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Williams, Tennessee [Williams III, Thomas Lanier]
The 1932 Savitar A History of the University of Missouri for the Year
1931-1932 [First Appearance of any Tennessee Williams Poem in book form --
and possibly the first appearance by him of any work in any published
book]; [Annual/Yearbook for the University of Missouri]

Columbia, MO``: University of Missouri, 1932. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $1,250. NOW $750. An overall Very Good + copy
of the first edition, first printing, of the Savitar, the 1931 -1932 Annual
(or Yearbook) for the University of Missouri, published in 1932. The volume
is in Very Good condition with a stamp and ownership signature to the front
pastedown and some rubbing and wear to the covers, but is easily in better
condition than the few other copies that we have seen over the past several
decades with pages (including the tissue guards) being bright and clean.
This unsophisticated volume contains seven (7) tissue guards, one located
prior to each "Book" within. Thomas Lanier Williams (generally known by his
pen name "Tennessee Williams") attended the University of Missouri from
1929 to 1931. While there, Williams joined the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
While he did not fit in well at his Fraternity, being a member of it led to
his obtaining the name by which he later came to fame as it was during his
time there that his fraternity brothers dubbed him "Tennessee" for his rich
southern drawl. His earliest writings named him as Thomas Lanier Williams,
but he published his later, and most famous, works under his "new" name
"Tennessee Williams". This issue of Savitar contains one of his earliest
appearances in print and the first of his Poems to be published in book
form and is (as far as we have been able to determine) his first published
Poem and the first publication of any work by him in book form. The Poem is
therein printed on page 249 under the title "Not Without Knowledge" (some
may identify the Poem as "The Kiss"). No other text is located on that
page. His Fraternity is featured on page 224 where he is named as "Thomas
L. Williams" of Saint Louis and the Class of 1933, but his image does not
appear. Under his Poem on page 249, he is identified as "Thomas Lanier
Williams", a member of the "Missouri Chapter of the College Poetry
Society." Thus we here have a quite scarce copy of one of the first
appearances of any work by renowned writer Tennessee Williams in book form
(and also perhaps the first appearance in any form of any published Poem by
him) issued by the institution where his famous name "Tennessee" was born
then not yet published. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Very good. Item #3424

*WAS LISTED AT: $1,250.00*

*NOW TEMPORARILY $350.00*


Lawrence, J.J.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MUSIC BOOK; Original Music Book of Confederate
Military Musician

No Publisher, No Date. No Edition. Wrappers. Confederate Manuscript
Military Music -- Among the Rarest Type of Confederate Manuscript Material:
A VERY GOOD ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC BOOK BELONGING TO CONFEDERATE DRUMMER
J.J. LAWRENCE OF COMPANY G [OF THE FIFTH TEXAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY] DURING
THE CIVIL WAR. The book measures approximately 6 and 5/16th inches by
approximately 3 and 9/16ths inches. The outer sides of the wrappers are in
marbled paper. Within are 40 pages with lines drawn to be used by the
musician to add notes for songs to be played by him. Nine of the pages have
been completed with song titles and notes. The remaining pages are blank,
presumably because of Lawrence's untimely early death. The musician would
add his own notes for songs to be played. The contemporary marbled wrappers
show some wrinkling, rubbing, staining, and edge wear. Within, the contents
are mildly foxed. A unique collection of songs, likely written down and
carried by J.J. Lawrence, a Texas Confederate drummer killed in action in
Virginia during the Civil War. There is a manuscript note on the inside
front wrapper of the volume, “Bass Drum Band Fifth Tex. V.I.” and J.J.
Lawrence is the only drummer listed in the roster of that regimental
company. Though musicians on both sides of the Civil War were largely kept
back from battle, Lawrence was killed at the Battle of Gaines Mill on June
27, 1862. If this was J.J. Lawrence manuscript music volume, and we think
that it was, his death in the early years of the conflict would account for
the fact that this music manuscript does not contain more songs, though all
forty pages of the text have staff lines drawn in manuscript for musical
notation. The nine songs that are written out include “The Bonnie Blue
Flag,” “Pepita Marsch,” “Walger[?],” two versions of a “Parade March,” and
four versions of “Quick Step.” Company G of the Fifth Texas Volunteer
Infantry, also known as the Milam County Greys, was organized in Cameron,
Texas on July 15, 1861. The regiment served as part of Hood’s Texas Brigade
in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. The Battle of Gaines
Mill, fought in Hanover County, Virginia, was an early Confederate victory,
though one in four Texas soldiers died in the battle, including Lawrence.
While this book contains only a small sampling of music, Confederate
manuscript music material is EXCEEDINGLY RARE to the Market. This volume,
likely created by a Texas Confederate drummer boy killed in action in
Virginia while serving in Hood’s Texas Brigade, is an important piece of
historical evidence of the conflict. A REMARKABLE SURVIVAL and EXCEEDINGLY
RARE. Very good. Item #3318

*WAS LISTED AT: $6,450.00*

*NOW TEMPORARILY $3,000.00*


Hale, Edward Everett, [BRAYMAN, GENERAL]
The Man Without a County, TOGETHER WITH THREE RELEVANT SIGNED MANUSCRIPT
LETTERS from HALE TO BRAYMAN together with ONE LETTER FROM GENERAL BRAYMAN
DICTATED AND SIGNED BY HIM FURTHER TOGETHER WITH TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED
BY BRAYMAN'S GRANDSON. A NUMBER OF THE LETTERS MENTION “The Man Without A
Country” MAKING THIS AN EXCELLENT AND EXCEEDINGLY RARE COLLECTION OF THE
FAMOUS STORY AND ASSOCIATED LETTERS

