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A Beautiful Mind film Prop. 4 Academy Award winner - including Best Picture. A Beautiful Mind follows the amazing career of John Nash a mathematical genius. Offered here is Professor Horner's 1948 Princeton University class roster for Advance Game Theory Mathematics Dept., with John Nash's (RUSSELL CROWE) name on the list. Has a color logo of Princeton on top and Nash is the first name on the second column. It is or his Advance Game Theory solutions that Nash eventually won the Nobel Price. A significant Prop from a Best Picture Academy Award winner.

A Beautiful Mind film Prop. 4 Academy Award winner - including Best Picture. A Beautiful Mind follows the amazing career of John Nash a mathematical genius. Offered here is Professor Horner's 1948 Princeton University class roster for Advance Game Theory Mathematics Dept., with John Nash's (Russell Crowe) name on the list. Has a color logo of Princeton on top and Nash is the first name on the second column. It is for his Advance Game Theory solutions that Nash eventually won the Nobel Price. Comes with a signed Certificate from Universal Pictures. A significant Prop from a Best Picture Academy Award winner.

A Beautiful Mind film Prop. A Beautiful Mind follows the amazing career of John Nash a mathematical genius. 4 Academy Award winner - including Best Picture. A large 24" x 28" CONSPIRACY TAPE PLAYER Prop used in the hallucination scenes where Nash's (RUSSELL CROWE) imagines Ed Harris and Government officials using computer tapes to get sensitive information he will help decipher. The tape player is a prop with electrical color lights. Not a real Tape player. It is an important prop symbolic of Nash's wild imagination on conspiracy. Comes with a signed Certificate from Universal Pictures. A significant Prop from a Best Picture Academy Award winner.

Letter, 4 pages folded from a sheet. May 28, 1894. Partial transcription: "My darling child,I cannot tell you how sorry I feel to have left you so poorly and with strangers. I do think that your mother's relatives are wanting in warm feeling to say the least of it but it is no use troubling ourselves about it. They are so warped up with themselves that they don't care for society it is too dull for them and they begrudge even a day or two. Your poor dear mother did not treat them like this but many a score of times used to trudge off alone to Pollys when she was scarcely able to do so and had to leave you to the mercy of a servant. When Polly always has a lot to take care of each other. You well have to look to outsiders rather than to them to seek for sympathy. It seems to me very unnatural but it is so, and all the whining in the world won't alter it. It makes it very hard upon me I cannot see my way to ulterior otherwise as I have made my Bed I must lie upon it and I now feel how much I should like… Read More

[LGBTQ] [Pulp] Roget, A.L. The Secret Places. New York: Domino Books, 1965. First Edition pulp with back cover confirming: "Never Before Published." 128 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7". Cover features two women sitting on a bed together about to embrace, one in a blanket staring longingly at another. Tagline reads: "Her memories of male violence and brutality faded as another woman taught her the true mysteries of love." Plot follows Karen and her dancing teacher Myra as they enter into a lesbian relationship. Back cover adds: "The path of Lesbianism was the path for her. It was a joyful decision." Textblock is tight and cover is very clean. Overall, pulp is in very good condition.

[LGBTQ] [Pulp] Roget, A.L. The Secret Places. New York: Domino Books, 1965. First Edition pulp, back cover Tagline: "Never Before Published." 128 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7". Cover features two women sitting on a bed together about to embrace, one in a blanket staring longingly at another. Tagline reads: "Her memories of male violence and brutality faded as another woman taught her the true mysteries of love." Plot follows Karen and her dancing teacher Myra as they enter into a lesbian relationship. Back cover adds: "The path of Lesbianism was the path for her. It was a joyful decision." Textblock is tight and cover is very clean. Overall, pulp is in very good condition.

[African American- Music], [African American- Film] A Man Called Adam Archive of 8 Black and White Movie Lobby Cards. Each measures 10" x 8". An Avco Embassy Film, A Trace-Mark Production, 1966. A Man Called Adam is a 1966 American drama musical film directed by Leo Penn and starring Sammy Davis Jr. The film was based on a composite of jazz musicians, including Miles Davis. It tells the story of a self-destructive jazz musician named Adam Johnson, played by Davis, and his tumultuous relationships with the people in his life, including jazz trumpeter Willie, played by notable Black jazz musician, Louis Armstrong. Adam is a talented African-American jazz cornetist, plagued by ill health, racism, alcoholism and a short temper, as well as guilt over the deaths years before of his wife and child. The result is a caustic personality that wears even on those who care the most about him. One photo reveals Adam counting money besides Vincent, played by Frank Sinatra Jr. Another shot illuminates Adam Johnson… Read More

