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Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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LeFors, Joe Wyoming Peace Officer (with association letter) An Autobiography
$603.00
Laramie: Laramie Printing, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Item #2009051
1st printing. Gilt-stamped maroon buckram. 200pp. Illus. Index. Laid into this copy is a 3 1/2 page ALS (handwritten) letter (paper size 5″ x 8″) from LeFors’ wife, Nettie, to museum curator (formerly National Cowboy Hall of Fame) and director, Dean Krakel, who assisted Ms. LeFors in publishing her famous husband’s manuscript. Content of the letter has to do with meeting up with Krakel and discussing publication. In one paragraph she writes, “I do not want the meaning of what Joe said changed. I am glad you want all of it. There is some very interesting chapters in his early life in Texas.” Naturally this title is of critical Tom Horn and Wyoming importance. A fine copy with a very slightly chipped, vg to near fine dj.
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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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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.Â
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Don Glaister's First Artist's Book. 1 of 60 Copi
Glaister, Donald Brooklyn Bridge A Love Song
$7,500.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
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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RARE FIRST EDITION OF FUGITIVE SLAVE NARRATIVE
Ball, Charles. SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave, under various masters, and was one year in the Navy, with Commodore Barney, during the late war.
$1,200.00Lewistown, PA: Printed and Published by John W. Shugert, 1836. First edition. The subtitle continues “Containing an account of the manners and usages of the Planters and Slaveholders of the South, a description of the condition and treatment of the Slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country.” Rare first edition of this important slavery narrative by Ball, one which covers forty years of his life as a slave and his several escapes, an account reprinted many times through the 1850s under various titles. Born into slavery in Maryland around 1780, separated from his mother when he was four, he was owned by several different masters and lived in three states. Attempting escape on numerous occasions, he eventually succeeded and lived on a small farm until he was recaptured in 1830. However, he escaped again, and moved to Philadelphia, where he wrote this autobiography with the assistance of Isaac Fisher, a white lawyer. Fisher’s preface in which he acknowledges omitting or ‘carefully suppressing’ Ball’s opinions on slavery, cast some doubt upon the authenticity of this work, but the second edition, just one year later, included a statement from two prominent Pennsylvanians “that we know the black man whose narrative is given in this book, and have heard him relate the principal matters contained in the book concerning himself, long before the book was published.” Two page preface by Isaac Fisher. Errata list on verso of title page. 400 pp, Fair condition only in original boards, resewn and rebacked with dark brown goatskin, endpapers replaced. Significant rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, tidemarks and foxing throughout. Â Loss of approximately half an inch to the bottom edge of the first leaf after the title (the preface).
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