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John Rathbone Oliver [1872-1943] was an American psychiatrist, medical historian,author and priest. After graduating from Harvard and teaching from 1894 to 1897, he entered the priesthood in 1900, leaving it in 1903, probably in the process of coming to terms with being gay. [He returned to the priesthood in 1927]. Oliver obtained his M.D. from the University of Innsbruck in 1910 and from 1917 to 1930 he was Chief Medical Officer for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore and a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He was also Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Maryland and an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins from 1930 to 1939. Good .
Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending, by this mail, the signed picture to your friend."
Achmed Abdullah, who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England, emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter, most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935 film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer".
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co- sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Good .
A substantial work printed in the USSR with Russian text in Cyrillic script on the origins of theatre from an anthropological perspective. The illustrations include depictions of primitive tribal and native rituals. Most of the plates depict early masks from different regions of the world. Good .
A bilingual book with the text printed in English at one end and in Hebrew at the other.
The fifty artists whose work is represented in the book are all associated with Marc Chagall Haifa Pavilion for Artists and the book is a project of the Public Committee of the Haifa Artists' House. Very good .
One of the series of print portfolios for "Petits Conteurs du XVIIIe Siecle". Fine .
First edition.
Inscribed by the author in the year of publication "To Eugene / with the best of wishes" and signed "Kofi Awoonor / 11/28/1992".
Kofi Awoonor [1935-2013] was killed in the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya in September 2013. With his death, Ghana lost a much loved and respected poet, literary critic and elder statesman. Awoonor was the author of novels, poems, plays, political essays and literary criticism. In the early 1970s, he served as Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stonybrook, returning to Ghana in 1975 to teach at the University College of Cape Coast. Awoonor grew up in the newly independent Ghana. His outspoken political views, his close friendship with its first president Kwame Nkrumah, and his fierce loyalty to the Ewe traditions of his grandmother, made him a controversial figure and under the military rulers who held power in the 1970s, he was arrested and jailed for ten months for allegedly being involved in a 1975 coup plot. In the last two decades, Awoonor contributed to the development of Ghana's democracy, both as a oounselor to the head of state and as Ghana's ambassador to the United Nations from 1990 to 1994. Very good .
First edition of this volume of Awoonor's poetry.
Inscribed by the author "For Yvette / Best wishes / Kofi Awoonor ".
Kofi Awoonor [1935-2013] was killed in the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya in September 2013. With his death, Ghana lost a much loved and respected poet, literary critic and elder statesman. Awoonor was the author of novels, poems, plays, political essays and literary criticism. In the early 1970s, he served as Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stonybrook, returning to Ghana in 1975 to teach at the University College of Cape Coast. As a poet, he was noted for his linguistic versatility, drawing on his knowledge of several languages and cultural traditions--Ewe, Akan, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Awoonor grew up in the newly independent Ghana. His outspoken political views, his close friendship with its first president Kwame Nkrumah, and his fierce loyalty to the Ewe traditions of his grandmother, made him a controversial figure and under the military rulers who held power in the 1970s, he was arrested and jailed for ten months for allegedly being involved in a 1975 coup plot. In the last two decades, Awoonor contributed to the development of Ghana's democracy, both as a oounselor to the head of state and as Ghana's ambassador to the United Nations from 1990 to 1994. Fine .
First edition, wraps issue.
Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Suzanne Schaffer / with every pleasure and hope you enjoy these. / Don Axinn". Very good .
Scarce. Very good .
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