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Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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McWhorter, L. V. (Lucullus Virgil) TW-WAH-Y 6 MO Old (Flora)
$400.00
n.p. L. V. McWhorter, 1913. Hardcover. Fine.
Silver print photograph glued on white cork board further glued to thick black board. Photo 7 5/8″ x about 9 ½” of “TW-WAH-Y 6 MO Old / COPYRIGHT BY L. V. MC WHORTER.” From the internet is the following: L. V. McWhorter (Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, 1860-1944), a renowned historian and advocate for Native American rights, and Tw-wah-y, a six-month-old Yakama infant featured in his 1913 book The Crime Against the Yakimas. McWhorter and Tw-Wah-Y . Tw-Wah-Y: Also referred to as Christianized “Flora”, Tw-wah-y was a six-month-old Yakama child photographed in a traditional cradleboard. McWhorter included a famous photograph of her in his writings to document and humanize the Native American families impacted by federal policies, such as the Wapato irrigation canal issues. . L. V. McWhorter: An Ohio-born rancher who moved to Washington State in 1903 and integrated deeply with the Yakama Nation. He became an adopted member of the tribe, a fierce mediator with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and an essential historian who preserved Indigenous stories in works like Yellow Wolf: His Own Story. Except for a tiny cut on the top edge, the photo is in fine condition. Frankly, I don’t know when this print was made and if by McWhorter. What I can tell you is that it is superb.
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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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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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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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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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