Comptroller of the Treasury. Steele, John

Circular to Collectors, Naval Officers, and Surveyors. Treasury Department, Comptroller's Office, January [15, in Manuscript] 1801. : Sir, Pursuant to the Intimation Given You in Mine of the 30th of May Last, I Now Forward You Herewith Inclosed a Table of the Duties Payable on All Goods, Wares and Merchandize Imported Into the United States . .

[Washington], 1801. Broadside. 1 sheet. Sm. 4to. Signed in ink by Comptroller Jno Steele. Added again at top. John Steele (1764-1815), a Representatives from North Carolina between 1790 and 1793, and a Federalist, was controller from 1796-1802. LIsts three questions about the application of the law and answers each in trun. Scarce. OCLC locates only one, at the American Antiquarian Society. Our copy without integral blank form. Not in Amer. Imprints. Three old repaired tears at edge on verso, else still about very good, edges browned with tiny chips and tears.

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Stone, Edward Martin

The Architect and Monetarian: A Brief Memoir of Thomas Alexander Tefft, Including His Labors in Europe to Establish a Universal Currency

Providence, Sidney S. Rider and Brother; (Providence Press Company), 1869. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 64 pp. Sm. 4to. Inscribed with the author's compliments. Thomas Alexander Tefft (1826-1859) pioneered Romanesque and Italianate architectural forms in the United States. "While still a student, he designed the original Union Depot in Providence and the Cannelton Cotton Mill in Cannelton, Indiana, each the largest project of its type in the United States at the time. Graduating from Brown in 1851, Tefft had a short but prolific career. His projects included houses, churches, academic buildings and commercial structures. In general, Tefft favored the use of round arches and twin spires, features that were prominent in the Union Depot. He also gave close attention to the use of brick ornamentation. Notable projects completed using Tefft's designs were the Female Institute in Richmond, Virginia, and an octagonal library based on the "panoptic" plan at Williams College." (Michael Walter). Spine repaired and reinforced with tape and staples, wrappers, title, and a few leaves heavily chipped along edges, institutional release stamp on margin of front wrapper and occasionally throughout, closed tear to bottom edge of contents, author's compliments inked in on front wrapper, contents clean but still good only.

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[Loyalist. Canada] Stone, Joel

[Archive] Three Als by Colonel Joel Stone Concerning Loyalists in Upper Canada, One on Verso of Rare Printed Document

