18 Collections

1. Bethune d'Orval, Armand de, & Louis-Pierre-Maximilien, Marquis de Bethune. Collection of 36 separate imprints concerning a legal dispute between Armand de Bethune d'Orval and Louis-Pierre-Maximilien, Marquis de Bethune, his uncle. [Paris]: various, 1729-1737.

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Folio, 684 pages total, contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine, joints starting, boards worn on bottom, light worming, very good. A slightly later inscription on the upper endpaper notes the acquisition of the book by a Professor of the University d'Bourges. A handful of titles contain slightly later marginalia in multiple hands, in a few cases the trimming has cut off some of the manuscript.

The death of Maximilien Henri, the 5th Duke of Sully, in 1729 appears to have triggered a fight for succession between Louis-Pierre-Maximilien, his third cousin, and Armand de Bethune d'Orval, who according to the documents was Maximilien Henri's son. If the lineage provided by Wikipedia can be trusted, it appears that Armand de Bethune d'Orval lost his case and the title was given to Louis-Pierre-Maximilien after some 6 years of legal wrangling.

Also bound in are three items concerning the title of Duke of Richelieu, which was possibly included as a comparable, as that title was passed from a Cardinal to his great nephew.

Items included, listed by drop title, are:

1. Donation portant substitution faite par Messire Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, au profit de Messire Maximilien de Bethune, Marquis de Rosny, & a ses Descendans. Du 27 Mars 1609. Pp 4.

2. Donation entre-vifs, portant Substitution, du 12 Juin 1610. pp. 14

3. Extrait des registres de parlement [1610]. A Paris, de l'imprimerie d D. Jollet, au bout du Pont. S. Michel pp. 27, [1].

4. Edit du roy, portant reglement general pour les Duchez & Pairies. Donne a Marly a mois de May 1711. Registre en parlement le 21 May 1711. pp. 3, [1].

5. Premier memoire pour armand de Bethune D'orval. Contre Louis-Pierre Maximilien, Marquis de Bethune. Paris: chez Pierre Simon, 1729. pp. 11, [1];

6. Second memoire, servant de Reponse au memoire du Marquis de Bethune. Pour Armand de Bethune D'Orval. Contre Louis-Pierre-Maximilien, Marquis de Bethune. Paris: chez Pierre Simon, 1729. pp. 22.

7. Reponse De Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, …. Au second memoire presente au Roy par Messire Armand de Bethune D'Orval...L'Imprimerie de Ph. Nic. Lottin, 1729. pp. 9, [1].

8. Refutation du dernier memoire de Messire Armand De Bethune Compte D'Orval, descendu du second Mariage de Francois de Bethune Comte D'Orval avec Anne D'Harville. Paris: Ph. Nic. Lottin, 1729. pp. 14.

9. Troisieme memoire, Servant de Reponse aux deux derniers Memoires du Marquis de Bethune, dont l'un intitule, Refutation du dernier Memoire de Messire Armand de Bethune d'Orval. Paris: Pierre Simon, 1729. Pp. 20.

10. Reponse du Duc de Sully au troisieme memoire du Comte D'Orval. Ph. N. Lottin, 1729. Pp. 17, [1].

11. Sommaire pour Armand de Bethune, Comte d'Orval contre Louis Pierre Maximilien, Marquis de Bethune. Paulus du Mesnil, 1729. Pp. 11, [1];

12. Reponse a l'imprime du Comte d'Orval, intitule sommaire, pour le Duc de Sully. Ph. Nic. Lottin, 1729. Pp. 4.

13. Reponse a l'imprime du Comte d'Orval, intitule: Sommaire pour le Duc de Sully. Observations sur cette reponse pour le comte d'Orval. Paulus-Du-Mesnil, 1729. Pp. 12.

14. Reponse generale aux quatre memoires que le Comte d'Orval vient d'ajouter a cinq qui avoient precede. Ph. N. Lottin, 1729. Pp. 20.

15. Observations pour Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, chef du nom, surnom & armes de la Maison de Bethune. Sur le dernier memoire du Comte d'Orval, intitule objections sur la pairie. [Paris]: V. Jollet & J. Lamesle. Pp. 8.

16. Sommaire pour Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully... contre Messire Armand de Bethune, Comte d'Orval. [Paris]: V. Jollet & J. Lamesle. Pp. 2.

17. Arrest du conseil destat du roy. Du13 Mars 1730. Extrait des registres du conseil D'estat. Ph. Nic. Lottin, 1730. Pp. 3, [1].

18. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'Etat. [Paris]: J. Lamesle, 1731. Pp. 4.

19. “Henry par la Grace de Dieu, … “ Transcript of a letter to King Henry from “Bernard” apparently concerning a contradictory judgment. The original dated 26 September, 1598. This transcript published contemporary with the rest of the material in the group. Pp. 3, [1].

20. Transcript of a contract reading in part: “La terre et seigneurie ou souveraintete de boisbelle, consistant en bourg et villages, terres labourables, prez, bois, etangs, cens, rentes, vassaux, arrieres-vassaux et en toute justice, et autres appartenances et dependances generalement quelconques de ladite terre, seigneurie ou souverainete de boisbelle assise pres du pays de Berry” Pp. 4. Dated 1645, 26 December.

21. Lettres et declaration des droits de la souverainete & principaute d'Enrichemont & Boisbelle... signed in the text, Herbin (small folio) text dated 5 July, 1664, imprint c. 1731. Pp. 4.

22. Phelyppeaux. Extrait des registres du Conseil d'Estat. [Paris]: J. Lamesle, Aug 22, 1730. Pp. 3, [1].

23. Memoire pour Lois Pierre Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, Prince Souverain de Boisbelle, et Henrichemont, Contre Armand de Bethune, Comte d'Orval. [Paris]: Ph. Nic. Lottin, 1731. Pp. 46.

24. Premier memoire pour Armand de Bethune, Comte d'Orval. Contre Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune, Duc du Sully. [Paris]: Paulus-du-Mesnil, 1731. Pp. 11, [1] (Genealogy).

25. Memoire pour Armand de Bethune Comte d'Orval, Prince Souverain de Boisbelle & Henrychemont. Contre Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune Duc de Sully, Pair de France. Paris: Pierre Simon, 1732. Pp. 49, [1].

26. Second memoire pour Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune Duc de Sully, Prince Souverain de Boisbelle & Henrichemont. Contre Armand de Bethune, Comte d'Orval. [Paris]: Ph. Nic. Lottin, 1733. Pp. 76.

27. Second memoire pour Armand de Bethune, Comte d'Orval, Prince Souverain de Boisbelle & Henrichemont. Contre Louis-Pierre-Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, Pair de France. Paris: Pierre Simon, 1734. Pp. 44.

28. Troisieme memoire Pour le Duc de Sully, Prince Souverain de Boisbelle & Henrichemont. Contenant des observations sur le second memoire du Comte d'Orval. [Paris]: Knapen, 1734. Pp. 44.

29. Troisieme memoire pour le Comte d'Orval. Servant de reponse au III memoire du Duc de Sully, contenant ses observations. [Paris]: Pierre Simon, 1734. Pp. 36.

30. Quatrieme memoire pour le Duc de Sully, Prince Souverain de Boisbell & Henrichemont. Servant de reponse a celui qui est intitule: Troisieme memoire du Comte d'Orval, & qui est pourtant le quatrieme. [Paris]: Knapen, 1734. Pp. 36.

31. Ive. Memoire pour le Comte d'Orval. Servant de reponse au quatrieme memoire du Duc de Sully, & de contredits contre sa production nouvelle du 14. Octobre 1734. Paris: Pierre Simon, 1734. Pp. 20.

32. Requeste de Monsieur le Comte d'Orval, au Grand Conseil... Signed in the text, Passelaigue, Gressier. [16 March, 1735]. Pp. 3, [1].

33. Sur la Requete presentee au Roy etant en son Conseil par le Duc de Sully, Pair de France... Signed in the text, Duporteau, Chaulnac & le Page Avocats. 17 Mars 1735. Pp. 7, [1].

34. Memoire, pour M. le Duc de Richelieu, heritier substitue de M. le Cardinal de Richelieu son grand-oncle, damandeur. Contre M. de Chubere, conseiller honoraire au Parlement; M. Payen, Maitre des comptes [et al.] … Defendeurs. [Paris]: Veuve d'Andre Knapen, 1737. Pp. 31, [1].

35. Memoire, pour Messire Claude-Louis de Chubere, conseiller honoraire au Parlement de Paris; Messire Charles Urson, conseiller au Parlement & Consorts [et al.]. Contre M. le Duc de Richelieu, Demandeur. Et M. le Duc d'Orleans, Intervenant. [Paris]: Charles Osmont, n.d. Pp. 23, [1].

36. Second memoire pour Messire Guillaume-Louis de Chubere, conseiller honoraire au Parelement de Paris, & Consorts, Defendeurs. Contre M. le Duc de Riechelieu, Demandeur. Et M. le Duc d'Orleans, Intervenant. [Paris]: Charles Osmont, n.d. Pp. 24.

2. Dylan, Bob. A collection of 35 Bob Dylan song books from all of his studio albums until 2017. New York: various publishing companies, 1963-2017.

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All small folio (approx. 12" x 9"); some illustrated, some in color, all generally very good to fine in original pictorial wrappers.

Includes: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan; The Times They Are a-Changin; Another Side of Bob Dylan; Bringing It All Back Home; Highway 61 Revisited; Blond on Blond; John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline; Self Portrait; Blood on the Tracks; New Morning; Planet Waves; The Basement Tapes; Desire; Street Legal; Slow Train Coming; Saved; Shot of Love; Infidels; Empire Burlesque; Knocked Out Loaded; Down in the Groove; Oh Mercy; Under the Red Sky; Good As I Been to You; World Gone Wrong; Time Out of Mind; Love and Theft; Modern Times; Together Through Life; Christmas in the Heart; Tempest; Shadows in the Night; and Fallen Angels.

