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New York, NY: Library of America. Fine with no dust jacket. 2015. Reprint. Hardcover. This 2-volume set covers September 17, 1787, to August 9, 1788: the year of public and private debate after the Constitutional Convention, mostly held in secret before its proposed Constitution was made public. Federalist vs. anti-Federalist opinions ranged from rational, to ranting, to raging in speeches, newspapers, and private letters. Those advocating for the middle ground sought to balance public order with private liberty. Contains original texts by Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and other lesser-knowns. Includes the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution with Amendments. Editor Bernard Bailyn (1922-2020) was an academic, author, historian of the Colonial and Revolutionary United States, and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history. Contains Bailyn's Notes, Indexes, biographical profiles, chronology, and other supplemental information.… Read More

No Place Stated: No Publisher Listed.. Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Softcover. Bastain's concise account of Admiral David G. Farragut's naval foray up the Mississippi river in 1862 to attack Vicksburg during the American Civil War. The battle itself is detailed, including the ship maneuvers of both sides. The movement up the Mississippi was successful due to piloting skill, extremely good luck, or likely a mix of both. The Mississippi delta and river offered little opportunity for deep-drafted naval vessels to navigate the200 miles inland to Vicksburg. Two full-page maps. The cover has a map of Vicksburg and the adjacent Mississippi river, July 5, 1862. The author worked with the Army Corps of Engineers for 5 years on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and is a retired civil and hydraulic engineer with relevant interests in the water and storm-related history of the South and the Civil War. The author has published over 50 technical papers and the books Grant's Canal: The… Read More

Hollywood: Marcel Rodd. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. The spine is sun-lightened and the gilt title is very pale. Rear cover has a tiny, light mark or two and two faint scratches. Tiny mark to front endpaper. Creases to corner of the half title. Lacks the dust jacket.; Charles Baudelaire was a poet, translator, and critic in 19th century France. He was known for his "prose poetry" and dark, sometimes controversial subject matter. His works were often judged as obscene and their publication suppressed. His journals, excerpted in this book, reveal a often lost, questioning man with contempt for others and for himself. The Translator's Preface by Christopher Isherwood is apt, describing Baudelaire's life of vice, absinthe, opium, debt to the point of financial ruin, contempt for ethics, instability, anger, madness, and brilliance as an author. Isherwood's friend W. H. Auden provides the Introduction which takes a high-level view of the philosophies… Read More

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. Very Good+. 1996. Second Revised Edition. Paperback. Noticeable bow to text block.; The book follows five boys as they grow and strive in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the racial and political turmoil of the late 60s and early 70s. In socially and physically decaying environments they developed different styles of coping with adversity. Despite some commonalities, they grew to be very different adults, and the Epilogue by Bernard E. Bruce traces the path from boy to man for each of the five. The Foreword is by Richard Majors, Research Fellow at Michigan State University. The author was an instructor in Sociology at The George Washington University. The President Emeritus of the publisher sums the book thus: "Pathways to Manhood is a major piece of work. It stands alongside the efforts of a very few sociologists - like Whyte and Liebow - who have taken the time and effort to study what is perhaps a core issue in American life, and to do so, straight, no chaser as… Read More

No Place Stated: Black Swan Letterpress Printing and Graphic Design. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Short, tight split to the wrap at the tail of the spine.; One woman's journey in letterpress and graphic design, from unloading machinery in her driveway, to the tedious business of book and job printing, to the "Swan Song" of her Black Swan press years later. More than storytelling, it's rendered as an artist's book with text printed over illustrated leaves. Some pages have two story lines interspaced together in different text colors. One of a limited edition of 500. No place of publication stated, but likely Providence, RI where Black resided at the time of publication. 12 pages, but unpaginated. Black says of her two presses: "It might take me several hours to get the make-ready just right. The thing about C&P's (sic) is that the first impression always looks like shit. Even after three years I have to steel myself for… Read More

San Francisco: Twowindows Press. Very Good+. 1970. Broadside. Some broadsides have very light, shallow creasing from handling. Folder has creasing and bumped corners, quite common to these.; Six poetry broadsides, printed on the recto, by authors Douglas Blazek (Figuring Things Out, 1970). Blazek was the founder of Open Skull Press and was one of the driving forces behind the "mimeo revolution," cheap, grass roots publishing of beat and outsider literature and poetry.), Howard McCord (Mit Brennender Sorge, With Burning Sorrow, reprinted from Chelsea magazine, 1967, Maurice McDonald (For Don, 1970) , Paul Ramsey (The Answerers, 1970), D.r. Wagner (The Guardian in Ermine, 1970), and Peter Wild (For the Wedding Night of Manuel Espinoza, illustration by Don Gray, 1970). Broadsides range from 13" x 10" to 7 7/8" x 5", are printed on various fine papers and in various fonts. Twowindows Press, founded by Don Gray who performed both design and printing, was a mainstay… Read More

