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Ouseley, William Gore Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States
$250.00
London: J. Rodwell, 1832. First edition. 8vo. xv, 208p. Bound in quarter calf with marbled sides and text block edges, the spine with gilt title on a red ground, the panels densely gilt. Contents quite clean, binding very good with some minor rubbing to sides. Two bookplates.
Howes O-157; Sabin 57946.
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Landmark cattle boom text, rare 1882 printing
Brisbin, Gen. James S. THE BEEF BONANZA or How To Get Rich on the Plains, being a description of cattle-growing, sheep-farming, horse-raising, and dairying in the West.
$489.98Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #0903021 Bibliographers only cite the 1881 first edition (copyright 1880), & do not mention this 1882 printing, which collates & sizes identical to the 1881 printing. Attractive pictorial gilt & blind-stamped small 8vo cloth. 222pp. Illustrated with several wood engravings. Index. 6pp of additional publications. Bibliographer Reese writes, in part, “Brisbin’s book has long been considered the most important promotional work adding fuel to the cattle boom of the 1880s… (note of Brisbin’s plagiarism) …Whether the facts were his or not, Brisbin paints a spectacular picture in which his favorite phrase is ‘and the profits are enormous.'” Information out of Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, etc.. According to Reese, at the 1st National Convention of Cattlemen in 1884 in St. Louis, Brisbin was elected vice president of the Nat’l Cattle and Horse Growers’ Assoc.. Moderate wear to extremities. Bottom of spine with slight fraying. Light soiling. Minor rubbing. Very good, tight, original condition. Rare in either printing & exceptional in this condition. Herd 322, 6-Score 15, Rader 486, Howes B780.
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Barnard's Beautifully Reproduced Photographs
Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas
$7,500.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Herman Manasse, after 1953. Oblong folio. [3], [61] ll. Photographic reproduction. All pages are photographic paper (likely sliver gelatin prints), stubbed and bound in cloth boards, backed in morocco. Binding is 16″ x 19.” Cover titled in gilt with presentation name in gilt below: “Mr. and Mrs. T. Harry Gatton.” The first leaf, is a photographic reproduction of the endpaper of the original copy capturing an ownership note in French, dated 1952. This note, along with a printed inclusion (also part of the photograph), identifies the copy used for reproduction as belonging to G. M. ver Hulst having come to him from his uncle, the Comte Francois de Montholon who died 23 December 1951. The printed inclusion notes that this reproduction was done “by Herman Manasse especially for Mr. & Mrs. T. Harry Gatton of Raleigh, North Carolina.” We use the endpaper inscription as the earliest possible date of reproduction. Based on the physical aspects of the book, it was probably done not long after that time. Only light wear to the binding. The “contents” leaf has a small closed tear to the top margin; rippling to the photographs throughout. It appears that during the rephotographing process the border of each photograph was masked off, except for each photograph’s title. Count Montholon’s copy was exceptionally clean making this a remarkably good reproduction, a couple of the images capture some abrading to the original, but generally, these are very clean, bright images of one of the great American photographic works. As official photographer of the Military Division of Mississippi, Barnard photographed Sherman’s march to the sea, capturing the devastation left in the wake of the general’s controversial scorched earth campaign. The images are indeed striking. A contemporary review calls this, “a splendid volume, containing 61 imperial photographs, embracing scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid through the Carolinas. These photographs are views of important places, of noted battle-field, of military works; and, for the care and judgment in selecting the points of view, for the delicacy of execution, for scope of treatment, and for fidelity of representation, they surpass any other photographic views which have been produced in this country—whether relating to the war or otherwise.” Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 8, 1866. p. 771. And indeed, it has held up as a monument of American photography. While the first edition does come to market periodically, it realizes some extraordinary prices. We’ve been unable to determine how many copies of this full-sized reproduction were created. Though the inclusion on the first leaf specifically states that this copy was for Gatton, a series of cards could have been substituted as the leaf was repeatedly photographed, individualizing each copy. So, while it is certainly possible that this is a one-off, it is more likely that a very small number were reproduced and presented to friends, family, and notables. To that end, Thomas Harry Gatton (1918-2001) was a notable North Carolinian. Beyond his professional endeavors, he was a World War II veteran, chairman of the North Carolina Historical Commission, and was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission by presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter. In short, one to whom this presentation would have been warranted and meaningful. Howes B-150; Sabin 3462; De Renne p.1317 (all for the first edition), Taft, Photography and the American Scene, p. 232, 486.
