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[Civil War Soldier]
Civil War Patriotic Cover Maryland May 25, 1861. 3-page letter with drawn
flag

Brick Meeting House: Union Soldier. First Edition. An Original Patriotic
Union Cover and its enclosed three-page letter (written on a single page of
paper folded once to make four (4) pages with both the letter and the
envelope showing the pair to have been sent from the "Brick Meeting House",
with the letter having a date of May 25 (?) and addressed to the writing
soldier's cousin. The letter's author has drawn an American Flag on the
upper left corner of his letter. In his letter, the soldier tells that
times have been "very dull", that he hopes that things will get better, and
discussing a recent wedding of which he had heard and asking his cousin to
write to him. He then mentions the flag he has drawn on his letter, tells
not to be frightened by it, and states that he felt that he should have one
on it, and stated that: "It is a strong union place down here. The letter
and envelope are in Very Good condition with the envlope remaining sealed
at the back but cut open on the leading edge and hosting a three-cent stamp
depicting George Washington. Very Good. Very good +. Item #3363

Price: $175.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $55.


Wodehouse, P. G. [Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville
Uneasy Money

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969. Later Printing. A Very good + copy of this
later edition (small mark to the front board's lower portion, slight wear)
in a Very Good + price-clipped dust jacket (light wear, minor soiling) of
this entertaining P. G. Wodehouse novel with a new Preface written by P. G.
Wodehouse not previously published. Set primarily in New York City, the
novel centers on Lord Dawlish whose fiancé will not marry him due to his
impecuniosity. He unexpectedly inherits a fortune from an man he once
helped in golf, learns that his benefactor left nothing to his niece,
Elizabeth Bold. Feeling uneasy about this, Lord Dawlish determines to give
half of the fortune to the poor girl, but executing his plan comes to be
entertainingly difficult. A rather nice copy with a new Preface by
Wodehouse. Item #3303

Price: $135.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $ 40.


Ebell, Adrian J. [John]
Structure and Classification of Insects being "Part II, of the Text-Book of
Natural History

New York: Ebell & Co., [1872]. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's
original green wrappers, being INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the Author to G. S.
Schultz on the Dedication page as follows: "Presented to G. S. Schultz /
with the compliments of / the Author. // December 1874." The inscribee's
name is stamped in blue on front wrapper as well as on the title page and
the Contents page. His blue ink circular ownership stamp appears on the
Dedication page and on the rear wrapper's outer side. A few pencil marks
and notes also appear. In addition to having a quite scientific mind, Ebell
also was a champion woman's rights and many women's clubs have been named
in his honor. The Ebell Club of Anaheim states: "Although Dr. ADRIAN JOHN
EBELL lived only to the age of 37, his life was rich and varied, and his
influence on the lives of women is present even today in the number of
women’s clubs that have taken his name. ...He began working in photography,
and also started operating a “phantasmagorical” magic lantern show in Hyde
Park and then Chicago with a partner. In August of 1862, both decided to
travel to Minnesota to photograph the Dakota tribe for use in their magic
lantern show. Ebell learned of thousands of Dakotas gathering at Upper
Agency on the Minnesota River, but before they could get there (shortage of
funds caused problems), the growing unrest in the tribe evolved into a full
blown war - later called the Dakota, Sioux, or Minnesota uprising, and they
were forced to flee. Ebell managed to take some Indian photographs of
straggling Sioux along the way. In September 1862, he volunteered for
service in an army force assembled to protect settlers at Birch Coulee and
was in a decisive battle. Later, some of his Dakota photographs were
published in the June 1863 edition of Harper’s Magazine as wood engravings
with his article “The Indian Massacres and War of 1862.” .... Adrian Ebell
then returned to New Haven and graduated from the Scientific School. During
the next few years he was involved in several pursuits, one of which was
the study of insects, and he published the book “Structure and
Classification of Insects,” which became Part 2 of the “Textbook of Natural
History.” He afterwards studied medicine at Albany Medical College,
graduating with an M.D. in 1869.....In the meantime, he had begun to
lecture before schools and lyceums on natural science, and in 1871 he
established himself as director of “The International Academy of Natural
Science,” in New York City with a similar Academy in Berlin. The Academy’s
agenda was a plan of travel and study in Europe for annually organized
classes of young ladies.....In late March 1877, Dr. Ebell embarked from New
York on board the steamship Frisia with a group of young women making one
of his Academic tours. Apparently, he became ill almost immediately. Upon
arrival at Hamburg on April 10th, he was able with assistance to get on
board the small steamer carrying passengers to the dock, but died before
reaching shore. The immediate cause of death was termed rheumatism of the
heart. Shortly thereafter the Oakland women’s group changed its name to the
Ebell Society in honor of their leader. They severed the tie with Germany
and formed their own courses of study and classes in the arts, becoming a
huge success." A Very Good copy and, of course, RARE INDEED. Very good.
Item #3634