Abel, F.A.. On Recent Investigations and Applications of Explosive Agents, A Lecture Delivered to the Member of the British Association at Edinburgh, August 1871. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1871. First American edition in original wrappers. A 9 x 6" pamphlet with 35 pages and a folding chart. Sir Frederick Augustus Abel was an English chemist who became the leading authority on explosives of the British War Department. Abel notes in this work that gunpowder "no longer enjoys a monopoly in connection with some equally important applications to naval, military, and industrial purposes". He and his collaborator James Dewar were in part responsible for this shift when they invented cordite, a type of smokeless powder that saw wide use as the 19th century drew to a close. However, this brought him into legal conflict with fellow explosives pioneer and namesake of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, for infringement of his patent for ballistite, another smokeless propellant. This work,… Read More

Front Page Headline reads "The Bill Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed the House." Newspaper "The Detroit Free Press", April 12, 1862. 19" x 26", 2 pages. Has a blow by blow account of the debate among the members of the House and the various amendments associated with the bill. It concludes "The bill was passed, 93 agains 39." Also includes local, national and international news, as well as "News From the South." Some small tears at the left hand margin, not affecting text. A diagonal crease runs across the top half of the paper, and a small piece of yellow tape has adhered to the top margin. Overall in very good condition.

Long Essay on the Abolition of Slavery in Great Britain in Edinburgh Review, American Edition (January, 1838). New York: William Lewer, 1838. First Edition. Soft cover in original blue wrappers. This 24-page essay concerns 1) the Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Negro Apprenticeship (London, 1837) and 2) Papers relative to the Abolition of Slavery, Parts I-III (London, 1837). These essays attempt to analyze the road ahead for Britain after it abolished slavery in 1833. It praises the effects of the 1833 bill such as the "immediate and absolute extinction of the essential principle of slavery... chattel slavery", the "immediate extinction not only of the principle of slavery, but of ever remnant of the servile relation", "the immediate removal of the more important impediments to the civilisation of the existing servile population; by admitting their evidence in courts of justice, by encouraging them to make contracts and receive wages; by recognising the… Read More

[Slavery] [Abolition] Rules of Discipline of the Yearly-Meeting, Held on Rhode-Island, for New-England. Rhode Island: Lindsey & Co. Printers, 1826. Original leather binding. Octavo, approximately 8.5" x 5.25" inches, 156 pages. A book of rules and regulations "to bring such as transgress to a sense of their error" established by the Quakers, including prohibition "not to reap the unrighteous profits of slavery". In the chapter "Negroes & Slaves", In addition to instructing all Friends to free whatever slaves are in their possession, or at least to "give those that are young, at least, so much learning that they may be capable of reading", this chapter provides an eloquent and early American polemic against slavery. In part: "We fervently warn all in profession with us , that they be careful to avoid being any way concerned in reaping the unrighteous profits of that iniquitous practice of dealing with Negroes, and other slaves; whereby, in the original purchase, one man selleth another as he does the… Read More

Friends of Freedom. The Liberty Bell. Boston: Prentiss and Sawyer, 1852. 4.75" x 7.5" inches. 303 pages. First edition Signed and gifted by co-author William I. Bowditch. A very scarce collection of anti-slavery writings. Original brown boards with gilt illustration of Liberty Bell on front cover, decorative gilt spine. Illustrated half-title page with tissue guard shows the liberty bell hanging from a tree branch with scattered and broken chains, spear and sword on the ground beneath it. This book was given as a gift at the annual bazaar raising funds for the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. The text contains poems, prose and short stories by various authors on the subject of slavery all compiled by Boston abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman. This volume contains work by William I. Bowditch who signed the front free endpaper either marking his copy or giving it as a gift, possibly a higher-value auction item for fundraising. Sunning on spine and light scuffing to front and back covers. Former… Read More

HILDRETH, Richard. The Slave, or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Volume II. Boston: John H. Eastburn Printer, 1836. Duodecimo. Calf covers. 162 pages. Rag paper. The very first American abolitionist novel, published 15 years before Uncle Tom's Cabin, which some have argued it influenced. The anonymous author was an enigmatic, Harvard-educated contributed articles to various magazines. Poor health led him to spend two years in Florida, where he was he witnessed of the evils of slavery to write the anti-slavery novel The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore. It became incredibly popular, heralding a new genre of abolitionist slave narratives. In only fair condition. Covers detaching, missing one free endpaper. Pages toned, and mildly foxed. An extremely influential early text in the abolitionist movement.