Not included are the three most recent studio albums: Triplicate, Rough and Rowdy Ways, and Shadow Kingdom. Also not included is the sound track for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; nor, the song book for the inauguaral Bob Dylan as there was none issued.

3. Gardner, Martin. A group of 12 Esquire Magazines, each with an article by Martin Gardiner, most autographed. Chicago: Esquire, Inc., 1947-1950.

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Large quartos, original pictorial wrappers, all but two signed by Gardner, one of the unsigned a duplicate, generally very good with condition, some edge toning, some small dogears, marks on a few covers, a few other points as noted below. Also included is a one-page typed list of titles, with notes made by the previous owner of this collection based on comments Gardner made to him in 2002, which are duplicated below. According to the previous owner, Gardner had likely not signed any other Esquires outside of this collection.

Includes:

Oct 1946: “The Horse on the Escalator” Also, 10 Utilities problem, 9 dots with 4 lines, “Six Pack Bezique”, “Chess Problem” and Short biography of Gardiner (mentioning he is working on a novel “and you might feel funny” about a Navy veteran and a lady Magician) 
Jan 1947: “No-sided professor” (“The name means ‘slap an ass’.”) Short closed tear at fore-edge. 
April 1947: “The conspicuous turtle”     Also, Letter and response to his “No-sided professor” and “Shipwreck Draw” puzzle. 
Oct 1947: “Flo’s Freudian Slips” (“They cut this article terribly. I was very annoyed. I worked hard on it.”) Also, the “Send+More=Money” problem. 
Sept. 1947: “The fall of Flatbush Smith” (“I frequented some Jazz spots in Chicago. I was called ‘Moldy Fig,’ that is, one who still likes Dixie rather than Progressive Jazz.”) Also: “How to Raise a Farm.” 
Jan 1948: “The Lady Says ‘Check!’” Also, constructing an equilateral tringle puzzle solution. 
May 1948: “Dr. Clodhopper’s Footsies” 
March 1948: “The Loves of Lady Coldpence” Also: “New Approach” to “How to Raise a Farm” & “The Art of Coffeehouse Bridge” 
Sept. 1949: “Love and Tiddlywinks” (“I had forgotten what ‘Tiddlywinks’ meant.” (It meant making love) Also: “These are my Mental Setting-up Exercises: David Shulman” and a short bio of Gardiner. Missing back wrapper and a coupon clipped 
Feb 1950 “One More Martini” 
Feb 1952 “Miss Medford’s Moon” 

Unsigned Issue: November 1950: “That old man gloom.”

4. Goudy, Frederic W. Collection of 39 broadsides, broadsheets, chapbooks, invitations, letterheads, etc. related to type designer and printer Frederic W. Goudy (1865-1947). New York, et al.: 1930-39.

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The largest part, 27 items, was printed as keepsakes for the 35th anniversary of Goudy's Village Press and the associated “Pilgrimage to Deepdene,” an excursion July 23, 1938 to Goudy’s home and workshop in Marlborough, New York. The excursion was organized by New York printer Earl H. Emmons, and as a token the “Pilgrims” received a portfolio of keepsakes, promised to include at least 20 pieces. The collection also includes material for other dated events, several miscellaneous pieces and letterhead stationery. With a cardboard portfolio (worn), probably original.

Among the presses and printers represented are: Village Press, Kingsland Press, Thumbprint Press, Composing Room, Herbert Kaufman, A. Colish, Richard Ellis, Press of the Three Bears, Press of the Blue Dolphin, Columbia University Press, Florence & Irving Cash, Commandy Brothers, Harrison Emmons, Jim Marshall, Arthur W. Rushmore at The Golden Hind Press, Marchbanks Press, William E. Rudge’s Sons, Jumbo Press, Maverick Press, Powgen Press, Peter Beilenson, Kingsland Press, and others.

35th Anniversary (either stated or attributed to the anniversary by the University of Delaware):

Pilgrimage to Deepdene. Invitation printed by the Kingsland Press in Goudy Kennerley. Broadsheet, (12¼” x 9”);

Village Press. Press of the Woolly Whale. Facsimile of the first piece of printing issued by the Village Press. Bifolium, (9” x 7”);

First Goudy Cartoon by Frank Holme, Thumbprint Press, printed in Camelot. Bifolium, (7 ½” x 5 ½”);

Selling a Typeface to Fred Goudy by Lucien Bernhard. Printed by the Composing Room, Inc. 4 pages, (12 ¾” x 7 ¾”);

Day Letter from Ellen Glasgow produced by Herbert Kaufman. Reproduction of telegram to Goudy. Yellow wrappers, (7” x 8 ½”);

Recollections of FWG by C. Lauron Hooper, his first business partner. Printed by A. Colish. Printed wrappers, (7 ½” x 5 ¼”);

Selected from Prose Fantasies by Richard LeGallienne. Printed by Richard Ellis in Kennerley type, about 200 copies. Bifolium printed on one page only, (13 ¼” x 8 ¾”);

The Type Speaks by Frederic W. Goudy. Distributed by Lanston Monotype. Broadside, (9 ¼” x 6 ¼”);

The Type Speaks by Frederic W. Goudy. Item No. 1 of the Press of the Three Bears, 275 copies. Printed wrappers, (approx. 4 ½” x 2 ¾”);

Father Frederic by Earl Emmons. Printed by Charles E. Pont of the Press of the Blue Dolphin. Parody of Louis Carroll. Bifolium, (9 ½” x 6 ¼”);

Shakespeare on the Village Press as Prophesied in Sonnet 65 by Paul Standard. Printed by Melvin Loos at the Columbia University Press. 4 pages (11” x 9 ¼”);

Goudy by Mary P. Emmett. Printed by Florence and Irving Cash in Goudy Tory. Bifolium, (9 ¼” x 5 ½”);

Alac! Poor Frederic by Earl Emmons. New Yorque Monotype Composition Company. Bifolium, (approx. 13 ½” x 8 ½”); F W G. Excerpt from the broadcast of Lowell Thomas, produced by Commandy Brothers. Broadside, (approx. 5 ¾” x 12 ½”);

Acrostic of Goudy by Branch Cabell. Printed by Harrison Emmons. (7 ½” x 11”);

Frederic Goudy photograph of a sculpture by Clair Heller. (5 ¾” x 3 ¾”);

A Testimonial by Jim Marshall in Monotype Deepdene. (8 ½” x 5 ½”);

A Tribute to BMG by Frederic W. Goudy. Printed by John Archer in Bertham. Bifolium, (8 ½” x 5 ½”);

Joe Bowles by Earl H. Emmons. Printed by Louis F. White. (Refusal order blank), (9 ½” x 7”);

Son of a Goudy by Fred C. Goudy. Produced in the Studios of the Maverick Press. Beige wrappers, (approx. 8 ¾” x 5 ¾”);

Frederic W. Goudy. A Confidential Interview. Printed by the Jumbo Press. Blue wrappers, (8 ½” x 7 ¼”);

The Record of Goudy Types. Presented by David Gildea. Tall narrow broadside (folded with 3 creases) printed in black, (29 ¼” x 5 ¾”);

Here’s to you, Fred by Wilbur Macey Stone. Printed by William E. Rudge’s Sons. Broadside, (16 ½” x 8”);

Ancient Customs used in Printing-house by Joseph Moxon. Set by hand by Arthur W. Rushmore at The Golden Hind Press, #166 of about 200 signed copies. Broadside, (15” x 10”);

Untitled Poster by Fred Cooper printed at The Marchbanks Press. Cooper was a prolific artist who produced advertising art. World War I posters, and Life magazine art; printed on orange paper (18” x 12”);

Other Events:

The Village Press. A Retrospective Exhibition. 1933. Wrapper only. (9” x 5 ¾”);

The Gypsy Trail by Rudyard Kipling. Reprint of the first Village Press edition by the Powgen Press for Goudy’s 70th birthday, 1935. 8 pages, unopened, (8 ½” x 5 ¼”);

Frederic W. Goudy by Earl Emmons for the Ulster Irish Society, set at the Village Press, watermarked with a portrait of Goudy by Peter Beilenson, for the Society’s 11th annual dinner, March 19, 1937. Bifolium, (approx. 10 ¾” x 7 ½”);

Invitation to admit Martin K. Howes to the Distaff Birthday dinner for Goudy March 8, 1939. With postage addressed envelope. Martin K. Howes was a professor at Allegheny College who collected inscribed first editions, particularly Robert Frost. (approx. 4 ¼” x 5 ¼”);

Goudy 74. Menu for 74th birthday dinner March 8, 1939. Printed at the Maverick Press. Bifolium, (approx. 10 ½” x 7 ½”);

Testimonial Meeting to Goudy. Hotel New Yorker, March 24, 1939. Program printed by Robert Goldstein of the Kingsland Press on paper watermarked with a portrait of Goudy. Bifolium, (11” x 7 ½”) with Testimonial Meeting ticket, (approx. 3 ¼” x 5 ¼”);

Frederic W. Goudy Testimonial Committee. Letterhead stationery. One sheet, (11” x 8 ½”);

Other Items:

Monotype, Volume XXIII, Number 74. March 1930 {containing] Type Design Past & Present by Fred. W. Goudy. Printed wrappers, (approx. 12 ¼” x 9”);

Monotype, Vol. XXII, No. 73. November 1938 [containing] Art in Type Design by Frederic W. Goudy. Printed wrappers, (approx. 11 ¾” x 9”);

A Specimen of Types Designed, Engraved, & Cast at the Village Press, Marlborough New York. 1938. Printed wrappers, (9” x 6”);

Photogravure portrait of Goudy printed by the Marchbanks Press. (12 ¼” x 9”) Frederic W. Goudy. Art Director Lanston Monotype Machine Co. Marlboro, New York.

Letterhead stationery. One sheet, (11” x 8 ½”); Frederic W. Goudy. Type Designs. Matrix Engraving. Type Casting. Marlborough, N.Y. Telephone 138.