San Francisco: Twowindows Press. Fine. 1970. Broadside. Folder has creasing and bumped corners, quite common to these.; Six poetry broadsides, printed on the recto, by authors Douglas Blazek (Figuring Things Out, 1970). Blazek was the founder of Open Skull Press and was one of the driving forces behind the "mimeo revolution," cheap, grass roots publishing of beat and outsider literature and poetry.), Howard McCord (Mit Brennender Sorge, With Burning Sorrow, reprinted from Chelsea magazine, 1967, Maurice McDonald (For Don, 1970) , Paul Ramsey (The Answerers, 1970), D.r. Wagner (The Guardian in Ermine, 1970), and Peter Wild (For the Wedding Night of Manuel Espinoza, illustration by Don Gray, 1970). Broadsides range from 13" x 10" to 7 7/8" x 5", are printed on various fine papers and in various fonts. Twowindows Press, founded by Don Gray who performed both design and printing, was a mainstay of fine press poetry in San Francisco. Housed in the publisher's… Read More

Salisbury, Connecticut: Ink, Inc.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. Limited Edition; Privately Printed. 3-ring binder. Corners lightly bumped.; Tulipomania was the speculative, economic bubble that evolved in 17th century Dutch Republic, now Netherlands. The price of tulip bulbs rose to unimaginable extremes as people assigned value to the bulbs far in excess of their intrinsic value. Bulbs were sold and traded as investments and buyers could purchase futures contracts on speculated future values. The average person could buy, hold, and resell a single bulb, and the wealthy could have vast holdings. In February 1637, this speculative bubble collapsed as people stopped buying tulip bulb futures contracts and the rest of the market plummeted, erasing the fortunes of both the meek and the mighty. Like some highly-speculative investments today, people ignored the fundamentals, invested in an idea, and lost their money when the market collectively realized that the idea was not backed by… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. Spine ends bumped, wear to tail spine end and corners, paper worn through at corners, overall light soil to paper covers. Lacks the dust jacket.; Fifteen poems of the "jazz" of living in Chicago and New York City, the poems intended to be accompanied by jazz music. This poetry illuminates the dark corners of society: of drunkenness, devil may care, music, trains, dance hall women, hobos, sex, thieves, grifters, race, crime, neighborhoods, noise, undereducated, low society everything. Not sophisticated in form, the poetry is in a mix of straightforward ABAB and AABB rhyming styles, and what spews from Bodenheim's mind gives the subject matter vivid imagery and stylistic punch. From the poem Bringing Jazz: "Last night I had an oboe dream -- / Whistlers in a box car madness bringing jazz. / Their faces stormed in a hobo gleam, / Blinding all the grinding wheels and singing jazz. /… Read More

Dublin Ireland: Cuala Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Endpapers are wrinkled where they meet the gutter. Dark speck on front cover. Light, 1/2" long impression at the head edge of the front cover and a similar, very faint impression to the head edge of the back cover. Lower corners of the boards are bumped at the fore edge. Lacks the ephemeral tissue wrapper.; This compelling memoir recounts the author's childhood views of living in Dublin Ireland during seven consecutive winters, her summers being spent in County Cork. The memories are detailed and evoke both the chilled, gray days and the beauty of Dublin. Founded and operated by women, entirely, the Cuala Press was focused on new works in the emerging Irish Literary Revival. One of only two titles published by the press in 1942, as the entire press operation was moved to a different location in that year. This is copy 448 of an edition of 450 "finished in… Read More

New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Small sticker residue to corner of front cover. ; Fifteen poems collected from previous appearances in periodicals. One of a limited edition of 400 in wraps. William Bronk, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, composed poetry during daily operations of the family business Bronk Coal and Lumber in Hudson Falls, NY. He committed these to paper, in longhand, and typically did not edit them after writing. Typography by Martino Mardersteig and printed on Magnani rag paper by his press Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italia. Set in Imprint type. Bound in stiff, textured brown wraps with French flaps. Conservatively Very Good+ for the small sticker residue to the cover, else Fine. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 23 pages .

Helsington, York: Redbeck Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Very slightly thumbed at corners.; A collection of Chandler's characteristic, tiny, seemingly random prose paragraphs, 89 in total, some as short as a single sentence. Examples: "A gathering of albinos. / Who now dares to ask, Where are the snows of yesteryear?" "Dissonance of a high order could break out at any moment. Which of course enchants us. Draws us in. / But our technique is always there. At the ready. Keeping order. Effortlessly. / We are reassured. We are tickled pink!" Brossard was not a writer for the masses and challenging to read and absorb. The following are chapters and the number of paragraphs therein. Ch. I : 7, Ch. II : 5, Ch. III : 8, Ch. IV : 1, Ch. V : 7, Ch. VI : 12, Ch. VII : 21, Ch. VIII : 10, Ch. IX : 17, Ch. X : 1. One of an unnumbered edition of 500 copies. On off-white, wove paper with blue-gray, wove endpapers. Mould made card stock… Read More