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32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera
For passionate collectors and researchers, 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera discovers and preserves the authentic stories of cultural history. We provide a meticulously curated collection of over 13,000 rare books and ephemera items from pivotal social movements, scientific and artistic achievements and underrepresented voices, making significant historical artifacts accessible to all.
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Commager, Henry Steele The American Mind An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880’s
$175.00
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo., 476 pp. First edition. Commager [1902-1998] was one of the most prolific American historians of his time, whose works helped define American liberalism. This work, one of his most famous, argues that the American mind is rational, secular and pragmatic, and consequently those whom he criticizes as ‘irrationalists’ – a broad church including Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound – are castigated as contrary to the American tradition. Near Fine in a Very Good unlaminated dust jacket which has a couple of stains and some fading along the spine.
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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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Marshall's History of the Colonies - First Editio
John Marshall A History of the Colonies planted by the English on the Continent of North America From Their Settlement, to the Commencement of That War Which Terminated in Their Independence
$450.00Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1824. First Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather). Book Condition: Very Good Condition; Ex-Lib, but with minimal markings. Size: 8″-9″ – Octavo (8vo). 486 pages. First edition, but without rear advertisement leaf. Sabin 44787; Howes M316. Written by the fourth and arguably most important Supreme Court chief justice. Originally published as Marshall’s Introduction to his Life of George Washington, now issued in its first separate (and corrected) edition. In his Preface Marshall explains the reason for publishing his history of the colonies in a separate volume, in “a form less exceptionable than that which it originally bore” (p. vii): “From the extreme, I may add unpardonable, precipitation with which it was hurried to the press, many errors were overlooked which, on a perusal of the book, were as apparent to the author as to others. He was desirous of correcting these errors, and of making the work more worthy of the public to which it was offered, as well as more satisfactory to himself. For this purpose he . . . has made several alterations in the language ; and has expunged much of the less essential matter with which the narrative was burthened. He dares not flatter himself that he has succeeded completely in his attempt to entitle this work to the approbation of the literary public of America ; but hopes that its claims to that approbation are stronger than in its original form” (p. vii). Contemporary full tan sheepskin binding with four raised bands and the title and author in gilt on black morocco spine labels. There is gold stamping around all three sides of the front and rear boards (though it is heavily worn on the bottom edges). There is a crease down the middle of the spine from the book being opened and the paper is torn on the front and rear hinges, exposing the cords, but the binding remains tight. Marbled end papers and page edges; the page edges are faded. There is an old bookseller’s label at the top of the front pastedown for Isaac N. Whiting, Bookseller & Stationer, Columbus, Ohio. The text block is tight. The pages have toned with age. It is an Ex-Lib copy with minimal markings: a library book plate on the front pastedown and a catalog number on the verso of the front free end paper and in the gutter of the first page of the Preface. There is a “For Reference” sticker on the rear pastedown and a small shelf tag at the bottom band of the spine. In addition, someone has checked some of the chapter headings in the Table of Contents and added brief notes (e.g., Good, Very Good) to a few. Howes’ number and a price are written in pencil on an initial blank leaf and there is another brief note in pencil at the top of the copyright page. A previous owner’s last name is written in a contemporary hand on the first blank leaf, which is almost completely separated from the text block, though holding on. Otherwise, the text block itself is unmarked. There is heavy foxing on the verso of the front and rear free end papers and the adjoining blank leaf, front and rear. The text block itself, however, is largely free from any foxing with only an occasional spot.
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Scarce 1857 Dred Scott decision, Grolier Club #68
Scott, Dred Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States And the Opinions of the Judges Thereof in the Case of Dred Scott Versus John F. A. Sandford. December Term, 1856
$495.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Washington DC: Benjamin C. Howard, 1857. First Thus. Soft cover. Poor. Item #2507047 1857 Washington printing said to be issued at or about the same time as the New York edition. Original string-tied printed wraps. LACKING ORIGINAL PAPER COVERS, TITLE PAGE, AND LAST LEAF (page 239) the last two of which have been replaced by your bookseller as new pages. In this famous and convoluted case Scott, a slave who had also lived in free Wisconsin Territory and Illinois, sued for his freedom (as did his wife). A lower court in Missouri ruled in his favor. This ruling was reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court, whereupon Scott appealed to the US Supreme Court where he lost in a 7-2 decision when the winds of slavery politics blew to smithereens the up-to-then accepted “doctrine” that, “once free” (as in having lived in a free state or territory), “always free.” This decision has come down through US history as one of the biggest failures of the US Supreme Court. As noted above, the title page is missing. I have supplied. cutting to proper dimension, a modern page of the same, which is laid in. This copy is also missing the last page (p.339), but I have supplied the entire text of the last page and also cut it to proper dimension and laid it in. Otherwise the copy, string-tied as noted, has water tidelines upper half of the first leaf, which tideline extends to a decreasing degree into the 63pps. Clarity of readability is not compromised. Quite minor foxing to a few margins. Minor edge chipping to first and last pages. To be obviously handled with care, but a quite serviceable reading copy if you desire this text in its original form pps (3) – 228. Very scarce. This document in book form is #68 in the famed Grolier Club’s One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900 published in 1947.
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Unrecorded 32-map set of NY town sewage systems
New York State Board of Health LIST OF MAPS OF SEWER SYSTEMS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS New York State towns, 10 towns
$2,500.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Albany? State of New York? 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #SHEL2027 Unrecorded portfolio unless found in town and state archives. This is a portfolio 0f 32 maps (complete set) of approved sewage plans for ten towns and villages in New York. The maps of varying sizes up to approx 40″ x 40+” are folded to octavo size and gathered in a string-tied folder titled in gilt on the spine, STATE BOARD (device) HEALTH SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. The approval dates printed on maps range from June 30, 1896 to December 31, 1896. Printed on the maps is approval information with printed signatures of officials signing off on them; also printed is/are firm(s) producing them who presumably are doing the work. I cannot be exact on the source information (construction firms) on each map because I have only opened 4-5 of the maps due to the tricky nature of opening particularly the huge maps and not tearing the folds as the paper is somewhat thin. The towns and villages represented are: Oneida, Nyack, City of Mount Vernon, (Vernon Park District), North Tarrytown, Tonawanda, New Hartford, Pelham Manor, Cooperstown, Geneva, Waverly, Clayton, Jamaica, Sandy Hill, Depew. We see that, at least in some cases, perhaps most, only certain sections of the town or village has plans, and several towns have more than one map. As to condition, here are but a few short tears in what did open, slight splitting at some folds and fold intersections. The cloth portfolio is vg+. For any collector, researcher, or city doing research on what appear to be original sewage systems in these ten towns, this is a gold mine of information. Some maps even have piping sizes. Streets and streams and canals, etc. are shown on most maps. An extraordinarily rare set of infrastructure maps.
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