[Ontario, Canada], 1816. [6]pp. 8 x 12 inches. Three letters from Colonel Joel Stone, Connecticut loyalist who settled in Canada, at three phases in his time there. In the first he is requesting an extension on his timber lease as his business grows, in the second, he is seeking compensation for property remaining in the Connecticut, and in the third, he is reporting on the commission on Forfeited Estates after he has withdrawn from business. 1. ALS. To Brigade Major (Edward Baker) Littlehales. Dated July 7, 1795. Leeds [Ontario, Canada]:1 pp. 8 x 12.5 inches. Very good, minor edge tears, tape remnants to top edge, faint browning and soiling. Copy of letter from Colonel Joel Stone to Brigade Major (Edward Baker) Littlehales, requesting Littlehales ask the Lieutenant Governor to postpone Stone's term of lease for land on Howe's Island. Stone suggests that the lease "..commence on the 18th of April, 1796, instead of 1795. I have not cut any timber, or suffered any to be cut on the island. And I will not cut timber, make any improvements, or suffer it to be done by any other person or persons, until the time specified in the said Lease. Provided his Excellency will have the goodness to indulge me thus far, the singular stagnation of the market for Boards and plank obliges me to pray for time - and as I consider the markets at the worst, of course, they must mend." Signed by Stone 2. ALS. To Leman Stone. Dated 7th February 1798. Leeds. [3] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 12.5 inches. Very good, minor tears at folds. Sent, via a Mr. Ford, to his younger brother Leman Stone (1750-1847) back in Connecticut asking for his brother's help in dealing with a British Agent on reclaiming compensation for a tract of land in the town of Winchester he had purchased in 1776 and which was never confiscated and "to endevour to collect the Bonafida debts- their due to me in the state of Connecticut (and as I then considered irrevocable under the 6th article of the Treaty). Of the manner in which I was prevented by a mobb from collecting the assd Debts.." He wants his brother to work closely with the agent to procure the necessary legal documents, but for the transaction to remain quiet. He ends by discussing his son's dangerous illness over the last few months. Though "Leman did not declare for the British but there was no deep- seated animosity between Leman and Joel in spite of their ideological differences. Leman would not only help Joel escape in 1778 when he was imprisoned at Fairfield but the brothers would correspond throughout the war and for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, Leman would make every effort, after hostilities had ceased, to provide Joel with proof of his losses to lay before the British Claims Commission ," (Kenneth Donovan: 'Taking Leave of an Ungrateful Country': The Loyalist Exile of Joel Stone. Dalhousie Review, Volume 64, Number 1, 1984 p 125-145). 3. ALS. To Charles Jones. Dated "30 January" [after 1816 i.e after the 56th year of George III's reign]. Gananoque, [Ontario, Canada]. 7 1/2 x 12 inches. Written on the verso of two attached printed forms "Upper-Canada. Form of Affidavit, which the Widows of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Private Militia-men or Teamsters, entitled to Provincial Pension, whose husbands have died from disease contracted while in Service.. Most likely the forms relate to the Commission mentioned in the letter. Very good, lightly toned, reinforced centerfold and edge Sent to Charles Jones, Esq. [Brockville] "Sir, Considering it necessary the Government should know the state and standing of the Commission to Inquire of Forfeited Estates now in my hand, and to inform me that I was desirous soon to visit my friends in New York and Connecticut, I wrote accordingly in answer to which the Attorney General is pleased to express himself thus (Mr. Jones will act in it, I daresay) I therefore beg you will have the goodness to answer this by next post.." signed Joel Stone, Gananoque, dated 30 January [after 1816 i.e after the 56th year of George III's reign]. Stone and Jones, two very ambitious men, had locked horns for years, with Stone the better man, fighting Jones avarice, "there has been many things said of Charles Jones, Esq. for many years respecting his oppressing the poor, taking away their lands, making himself opulent on their ruin, etc." See Donald Harman Akenson: "Irish in Ontario, Second Edition: A Study in Rural History" (McGill Univ. Press, 1999; pp 99-102). Colonel Joel Stone (1749-1833), was born in, but driven out of Connecticut because he was a Loyalist; he then moved to New York City during the Revolutionary war. Never able to return to his home because he was wanted for treason, he settled in Upper Canada and founded Gananoque, Ontario on a grant 700 acres of land on the west side of the Gananoque River. "Once settled at Gananoque, the perennially ambitious Stone gradually established himself as its principal landowner and leading inhabitant. His development of a saw-milling operation in 1791 led to a further diversification of his business interests. By 1795 he was dealing with markets in Kingston and Montreal and had acquired a lease of property on Howe Island for lime kilns.. [He helped defend the town in the War of 1812, and afterwards] showed an increasing preoccupation with religious and moral responsibility. In 1815 he officially turned almost all his business interests over to his son-in-law, Charles McDonald, and he began to concentrate on his civic and judicial duties." (Elizabeth M. Morgan: "Stone, Joel". in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 6, 1987). Charles Jones (1781-1840 ) "was a member of one of the first loyalist families to settle in the upper St. Lawrence valley.. held lots and rental properties in Brockville, as well as rural lands, including millsites, throughout Leeds and the Rideau area. His father owned some 11,000 acres at the time of his death in 1812. Jones was constantly buying and selling lots. To contemporaries such as Joel Stone, he seemed to display a degree of greed and insensitivity which, if real, would blemish a generally upstanding character." (Thomas F. McIlwraith, "Jones, Charles," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7). We could find no copy of the printed form on which the letter is written at any library nor in Fleming's: "Upper Canadian Imprints, 1801-1841: A Bibliography." A related item is found in the Library and Archives of Canada. Stone's papers are at the Queen's University archives; the Gananoque Museum Collections; Toronto Public Library Collection. References: 1. Joel Stone, "The Narrative of Joel Stone" in .J. Talman, Loyalist Narratives From Upper Canada (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969 [1946]), 323-336 2. Elizabeth Margaret Morgan, "Joel Stone: Connecticut Loyalist, 1749-1833," MA Thesis, (Queen's University, 1980). 3. Timothy J. Compeau, "Dishonoured Americans: Loyalist Manhood and Political Death in Revolutionary America" (2015). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2712. 4. Donald Harman Akenson: "Irish in Ontario, Second Edition: A Study in Rural History" (McGill Univ. Press, 1999; pp 99-102). 5. Elizabeth M. Morgan: "Stone, Joel". in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 6, 1987 6.Thomas F. McIlwraith, "Jones, Charles," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7. Very good copies.