Letterhead stationery. One sheet, (11” x 8 ½”) Frederic W. Goudy. Type Designs. Matrix Engraving. Type Casting. Art Director, Lanston Monotype Machine Co. Marlboro, New York. Marlboro 138.

Letterhead stationery. One sheet, (10 ½” x 7 ¼”)

5. Manfred, Frederick. A collection of 50 of his novels and other works, the property of his daughter, Marya. Most inscribed. V.p.: 1944-1996.

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All first editions unless noted; all 8vo or 12mo, unless noted. All dust jackets present unless noted. Condition ranges from good to fine. Marya was not a book collector. She was the youngest child of a popular novelist and the books show the casual wear and tear of a childhood gathering.

Marya Manfred (1949-2022) grew up and attended elementary school in Bloomington, Minnesota. With her parents she moved to Luverne at age 10, and graduated from Luverne High School on 1967. She later moved to Colorado for a year to study singing, music composition, and piano performance. She then finished her bachelor's degree, majoring in Art, at the University of Minnesota. She later worked for the Consumer Survivor Network at Marshall before becoming a Certified Peer Specialist at Southwestern Mental Health Center in Worthington and Luverne, where she taught art therapy. Marya is survived by her sister, the poet Freya Manfred, and her husband, the screenwriter Thomas Pope, both of Stillwater, Minnesota, and two nephews, Nicholas Bly Pope and Ethan Rowan Pope, both of the Twin Cities. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her brother, Frederick Manfred, Jr.

1. Mulder, Rodney J., & John H. Timmerman. Frederick Manfred: A bibliography and Publishing History. Sioux Falls: Center for Western Studies, 1981. "For Marya on her birthday December 5 with love from Dad."

2. The Golden Bowl. Saint Paul: The Webb Publishing Company, 1944. First edition of the author's first book. Inscribed "8-3-1966 Dear Marya daughter - This book, fresh from a package I moved for you, is still as green as this ink. I remember the day when I got the very first one from the bindery - Your Dad, Frederick Manfred. Mulder & Timmerman A-1.

3. The Golden Bowl ... Introduction by John R. Milton. Vermillion: University of South Dakota, 1969. First published in 1944, this is the 25th Anniversary Edition. Signed by Manfred on the front free endpaper. Mulder & Timmerman A-1e.

4. Boy Almighty. Saint Paul: Itasca Press, 1945. First edition "To yet another queen, one named Marya Feikema Manfred who is already doing on her piano what Eric only dreamed of doing while lying on his back. Your father, Frederick Feikema Manfred 8-17-1963." Also signed by Manfred on the title page. Mulder & Timmerman A-2.

5. This is the Year. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. Dust jacket worn with tears, but complete. "Christmas 1968 My dear daughter Marya, This new first edition I've saved for you all these years as you truly would(?) learn about Siouxland. Love, Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the title page. Mulder & Timmerman A-3.

6. This is the Year ... With a new introduction by Max Westbrook. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Originally published in 1947. "Dear Marya, This tells of an old triumph as well as an old lament - the loss of love, and the subsequent search for it. Dad. 12-31-1983." Mulder & Timmerman A-3c.

7. The Chokecherry Tree. Denver: Alan Swallow, [1961]. Revised edition. Corner bumped, boards bowed. "Given to my daughter Marya Manfred this day, 4-7-1966, with all love for her flowering spirit- Frederick Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-4d.

8. The Chokecherry Tree ... Introduction by Delbert E. Wylder. Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, [1975]. Trade paperback. Short tear at the bottom of the front wrapper. Mulder & Timmerman A-4f.

9. Lord Grizzly. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1954]. Dust jacket worn. "To my lovely daughter Marya Manfred who has straight-seeing eyes and who has fingertips that speak- your father - Frederick Manfred 3-4-1962 (The year of the great snow)." "With love - Frederick F. Manfred 9-6-1954" on dedication page. Mulder & Timmerman A-8.

10. Lord Grizzly. New York: Signet Classics, 1964. No inscriptions.

11. Lord Grizzly ... With a new introduction by Joseph M. Flora. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. First published in 1954. Issued as vol. 2 in The Buckskin Man Tales. Signed by Manfred on the title page. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

12. Lord Grizzly. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, [1983]. Trade paperback. First Bison Book printing. Corners curled. "12-5-1983 For Marya from Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the title page. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

13. Morning Red. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1956. Dust Jacket lacks front flap and is worn with tears. "Christmas 1968 my dear daughter Marya, A small story of not so small people. Or, it is more a not so simple a story about simple people? Love, Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the half-title. Mulder & Timmerman A-9.

14. Riders of Judgement. New York: Random House, [1957]. "Christmas 1968, My darling Marya daughter- When I was a boy I dreamed of the day when I'd write the "really real" story about cowboys - since I wasn't allowed to "go west" and become one myself - Love, Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the half-title page. Mulder & Timmerman A-10.

15. Riders of Judgement ... With a new introduction by Priscilla Oaks. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. First published in 1957. Issued as vol. 5 in The Buckskin Man Tales. Signed by Manfred on the title page.

16. Riders of Judgement. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Trade paperback. First Bison Book printing. Corner bumped. "12-5-1983 For Marya from Dad."

17. Conquering Horse. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, [1959]. " To my darling daughter Marya Manfred who has her own priceless, utterly distinct reactions to life around her. Your father, Frederick Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-11.

18. Conquering Horse. New York: Signet Classics, 1965. Trade paperback, fifth printing. Signed by Marya with underlining and annotations by her throughout.

19. Conquering Horse ... With a new introduction by John R. Milton. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. First published in 1959. Issued as vol. 1 in The Buckskin Man Tales. Signed by Manfred on the title page. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

20. Conquering Horse. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, [1983]. Trade paperback. First Bison Book printing. "12-5-1983 For Marya from Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the title page. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

21. Arrow of Love. Denver: Alan Swallow, n.d.. "8-3-1966 Marya Manfred, little daughter, here are three little cakes for your dessert some evening, your dad, Frederick Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-12.

22. Wanderlust. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1962. Binding skewed; dust jacket wrinkled. "8-12-1967 Dear daughter Marya, At last you are ready to read about Thurs The Composer, since You are a beginning one yourself. There is your brother in spirit (if not quite in fact) Have a good time reading it - and a deep time in life. Love, Dad Frederick Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-13

23. Scarlet Plume. New York: Trident Press, 1964. "Christmas 1968 Dear Marya girl, This book is 'all about Blue Mound' which you as a little girl explored in all directions, including ponds with slippery edges. If you read this carefully you will ever after in quotes, 'ha'uts', on the mounds, especially in the evening after the sun sets. Love, Fred." Also signed by Manfred on the half title. Mulder & Timmerman A-14..

24. Scarlet Plume ... With a new introduction by Ted N. Weissbuch. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. First published in 1964. Issued as volume 3 in the Buckskin Man Tales. Signed by Manfred on the title page. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

25. Scarlet Plume. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, [1983]. Trade paperback. First Bison Book printing."12-5-1983 For Marya from Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the title page. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

26. The Man Who Looked Like the Prince of Wales. New York: Trident Press, 1965. "12-5-1965 This little book I give to my queenly daughter, Marya Manfred, on her sixteenth birthday, with the added suggestion that she accept most things from her father cum gratis solis, so that she may strike out on her own a free spirit of the arts and thus a free child of God. Frederick Feikema Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-15.

27. Winter Count. Minneapolis: James D. Thueson, 1966. Edition limited to 250 copies signed by Manfred (this, no. 7). "To Marya Manfred my daughter and my Valentine. Frederick Manfred 2--14-1969." Mulder & Timmerman A-13a [sic].

28. Winter Count. Berkeley: Thorp Springs Press, [1977]. Second edition, trade paperback; corner bumped and creased. "For my darling daughter Marya, for all she's done for me, heart & Love, Dad. Old year tonight, 1983." Mulder & Timmerman A-13b [sic].

29. King of Spades. New York: Trident Press, 1966. "Christmas 1968 Dear Darling Marya - This was the book I was working on when you were at Rocky Ridge, and I was writing pages 144-208 when you asked me to come and get you - and I said I couldn't. I hope these pages will help me to be forgiven. Love, Dad." Also signed on the title page by Manfred. Mulder & Timmerman A-17.

30. King of Spades ... With a new introduction by the author. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Corner bumped, slightly skewed. Signed by Manfred on title page. First published in 1966. This edition issued as volume 4 in The Buckskin Man Tales.

31. Apples of Paradise and Other Stories. New York: Trident Press, [1968]. Dust jacket with a couple of short tears. "6-5-1965 My dear Marya- May I have the privilege of someday exploring your musical landscape as you herein explore Siouxland? Love, Dad. Frederick Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-18.

32. Eden Prairie. New York: Trident Press, [1968]. "11/13/1965 To Marya Manfred, Sweet daughter who already knows she has 'a perfect right to be just what she is', Love, Dad. Frederick Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-19.

33. "Sinclair Lewis' Funeral." As contained in South Dakota Review, Vermillion, 1970. Winter 1969-70 Vol 7 No 4. Special Issue: Sinclair Lewis / Frederick Manfred. Inscribed by Manfred at his contribution on p. 54: "South Dakota Review / Winter 1969-70. Vol. 7, no. 4. Special issue: Sinclair Lewis / Frederick Manfred." Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

34. "Sinclair Lewis' Funeral." Vermillion: South Dakota Review, 1970. Another copy of the above. Spine faded and chipped. Signed by Marya Manfred. Not in Mulder & Timmerman.

35. "The Voice of the Turtle," as contained in the South Dakota Review, Vermillion, 1973. Some underlining, but not on Manfred's submission. Not inscribed.

36. Conversations with Frederick Manfred. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, [1974]. "12-5-1974 For my lovely daughter Marya, all sweetness and light for the rest of your life- Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the half title. Mulder & Timmerman A-20.

