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N.p.: N.p., 1883. Hardcover. Narrow 4to (8" X 13"). Calf spine and pebbled paper over boards. 180pp. Good plus. Quite edgeworn and rubbed, with rounded outer corners, but calf strong and nice; fairly tight and unrestored, fully handleable. This typically cryptic ledger book hails from Ulysses S. Grant's adopted hometown of Galena in Jo Daviess County, an important lead mining center at one time thought to become the great hub of Midwest commerce. Consisting of pages lined in blue and red, the first 170 pages each bear a large "Trial Balance" and date penned boldly in brown ink -- the largest column beneath consisting of a row of names of individuals, businesses and institutions and two columns of numbers to the right of this. All are immaculately penned in the same quite attractive and legible hand. Perusing these pages one finds many a notable citizen of the day -- S.O. Stillman, John Nichols, B.F. Felt, others -- and an array of businesses -- to name a few, one finds regular entries for Merchandise…
Read More SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT DRAFT OF "ELECTION PROSPECTS." by Shaw, George Bernard - 1949
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SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT DRAFT OF "ELECTION PROSPECTS."
by Shaw, George Bernard
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Business Ledger
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[Autograph Manuscript, re: His Reflections on Economic and Political Matters]
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[London?], [nd. but possibly ca 1914].. Two pages, closely written in pencil, with deletions and insertions, on two quarto sheets of pale blue T.H. Saunders letterstock (watermarked '1913'). Horizontal fold, with minor creases and smudges, but very good. An intriguing manuscript in which Shaw embarks on a characteristically discursive consideration of war, politics, economics and matters of civilization, with the tone of possibly having been written in response to a request for views on same: "Pardon the abruptness of the suggestion; but suppose we blow the German fleet out of the water, or under it, and the consequence is that Russia profits by our victory to the extent of carving a Baltic province out of Germany and condemning Sweden to live in the bear's mouth, will that be a result for western civilization to rejoice over? The French seem to think that because Russia has drained away from France so much of the capital that is needed at home for making French towns and French children healthier…
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3 Autograph letters to Francis Bickley on four Pages (September 1925?- April 1926)
by Austen, John
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Each letter written to Francis Lawrence Bickley, author of The Adventures of Harlequin which was one of early fine books he illustrated. Each written on his letterhead John Austen. The September letter is not dated by year but from internal evidence points to 1925 when his "Rogues in Porcelain" was issued by Chapman and Hall. Austen writes that he is glad he thinks well of the "Rogues" and I look forward to your criticism of it. [In a case of apparent censorship, he writes:] "A[rthur]. Waugh, publisher of Chapman and Hall, is [desolatest?] because forsooth I have included "The Dove" its evidently the first line he had read it, as he knew well that I was to use it and now he says its indecent and will probably stop sales. I suggest it only increases them. I will certainly tell him to include the Bookman in his list but probably has already done so." He goes on to note: "I enclose the proof of your story which I enjoyed muchly--wish I could decorate a volume of such. Certainly, I will do something with…
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Designs and specifications for Shingle-Sydes; Litchfield County, Connecticut: The home and studio of Connecticut illustrator, poet, and architect, William Walworth Stilson, (1874-1962)
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Calligraphed title, verso with manuscript inked faked printer's sign "the Shingle-syde Press" within double rules, 16 architectural plates (15 on thick drawing paper, one on tracing paper) with pencil and watercolour drawings of elevations, plans and sections of his house. Loosely contained in later cloth portfolio, with gilt morocco label to front cover. Folio (700 x 470 mm). A charming set of large hand-drawn and delicately coloured architectural delineations for the home and studio of Connecticut illustrator, poet, and architect, William Walworth Stilson, (1874-1962), a Connecticut artist born in New Milford and a resident of Bridgeport and Shelton. He illustrated several books, including Willard Nelson Clute, Our Ferns in Their Haunts (1901); William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis (1909); and Hamilton Wright Mabie, The Writers of Knickerbocker New York (1912). The house was completed in 1902. His papers are housed at the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript…
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Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times
by Hayden, Thomas [C. Wright Mills]
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Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, 1964. Preprint, first edition. Preprint, 218 mimeographed pages in metal-clipped folder binding. Title page has pulled free from the metal clips; chipping to paper title block on front folder panel. Near-fine.. The preprint of Thomas Hayden's (1939-2016) intellectual biography of C. Wright Mills, Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times, published by Routledge in 2006. Hayden was an American social and political activist, author, and politician, perhaps best-known for his role in the radical social movements of the 1960s. After co-authoring the charter manifesto of new Left radicalism, the "Port Huron Statement," in 1962, Hayden would complete his biography of influential sociologist and elite theorist C. Wright Mills at the University of Michigan in 1964, exploring Mills's scholarship and activism and the ideas and thinkers that influenced him. Mills (1916-1962) was a professor of sociology at…