Price: $235.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $65.


Tarkington, Booth
The Magnificent Ambersons

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in Publisher's
original brick-colored boards (a bit askew, bumping to the front board's
lower right corner, some handling soil and modest rubbing to the spine ends
and board corners and lacking the exceedingly scarce dust jacket;
Tarkington won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this novel. He also
won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Alice Adams -- making him one
of only four novelists to win the Prize twice [Tarkington, William
Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead.] One of the most popular
novelists of his time, Tarkington, in a 1921 poll conducted by Publishers'
Weekly booksellers Tarkington was rated as being "the most significant
contemporary American author", and he was considered to be a writer as
significant as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). This work is the second in
Tarkington's Growth Trilogy ["The Turmoil" (1915), "The Magnificent
Ambersons" (1918) and "The Midlander" (1923 -- re-titled "National Avenue"
in 1927]. Per Wikipedia: "The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the
United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the
aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood
between the end of the Civil War and the early 20th century, a period of
rapid industrialization and socioeconomic change in America. The decline of
the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons
and other new money families, which derive power not from family names but
by "doing things." The Magnificent Ambersons provided the basis for
multiple films: (i) the 1925 silent film Pampered Youth; (ii) the 1942 film
written and directed by Orson Welles (the released version of which was
edited against his wishes; and the 2002 TV adaptation based on Welles'
screenplay. This is a better copy than we usually see. Very good. Item #3629

Price: $220.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $55.


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; with the Publisher's
rights printed on the verso of both title pages (omitted from verso of
title page in vol. 2 for the book form edition) with the plate facing p.
297 of Volume with the semicolon present after "Hoggle-Stockians" (missing
in the bound edition), and the plate facing p. 370 spelling "Consent" with
a capital "C". On Page 157 of Volume I the final "D" of the running
headline is perfect (it appears broken in the second edition), and in
Volume 2, p. 298 line 21, third word is "Crawley" (which was changed to
"Toogood" in the second edition). The leaves have been rebound in 3/4 blue
leather with coordinated blue cloth, the closed page blocks, the
pastedowns, and the facing side of each free endpaper of each Volume is
marbled as well. Each volume's binding shows some imperfections due to age
and use, and a number of the leaves show tiny chips to their leading edges.
This work is the last of the six (6) Trollope novels in his wonderful
Barsetshire series of novels, and of this final installment Trollope
stated: "I regard this as the best novel I have written." The novel is
centered around a devout Clergymen, Josiah Crawley, and an allegation made
against him that he had stolen a check. The tale also covers the death of
quite unpleasant Mrs. Proudie, the then-Bishop's wife, and the Bishop's
consequent release from her thralldom. Of Trollope, Henry James stated:
"His [Trollope's] great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation
of the usual. ... [H]e felt all daily and immediate things as well as saw
them; felt them in a simple, direct, salubrious way, with their sadness,
their gladness, their charm, their comicality, all their obvious and
measurable meanings. ... Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy,
though not one of the most eloquent, of the writers who have helped the
heart of man to know itself. ... A race is fortunate when it has a good
deal of the sort of imagination—of imaginative feeling—that had fallen to
the share of Anthony Trollope; and in this possession our English race is
not poor." 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 $ 285.


