothers. They were also popular on both regional and national television where they repeatedly were guests on hits like the Arthur Godfrey and Gary Moore shows.
The other half of the items are related to the Darlings professional friends and fellow performers. There are photographs and advertising cards for cycling acts clowns, acrobats, sway polers, dog acts, a high wire family, big cat acts, a risqué seal act, jugglers, a wonder horse, cowboys, an elephant act, a hypnotist, a singer, roller skaters, a stripper, accordion/violin players, and a ring master.
Most of the material is in very nice shape. Many items are signed and many have additional information about the acts annotated on their reverse. Some items have dog-ears, clipped corners, or short closed tears.
Bookseller Inventory # 007866
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10. [ETHNIC] Benezet, Anthony and John Wesley. Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions, A Short Account of That Part of Africa Inhabited By the Negroes, and Thoughts Upon Slavery in Views of American Slavery. . . . Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge: Philadelphia, 1858. Price: US$ 250.00 Sold
Sextodecimo. Hardcover. Title continues: “Taken a Century Ago.” Early reprint compilation of three important anti-slavery essays
("Caution" and "Account" by Benezet; "Thoughts" by Wesley). Complete with 138 pages. Sound bindings. Clean, lightly toned pages. Wear to cover. Several small wormholes in rear gutter. Benezet's essays, originally published in the 1760s, were among the very first arguments for ending slavery in America. Wesley, a co-founder of Methodism, originally published his abolitionist pamphlet, "Thoughts" in 1774.
Bookseller Inventory # 007719
11. [ETHNIC] Cleaver, Eldridge (editor). The Black Panther, Vol. IV, No. 7, Jan 17, 1970. The Black Panther Party: Berkeley, 1970. Stiff Wraps. First edition. Price: US$ 225.00
Tabloid. 20 pages including the cover.
Almost no wear. Very light horizontal fold. Light toning.
This issue of the newspaper of the Black Panther Party has an exceptional cover showing an American flag with black stars and portraits of two, then incarcerated Panther icons: co-founders Bobby Seale (Chairman) and Huey Newton (Minister of Defense). Feature articles include "Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton Drugged Then Murdered." There is a double-page centerfold broadside titled "The Black Panther: Mirror of the People" and another two-page spread with smaller broadside-type articles: "Rules of the Black Panther Party" and "Black Panther Party Platform and Program: What We Want, What We Believe."
Bookseller Inventory # 007726
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12. [ETHNIC] Washington, Booker T. An Open Letter by Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, Upon Lynchings in the South. Tuskegee Institute: Tuskegee, 1933. Price: US$ 800.00 Sold
Sextodecimo. 8 page pamphlet. Complete. Sound stapled binding.
Light wear and soiling but for the last leaf which has ink spots and old tape repairs. First thus: "Reprinted from The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham Age-Herald, The Florida Times-Union, The Nashville
American, The New Orleans Times Democrat."
Very scarce. Not in the Blockson Collection at Temple University. Only 4 copies listed in Worldcat.
Bookseller Inventory # 007814
13. [FICTION] Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. Chapman & Hall: London, 1865. Price: US$ 1,200.00 Sold
Octavo. Two volume first printing set bound from the parts. Complete with half-titles, title pages, 40 illustrations, and postscript. Wrappers and advertisements (for installments 1-10) bound in at rear. Conforms to Smith, 106-109, including 'principal' misspelled as 'pricipal' in vol II on page 115, 14 lines from the bottom. Contemporary half-leather morocco binding; marbled boards. Top edges gilt.
Sound binding. Clean pages. Very lightly rubbed. Bright gilt lettering and rulings.
Bookseller Inventory # 007881
14. [FINANCE] Francis, John and Daniel Defoe. Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange (with Defoe's Anatomy of Exchange Alley as an Appendix). Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols: Boston, 1850. First American edition. Price: US$ 600.00
Octavo. Half-leather. "Previously published in the Banker's magazine for 1850." Ex-library with bookplate inside front cover and two handstamps on title page; withdrawn handstamp on the bookplate. Sound binding; cracked hinges. Clean pages. The endpapers and forematter have minor marginal wear, toning, and soiling. Minor wear to the cover. A classic and important history of the London Stock Exchange loaded with fascinating anecdotes including Read’Em Again Books – Kurt Sanftleben
information on Tulip Mania, the Tontines, East India Company Stock, early dealers, corruption in Parliament, the South Sea Bubble, the Boston Tea Party, lotteries, frauds, and much more.
Bookseller Inventory # 007818
15. [HISTORY] Anthony, Susan B. Autographed Typed Letter on National American Woman Suffrage Association Stationery to Helen Pillsbury Cogswell, the Daughter of Parker Pillsbury. 19 December 1898.
Price: US$ 3,000.00
One page letter, signed "Susan B. Anthony".
Letter and envelope are both in very nice shape. The letter has only some light edge wear, and there is some slight postal soiling to the
envelope. In this letter, Anthony informs Cogswell that she has just received "some of the huge volumes of my biography" and notes that she will be dispatching a set to her shortly, "in memory of your dear father, mother and husband, and recognition of your own splendid services to them and to the world." She goes on to note that as they worked together on the book, her biographer, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, would frequently say, "I do hope Mr. Pillsbury will live to read what I have said about him." Unfortunately, Parker Pillsbury died before the first two volumes of Stanton's biography were completed. Years before, Pillsbury, Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had formed what Anthony previously referred to as "the Revolutionary trio" for their long-time and very close association working on the entwined causes of abolition and suffrage which they began as Garrisonians in the 1850s. Later in 1868, bitter and furious with the traditional abolitionists over their refusal to include women's suffrage in what would become the Fifteenth Amendment-something that Stanton described as "stand[ing] aside and see[ing] 'Sambo' walk into the kingdom [of civil rights] first-the trio began publishing a weekly periodical, Revolution, which forcefully advocated for women's suffrage as well as addressed a number of related issues including birth control, divorce, prostitution, and abortion (which, probably to the surprise of many today, they regarded as infanticide). Pillsbury remained active in the suffrage movement until his death in 1898 at age 88. Anthony concludes her letter with an invitation to Cogswell for "a whole week's or month's visit."