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Original
Wrappers and Letters. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition,
first printing, in the Publisher's original pink wrappers in NEAR FINE
CONDITION (showing wear to the spine -- including some splitting to the
lower spine and a tear to the front cover near the spine as well as some
general wear to the wrappers) signed by the presumed prior owner W. P.
Burgess to the upper face of the front wrap and there dated by him "1865",
the year of publication; TOGETHER WITH THREE MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, EACH
SIGNED BY HALE, further together with ONE FIVE (5) PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER
FROM GENERAL BRAYMAN TO HALE dated November 15, 1893 written IN THE HAND OF
GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER [Mason Gowdy's mother], having been dictated by
him to her, and SIGNED BY GENERAL BRAYMAN AND MENTIONING HIS PLEASURE TO
HEAR THAT HALE HAD MET THE GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER WHO MENTIONED BRAYMAN
TO HALE UPON THEIR MEETING, STATING HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING RECEIVED HALE'S
LETTER OF OCTOBER 24th accompanied by Hale's "admirable little book "THE
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY" the receipt of which reminded him of the first
reading of the story at Natchez in the Autumn of 1864 and further
discussing the book and Hale's initial public reading of it FURTHER
TOGETHER WITH a Transcript of one of the Hale letters ; FURTHER TOGETHER
WITH two (2) typed letters signed by MASON B. GOWDY (General Brayman's
Grandson), ONE DATED FEBRUARY 18, 1962 accepting an offer from a person
named Dale Putnam to purchase three (3) manuscript letters signed by Hale
and another dated January 24, 1963 enclosing the THREE (3) SIGNED HALE
MANUSCRIPT LETTERS SENT TO PUTNAM FROM GOWDY [all of which begin with "My
Dear Sir"]: one of five (5) pages dated March 20, 1876 written on three (3)
leaves of South Congregational Church of Boston stationary with the
Church's name lined through (presumably by Hale) on the first page, a
second letter dated March 29, 1876 in Hale's hand written over three sides
of two sheets lacking the upper right corner of the first leaf, and a third
letter of four (4) pages written on two leaves of Hale's personal
stationary with slight loss and wear to the corners and one vertical fold
and two horizontal folds to each page, all three (3) of which letters are
addressed to "My Dear Sir". In the March 20, 1876 Hale compliments the
addressee for having written to him an interesting asking for more
information than he (Hale) is able to do at present, stating in the
then-recent "...late editions of the story, there is a Long Note which
really tells, all there is to tell" and that he has included or will
include the substance of the aforementioned information and that "Stephen"
is referred to as Philip's brother and mentions his [Hale's story "If Yes
and Perhaps". He concludes by giving the addressee an address to which the
addressee can send Hale of letter of introduction. In the Letter dated
March 29, 1876, Hale thanks the addressee for his "kind introductions, and
the letter that accompanies them" and mentions how he will use them with
"gratitude and interest" and states that he hopes to be in Natchez "in
about a week." He further states that he has received from its Publisher
the magazine to which he (Hale) referred in his (Hale's) letter mentioned
above that he asked the article's Publisher to send to the addressee and
asking him to not come eastward without letting him (Hale) know that he
(Hale) can easily be found at his address (which Hale names to him).
Finally, in his "My Dear Sir" (General Brayman we believe) letter dated
October 24, 1893 and written on Hale's personal stationary, Hale states
(regarding the World's Fair in Chicago ( ): "On a recent visit at Chicago I
met your daughter Mrs. Gowdy, - and she has been good enough at my request
to give me your presently address." Hale further notes that she is the
grand daughter or grand niece of the owner of the estate in Natchez,
where(?) our hero Philip Jordan (married?) - and from which he went out on
his last expedition. When I was in New Orleans they (?) me Philip Nolan's
portrait, - and invited me to their present home in ___(?) County." He
further states that while there he met an "old negro who must have been
between 80 and 90 - who remembered seeing Phil Nolan before he went off on
the expedition in Texas in which he lost his life. // Of course, I do not
mean, "The Man Without a County" - but the adventurer [?] then in Texas for
whom I named him. // If you can make time to write me what you told me of
your Natchez experience connected with my story you will give me great
pleasure. // I take the liberty of sending to you the edition which is in
print for a School book. // Believe me, Dear General Brayman, // Yours
truly // Edward E Hale". [NOTE: As this letter begins "My Dear Sir:",
itself states that it is to General Brayman and was owned and sold by his
Grandson, we reasonably conclude that all the Hale letters are from Hale to
General Brayman.

but the letter dated Oct. 24, 1893 and referring to the then recent CHICAGO
FAIR and in consequence of he met others including all of expeditioner
Philip Nolan from whom he took the name for his main character in "The Man
Without a Country". Consequently, we have three (3) MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM
HALE AND SIGNED BY HIM, ONE (1) MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED BY GENERAL
BRAYMAN, AND TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED FROM BRAYMAN'S GRANDSON, MASON B.
GOWDY.

NOTE ON GENERAL BRAYMAN: Brayman, once the Governor of Idaho - having been
appointed to that office by President Grant, was a friend and neighbor of
Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. Brayman was a lawyer served on many cases
with Lincoln with whom he also practiced Law in Springfield and to whom he
was a neighbor and a friend until Lincoln's death. He served under General
Grant under whom he commanded forces during AMERICA'S Civil War, and -- at
his death -- was the oldest Editor and the oldest Mason in the United
States.

Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683)[1] was an English-born New England
Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence
Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and
state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.

Williams founded the first place in modern history where citizenship and
religion were separate, providing religious liberty and separation of
church and state. This was combined with the principle of majoritarian
democracy.

General Brayman married the daughter of Roger Williams.

Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683)[1] was an English-born New England
Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence
Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and
state, and fair dealings with the Native Americans.

Williams was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge
offering what he termed "liberty of conscience". In 1638, he founded the
First Baptist Church in America in Providence.] Williams studied the
language of the New England Native Americans and published the first
book-length study of it in English.

was expelled by the Puritan leaders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and
he established Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge offering what he
termed "liberty of conscience". In 1638, he founded the First Baptist
Church in America in Providence.[3][4] Williams studied the language of the
New England Native Americans and published the first book-length study of
it in English. Very Good + / [No Dust Jacket -- as issued]. Item #3823

Price: $4,850.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $3,250


Van Noppen, Leonard Charles; Van Noppen Charles Leonard
Vondel's Lucifer [SIGNED SET OF BOOKS AND SIGNED EPEMERA]

Greensboro, NC: Continental Publishing, 1898, 1917, 1918 [1654]. First
Editions [Both Trade and Limited]. Bound and unbound as published. A Very
Good set of books and epemeral items including: The First Trade Edition,
first printing dated 1917, in the Publisher's original orange cloth
lettered and decorated in black to both the front board and the spine, with
the front board illustration depicting the plate found within at unnumbered
page 389, itself depicting Raphel pleading with Lucifer and captioned "Thou
erring Morning-star, oh! spare thyself." SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Charles L.
Van Noppen to Sydney Greenbie as follows: "For // Mr. Sydney Greenbie //
with the compliments // of // Chas. L. Van Noppen // Greensboro // N.C. //
May 21-23" (with the date underscored); FURTHER TOGETHER WITH: A copy of
Leonard Van Noppen's lengthy Poem "THE SPHINX" inscribed and signed by
Charles Leonard van Noppen at the Poem's end to Sydney Greenbie as follows:
"For // Mr. Sydney Greenbie // with the compliments of // Charles L. Van
Noppen" // Greensboro, N.C. // May 21-23" with the date underscored and
loosely laid in to the trade edition; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH a separate
booklet, dated 1917, measuring 7 3/8 inches by 4 6/8 inches containing the
primary text found at pp 439 - 458 of the trade edition's rear portion and
wearing its own wrappers with the front wrapper's recto mirroring the trade
edition's title page and the rear wrapper's verso bearing a promotion of
the book and perhaps serving as marketing material for the book; FURTHER
TOGETHER WITH the first and only Limited Edition (therein stated to be the
"Holland Art Society Edition), dated 1898, in the Publisher's original
boards and dust jacket, being copy 963 of 1,250 copies issued, INSCRIBED
AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR LEONARD CHARLES VAN NOPPEN on the front free
endpaper's recto as follows: "With The compliments of - Leonard Charles van
Noppen.", this beneath a prior inscription reading: "From J. Roy Collins //
to // Ora Belle Lee." This Limited Edition is FURTHER SIGNED BY ONE OF THE
BOOK'S TWO DIDICATEES, CHARLES LEONARD VAN NOPPEN (the autor's brother and
the book's Publisher) as follows: With the compliments // of // Charles
Leonard van Noppen [partially underscored]; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH THIRTEEN
(13) separate plates together showing all of the full illustrations found
scattered within the text, all of which are shown in the list of
illustrations shown in the volume's illustrations list, such illustrations
being loosley laid in to the Limited Edition; FURTHER TOGETHER WITH an
undated photograph of Leonard Charles van Noppen in his uniform SIGNED BY
LEONARD VAN NOPPEN and loosely laid in to the Limited Edition. The Trade
Edition's front pastedown bears a pencil note stating "Author's Autograph"
which is in error as this copy was sent to Greenbie by the Publisher,
Charles L. van Noppen. Within the text of this Trade Edition shows a number
of underlingings and brief notations in pencil and/or blue ink, and the
binding shows some minor wear to the leading corners as well as some
scattered marking to the boards. The Limited Edition shows general wear to
the boards, some bending to the leading corners and shelf wear to the
bottom edge of boards, and each hinge is worn and broken. The front board
is illustrated with the figure shown on unnumbered page 263. On both the
front board and on page 263, the image is not captioned, but the list of
illustrations names it as "Lucifer" using the otherwise blank leaf prior to
the illustration. The dust jacket shows some wear to the leading corners,
the front panel's top and bottom flaps are truncated and attached to the
front panel's verso.

