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

Buffalo, New York: World's Dispensary Medical Ass'n, c.1910s-1920s. 48pp. Illustrated wrappers. 5½ x 3¼ inches. Half tone illustrations and line drawings. Near Fine. Yet another ambitious effort to remove money from the pockets of honest Americans. Much of this marketing matter is aimed at women who becomes ill from "feminine trouble" or suffer from the "diseases of women" -one considered by Dr. Pierce's to be infertility, which he quite shamelessly declares he can cure. The usual desired results for ailments of all kinds are given and a host of other textual variety is found within, i.e., from guaranteed aids for cleaning your kidneys to recipes for cleaning your house. The inside front cover shows a poor woman trapped inside of a tubular metal cage upon a bed, a "Condensation Couch for Auto-Induction Treatment" -only to be found at Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel. Publisher's coupon, emulating scrip laid in.

[København (Copenhagen):Palæ-Trykkeriet, 1931]. [16]pp. Program. 6 x 4¾ inches. Illustrated wrappers; stapled. Half tone illustrations; ads. Text in Danish. Brief handling at fore-edge; very good. [Sold with:] Valencia Dancing Establishment. Double-sided Trade Card. 2 x 4 inches. Yellow card stock; printed in red. Near fine. With a phenomenal trick dancer, a July 1931 program for Copenhagen, Denmark's "Valencia" dance hall with half tone illustrations of the dancing and other vaudeville-style acts. The Danish-language program is accompanied by an English/Danish trade card advertising "[t]he largest and most fashionable Night Cabaret in Copenhagen." The dance hall had 3 musical bands and presented "International performances" until 2 o'clock in the morning. Acts seen here include phenomenal dance couple ("fænoenalt dansepar") Teddy & Suzette Caisser, the balancing act Blum & Blum ("ekvilibrister"), and "Garret" the phenomenal trick dancer ("Den fænomenale Trickdanser"). The dance couple Lucy &… Read More

Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1979. 128pp. Sm. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Text in Russian and English. Illustrations. A near fine copy Unpublished letters Vladislav F. Khodasevich (1886-1939), emigré Russian poet and critic, written to his wife. Volume 3 in the series "Modern Russian Literature and Culture, Studies and Texts."

[Washington, D.C.] House of Representatives, Doc. 73. 25th Congress, 2d Session. 1838. 6 pages. Pamphlet; removed; foxing. Very good condition. President Van Buren addressing the "Patriot War" wherein Americans in 1838, aided Canadian patriots fighting the colonial government. For example, Samuel Snow and his fellow Americans were captured and sentenced into penal servitude for seven years in Van Dieman's Land.

[Washington, D.C.] House of Representatives Doc. 33. 26th Congress, 2d Session. 1840. 5 pages [SOLD WITH:] [Washington, D.C.] House of Representatives Doc. 33. 26th Congress, 2d Session. 1841. 3 pages. Both documents neatly disbound and removed and Very Good. The steamer Caroline was burned in the Niagara River during the "Patriot War" or Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838.

[Washington, D.C.] Blair & Rives, printers. Senate Doc. 107. 26th Congress, 1st Session. 1840. 66 pages. Pamphlet, removed. Very good condition. This important report contains communications primarily written in 1838 and 1839 between the major political players during the Aroostook War, a.k.a., "The Pork and Beans War." Maine and the United Kingdom feuded over establishing an international boundary line between Maine and the British Colony of New Brunswick. An actual "war" never occurred and the matter was eventually settled with The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

[Washington, D.C.] Blair & Rives, printers. Senate Doc. 319. 25th Congress, 2d Session. 1838. 33 pages. Pamphlet; removed; very good. Concerns events up until this time pertaining to the Aroostook War, a.k.a., "The Pork and Beans War." Maine and the United Kingdom feuded over establishing an international boundary line between Maine and the British Colony of New Brunswick. An actual "war" never occurred and the matter was eventually settled with The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