Bookseller Inventory # 007880
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16. [HISTORY] Crandall, Robert B. Collection of Eight Civil War Letters - 23rd Wisconsin Infantry - Kentucky, Yazoo City, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Mobile, and Texas. 1862-1865. Price: US$ 3,000.00 Sold
Collection of eight Civil War letters from Robert B. Crandall to his sister, Kittie, in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
The letters and envelopes are all in nice shape.
This collection documents Crandall's service in the 23rd Regiment,
Wisconsin Infantry from 1862 to 1865. Originally a First Sergeant, Crandall was promoted to First Lieutenant by the war's end. The 23rd served in the western theater and participated in the occupation of Kentucky, the Yazoo Expedition, the Siege of Vicksburg, the occupation of New Orleans, the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, the Reconnaissance of the Matagorda Peninsula, the Battle of Sabine Crossroads, the occupation of Arkansas, and the capture and occupation of Mobile, Alabama. These letters include a very personal and detailed recounting of the 23rd's action at the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau. Similar detailed summaries of the Matagorda Reconnaissance and the capture of the entire 19th Kentucky Infantry Regiment during General Banks' failed Red River Campaign are also included. The letters additionally record a number of fascinating vignettes such as destroying railroads and capturing property in route from Kentucky to Vicksburg, General Grant's near fatal injury while horseracing General Banks during a review in New Orleans, and "taking negroes" from the southern states into the Union Army. There is also much discussion of life in camp and home, as well as Crandall's desires to remain on active duty after the end of the war.
Overall a very nice collection of letters detailing a number of less well known battles and campaigns.
Partial transcripts of the letters are included.
Bookseller Inventory # 007851
17. [HISTORY] Hilovsky, Steven E. Photograph album documenting four years as a United States Military Academy cadet at West Point, New York - 1942-1946. West Point: New York. Price: US$ 750.00 Sold
Over 350 vernacular photographs glued into a scrapbook created by Steven E. Hilovsky. Pages are all securely attached with a post binding; some edge wear. Photographs are all in very nice shape. The scrapbook cover is edge-worn. The front gutter is cracked and has been reinforced with cellophane tape that has now loosened and yellowed. Hilovsky has annotated many pages in white ink.
Hilovsky (he changed his last name to Hill in the mid-1950s) entered West Point in 1942 after attending the University of Pittsburgh for three years. He graduated in 1946. Upon entering active duty, Hilovsky became an Army Air Corps pilot. He retired from the Air Force in 1970 as a Lieutenant Read’Em Again Books – Kurt Sanftleben
Colonel. This is undoubtedly one of the best-if not the best-photographic chronicles of West Point life ever made by a cadet. Hilovsky begins with the very first day of Plebe Year and documents daily life and key events from that time until his graduation four years later. Everything is covered: indoctrination, haircuts, clothing issue, fit-to-fight, Recognition, parent visits, Yearling Summer, Popolopen, weapons training (mortars, howitzers, anti-tank, tanks, machine guns, etc), infiltration, a minstrel show, academics, athletics, studying, food stashes, air show (P-40, P-47, P-51, P-59, B-17, B-29, B-24), football (goat-engineer, Notre Dame, Navy, etc.), aviation training, formations, parades, architecture, picnics, equitation, dragging, graduation, and more.
Hilovsky’s Howitzer photograph is laid in.
Bookseller Inventory # 007863
18. [History] Holtry, Richard. Photograph album documenting Army service in the Southwest during the Mexican Border Crisis, 1914-1917. Price: US$ 900.00 Sold
Over 150 vernacular photographs are glued into this scrapbook originally purchased at the Russell Holtry estate sale in Van Wert, Ohio.
The album appears to have been previously used as the photographs are affixed over remnants of older mounts. Several pages have been reinforced with matching paper, probably from an unused page. The pages are all securely attached using a typical post binding; both posts have some rust. The photographs are generally clean with some light wear and/or soiling and a few have dog-eared or missing corners. Some are captioned in ink. There is some wear to the scrapbook cover.
Military records show that Holtry enlisted in 1914 and had been promoted to Sergeant by July, 1917. Although Holtry's military record shows he originally enlisted as a member of the Ohio National Guard and that he was assigned to the 145th Infantry Regiment during WWI service in Germany, it is unclear as to his unit between his date of enlistment and October, 1917. Two of the photographs in the album indicate that he served with the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment during the Mexican Border Crisis. In one, he is shown wearing a collarless shirt with a 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment designation, and in another, he is shown standing next to a tent marked 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment. During the Mexican Border Crisis, the 11th Infantry Regiment served in various Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona locations to prevent raids into U.S. territory by Pancho Villa and Mexican bandits. Some of the photographs are identified as camps in New Mexico, one is identified as a camp at Columbus [New Mexico], a number are identified as having been taken at [Elephant] Butte, [New Mexico], and some were taken in San Antonio, Texas, which was the 11th Infantry Regiment's permanent home station. The photographs document camp life and show tents, buildings, wagons, horses, mules, military vehicles, formations, latrine use, horseplay (including one of a blanket toss), field uniforms, a personal equipment inspection, a Mexican smelting operation, "a spick town on the Read’Em Again Books – Kurt Sanftleben
border," Mexican women and children, the Rio Grande, train loading, a YMCA, camp stores, blacksmithing, the Alamo, and more.