A FEW SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES:

The plates loosely laid in to the Limited Editions are generally in Very
Good condition. Some of them show some wear and tear and one has a portion
of it torn off and has been repaired by archival tape applied to the plates
verso. The trade edition and the copy of "THE SPHINX" are inscribed by the
Publisher, Charles Leonard van Noppen to Sydney Greenbie. We believe this
to be author Sydney Greenbie. Greenbie was a Playwright and also authored
books on Asia, and headed what was known as the "Floating University" .

[NOTE: INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR and some about the Publisher FROM
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography:
Leonard Charles Van Noppen, poet, literary expert, and translator, was born
at Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Holland. His parents, Cornelius Martin and Johanna
Maria Cappon Van Noppen, immigrated to the United States settling first in
Michigan in 1874 and then near Greensboro in 1877, where they became
members of the Society of Friends and their three boys, Charles Leonard,
John J., and Leonard Charles, attended the New Garden Boarding School. Both
parents of Leonard Charles Van Noppen died within a few months of each
other in 1887. His brother, Charles Leonard, sent him to the renamed
Friends School, Guilford College. He received an A.B. degree from Guilford
in 1890, a B.Litt. from The University of North Carolina in 1892, and an
M.A. from Haverford College in 1893. He returned to The University of North
Carolina in 1893 to study law. Although he was licensed, he never
practiced, having found literary endeavors more suited to his temperament.
For two years he attended lectures at the University of Utrecht and the
University of Leiden, where he immersed himself in the study of Dutch
literature. On his return to the United States he published his translation
of Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer in 1898. It was heralded as a major
literary event. The parallels between this first English translation of
Lucifer and Paradise Lost led some critics to pronounce Milton a
plagiarist. The translation was of such a fine quality that Henry Hadley
set it to music, and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra presented two
performances of it in Carnegie Hall. Van Noppen translated two other Vondel
works, Sampson and Adam in Banishment, which reinforced the claims of
Vondel's influence on Milton.

Because of his translations, Van Noppen became well known as an authority
on Dutch literature. He presented lectures at Princeton University, Johns
Hopkins University, the Lowell Institute of Boston, and a number of other
institutions, and from 1913 to 1917 he was the first Queen Wilhelmina
Lecturer at Columbia University. He was made an honorary member of the
Society of Netherlands Literature, and at various times before 1918 he
continued his studies at the Dutch universities.

Although preoccupied by his literary endeavors, Van Noppen had brief stints
as a journalist in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and New York City, and at
various times he was a private secretary to Justice John Woodward of
Jamestown, N.Y., Major William J. Gaynor of New York City, and Nathan L.
Miller, who later became governor of New York. In 1913 he read his own
poem, "The Vision—The Palace of Peace," at the dedication of the Carnegie
Peace Palace at The Hague and in 1916 presented his "Abraham Lincoln: An
Elegy" at the dedication of Lincoln Memorial University. On his first visit
to Holland Van Noppen became a Boer sympathizer. He returned to the United
States with Boer propaganda and translated the Independence Proclamation of
Martinus Theunis Steyn, president of the Orange Free State. During his
second trip to Europe he met African statesman Paul Kruger in Paris, and he
assisted the Boer Press Bureau at Dordecht.

After the United States became involved in World War I, he enlisted as a
lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Appointed assistant naval attaché at
The Hague, he was reputed to have carried on some secret work. He held the
same post for eight months at the U.S. embassy in London. In 1919 his
collection of war poems, The Challenge, was published first in Great
Britain and then in the United States. In London it was praised by Laurence
Binyon, Sydney Brooks, and Thomas Hardy. Van Noppen spent the remainder of
his life working on an epic poem, "Cosmorama: A Symphonic Poem of
Evolution," sometimes referred to under the title "An Epic of the Cell from
Protoplasm to Deity."

Van Noppen had the well-proportioned physique and physical capability of an
athlete. Although he favored a Byronic appearance in dress and demeanor,
his face also presented the qualities of strength and stolidity that are
usually associated with the Dutch character. He possessed a dynamic and
outgoing personality that generally made him a focus at social gatherings.
His poetry was popular during his lifetime, especially before and during
World War I in the midst of a neo-romantic revival. His poetry appeared in
the Christian Quarterly, Current Opinion, and Independent, and his work was
reviewed in the major magazines and newspapers including The Times of
London.
On 28 Sept. 1902 he married Adah Maude Stanton Becker, of Jamestown, N.Y.,
a former journalist who turned to editing his work after their marriage.
They had no children. Van Noppen died at age sixty-seven in Glen Cove, Long
Island. After her husband's death, Adah Van Noppen spent the remainder of
her life preparing Van Noppen's manuscript of his epic "Cosmorama" for
publication until her own death in Cambridge, N.Y., on 25 Feb. 1944.
Various Conditions. Item #3609

Price: $2,350.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $675.00


United States Department of the Interior [Lincoln, Abraham] [Davis,
Jefferson; Scott, Winfield; Taylor, Zachary; Clyman, James
Land Grant from General Land Office of the United States of America awarded
for service in the BLACK HAWK WAR

Washington DC: United States, 1861. Original. Ribbon. A Certified copy of a
LAND GRANT OF 160 ACRES OF REAL ESTATE IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN Secretarily
signed by "Abraham Lincoln" dated May 10, 1861, relatively soon after
Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th President of the United States of America
(on March 4, 1861), and thus being an action taken by Lincoln early in his
inaugural Presidential Term. The Grant was given to William Halworth(?) who
served in the Black Hawk War and was assigned by him to PATRICK GREEGAN.
Interestingly, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WHO AS PRESIDENT MADE THIS LAND GRANT ALSO
SERVED IN THE BLACK HAWK WAR, A WAR IN WHICH JEFFERSON DAVIS [LATER THE
PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY] ALSO SERVED. [Per Britannica: "Black Hawk
War, brief but bloody war from April to August 1832 between the United
States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak),
a 65-year-old Sauk warrior who in early April led some 1,000 Sauk, Fox, and
Kickapoo men, women, and children, including about 500 warriors, across the
Mississippi River to reclaim land in Illinois that tribal spokesmen had
surrendered to the U.S. in 1804. The band’s crossing back into Illinois
spurred fear and anger among white settlers, and eventually a force of some
7,000 mobilized against them—including members of the U.S. Army, state
militias, and warriors from various other Indian peoples. Some 450–600
Indians and 70 soldiers and settlers were killed during the war. By 1837
all surrounding tribes had fled to the West, leaving most of the former
Northwest Territory to white settlement. Among those who participated in
various roles during the war were a number of men who would figure
prominently in U.S. history, including future U.S. presidents Abraham
Lincoln and Zachary Taylor, longtime military leader and presidential
candidate Winfield Scott, and Jefferson Davis, who would become president
of the Confederate States of America."
The Black Hawk War gave Abraham Lincoln his brief military service,
although he saw no combat. [Other participants who would later become
famous included Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Jefferson Davis and James
Clyman. The war gave impetus to the U.S. policy of Indian removal, in which
Native American tribes were pressured to sell their lands and move west of
the Mississippi River to reside.]
Per Wikipedia:
The first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th president of the
United States was held on Monday, March 4, 1861, at the East Portico of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 19th inauguration
and marked the commencement of the first, and eventually only full term of
Abraham Lincoln as president and the only term of Hannibal Hamlin as vice
president. The presidential oath of office was administered to Lincoln by
Roger B. Taney, the Chief Justice of the United States. John C.
Breckinridge became the first outgoing vice president to administer the
vice-presidential oath of office to his successor.

