Search Results: Authors starting with E from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)

Minot, Dakota [Dakota Territory, now present-day North Dakota], 1888-1889. One letter with expert tissue mend; overall, very good. The Bank of Minot was likely the first bank established in Minot, Dakota. In this group, the bank's president and cashier solicit investments and discuss the issuing of capital stock and the sale of debenture bonds, etc. All items were sent to John F. Betz of Philadelphia. The Betz family owned the John F. Betz & Sons Brewery. Viz., •  One Broadside and Three Circulars. A stock prospectus; a personalized solicitation to invest in the bank stating surplus and dividend profits; a broadside prospectus for 8% debenture bonds secured by the Mortgage Bank and Investment Co. of Fargo, Dakota Territory; an extract from the Revised Code of Dakota on stockholder liability on unpaid portions of stock; and a list of references, including four in Philadelphia, and referring investors to Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency. •  Three Letters Signed by E. Ashley Mears, President.… Read More

Schenectady, N.Y.: Robson and Adee, (1928). Frontis., [3], 159pp. First edition. 7½ x 5 inches. Illustrated wrappers with flaps. Half tone illustrations. Near fine. The author's first novel, young adult fiction, and one which is described as being especially appropriate for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The storyline explains the importance of the niche left vacant for Arnold in the Saratoga Battle Monument at Schuylerville, New York during the American Revolution. The wrappers have larger flappers which have the author's portrait and reviews for the book.

New York: Frank V. Strauss, Publisher, [1896]. [8]pp. Quarto. Illustrations; ads. Two-hole-punched with cloth reinforcement. Old inscription on upper cover; small separation at tail; very good. Vaudeville program for the week of September 28, 1896 at the Brooklyn Music Hall in East New York. The program included music, sketch artists Roach and Castleton, dancers such as the La Page Sisters and Odetta, comedienne Miss Dot Davenport, the comedy duo Dilks and Wade, the "Upside-Down Wonder" and trapeze artist Wm. De Boe, acrobats and contortionists Lowell and Lowell, "Stuart, The Male Patti," and horse-and-mule act Odellyska with the French clown Frimousse. Numerous local ads plus the theater's wine list and bill of light fare.

Louisville, Ky.: Louisville War Camp Community Service, [ca. 1917-1919]. Four-panel, fold-out song sheet. 5 x 3½ inches, opening to 14½ x 5 inches. Cover illustration. Short closed tears in margins of two folds; very good. Pocket-sized folding song sheet for soldiers at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky. The camp was in existence for three years during WWI, becoming the largest U.S. military training installation. In 1918, young army officer F. Scott Fitzgerald was briefly stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor which is mentioned in The Great Gatsby. The sheet was issued by Louisville War Camp Community Service. Printed in read and blue ink, the item lists its printer, paper suppliers, and linotype provider -these firms may have offered their services gratis or at a discount, as a show of patriotism.  There are lyrics for 28 songs, many relating directly to WWI, such as "La Marseillaise," "'Uncle Sammy'," "It's a Long Way to Berlin, But We'll Get There," "My Belgian Rose," "Keep Your Head… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXVIII [1918]. First Edition. 129pp. 6¼ x 4¾ inches. Publisher's printed boards. Spine sunned with loss wear at head; one leaf with small loss in margin. Good in a dust jacket with paper losses and fair only. Presentation Copy: "My greetings to Bruce Berlind -Max Eastman, October 1965."

[Np. ca. 1990]. Black and white studio photograph. 10 x 8 inches. Inscription light in some areas; image Near Fine. Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style of playing and Afro-Cuban rhythms. The portrait is inscribed: "To Ed [Eddie Birch, the photo's photographer?], The best always to yourself, Dizzy Gillespie '90." At the time of this photograph, Gillespie was at the height of his fame, having been an important influence on such trumpeters as Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Wynton Marsalis.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1969). 184 pages. First edition. Fine in publisher's cloth in a Near Fine illustrated dust jacket. Engaging study of the educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama. Scholarly observations, Washington's own writings and those of his contemporaries provide a three-fold perspective of this remarkable figure. Significant contributors include Carter G. Woodson ("The Father of Negro History"), Langston Hughes and Horace M. Bond and others.

