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1920s Pair of Letters, One Angry and One Joyful, Written to a Pennsylvania Boy in Quantico and Then Back Home in Birdsboro

FRIENDS OF ELMER ROLAND FRANCIS · 1920 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$79.99 (€72.58 | £60.55 | ¥12,773)

Quantico, Virginia, 1920. Manuscript. On offer are two letters written to Elmer Roland Francis (1903-1973) of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. The first letter is written while Elmer is serving in the military and staying in the Marine Barracks in Quantico, Virginia in 1923. The second …

1940s Manuscript Letters on Love, Child Rearing and the Polio Epidemic, Both Connected to a Prominent New England Artist

HELEN LOUISE BURROWS STUETZER, RUTH BURROWS · 1945 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$579.99 (€526.24 | £439.03 | ¥92,617)

Charlottesville Virginia VA. None. On offer is a small archive of two manuscript letters that interestingly connect an ill-fated marriage, child rearing practices in the mid-20th century and polio virus control restrictions in 1945. Both letters are connected to the Stuetzer and…

Tribulations de la Garde Nationale

BOUCHOT, Frédéric · 1835 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$4,500.00 (€4,083.00 | £3,406.35 | ¥718,594)

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1835. The Comic Misfortunes of the Bourgeois Citizen-Soldier Frédéric Bouchot's Brilliant Satire on the French National Guard BOUCHOT, Frédéric. Tribulations de la Garde Nationale. Paris: Chez Aubert, [1835]. First Edition. Folio (14 1/8 x 11 inches; 359 x 28…

"Quand vous verrez Blondin, dites lui que ma pensée le suit dans sa gloire et qu'il veuille réserver un 1/2 setier de son pactole à boire..." • Lettre autographe adressée à Roger Nimier évoquant son amtié et son admiration pour Antoine Blondin

Jacques PERRET · 1960 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€350.00 ($385.75 | £292.00 | ¥61,599)

s. l. s. d. [ca 1960] | 21 x 27 cm | une page | Lettre autographe signée de Jacques Perret, 22 lignes à l'encre noire, adressée à un confrère, probablement Roger Nimier. Trace de pliure inhérente à la mise sous pli. Jacques Perret attend un courrier de Roger Nimier qui a pris du…

ARCHIVE OF 25 SIGNED LETTERS, ETC

MILLER, Henry · 19681976 · Charles Agvent

$15,625.00 (€14,177.07 | £11,827.62 | ¥2,495,117)

Includes 23 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs), 2 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs), 3 SIGNED INSCRIPTIONS, and various materials including an audio recording on cd of a 1980 Celebration of Miller at The New School. The recipient is actress and friend Fiddle Viracola. One letter is SIGNE…

The Tyrolese Minstrels, or the Romance of Every Day Life

A Lady · 1841 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$140.00 (€127.03 | £105.98 | ¥22,356)

Boston, Massachusetts, George W. Light, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line beyond P.O.D.s. of this First Edition; "1841" appears on both title and copyright page. A perf…

1869 Chinese Coolie Arrival Manifest for Passengers of the German Vessel Confucius’ Voyage from Macau to Havana

ALIANZA Y CIA · 1869 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$2,199.99 (€1,996.12 | £1,665.32 | ¥351,311)

Havana, Matanzas, Cuba, 1869. Non-Book. On offer is an arrival manifest recording the names, information and fates of 26 Chinese men who were transported on an complicated voyage of the Confucius, from the port of Macau to Havana, Cuba to complete their indentured servitude as “…

1867 Chinese Coolie Arrival Manifest for Passengers of the French Vessel Delangle’S Voyage from Macau to Havana

ALIANZA Y CIA · 1867 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,975.99 (€1,792.88 | £1,495.76 | ¥315,541)

Havana, Matanzas, Cuba: Chinese Coolie Ship Manifest Havana Cuba, 1867. Non-Book. On offer is a unique arrival manifests recording the names, information and fates of 10 Chinese men who were transported on the January 1867 voyage of the Delangle. From the port of Macau to Havana…

1929-1933 Heartrending Journal of a Pennsylvania Woman Suffering the Impacts of a Failed Marriage During the Great Depression

MARY SAMPLE · 1929 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,159.99 (€1,052.50 | £878.07 | ¥185,236)

Chambersburg Pennsylvania Penn PA. Softcover. On offer is a small journal that offers a very stark picture of the life of many women in America who fell on the hardest of times at the beginning of the Great Depression. It also includes a reference to what became known as the “Cr…

Living History

Clinton, Hillary Rodham · 2003 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£18.40 (€22.05 | $24.31 | ¥3,882)

Headline Book. First UK edition-5th printing. Book. Near fine condition.Headline Book,2003.First UK edition-5th printing(10 9 8 7 6 5).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks on the edges of the front cover) with Dj(two small nicks,crease and scratch on the ed…

A Stain on the Silence

Taylor, Andrew · 2006 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,742)

Michael Joseph. First edition-first printing. Book. Fine condition.Michael Joseph,2006.First edition-first printing.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks on the edges of the cover) with Dj(small crease and nick on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine cond…

DOCUMENTARY #1 STRUGGLE with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

