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SMITH, Albert W. John Edson Sweet: A Story of Achievement in Engineering and of Influence upon Men. Will Illustrations. 8vo, original ½ green morocco, spine gilt lettered, "Anbrose Swasey" gilt stamped on front cover, pp. 220, t.e.g., uncut. New York: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1925.
First Edition. With tipped-in printed leaf presenting the book to Ambrose Swasey, the great American mechanical engineer, "in appreciation for his service as a member of the committee on the life of John Edson Sweet." Signed by the author, engineer, dean of Sibley College, Cornell University & acting president of the university, and the five committee members, Ambrose Swasey, distinguished mechanical engineer; Frederick A. Halsey, American mechanical engineer and economist, and long-time editor of the American Mechanist magazine; F[rank] G[ifford] Tallman, philanthropist, Du Pont V.P., and Lincoln collector; and… Read More

AN OIL PORTRAIT OF A MAN WHO WENT WEST IN 1833 TO VISIT PAWNEE INDIANS[IRVING, Jr., John Treat (1812-1906), American author, lawyer, western traveler; Washington Irving's nephew]. [MORGAN, William Penn (1826-1900), Anglo-American painter]. A fine large oil portrait, 30 x 25, on canvas, expertly restored and relined, unframed. Painted in New York in 1868, when Irving was 55 years old. It is a half-lengthportrait showing its subject in formal attire.
Morgan was born in London in 1826, and early in life emigrated to the United States. He studied in Paris at the atelier of Thomas Couture, and at Le Harve. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1851, and became an Associate Member in 1862; exhibiting 71 paintings at the National Gallery between 1861 and 1900. He is described in the Academy records "as a painter of 'sterling merit' whose treatment of subjects 'reflected the sensitiveness and refinement of his own nature.'" He became a fine portraitist, and especially known for… Read More

BOOTH TARKINGTON'S FIRST PUBLISHED PLAY (AND MORE) HERE IN A "LITTLE MAGAZINE" [TARKINGTON, Booth]. [LITTLE MAGAZINE]. [SLOSS, Robert ("Slim"), editor]. John-a-Dreams. A Magazine for the conservative iconoclast and the practical dreamer, devoted to mere literature and to classical typography. [Illustrated]. Vol. I, No. 1-4 (of 6); Vol. II, No. 1-6 + Prospectus. 8vo, original sugar wrappers, each issue with a 2 1/8 x 3 ¼" illustration on front cover by John Sloan (in red) of a dreaming man, uncut.
New York: The Corell Press & The Press at the Classical School Associated: University Place & Ninth Street, July-December, 1896; January-June, 1897.
Tarkington was quoted as saying about the demise of John-a-Dreams: "The death of that little magazine, on the staff of which I was supposed to be, was the greatest blow I ever sustained."-The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers (1903), vol. 16, p. 29. Includes all Tarkington… Read More

HARTE'S AFFECTIONATE GREETING TO TWO YOUNG FEMALE COUSINS IN GERMANY ONE A TRAVELING COMPANION TO ENGLAND, SWITZERLAND & THE RHINE EX-DOHENY COLLECTION
HARTE, Brett. Beautiful chromolithographed German "Junigen Glückwunsch" card. 16mo (4 5/8 x 3 ½"), an elaborate cut-out, pop-up card, which shows two young girls dancing on the front, which when opened, up-pops a crowned princess within a garden pavilion surrounded by plants, flowers and a fountain, within a Moorish arch and surmounted by a blue and gilt dome and garlanded veranda, double-gilt raised borders. N. p., n.d. [i.e. Düsseldorf? 1879?]. Inscribed by Bret Harte on verso: "To Cousin Jessie from Bettit" (one of Harte's childhood nicknames). Harte has labeled in ink the two young girls dancing on the front with his cousin's names, "Jessie" and "Calli." Bret Harte arrived in Crefeld,… Read More