Columbia and Chapel Hill, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark and Algonquin Books, (1986). 200pp. Softcover. 12 x 10 inches. Few creases to covers, half title with faint discoloration. Overall, book is clean and bright, very good. An elegant monograph on early South Carolina photographer, Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), showing almost 200 of his works. Roberts ran a photo studio in Columbia, South Carolina from 1920-1935. "He was one of the few major African American commercial photographers working in the region during the first half of the twentieth century, and his images reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the black South and document the rise of a small but significant southern black middle class." (University of South Carolina Press).

[Deauville, France, circa September 11, 1919]. [1]p. ALS. 12mo. On Hotel Deauville stationery with perforated and gummed edges. Postmarked "Deauville, Calvados, 19:45 [P.M.], 11-9-19" with manuscript note in French: "à Active Service." Fold; lacking right perforated margin and with some separation at left, neither affecting text; some smudging, just touching autograph; Very Good. Brief letter written by British General Sir Edmund Allenby (1861-1936) to his mother at the family home, Felixstowe House, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. At this time, Allenby was on active service in Deauville, France to confer with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George about the Middle East situation following the First World War. Notably, Allenby campaigned during the war in the Middle East, liaising with allied Arab forces directed by Colonel T. E. Lawrence better-known as "Lawrence of Arabia." Here, General Allenby writes to his mother, Catherine Anne née Cane Allenby, expressing his hope to visit England (in… Read More

[Nashville: Parthenon Press / Eli Kani Publishing Co.] (1940). Octavo. Frontispiece, 211 pages. Second printing. Publisher's cloth in a lightly chipped and spine-sunned dustwrapper. A near fine copy. Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter (1892-1971) trained in Charleston to be a nurse and later at the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Afterwards, "she moved to Cleveland, Ohio to seek employment and felt firsthand the difficulties of an African American woman in a large city. With the help of friends she founded the Working Girls' Home Association where unemployed women could find shelter, resources, and education. By 1912 the home was expanded and known as the Phillis Wheatley Association. In 1925 Jane passed the Ohio bar examination having graduated from Baldwin-Wallace Law School in Cleveland. Her autobiography... tells of her struggles." (Bagby, Ellen. African American Women… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. First Editions. Two Volumes. 901 pages, in all. As New with As New dust jackets. Correspondence between Gertrude Stein and her long time friend and literary executor, Carl Van Vechten. With much on Van Vechten's championing of the Harlem Renaissance.

[Austin]: Roger Beacham, Publisher, (1978). 53pp. 8vo. Illustrated boards, without publisher's plain wrapper. Two tipped in facsimile 19th century title pages. Near Fine. First Edition, thus. This copy with a laid-in typed note signed by Bill Holman of Roger Beacham Publisher, sending this copy as a gift, plus the prospectus and related ephemera for How to Conquer Texas Before Texas Conquers Us, the first book in the publisher's planned "Rare Texana Series." The book reprints the text of two nineteenth-century political tracts on the question of Texas becoming a state.

Charleston, W. Va.: Tribune Printing Co., (1922). 102, iiipp 8vo. Green cloth; gilt titling on upper cover. Tables. A very good tight copy. Snapshot of Black lives in West Virginia in 1921-1922. Includes statistics and reports on population, agriculture, labor and industry, inter-racial relations, health, education, home ownership, mining, law and the courts-including an anti-lynching law, churches, charitable institutions, etc. Four appendices discuss Black West Virginians' activities during the First World War, both military and civilian, including a State Council of Defense resolution to oppose the showing of the controversial race-baiting film, The Birth of a Nation.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago, (1969). 482pp. Publisher's cloth. Light spotting to edges of text block. Near fine in a dust jacket in like condition. First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, "Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace." The author argues for Brown's place alongside that of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Wendell Phillips. Inscribed by the series editor, John Hope Franklin.