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Storer, [Bellamy]

Michigan Election. March 1, 1836. Referred to the Committee on Elections. Mr. Storer Submitted the Following Documents to the House of Representatives: From the Wisconsin Free Press

[Washington D.C.], Blair & Rives, printers, 1836. First edition. Removed. 4 pp. 8vo. 24th Congress, 1st Session. Ho. of Reps. Doc. No. 154. Excerpt from the Wisconsin Free Press. A very good copy.

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[Federalists]. Sullivan, George; [Webster, Noah], Ingersoll, Jonathan

An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to Their Constituents, on the Subject of the War with Great Britain [Bound with] an Address to the Freemen in Connecticut

New Haven [with] Hartford, Printed by Walter and Steele [with] Hudson & Goodwin, 1812. First edition. Contemporary stitched plain paper wrappers. 31, [1] pp. & 7, [1] pp. 8vo. Two early Connecticut imprints most likely one signed by husband and one by his wife. 1. [War of 1812]. Sullivan, George. "An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to Their Constituents, on the Subject of the War with Great Britain." (New Haven: Printed by Walter and Steele, 1812). 8vo. 31, [1] pp. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. Contemporary owner's name and one line summary on first page, browned, else very good. An antiwar address, arguing that war with Britain was not "necessary or required by any moral duty, or any political expediency." Signedin print on p. 25 by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members. Provenance: Timothy Seward, signed, writing: "Serious truths attempted by the honest party in Congress." Most likely Timothy Seward of Guilford (1756-1849), a Revolutionary War musician. Various editions were published. [With] 2. [Webster, Noah], Ingersoll, Jonathan. "An Address to the Freemen in Connecticut" (Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1803). 8vo. 7, [1] pp. Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Contemporary owner's name and date on title page, lower edges torn roughly with loss at lower margin, otherwise a good untrimmed copy, foxed. A speech to a Federalist meeting deploring the changes by the Jefferson administration. A list of names, chosen for nomination in the next election, is appended. Skeel argues that it was written by Noah Webster. Cf. Skeel, E.E.F. A Bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster, 1958, Appendix A, p. 523-524, no. 6. Provenance: "Rebecca Seward Book 1810" (signed), Rebecca Seward, born Lee, (d. 1859) was the wife of Timothy Seward. Uncommon. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. [with] Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Good to very good, both signed, browned, some foxing, second item untrimmed and creased.

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Swift, Joseph Gardner

[Als] West Point's First Graduate, Joseph Gardner Swift, to Thomas Biddle

New York, 1815. [2 pp.] bifolium + address leaf. 8 x 10 inches. Brief letter of introduction with address leaf, dated May 15th, 1815, from J.G. Swift to Thomas Biddle, of Philadelphia. Swift tells Biddle that his brother in law, Eli Adams of Boston, "will have business in your department .. which I hope it will be convenient & profitable for you to aid him in." In his closing, Swift mentions the failing health of his former mentor. "I have lately heard that Genl Williams is ill - Be pleased to inform Mr. Adams how the Genl is." Army Chief of Engineers Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865) was West Point Military Academy's first graduate (1802), under the command of Superintendent Jonathan Williams. Swift would return to take command of West Point, both during Williams' absence in 1807, and then as Superintendent (1812-1814). Swift's correspondent, Thomas Biddle (1790-1831), of the famed Philadelphia Biddle family, had served with distinction during the War of 1812. In 1831 Biddle was killed in a duel, along with his rival, Congressman Spencer Darwin Pettis. Very good, folded.