37. The Manly-Hearted Woman. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1975]. "1-25-76 For my daughter Marya Manfred who drew a map of our The Blue Mounds which helped me much in the making of this book.. Love, Dad. Frederick Feikema Manfred." Mulder & Timmerman A-21.

38. Milk of Wolves, a novel. Boston: Avenue Victor Hugo, 1976. Trade paperback. Covers a little worn and spine chipped. "Hope you are busy making music and poetry these days. Hope to see you soon. With much love, Dad. 4-13-1976." Mulder & Timmerman A-22.

39. Wright, Robert C. Frederick Manfred. Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1979]. "For Marya from dad on her birthday." Mulder & Timmerman, p. 91.

40. The Wind Blows Free. Sioux Falls: The Center for Western Studies, 1979. Dust jacket torn at the top of the spine (no loss). Signed by Manfred on the front free endpaper. Mulder & Timmerman A-24

41. The Wind Blows Free. Sioux Falls: The Center for Western Studies, 1979. "To Marya, My darling daughter, who gets the very first book out of the box, with much love, Dad 1979." Also signed by Manfred on the title page. Mulder & Timmerman A-24.

42. Sons of Adam. New York: Crown Publishers Inc, [1980]. Back flap of dust jacket missing. "1980 For my wonderful prescient daughter Marya, with love from Dad." Mulder & Timmerman A-25.

43. King of Spades. Foreword by Max Westbrook. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, [1983]. Trade paperback. First Bison Book edition. "12-5-1983 For Marya from Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the title page.

44. Dinkytown. Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore, 1984. Edition limited to 500 copies printed by Allan Kornblum at the Toothpaste Press. "For my beloved daughter Marya Manfred from Dad Easter 4-22-1989." Laid in is a to-do list for going to Minneapolis, likely Marya's.

45. Winter Count II. Minneapolis: James D. Thueson, 1987. Edition limited to 300 copies signed by Manfred (this, no. 79)."For Marya, who is valiant and most gifted, and my daughter, Dad."

46. Prime Fathers. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1988. First edition, wrapper issue. "For Marya, who is climbing over one obstacle after another. Dad 5-4-1988." Also signed by Manfred on the title page.

47. Flowers of Desire. Salt Lake City: Dancing Badger Press, 1989. First edition, wrapper issue. Corners curled. "For Marya, daughter, for her birthday, 12-5-1989." Laid in is a note from Marya "For Bob, Deb, Whoever would like to read it. I'll loan it to you. I've got to get it back because it's a signed copy, and signed for me by my Dad. Thanks Marya."

48. No Fun on Sunday. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, [1990]. "For Marya- gifted and volatile daughter - much love - Fred." Also signed by Manfred on the title page.

49. Of Lizards and Angels. A Saga of Siouxland. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, [1993]. First edition, wrapper issue. "For Marya- Love Dad." Also signed by Manfred on the title page.

50. Duke's Mixture. [Sioux Falls]: The Center for Western Studies, [1994]. Trade paperback. Coffee stain on fore-edge. Signed by Manfred on the title page.

51. The Frederick Manfred Reader. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 1996. Wrappers. No inscription.

6. [Occupied Japan.] Collection of slides from Occupied Japan. Kakura, Beppu, etc.: 1946-1948.

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574 slides, largely taken by an American serviceman in Occupied Japan, including images of local street scenes, harbors and docks, portraits, images of city ruins, domestic scenes, and tourist shots. About 100 slides are portraits of a single woman, about 30 are later slides from the 60s showing off a garden likely in the US. Another 50 or so are commercial slides or slides of dolls. The majority of the remainder (nearly 400) are of primary interest, and taken by a member of the occupation forces, likely the US24th, as their HQ appears in a dozen or so slides. Some of the typical tourist spots are covered, with images of Fuji, Kyoto, and Tokyo, but there are also many pictures of Kokura in the north of Kyushu, and later of Beppu, plus images at Mitsuhama, Yawata, etc. Also present are slides of the ruins of Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, the Imperial Hotel, festivals, children, gardens, theaters, storefronts, military signage, GHQ, captured ships and so on. Most slides in color, a set of about a dozen in grayscale, and with few exceptions all well exposed and easy to view.

About one in ten slides are captioned in manuscript, with dates ranging between 1946 and 1948. A few include names of their subjects, but the photographer is never identified.

7. Partridge, Eric. A collection of twenty-four (24) of Eric Partridge's distinctive Christmas and New Year's greeting cards. London: 1947-76.

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Each printed on stiff card and folded to make 4 pages, except as noted, all 8vo, all fine, except as noted, all with prose essays by Partridge on a variety of subjects, many pertaining to some aspect of words or language. Laurie Atkinson, Esq., whose name appears with some frequency below, was an amateur lexicographer, a reader and contributor to Eric Partridge and his works for many years. These cards started appearing in 1927 and were issued annually until 1976, with a couple of interruptions, notably during the years of World War II. Partridge died in 1979.

1947 / 1948: Spivs and Phoneys.

1949 / 1950: We are the People, inscribed "To all there, Eric."

1950 / 1951: Westward to the Fortunate Isles; pp. 8; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1951 / 1952: The Real McCoy and the Real Mackay; pp. 8; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1952 / 1953: Imagination and Good Sense in Etymology; with a 4” x 6” prospectus laid for Partridge’s You Have Point There, addressed to Laurie Atkinson; also, with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1953 / 1954: The Etymology of Etymology; with a 4” x 6” prospectus laid for Partridge’s Concise Usage and Abusage, addressed to Laurie Atkinson; also, with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson; slight glue residue at the top from envelope.

1954 / 1955: Babes, Babblers, Barbarians; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1955 / 1956: Elephantine; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1957 / 1958: Aspects of Emptiness; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, Esq. together with a typed carbon reply from him to Partridge.

1958 / 1959: ... Nor any Drop to Drink; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1959 / 1960: A Square Digs Beatnick; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1960 / 1961: Annus Laud Mirabilis; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, Esq.

1961 / 1962: Merely Another Year; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, Esq.

1962 / 1963: A Few Things Done; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, moderate glue residue at the top from envelope.

1963 / 1964: An Optical Illusion; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, together with a one-and-a-half page draft A.L.s to Partridge regarding an ill-fated trip to New York.

1964 / 1965: The Women Have It: Some Lawn Tennis Players I have Watched; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, together with a one-and-a-half-page draft A.L.s to Partridge regarding tennis.

1968 / 1969 "How Did You Come to Write Your Dictionary of Slang? Or Indeed, Your Usage and Abusage?" With the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, together with a one-page A.L.s to Partridge from Atkinson regarding catch-phrases.

1969 / 1970 Below the Surface; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson, Esq.

1970 / 1971: In Memoriam Julian Franklyn; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1971 / 1972: What's in a Catch-Phrase?; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson ·

1973 / 1974: Report on a Work in Progress [i.e. A Dictionary of Catch Phrases]; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

1974 / 1975: Still Progressing: A Further Report on Catch Phrases; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson; with a draft 1-p. A.L.s. from Atkinson to Partridge expressing thanks and offering memories.

1975 / 1976 No Man is an Island; inscribed "Dear Laurie, all good wishes (et multos ad Annos, Eric"; together with a 1-p. typed letter to Partridge from Atkinson regarding "hundreds of new definitions for DSUE."

1976 / 1977: Four Linguistic Brevities; inscribed "Dear Laurie, Nos. I – II are [?]; IV less stolid. Regards! Eric"; with the original mailing envelope addressed in Partridge’s hand to Laurie Atkinson.

8. Richardson, Owen Willans. A collection of eighteen scholarly offprints. Cambridge, Philadelphia and London: 1902-17.

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O. W. Richardson (1879-1959) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. He was professor at Princeton University from 1906 to 1913, and returned to the UK in 1914 to become Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College, London, where he was later made director of research. He was knighted in 1939.

1. Note on a method for determining the concentration of hydrogen ions in solution, by H. O. Jones and O. W. Richardson, from the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, February, 1902; pp. [4]; self wrappers.

2. The kinetic energy of the ions emitted by hot bodies, from the Philosophical Magazine, December, 1908; pp. [28]; graphs and tables; original orange printed wrappers.

3. Thermionics, from the Philosophical Magazine, June 1909; pp. [22]; graphs and equations; original orange printed wrappers; O. W. Richardson's copy, with his signature on the upper wrapper and a few small corrections by him in the text; plus a second copy without corrections.

4. Notes on the kinetic theory of matter, from the Philosophical Magazine for November 1909; pp. [4]; original orange printed wrappers.

5. The kinetic energy of the ions emitted by hot bodies, (part II) from the Philosophical Magazine, November, 1909; pp. [16]; graphs and tables; original orange printed wrappers.

6. Gravitation and the electron theory, from The Physical Review, November, 1910; pp. [4]; original printed green wrappers, wrappers toned; amendment to an equation in ink, likely by Richardson, in the text.

7. The positive thermions emitted by the alkali sulphates, from the Philosophical Magazine, December, 1910; pp. [22]; tables and a folding plate; original orange printed wrappers.

8. The heat liberated during the absorption of electrons by different metals, from the Philosophical Magazine, April 1911; pp. [8]; original orange printed wrappers, back wrapper torn.

9. The dynamic effects of aggregates of electrons, from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, July-August, 1911; pp. [20]; table; original printed gray wrappers, toned at edges.

10. The theory of photoelectric action, from the Philosophical Magazine, October 1912; pp. [6]; original orange printed wrappers.

11. The electron theory of thermoelectric and thermionic effects, from the Philosophical Magazine for November 1912; pp. [8]; original orange printed wrappers.

12. The positive ions from hot metals, from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, volume 89, 1914; pp. [18]; tables; original printed green wrappers.

13. Metallic conduction, from the Philosophical Magazine, August 1915; pp. [6]; original orange printed wrappers.

14. The influence of gases on the emission of electrons and ions from hot metals, from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, volume 91, 1915; pp. [12]; graphs and tables; original printed green wrappers.