Massachusetts. 1901 Two octavo notebooks, one in paper wraps, the other in a roan-backed and pebbled cloth binding. Collectively,150 manuscript pages with numerous illustrations. Overall condition is very good. Undergraduate and graduate notebooks kept by Julius Wooster Eggleston (1875-1945) who graduated from Harvard and embarked on a career as a geologist. The notebooks include class, laboratory and field notes. They are hand-illustrated throughout by Eggleston. At some point in his life, Eggleston removed to Shrewsbury, Vermont and then later to Riverside, California where he lived until his death.

[New York: The Limited Editions Club, c.1979]. Limited Edition, Number 1319 of 2000 hand-numbered in pencil and signed by the artist in pencil. 10¼ x 6½ inches.Printed from the original wood block, under the supervision of the artist, at the Penmaen Press in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Small stain in ample bottom margin; else Near fine. Original Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) wood engraving-here separately issued as a print-originally prepared for publication as an illustration for The Lyrical Poems of Francois Villon, published by The Limited Editions Club in 1979. In a mediaeval scene, a lutist or balladier is seen serenading a woman who lifts up her skirt to show her leg while partially exposing her breasts. Behind the man is a fiend with raised knife preparing to stab him. In the background-possibly the square in front of Notre Dame de Paris-a corpse is suspended from a gibbet while overhead, a black crow or raven flies.

Chicago: Central Electric Company, [1917]. 1405pp. + [10] color plates. Thick 4to. Original blue cloth with yellow titling. Numerous illustrations, appearing on virtually every page. Some wear and staining to binding and with some very small looses or separations along joints; a few weakened hinges, yet a remarkable copy whose fragile pulp paper leaves are clean and fresh. Electrical supply trade catalog from the Central Electric Company whose offices and showrooms were located in Chicago. Extremely well illustrated with their inventory of electrical switches, transformers, sockets, lamps, lighting fixtures, insulated wires and cables (including "Okonite" brand products), conduits, plugs, insulators, fuses, battery motors, electrical railway supplies, etc. etc.-over 1400 pages. (Additionally, ten color plates.) OCLC 29305354, [5], Center for Res Libr, McLean Cnty Hist Soc Libr, Harvard (Baker), Henry Ford, U. Oregon.

[Dallas:] Dallas Historical Society, 1982. 176pp. Oblong Sm. Folio. Quarter leatherette and cloth. Near fine in cloth slipcase. Limited to 100 copies in special binding with slipcase, signed by the editor and by Millicent Hume McCoy, who wrote the book's foreword, and by book designer Steve Schuster. The transformation of Dallas "from a Southern country market town into a boom town" as revealed in the letters of attorney John Milton McCoy who came to town in 1870 to join the law firm of his uncle, Dallas' first practicing attorney. An important primary source. With an illustrated prospectus for the book laid in.

New York: Otto Penzler Books, (1994). Octavo. 229pp. 8vo. Hardcover in quarter cloth and boards. A fine copy in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated on the title page by the author in the year of publication. A dark and gritty collection of interconnected crime stories set in the corrupt underbelly of Los Angeles, exploring themes of violence, corruption, and betrayal among cops, criminals, and Hollywood elites.

[Pennsylvania:] British Emigrant Society, [1819]. Broadsheet with engraved map of Brittania,  6½ x 8 inches. Old folds; some spotting; some separation or closed splits along fold (no loss). An unusual promotional piece for recent emigrants to America advertising an agricultural mecca. The town of Britania was to be located in a large tract of land in Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania. The text touts the good land and climate of the area and the relative ease of access to Philadelphia and New York City. The text states that November 15, 1819 is the designated deadline date for the completion of the purchase of the land so that the settlement could go forward. The text has been attributed; it is derived from a book (Sabin 36198) written in Philadelphia in 1819 by Charles Britten Johnson (?1788-1836) who was an educated Welsh émigré from Clun and a surgeon. The engraved map on the broadsheet is generous and detailed. It was one of H.S. Tanner's early accomplishments. The object is formatted so it… Read More