Bookseller Inventory # 007861
19. [History] Jefferson, Thomas and John Dickinson. A Declaration By the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, Now Met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms. New-England Chronicle: or, The Essex Gazette, Vol VII, No. 365. . . Printed By Samuel and Ebenezer Hall at Stoughton Hall, Harvard-College, Cambridge, MA, 1775.
Price: US$ 27,500.00 Sold
Folio. One sheet folded into four pages. The pages are approximately 15.25" tall x 9.75" wide. In a custom-made protective portfolio. Toned.
This is an exceptionally rare early newspaper printing of what amounted to the American colonies declaration of war upon Great Britain. It fills the entire first page of the paper and one column of the second. Following the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress convened on 10 May 1775 in Philadelphia to take charge of the war effort. The document identifies the most egregious of the acts taken by Great Britain including taxation without representation, extended use of vice admiralty courts, the several Coercive Acts, and the Declaratory Act. It then explains how for a decade, the British government consistently ignored or rejected colonists' petitions for the redress of their grievances. Still, it insists that the colonies do not yet demand independence, and it states that they have only taken up arms "in defence of the Freedom that is our Birthright and . . . [will] lay them down when Hostilities shall cease on the part of the Aggressors". The convention initially appointed a committee of five to write the document. However after an initial draft prepared by John Rutledge was rejected, Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson were added to the group, and Jefferson was tasked with creating a new draft. There is some disagreement as to whether Jefferson's draft was found objectionable due to its style or radical nature. Regardless of the reason, John Dickinson's major revision of Jefferson's draft, which includes the famous lines, "Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. . . . [W]e will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of liberties, being with one mind resolved, to die Freemen rather than live slaves," was accepted by the convention on 6 July 1775.
Apparently the Declaration was not initially issued as a 'government' publication, but rather it was first privately printed as a pamphlet in Philadelphia and then almost immediately reprinted in several newspapers. These "early newspaper printings . . . are extraordinarily rare and do not often appear on the market. Only one newspaper printing has appeared at auction in the last 30 years: a July 12, 1775 postscript to the 'Pennsylvania Gazette,' printed in Philadelphia, was sold in 1996" - see Bauman's Rare Books #66576.
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20. [HISTORY] [Johnson, Captain Thomas]. The History of the Pirates, Containing the Lives of Those Noted Pirate Captains, Misson, Bowen, Kidd, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly, Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, North, and their several Crews. . . . Ezra Strong, Hartford, 1835. Price: US$ 450.00
Duodecimo. Leather.
Title continued: "Also, an Account of the piracies and Cruelties of John Augur, William Cunningham, Dennis Mackarthy, William Dowling, William Lewis, Thomas Morris, George Bendall, and William Ling, Who Were Tried, Condemned and Executed at Nassau, New Providence, on the Tenth of December, 1718. To Which is added, a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies: and the Expedition of Commodore Porter." Complete. 288 pages. Illustrated with 13 b/w plates.
Sound binding. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge sound. Uneven text block. Clean pages with some light foxing. Closed tear to one plate. Minor wear to the cover.
Scarce revised edition of "A General History of the Pyrates . . ." by Johnson (perhaps a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe) which was first published in 1724. Most editions are illustrated with only a frontispiece.
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21. [HISTORY] Lasher, Herbert. World War One Naval Seaplane Pilot's Letter with Posted Envelope - 24 April 1918. Price: US$ 250.00
Letter and envelope are both lightly toned. The envelope has been postmarked with an APO #2 (Paris) flag machine cancellation and has some old tape repairs
Lasher was assigned to the U.S. Naval Air Station at Dunkerque, a seaplane station from which naval aviators attacked U-boats going in and out of Belgian ports. The aviators flew Donnet-Denhaut flying boats and Hanriot floatplanes. Lasher's letter speaks of making making patrols, provides details of regularly coming under fire from big German artillery guns firing upon the air station, and mentions being subjected to nightly air raids. Mail from American naval aviators in France before the Armistice is quite scarce.
Bookseller Inventory # 007853
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22. [HISTORY] Madison, James. The Constitution of the United States. J. Dodsley: London, 1789. Price: US$ 450.00
Octavo. Pages 267 through 320 removed from The Annual Register of 1787. The Constitution appears on pages 289-300.
Pages are clean and with only light wear. Three staples reinforce the binding.
Said to be the first appearance of this document in book form. The Constitution is introduced as follows, "Articles of the new Constitution of the United states of America, entered into by a Convention of all States held a New York, and transmitted to Congress for their Approbation by General Washington, President of the Convention, on the 17th September 1787. Initially, Dodsley's Annual Registers were published during the year following the year of events, however at times publication was delayed up to three years.
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23. [HISTORY] Roosevelt, Theodore. One of Theodore Roosevelt’s Last Signed Letters. New York, 1919. Price: US$ 2,000.00 Sold
Theodore Roosevelt signed this typed letter on 3 January 1919, three days before his death in the early morning of 6 January 1919.
The short letter, on Kansas City Star letterhead, is to the father of Major Clyde E. Winterton expressing appreciation for sharing a letter from his son that described combat in the final days of World War One during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Perhaps, Roosevelt's response was so brief as a result of his extreme emotional distress over the loss of his son, Quentin, in the war. The letter has been trimmed at the margins. An accompanying newspaper clipping notes that this letter from Roosevelt was one of the last that he wrote.