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Tagle, Protasio P.; Iglesias, José María

Circular Expedida Por El C. Licenciado Protasio P. Tagle, Ministro de Gobernación, En Que Se Dan á Conocer Las Negociaciones Entabladas Con El C. LIC. José María Iglesias Para Dar Termino a la Guerra CIVIL, Y Que Fueron Rotas Por Su Parte

[Mexico], Impr. del gobierno, en Palacio,á cargo de J.S. Ponce de León, 1876. First edition. Later stitched paper wrappers. 27 pp. 8vo. Negotations over the presidency of Mexico between Potasio Tagle, Porfirio Diaz' Secretary of the Interior, and José María Iglesias (1823-1891), president of the Supreme Court and self declared President, broke down over the Iglesias' refusal to recognize the Plan de Tuxtepec, which had been proclaimed by Díaz when he had risen up against Mexican President Lerdo (whose presidency earlier has been nullified by Iglesias in his judicial capacity as President of the Mexican Supreme Court). Eventually Díaz defeated Iglesias who fled to the United States. None located at auction and OCLC locates only 8 copies: NYPL, Yale, UC Berkeley, Univ. Texas at Austin, El Paso, and Arlington, Ibero_Amer. Inst, and ITE Mexico. Very good, wrappers toned, minor edge wear.

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[Taylor, Zachary] Pyne, Smith

Obituary Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of the Death of Zachary Taylor, President of the United States: In the Senate and House of Representatives, July 10, 1850 with the Funeral Sermons by Rev. Smith Pyne, Dd, Rector of St. John's Church, Washington, Preached in the Presidential Mansion, July 13, 1850

Washington, D.C. William M. Belt, 1850. Disbound. 107 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w frontis engraving. Each page bordered in black. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was a Mexican american war hero , who served as the 12th president of the United States, and who once told Southern senators threatening secession that if necessary to enforce the laws, he personally would lead the Army. Persons "taken in rebellion against the Union, he would hang .. with less reluctance than he had hanged deserters and spies in Mexico. Lacking wrappers else very good, offsetting to title, light soiling and staining.

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(Pennsylvania Telegraph)

[Broadside] Pennsylvania and the Union! Her Armed Contribution to the Armies for the National Defence!

[Harrisburg, PA], Pennsylvania Telegraph, 1861. First edition. 13 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. From the Pennsylvania Telegraph, October 26, 1861. Addressed in manuscript on verso to Ohio Governor William Dennison (with canceled postal stamp). The broadside was printed to help correct the paper's earlier article that had stated that Pennsylvania with 55,800 troops committed to the war lagged behind New York (90,500) and Ohio (67,100). The new analysis now showed that Pennsylvania had in fact supplied 101,070 men, this despite Pennsylvania's large concentration of both pacifist Quakers and Mennonites. "These statements, based on the most reliable facts and figures, show a result such as no other state in the Union can exhibit, notwithstanding the social and religious organization of our communities renders a vast portion of our people conscientious on the subject of bearing arms against their fellow men in any cause or for any purpose." The author ends with a statement of pride in Pennsylvania not only being the birth place of the Declaration of Independence and the site of the Constitutional Convention, but that "she sends forth from her midst.. a large force to sustain the Declaration of Independence and vindicate the Constitution and laws, than has been contributed by any other commonwealth in the Union." Quite uncommon. OCLC locates only one copy at the Newberry Library. OCLC: 180773997. A very good copy with mailing folds, tiny tear at middle fold; stamped and addressed on verso else clean.

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Teller, H.M.; Surveyor General of New Mexico

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Compliance with Law, the Report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico, Respecting the Private Land Claim of Francisco Sandoval for the Santisima Trinidad or Rancho de Gavan Tract. January 9, 1884

Washington, D.C. n.p. 1884. First edition. Removed. 13 pp. 8vo. 48th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex. doc. no. 43. A very good copy, thin dampstain along fore edge.