[Washington, D.C.] Blair & Rivers, printers. Senate Doc. 266. 26th Congress, 1st Session. 1840. 14 pages. Pamphlet, removed. Very good condition. Illustration of Fort at Lake Tanniscouta. A continuation in the events concerning the Aroostook War, a.k.a., "The Pork and Beans War." Maine and the United Kingdom feuded over establishing an international boundary line between Maine and the British Colony of New Brunswick. An actual "war" never occurred and the matter was eventually settled with The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

New York: Barron's, (Fourth Printing, November, 1929). 140pp. Small 8vo., cloth. Gilt spine lettering slightly rubbed. Near fine in a pictorial dust jacket, which has light soil, a few tiny paper defects, in like condition. Auspiciously printed the following month after the Great Crash of 1929. A handsome example of this entry-level investment "how-to" book for those seeking to build up their estate through prudent investment strategies. Laid in with this copy, is a single sheet soliciting the purchase of another Barron's title, Ten Rules for Investors. Missouri-native and author, Walker Van Riper (1887-1960) was graduated from Yale, taught banking and investments between 1914 to 1915 at Colorado College, and then was involved in investment banking and analysis in Denver from 1915 until his 1943 retirement. Very scarce in publisher's dust jacket.

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (1979). First Edition. xvii, 202, [1] pages. Sm. 8vo. Blue cloth. "Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, Number 43." Illustrations. Near Fine. Chapter titles include "Who Were the Slave Drivers?," "The Twentieth-Century Narratives," and "Black Autobiographies." Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon of the slave driver. With over 20 pages of bibliography.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1959) 1961. 125pp. Sm. 8vo. Very good in pictorial dustwrapper in like condition. Early American printing of this English classic set in the Outback of Australia. With pen and ink illustrations by Noela Young.

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, (1992). 582pp. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. As New in original shrinkwrap. First edition. Please note: Additional shipping may be required to ship this book due to weight and depending on your shipping zone.

[Np., nd. ca. 1871]. Four-page well-illustrated circular. Brief handing and light stains; very good. A more elaborate advertisement for this industrialized method of corn processing which are described in great detail. The machine could be ordered from Munson Brothers, agents, who were based at corner of Broadway and Erie Canal in Utica, New York. Vant, Cook & Company were based in Chicago. The final page is filled with testimonials from satisfied customers, mill owners and farmers.

[Np. nd., ca. early 1870s]. Two pages. Illustrated broadsheet circular. Near fine. The virtues and mechanisms of this industrialized method of corn processing are described in great detail. The machine could be ordered from Munson Brothers, agents, who were based at corner of Broadway and Erie Canal in Utica, New York. Vant, Cook & Company were based in Chicago.

New York: G.P. Putnam and Co. and London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., M.DCCC.LIV [1854]. Octavo. First edition. Photograph frontis., extra, engr. t.p., iv, [1], 469, [2], [2, (letter in facsimile)], [5]pp. Original gilt-stamped cloth; top edge gilt. Text illustrations and plates plus facsimiles, including some fold-outs. Spine and edges of boards faded; one hinge starting; good. Issued in Christmas of 1853 as a companion to Homes of American Authors, this 1854 gift book is the "first American book with an original photograph." (Truthful Lens 87). The book's various authors examine the lives and residences of 19 prominent statesmen, ranging from the founding fathers to present-day figures. "The frontispiece consisted of an original salt print photograph ('crystalotype') of the Hancock House in Boston. Most copies [e.g., this copy] have a pencil caption added below the photo, describing it as 'an original sun picture'-capturing a properly exposed image outdoors in natural light [...] This book is often… Read More