15. Remarks on a paper by Mr. E. R. Stoekle entitled "Thermionic Currents from Molybdenum," from The Physical Review, June, 1916; pp. [2]; original printed green wrappers.

16. The variation of the positive emission currents from hot platinum with the applied potential difference, from the Philosophical Magazine for June, 1916; pp. [10]; graphs; original printed orange wrappers.

17. Experiments with electron currents in different gases. (1) Mercury vapor, from the Philosophical Magazine for October, 1916; pp. [16]; graphs, tables and equations; original printed orange wrappers.

18. The limiting frequency in the spectra of helium, hydrogen, and mercury in the extreme ultra-violet, by O. W. Richardson and Lieut. C. B. Bazzoni, from the Philosophical Magazine, October, 1917; pp. [24]; graphs and tables; original orange printed wrappers a little soiled.

9. [Russian Diaspora.] Collection of 156 volumes of poetry from the Russian and Ukranian speaking diaspora. 1967-2025.

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156 titles, one title in English, the rest in Russian, Ukrainian, and the occasional dialect, largely in printed paper wrappers, and many with inscriptions or notes and letters from the authors to the Russian-American linguist, etymologist, and poet Anatoly Liberman.

One title with a split hinge, the rest fine. A collection of literature, primarily poetry, in Eastern Slavic languages from poets around the world, including authors and publishers from New York, Jerusalem, Kiev, Berlin, and elsewhere, spanning the dates 1967 to 2025, with the majority published in the 2000s. Some publishers, such as Slovo-Word, are larger and well represented in the collection, while others are smaller, zine-like productions. There is emphasis on Jewish authors, and poetry from the diaspora, including work from Andrey Gritsman, Vitaly Berstein, and Boris Hesronski. The collection consists of works that are, for the most part, not listed for sale on western markets. An interesting collection, representing the interconnectedness of a worldwide literary community.

Full title list available on request.

10. Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin. Eighteen bound volumes of miscellaneous books and pamphlets belonging to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. V.p., v.d.: as below.

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Format ranges from large octavo to sextodecimo, all uniformly, or nearly uniformly bound in contemporary tan buckram; red morocco labels on spines; buckram slightly discolored; otherwise mostly very good.

An interesting and informative look into the reading habits, pursuits, and interests of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917), a New England reformer and abolitionist, and one of the "Secret Six" who underwrote John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. He was friends with Emerson and Thoreau, the former with whom he had a falling out over his proposal for marriage to Emerson's daughter. He was also close to Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, and Ellery Channing. He wrote biographies or biographical sketches of Thoreau, Emerson, and Hawthorne, as well as Bronson Alcott and John Brown. He edited for the Boston Bibliophile Society five volumes of Thoreau's manuscripts. In a number of the titles below Sanborn has made annotations, marks of readership, and notes, some rather extensive.

Trikoupes, Spuridon. Σπυριδωνος Τρικουπη ὁι ̓επι της ̔Ελληνικης ̓επαναστασεως και κατα την κηδειαν τινων ̓επιζησαντων πρωταγονιστων ἀυτοσχεδιοι ̓απ' ̓αμβωνος λογοι και ̔ο ̓εκφωνηθεις ̓εν Λονδινͅω της 52 Μαρτιου 1861. [Spyridon Trikoupi on the Greek Revolution and during the funeral of some of the surviving protagonists, improvised speeches by Iambonos ... ]. Εκδοσις δευτερα. En Athenais, Ek tou Typographeiou Ch. N. Philadelpheos, 1862, pp. 102; original printed wrappers bound in; lengthy note on the titled page by Sanborn regarding the contents, and noting that this volume was given to him by the author's daughter;

Trikoupes, Spuridon. Σπυριδωνος Τρικουπη ὁ Δημος, ποιημα κλεφτικον. [Municipality, a poem.] Ἐκδοσις δευτερα ἐπιθεωρηθεισα. Athenais, Ek tou Typographeiou Ch. N. Philadelpheos, 1862, pp. 15, [1]; original printed wrappers bound in; presentation copy from the author's daughter, Sophie, dated Athens, 21 March, 1893, presumably to Sanborn;

Papageorgiou, Dimitri G. Ολυμπια Και Ολυμπιακοι Αγωνεσ [Olympia and the Olympic games.] Athens, 1890, pp. [12], 180; 4 folding maps and plates plus other illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers bound in;

Catalogue of the Theodor Graf Collection of unique ancient Greek portraits 2000 years old recently discovered and now on view ... at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago [drop title], pp. 49, [1]; [Chicago?]: [publisher not identified], 1893;

[Quinn, Daniel.] On the Hellenic pronunciation of Greek [drop title], pp 14; Reprinted from the Catholic University Bulletin for July, 1896.

Tarbell, Frank B., et al. Archaeological Institute of America. Twelfth annual report of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens... Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1894, pp. 62; original front wrapper bound in, folding frontispiece;

[Scott, Walter, editor.] Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth. Written by himself. And Fragmenta regalia; being a history of Queen Elizabeth's favourites. By Sir Robert Naunton. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co., 1808, pp. [iii]-xxviii, [2], 301, [1]; half-title wanting,

Euripides. Euripidis Fabulæ. Paris: A. F. Didot, 1855, pp. lxxiv, 616; Sanborn's ownership signature on the title page dated Concord, 1859, and inscribed by Sanborn on the front free endpaper: "F. B. Sanborn, Concord 1860. Bound in 1900. See the French brochure at the end of the volume" [viz:]

Mavrogenis, Spyridan. [Les bains orientaux avec une notice biographique sur Jules van Millingen], Strasbourg, n.d. [late 1880s?] pp, 5-67, [1]; folding plate; title page and portrait wanting. With annotations by Sanborn on about a dozen pages, and preceded in the binding by a lengthy manuscript account of how Sanborn received the pamphlet as a gift from one of Millingen's grandsons in Constantinople.

Sand, George. Les maitres Mosaistes. Paris: Felix Bonnaire, 1838, pp. [2], viii, [1], 10-362. Ownership signature by Sanborn and dated Concord, June 1902 on the front free endpaper, together with a 10-line comment in French on the book which he says he read in 1855 with W. Ellery Channing.

Sand, George. Spiridion. Paris: Felix Bonnaire, 1839, pp. 472; pages 33-47 are wanting and Sanborn has bound in 10 blank leaves, with a note in French on the first leaf regarding their absence;

Galt, John. The literary life and miscellanies. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1834, pp. [4], vi, iii, [1], 363, [1]; with an inscription on the flyleaf: "presented to Robert Gur[ant] (loos to the binder's knife) Esquire as a proof of the regard and esteem of R. Powes." Also with Sanborn's ownership signature on front free endpaper dated Concord, October 1902 and with an ensuing 5-line note regarding this and the following title as "curiosities in their way."

[Anon.] Life of William Pitt, late Prime Minister of Great Britain, with biographical notices of his principal friends and illustrious cotemporaries..., Philadelphia: John Watts, 1806, pp. xi, [2], 242, [2]; half-title wanting;

Galt, John. Annals of the parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing; during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder. Written by himself. Edinburgh: printed for W. Blackwood & T. Cadell, London, 1821, pp. [4], 400, [2] ads; Sanborn's ownership signature on front free endpaper dated Concord, 1903;

Minnich, Johann Alois, Dr. Reisebilder aus Spanien. Zurich: Friedrich Schulthes, 1862, pp. viii, 252; frontispiece, original printed front wrapper bound in; inscribed by Sanborn on the title page: "Given to E. Morton of Baden by the author, and by him to F. B. S. 1885." And with a gift inscription from the author to Morton at the top of the front wrapper dated Baden 1880, but inscription partially lost to the binder's knife. On the front-free endpaper is a 16-line note from Sanborn, dated Concord, 1904 regarding Morton and May Alcott's marriage in 1879;

Contreras, Rafael. Étude descriptive des monuments arabes de Grenade, Séville et Cordoue, cèst-a-dire l'Alhambra, l'Alcazar et la grande mosquée d'Ocident. Madrid: typographie de Ricardo Fe, 1889, pp. 462; folding map, illustrations in the text; note on the half-title by Sanborn noting he purchased this volume at Alhambra Nov. 18, 1892 at a cost of 9 pesetas ($1.60), and with an additional note by Sanborn on the rear endpaper stating he visited Alhambra in November 1892 "after seeing the Alcazar and the Girlada at Seville.

Harvard University. Annual report of the Phillips Brooks House. Cambridge: printed by Louis F. Weston, June 1907. pp. 36; mounted illustration, original printed wrappers bound in;

Salt, Henry S. Consolations of a faddist. Verses reprinted from "The Humanitarian." London: A. C. Fifield, 1906, pp. 32; original printed wrappers bound in;

Ehmcke, F. H. Zur Kultur der Seele 1896-1906 [wrapper title]. Verlagsbericht von Eugen Diederichs Jena. Leipzig: Spamerschen, 1906, pp. 48; 12 plates (4 folding); 2 bifoliate advertising leaflets bound in; original printed wrappers bound in;

F. S. T. Catalogue of the Golden Branch of Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter: News-Letter Steam Printing Establishment,1875, pp. 36; original printed wrappers bound in;

Gunton, Simon. An epitome of Mr. Gunton's history of Peterborough Cathedral, containing a fuller and more precise account than has hitherto been given of the centuries in which the several parts of this edifice were begun and completed. Peterborough: printed and sold by C. Jacob, n.d. [ca. mid 1830s], pp. [2], 48; engraved frontispiece;

Hooper, Cecil H. A year among the orchards of Nova Scotia, Read before the Royal Horticultural Society, London ... January 31st., 1899, pp. 22, [2]; self-wrappers;

Levasseur, M. E. Note sur la valeur de la production brute agricole de la France présentée a la société a propos d'un tableau de M. Le Trésor de la Rocque [wrapper title]. Paris: Chamerot et Renouard, 1891, pp. 144; original printed wrappers bound in;