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Very Scarce Report of the Second Klonvokation
Foreword by H.K. Ramsey, Imperial Kligrapp Proceedings of the Second Imperial Klonvokation Held in Kansas City, Missouri Sept. 23, 24, 25 and 26, 1924
$800.00Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. Very scarce report of the second Klonvokation, which was held every two years. Very Good in lightly soiled wraps and with covers slightly pulled away from staples. Item #39236 It was reported that there were 2,000 men and 3,000 concomitants present at the Kansas City meeting recorded here, which was held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri. This Klan meeting was held behind closed doors and a card and a password were necessary to gain admittance. Only Klansmen with courtesy cards were allowed to view the proceedings. What was published about the proceedings came through the Klan publicity office. The meeting was opened by the Grand Dragon of Nebraska. The Imperial Wizard, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans of Atlanta delivered a message to the Klonvocation on the state of the Empire: ‘This Klonvocation, held here in the great Middle West, is assembled on the battlefield of the immediate future…some of the Eastern states are today lost to true Americanism and must be rewon; but the great American population of the Middle West, of the South and of the Southwest are left to do valiant battle…you are leaders in the only movement in the world, at present, which exists solely to establish a civilization that will insure these things…history has proved, and is proving daily that only Nordic and Anglo-Saxon peoples have reached a high level of intelligence.’ Rare record of an early 20th century KKK gathering. OCLC list 20 copies held exclusively at major U.S. research university libraries.
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Rare Bigfoot Movie poster
Slatzer, Robert F. (Director) Anthony Cardoza, Bill Reardon, & Herman Tomlin (Producers BIGFOOT, RARE 1970 MOVIE POSTER
$650.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
RARE DRAMATIC BIGFOOT MOVIE POSTER, Ellman Film Enterprises. 1970. The over-the-top film, BIGFOOT, produced in 1970 by Anthony Cardoza and Bill Reardon, was panned by everyone, with virtually no one saying it was any good. One wag said that it would be the only opportunity to see John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Judy Jordan, John Mitchum, James Craig, and several other actors all together in one movie, so you better see it anyway! The only poster for this film that one finds for sale is the common one that you can buy on several websites for very little money. But that one is like cheap, 3-year old Scotch compared with 50-year old good stuff that you will find in Edinburgh whisky shops under lock and key and that I cannot afford. I frankly don’t know about this poster in terms of whether it was an advance or trial poster that didn’t make the cut, or wasn’t produced en masse for some other reason. It is far more classical in appearance than the cheap cartoonish one you can still get for a few bucks. Unrolled to a size of 27 ¼” x 39 ¾”, it takes up almost all of my golden oak antique kitchen table and half of my standard-size bed! It is professionally backed on linen. In spite of one long tear and several short tears, all of which are professionally and archivally repaired, this poster ends up being showy, good-looking, and impossible to ignore, a poster that would dominate the conversation of any beer and brats forest cookout-“Have you seen that poster?!” It will bust the balls of any hairy-chested man-cave dweller and, because it is also a “biker” film, salt the seats of Harley-Davidson rally-goers on their way to Sturgis! Bigfoot filmography author David Coleman in his massive book, 2012 book, The Bigfoot Filmography: Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television, devotes two quarto pages to description of the film. He includes these gems: “Bigfoot is perhaps the most entertainingly bad Bigfoot movie of the entire ‘cycle’ . . . given the strange blending of motorcycles, ridiculously bad Bigfoot costumes, has-been actors, bikini babes, and a mutant music score, the entire enterprise is truly a slow-paced, stupefying descent into all things torpid, but with a camp sensibility that redeems Bigfoot from total boredom. Then, from a historical perspective, he concludes: the film “marks the beginning of a new era in the genre that draws a clean dividing line between the earlier film incarnations of the ‘wild man’ cryptid appearing mostly in snow settings as a Yeti (and) set(s) the stage for the plethora of Big-foot focused movies to follow in the 1970s.” This is an essential poster for few people who have the wall-space to hang it. It would be one the poster you would frame and hang front and center over your giant fieldstone fireplace at one end of your room with the 20-foot vaulted ceiling. Unquestionably rare.
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