This was the first time Lincoln appeared in public with a beard, which he
had begun growing after being elected president, in response to a written
request by 11-year-old Grace Bedell. This effectively made him the first
president to have any facial hair beyond sideburns.

Per an Article by Kimberly Powell [Powell, Kimberly. "Bounty Land
Warrants." ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020,
thoughtco.com/bounty-land-warrants-1422328.]:

"Bounty land warrants were grants of free land issued to veterans in return
for military service from the time of the Revolutionary War through 1855 in
the United States." By Kimberly Powell [Updated on April 28, 2019]

Bounty land warrants were grants of free land issued to veterans in return
for military service from the time of the Revolutionary War through 1855 in
the United States. They contained the surrendered warrant, a letter of
assignment if the warrant was transferred to another individual, and other
papers pertaining to the transaction.

What Are Bounty Land Warrants in Detail
Bounty land is a grant of free land from a government given to citizens as
a reward for service to their country, generally for military-related
service. Most bounty-land warrants in the United States were given to
veterans or their survivors for wartime military service performed between
1775 and 3 March 1855. This includes veterans who served in the American
Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Mexican War.

Bounty land warrants weren't automatically issued to every veteran who
served. The veteran first had to apply for a warrant and then, if the
warrant was granted, he could use the warrant to apply for a land patent.
The land patent is the document which granted him ownership of the land.
Bounty land warrants could also be transferred or sold to other individuals.

They were also used as a way to provide evidence of military service,
especially in cases where a veteran or his widow did not apply for a pension

How They Were Awarded
Revolutionary War bounty land warrants were first awarded through an act of
Congress on 16 September 1776. They were last awarded for military service
in 1858, although the ability to claim bounty land previously earned
extended until 1863. A few claims that were tied up in the courts caused
lands to be granted as late as 1912.

What You Can Learn From Bounty Land Warrants
A bounty land warrant application for a veteran of the Revolutionary War,
War of 1812 or the Mexican War will include the individual's rank, military
unit and period of service. It will also generally provide his age and
place of residence at the time of application. If the application was made
by the surviving widow, it will usually include her age, place of
residence, the date and place of marriage, and her maiden name." [END OF
POWELL ARTICLE]. Very Good. Item #3813

Price: $1,650.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $575.00


Clancy, Tom; Ball, John
Clear and Present Danger [SIGNED; TOGETHER WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED
CORRESPONDENCE FROM TOM CLANCY TO THE WIDOW OF JOHN BALL TO WHOM THIS BOOK
WAS DEDICATED]

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Editions. Hardcover. A Fine copy
of the first edition, first printing in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY TOM
CLANCY on the half-title, TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED LETTER FROM TOM
CLANCY TO THE WIDOW OF JOHN BALL TO WHOM THIS BOOK WAS DEDICATED. The
letter is in excellent condition and shows two horizontal folds for mailing
and some slight bending to its upper left corner. The book itself is sharp,
unfaded, with bright gilt lettering and is without the concavity to the
spine that plagues most copies and the dust jacket has only modest bits of
loss to the laminate (another matter that we frequently have seen on this
dust jacket) and some wear to the extremities at the spine ends and to the
edges where the spine turns to each flap. [In spite of such small flaws,
this is otherwise easily the nicest example of the dust jacket that we ever
have seen. The book's first edition was published both in a silver jacket
and in a bronze jacket, and, to us, the bronze jacket is measurably the
more attractive of the two.] The book comes with a SIGNED personal letter
from Tom Clancy to his widow [Patricia Hamilton Ball]. Dated February 11,
1989, Clancy addressed it to "Mrs. John Ball" and used as his salutation
"Dear Mrs. Ball". He tells her that "News of John's death caught me very
short indeed...", mentions that his days have been frantic since John
Ball's death (on October 15, 1988 at age 77) and tells her that "...I've
had little chance to reflect on the gravity of your loss. I can only
address my own." He mentions that he met John Ball only once although he
had read many of Ball's books had felt that he had known him for many
years. He then stated: "The original was far more impressive than his
reflection, and I deem myself fortunately to have shared even a few hours
with him." [We presume that Clancy meant to write "fortunate" rather than
"fortunately". He then asks Mrs. Ball if he could dedicate his next book to
Ball and provides her with the text of his proposed Dedication. The
Dedication in the book is exactly what Clancy proposed to her. Thus, we
have here a remarkably nice copy of this noted Clancy work in an attractive
example of the dust jacket, with the book SIGNED BY CLANCY TOGETHER WITH AN
ORIGINAL TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY CLANCY ON HIS PERSONAL STATIONARY FROM
WHICH HE MUST HAVE RECEIVED PERMISSION TO USE THE DEDICATION THAT HE
PROPOSED TO HIS FRIEND'S WIDOW TO BE USED. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BOOK
AND THE ACCOMPANYING LETTER (both of which are signed by Tom Clancy) IS
DEEP AND INTIMATE. [The book's Dedication to Ball is , in part, a clear
reference John Ball's earlier novel "Last Plane Out". A REMARKABLE PAIRING
RELATING TO TWO PROMINENT NOVELISTS. RARE INDEED.

John Dudley Ball (July 8, 1911 — October 15, 1988), writing as John Ball,
was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the
African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. He was introduced in the
1965 In the Heat of the Night where he solves a murder in a racist Southern
small town. It won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery
Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name
starring Sidney Poitier; the film had two sequels, and spawned a television
series several decades later, none of which were based on Ball's later
Tibbs stories.

Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He wrote for a number
of magazines and newspapers, including the Brooklyn Eagle. For a time he
worked part-time as a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, was trained in
martial arts, and was a nudist. In the mid 1980s, he was the book review
columnist for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. Ball lived in Encino,
California, and died there in 1988.

Ball's "Last Plane Out" consists of two stories which share characters and
then meld together. The first involves a group of travelers in a troubled
Third World country, waiting for the last plane out, which they hope will
carry them to safety. The second story is shared by an aviation buff who is
given his chance to increase his flying skills by the airline that has been
built by the pilot Captain of the first story. They meet when an important
character in the first story by chance recognizes the quality of our buff
during a plane crash and introduces him to the original pilot Captain.

