Original Invitation to the Cornonation of King Edward VII

1902. RARE ORIGINAL INVITATION TO THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII OF ENGLAND. Printed on heavy cardstock framed with intricate royal insignia, with the guest's name, Mrs. Wm. Gibson, handwritten in black ink. Also features the embossed seal of the Earl Marshal of England, Henry, Duke of Norfolk. Very good condition overall. The paper is lightly foxed, and there is a tiny closed tear on the left edge. The guest's name appears to have been slightly retouched --- the "s" in "Gibson" has been traced over in blue ink. It also looks like the guest's name was rewritten by whoever originally filled out the invitation; there is faint smudging over which the name was finally written. Overall, a fascinating and attractive piece of English royal history! The coronation of Edward VII was originally scheduled for June 26, 1902, as printed on this invitation. However, due to a sudden abdominal health issue that required Edward to undergo surgery, the coronation was postponed to August 9, 1902. Very Good .

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Book number: 190980

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Sixteenth Legislature. No. 45 Senate. State of Maine. In Senate, March 1, 1836. The Joint Select Committee, to Whom Was Referred the Message of the Governor, Communicating the Report and Resolutions of the Legislatures of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, on the Incendiary Proceedings of the Abolitionists in the Non-Slave-Holding States

No Place, State of Maine, 1836. 1st Edition. Original wraps. 8-page pamphlet issued by the State of Maine in an edition of 1,000 copies. Two folded sheets of paper bound together with a single cord. Near fine condition, with just a few spots scattered here and there. Text of a state resolution ordering Maine citizens to withhold from interfering in the laws of other states. The legislature argued that slavery was unknown in Maine (a free state) but that it was not Maine's business to be concerned with what other states were doing. Maine was essentially taking a neutral position on slavery and urging her citizens not to become abolitionists. .

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Book number: 1245320

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Vernacular Photo Album

Original Photo Album of Wales, Circa 1930

Hardcover. An interesting British photo album containing sixty-seven b/w photographs of an unknown family's vacation in Wales in the 1930s. Album measures 12x9 inches and most photos measure 4 3/4 x 3 inches. Most photos are identified. The photos mainly depict scenic views of the Snowdonia region of Wales, including the Sychnant Pass, Capel Curig, and the Rack Railway. The album continues as the family heads north to Conwy Castle and ends with a number of shots of an unidentified sanitarium where the family visited - possibly Llangwyfan Hospital. .

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Book number: 1230742

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Buzz Aldrin and Malcolm Mcconnell Alan B Shepard and Deke Slayton James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger Frank Borman with Robert J Serling Walter Schirra with Richard Billings Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and John Glenn

The Astronaut's Library: Complete Set: Men from Earth, Moon Shot, Lost Moon, Countdown, Schirra's Space, We Seven

Norwalk CT, Easton Press, 1997. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. COMPLETE SIX VOLUME SET, SIGNED BY THE ASTRONAUTS. Bound in matching blue cloth decorated in gilt; gilt edges, moire endpapers, silk ribbon bookmarks. Near fine condition; some gilt on covers is lightly rubbed. The gilt edges on MOON SHOT are scratched; the other volumes have unscratched gilt edges. The original Easton Press Certificates of Authenticity are included with LOST MOON, COUNTDOWN, and WE SEVEN. .

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Book number: 1256254

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[Black Americana]

An Original Family Photo Album of a Black American Family's Vacations, 1950s/1960s

Album measures 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. 34 leaves, most with several pictures mounted on both sides. A total of 225 photographs, varying sizes but mostly 3 12/x x 6 inch snapshots. The photos were originally in color but on almost all of the photos, the color has faded out. ALBUM IS DISBOUND. All the pages are loose. The paper is brittle and chipped but should be preserved as the identifications of the photos are written on it. Some photos are loose but 80% are still within their photo mounts. The vast majority of photos are from family vacations in 1948, 1952, and 1955 across the American West and are identified on the album page below the photo. Includes photos of Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, San Diego, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, etc. there are also shots from a trip to Virginia in 1952 and a few of Canadian trips in the 1950s/1960s. The photos are usually of two types - either scenery shots or pictures of family members/friends posing with one one another. People are identified by their first name. The family name is not identified. The album came out of an estate in Baltimore and reputedly is of a Baltimore family. An interesting example of an unknown family of some apparent wealth to take an extended Western vacation in the post-WWII era. In Las Vegas, the family stayed at the famed Moulin Rouge Hotel, the first desegregated casino in Vegas and there are five photos of the short-lived hotel. Poor .

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Book number: 1265151

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Claudia Cassidy; Saul Bellow, foreword; Carol Fox, recollections

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 233p. INSCRIBED BY NUMEROUS OPERA STARS TO NORMAN PELLEGRINI. An oversize hardcover book in near-fine condition with a very good dustjacket. Corners and spine ends mildly rubbed; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has some small tears along the edges and at the corners, but is still mostly intact. Inscribed by 9 opera stars to Norman Pellegrini, who was the program director for WFMT, Chicago's classical music radio station. Among the signers are Placido Domingo, Arnold Voketaitis, Ardis Krainik, and Kathleen Kuhlmann. The book itself is fiilled with photographs, mostly in color, celebrating the history of Chicago's Lyric Opera. Measures approx. 12.25" x 10.25. Very Good .

