THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
O'BRIEN, Tim Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the author. A superb book. Scratching to gilt on bulked fore-edge of text, otherwise about Fine- $313
- $313
SUN-UP and Other Poems
RIDGE, Lola Green boards with paper spine label. Ridge was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She was active in radical causes and was among those arrested for protesting against the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Her actions during the demonstration in front of the prison on the day Sacco and Vanzetti were executed were described by Katherine Anne Porter in her long essay, "The Never Ending Wrong." Peter Quartermain described her in the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY as "the nearest prototype in her time of the proletarian poet of class conflict, voicing social protest or revolutionary idealism." Pencil name dated 1920 on front endpaper; largely unopened. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper- $313
- $313
THE GHETTO and Other Poems
RIDGE, Lola Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Her scarce first book. Ridge was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She was active in radical causes and was among those arrested for protesting against the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Her actions during the demonstration in front of the prison on the day Sacco and Vanzetti were executed were described by Katherine Anne Porter in her long essay, "The Never Ending Wrong." Peter Quartermain described her in the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY as "the nearest prototype in her time of the proletarian poet of class conflict, voicing social protest or revolutionary idealism." Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper if there ever was one- $625
- $625
RED FLAG
RIDGE, Lola Orange and gold paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine with paper label. Includes poems saluting the Russian Revolution.Ridge was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She was active in radical causes and was among those arrested for protesting against the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Her actions during the demonstration in front of the prison on the day Sacco and Vanzetti were executed were described by Katherine Anne Porter in her long essay, "The Never Ending Wrong." Peter Quartermain described her in the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY as "the nearest prototype in her time of the proletarian poet of class conflict, voicing social protest or revolutionary idealism." Partly unopened. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper- $438
- $438
JULIA WARD HOWE 1819 – 1910
[HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered leather spine labels. Copy #236 of 450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a leaf of Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher, this example with 22 lines of over 100 words, apparently the first page of a speech she was giving to women on the subject of women's suffrage. In part: "But, when I am here to ask for justice to all the women of our community. They are not afraid of us, but of their sex in general." Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Owner's inscriptions on both front endpapers: "Elizabeth Walker Pontefract/from/Jean Charters Pontefract/June 1916." The Pontefracts were related to the Childs and Howe families by marriage; Thomas Marshall Howe, one of Pittsburgh's leading citizens of the late 19th century, was a distant cousin of Julia Ward Howe. Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Manuscript pages by Howe concerning women's rights are quite desirable. Spine labels a bit dried and with some cracking; light wear and darkening to the covers. About Very Good, lacking the dustwrappers and slipcase
THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE. September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness
ADDAMS, Jane Illustrated with drawings by Norah Hamilton and Morris Topchevsky. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'Compliments of the author'/Jane Addams/Hull-House/Chicago." Uncommon in dustwrapper. Jane Addams (1860-1935), American settlement house founder and social reformer, was born to a well-off family in Cedarsville, Illinois. Though she had hoped for a degree from Smith College, her father insisted she attend the Rockford Female Seminary. After graduation, she attended the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia but withdrew due to a chronic spinal illness. After a successful convalescence, she toured Europe in 1883 and 1887 where she was deeply affected by her experiences with the urban poor causing her to undertake a thorough study of the living conditions of the working poor. She vowed to create an American version of the settlement houses she had visited. In 1889, together with lifelong friend Helen Starr, she launched Hull House, a sanctuary offering physical, financial, medical, and legal protection to Chicago's urban underclass. By 1893 Addams had opened or inspired 40 other such local clubs, including nurseries, dispensaries and boarding houses, all based at Hull House and devoted to providing higher standards of care than had ever been offered to America's poor, predominantly female at this time. By the late 1890s Addams no longer had to self-fund her endeavors, but could depend on assistance from wealthy Chicago women. With such backing, Addams, along with Alice Hamilton, Julia Lathrop, and Edith and Grace Abbot, among others, effected not just change in their local community, but lobbied for legislative intervention. Due in large part to their efforts, Illinois passed its first factory inspection act in 1893 and Chicago established the first juvenile court in the United States in 1899; in addition, the succeeding years saw Hull House influence in political battles for child labor laws, limitation on working hours for women, improvement in welfare procedures, recognition of labor unions, protection of immigrants, compulsory school attendance, and industrial safety. Addams's battles occasioned opposition from conservative quarters, and her voluble opposition to the Great War won her no friends, but her local infamy was ultimately overwhelmed by her international reputation for pioneering good works. Addams's local community work led her into political activism on a national and even global scale: in 1909 she became the first female President of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections; in 1911, the first head of the National Federation of Settlements and Vice-President of the National American Women Suffrage Alliance (1922-14); and in 1912, a vocal member of the Roosevelt for President campaign. In 1915 Addams became Chairman of the Woman's Peace Party and President of the first Women's Peace Congress at the Hague; in 1919 she presided over the second Women's Peace Conference in Zurich, and remained its president until her death; and in 1920 she became a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union. During the following decade she pursued many of these causes with vigor and a degree of success. In 1931 Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in forming the first Women's Peace Party, along with Nicholas Murray Butler. Today the most widely-read of her copious publications are her two memoirs, TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE, published in 1910 and her most successful book then as it is now; and its less optimistic sequel, THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE, published in 1930. Slight offsetting to endpapers from dustwrapper. Bright, close to Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