MOVIES: Per Wikipedia: "Clear and Present Danger" provided the basis for a
1994 American action thriller film of the same name directed by Phillip
Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's 1989 novel of the same name. It is a sequel
to The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Patriot Games (1992). All three
movies featured Clancy's character Jack Ryan, though Ford only played the
role in the last two. It is the last film version of Clancy's novels to
feature Harrison Ford as Ryan and James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James
Greer, as well as the final installment directed by Noyce.

Also Per Wikipedia: "Last Plane Out" provided the basis for a 1983 film,
directed by David Nelson, son of Ozzie and Harriet. It was based on
journalist Jack Cox's (who co-produced the film) experience in Nicaragua
when it was ruled by Anastasio Somoza Debayle and his battle against
insurgents during the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution. Fine / very good +. Item
#3702

Price: $1,525.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $925.00


Trollope, Anthony
The Chronicles of Barsetshire [The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor
Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last
Chronicle of Barset with a NOTABLE OWNERSHIP]

London: Chapman and Hall, 1889 [first published by Chapman and Hall in
1878]. Later Edition(s) but first edition of this set. Hardcover. A Very
Good set of the 1889 issue / printing of Anthony Trollope's famed group of
novels known as "The Barsetshire Chronicles" published in 1889 [with their
respective years of initial individual first publication here set forth in
parenthetically -- earlier issue of this set was published in 1879],
consisting of The Warden (1855), Barchester Towers (1857), Doctor Thorne
(1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864), and
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)... // Per Sadlier: "The history of the
edition is not without interest. Trollope himself was very anxious that his
Barsetshire novels should be brought together in a uniform series.
Originally the venture was to comprise only six volumes, for he did not
himself regard The Small House at Allington as one of the Barsetshire set;
but he consented to its inclusion at the urgent request of Chapman & Hall."
In this HIGHLY NOTABLE SET, each volume's front pastedown wears the --
presumed original owner's bookplate [that of Howard Robinson which shows an
image of Erasmus]. Per Wikipedia: "Howard Robinson is a British
philosopher, specializing in various areas of philosophy of mind and
metaphysics, best known for his work in the philosophy of perception. His
contributions to philosophy include a defense of sense-datum theories of
perception and a variety of arguments against physicalism about the mind."
The right edge of the rear hinge in the second volume of "The Small House
at Allington" is cracked and the volume shows general handling soil and
general wear. Each volume in the set is somewhat askew, shows wear, and the
leaves are lightly toned and show some scattered foxing but remain in nice
condition, all making this a QUITE SCARCE SET WITH A NOTABLE PROVENANCE.
[NOTE: In his Bibliography of Trollope's works, Sadlier describes this Set
as a "...partial Collected Edition...including at least a page or two of
matter not elsewhere published, and containing illustrations specially
designed - which merits record in a complete bibliography of Trollope's
first editions.

A number of hinges (8 of the 26 hinges in the set) are cracked/broken open,
and all of these are shown in the images posted with this set's listing on
this seller's own Allington Books site. Each volume has a tissue-guarded
frontispiece lettered in red and declaring the illustration shown. [The
Volumes are otherwise unillustrated.] Examples of this set, which precedes
the Shakespeare Head editions of these" Barsetshire Chronicles [published
in fourteen (14) volumes -- due to the inclusion of Trollope's
Autobiography -- in 1929] and is of an edition more limited than that of
the Shakespeare head editions, are, in our experience, QUITE SCARCE.
Complete sets are increasingly difficult to find and complete sets of all
the volumes with common ownership [as opposed to sets of later compilation]
are now INDEED QUITE DIFFICULT TO FIND on the market. NOTABLY, WE HAVE
NEVER SEEN ANOTHER SET OF THE EITHER OF THE CHAPMAN & HALL PRINTINGS IN
COMMON OWNERSHIP.

[PLEASE NOTE: This is a large and heavy set and the Buyer's postage cost
will exceed that quoted by this site.]. Very good. Item #3821

Price: $725.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $345.00


Dickinson, Emily
Poems [Second Series]

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. [A Quite Early Printing/Edition; First
Edition was published in 1891]. Hardcover. A Very Good + copy of an early
printing of this collection of Emily Dickinson poems, bound in olive-green
cloth smooth cloth with beveled edges to the boards with the front board
lettered and decorated in gilt with the Indian pipe stem motif to the front
board's lower half. The spine lettering is in gilt and the "Boston //
Roberts Bros" in gilt is present to the lower spine. The leaves are of laid
paper with vertical chain lines. The volume s(&((hows only minor wear, the
second and third front endpapers are largely detached but are still holding
decently, and, all things considered, this is a nicer copy than we usually
encounter. [The original box and dust jacket are lacking -- and we never
have seen or known of a copy with either of them present.] The second front
free endpaper's verso bears a small bookshop sticker and the third front
free endpaper a prior owner's signature. There is a four-page facsimile
manuscript poem shown at the front without the often-not-included tissue
guard -- prior to the Poem's printed typed text. A nicer copy than we
usually see without the substantial scuffing often seen. QUITE SCARCE
INDEED.

NOTE THAT the following information is in large measure taken from
Wikipedia:
The book was edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Watlington Higginson.
Mabel Loomis Todd never met the reclusive Emily Dickinson, but the two did
exchange letters. In Amherst, Todd began a lengthy affair with Austin
Dickinson, the (married) brother of Emily Dickinson; Austin was a prominent
local lawyer who served as treasurer of Amherst College.
David Todd travelled to every solar eclipse that he could, and Mabel Loomis
Todd often joined him. She accompanied her Astronomer husband when he
traveled to Japan in 1887 to photograph the solar eclipse, and she was the
first Western woman to walk up Mount Fuji. She accompanied David in his
other efforts to photograph eclipses, traveling with him back to Japan in
1896, to Tripoli in 1900 and 1905, to the Dutch East Indies in 1901, to
Chile in 1907, and to Russia in 1914. In all, Mabel Loomis Todd traveled to
more than 30 countries on five continents. She wrote frequently about her
travels, and often lectured on them, making her a rare public female
intellectual in the late 19th century.
After Dickinson's death in 1886, her younger sister Lavinia Norcross
Dickinson destroyed all her letters, as Emily had instructed. Dickinson had
left no instructions for her poems, however, and originally asked her
sister-in-law Susan Dickinson to oversee their publication. When Susan's
work didn't quickly move the publication project forward—Susan wanted to
publish the poems in a holistic volume contextualized with Dickinson's
letters, jokes, manuscripts, and drawings, a publication that would be very
unconventional for the time but perhaps more authentic to Dickinson's
writings]—Lavinia enlisted Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The first
volume of Poems by Emily Dickinson was published in 1890, and included many
alterations by Todd and Higginson. Higginson, who had supported Emily's
writing in her lifetime and was a friendly correspondent, also collaborated
with Todd on Poems: Second Series in 1891. Todd edited a two volume set of
Dickinson's letters (1894) and Poems: Third Series (1896) on her own. A
detailed account of the publication process is given in Ancestors'
Brocades, by Millicent Todd Bingham (1945). According to scholar Brenda
Wineapple, the third book, without Higginson's pleas to alter as little as
possible, "is the most expurgated." At some point, Higginson, not liking
Mabel Todd’s alterations to Dickinson's poems, quit the publication
project. This notion, however, is contradicted by the account written by
Bingham, who claimed that her mother wished to alter Dickinson’s poems as
little as possible. Very good +. Item #3808

