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New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1873. Soft cover. Good. Wraps. Covers show some general soiling; penciling on front and back. Damstaining to upper corner of pages. pp. 32. Rare. [Sabin 63272]. A proposal, dated 1 December 1873, for changes to banking laws, suggesting the complete withdrawal of the National Bank Notes, the prohibition of banks from paying interest on deposits, the strict enforcement of forbidding certification of checks unless the amount be on deposit, and the resumption of specie payments. Brings into discussion both the national debt and state debts, the depression and the Panic of 1873. This short volume is introduced with open letter by the anonymous author ''X'' in New York, addressed to the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, Thomas Hillhouse. Contents: - Necessity of a Common Unit of Value. - Currency Now in Use. - Operations of the System. - Amount of Actual Currency. - Demands of the Currency. - Banking System. - Separation of… Read More

New York: Holiday House, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Yongsheng Xuan. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Kimmel on title page. Stated First Edition. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue sides with a blind stamped design. Fine/fine. Dust jacket not price clipped ($15.95). DJ in archival sleeve. 32 unnumbered pages. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Long ago, Di Jun, the eastern emperor of the sky, had ten children: ten suns who took turns walking across the heavens each day to bring warmth and light to the earth. But having grown tired of walking all alone, year after year, they decided to instead walk across the sky together. Their combined heat and light wilted crops, boiled oceans, and withered humans on the earth below them. The story of the Ten Suns is one of the oldest Chinese myths, going as far back as the Shang Dynasty (ca.1523- ca. 1027 B.C.). Eric Kimmel (b. 1946) is an American author of children's books. His work has been awarded a Caldecott Honor and he has also won… Read More