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Hurston, Zora Neale JONAH’S GOURD VINE
$16,500.00
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1934. Hardcover first edition – Hurston’s very uncommon first novel – a major work of the Harlem Renaissance – with an introduction by Fannie Hurst, in a dustjacket with a striking cover illustration by Covarrubias.
An autobiographical novel, based on the story of her father, John Hurston, as he and his wife migrate from Alabama to Eatonville, Florida, the first all-Black incorporated town in America, where Zora grew up. She uses events from her childhood and the sermons she heard as a preacher’s daughter to give a rich texture to this novel. Glossary. 316 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. The book is straight and tight but with the usual fading to the edges of the boards, shelfwear to the bottom edges, and the front endpaper has been professionally replaced. In addition, the attractive dust jacket has been expertly repaired, including mending a split along the side of the spine, but the book still retains a few traces of its earlier history as a lending library copy, including a stamp on the front pastedown, a rather appealing notation that it rented for 1c a day, and the date on both the title page and the copyright page had been covered with small star stickers and they are partially obliterated. Scarce in dust jacket.
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JFK Tribute by Black Catholic Students
Daniels, Frank, Jr.; Arthur Lee Levy A TRIBUTE
$135.006 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). 14 pp. plus illustrated wrappers. Stapled booklet, mimeographed or similarly reproduced typescript, with hand-colored front cover portrait of John F. Kennedy. Good +. Light toning and handling; scattered staining, chiefly along upper margins; some soiling to wrappers; pencil notes on rear wrapper. Contents complete and legible. Student-produced memorial booklet for John F. Kennedy, written by Frank Daniels, Jr. and Arthur Lee Levy, both described in the booklet as 16-year-old eleventh-grade students. The booklet itself does not state a place, school, or date. The identification as Notre Dame High School, Shreveport, Louisiana, [1964], is supplied from the 1964 Notre Damian, the school yearbook, where Frank Daniels and Arthur Levy are similarly pictured as juniors. The booklet combines Catholic prayer, brief biography, original poems, Cold War references, civil rights reflection, and response to the assassination. Contents include “Prayer,” “History of Kennedy,” “Big John,” “White House Years,” “Kennedy, Khruschev and the Nuclear War,” “Destination – Assassination,” “Presidential and Premier Poem,” and “Good Bye J.F.K.” “Good Bye J.F.K.” connects Kennedy’s death with Lincoln, Black civil rights, Christian sacrifice, and hope for racial justice. The booklet is an African American Catholic student-authored response to Kennedy’s assassination, with particular attention to civil rights, Christian sacrifice, Cold War anxiety, and national mourning. Only one institutional example located, in the John F. Kennedy Library’s tribute collection, described as a 14-page poetry booklet by Frank Daniels, Jr. and Arthur Lee Levy. No copies located in the trade or by web search at time of cataloging.
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First American edition
Jules Verne A Floating City and the Blockade Runners
$750.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
New York; Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1874. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Original green cloth covered boards with beautiful gilt and black title and illustrations to front board and spine. Minor bumping to corners and spine ends. Minor chipping to spine ends. Light rubbing to front board and minor rubbing to rear board. Ownership inscription to front free end paper. Minor foxing throughout though text and illustrations remain bright. Beautiful illustrations throughout. 286 pages + 8 pages of ads.
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Lincoln's 1862 message & Emancipation Proclamatio
Lincoln, Abraham Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress [Emancipation Proclamation, State of the Union Address]
$325.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. Cloth. Good binding. Octavo. 910 pp. First edition, thus. As issued, in publisher’s embossed cloth; spine titled, “Messages / and / Documents. / 1862-63. / Part 1. / Abridgment. / Senate.” Binding is sunned at the spine; relatively minor wear to the extremities; evidence of moisture exposure to the binding, but more pronounced to the first and last several leaves where there are early tidelines, but it does not extend to the body of the text with any consistency; occasional scattered foxing. This contains Lincoln’s second “State of the Union,” though at that time, it was a printed message, rather than an address. In this message Lincoln tangles with the year and a half old civil war and his struggle to preserve the Union while wrestling with the central impasse of the rebellion—slavery. A remarkable address that contains at the conclusion one of his memorable lines, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country” (p. 23). Of profound importance and one of Lincoln’s boldest moves to “rise with the occasion,” this volume contains the 22 September 1862 preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, the final version would be issued and enforced a month after Lincoln’s message. The idea of an executive action that would free the slaves in states that were in open rebellion with the Union came in the summer of 1862. An early version of the proclamation was read by Lincoln to his cabinet in July 1862. On the advice of Secretary of State William Seward, this penultimate version of the proclamation was thought to be more effective if issued after a significant Union victory—that victory turned out to be at Antietam. The Emancipation Proclamation is among the most important documents in United States history and this preliminary version (though largely consistent with the final) offers a glimpse into Lincoln’s steps towards the abolition of slavery in service of the preservation of the Union.
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Inscribed Conde: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Conde, Maryse I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM
$175.00Edition: Third printing. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, (1992.) First appearance in English of this novel which won the 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme – it expands on the true story of the West Indian slave, Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692. INSCRIBED in French on the half title page by Conde and SIGNED with the words “with my best wishes” by Richard Philcox, her translator and husband. Philcox has translated most of Conde’s books (beginning with her first novel) and Conde has both expressed her confidence in him and said that she considers him “responsible” for the book in English – that is, for the flow and rhythm and music of the language. Foreword by Angela Davis, plus a historical note, glossary, afterword by Ann Armstrong Scarboro and a bibliography of Conde’s works. A title in the Caraf Books series, Caribbean and African literature translated from the French. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-13985. Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new) Uncommon signed. Book ID: 93195
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