Price: $815.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $485.00


Davison, T. Raffles
Port Sunlight: A Record of Its Artistic & Pictorial Aspect

B. T. Batsford. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine copy of this
SCARCE work, in a Very Good or better dust jacket with some
tearing/chipping and soiling and with a sticker of the famed Brussel's book
shop of Louis de Meuleneere affixed to the front pastedown's lower right
corner, and some foxing to the page block's closed edges. Port Sunlight is
a small town in England's northwest, being a model village built as a
community for workers employed at the adjacent Lever soapworks at
Merseyside. The homes were built after designs by notable architects and
were influenced by William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement and the
village took its name from the popular Lever cleaner named 'Sunlight', and
a Lever Brothers "compliments of" card is loosely laid into another copy we
have, but is not present in this one. Port Sunlight is arguably the finest
surviving example of early urban planning in the UK, and has remained
largely intact since its foundation by William Hesketh Lever in 1888. The
village is home to more than 900 Grade II listed buildings set in 130 acres
of parkland and gardens. More than 30 different architects created the
buildings, monuments and memorials still seen today, and nearly every
period of British architecture is represented through revival design. The
village is a good example of the aesthetic movement, which emphasized
visual and sensual qualities of art and design, and the Arts and Crafts
Movement, with its emphasis on traditional craftsmanship.
Lever built Port Sunlight to house the workers at his soap factory, Lever
Brothers, which eventually became the global giant, Unilever. The village
represents one man’s vision to provide industrial workers with decent,
sanitary housing in a considered architectural and picturesque form.
However, rather than a philanthropic venture, Lever claimed it was all part
of a business model he termed ‘prosperity-sharing’. Rather than sharing the
profits of the company directly with his employees, Lever provided them
with decent and affordable houses, amenities and welfare provisions that
aimed to make their lives secure and comfortable and to enable them to
flourish as people. It was also intended to inspire loyalty and commitment
to the company.

In our experience, copies in the dust jacket are exceedingly difficult to
find. Item #3801

Price: $425.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $110.00


Trollope, Anthony
The Land Leaguers: A Story of Irish Life in the Present Time; Ralph the
Heir (in Two Parts); The Warden; and Harry Heathcote of Gangoil; [RARE
EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS]

New York: George Munro. Hardcover. A Very Good copy of this compilation
containing George Munro's publications of the above-named four Anthony
Trollope novels in Monroe's Seaside Library Pocket Edition, each of which
followed Munro's respective publication of such novels in his newspaper
format Seaside Library Edition [excluding "The Warden" which was not
published in the Seaside Library], and *-with Ralph the Heir being
published in two volumes of the Pocket Edition. The novels are bound the
above-named order in a 3/4 brown leather volume with brown boards without
their original wrappers but with some scattered advertisement pages. The
leaves show scattered varied foxing and toning. Smith provides the
following information about Munro's publication of the above-named Trollope
works:

"The Land-Leaguers": Seaside Library: No. 1707 Dated 10/26/1883 Pocket
Edition: Seaside Library and Pocket Edition both entered for Copyright on
8/30/ 1883 and Deposited on 10/31/1883. Another Pocket Edition No. 32 dated
September 17, 1883 on front cover back cover advertised works in the
series. Title Page not dated. Text (3) - 260 [which pagination matches the
copy in this binding and is named as 32 on lists found elsewhere in this
volume.]

"Ralph the Heir": Seaside Library: 1886 in two Parts, Pocket Edition (also
in two Parts: no mention in Smith except of those in Harpers and in
Appleton's series. Smith's having made no mention of a Pocket edition shows
that he did not know about it and never saw a copy, providing great
evidence of this Pocket Edition's GREAT RARITY.

"The Warden": Seaside Library: None. Pocket Edition: neither mentioned in
Smith who cites Dick & Fitzgerald as publishers of the first US Edition in
its Hand and Pocket Library. Smith's having made no mention of a Seaside
Library edition and no mention of a Pocket Edition shows that he did not
know about it and never saw a copy, providing great evidence of this Munro
Pocket Edition's GREAT RARITY.
[Also, of the American Edition of "The Warden" Sadlier states:"Possibly
some copies of the English edition were marketed by Longmans through their
New York house. I know of no other indigenous American edition earlier than
1870, when Harper published the novel in one vol. with Barchester Towers."
[This copy indicates it was published as vol. 621 of Munro's Pocket
Edition. Neither Sadlier nor Smith having mentioned this Munro edition
provides great evidence of this Munro Pocket Edition's GREAT RARITY.]

"Harry Heathcote Gangoil": Seaside Library: None Pocket Edition: None
mentioned in Smith. Smith mentions the 1874 Harper & Brothers issued as
part of its Select Novels series, being number 407 but not any Munro
edition. This copy names it as item 622 in Munro's Pocket Edition
(following "The Warden" at 621). Sadlier also mentions the 1874 Harper &
Brothers edition Neither Sadlier nor Smith having mentioned this Munro
edition provides great evidence of this Pocket Edition's GREAT RARITY.

Altogether, this is a QUITE SCARCE TO RARE GROUP OF TROLLOPE'S AMERICAN
EDITIONS. Very good. Item #3800

Price: $625.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $215.00


Spender, Stephen H. [Spender, Sir Stephen Harold]
Nine Experiments [SIGNED]

Cincinnati, OH: Elliston Poetry Foundation University of Cincinnati, [1964
Copyright]. First Thus. Hardcover. An about Very Good copy of the first
facsimile edition of Stephen H. Spender's first book, showing only mild
wear and tide markings to the boards -- otherwise about Fine. [Only about
thirty [30] copies of the ORIGINAL first edition in 1920 were printed, and
those were done so by Spender himself. Per Encyclopedia dot com: The
facsimile shows a presentation of the original copy presentation by Spender
to "Winifred" on the second front free endpaper as well as the book's
limitation notice with a note in Spender's hand stating that the copy
reproduced here was number 1 of the group of "about thirty" of the first
edition copies. [Please Note: the foregoing are facsimiles of Spender's
handwriting.] Copies of this facsimile edition are uncommon to the market,
and the great and distinguishing feature of this copy is the ORIGINAL
SIGNED PRESENTATION OF THIS COPY BY STEPHEN SPENDER TO WILLIAM S. GRAY
[presumably the famed educator] in blue ink found on this volume's title
page. [Also per Encyclopedia dot com: "Spender printed his first volume of
poetry, Nine Experiments: Being Poems Written at the Age of Eighteen
(1928), on his own handpress. He later destroyed copies of his early
efforts, but several of the poems he wrote between 1928 and 1930 would
appear in his volume Poems published in 1933." ] While the book does have
tide marks to the cover, it likely is the ONLY EXAMPLE OF STEPHEN SPENDER'S
FIRST BOOK SIGNED BY SPENDER that is, or perhaps ever will be, available to
collectors. The book is housed in its near fine (presumed original)
slipcase which shows only mild wear, the only example of the slipcase that
we ever have seen. A decent example of this volume, with a PRESENTATION TO
WILLIAM S. GRAY. A SCARCE TO RARE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED COPY.