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[Autograph Manuscript, re: His Reflections on Economic and Political Matters]
by Shaw, George Bernard
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[London?], [nd. but possibly ca 1914].. Two pages, closely written in pencil, with deletions and insertions, on two quarto sheets of pale blue T.H. Saunders letterstock (watermarked '1913'). Horizontal fold, with minor creases and smudges, but very good. An intriguing manuscript in which Shaw embarks on a characteristically discursive consideration of war, politics, economics and matters of civilization, with the tone of possibly having been written in response to a request for views on same: "Pardon the abruptness of the suggestion; but suppose we blow the German fleet out of the water, or under it, and the consequence is that Russia profits by our victory to the extent of carving a Baltic province out of Germany and condemning Sweden to live in the bear's mouth, will that be a result for western civilization to rejoice over? The French seem to think that because Russia has drained away from France so much of the capital that is needed at home for making French towns and French children healthier…
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Forty-six fine watercolours elegantly bound in a nineteenth-century album
by NOVELLI, Francesco
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Probaly Venice, 1825. An exquisite suite of watercolours, including a beautiful series of scenes documenting a Venetian commedia dell'arte troupe, by the Italian artist Francesco Novelli. Francesco Novelli (1767-1836), one of the preeminent artists of his generation, lived in Venice where he was best known for his outstanding book illustration. He enjoyed a long and successful career that culminated in the landmark editions of Don Quixote (1819) and Gil Blas (1820). Novelli is also known for illustrating works such as the Fasti Veneziani (1794), hinting at his abiding interest in the theatre and the performing arts. In this unmatched collection of Novelli's watercolours, the greatest number are piquant images of a troupe of the commedia dell'arte, with especially fine depictions of Pierrot himself, as well as other key figures such as Columbine and Harlequin. There is a remarkable series of scenes from a play, as well as studies of individual performers, many so precisely rendered that it is almost…
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Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties ""La Porcelaine de Chine"" et ""Le Bronze chinois""
by ANONYME
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Paris, 1888. Fine. Paris 1888, 18x23cm, relié. - Manuscrit intitulé ""La Porcelaine de Chine"" orné de nombreux dessins originaux in et hors-texte en noir et en couleurs réalisés à même la page, sur de fins morceaux de papier de Chine contrecollés dans le texte ou sur des planches isolées de papier fort. L'exemplaire est également truffé d'une planche provenant du Costume historique de Racinet (1888) ainsi que d'une page imprimée de ce même texte. Il s'agit d'un recueil factice réalisé d'après plusieurs textes : Octave de Sartel, La Porcelaine de Chine (1881), Stanislas Julien, Histoire et fabrication de la porcelaine chinoise (1856), Maurice Paléologue, L'Art chinois (1887) et Louis Figuier, Les Merveilles de l'industrie (1873). Une dernière partie sur les bronzes chinois provient également de L'Art chinois de Paléologue. Tous les dessins sont réalisés d'après les illustrations des ouvrages sus-mentionnés et très…
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Designs and specifications for Shingle-Sydes; Litchfield County, Connecticut: The home and studio of Connecticut illustrator, poet, and architect, William Walworth Stilson, (1874-1962)
by William Walworth Stilson
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Calligraphed title, verso with manuscript inked faked printer's sign "the Shingle-syde Press" within double rules, 16 architectural plates (15 on thick drawing paper, one on tracing paper) with pencil and watercolour drawings of elevations, plans and sections of his house. Loosely contained in later cloth portfolio, with gilt morocco label to front cover. Folio (700 x 470 mm). A charming set of large hand-drawn and delicately coloured architectural delineations for the home and studio of Connecticut illustrator, poet, and architect, William Walworth Stilson, (1874-1962), a Connecticut artist born in New Milford and a resident of Bridgeport and Shelton. He illustrated several books, including Willard Nelson Clute, Our Ferns in Their Haunts (1901); William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis (1909); and Hamilton Wright Mabie, The Writers of Knickerbocker New York (1912). The house was completed in 1902. His papers are housed at the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript…
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[Manuscript] 1954 A CINDERELLA STORY of a Basketball Championship from the Hand of the Coach, Richard Morland, Stetson Hatters: March Madness - 1957 A CINDERELLA STORY from the Hand of the Coach
by Richard Morland