A transcript of the letter that Winterton's father sent to Roosevelt is also included.
This letter was found laid in to a scrapbook kept by Winterton. The scrapbook is being sold separately.
Bookseller Inventory # 007821
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24. [HISTORY] Smith, William. A Sermon on the Present Situation of American Affairs. Preached in Christ-Church, June 23, 1775. At the Request of the Officers of the Third Battalion of the City of Philadelphia, and District of Southwark. James Humphreys, Junior: Philadelphia, 1775. Price: US$ 750.00
Octavo. Complete. 4 un-numbered pages including the title, iv preface pages, 32 text pages. Very attractive modern leather binding with gilt lettering.
The pages have been professionally cleaned and restored with one skillfully attached short facsimile paragraph and the loss of a few letters on the title page.
This important sermon created an uproar both in the American colonies and in Great Britain when it was first preached and published in Philadelphia shortly after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Although in it, the pastor, William Smith, lamented British measures taken against the colonies, he also made clear that he believed the pursuit of independence was foolish and that all should work to repair relations and restore harmony.
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25. [HISTORY] Spanish-American War Photograph Album - New York Volunteers. 1898. Price: US$ 850.00
Photograph album with 22 vernacular photos (all but the cover photograph are approximately 3" x 4") documenting military camp life during the Spanish-American War. The photographs appear to be of the 1st Regiment Infantry New York Volunteers as "NY" patches and large “1” pins can be seen on the shoulders and collars of some uniforms. The 1st NY was the only New York Regiment to deploy overseas during the war. After mustering at Camp Black, it railed west to San Francisco, where it awaited transport at Camp Merritt. It arrived in Honolulu in September and remained there until mustered out of federal service in December. Photographs show camp scenes, officer groupings, the unit colors, a review, a mess tent, possibly a medical tent, and a ubiquitous blanket toss scene. There are two photographs of Eads Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi at St. Louis and one photograph that may show soldiers waiting inside the San Francisco Ferry Terminal which was under construction at the time. That photograph includes a Buffalo Soldier dressed in a Regular Army khaki uniform standing apart from the group. Three of the four black regiments deployed to the Philippines after first serving in Cuba; perhaps this image shows the units crossing paths in San Francisco in 1899. Quite scarce.
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26. [HISTORY] Stanbo, Lieutenant D. B. A.E.F. in Siberia Letter - U.S. Officer in Command of Cossacks. Krasnaya Rechka, Siberia, 1919. Price: US$ 950.00 Sold
Two letters (dated Feb 6 and Feb 17, 1919) and their covers (postmarked Feb 16 and Feb 22, 1919) from Lieutenant D. B. Stanbro, an officer in Company E, 27th Infantry Regiment stationed at Krasnaya Rechka, Siberia. Company E managed a prisoner of war camp housing 2000 Austrian and German captives.
On January 27, a band of over 400 Cossacks fighting for Kolchak's White Russian Army and long terrified of their bloodthirsty commander, Ivan Kalmykof, approached the 27th's Headquarters at Habarovsk and requested protection from the Americans. Despite thinly veiled threats from Kalmykof and vehement military and diplomatic objections by Japan (Kalmykof's de facto employer), the 27th's commander, Colonel Henry D. Styer, granted the mutinous Cossacks asylum. After the rebellious Cossacks were disarmed, Styer sent them to the prison at Krasnaya Rechka for protection. As Lieutenant Stanbro notes in his letters, while there, they fell under his direct command:
"I am now in command of 442 Cossacks, who turned themselves over to us for protection. They mutinied last week from Kalmykov, the Cossack Ataman of the Ussuri Province. . . . The officers now call me Ataman, which is the Cossack term for the leader of the province, and it has become quite a standing joke. I have a little Cossack pony at my disposal, and, altho it is rater brisk riding, have been out a few times. The Cossacks, themselves, range all the way from 16 to 50 years of age. . . . Quite a few of them are veterans of the Eastern front, and the leader of the mutiny, a "non-com", was a war prisoner in Germany for a year- and-a-half. . . . They are a cheerful lot and often sing their folk songs while they ride. Of course, thru lack of material and hard wear, their uniforms do not put up a good appearance. They wear the curly hat, grayish coat with epaulets, yellow for cavalry, red - artillery; blue pants with braod stripes down the side either yellow or red, high Russian boots; and carry a sabre. . . . They are fine horsemen. . . . [T]he Cossacks are getting along famously and are proving to be good and eager workers. They are all just overgrown boys, and have lots 'pep.' It is a pleasure to work with them. . . . Am sorry that I cannot tell you more about the Cossack trouble, but the Censorship is still active on such matters."
Eventually, Kalmykof and his part of the White Army moved on, and the Cossacks under Stanbro's control returned to their homes.
Truly an important and unique piece of American military history documenting a little known, but important, episode in a little known theater of World War I.
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27. [HISTORY] Winterer, Colonel Clyde E. Mexican Expedition and World War One Scrapbook. New Jersey, 1916. Price: US$ 1000.00 Sold
Quarto. Fascinating scrapbook about Colonel Clyde E. Winterton of the New Jersey National Guard. The scrapbook is in an old business journal and contains 57 pages of documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, and ephemera that cover his service during the Mexican Expedition (sometimes referred to as the Punitive Expedition or the Pancho Villa Expedition) of 1916 and later as a member of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I.
