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Published by Doubleday, 1979
ISBN 10: 0385140436ISBN 13: 9780385140430
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Acceptable. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Condition: Good. Good condition. Paperback edition. (travel, guide, france) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Published by Doubleday, 1975
ISBN 10: 0385050410ISBN 13: 9780385050418
Seller: Hawking Books, Edgewood, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!.
Published by LRB, 2004
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. David Elgar "The Angry Brigade" / Malcolm Bull on Giorgio Agamben / Hal Foster "The Trouble with MoMa" / Frank Kermode "The Obsessive Forger" / James Wood on David Bezmozgis / Amit Chaudhuri on Raj Kamal Jha / Charles Nicholl "The Da Vinci Codices" / Tom Paulin "Bring back Bunyan" / Charles Glass in Mosul / R W Johnson "Basil D'Oliviera:Cricket and Conspiracy" / Mark rudman "Wrong Stop" (poem).
Published by Self-published, 1918
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Charles Erskine Scott Wood [Emma Goldman, Basil Rathbone, Sara B. Field] Self-published, 1918/ 112 pp. Original Printed Wrappers. 16mo. ##### Presentation copy to actor Basil Rathbone, with lengthy inscription dated 1934. Possibly with Rathbone s signature on the cover. ##### A very unusual item loosely associating actor Basil Rathbone with anarchist Goldman. ##### Although little known today, Charles Erskine Scott Wood [C.E.S. Wood (1852 1944)] was a successful author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, and attorney. He served as a lieutenant with the 21st Infantry Regiment, fought in the Nez Perce War in 1877, and was present at the surrender of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. It was Wood who transcribed, and perhaps embellished, Chief Joseph's famous speech, which ended with: "My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." The two men became close friends. ##### Following his military service Wood became a prominent attorney in Portland, Oregon, where he befriended, and often defended, labor unions and "radicals" such as birth control activist Margaret Sanger, Eugene Debs, and Emma Goldman. He began to write, and in 1915, published The Poet in the Desert, a long poem set in the southeastern Oregon desert and summoning the spirit of the natural world truth in judgment of the ills of civilization poverty, prostitution, and economic injustice. Wood wrote three distinct versions of the poem in 1915, this second version in 1918, and a later version in 1929. He also wrote articles for radical journals such as Liberty and The Masses From 1925 until his death in 1944, Wood lived with his second wife, Sara Bard Field, in Los Gato, CA where he welcomed associates and celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers and apparently Basil Rathbone. ##### From the lengthy inscription: I am asking my wife Sara B. Field to join me in an inscription to Basil Rathbone in this second edition of The Poet in the Desert. Commonly called The Emma Goldman Edition because it was printed at Emma Goldman s request for a cheap twenty five cent book-let which she could sell at her revolutionary meetings especially among the proletariat of the East-Side of New York City. ##### But in that insanity called the War to End War when the United States was so eager to promote freedom and Democracy abroad that it killed Freedom and Democracy at home Emma Goldman was deported to Russia as an Anarchist before the booklet was off the Press. ##### Let Freedom sing ##### S/ Charles Erskine Scott Wood The Stanford University Hospital San Francisco, January 209, 1934. d/// And since [with too much generosity] he bids me do so I sign myself yours in friendship /s Sara Bard Field. ##### Sara Bard Field (1882 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, and Christian socialist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada. Working with Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Field drove a petition containing 500,000 signatures asking for suffrage from California to Washington, D.C. to present to President Wilson. ##### Condition: Fair; somewhat shaken, with substantial chipping on the spine, moderate edgewear. But you are buying this for the inscription and association. It is unclear whether Basil Rathbone s inked signature on the cover is in his hand, or is part of Wood s presentation. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Willys Overland Company. Printed by Caslon Press, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, 1926
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Extraordinarily charming car company promotional book largely composed like a children's book, with modified nursery rhymes and almost everything rendered in verse, with color plate illustrations such as one would find in a children's book on all the rectos, 24 of these in all, accompanied, of course, by clever doggeril. The car company or brand was Willys-Knight, the corporate owner, Wilys Overland Company. Very scarce -- no copies located on OCLC First Search! Circa 1926. Oblong, 19 by 29 cm. Unpaginated, 48 pages, plus wraps. Illustrations do have some variety, employing humorous exaggeration and caricature at times, a cartoonish sensibility often, but also some illustrations taking their cue from heroic adventure tales. By color plate, we would qualify this by adding that the palette was limited, with use of greens, oranges and pinks and reds, mainly, as well as black. Most of the illustrated plates are one larger image, but a few have several smaller illustration on the page. Versos generally have a centerpiece with larger print, the text in verse, surrounded by smaller boxes with verse as well. Reading the verse of the rectos provides the more practical information about the car. The rear cover features six cameo illustrations of European monarchs who had bought the company's products. These, too, are accompanied by short verse. Monarchs include King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II -- in other works, monarchs no longer around in 1926. The Willys-Knight car was made between 1914 and 1933. Willys Overland, the corporate entity, continued on to the 1950s as an independent company. It was the original maker of the jeep, which of course continues to be made, with a good number of intermediary corporate overlords between Willys Overland and today's Chrysler. Condition: light film of soil, some erasable, on wraps. A small area of dampstain or rippling of leaves from water exposure, upper margin. A tiny closed tear, first text leaf. Generally clean and bright. Easily VG. Wraps (mid-weight semi-flexible card). Two staples.