Mead, Edwin D. The principles of the founders ... Oration before the city government and citizens of Boston at Faneuil Hall, July 4, 1903. Boston, 1903, pp. 73, [1];

South Place Magazine, No. 4, Vol. XIII. Special memorial number to Dr. Moncure D. Conway. London: South Place Ethical Society, [1908?]. pp. 74; original printed wrappers bound in;

Galt, John. Letters from the Levant containing views of the state of society, manners, opinions, and commerce, in Greece, and several of the principal islands... London, T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1813, pp. xv, [1], 386; engraved frontispiece map; early owner's inscription on title page of "E. Thomas Parsons, Middletown, State of Connecticut, United States, North America ... April 3d., 1824," his signature again on the recto of the flyleaf, and on the verso of the same flyleaf pencil notes in a difficult hand with a note beneath them stating "the above is on the handwriting of of Dr. S. G. Howe." Sanborn's ownership signature dated Concord, 1900-1912 on the front free endpaper, followed by a 10-line note regarding Galt, and the next title by Keppel;

Keppel, George, Major Honble. Narrative of a journey across the Balcan, by the two passes of Selimno and Pravadi; also of a visit to Azani, and other newly discovered ruins in Asia Minor... London, Henry Colburn, 1831. Volume II only, pp. xiii, [1], 465, [1], [2] ads; with Sanborn's ownership signature on the flyleaf dated Concord, 1894, and with a 6-line note regarding Keppel's having made "some archeological discoveries on this January."

Fourier, Charles. Le nouveau monde industrial. Deuxieme volume. Bruxelles: a la Librairie Belge-Francaise, 1840, pp. [4], 409, [1], iii, [1]; inscribed on the half-title: "A Bronson Alcott, Esq. with Mr. Doherty's warm regards," and with a lengthy note by Sanborn on the front free endpaper dated Concord 1912: "This exposition of Fourier is a gift of Bronson Alcott who was never a favorite. The Bouilly (odd volume) is interesting (see below). I have Gretry's autobiography in French."

Bouilly. Mes récapitulations ... Deuxieme époque 1791-1812. Bruxelles: Société Belge de Librairie, 1837, pp. [4], 288, [2]; half-title with the ownership signature of Sanborn dated Concord, 1900;

Barlow, Frederic. The complete English peerage: or a genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm..., London: printed for the author and sold by T. Evans, 1773, pp. [2], 7-479; [3]-474, [6] subscribers' list; except for the title page, lacking all the prelims in vol. I, and lacking the title page in volume II; 24 (of 25) engraved plates; 9-line note by Sanborn on the front free endpaper: "This is a very curious Old Peerage for which with a new binding I paid 70 cents, 1912. How authentic it is I cannot say, but it's very entertaining. F. B. Sanborn, Concord, July 4, 1912."

Pausanius. [Title in Greek.] Déscription de la Grece de Pausanius. [Tome sixieme.] Traduction nouvelle ... par M. Clavier. Paris: A. Dobée, 1821, pp. [5], 450-551, [1], xxiii, [5]; original printed front wrapper bound in; with a note by Sanborn on the front free endpaper, referring to this and the next title: "J. B. Sanborn, Concord 1912. Rebound. The Pausanius, in Greek and French was bought in Athens in 1893. The Letters of Joseph de Maistre were bought of Goodspeed in Boston about 1908..."

Maistre, Joseph De., M. LeComte. Lettres et opuscules. Lacking all the prelims up to p. xvii; pp. xvii-xxvi, 591, [1];

Brooke, Mrs. A dialogue between a lady and her pupils, describing a journey through England and Wales ... Second edition, considerably enlarged. Together with an introductory account of England ... by John Evans, A.M. London, printed for H. D. Symonds, 1808, pp. lii, 323, [1] ads; engraved folding frontispiece map (with a split at one fold); Sanborn's note on the front free endpaper: "F. B. Sanborn, 1912. Rebound for propinquity of place, but as unlike as two volumes well could be. England of the early 19th century and the island of the fabulous saints were as dissimilar as possible..."

Justorum Semita: or, the path to the just. A history of the lesser holidays of the present English kalendar. Edinburgh: R. Grant & Son, 1844, pp. [iii]-vii, [3], 255-626 (so lacking the first 250-odd pages); on a blank leaf prior to the title page Sanborn has written: "Legends of curiosity. But where are the first 250 pages?"

Sortel, Albert. Montesquieu. Deuxiueme édition. Paris: Hachette, 1889, pp. 176; on the front free endpaper Sanborn has written: "F. B. Sanborn, Concord, Oct. 1912. The best recent notice of Montesquieu," and referring to the next title: "and a volume of the later essays of Sainte-Beuve." Ownership signature of F. B. Sanborn Concord, Mass, on half-title.

Sainte-Beuve, C.-A. Nouveaux lundis ... Tome quartieme. Paris: Michel Levy freres, 1865, pp. [2], 462, [2];

[Howie, John.] Biographia Scoticana or a brief historical account of the lives, characters, and memorable transactions of the most eminent Scots worthies. Glasgow: printed and sold by John Bryce Bookseller, 1775], pp. [27]-551, [1], xxxiv; lacking all before p. 27 and everything after p. xxxiv in the appendix; engraved plate; Sanborn has added a typed title page (with an erroneous title and imprint) and has added his own typed preface: "This edition of the Scots Worthies is complete with the exception of a tedious preface ... It belonged to my mother's grandmother, Esther Towle of Hampton who married my great-grandfather, Benjamin Leavitt of Hampton Falls, and was of Scottish decent... "The malignant pamphlet (actually the appendix) of Howie of Lochgoin is imperfect - but the better part of it is here" and, referring to the next title: "The Memoirs of Buchanan, who was one of the worthies, is a much more carefully written work ... it was bought in Boston this year, 1898."

Irving, David. Memoirs of the life and writings of George Buchanan. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1817, pp. [iii]-xvii, [1], 435, [1]; engraved portrait and 2 engraved plates;

Mirabeau, Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de. Philosophie rurale, ou, Économie generale et politique de l'agriculture... Tome premiere. Amsterdam: chez les Libraires associés, 1764, pp. xlviii, 419, [9]; title page with tear out in the fore-margin not touching any letterpress;

Andrea, da Barberino. Guerino, detto Il Meschino storia in cui si tratta della grandi imprese e vittorie da lui riportate contro i Turchi. Napoli: dalla tipografia di Paci, 1850, pp. 40; 8 charming woodcuts at chapter headings in the text.

Green, Samuel Swett, Some of the Roman remains in England, Worcester, Mass.: The Davis Press, 1907. pp. 43, [1]; green printed wrappers, inscribed by the author, but with last three letters cropped; 3 folding maps;

Trumbull, J. Hammond, Notes on forty Algonkin Versions of the Lord's Prayer, Hartford: from the Transactions of the American Philological Society, 1873. pp. [2], 116 [i.e. 106]; brown printed wrappers;

Linde, Hermann, Peter Paul Rubens' Masterpiece The Feast of Herod, New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904. pp. [4], 28; blue wrappers printed in red;

Report to the House of Representatives of the United States of America, vindicating the rights of Charles T. Jackson to the discovery of the anaesthetic effects of ether vapor, and disproving the claims of W. T. G. Morton to that discovery. Presented to the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 28th of August, 1852. By Hon. Edward Stanly, of North Carolina, and Hon. Alexander Evans, of Maryland, members of the select committee on the ether discovery. Boston: printed by authority of the minority of the committee, 1852. pp. 57, [1]; orange printed wrappers, inscribed by Mrs. C. T. Jackson to F. B. Sanborn. A report supporting C. T. Jackson's claim to the discovery of ether anaesthesia over W. T. G. Morton;

Ch. Féré. Séance du 26 Mars 1904. T. LVI, p. 546. Paris: Extrait des Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de Biologie, 1904. pp. 17, [1], grey wrappers;

Ch. Féré. Séance du 14 Janvier 1905. T. LVIII, p. 60. Paris: Extrait des Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de Biologie, 1905, pp. 23, [1]; grey wrappers;

Ch. Féré. Séance du 24 Fevrier 1906. T. LX, p. 377. Paris: Extrait des Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de Biologie, 1906. pp. 23, [1]; grey wrappers;

Butler, A. W., Some Indiana crow roosts, Indianapolis: from Proceedings of the Academy of Science, 1897. pp. 175-178 [i.e. 4pp.]; tan printed wrappers.

Butler, A. W., Notes on Indiana Heroines. Indianapolis: from Proceedings of the Academy of Science, 1897. pp. [1], 198-201, [1] [i.e. 4 pp.]; tan printed wrappers.

Rantoul, Robert S., A memoir of Edmund B. Willson. Fifth President of the Essex Institute, Salem: Essex Institute, 1895. pp. 39, [1]; tan printed wrappers; photographic frontispiece of Edmund Wilson;

Reports of the selectmen, treasurer. Town clerk. Highway agents, janitor, librarian and school board of the town of Hampton Falls for the year ending February 15, 1907, Exeter, N. H.: The News-Letter Press, 1907. pp. 33, [3]; red printed wrappers;

Dudley, Myron Samuel, A.M., Historical Sketch of Newington, New Hampshire, Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1904. pp. 10; brown printed wrappers; inscribed by Myron S. Dudley to F. B. Sanborn;

Work and Need of the Danvers Historical Society. Sept. 14, 1903. pp. [4]; self-wrappers;.

Historic Leaves published by the Somerville Historical Society, Somerville, Mass.: Somerville Historical Society, Vol. II, No. 4, 1904. pp. [3], 74-110 [i.e. 40pp.]; green printed wrappers; 3 photographic plates; inscribed by A. P. Putnam to F. B. Sanborn, but cropped.

Quincy, Josiah Phillips, The Limits of Reliable Memory, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son. University Press, 1901. pp. 10; self-wrappers.