SUMNER, Charles A 2-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on a 8-1/4" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper folded in half by Sumner to Rev. John L. Blake. Sumner tells Blake that he has only his own copy of his book--ORATIONS & SPEECHES OF CHARLES SUMNER--but that Blake can find a copy in New York. He congratulates Blake on the success of his book and concludes: "My father to whom you kindly refer died at Boston in April 1839. I was at the time in Rome." John Lauris Blake (17881857) was an American clergyman and bestselling author, best known for the GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Senator Charles Sumner, perhaps the most influential man in public life after Lincoln at the end of the Civil War, was a notable advocate for emancipation of the slaves and later for civil rights. He was severely beaten on the floor of the United States Senate by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina in retribution for Sumner's attack on Brooks's uncle, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act in his "Crime against Kansas" [May 19 and 20, 1856] speech. The beating nearly killed Sumner, and it took him several years to recover. The beating also contributed significantly to the country's polarization over the issue of slavery and has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the Civil War. Creases from folding; mounting strip on verso. Very Good
A YEAR OF CONSOLATION with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
BUTLER Mrs. [Fanny Kemble] Two volumes bound in one, publisher's black half morocco with matching corners. An account of the popular actress's year after leaving her husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who ultimately divorced her. A 2-3/8" x 3-1/2" albumen photograph of Kemble is pasted to the verso of the front blank, and tipped to the verso of the rear endpaper is an uncommon AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Kemble to "My dear young Lucy" on "the order of nature for a pretty young girl to be bestowing flowers on an elderly woman." Occasional light foxing; front hinge holding by one cord, joints rubbed. Very Good
HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET POLITIQUE DE LA PENSYLVANIE, ET DE L’ÉTABLISSEMENT DES QUAKERS DANS CETTE CONTRÉE
[ROUSSELOT de SURGY, Jacques Philibert] Duodecimo (3-3/4" x 6-1/2") bound in contemporary full calf with a gilt-decorated spine with raised bands and leather spine label, marbled endpapers and edges; xx, 372, [4], pages. Complete with half-title page and folding map of eastern Pennsylvania including portions of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Translated from the German, this work is based on that of the botanist Peter Kalm for the natural history and on the journey of Gottlieb Mittelberger for the part devoted to the Quakers. Several other works, in French and English, are mentioned as supplying information in the introduction. HOWES R-471; SABIN 73490. Contents clean; minor wear to joints. Near Fine
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN with THE JAPANESE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN
HEARN, Lafcadio [BISLAND, Elizabeth: editor] Two volumes in original green cloth with paper spine labels and extra labels tipped in at the rear. One of 200 large-paper copies with an ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAGE of Hearn's, in this case an excerpt from THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY. In full: "accomplishments made Busanshi suspect that she had been brought up in the court of some prince, or in the palace of some great lord. She displayed a perfect knowledge of the etiquette and the polite arts which are taught only to ladies of the highest rank; and she possessed astonishing skill in calligraphy, in painting, and in every kind of poetical composition. Busanshi presently fell in love with her, and thought only of how to please her. When scholar-friends or other visitors of importance came to the house, he would send." Touching inscription from a husband to his wife in the year of publication on the front endpaper; light wear to spine tips. Very Good, lacking as usual the dustwrappers and slipcase
THE UNCALLED
DUNBAR, Paul Laurence Decorated cloth. The First Issue binding with the author's name misspelled on the front cover. Dunbar's first novel, an exploration of the spiritual struggles of a white minister who had been abandoned as a child by his alcoholic father and raised by a virtuous white spinster. Very light, occasional foxing, heaviest to endpapers with smudges in the margins of a few pages; slightly cocked with minor rubbing to the spine edges. Near Fine
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Congress of the United States of America, in the Late War
PAINE, Thomas Small quarto (5" x 7-3/4") bound in original sheep with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; xii, 60, [2], 186, 41, [3], vi-vii, [2], 10-70, [2], 24, [2], 124, [2] pages. Contains 1. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and George Webster, 1791); 2. The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War (Albany: Printed & Sold, by Charles R. & George Webster, 1792); 3. Public Good: Being an Examination into the Claim of Virginia, to the Vacant Western Territory, and of the Right of the United States to the Same (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, [n.d.]). 4. Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, [n.d.]). 5. Letters, by the Author of Common Sense. First, to the Earl of Shelburne. Second, To Sir Guy Carlton. Third, To the Authors of "The Republican," a French Paper. Fourth, To the Abbe Syeyes (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, 1792). 6. