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Glaister, Donald Brooklyn Bridge A Love Song
$7,500.00
Cleveland: Foolsgold Studio, 2002. Folio. 28 pp. Limited edition, this is #40 of 60 copies (10 being held hors commerce). Signed by Glaister at the colophon. Backed in gray Nigerian goatskin with sanded aluminum sides, as issued, in felt-lined aluminum box with aluminum label. Prospectus, with minor soiling, laid in.
A fine copy of this visually stunning artist book. Glaister describes the production in the prospectus: 14 leaves of 10 mil aluminum, attached to paper hinges. The book opens with an 18-line poem by Glaister in Avant Garde and is silkscreen printed on sanded aluminum. This is followed by five page-spread paintings of the bridge, seen from different angles, times of day, and times of year. Alternating between the paintings are sets of abstract studies, nine in all, that explore the essence of bridgeness. They are likewise made of sanded aluminum with acrylic paint, wire, aluminum tape, laminated polyester film and sand. The studies are mounted onto the aluminum pages. A visually striking celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. The artist describes this best in the prospectus: “The story of the Bridge is one of opposites. The story of huge mass and lacy delicacy, of ancient and modern, of vitality and disease and death, of honor and corruption, of social vision and common greed. It is the story of links. The linking of East to West, of the agrarian past to the industrial future, of stone to steel, and of course of Brooklyn to Manhattan. Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song visually and emotionally tells this story. The book is truly a love song. It sings of the elegance, power and invention of this great American icon.”
This is the first artist book by Glaister who is one of the foremost design bookbinders practicing today. Glaister carved a path blending classical European bookbinding technique while exploring unexpected and untraditional materials and expression. His bindings appear in private collections throughout North American and Europe and in many of the most important institutions.
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[Israel Mauduit], ed. The Letters of Governor Hutchinson, and Lieut. Governor Oliver, &c. … And Remarks Thereon with The Assembly’s Address …
$1,500.00London: Printed for J. Wilkie, at Number 71, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1774. Edition Unstated. Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth). Book Condition: Very Good- Condition. Size: Octavo (8-9″). 134 pages. Sabin 34072. Howes H-851 (Howes 1994 837). The full title is “The letters of Governor Hutchinson, and Lieut. Governor Oliver, &c. printed at Boston and remarks thereon : with the Assembly’s Address and the Proceedings of the Lords Committee of Council : together with the substance of Mr. Wedderburn’s speech relating to those letters.” This English edition, believed to be edited by Hutchinson’s friend Israel Mauduit, was issued following the investigation into the 1773 publication of Hutchinson and Oliver’s letters in Boston. No edition is stated but the Library of Congress’ “Revolutionary America 1763-1789” describes it as the “second London edition” [#31610]. What appears to be an earlier printing held by the Library of Congress (E211 .M445 [Copy 1 RBSCD]) only goes to signature T and ends with p. 126, including double-numbered pages ([75]-80). This copy matches the collation of that copy but adds an additional signature (S) and ends with p. 134. The additional signature provides the report from the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs read in the presence of King George, 7 February 1774. The letters were provided to Thomas Cushing, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly in December 1772, by Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania’s agent in London. His letter admitting his role appears on pp 72-73. Although he requested they not be printed, that request was ignored. The letters were written in 1767-1769, but were used (largely out of context) to fan the pre-Revolutionary flames. The way they were presented was expressed in a part of the lengthy title the Boston printers provided: “The Judicious Reader will Discover the Fatal Source of the Confusion and Bloodshed in which this Province especially has been involved, and Which Threatned [sic] Total Destruction to the Liberties of all America.” Sabin notes the publication of the letters “did more, perhaps, to bring revolutionary matters to a crisis than any previous publication.” In his note, Howes is less tentative: “Publication of these letters … fanned revolutionary sentiments in America more than any other book of the period.” A Very Good-minus hardcover copy that has been rebound in red silk over boards. The silk has been coated in some way. The reason for the “minus” is because it is lacking its spine. The corners are sharp though worn through to the boards. The text block is tight and bright, in near fine condition. The only marking is on the title page where two previous owners have marked the pages on which the various parts of the collection of documents begin. The page edges have been stained red, probably when the book was rebound.
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Rare 1830 anti-Baptist pamphlet, 55 arguments
Timothy [attr. Williams, Thomas (Rev.) or Holmes, Sylvester (Rev.)] FIFTY-FIVE REASONS FOR NOT BEING A BAPTIST
$350.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
(New Bedford?): Titus, 1830. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. Item #5005080 “By Timothy.” (Columbia University identifies “Timothy” as Rev. Thomas Williams, 1779-1876. However OCLC identifies him as Rev. Sylvester Holmes.). FIFTY-FIVE REASONS FOR NOT BEING A BAPTIST. Printed in New-England (New Bedford?) / by / TITUS…1830. Printed wrappers, string-tied. (12pp). A rather remarkable point by point argument why a Christian should not be a Baptist, many of the points having to do with baptizing by immersion. Point # 11 gives you a picture of the author’s argument: “Not a shadow of evidence appears that the first Christian Baptism, administered to THREE THOUSAND on the day of Pentecost, was by plunging. Acts 2: 41.” Thomas Williams was a Congregationalist minister and a graduate of Yale. He was a missionary in New York and later served several parishes in New England. Several of his booklets / tracts were published. Less is known or available about Holmes. A rare pamphlet found in only a few theological schools and others. Light foxing. Obvious small chips on some leaves. RARE.