[Pittsburgh. 1835.] 12¼ x 7½ inches. One page circular, previously folded and bound. A Large notched-out area to inner margin, short edge-tears, affecting no text at all, else Very Good. Printed circular and subscription announcing to Pittsburgh's citizens a meeting of the Board of Trustees to raise money to hire Gilbert Morgan the second chancellor of what is today Pitt, i.e., University of Pittsburgh. Testimonials give on behalf of Morgan were made by Theodore D. Weld, Dr. Miller of Princeton, Rev. Breckenridge, Rev. Uffold and so forth. The trustees announce: "The undersigned approve heartily of that part of Mr. Morgan's plan which would impart a more popular cast to the Institution, by enlarging the range of studies and yielding a prominent place and consideration to such as may be turned to account in active life, in whatever sphere. Our citizens have had too much reason, perhaps, to regard it, heretofore, as something which stood apart, in lofty seclusion, from their pursuits and and… Read More

New York. 1973. Yellow sheet folded once to form a 3-page program. An advertisement to join the theater club and printing local business ads is inserted. Very good. The New York Times described the event thus: "Women will be whooping it up tonight at 9 in the Manhattan Theater Club, 321 East 73d Street, between First and Second Avenues (BU 8.5000), in an evening of songs composed and sung by women. It's called "A Circle of Sound" and it's full of Broadway show tunes, ballads and contemporary songs, including a few of a peppery political kind. The songs are written mostly by the performers, who include Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer ("The Last Sweet Days of Isaac" and "Shelter"), Zenobia Conkerite, Carole Horne, Paula Larke, Terry Molina and Dale Soules. The club has 100 seats, and they all go for $3. Betty Buckley, who plays Catherine in the musical hit "Pippin," will have to dash uptown after taking her bows in the Imperial Theater; she will sing "I Just Sit Easy" and "If I Remember You Right" to her… Read More

[Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.] November 16, 1941. 7½ x 5¼ inches. Small broadside. Fine condition. This ephemeral item records a "Mammoth Platform Meeting" in 1941 in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The pastor of Wayne's St. John A.M.E.'s Church was the Reverend William H. Smallwood. The two featured speakers were Trueletta Powell of Mt. Pigsah A.M.E. Church and one Mrs. Georgia King.

[Various: Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Liverpool], [1865 to 1886]. 16 letters, approx. 23pp. in total. Ink on wove paper. Measuring from 8 x 5 to 10¼ x 8½ inches. All very good to fine. Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888) was known as "The Seaman's Friend" as he devoted his time establishing safe houses for mariners (first in New York City in 1853, later at Cherry Street, Philadelphia) and worked in Washington D.C. to promote legislation which would benefit seamen. A proponent of the Temperance movement, president of the Marine Temperance Society of New York, Tracy encouraged temperance at his homes for sailors and was an agent for unfermented wine for church services. The majority of these letters relate to Tracy's work to help seamen, and his unfermented "Communion Wine". Viz., One 5-page letter answers a series of questions asked by Tracy to a Deputy of the United States Shipping Commissioner. The Deputy, E.B. Kingsbury, answers each question relating to the prohibition of advance… Read More

[Various places and dates.]  8vo, 12mo, and smaller formats. In total, 17 pages. All very good. These letters were all addressed to Elizabeth Amanda (née Cannon) Cahall (1835-1912) who was the daughter of William Cannon (1809-1865) Delaware's 41st Governor, serving the majority of his term during the American Civil War. Her mother, Margaret Ann Laws Cannon (1813-1899), and father lived in Bridgeville, Delaware. "Lizzie's" correspondents are her brother, Henry Pervis Cannon (1847-1929), and sister, Ellie Sophia (née Cannon) Buckelew (1845-1905). Two letters from young Henry and Ellie, may have been written on their behalf (possibly by an older sibling). One letter is penned by Kate Crawford, a friend from New Jersey. From Irving Female College in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, sister Ellie sends news. In part: "(Spelling not corrected:) I received your kind letter and was very much pleased to think you thought so much of your little sister as to rite to her.... I am tring to learn… Read More