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burkes Attack on the French Revolution. The Fourth American Edition (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and George Webster, [n.d.]). The first collected American edition of "The Crisis," the first time individual numbers were printed together in America. "Crisis" as issued with page 180 misnumbered 178 and Numbers 10 and 12 omitted, as the printers were unable to obtain a copy of the text. Of the articles in "The Crisis," only 5 were issued in pamphlet form, with the others appearing only in newspapers. After publishing articles numbered I-IX, Paine did not assign number X, though in its place he published "The Crisis Extraordinary", which was followed by number XI. He skipped number XII and called the final article in the series "The Last Crisis, Number XIII." Although 9 parts are listed on the general title page, 4 of them--the Letters in Section 5 above--are included as one part. HOWES P-34 states that the First Edition consists of 7 separately paginated sections totaling 517 pages, and the Second Edition consists of 9 sections totaling 623 pages. This copy has 9 sections totaling 517 pages. Signed on the title page by a listed subscriber, John Williams of Salem, in 1793, with an interesting small printed bookplate of the table of contents of the book. The first half of the "Rights of Man" is more browned than the rest of the book's text, but generally clean overall in a nice original binding with some loss at the spine tips, mainly the head, and minor worming to the front cover. Very Good to Near Fine
TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
FORD, Gerald R TYPED LETTER SIGNED "Jerry" on Office of the Minority Leader stationery to Paul Theis, Director of Public Relations for the Republican National Congressional Committee, expressing his appreciation for his work "in connection with our recent Congressional Leadership Briefings. This is a year when Republicans are all working together. As I go about the country talking to candidates and other concerned Americans, I find everywhere a reassuring spirit of responsibility and eagerness to participate in the process of constructive political change. I think the votes cast November 5 will be more than merely a protest. They will be a mandate for new Republican leadership in the White House and in the Congress, to get on with the urgent business of building a better America." Richard Nixon was elected president that election to his first term. After his vice-president, Spiro Agnew, resigned in disgrace in 1973, Ford was appointed vice-president. Light creases from mailing. Fine
THE STONES OF VENICE
RUSKIN, John Three large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") volumes in the publisher's brown blindstamped and gilt-decorated cloth. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the author at the end of the preface. Illustrated with 62 plates, many in color, and drawings in the text by the author. First published about 20 years before this attractive, SIGNED edition, it is one of the key texts of the aesthetic movement. Early bookplate of American architect Joseph Prince Loud, Architect (1865-1942) on the front pastedown of each volume. Contents fresh and clean; hinges sound, tightly bound. Cloth also bright and clean with some fraying along spine edges and tips. Near Fine set and increasingly uncommon as such
STEPHEN CRANE
BERRYMAN, John Berryman's critical biography of Crane, an important work in the study of the writer of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. Part of the American Men of Letters Series. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Ames W. Williams/with thanks for help/& regret that it's not/better/Sincerely/John Berryman/21 Nov 1950." Ames W. Williams was a lawyer, judge, and a great collector of Stephen Crane. He co-wrote the standard bibliography, and his collection now resides at Syracuse University. Berryman refers to Williams and his work on Crane four times in his notes. A fine association. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a lightly sunned spine
CROSS CREEK
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan In the first issue dustwrapper. Illustrations by Edward Shenton. "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Rawlings on the front blank: "For/H. E. DeCamp/ from/Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings/Cross Creek/February 1943." Additionally SIGNED by Robert Camp Jr., the dustwrapper artist, below his printed name at the bottom front flap of the dustwrapper, and on the half-title page by Norton Baskin (Rawlings's husband), Dessie Smith Prescott (her friend, Floridas first professional woman guide and the first female licensed pilot in the state), Idella Parker (her maid), and J. T. "Jake" Glisson (a confidante and protege of his neighbor, Rawlings, who encouraged him to write and draw. He was supposedly the model for Jody in THE YEARLING.) All the additional signatures were acquired by Philip S. May, Jr., son of Philip May Sr., Rawlings's attorney in the Cross Creek trials. The respective families developed a close, lasting relationship. Exceptional collection of autographs. Most of the silver on the spine still intact. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a closed tear and snag at the bottom front and a bit of edgewear
WALKING WITH THE WIND. A Memoir of the Movement
LEWIS, John with Michael D'Orso Sixth Printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Lewis on the front page with the publisher's logo: "To Zachary Beauchamp/With faith and hope,/Keep your Eyes on the/Prize./Best Wishes,/John Lewis/1-20-99." Fore-edge of bulked text with rather faint staining. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper
PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES (Number 21 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)
CARVER, Raymond Pictorial boards. Illustrated with block prints by Marcia/Maris. A short story, Carver's third book, preceded by two collections of poems; hence, his first book of fiction. Of only 75 numbered and hardbound copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered but designated as "Printer's Copy."
THE NOEL COWARD SONG BOOK
COWARD, Noel Cloth in dustwrapper (9" x 11-1/2"). With an Introduction and Annotations by Noel Coward. Frontispiece color portrait of Coward by Clemence Dane. Illustrated in color and black & white by Gladys Calthrop. INSCRIBED in Coward's hand on the title page to Ginette Spanier, director of the Paris fashion House of Balmain during the mid-20th century, and SIGNED with what seems to be a nickname: "For Ginnette[sic]/with my love as usual/Maivie[?]." Also inscribed below Coward's presentation in an unknown hand: "Ginette and Paul-Emile/with special &/unusual love/[?]." Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some chipping to the spine and rear