The album includes
• Several photos and real photo postcards of the Mexican Expedition, Camp McClellan Alabama, and France, as well as a nice three-panel panorama postcard of Bisbee Arizona, • A letter to Winterton's parents from his brigade commander ensuring them that their son's court-martial (for saying insulting things about the Commanding General of the 29th Division while off-duty) would not affect his future service, • Thanksgiving Dinner menus for the 113th Infantry Regiment (part of the 29th Division), • Winterton's orders assuming command of a New Jersey Armory Company, • An official "Safe Arrival" postcard notifying Winterton's parents that he had arrived in France, • A telegram to Winterton's father notifying him that Winterton had been wounded, • An elaborate form letter signed by the governor of New Jersey (Walter Evans Edge) expressing concern about Winterton's wounds, • A letter of thanks from Governor Edge congratulating Winterton's father on the meritorious service of his son, and much more.
Many of the newspaper clippings concern Winterton's exemplary service as an acting battalion commander in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during the final days of the war for which he received a battlefield promotion to Major, a divisional citation, and the French Croix de Guerre.
A YMCA songbook and two clippings which had become loose have been affixed to a blank page using archival adhesive.
(A letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Winterer's father that was originally laid in this scrapbook is being sold separately.)
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28. [ILLUSTRATORS] Nicholson, William. An Alphabet. R. H. Russell: New York, 1898.
Price: US$ 1,000.00 Sold
Duodecimo. A nice example of Nicholson's classic alphabet book with all 26 plates.
Intact hinges. Clean pages; appears that several may have been reattached. No protective tissues. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Light wear to cloth spine. Cover has some soiling and edge wear.
Probably the most widely admired collection of Art Nouveau poster style lithographs.
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29. [ILLUSTRATORS] Saunders, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1925. First edition. Price: US$ 1,250.00 Sold
Folio. Hardcover.
Very nice example of a Parrish classic. Sound binding with sound hinges. Bright and clean with only some light wear and occasional faint finger smudge. However, two small scuffs; one on the rear endpaper and one on the plate at page 27, so . . . priced accordingly.
Bookseller Inventory # 007772
30. [MAPS] Blunt, Edmund. The Coast of the United States of North Image available upon America, from New York to St. Augustine drawn and regulated according request. to the Latest Surveys and Astronomical Observations by Edmund Blunt. E. & G. W. Blunt: New York, 1844. Price: US$ 1,800.00 Sold
Approximately 27" x 38". In a 30" x 42" wood frame. (Will be shipped in frame.)
Much cleaner than often found and without and extraneous navigational markings. Some marginal soiling and three spots near Albemarle Sound. Not examined out of frame.
Although the title references St. Augustine, the southern boundary of this chart ends a Pamlico Sound. Edmund Blunt and his sons were the preeminent American hydrographers throughout the first half of Read’Em Again Books – Kurt Sanftleben
the 19 century. This chart was first produced in 1827 and updated several times: 1837, 1838, 1851, and 1856 per Guthorn. Guthorn does not list this 1844 printing. The chart is centered on the Chesapeake Bay and provides a detailed pre-U.S. Coast Survey rendering of the eastern coast of the United States including Long Island, the New Jersey coast, Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico Sound. Details include depth soundings and lighthouse information. The locations of lighthouses are highlighted with small dots of red ink.
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31. [MAPS] Brun, Giovanni (engraver). Carte Reduite des Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique Septentrionale contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey, la Pen-sylvanie, le Mary-land, la Virginie, la Caroline Septentrionale, la Caroline Meridionale et la Georgie.... Antoine De Sartine, Departemente De la Marine: Paris, 1778. Price: US$ 1,800.00 Sold
Approximately 18" x 35".
Neatly mended split along the lower half of the centerfold and well-done small repairs in several spots and along the margin. Some soiling on the reverse and backed with thin paper. Very attractive.
This important Revolutionary War chart was prepared for the French maritime atlas Neptune Americo- Septentrional, but also issued separately. No doubt that other copies of this chart were used by the French fleet during their famous blockade of the Chesapeake that secured Washington's defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The chart ranges from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia southward to the St. Johns River in what today is Florida and contains extensive details, especially in the Chesapeake Bay region. Additionally, it provides considerable inland details (roads, tribes, towns, mountains rivers, etc.) as far north as Fort Necessity and as far west as the Ohio River.
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32. [MAPS] Jansson, Jan. Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis, Interjacentinumq[ue] Regionum Nova Discriptio. Gerardum Valk and Petrum Schenk: Amsterdam, circq 1695. Price: US$ 1300.00 Sold
Double-page hand-colored map. Map is approximately 19" x 15"; the sheet is approximately 24" x 20.5".
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Minor offestting of color in the Atlantic Ocean. Tiny pinhole in the lower left corner above the "N" in orientalis.
This map is a re-issue of Jan Jansson's map of southern Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, which was first printed in 1621. Jansson's map was, in turn, a very close copy of Willem Blaeu's identically named map, which was published in 1620. This edition shows correctly labeled latitudes and longitudes, French and British coats of arms in their countries' claimed territories, and one of the first identifications of Newport News. There are three imaginary inland lakes labeled:
• Lacus aqua dulcis adeo magnus ut ex una ripa conspici altara non posit (A freshwater lake so large one shore cannot be seen from the opposite side); • In hoc lacu Indigenae argenti grana inveniunt (In this lake, natives find grains of silver); and • Lacus et insula sarrope, abundat optimus fruct (There is abundant fruit at Lake Sarrope and island.)