GUTHRIE, Woody · 0 · Charles Agvent

$25,000.00 (€22,683.31 | £18,924.19 | ¥3,992,187)

[New York]. Asch Records. First Edition. Album of three 78 rpm discs housed in the original half blue cloth with illustrated front board containing the records in three paper sleeves (10-1/4" x 12"). With a superb five-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in dark pencil by Guthrie on th…

Recueil de Scenes Populaires

PIGAL, Edmé-Jean · 1822 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$12,500.00 (€11,341.65 | £9,462.09 | ¥1,996,093)

Paris: Chez Martinet et Gihaut, 1822. Fifty-Two Highly Amusing Hand Colored Lithograph Plates Showing the People of Paris PIGAL, Edmé-Jean. Recueil de Scenes Populaires. [Collection of Popular Scenes]. Paris: Chez Martinet et Gihaut, [1822]. First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 10 1/8…

D. Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginiensis et martyris opera.

CYPRIANUS. · 1550 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€650.00 ($716.39 | £542.28 | ¥114,398)

Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1550. 8vo. 466 (recte 456),(13 index),(1),(2 blank); 456,(6 index),(1 blank),(1 printer's mark) p. Half calf over wooden boards 18 cm (Ref: USTC 123042; Schoenemann 1,117 & 119, mentions editions of Sebastianus Gryphius of 1528 and 1544; Grae…

1903-1905 Diaries and Ephemera of a Talkative Indiana Quaker Mother of 11 Keeping House and Keeping Busy in the Community

CATHERINE ELIZABETH MEIER · 1854 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$3,155.99 (€2,863.53 | £2,388.98 | ¥503,972)

Indiana, United States. Softcover. On offer are two diaries of a woman describing in great detail life in the mid-west at the end of the 19th century. The author of the diaries is Catherine Elizabeth Meier (1854-1934). She was born near Bucyrus, Ohio to parents George and Cathar…

1889 Remarkably Detailed Manuscript Diary of a Waldo County, Maine Public Official, Farmer, Land Surveyor and Family Man

MARK SAUNDERS [SOMETIMES SANDERS] STILES JR. · 1889 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,455.99 (€1,321.07 | £1,102.14 | ¥232,503)

Brooks, Jackson, Waldo County, Maine, New England, 1889. Softcover. On offer is a diary that delves deeply into a year in the life of a multitalented, bright and community-minded man, the Hon. Mark Saunders [sometimes Sanders] Stiles Jr. (1845-1926) , a prominent figure in the h…

Antwerp panorama - Jan Bapitst Vrients, 1652

Jan Baptist · 1610 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€16,500.00 ($18,185.18 | £13,765.59 | ¥2,903,945)

MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF ANTWERP "Antverpia," copper engraving on four sheets, first published in 1610 by Jan Baptist Vrients, here in an edition printed after 1652. With partly original, partly later hand colouring. Size: (print) approx. 43 x 219 cm, (frame) 80 x 255 cm. The v…

Plutarchi Chaeronensis peri PAIDÔN AGÔGÊS, seu De puerorum educatione libellus. Analysi grammatica, interpretatione simplici ad textum graecum & paraphrasi perspicua ad modum Iohannis Minellii, illustratus studio M. Christiani Iunckeri, Dresd. Ill. Gymnas. Sax. Henneb. quod Schleusingae est, Conr. (Bound with:) Isocratis Attici rhetoris Orationes tres. I. ad Demonicum. II. ad Nicoclem. III. quae inscribitur Nicocles. Analysi grammatica, interpretatione simplici ad textum graecum & paraphrasi perspicua ad modum Iohannis Minellii, illustratae studio M. Christiani Iunckeri, Dresd. Ill. Gymnas. Sax. Henneb. quod Schleusingae est, Conr.

PLUTARCHUS & ISOCRATES. · 1719 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€220.00 ($242.47 | £183.54 | ¥38,719)

Leipzig (Lipsiae), Apud Maurit. Georg. Weidmannum, 1719. 8vo. Two parts in 1 volume: (XIV),381,(3, stocklist) p. Vellum 17 cm (Ref: VD18 10402462; Ad 1: Hoffmann 3,185; Ad 2: Hoffmann 2,478) (Details: Two title-pages, both printed in red & black. On the left pages, printed in …

The Summer of a Dormouse: A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully

MORTIMER, JOHN · 2000 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£6.68 (€8.01 | $8.82 | ¥1,409)

Viking. 2000. (ISBN: 9780670891061). Hardcover. Hardback with dustjacket - 2000 - good condition - used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, nonfiction, non-fiction books delivered world wide. "The time will come in your life when t…

Album Varié Par M.M. Cham, Daumier, Gavarni

CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); Noé, Amédée de · 1851 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,500.00 (€2,268.33 | £1,892.42 | ¥399,219)

Paris: Chez Arnauld De Vresse, 1851. A Fine Selection of Sixteen Hand Colored Lithographs from Five of Cham's Best Albums CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Album Varié par M.M. Cham, Daumier, Gavarni, et autres Dessinateurs du Charivari. Paris: Chez Arnauld De Vresse, [ca. 1851…