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Thayer, Eli

Hancock Jeffersonian -Supplement. The Suicide of Slavery. Speech of Hon. Eli Thayer, of Mass. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 25, 1858

[Findlay, Ohio], [S.A. Spear], 1858. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. Rather than giving speeches, Eli Thayer (1819-1899) felt emigration could overturn slavery, and to this end raised funds to move northern men and anti-slavery proponents into territories and border states to swing the popular vote. He would later argue, it was this work, rather than the speeches of the abolitionists, that freed the slaves. A rare variant printed as a supplement to the Hancock Jeffersonian. Not at AAS. This edition not in LCP. Afro-Americana or Dumond. A very good copy, a few small soiled spots and a mail fold.

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Alvarez Thomas, Ignacio

El Director Interino Del Estado En Buenos-Ayres, a Los Habitantes de Todas Las Provincias. Ciudadanos: Los Enemigos Irreconciliables de Nuestra Libertad Se Glorian de Que Aprovechandose de Nuestras Discordias, Volverán Al Pais. .

Buenos Ayres, Imprenta de Niños Expòsitos, 1815. First edition. Broadsheet. [2] pp. 4to. Dated Agosto 26 de 1815. Alvarez Thomas orders that the army be sent to help the compatriots in Peru. This is followed by "Las comunicaciones oficiales del General del Exercito auxiliar de Perú, llegan el 27 de julio proximo anterior ..; Departamento de la Guerra," signed Balcarce, in which news is provided of the Cochabamba and Chayanta divisions commanded by Colonel Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales and Lieutenant Colonel Vincente Camargo. "Las medidas son extremas: "que en Jujuy se organice un cuerpo de caballería..", que en Salta también haya disposición de hombres y armas, que en "Tucumán se active el apresto de varias piezas de artillería que de antemano se habían mandado montar" y que de Buenos Aires "salgan los Regimientos de Infantería 2 y 3 á marchas forzadas.." OCLC shows copies only at JCB and BN Chile. Furlong IV, 3198. Zinny: Bibliografía histórica p. 148, No. 47. Fors: p. 53-4. A very good copy with minor edgewear, leaf browned.

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[Thompson, Elbridge Augustus]. Piscataquis County Historical Society

Elbridge Augustus Thompson Addresses on His Life and Character Delivered Before the Piscataquis County Historical Society at Dover, Maine, October Sixteen Nineteen Hundred and Eleven

Dover [ME], Observer Publishing Co, 1911. First edition. Paper wrappers. 34 pp. + [3] plates. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Dr. Elbridge Augustus, son of James Thompson, was born in Sangerville, Jan. 4, 1828. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, in the Foxcroft Academy, at Bowdoin College where he was a student for two years, and at the Medical School at Castleton, Vermont, from which he receieved his degree of M. D. in 1852. He began to practice his profession in the town of Charlestown, Maine, and continued until he entered the service in the civil war in 1862. He was on active duty as surgeon until Dec. 1864, and afterward was connected with the provost marshal's office in Bangor, Maine, from Jan. 1, 1865, until the close of the war. He began general practice in Dover, Maine.. He was unusually successful as a physician and surgeon, became a leader in his profession, and his practice extended througout Piscataquis county. He retired in 1903." (Little, George Thomas: Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine (1909), p721. OCLC show eight copies. Sprague, Bibliography Piscataquis County. 63. Very good, light soiling to wrappers, inked in notation, society plate on verso of front wrapper, compliments sticker tipped in, contents fine.