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33. [MAPS] Map of Cambridge in the Vicinity of Harvard College 1899- 1900. Engineering Department, Lawrence Scientific School: Cambridge, 1900. Price: US$ 300.00
Two maps on one sheet: Map of Cambridge in the Vicinity of Harvard College plus Harvard University, Cambridge Mass on the reverse.
Sheet is approximately 16.5" x 14.25".
Minor wear. Quarter-folds with short splits at the margins.
The Map of Cambridge shows the location of campus buildings plus the residences of the school's administrators and faculty members (including the home of President C.W. Eliot), which can be found using the marginal "Key." The Harvard University map shows an enlargement of the central campus with names attached to the buildings.
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34. [MASONIC] Masonic Fold-Over Novelty Postcard. Livermore and Knight (probably): Providence, 1903. Price: US$ 300.00
A scarce fold-over novelty postcard, probably published by Livermore and Knight.
Very light wear including the bull's tail and farmer's hand. Franked with Scott #300 with a 1905 Buffalo, NY postmark. An offset postmark runs along the top of the farmer segment of the card. Read’Em Again Books – Kurt Sanftleben
When folded, the card pictures a farmer clasping a bull's tail as its right rear hoof kicks him in the stomach. Inside, the card contains a lengthy, detailed, and customized invitation, continuing the bull's tail theme, for members of the Zuleika Grotto to attend a special monthly meeting that would be attended by the Grand Monarch, Gover W. Wende. Members were encouraged to "bring at least one victim with you. Brush your fez, . . . stay late, eat, drink and be hilarious."
The Grotto, formally known as The Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, is an appendant Masonic organization, similar to, but much smaller than the Shriners.
Bookseller Inventory # 007833
35. [MUSIC] Converse, Frank. Frank B. Converse's Banjo Instructor, without a Master: Containing a Choice Collection of Banjo Solos, Jigs, Songs, Reels, Walk Arounds, etc., Progressively Arranged, and Plainly Explained; Enabling the Learner to Become a Proficient Banjoist. . . . Dick & Fitzgerald: New York, 1865. First thus. Price: US$ 600.00
Sextodecimo. Complete; 96 numbered pages with advertising sections in front and rear. Cover illustration shows an angel playing a banjo. 1865 copyright date. It appears to be a major revision of "Frank B. Converse's New and Complete Method for the Banjo with or without a Master,” which was published in 1865, although this book is in a different format and only about half of the tunes are the same. The list of advertisements on the rear cover includes "The Banjo, and How to Play It," which was published in 1872 and appears to be a companion to this edition.
Sound binding. Clean pages with very slight discoloration along the margin of two leaves. Front illustration has only a little edge wear and light soiling. Back cover has a large ink stain. Spine is present; gilt lettering has faded.
The book begins with a brief summary of music theory and instructions for holding and tuning a banjo. Music is shown in blocks of two measures followed by detailed playing instructions. Songs include Arkansas Traveler, O Susanna, O'Flarharty's Wake, Yankee Doodle, and more.
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36. [NATURAL HISTORY] Studer, Jacob H. The Birds of North America: One Hundred and Nineteen Artistic Colored Plates . . . Drawn and Colored from Nature . . . . [Illustrated by Theodore Jasper.] The Natural Science Association of America: New York, 1895. Price: US$ 950.00 Sold Folio. Complete single volume edition with both text and plates. 182 pages plus119 color plates and index. Half-leather with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt.
Contemporary re-backing with half of the original spine and matching burgundy leather. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages and plates. No water stains, library markings, writing, loose leaves, torn pages, or other similar problems.
First published in 1878 and very popular from the beginning, Studer's Birds is one of the best large North American bird books and has been called "the poor man's Audubon."
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37. [OCCULT] Godwin, William. Lives of the Necromancers: or, an Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom has been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power. Frederick J. Mason: London, 1834. First Edition.
Price: US$ 575.00 Sold
Octavo. Complete with xx introductory pages, 465 text pages, (1) erratta page, and (2) blank pages. Original brown half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering.
Sound binding; front hinge just starting to split. Clean pages; pencil note on page xiii. Minor wear to cover.
Godwin's last work. A straight-forward examination of the occult that is loaded with arcane information about necromancers, witchcraft, vampires, magicians, werewolves, and the black arts. It is said to have provided background to his daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, for her creation of the character, Victor Frankenstein. See Coumont G44.1.
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38. [RELIGION] Pardo, Andres (director of the book). El Libro Del Culto a La Virgen (Book of the Devotions to the Virgin Mary). Editorial Alfredo Ortells, S.L.: Valencia, Spain, 1998. First edition. Price: US$ 300.00
Quarto. 1405 pages. Two-tone blue leather cover with gilt decoration and lettering. Brass corner guards. All edges gilt. Color illustrations throughout. In Spanish.
Would be like new but for a light crease to the front free endpaper and a gift inscription on the title page.
A huge compilation of classic literary and artistic works honoring the Virgin Mary. "This book contains a careful selection of the best Marian texts from the gospel to this day. In a sense, it is a historical overview of important fragments of Mariology, Marian spirituality, and liturgy. Alongside texts of the Fathers of the Church to, the Saints and the Popes, are also highlights of beautiful hymns, poems, and exaltations of theologians, thinkers and writers."