"Spender was acquainted with fellow Auden Group members Louis MacNeice,
Edward Upward and Cecil Day-Lewis. He was friendly with David Jones and
later came to know William Butler Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Joseph
Brodsky, Isaiah Berlin, Mary McCarthy, Roy Campbell, Raymond Chandler,
Dylan Thomas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colin Wilson, Aleister Crowley, F. T.
Prince and T. S. Eliot, as well as members of the Bloomsbury Group,
particularly Virginia Woolf."] Interestingly, At the Shakespeare and
Company bookstore in Paris, which published the first edition of James
Joyce's Ulysses, historic figures made rare appearances to read their work:
Paul Valéry, André Gide and Eliot. Hemingway even broke his rule of not
reading in public if Spender would read with him. Since Spender agreed,
Hemingway appeared for a rare reading in public with him. Also, Spender
taught at various American institutions including University of California
at Berkeley and Northwestern University, and he accepted the Elliston Chair
of Poetry at the University of Cincinnati in 1954. In 1961, he became
professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London. Very good. Item #3425

Price: $850.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $325.00


Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy; Caldwell, E. [Illustrator -- a brother a brother of
Mary Tourtel]
Jock of the Bushveld

London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907. First
Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy of the first edition, first
printing/first issue [with drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with
his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457 which was
changed to back legs in later printings and with drawing of a horse is
being dragged up a vertical cliff on pg 316], in the Publisher's original
green cloth (being a variant binding) with the spine lettered in gilt and
decorated in blind. The boards show some rubbing and bending to their
leading corners as well as some shelf wear to their bottom edges. A true
story written by Fitzpatrick, a South African who was the Master of "Jock",
the fearless and brave runt of a litter, the book is richly illustrated by
Edwin Caldwell, a brother of Mary Tourtel [the British author and artist
who created and drew the popular comic strip character "Rupert Bear"]. The
tale contains a tissue-guarded frontispiece and twenty-two additional "Full
Page Illustrations". The first page of each chapter contains a heading
illustration and each other page shows a varied number of illustrations to
the margin. The leaf hosting pp 177/178 has a sort of overlay to the
leading margin that partially obscures the illustrations therein shown, and
the illustration leaf facing page 172 shows a light fold line. The pages
hosting the half-title and the blank side of the frontispiece have some
dark marking (leaving the frontis illustration page clean), and the outer
margin of that leaf shows a small closed tear to the leading margin.
Scattered foxing lies within, but in spite of these flaws, this copy
presents an opportunity to obtain the first edition, first printing, FIRST
ISSUE of this RATHER UNCOMMON TO SCARCE noted work at a relatively low
price. [NOTE: per Wikipedia: Jock of the Bushveld is a 1986 South African
adventure film directed by Gray Hofmeyr and produced by Duncan MacNeillie
for Duncan MacNeillie Production and Toron International. The film stars
Jonathan Rands, Jocelyn Broderick and Michael Brunner in lead role along
with Gordon Mulholland, Wilson Dunster in supportive roles and the dog
Umfubu. The film is based on the 1907 novel by same name written by Irish
writer James Percy FitzPatrick who went South Africa in 1800s. It was his
friend Rudyard Kipling who encouraged Fitzpatrick to commit these stories,
which Fitzpatrick had told to his children as bedtime stories, to writing.]
This tremendously popular South African book and has been also widely read
abroad. Over a hundred editions have been printed and it has been
translated into Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Xhosa, and Zulu, and others. A
SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF THIS NOTABLE WORK. Very good +. Item
#3716

Price: $750.00

TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT: $215.00
Howells, William Dean [Howells, W. D.]
The Mother and the Father [In the Rare Dust Jacket]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing of this long Poem by
William Dean Howells bound in the Publisher's original green cloth with the
front board lettered in gilt and decorated in blind and the spine lettered
in gilt, with sharp corners showing only a touch of rubbing and with the
closed page block's top edge in gilt. The hard-to-find price-clipped yellow
dust jacket shows some tiny chips and tears to the edges and some general
soiling. The Volume contains a tissue-guarded frontispiece and three
additional illustrations. Of this work, the American Review of Reviews
stated: "William Dean Howells... has given us an exquisite poem which,
while neither rhyme nor strictly blank verse, is of the real Victorian
flavor. It is entitled "The Mother and the Father", and it gives in simple,
direct, delicately intuitive sentences a description of the three momentous
hours in the story of a wife and husband: the birth of their child, the
hour of her marriage, and the hour of her death. The range of joy and
sorrow in these dramatic passages is set forth in Mr. Howells' own masterly
way." The highly influential Author, Critic, and Playwright William Dean
Howells (1837-1920), called "The Dean of American Letters" was both a
prolific author and, from 1871 to 1881, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly
magazine. [Howells dust jackets of the 1900-1910 period are quite scarce
(much scarcer than Twain jackets in that period). These yellow Harper
jackets are notoriously brittle and, when present, are usually found
incomplete and with a good amount of wear and tear. However, this dust
jacket is quite nearly complete and is one of the best of these yellow
Howell dust jackets that we ever have seen. [PLEASE NOTE: The two images of
the book lying flat make it appear to be brighter than it is.] A Fine copy
in a Very Good example of the RARE dust jacket. Fine / very good. Item #3601

Price: $365.00 TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT: $120.00
McKenna, Stephen
Works of Stephen McKenna - FINELY BOUND: Sonia; Sonia Married; The
Reluctant Lover; Midas and Son; 96 Hours' Leave; Sheila Intervenes

London: [Various Publishers], 1919. [Various Editions]. 1/4 cloth. Very
Good group of six (6) works by Stephen McKenna including: Sonia, the
nineteenth edition,1919; Sonia Married, the fourth edition, 1919; The
Reluctant Lover, the third edition, 1919; Midas and Son, the second
edition, 1919; 96 Hours' Leave, the seventh edition, 1919; and Sheila
Intervenes, the first edition, 1919. The English novelist Stephen Mckenna
authored forty-seven (47) novels, most of which focused on English
upper-class society, and six (6) works of non-fiction. His Debut novel,
"The Reluctant Lover", was first published in 1912, and his best-known
novel, "Sonia: Between Two Worlds", was published in 1917. Here we present
a set of six (6) of his works published in 1919, each of which has been
finely bound in highly-attractive half red morocco and coordinated red coth
with gold lining where the leather meets the cloth and buttressed spines
lined, lettered, and decorated in gilt. The titles are: "Sonia", the
nineteenth edition; "Sonia Married", the fourth edition; "The Reluctant
Lover", the third edition; "Midas and Son", the second edition; "96 Hours'
Leave", the seventh edition; and "Sheila Intervenes", the first edition.
Each volume's front pastedown bears the bookplate of Evelyn Maud Johnson,
the wife of Claude Johnson who was a founder of Rolls Royce and a designer
of many of the company's early cars. The bookplate(s) name 'Villa Vita,
Kingsdown, Kent' to the front boards. Claude Johnson moved to this Villa in
1916 to be closer to Henry Royce who lived nearby in Cliffe. Each volume is
quite attractive with the rear spine leather to "The Reluctant Lover"
showing some marking and the rear board's cloth to "Sonia" showing some
marking as well. A nice set having a notable provenance. Very good. Item
#3737

Price: $480.00

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 C. James]
Lonergan World War I Archive: . [WORLD WAR I - INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS/PROPAGANDA] LONERGAN, C. James. Archive Relating to the United
States Speaking Tour of British Captain C. James Lonergan.

