Siegl, Nicholas (Translator) a Fable of Bidpai West Burke, VT: the Janus Press, 1974

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Maine residents subject to 5% State Sales Tax. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • AMERICAN HISTORY Diary of Young Woman on Martha's Vineyard, 1914 Martha’s Vineyard, 1914. First Edition. Small leather diary, commercially produced in full leather with "A Line A Day" gold embossed on cover, wear and scuffing. Dated in the diary maker's hand 1914 on p. 1, January 1. Very Good. Full Leather. Diary covers the year 1914 with entries for every day. Daily life in 1914 for a woman who was 24 years old when she began the diary, turning 25 on February 25 and so noted in her entry. Full of visits with friends, trips to Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury, only thing missing is the name or address of the young woman who wrote it. (#25721) $200.00 Maine World War II Sketchbook First Edition. Small spiral bound "Artcraft Sketchbook" with brown cardboard covers. Has a new mylar dust jacket and housed in a custom clamshell box built by bookseller's in-house bindery. Fine. Spiral Bound. Note taped to verso of front cover signed Florence Phinney but no record of that name associated with a cartoonist. An exquisite collection of fifteen original pencil drawings with some colored pencil work from the World War II era depicting life on the home front. This unknown artist was very likely a professional as each drawing is exceptional and very humorous. (#19738) $2,000.00 Johnston, William G. Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by Wm. G. Johnston, A Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849 Pittsburgh, PA: Privately Printed, 1892. First Edition. 390 pp. 8vo. 16 illustrations (14 illustrations listed at p. 6 as well as additional portrait & map). Green cloth boards with gold embossed "1849" in gold diamond on cover board, gold titling to spine. Minor wear to boards, bumping to corners, light fraying to head and foot of spine. Brown floral patterned endpapers. Very light foxing to preliminary pages. Included is the 1891 photographic portrait of Johnston taken in San Francisco in 1891 as well as the large folding map detailing Johnston's party's travels from Independence, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The map is actually two maps, one in the upper right corner drawn by Johnston details the "United States West of the Mississippi River Showing Political Divisions in 1849" the larger map shows their route overlaid on the various states as established in December 1893 when this map was produced by Johnston that were not in existence, except for California and Texas, in 1849. Map signed, "Stewart Johnston Del., 1893." (Streeter Sale 3198, Mintz 261). Laid in is a card, signed by Johnston, presenting the volume to James H. Willock. Very Good. Hardcover. In important, and readable, chronicle of one of the early overland journeys to California. According to Mintz, the book was published in an edition of only 50 copies, in some instances missing the photograph of Johnston in 1891 and the map at rear. This edition has both those items and the presentation card to Willock. Willock was a prominent banker and businessman in Pittsburgh and was named President of the Second National Bank of Pittsburgh in 1888. Somewhat notoriously, Willock was a charter member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was the owner of the South Fork Dam which failed on May 31, 1889, resulting in the infamous Johnstown Flood and a death toll of approximately 2,200 people individuals downstream. (#25746) $3,250.00 Rollin, Jean (Editor); Grand, Albert (Editor) France Speaks! A Weekly Correspondence on Democratic France (46 Issues) New York, 1941. First Edition. A collection of typed, mimeographed newsletters printed recto only, collected in a card stock binder with metal tabs. A local New York publication that was produced on a somewhat weekly basis distributing information on what was occurring in France during the Nazi occupation and promoting the Free French movement in the United States. Includes news reported from France regarding the Free French movement, ongoing trials conducted by the Vichy, the Communist Movement in France during occupation. There are a number of articles on Leon Blum, three-time Prime Minister of France, socialist, and Jew who refused to leave France during the Nazi occupation. Article by Blum entitled, "Blum Answers His Accusers" in the February 20, 1942, issue. Blum was put on trial at the Riom Trial on which there are two reports. The Germans canceled the trial and Blum spent time in the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau and was freed by Allied troops in 1945. Also occasional poems, one by Jean Rollin in French. Issue #21 from February 2, 1942, reprints a letter from the Vichy to local administrators requesting compliance with the "regulations edicted against the Jews." Chilling. France Speaks! appears to have ceased publication with Vol. 1, Number 51 on June 5, 1943. No subsequent issues found. A search of OCLC also reveals only five physical copies in institutional holdings, one microfilmed version, and one digital. This is a collection of issues 1-51 with five (5) missing, numbers 4, 8, 12, 14, and 15. We are happy to provide a full listing of issues and pages per issue along with highlighted articles upon request. Very Good. Card Stock Binder. This copy is inscribed to the daughter of Winthrop W. Aldrich in French and dated either Thursday, June 29, 1946 or Thursday, June 29, 1966, New York, on verso of the first issue's title page. The mystery is that the decade is hard to read and neither date was a Thursday; it is also inscribed to "Miss Aldrich," her maiden name. By 1966 Miss Aldrich was married with three children. Winthrop W. Aldrich was Chairman of Chase National Bank and a considerable business and social force in New York during the 1930s and 1940s. He was appointed by President Eisenhower as Ambassador to England from 1953, a role in which he served through 1957. Aldrich was the son of Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and the brother of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The 1946 date and inscription to his daughter may make more sense given Aldrich's influence in New York and in international circles during and immediately following the war. Inscription: "To Miss Mary Aldrich so understanding of the drama of France because so American. In gratitude for her exquisite kindness and understanding that she does so well with such charm and grace given to those French people who had the privilege to have been the beneficiaries. One of the resistants." Signature indecipherable and does not come close to the name of either editor. (#24016) $2,750.00 ARCHITECTURE Briarcliff Lodge Photograph Album, 1912 + Photograph of Thomas Edison and Charles Steinmetz at Briarcliff Lodge, 1909 (Briarcliff Manor, New York) Briarcliff Manor, NY: Self Published, 1912. First Edition. Small oblong 8vo photo album. 18 black & white photographs of Briarcliff Lodge in 1912. Brown paper covered wraps with black interior pages, each page cut with a window for displaying the photograph. Attached to the front pastedown is a handwritten key to each photograph, "Western view of the Hotel," "View from my window," "Mr. Law's fine gate," "Episcopal Church," etc. Album in exceptional condition with photographs in fine condition with no trimming or writing. Each photograph measures 3-3/8" x 5-5/8". Album measures 5/1/2" x 8/1/4". Small paper tag affixed to rear pastedown indicates that the album is "Compliments of Chas. A. Schieren" Includes one photograph, laid in, of Thomas Edison and Charles Steinmetz conferring at a meeting at Briarcliff Lodge in 1909. Fine. Wraps. This small photo album appears to have been a souvenir album produced on behalf of Charles A Schieren, founder of the Charles A. Schieren Co., makers of leather belting, and Mayor of Brooklyn from 1892-1894. This album may have been made from photographs taken by Harrie Victor Schieren, son of Charles A. Schieren, who took over his father's business and was an active photographer, according to the obituary pasted to the rear pastedown. Fascinating documentation of Briarcliff Lodge, its architecture, and grounds. Built by Walter W. Law in 1902, designed by architect Guy King of Philadelphia in what has been referred to as "pseudo- Medieval" style, with grounds by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted's sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Briarcliff Lodge was the place to be seen on the Hudson River in the early 20th century. U.S. Olympic Swimming trials were held there in 1924, and also was reputed to be a training site for Olympic swimmer and actor Johnny Weismuller. The hotel began to decline during the depression and by the mid 1930s was being used as a Lodge in the summer months and Edgewood Park School during the school season.

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