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Sociedad de Fomento de las Razas Caballares de Tiro

Sociedad de Fomento de Las Razas Caballares de Tiro. Catálogo Del Concurso Anual Que Se Abre El 21 de Octubre de 1897

Santiago de Chile, Imprenta y Encuadernación Barcelona, 1897. First edition. Paper wrappers. 42, [4] pp. 16mo. A rare catalogue of the annual competition by the Society for the Promotion of Draft Horses in Chile: Comprende reproductores caballares de cruzamiento, adaptables para el uso del Ejército; caballos castrados, modelo para el uso del Ejército, y reproductores caballares de pura raza del país. Describes 164 horses including their owners. Quite scarce. None in OCLC, CCILA, nor the BN Chile. The Univ. de Chile has a 1895 catalogue; the BN Chile has a copy of the Society's regulations and their newsletters. Anuario de la Prensa Chilena publicado por la Biblioteca nacional 1900: 978. A good copy, front wrapper detached, wrappers dampstained at edges, signatures loose, closely trimmed.

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[Arion Press]. Todd, Glenn. Hoyem, Andrew

Shaped Poetry. A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints Chronicling This Literary Form from 300 Bc to the Present

San Francisco, Arion Press, 1981. First edition. Loose prints in a black paper wrapper with title letterpress printed on the front, with companion volume of two sewn signatures in paper wrapper with letterpress printed title; both volumes in a black cloth-covered drop-spine case with black styrofoam walls. Folio. 18 x 14 inches (46 x 35.5 cm). One of 300 copies. Suite of 30 typographic prints (broadside format), each on a different handmade paper in a wide range of typefaces and a variety of colors, presenting poems written in shapes from 300 b.c.e. to the present, with a volume of notes on the selections by Glenn Todd and Andrew Hoyem. Two volumes. This was the eighth publication of the Arion Press. Plate [12] of the prints is folded accordion style, and is accompanied by translation on separate sheet (plate [12a]). Plate [17] is printed on both sides of sheet. Contents: 1. Egg, Greece, 300 BC by Simias; 2. Pan Pipes, Greece, 250 BC by Theocritus; 3. Altar, Byzantium, 325 by Porfyrius Optatianus; 4. Acrostic, France, 1537 by Eustorg de Beaulieu; 5. Altar, England, 1633 by George Herbert; 6. Easter Wings, England, 1633 by George Herbert 7. Lute, France, 1634 by Robert Angot; 8. The Cross, England, 1647 by Robert Herrick; 9. Chalice, Germany, 1663 by Justus Georg Schottel; 10. Bottle, France, 1750 by Charles François Panard; 11. The Mouse's Tale, England, 1865 by Lewis Carroll; 12. Un coup de dés. [12a] A Throw of the Dice, France, 1897 by Stéphane Mallarmé; 13. Fish's Nightsong, Germany, 1903 by Christian Morgenstern; 14. Balloon, Italy, 1914 by F.T. Marinetti; 15. Necktie, France, 1914 by Guillaume Apollinaire. 16. It is Raining, France, 1918 by Guillaume Apollinaire; 17. Bohemian Crystal Vase, France, 1920 by André Breton; 18. Rose is a Rose, USA, 1920 by Gertrude Stein; 10. Sound Poem, USA, 1924 by Man Ray; 20. Grasshopper, USA, 1935 by E.E. Cummings; 21. Vision & Prayer, Wales, 1946 by Dylan Thomas; 22. Silence, Switzerland, 1954 by Eugen Gomringer; 23. Four to the Fourth Power, Germany, 1957 by Dieter Roth; 24. The Totem, USA, 1958 by May Swenson; 25. Voice, USA, 1959 by Philip Lamantia; 26. Caracol, Brazil, 1960 by Augusto de Campos; 27. Redboat, Scotland, 1963 by Ian Hamilton Finlay; 28. Seagull, USSR, c. 1970 by Andrei Voznesensky; 29. Swan and Shadow, USA, 1970 by John Hollander; 30. Rebus, USA, 1981 by Andrew Hoyem. Lacking the plexiglas display frame. Light shelfwear and rubbing to outer case else a fine copy, separate plexiglass display frame lacking.

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Keywords: Illustrated Books, , Books about Books, Literature, Book Arts & Collecting, Poetry, Illustrated Books, Printing Specimens, Concrete poetry, Broadsides, Fine Press, Book Books about Books