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DeLand, Florida: Richard Morland, 1946. Near Fine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. In Richard Morland's, the coach, own hand is a record of the season. A 5.25 by 3.75 inch 6 ring note book with stiff cloth wraps; 158 lined handwritten pages with occasional newspaper box-score pasted in. Includes: *** Beginning with the preseason practices outlined and complete with a chart of physical test the players recorded during the preseason *** Notes or the pre-season scrimmage with a handwritten box score *** Details of each game played with Coach Morland's personal comments and reflections. *** ..."Worst game of my coaching career..." p60 *** " A game to remember.....almost blew the lead..." p175 *** Pasted in newspaper box scores *** Coach Morland's thoughts and strategies prior to games *** Sketches of opponents plays *** The last 20 pages are diagrams of the Stetson offensive plays. In 1956 - 57 the Stetson Hatters of DeLand, Florida has a tremendous year with an invitation to the 1957 NAIA…
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Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times
by Hayden, Thomas [C. Wright Mills]
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Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, 1964. Preprint, first edition. Preprint, 218 mimeographed pages in metal-clipped folder binding. Title page has pulled free from the metal clips; chipping to paper title block on front folder panel. Near-fine.. The preprint of Thomas Hayden's (1939-2016) intellectual biography of C. Wright Mills, Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times, published by Routledge in 2006. Hayden was an American social and political activist, author, and politician, perhaps best-known for his role in the radical social movements of the 1960s. After co-authoring the charter manifesto of new Left radicalism, the "Port Huron Statement," in 1962, Hayden would complete his biography of influential sociologist and elite theorist C. Wright Mills at the University of Michigan in 1964, exploring Mills's scholarship and activism and the ideas and thinkers that influenced him. Mills (1916-1962) was a professor of sociology at…
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Manuscript Recipe Book
by Watson, Anne
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Small Octavo. Bound in maroon limp calf, rubbed, scuffed, and well used but still strong. Internally a little grubby and smudged by handling, much as might be expected of a working kitchen book. 22pp. of handwritten recipes, rather enthusiastically jammed onto each page as if the author was afraid of running out of space, there's a rather youthful exuberance to the putting together of this little pocket recipe book. The recipes are dominated by cakes, puddings and breads, including Raspberry Fool, and various sponge cakes, with some complex preserved meat dishes like Calves' Feet Jelly, and a recipe for Mock Turtle Soup involving a Calf's Head with the skin on. The spelling is a little erratic, the composition pretty makeshift, but that doesn't detract from it being a handy little household reference.
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[Manuscript] 1954 A CINDERELLA STORY of a Basketball Championship from the Hand of the Coach, Richard Morland, Stetson Hatters: March Madness - 1957 A CINDERELLA STORY from the Hand of the Coach
by Richard Morland
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DeLand, Florida: Richard Morland, 1946. Near Fine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. In Richard Morland's, the coach, own hand is a record of the season. A 5.25 by 3.75 inch 6 ring note book with stiff cloth wraps; 158 lined handwritten pages with occasional newspaper box-score pasted in. Includes: *** Beginning with the preseason practices outlined and complete with a chart of physical test the players recorded during the preseason *** Notes or the pre-season scrimmage with a handwritten box score *** Details of each game played with Coach Morland's personal comments and reflections. *** ..."Worst game of my coaching career..." p60 *** " A game to remember.....almost blew the lead..." p175 *** Pasted in newspaper box scores *** Coach Morland's thoughts and strategies prior to games *** Sketches of opponents plays *** The last 20 pages are diagrams of the Stetson offensive plays. In 1956 - 57 the Stetson Hatters of DeLand, Florida has a tremendous year with an invitation to the 1957 NAIA…
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Tapuscrit de L'Exotisme colonial
by Maurel, Christian (1931-2011, écrivain et journaliste)
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1980. Dactylographié. Très bon. Couverture souple. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. Ensemble comprenant : 1) Le tapuscrit de premier jet avec de nombreuses corrections autographes : environ 16 ff. in-4 assemblés ; 2) Le tapuscrit définitif, y compris tables, crédits photographiques, 4e de couverture... : 29 ff. in-4 souvent reconstitués ; 3) Instructions pour les retouches de photos : 3 pp. tapuscrites in-4 avec corrections autographes, 2 pp. manuscrites in-12. Paru en 1980 chez Robert Laffont, L'Exotisme colonial présente environ 150 cartes postales à sujet exotique et colonial provenant de la collection de Jacques Fivel. Les images ont été choisies et mises en page par Bernard Kagane. La longue préface de Christian Maurel est d'une grande finesse. "Il est à craindre que tous les voyageurs deviennent bientôt le même sempiternel photographe, que le nombre des appareils…
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Producers' names of Eastern Macedonia. Crops 1975 - 1988 / Ονοματα Παραγωγων Ανατολικης Μακεδονιας. Εσοδεια 1975 – 1988: Prices of their tobacco bought by Vassilis Ioannidis / τιμες των καπνων τους που αγορασε ο Βασιλειος Ιωαννιδης
by Ioannidis, Vassilis
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Manuscripts with thousands of producers and their villages in a paperback Dossier. In images you can see examples of prices (image_3) & villages (image_4). GREEK text.