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39. [SCIENCE & MEDICINE] Paine, M. K. Green Mountain Balm of Gilead and Cedar Plaster - Broadside. Forbes & Co.: Boston, 1868. Price: US$ 160.00 Sold
Image is approximately 13" x 17.5"; sheet is approximately 15" x 20.5". Image of the "Green Mountain Boys Gathering Materials for Paine's Celebrated Green Mountain Balm of Gilead and Cedar Plaster" shows workers notching trees to collect sap, operating a still and filling a barrel. Text reads, "Universally acknowledged to be the best Plaster ever known. Compounded from the choicest Gum Resins of the Green Mountain State. Consisting of Balm of Gilead, Cedar, Hemlock, Spruce, Fir & etc., so combined as to produce a healthy counter irritant by dissipating soreness and extracting the coagulated poisonous impurities of the system. It is unequalled in removing pain, internal inflammation, curing lameness, cramp, pains in the side, rheumatism, weak and lame backs, old sores, boils, corns, freezes, fresh wounds, burns, scalds, cracked hands and occasional sores of most kinds. Its medical properties and remedial action are immeasurably greater than those of any other plaster in use-no family should be without it. The price has been placed within reach of all. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Try it, only 25 cents per roll. Manufactured and sold Wholesale and Retail by M. K. Paine, Windsor, Vermont, Druggist & Apothecary. Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1868 by M.K. Paine. . . . Also signed 'Forbes & Co. Litho', 159 Washington Street, Boston."
Almost no wear; just a few tiny spots of toning.
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40. [SCIENCE & MEDICINE] Dr. Leonard Rothstein (assembler). Collection of 138 patent medicine and drug store labels. Circa 1900.
Price: US$ 425.00 Sold
The labels appear to be from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Said to be one volume from the Dr. Leonard Rothstein Medical Ephemera Collection.
Bookseller Inventory # 007865
41. [SCOUTING] Baden-Powell, Bt. Colonel R. S. S. Aids to Scouting for N.- C.Os & Men. Gale & Polden: London, (1899). First edition. Price: US$ 1,000.00 Sold
Trigesimo-secundo. Complete. 138 pages. Flexible red cloth covers. Two leaves of advertisements on pink paper; advertisements also inside the front and rear cover. Tight binding. Small, embossed bookstore stamp on rear cover.
Light wear. Clean pages with infrequent, small spots of light foxing. Both the cover and title page identify Baden-Powell's rank as Brevet Colonel, and there is no melodramic "through the Boer lines" statement on the reverse of the title page. (That statement appears in subsequent printings of the first edition as well as follow-on editions where Baden-Powell's rank is identified as Major General.)
This is the grandfather of all Scouting manuals; a summary of Baden-Powell's thoughts on military scouting, spirited out of Maefking during the Boer War and published in England. Upon his return, Baden-Powell found that the book had become a popular guide for teachers and youth leaders. He rewrote the book especially for this audience, and it was re-published as "Scouting for Boys" in 1908.
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42. [SCOUTING] Beard, Daniel Carter. Small Archive Documenting Camp- life at the Dan Beard Camp, Boys Scout Troop 1 in Pike County, Pennsylvania, 1936-1938. Price: US$ 4,500.00
Scarce collection of memorabilia and ephemera from Daniel Carter Beard's summer camp. Beard, one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America built the camp on the site of his hunting lodge, which was erected in 1883. He operated the camp from the 1920s until 1939.
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for the Sons of Daniel Boone, however campers also earned Scouting rank and merit badges as the campers formed Pike County, Pennsylvania BSA Troop #1. The collection includes 1) an 8" x 10" photograph of Beard in uniform signed "Dan Beard," 2) a typed letter on official, illustrated Boy Scouts of America letterhead signed "Daniel C. Beard," 3) five multi-color camp award certificates signed "Daniel C. Beard," 4) a number of official camp letters and records regarding one of the campers, Courtland Brown, 5) four American Red Cross first aid and life saving cards awarded to Courtland Brown at the Dan Beard Camp, 6) two 8" x 10" photographs of campers, one showing them in formation and one showing them engaged in craft activities, 7) four 3.5" x 6" photographs of campers and their tents, 8) a beaded "buckskin badge" totem, 9) two postcards of Camp Lenape, which I believe succeeded the Dan Beard Camp after it closed, and 10) newspaper articles regarding Beard's 88th birthday, his death, and his funeral.
All of the photographs, signed letter, certificates, and postcards are in very nice shape. Some of the other documents have marginal insect predation. The certificates and camp photographs have scrapbook page remnants on the reverse.
Bookseller Inventory # 007860
43. [SCOUTING] [BSA Editorial Board and Various Experts]. The Official Handbook for Boys. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Published for the Boy Scouts of America By Doubleday, Page & Company. Printed at Country Life Press: New York, 1911. Price: US$ 1,000.00
Octavo. Scarce official hardcover second printing of the first edition of the Boy Scouts Handbook. Photo frontispiece with Shredded Wheat advertisement on reverse followed by 16 (xvi) introductory pages, 404 text pages, and [24] unnumbered advertising pages in rear. (The first printing has only 400 text pages.)
Sound binding; front hinge intact; rear hinge cracked. Clean pages with generally light wear. Closed tear one leaf. Edge wear and corner folds to front free endpaper and frontispiece. Cover shows some wear and soiling. Legible lettering and decoration on both spine and front cover.
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44. [SHEET MUSIC] Christy, Edwin P. (Arranger). Lilly of the Valley. Jaques and Brother: New York, 1847. Price: US$ 350.00
Folio. Complete with 5 numbered pages. Wonderful b/w cover illustration with five vignettes; one shows Edwin Christy and the others show the minstrels performing as both men and women in blackface. Four blackface cherubs decorate the cover as well.