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Three Scarce Princeton Triangle Club Scores
Booth Tarkington, E. Harris Harbison, Erdman Harris, Eric Barnouw, et al Princeton University – The Triangle Club: Three Early Musical Scores, 1919–1928
$750.00Cincinnati and Princeton: The John Church Company and The Triangle Club of Princeton University, 1919-1928. 4to., 77 pp., 49 pp., 55 pp. Three volumes. Original pictorial wrappers. All very good or better copies, showing only mild wear and handling. A rare trio of early Princeton University Triangle Club musical scores, documenting one of America’s oldest and most storied collegiate theatrical traditions. Founded in 1891 [evolving from the earlier Princeton Dramatic Association], the Triangle Club quickly became a cultural institution—known for its original musical comedies, cross-country tours, and alumni who would go on to shape the American stage and screen. Included here are: The Hon. Julius Caesar [1919] – a ‘travesty with music’ revised by John Biggs, with lyrics by Erdman Harris, F. Warburton Guilbert, Booth Tarkington, Post Wheeler, and Edward Hope. OCLC records only three institutional holdings. Napoleon Passes [1927] – music and lyrics by E. Harris Harbison, Frank A. Baker, Austin P. Leland, and others. OCLC lists just seven copies worldwide. Zuider Zee [1928] – lyrics by Erik Barnouw and Joshua Logan. Logan, later a celebrated Broadway and Hollywood director (South Pacific, Mister Roberts), performed in this production, which toured major U.S. cities. OCLC notes only two holdings. Together, these volumes form a vivid snapshot of Jazz Age Princeton’s creative life between the wars, when Triangle productions launched the early careers of figures like Booth Tarkington, Logan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jimmy Stewart. Their scarcity—each title surviving in only a handful of libraries—underscores both their ephemeral nature and their growing appeal to collectors of American collegiate theatre and cultural ephemera. Condition ranges from Very Good to Near Fine, with minor edgewear or small ownership marks noted. A handsome and historically important ensemble, seldom offered together, tracing the formative decades of Princeton’s legendary Triangle Club.
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America to be the coming New Jerusalem!
Samuel Sewall; Samuel Willard Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica ad Aspectum Novi Orbis Configura; (with) The Fountain Opened Or, some few Lines towards a description of the New Heaven As It makes to those who stand upon the New Earth
$1,250.00Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1727. Second Edition (with additional material). Binding: Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good Condition, with two leaves printed in facsimile. Size: 8″-9″ – Octavo (8vo). 88 pages (64 p., 24 p.). In bringing together his earlier work, Willard’s sermon and an update in his appendix, Sewall marshals the evidence for his position that the Millennium is near and that the discovery and Christianizing of America is a crucial and perhaps final development to that end. Drawing from prophetic passages describing the coming Millennium, Sewall find significance in the discovery of the Americas as the final remaining area to be found. He also sees the New World as a logical place for the New Jerusalem to be established. Drawing upon others, including Manasseh Ben Israel, who speculated that the native Americans were the remnants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, Sewall writes, “God’s removing Israel out of his sight, is no less than three times mentioned; which may insinuate the Remoteness of that Land, into which God by his Providence intended to cast them. And none was no remote, and so much out of sight, as America” (p. 41). The summary description for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Digital Commons provides this assessment: “Often misunderstood, Phænomena illustrates the intricate connection between prophetic exegesis and New England politics, between eschatological speculations and self-representation and policies toward the Indian populations of North America.” Rebound in leather over boards, the leather paneled with a line embossed around the borders of the front and rear cover. Spine scored to give the effect of four compartments. Laid paper has been used for the replacement end papers. Text block is tight. The first two leaves (title page for Sewell and address to Sir William Ashhurst) are printed in facsimile on laid paper and trimmed slightly smaller on the outside edge as the original pages. The original text begins at Sig. B (p. [iii]). There are three holes in the outside margin of that leaf, affecting two of the marginal notes on the recto and another hole on p. 43 in the middle of the page. There is a tide mark on pp. [iii] to 52 and 57-62. Any prefatory pages for Willard’s work have not been reprinted here; the pages go directly from the last page of Sewell to the first of Willard’s. Although the two works are paginated separately, the signatures are continuous (Sewall ends with Sig. S and Willard begins with Sig. T). Willard’s pamphlet is followed by an appendix written by Sewall. The last two leaves of the appendix to Willard’s pamphlet have been strengthened at the edges with paper tape. Both of the pages are missing their upper corner. The page edges are slightly browned.
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