London, New York, and multiple other locations, Multiple Publishers. Item
 #3278

Price: $1,850.00       TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $425.00

Hall, Captain Basil
Hall's Voyages: Voyage to Loo-Choo and Other Places in the Eastern Seas, in
the Year 1816 [Volume I]; Extracts From A Journal Written on the Coasts of
Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 [Volume II]

Edinburgh and London: Archibald Constable & Co.; and Hurst, Robinson, & Co.
[In Edinburgh and London, respectively], 1826. Hardcover.  Item #3522

Price: $450.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $125.00


Henty, G. A.
By England's Aid; Or the Freeing of the Netherlands

New York: Scribner and Welford, [Undated but 1890]. First American Edition,
First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first
American Edition, first printing, being one of the last four G. A. Henty
titles to be published with the Scribner and Welford imprint. Item #3520

Price: $1,250.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $450.00


Garland, Hamlin; Garland, Constance [Decorations]
My Friendly Contemporaries; A Literary Log

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. A
Fine copy of the First Edition, first printing (some shelf soil to the
closed page block's bottom leading edge, in a Fine dust jacket with some
wrinkling to the rear panel's upper left corner (corner-clipped by the
publisher, but not price-clipped), and some small tape repairs to the
verson Item #3516

Price: $50.00 TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $25.00


Trollope, Anthony
He Knew He Was Right

London: Strahan and Company, 1869. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, in book form bound
in three-quarters brown leather and marbled boards, and with the leather
having inner borders decorated with double gilt lines, the spines being
lettered and decorated in gilt with the title, author name, volume numbers
being on green leather blocks, and the top edge of each volume's close page
block in gilt as well. Very good +. Item #3517

Price: $1,500.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $450.00


Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd
The Wrong Box

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good or better copy of the first American edition, first printing in
the Publisher's original light brown binding.  A nice, attractive, copy.
Very good +. Item #3489

Price: $225.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $75.00


Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd
The Ebb-Tide A Trio and Quartette

London: William Heinemann, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good copy
of the first English edition, first printing, of this novel written by
Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, being Stevenson's
final novel Item #3488

Price: $210.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $65.00


Masch, Gottlieb Matthaeus Carl [Masch, G. M. C.]
Wappen-Almanach der Souverainen Regenten Europa [Coat of Arms Almanac of
the Sovereign Rulers of Europe]; Wappen-Almanach der souverainen Regenten
Europas : mit Geschlechts-Tabellen und Wappenbeschreibungen [Coat of arms
almanac of the sovereign rulers of Europe: with gender tables and
descriptions of the coat of arms]

Rostock: J. G. Tiedemann, 1842. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Very Good or better copy of the first edition, first printing, of this
notable German Almanac of the Rulers of Europe issued for 1842, complete
with fifty-four (54) black and white plates, all present, each with its
original gender table and descriptions of the relevant Coat of Arms. The
volume shows some spotting to the covers, a name and address stamp to the
front free endpaper and some scattered foxing to the pages within; an
EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE BOOK with WorldCat locating only eight (8) copies. This
copy wears its EXTRAORDINARILY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET.  A notable book
in an ASTONISHINGLY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. A RARE FIND FOR COLLECTORS
AND INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES. Very good / very good. Item #3160

Price: $6,000.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $1,650.00


Verne, Jules
At the North Pole; or The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1899. ALTA Edition. Hardcover. Jules Verne,
To the North Pole, Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, c. 1888. ALTA edition,
very good copy with some slant to volume and a few nicks to the front
board, in the EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUST JACKET, with an advertisement for other
works on the jacket verso with the latest title listed thereon indicating
an 1888 printing as the last title published that year.  A decent copy of
this Verne Work WEARING ITS RARE NINETEENTH CENTURY DUST JACKET, PERHAPS
ONE OF THE FEW CHANCES COLLECTORS EVER WILL HAVE TO ACQUIRE ONE IN ANY
COND written in pencil on the relevant title page -- with that in Volume I
having been somewhat erased. "The Prime Minister" is the fourth of
Trollope's Palliser novels [Can You Forgive Her? (1864); Phineas Finn
(1869); Phineas Redux (1874); The Prime Minister (1876); The Eustace
Diamonds (1873); and The Duke's Children (1879)]. Generally referred to as
The Parliamentary Novels, they overlapped his Barsetshire novels, and were
dramatization and broadcast by the BBC as The Pallisers. Of "The Prime
Minister", Trollope stated: "I had never yet drawn the completed picture of
such as statesman as my imagination had conceived.... He should have rank
and, intellect, and parliamentary habits, by which to bind him to the
service of his country; and he should have unblemished, inextinguishable,
inexhaustible love of country...as the ruling principle of his life and it
should so rule him that all other things should be made to give way to
it.... Such as character I have endeavored to depict in describing the
triumph, the troubles, and the failure of my Prime Minister." It is, in our
opinion, a wonderful Trollope novel and this is a wonderful copy with an
excellent shelf presence. Fine. Item #3511

Price: $3,450.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $1,220.00


Lord Macaulay; Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and The Armada [New Edition]

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884. New Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good
to Very Good + copy of Lord Macaulay's most famous literary work bound in
red cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, the front board attractively
lettered and illustrated, and the closed page block edges in gilt as well.
(The cloth shows a dark portion at the top edge where the jacket does not
cover the cloth.) The text is illustrated with Forty-One (41) illustrations
of various sizes by J. R. Weguelin. First published in 1842, this QUITE
SCARCE JACKETED volume presents great Roman tales here retold by Thomas
Babington Macaulay (also known as Lord Macaulay).  Very good + / very good.
Item #3231

Price: $2,250.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $725.00


Tavenor-Perry, J. [John] (1842-1915)
Dinanderie A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper Brass
and Bronze [WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS]

Edinburgh: George Allen & Sons, 1910. John Tavenor-Perry. First
Edition. Hardcover.
An EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, of
"Dinanderie A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper Brass
and Bronze" by the British architect, architectural historian, and
specialist on medieval architecture John Tavenor-Perry, in a Fine example
of the QUITE RARE dust jacket, TOGETHER WITH MOST OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
USED IN THE BOOK.  Not only is this copy of the book extraordinary, but
accompanied by so many of the Original Tavenor-Perry drawings used in the
book, it is ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING. Fine / Fine. Item #3007

Price: $5,850.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $2,250.00


Mabel Loomis [Editor]
Cycle of Sonnets

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Fine, Superior, Beautiful copy of the first edition, first printing [with
scattered light foxing within], in the RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET which
shows only light wear and a bit of chipping — the ONLY COPY in the dust
jacket that we ever have seen.  A QUITE SCARCE TO RARE copy as well as a
COLLECTION-DISTINGUISHING COPY.  The author of the sonnets is anonymous,
and is thought to be a male friend of Todd's. Todd, of course, also edited
Emily Dickinson's Poems -- which were also published by Roberts Bros. in
the same decade, also in plain jackets, as noted in correspondence of Todd
and the publisher. But no jacket on Dickinson's books is known to survive.
This book of sonnets may be the closest obtainable and comparable example
of the jackets that Roberts Brothers used on Emily Dickinson's books. RARE
INDEED. Fine / very good +. Item #3356

Price: $4,875.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $975.00


Trollope, Anthony
The Last Chronicle of Barset, With thirty-two illustrations by George H.
Thomas. [Bound from the Original Parts]

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. Hardcover. A Very Good + copy of the
First edition, First Issue, bound from the original parts (without the
advertisements found in the original wrappered Parts." A QUITE SCARCE COPY
BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS in which the tale was first issued to the
public. Very good +. Item #3362

Price: $1,550.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $400.00


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