Clean pages. Light soiling to front cover. Once bound, so slightly trimmed. hristy's Minstrels invented the standard minstrel line with the interlocutor in the middle and Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones on the ends and were the most popular minstrel group of their day. "The Christy Minstrels . . . give the most decidedly original exhibition that we have seen, and accomplish what is the legitimate object of their costumes and colored faces, namely, the personation of the witty negro. In consideration of these things, we must express our preference for the Christy Minstrels. . . . We listen and laugh, and have a desire to go again, and again. And in this feeling, we think the great majority of the people are with us." The Spirit of the Times, 16 October 1847.
Bookseller Inventory # 007819
45. [SPORTS] A Gentleman of Philadelphia County [Jesse Y. Kester]. The American Shooter's Manual, Comprising, Such Plain and Simple Rules, as are Necessary to Introduce the inexperienced into a Full Knowledge of all that Related to the Dog, and the Correct Use of the Gun; Also a Description of the Game of this Country. Illustrated by F. Kearny. Carey, Lea & Carey: Philadelphia, 1827. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Price: US$ 1,000.00 Duodecimo. Complete with 249 pages, three etched plates (including frontispiece), a sportsman's journal form, an errata sheet, and advertisements (one with engraved hunting vignette). The word "ribbon" appears on line 19 of page 235.
Sound binding. Clean pages. Some foxing to the front endpapers. Very light foxing to the plates. Owners name stamped inside front cover. Minor rubbing to cover; some soiling and wear.
The second hunting/sporting book published in America, and the first written by an American.
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46. [SPORTS] Chadwick, Henry (editor). Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide . . . 1898. American Sports Publishing Co.: New York, 1898. Price: US$ 450.00 Sold Sextodecimo. Softcover. 204 text pages followed by a facsimile letter from the President of the National League and American Association, a 2-page schedule table for 1898, and a 24-page illustrated advertising section. 39 photo-pages including the frontispiece, which has a tiny chip in one margin.
The original color cover, including the spine, is in nice shape with some edge chipping. Pages are clean and supple.
Text features a short history of the game, detailed summary of all leagues' 1897 seasons, the official rules of baseball, and a tribute to Cap Anson (with a full page photo) who retired the year before. Most of the other photo-pages are team shots, however there is one photo-page that features the best players of 1897 including Wee Willie Keeler.
I have other early Spalding Base Ball Guides.
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47. [SPORTS] Del Ruth, Roy. The Babe Ruth Story - Movie Press Book. Irv Dietz: Los Angeles, 1948. Price: US$ 200.00 Sold
Quarto. Softcover. Complete. 16 un-numbered pages including the cover. Sound stapled binding.
Clean with only a bit of wear along the spine.
Issued to publicize the Allied Arts motion picture starring William Bendix that was rushed into production while Babe Ruth was still alive. Photographs throughout including one of Ruth showing Bendix how to hold a baseball bat. Other photos include Bendix receiving instruction from a number of major leaguers, Babe visiting the movie studio in Hollywood, Bendix during a makeup session, and many, many scenes from the film. Although critically panned as one of the worst sports bio-pics ever made, it remains a fan favorite in part due to a number of unintentionally funny scenes, e.g., the grossly exaggerated and maudlinized version of Ruth's home run for Johnny Sylvester and the similarly embellished final scene where a youthful chorus outside the Babe's hospital window sings a beautiful dirge-like version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Bookseller Inventory # 007842
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48. [SPORTS] Patterson, Arthur E. Yankees Sketch Book 1950. Jay Publishing: New York, 1950. Price: US$ 300.00 Sold
Quarto. Softcover. Sound stapled binding.
Clean pages. Cover has some light wear and soiling.
The first in a long-running series of Yankee year books. Cover shows the famous hat and bat logo with all of the Yankee's championship pennants in the background. Complete with great photos of Casey Stengel, Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, and the rest of the team. Includes the sections on the Spring Roster, Highlights of 1949, a team photo of "Baseball's Fightingest Club," Yankee records, World Series triumphs, Ruth & Gehrig, Yankee history, and much more.
Bookseller Inventory # 007843
49. [TRAVEL] Hotel Register for "The Uplands". Bethlehem, New Hampshire, 1896.
Price: US$ 550.00
Folio. Half-leather.
Sound binding. Generally clean pages; some of the advertising pages have inkspots (they served as blotters for the registration pages) and edge wear. The cover shows
some wear, heaviest at the spine ends. The gilt lettering and ruling is in nice shape.
Turn-of-the-century guest register for one of the Grand Hotels of the White Mountains. The Uplands was built by the hotel magnate, Frank H. Abbott, in 1880. Entries are from June, 1896 to October, 1897. I haven't checked signatures but there could well be some important politicians, business tycoons, actors, inventors, sports figures, or other celebrities as many summered in the mountains to beat city heat, pollution, and allergens. The register ("Manufactured by The Maynard-Gouge Co., . . . Worcester, Mass.') alternates advertising pages with pre-printed registration forms. A 24-page "American Hotel Guide" published for the Hotel Register Publishers Association by the James T. Hair Company of Chicago precedes the registration pages.
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50. [VALENTINES] Civil War Patriotic Movable Tent Valentine with Its Original Patriotic Envelope. 1862. Price: US$ 975.00
Often referred to as "The Soldier's Farewell," this set of cover and movable card is the second hardest Civil War patriotic to find and is identified as "Extremely Rare" in Walcott (see number 2380).
Both card and cover are unused. The card is clean with some light edge wear and one light dot of foxing. The envelope has some light soiling and is missing the top flap and one side flap.
The valentine features a flag draped tent with movable flaps that open to reveal a soldier writing a letter to his sweetheart at home.
Bookseller Inventory # 007739