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Book number: 187956

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Ludwig Bemelmans

Fifi

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. A very good hardcover book in a like dustjacket. The book has bright clean covers. Top right corners of first nine leaves are very slightly bent with a half-inch closed tear to the top right corner of the front free endpaper. The jacket is whole and intact with the original $2.00 price; the jacket shows mild shelf wear and a pair of half-inch closed tears to the front panel; there are no chips. There is a tiny 1/8-inch strip to the top of the rear jacket flap which is darkened. An attractive and presentable copy of this classic Bemelmans book. First (and only) printing of this uncommon Bemelmans title. His second children's book, published a year after the success of MADELINE, and featuring the adventures of Fifi, a French poodle. Very good .

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Book number: 1263499

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John Blaeu; R.V. Tooley

Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland

London, Thames and Hudson, 1970. Limited Edition. Leather bound. #384 OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Bound in 3/4 red morocco leather and cloth, housed in custom publisher's slipcase. Near fine condition. Appears unused but there is a tiny scuff to the leather spine affecting the letter S in ATLAS. Large folio, measuring 13 x 21 1/2 inches. Contains 115 maps, five of which are colored. Introduction by noted cartographer R.V. Tooley. .

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Book number: 1247223

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W.E.B. Du Bois

Black Reconstruction in America

Philadelphia, Albert Saifer. Vintage printing. Hardcover. Early edition. No date but circa 1950. Original black cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Spine lettering faded, light shelf wear to crown and heel of spine, and corners of both boards. Front hinge starting. Former owner's name at top of front free endpaper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Du Bois has autographed the book in blue ink in the middle of the front free endpaper. Scarce early printing, boldly signed by the author. Good .

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Book number: 1265150

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St. Bonaventure

The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi

San Francisco, John Henry Nash, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. #229 OF 385 NUMBERED COPIES. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED BY NASH on the front pastedown. Folio, bound in marbled paper-covered boards. Fine condition. Classic privately printed work by the famed California printer. .

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Book number: 1248044

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Hugh Boulter

Letters Written by His Excellency Hugh Boulter, D.D. Lord Primate of All Ireland

Dublin, George Faulkner & James Williams, 1770. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 288p, 198p + index. Contains two volumes bound as one book. Full 18th century calf stamped in gilt. Remains of old bookplate on front pastedown else clean and unmarked. Mild shelf wear, a study hardcover book in very good condition. Archbishop Boulter (1672-1742) was the top primate of the Church of Ireland as well as the personal chaplain of King George I. He was known for supporting penal laws against Irish Catholics. .

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Book number: 1234559

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David Brewster, ed

The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia: Vols. 1-18

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1830. 1st Edition. Hardcover. COMPLETE 18 VOLUME SET WITH OVER 500 MAPS AND PLATES. A complete 18-volume set in the original boards, and rare thus. Overall very good condition, with a few of the paper spine labels chipped or rubbed. Interiors clean and tight, some pages uncut. Quartos, with each volume measuring 9x12 inches. The set is almost four linear feet in length. ILLUSTRATED WITH HUNDREDS OF B/W ENGRAVINGS. The set contains 532 numbered plates of which 530 plates are present (plates 26 and 417 are missing) plus nine folding maps. The plates cover a wide variety of subjects as one would expect in a comprehensive encyclopedia. .

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Book number: 1251639

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Rupert Brooke

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1927. Later printing. Leather bound. 176p, frontispience portrait of Brooke with his facsimile signature. IN A BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING OF 3/4 GREEN LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARDS. Marbled endpapers, tope edge gilt. Spine decorated with floarl motifs and a singe raised hub. The unsigned binding shows a few traces of rubbing but the book is overall in fine condition. Stated 86th thousand on copyright page (the first edition was in 1915). Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was a leading literary light in England who bec ame famous for his war poetry at the start of World War One. He died en route to Gallipoli from an infection caused by a simple mosquito bite. Brooke's war poetry cemented his reputation as one of the great young poets of Britain's "Lost Generation.

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Book number: 1233422

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Lord Byron]

English Bards and Scottish Reviewers

London, James Cawthorn, 1809. 1st Edition. Leather bound. First edition, second issue. Paper is watermarked "E&P 1805" but p. 5 line 7 has the typos corrected. In a fine binding of half blue morocco and marbled boards, signed by Birdsall & Son with binder ticket. Former owner's name and date of 1809 on title page. A very attractive copy of this scarce early Byron work. .

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Book number: 1247825

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Romeo Martinez & Bryn Campbell

I Grandi Fotografi Josef Koudelka

Milan, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOSEF KOUDELKA. Softcover book in fine condition. Koudelka has inscribed the book "To Ernest from Josef, Paris, Christmas 1983" in a large flowing hand with the inscription ruunning across the inside front cover and half-title page. As new .

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Book number: 1257877

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