Clancy, Tom; [Ball, John]
Clear and Present Danger [SIGNED]; [Last Plane Out]

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Editions. Hardcover. A Fine copy
of the first edition, first printing in a Virtually Fine dust jacket,
SIGNED BY TOM CLANCY on the half-title. The book itself is sharp, unfaded,
with bright gilt lettering and is without the concavity to the spine that
plagues most copies. The dust jacket has only a tiny bit 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 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.] Clancy dedicated the book to his fellow-author and friend John Ball.
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's "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. Clancy's dedication to
Ball of "Clear and Present Danger" is based in part on Ball's "Last Plane
Out" and states: "To the memory of John Ball, Friend and teacher, The
Professional who too the last plane out." A Fine copy of this Tom Clancy
novel in a Virtually Fine dust jacket.

NOTES RELATED TO 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.

"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 / near fine. Item #3593

Price: $945.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $185.


Routledge, Edmund
Beadle's Dime Handbook of Croquet [Beadle's Dime Book of Croquet: A
Complete Guide to the Practice of the Game Giving All the Rules Proposed by
Various American Writers on the Game]

New York: Beadle and Company [118 William Street], [1866] (copyright 1866). No
Edition Stated. Wrappers. An about Very Good copy of this variant issue
[having the front cover showing Beadle and Company 118 William St. as the
Publisher's name and address, and with the title page, showing the
Publisher as Beadle and Adams at 98 William St.], with the Preface and
Contents pages as separate leaves, with added leaf for Croquet Score and a
separate Explanation of the Score on the verso thereof. The booklet
contains a Frontispiece (which is reproduced on the cover), and various
illustrations in text. The Booklet contains 28 pages - including the
section on Croquet Terms. The text itself is without advertisements. The
inside of the front cover is headed Popular Dime Hand-Books and advertises
the Standard School Series and Young People's Series. The recto and verso
of the back cover advertises other Beadle's publications. The spine shows
quite little loss and slight splitting, and the booklet's front cover shows
general edge wear and the rear cover shows some wear, a small area of loss,
and a near complete tear at to the lower left (see images). The spine
lettering is quite nicely visible (see images). Within, the pages show
foxing and edgewear and the booklet shows a vertical bend line which would
result from bending the booklet in half for insertion into a pocket. RATHER
SCARCE and not often seen offered on the internet. Very good. Item #3388

Price: $350.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $ 75.


Marchington, John [Compiler] [Multiple Authors]
A Portrait of Shooting

Warwickshire: Anthony Atha Publishers and The Game Conservancy, 1979. First
Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition,
first printing, being copy 784 of 1100 copies issued in this Limited
Edition (light corner rubbing) in the Publisher's original slipcase (which
shows some marking, primarily to the slipcase verso) with the book being
bound in in green quarter leather with the spine and front board lettered
and decorated in gilt and the closed page block's top edge in gilt as well,
housed in a coordinating green cloth slipcase. The book (which shows a gift
presentation to the half-title] is copiously illustrated with both black
and white illustrations and twelve color plates. This Anthology presents
numerous writings articles about numerous aspects of shooting game birds
and rabbits. The gilt bird decoration and title on the front board and
spine remain remarkably vibrant and unrubbed. A Fine copy in a Very Good
slipcase. [PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK AND BUYER'S POSTAGE COSTS WILL
EXCEED THAT QUOTED BY THIS SITE.]. Near fine / [Slipcase: Very Good with
marking. Item #3493

Price: $145.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $ 45.


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