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THE ORDER OF CAROLS SUNG AT NORWICH SCHOOL CHRISTMASTIDE MCMLI.
by CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. ANON
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NP. 1951. Oblong 4to. (11.5 x 7.9 inches). Beautiful calligraphic manuscript in red and black. Six leaves written on both sides on hand made paper, plus four blank leaves, all sewn in with red cord. In a fine leather binding of full dark brown morocco with bevelled edges to the boards. Multiple blind ruled line borders and gilt ruled panel with floral corner pieces to the front board. A little rubbing and marking to the binding but still a very good attractive volume. ---- The carols included are; God rest you merry, gentlemen, Annunciation Carol, The Shepherd's cradle song, King Jesus hath a garden, Nowell! Nowell!, In the manger he lies, Falan-Tiding, O little town of Bethlehem, The holy well, Midwinter, The infant king, Ding dong merrily on high, A carol of adoration, The first Nowell.
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Summarized: General Assemblies & Board of Directors meetings / Περιληπτικον: Γενικων Συνελευσεων & Συνεδριασεων Δ. Συμβουλιου
by Various
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A near fine hardcover unique manuscript containing summarized decisions from 1956 until 1973 a Non Formal book of the company. GREEK text.
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3 Autograph letters to Francis Bickley on four Pages (September 1925?- April 1926)
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Each letter written to Francis Lawrence Bickley, author of The Adventures of Harlequin which was one of early fine books he illustrated. Each written on his letterhead John Austen. The September letter is not dated by year but from internal evidence points to 1925 when his "Rogues in Porcelain" was issued by Chapman and Hall. Austen writes that he is glad he thinks well of the "Rogues" and I look forward to your criticism of it. [In a case of apparent censorship, he writes:] "A[rthur]. Waugh, publisher of Chapman and Hall, is [desolatest?] because forsooth I have included "The Dove" its evidently the first line he had read it, as he knew well that I was to use it and now he says its indecent and will probably stop sales. I suggest it only increases them. I will certainly tell him to include the Bookman in his list but probably has already done so." He goes on to note: "I enclose the proof of your story which I enjoyed muchly--wish I could decorate a volume of such. Certainly, I will do something with…
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What Education is Of Most Worth? (Original Carbon typescript)
by Durant, Will
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Unpublished (Will Durant, Circa 1935), 1935. Draft . No Binding. Very Good. Sixteen Page Typewritten Carbon, Constituting His Complete Text For "What Education Is Of Most Worth?", Published In The Saturday Evening Post In 1936. With Durant's Typeovers, Handwritten Marginal "This Is P. 1 + 2 Of What Education Is Of Most Worth? This Copy Is Uncorrected" At Top Of Page One, Which Is Numbered Page Two But Contains The Text For Page One Typed Between Lines For Text For Page 2 On This "First" Page.
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Business Ledger
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N.p.: N.p., 1883. Hardcover. Narrow 4to (8" X 13"). Calf spine and pebbled paper over boards. 180pp. Good plus. Quite edgeworn and rubbed, with rounded outer corners, but calf strong and nice; fairly tight and unrestored, fully handleable. This typically cryptic ledger book hails from Ulysses S. Grant's adopted hometown of Galena in Jo Daviess County, an important lead mining center at one time thought to become the great hub of Midwest commerce. Consisting of pages lined in blue and red, the first 170 pages each bear a large "Trial Balance" and date penned boldly in brown ink -- the largest column beneath consisting of a row of names of individuals, businesses and institutions and two columns of numbers to the right of this. All are immaculately penned in the same quite attractive and legible hand. Perusing these pages one finds many a notable citizen of the day -- S.O. Stillman, John Nichols, B.F. Felt, others -- and an array of businesses -- to name a few, one finds regular entries for Merchandise…
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