Territorial Slave Code. The Honorable Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. Delivered in the Senate, January 25, 1860. Washington D.C: 1860. First edition. 40 pages 9" x 5.75" inches. Removed from a large volume. Henry Wilson was a Massachusetts senator and Vice President under Ulysses Grant. who championed the abolitionist cause. In this speech, Wilson argues against the constitutionality of slavery , for if allowed, then slaves can be brought into the territories. It is a response to Albert Gallatin Brown's speech: Protection to Slave Property in the Territories, which argued that slaves, as property, should be subject to the same protections in the territories as any other form of proprety. Wilson forcefully rejects this claim and identifies "Slave Power" as one of the great evils in the US, asserting that it "holds the National Government, in all its departments, in absolute subjugation." He gives a history of the government's conciliation's to Slave Power but ends his speech with the challenge to "save… Read More

Third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. Boston: Garrison and Knapp, 1835. Scarce. First edition. 8.5" x 5" inches. 23 pages. Later plain tan wrappers. The New-England Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, which also served as its official publication. The society spawned a number of state-based organizations, and these were organized into American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1835, the New England Society gave up its regional jurisdiction and reorganized into the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Contains the Constitution of the Society; an account of the elected officers, Garrison among them; also, a list of subscriptions and donations (with amounts donated); a treasurer's report; and, lists of life-time and honorary members, including Garrison, Moses Brown, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgewood, and William Wilberforce. The Society closes their report with a passage indicating they felt the winds of history… Read More

Territorial Slave Code. The Honorable Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. Delivered in the Senate, January 25, 1860. Washington D.C: 1860. First edition. 16 pages 9" x 5.75" inches. Removed from a large volume. Henry Wilson, a Massachusetts senator and Vice President under Ulysses Grant, was an outspoken abolitionist. In this speech, Wilson argues against the constitutionality of slavery in response to Albert Gallatin Brown's speech arguing that slaves, as property, should be subject to the same protections in the territories as any other form of property. Wilson forcefully rejects this claim and identifies "Slave Power" as one of the great evils in the United States, asserting that it "holds the National Government, in all its departments, in absolute subjugation." Wilson gives a history of the government's conciliation to Slave Power but ends his speech with the challenge to "save those Territories to free labor, check the reopening slave traffic, and put the National Government in harmony with a… Read More

[Abolition] [African Americana] SUMNER, Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, June 26 and 28, 1854. Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard Printers, 1854. At the time that this description is being written, just three copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. The Memorial referred to in the title was a request by 2900 undersigners, chiefly men of Boston, Mass., to repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. What follows is a transcription of Massachusetts Senator and famous abolitionist Charles Sumner's speeches in the ensuing debate: "[Mr Jones.] asks, 'Can anyone suppose that, if the Fugitive Slave Act be repealed, this Union can exist?' To which I reply at once, that if the Union in any way be dependent on an Act--… Read More

The Abortionist. Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1962. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 216 pages. Original blue dust jacket with the title. Gray cloth boards. Published 11 years before the passage of Roe v Wade which would legalize abortion until overturned in 2022, this book tells the story of desperate women seeking safe abortions. Its narrator, Dr. X, does not identify himself for fear of prosecution, but shares his medical opinion on the absolute necessity of safe and legal abortions as well as his experiences providing the illegal procedure for women without another option. He explains the surgical facts of the procedure along with the infrequent complications when performed by a professional. Dr. X averaged 27 abortions a day until his arrest and sentencing to 4 years in prison which he served. The time served left him a "crippled shadow of a man," by his own account. Dr. X performed over 25,000 abortions over the course of his career to rich and poor… Read More

Archive of 18 original silver gelatin press photos of Sherri Chessen, television host turned the center of a national debate on abortion in early 1960s. Photos range 7" x 9" to 10" x 8" inches. Sometimes known in the media as Mrs. Robert Finkbine, the case surrounding Sherri Chessen's abortion was a pivotal moment in the history of abortion rights. In 1961, Chessen's husband returned from a trip to Europe with over-the-counter sedatives, which he gave to her in the earliest stages of her fifth pregnancy. Chessen then took the medication without realizing it contained thalidomide, a substance known for causing fetal deformities. When her physician recommended abortion, Chessen contacted the press under promise of anonymity because she wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of thalidomide. The press did not protect her identity, releasing her married name, and the hospital canceled her abortion, afraid of prosecution. When her doctor asked for a court order, Chessen became a public figure. The FBI… Read More

The Abortionist. Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1962. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 216 pages. Original blue dust jacket with the title, shocking for its time, repeated in bold script from top to bottom. Gray cloth boards. Published 11 years before the passage of Roe v Wade which would legalize abortion until overturned in 2022, this book tells the story of desperate women seeking safe abortions. Its narrator, Dr. X, does not identify himself for fear of prosecution, but shares his medical opinion on the absolute necessity of safe and legal abortions as well as his experiences providing the illegal procedure for women without another option. He explains the surgical facts of the procedure along with the infrequent complications when performed by a professional. Dr. X averaged 27 abortions a day until his arrest and sentencing to 4 years in prison which he served. The time served left him a "crippled shadow of a man," by his own account. Dr. X performed over… Read More