Manatt, J. Irving, Greece revisited, Providence: The Brown Alumni Monthly, 1906. pp. [12]; right margin cropped, with some loss.

11. Sister Mona Riley, Sisters of St. Joseph. A collection of more than five thousand glass stereo-optic slides of art, architecture, gardens, and street scenes taken mostly in Europe in the 1950s. Various places: .

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Sister Mona Riley (1896-1998) earned her degree in Classical Languages at The College of Saint Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1919, and supplemented that with her M.A. in Classics at the University of Chicago; later, she pursued advanced study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Columbia University in New York, and the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. In 1954 she studied art history at the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy. She taught at St. Catherine for more than 50 years, and introduced generations of students to classical literature, history, music, art, and architecture, "inviting them to see the Humanities as an integrated whole, the well from which the waters of the 'good life' could be drawn and savored."

Toward that end, Sister Mona traveled extensively in both North American and Europe photographing significant art, architecture, gardens and street scenes, amassing a collection of thousands of glass slides. In 2005, the Minneapolis-based conceptual artist Harriet Bart received a call from the Chair of the Art History Department at The College of Saint Catherine who in reorganizing and updating the visual images collection was casting aside twenty-eight boxes of Sister Mona's photography, and thought Bart might have some use for them.

Says Bart: "Through a chance meeting I discovered that this slide collection was used and developed by Sister Mona Riley who started the Humanities program at Saint Catherine in the 1930s. Through the generosity of Sister Mary Kraft, the archivist at the college, I was given access to Sister Mona's archive. There, I found many letters and postcards that Sister Mona and her colleagues had exchanged during their travels. I discovered that Sister Mona was a woman of great curiosity, adventure, and joy."

Ms. Bart sought to use these slides in "some kind of installation inspired by Mona's life," but the project never came to fruition. As a result, a number of slides - Bart says about 100 - were removed from the archive, but the much larger balance remains. The collection includes 23 custom stereo-optic slide cases, each with 8 drawers of slides. A detailed spreadsheet with drawer titles and number of slides for each drawer is available.

12. Sumitomo, Sadako. Collection of letters from Sadako Sumitomo of Tokyo to Mrs. Clyde R. Joslyn of Minneapolis. Tokyo: 1951-1957.

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19 typewritten and manuscript letters on onionskin, 60 pages total, of letters written by Sadako Sumitomo, the wife of Tsutomu Sumitomo, to Mrs. Clyde R. Joslyn, the mother of Captain C. A. Joslyn.

Tsutomu Sumitomo was a firstborn son of the Sumitomo mega-conglomerate, and served in the management of its banking branch. His position at the upper echelons of Japanese society put him in a place of some privilege as the country recovered from the Second World War, but Sadako's letters speak often of difficulty in acquiring goods and the comparative poorness of the Japanese population vs. Americans.

Sadako herself is highly educated and deliberately Westernizing, her English is fluent, she comments on her favorite classical artists and her disappointment at not seeing the violinist Yudi Menuhin live during his visit to the country, and she describes the family meals as being as American as possible as she considers them denser in nutrition than Japanese food.

She mentions often her frustration with Japanese society's attitude towards women, and says that Mrs. Joslyn is one of the few people besides her husband with which she can be frank about such matters. It appears her idea of America is quite idealized. After having read Of Mice and Men, for example, she writes about how the book makes her feel that Americans who work hard can achieve success but for Japanese such a thing isn't possible.

It appears that Sadako's letter-writing was initiated by the Sumitomo family's friendship with the Joslyns' son, an American soldier stationed in Japan and then Korea during the course of correspondence. Most letters refer fondly to "Bill" Joslyn, who visits often, is popular with the children, and speaks very good Japanese. His comings and goings are dutifully relayed to his parents, and later letters seem to indicate that Bill finds a civilian position in Japan after having served in Korea after the armistice.

Two letters are between the Joslyns and Tsutomu. The Joslyns invite Tsutomu to their home in Minneapolis, and Tsutomu regretfully declines, as his itinerary gives him no room for a detour. We don't know if Sadako and Mrs. Jostlyn ever meet, though Sadako speaks often of her desire to.

Little is said of the tumultuous events surrounding Japan in the post-war era. There is mention of the May Day riots of 1952, and of an anticipated armistice in Korea, but the majority of the content is domestic. After giving sympathy to Joslyn for an injury her husband has sustained, Sadako says "It makes me smile to know that wives think alike in spite of their nationality." After its defeat in WW-II Japan rapidly attempted to repair relationships with much of the West, and Japanese companies were quick to expand into what had previously been enemy territory. The relationship between the Sumitomos and the Joslyns and the international business of Tsutomu through Europe and the US reflect that.

13. Tomatsu, Masanori, Muneyasu Kageyama, et al. 江戶切絵図] / [Edo kiriezu]. [Edo [i.e., Tokyo]: Owariya Seishichi, 1849-64.

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A set of 30 folding hand-colored woodblock maps of Tokyo all but one in its original printed fukoro (each with a red circular ownership stamp), and all contained in the original hand-made wooden case with sliding lid. Each map with the original blue stiff paper wrappers and printed label, measuring 6½" x 3" when folded, opening to approx. 19½" x 21" (with slight variations); a great set, complete with the very unusual printed fukuros (printed sleeves), and the original hand-made woooden case.

A very complicated set bibliographically, as some of these maps went through over 170 different printings by two different and competing publishers. The maps were first published by a man named Ōmiya Gohei who ran a household goods shop called Kingodō in the Banchō district, and who was often asked for directions by the samurai. To satisfy a need, he began, in 1846, to sell area maps, "or kirie-zu of Banchō. The map provided an aerial view of daimyo and elite hatamoto servicemen’s mansions plotted along paths as boxy shapes with the names of the head of the household inscribed. Made to be foldable and portable, the maps were a handy navigation tool that paid a particular attention to the accuracy of building arrangements rather than topographic precision ... These maps became widely known as the Kingodō Edo kirie maps. Their popularity grew to cover additional areas that by 1852 over 30 areas were covered, which included almost all of the Edo city neighbourhood...

"Seeing the success of Kingodō’s street maps, a neighbouring print seller called Owariya in Kōjimachi began selling his own maps in 1849. In order to beat off competition from Kingodō, Owariya used simple visual techniques such as colour coding areas to identify and distinguish land uses and included illustrations of famous sites such as important temples and shrines to make their maps more visually striking...

"The colourful and illustrated Owariya maps were visually rich and seemed to be in higher demand than Kingodō’s maps, especially as gifts by warriors who were stationed in the city and about to return to their home countries. The number of areas covered by the Owariya maps, however, were less than their competitor’s range. By 1854, Owariya maps covered 25 areas. By 1856 this figure had increased to 28 areas. Nonetheless, Owariya appeared to lag behind as Kingodō already produced more than 30 area maps by 1852. By 1864, Owariya closed this gap by adding four more areas to create a 32 area set of the city" (Akira Hirano, Sainsbury Library).

This set contains the rare 31st map (Hatchōbori district between Nihonbashi and Ginza which at the time was a district containing the police barracks and public baths) in very excellent facsimile, and lacks the virtually unknown 32nd map of which I can find no record).

A beautiful detailed color representation of the architecture, residences, and city grid of Tokyo in the late Edo period, which captures the city at its peak as the shogunate’s capital. Each map includes a legend delineating geographical and architectural elements by color and shape: roads and bridges (yellow), rivers, lakes and ocean (blue), shrines and temples (red), fields and hills (green), and merchant houses or machiya (grey). Lesser noble residences are indicated by a black circle, higher ranking residences with a black square. Residences of even higher distinction are marked with the families' crest. Most residences also include the name of the inhabitant's family. The most important structures are illustrated with rough pictures of the actual buildings, often surrounded by images of trees and gardens. Nearly all the residences also include the name of the inhabitant's family, which varied from printing to printing, as the owners and heads-of-household changed over time.

Kerlen, Catalogue of Pre-Meiji Japanese Books and Maps in Public Collections in the Netherlands 221 (citing 30 maps). OCLC locates sets of 30 at Princeton and Texas A&M; the University of Washington has a set of 25; the Sainsbury Institute in Norwich, UK has a set of 28.

14. U. S. Navy. A collection of 163 general orders of the US Navy. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Navy Dept., 1866-1871.

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A collection of general orders for the US Navy, nos. 1-163, along with 9 circulars; the majority bound together in half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine in 5 compartments, raised bands, marbled edges; boards rubbed, hinges cracked but sound. Orders 160-163, along with all circulars are laid in. Orders 1-70 are summarized on pages 1-54, with those following as issued, generally 2 pages each. Includes an order concerning the death of President Lincoln (Order 51), court martials, honors, the renaming of ships from Native American words to Greek, and then back to Native American, and so on. From the library of "Rear Admiral M. Smith, U.S.N.," likely Melancton Smith III, who commanded the Massachusetts and Wabash for the Union during the Civil War, with his label on upper free endpaper and signature on flyleaf.

15. Waters, Frank. The Terence A. Tanner collection: over 150 books, over 50 broadsides and pamphlets, over 70 contributions to periodicals, three typescripts and over 30 letters. Various places: 1930-1994.

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Frank Waters (1902-1995) was perhaps the preeminent writer of the American Southwest in the 20th century. His writings described the culture of the Southwest in all of its diversity - Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American. He wrote fiction, history, and interpretive studies.

Terence A. (Terry) Tanner, a friend of many in the book trade, was a respected antiquarian book dealer and at the time of his death in 2003, was owner of the Chicago-based firm Hamill & Barker. Terry was born in Chicago in 1948, attended Knox College in Galesburg, IL where he met the antiquarian book seller Clare Van Norman, Sr. who introduced him to the book trade. When Terry graduated from Knox College in 1970, he moved back to Chicago, where he found a job working as the office manager for Van Allen Bradley, the rare book dealer and literary editor of the Chicago Daily News. Tanner next worked as an assistant to the distinguished antiquarian Kenneth Nebenzahl, and in 1975 became an assistant to the well-known booksellers Frances Hamill and Margery Barker. He became the sole owner of their firm in 1987, following the death of Ms. Hamill, Ms. Barker having died in 1980.

