Search Results: Authors starting with P from De Wolfe and Wood

Boston: LeRoy Phillips Publisher, 1913. Osborne was born enslaved, taught himself to read and eventually became a long-time janitor at Colby College. This is Ernest Marriner's Copy a long-time professor at Colby and author of a history of the College.

Concord: White & Fisher, 1835. 276 pp Usual found in green cloth this has a variant binding of brown cloth Fading and on edge of the backstrip is cleanly split The interior is foxed Contains two woodcut illustration The author travelled from New England and spent several weeks in Texas Howes P74.

1800. Second Edition. London: printed by W. Stratford, sold Cadell and Davies, [1800]. (4), 47 pp. Neatly bound in later marbled boards, cloth spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Surprisingly rare pamphlet (no first edition located), censorious of the enjoyment afforded the lower classes by the spectacle of torture inflicted on dumb animals, in this case the unspeakable cruelties of bull-baiting. The attempt to outlaw bull-baiting figured significantly in the contest in England between reform and reaction at the time of the French Revolution. Advocated by Wilberforce and others, the bill was defeated by conservative ideologies, such as Edmund Burke and acolyte, William Wyndham, who foresaw in the abolition of such brutality the erosion of the traditions which supposedly bound the lower classes to the existing social order. Put simply, better to torture a poor animal than guillotine an aristocrat-a familiar dynamic in class society then and now.

Sabbathday Lake: The United Socity of Shaker, 1983. Limited signed edition. 112 pp. Near fine with minor rubbing to the binding. Signed by the author, Sister Mildred Barker and Brother Theodore Johnson. Number 28 of 75 signed and numbered copies. Still one of the most important works documenting Shaker gift drawings received from Spirits. Wertkin Collection.

Gloucester: D. Walker and Sons, 1817. 38 pp. Removed from a bound volume. Oclc locates 2 copies. Originally printed in 1784 this work offers advice in battle Typhus in prisons. A great epidemic raged in Britian and Ireland from 1816-1819.

Ëast Canterbury, NH, Circa 188o's. 17, [1] pp. Good with wear to the spine and corners. The last edition of this work.

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1783. With leather spine and paper covered boards Good condition with some loss to the paper on the boards, light foxing and minor wear ESTC W27849 66; iv, 98; [2] pp pp.

London: Bell & Daldy, 1865. 4 vols. Bindings rubbed, minor loss to the head and tail of the spines. The interior has moderate foxing especially to the fly leaves and 1st few pages of each volume. Also, some folding plates are foxed. Tissue guards lacking. Still an attractive set of this remarkable diary of life in 17th Century England. All illustrations are present. Each volume has the book plates of former owners Irving Grinnell and Irving Bowdoin Kingsford. These men were the grandnephew and great grandnephew of Wahington Irving.

An attractive copy of this book on the holiday traditions in the south.

Gaylord Watson: Gaylord Watson, 1857. 70, [2] pp. Embossed boards with folding map. Ex-library with bookplate.

1851. 21, [3] pp. First printing of this often-reprinted work written by Phillips for the Second Women's Rights Convention in Worcester. M & S Rare books sold a copy in 1972. 12 copies located on oclc.

Portland, ME, 1851. Signed William Pitt Fessenden letter from his law firm, Fessenden & Deblois. Fessenden was born in New Hampshire in 1806 but would spend most of his life in Maine. He was a lawyer, Representative, Senator, and later the United States Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln during the Civil War. Fessenden was vehemently against Slavery and helped start an Anti-Slavery Coalition while in the Maine State Legislature. The letter itself is in good condition. On line 5 of the letter there is a section crossed out in ink with a correction above it. Stampless letter with address on back. Tear in the upper right corner. Some small ink lettering on back of the letter that was done later. Dated Sept. 15, 1851 from Portland, ME.

1966. Typed copy of The Return by Ezra Pound with signature and accompanying envelope. C. 1966. The Return was written by Pound in 1913 and first published in 1917 in The New Poetry: An Anthology. The poem describes Gods returning, seemingly stripped of divinity, without the ability to wield the power they once had. This typed version is in a soft cover bound with string and signed at the bottom by Pound. It looks like the first page has a message to Woolson that has been partially hidden with something. Along with the poem is an envelope made out to Gary Woolson, a collector and dealer from the Bangor, Maine area. The envelope is postdated 9/5/1966.

S.N. Dickinson, 1842. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition. Boston: S.N. Dickinson, 1842. 70pp. Removed. Good condition. This is the 70-page edition and there is also a 60-page edition. John was the brother of Samuel Colt who invented the famous revolver. John murdered a man and tried to ship the body to New Orleans. He was found guilty, was then sentenced to hang but opted to kill himself instead, stabbing himself in his own heart. McDade, 205.

New York: Geo. W. Avery, 1872. Binding has fading Good condition with small pocket glued on the inside back cover Lacking the map A brief guide for visitors to New York with many ads 165 pp pp.