Terry was introduced to the writings of Frank Waters by Morton Weisman of the Swallow Press in 1970. He continued purchasing books by Waters throughout the early and middle 1970's, and near the end of that decade decide to undertake a descriptive bibliography of Waters' work. That bibliography was published by Meyerbooks of Glenwood, Illinois, in the late summer of 1983 as Frank Waters: A Bibliography with Relevant Selections from His Correspondence. This collection is the basis for that bibliography.

The collection contains the first printing of every primary work published by Frank Waters from his first book published in 1930. Moreover, every copy is present in the original dust jacket and was the product of continual upgrading. In addition, the collection contains numerous later printings of all of Waters's books, including some that are rarer than the first printings. For example, while preparing his bibliography, Terry was unable to locate a copy of the paperback printing of Diamond Head issued under the title Secret Affair. That printing finally was added to the collection.

Frank Waters destroyed the manuscripts for his early books, and those that exist for most of his other works are already in institutions. The Tanner collection contains the corrected carbon typescript of the manuscript for Leon Gaspard, which is probably the only manuscript of Frank Waters in private hands.

The Tanner collection must certainly rank among the very best collections of Frank Waters in private hands today. A detailed inventory with all the items listed according to Tanner's bibliography in chronological order is available on request.

16. Webster, Noah. A collection of 17 "blue-back" spelling books published for the Japanese market. Tokyo & Osaka: various publishers, ca. 1860s to1890s.

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17 volumes, 12mo and 8vo, all in original blue printed paper-covered boards backed in cloth; condition ranges from fair to near fine. Contained in 2 mustard clamshell boxes with leather labels.

All with the title (or variant title) of The Elementary Spelling-Book with the following imprints, and variations:

1) Tokio: Bookselling Co., [after 1866], pp. [3]-170, [2] (Japanese title), Japanese mss. notes on rear endpaper;

2) Tokio: Rikugokuwan, [after 1866], pp. [3]-170, [2] (Japanese title), Japanese licensing stamps and ownership stamp on first and last leaves in red;

3) Tokio & Osaka: Rikugokuwan, [after 1866], pp. [3]-170, [2] (Japanese title), Japanese licensing stamp in red;

4) Osaka: Nakagawa, [ca. 1885], pp. [2] Japanese title, 170, [2], endpapers printed in Japanese;

5) Tokio & Osaka: Bookselling Co., [after 1866], Japanese mss. notes and a drawing on the endpapers, sadly defective, with the loss of the title-p. and several others;

6) Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan, [after 1880] (colophon gives publisher as Hobunkwan), pp. [3]-174, [6] ads in both Japanese and English;

7) Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan, [after 1880], pp. [3]-174, [2] title in Japanese; Japanese licensing stamp in red;

8) Tokio: Maruya & Co., [after 1880], pp. [5]-174 (lacking title-p.), printed Maruya ads on rear pastedown;

9) Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan, [after 1880], pp. [3]-174, [2] title in Japanese; Japanese licensing stamp printed in red;

10) Tokio & Osaka: Daitokuwan, [after 1880], pp. [3]-174;

11) Tokyo: B. Tsujioka, [after 1880], pp. [3]-174; Japanese title on rear pastedown;

12) New York: D. Appleton, pp. [3]-176; printed Japanese text on both pastedowns;

13) New York: D. Appleton, pp. [3]-176; printed Japanese text on verso of title page, last leaf and rear pastedown; licensing stamp printed in red affixed to last flyleaf;

14) New York: D. Appleton, pp. [3]-128, lacks last signature, Japanese text on rear pastedown;

15) Tokyo: Sugimoto, [after 1880], pp. [3]-174, Japanese mss. on front pastedown, Japanese text on rear pastedown;

16) Osaka: Sekizenkwan, 1887, pp. [3]-114, [4] Japanese text; Japanese mss. notes on front and back flyleaves;

17) Osaka: Sekizenkwan, 1887, pp. [5]-114, [1] Japanese text, presumably lacking a title-p. but there's no evidence of it.

17. Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train [i.e., A. D. T. Whitney]. A collection of 28 her works -- all family copies, all inscribed. Boston & New York: 1857-1904.

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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824-1906) was an American poet and writer who published more than 25 books for girls; her books were popular throughout her life but have now passed on into obscurity. She was born in Boston and educated in Boston schools, among her teachers were George B. Emerson and Lyman Beecher. At the age of 19 she married Seth Dunbar Whitney, a wealthy merchant twenty years her senior. Once her children were attending school she began writing in earnest. "Whitney wrote mainly for young girls and supported conservative values, notably the belief that a woman's happiest place is in the home" (Wikipedia).

Condition overall is generally very good or better. Many of the books have the pencil annotation "4-4".

Present in this collection are most all of her published works, including her uncommon first book, Footsteps on the seas: a poem, Boston, 1857. First and only edition, original blue cloth; ownership signature of W. L. W. Field (i.e., William Lusk Webster Field (1876-1963) her son, and later headmaster of Milton Academy 1917-1942). Also:

The Gayworthys: a story of threads and thrums. London: Sampson, Low, Son, & Marston, 1865. First British edition, 2 volumes, original green cloth, gilt-stamped spines; with a new preface addressed to the British market; spines skewed, rear joint on volume II cracked through;

Holy Tides. Seven songs of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Whitsun, Trinity. Boston & New York, 1886. First edition, printed in four colors; original limp japon vellum covers, and preserving the remains of a plain paper dust jacket;

Daffodils. Boston & New York, 1887. First edition, original gilt-decorated cream and yellow cloth, t.e.g. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by eight lines of verse; enclosed is a two-page A.L.s from Roderick Stebbins (1859-1928, Unitarian minister) to Will Field, enclosing a bifolium containing four verses by his grandmother A.D.T. Whitney, which were "written at the time of the death of Miss Elizabeth Swift ... [and which] were read at Miss Swift's funeral";

Selections from the writings of Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney. Boston & New York, 1887. First edition, original card wrappers, with dust jacket printed in red and black; inscribed by A.D.T. Whitney to her daughter, "Caroline Leslie Field with her mother's love ... Not transferable!"

Pansies. Boston & New York, 1893. Eleventh edition, original gilt-decorated cream and blue cloth, t.e.g. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by six lines of verse;

White memories. Boston & New York, 1894. First edition, original gilt-decorated cream cloth, t.e.g. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by eight lines of verse, Poems memorializing Phillips Brooks, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Lucy Larcom;

Bird talk. Boston & New York, 1899. Original pictorial blue cloth. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by six lines of verse;

The open mystery: a reading of the mosaic story. Boston & New York, 1897. First edition, original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by eight lines of prose;

The integrity of Christian Science. Boston & New York, 1900. First edition, original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g.; front hinge cracked. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by three lines of verse;

Biddy's episodes. Boston & New York, 1904. First edition, original blue pictorial cloth stamped in white; with a calling card tipped in reading: "Maddie, with much love from Adeline D. T. Whitney, Oct. 1904";

Faith Gartney's girlhood. Boston & New York, 1893. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by six lines of verse; this edition (and those listed below) from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin, all uniformly bound in (mostly) matching original decorative green cloth, with floral motif on upper covers and spines;

Hitherto: a story of yesterdays. Boston & New York, 1897. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by six lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Patience Strong's outings. Boston & New York, 1896. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by six lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

The Gayworthys. Boston & New York, 1896. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by two lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Leslie Goldthwaite. Boston & New York, 1896. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by three lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

We girls. Boston & New York, 1898. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by three lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Real folks. Boston & New York, 1899. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by four lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

The other girls. Boston & New York, 1899. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by six lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Sights and insights. Patience Strong's story of over the way. Boston & New York, 1876. In 2 volumes, both inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by two (in volume I) and six (in volume II) lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Odd or even? Boston & New York, 1880. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by five lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Bonnyborough. Boston & New York, 1880. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by five lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Boys at Chequasset. Boston & New York, 1890. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by three lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Mother Goose for grown folks. Boston & New York, 1900. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by four lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin; illustrated by Augustus Hoppin;

Homespun yarns. Boston & New York, 1899. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by two lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Ascutney Street. Boston & New York, 1890. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by five lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

A golden gossip. Boston & New York, 1892. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by four lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin;

Square pegs. Boston & New York, 1901. Inscribed to her grandchildren Will and Rebecca [Field], "from Grannie, October, 1902," followed by five lines of verse; this edition from the "Novels & Stories" series of A.D.T. Whitney, issued by Houghton Mifflin.

18. [Yachting Photographs.] Approximately 475 yacht and nautical-themed photos - the collection of the late Llewellyn "Louie" Howland. V.p., v.d.: [ca. late 1870s - 2000s].

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Ranging in size from 3" x 4" to 11" x 14" with representative examples by N. L. Stebbins (28 in number), John T. Hopf (22); P. L. Sperr (11); Charles Magnus (5); Morris Rosenfeld (5); Frank H. Child (3); Hollis Burgess (3); James Burton (10); plus numerous others by Norman Fortier, E. Paul Tilghman, Bror Tamm, George Nye, and Albert Cook Church. But the majority of these are of the vernacular variety. Variously toned, faded, the occasional mount broken, some with traces of previous mounting on verso, some scratched. Approximately a dozen are photo-mechanical, engraved, or offset.

Ferry boats, cat boats, gun boats, excursion boats, dories, whalers, barges, steam yachts, power yachts, America's Cup defenders and challengers, thistles, star boats, J-boats, S-boats, twelve-and-a-halfs, lobster boats, junks, launches, knockabouts, training ships, battleships, sidewheelers, harbor views, dry docks, lighthouses, crew shots, match racing, launchings, christenings, sinkings. It's all here - a critical mass. Many, but not all, identified on versos or on mounts.