Title : THE BELL JAR

Authors : Victoria Lucas [Sylvia Plath]

Date of publication : 1963

Publisher : Heinemann

Description : First edition in price clipped dust jacket.

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Set of four 78-rpm shellac records containing the soundtrack cues for the first film version of FRANKENSTEIN. Each record bears a black-and-white label with the Universal Pictures logo along the bottom edge. Each of the four records is in a separate paper sleeve, and the group is housed in a custom clamshell box.

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1. Apthorpe, Raymond.  From tribal rule to modern government : the thirteenth conference proceedings of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for Social Research / edited with an introduction by Raymond Apthorpe. Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia : Rhodes Livingstone Institute, 1959.

2. Coupland, R.  Kirk on the Zambesi : a chapter of African history / by R. Coupland. London : Oxford University Press, 1928.

3. Cunnison, I. G.  Kinship and local organization on the Luapula : a preliminary account of some aspects of Luapula social organization / by I. Cunnison. Lusaka : Rhodes-Livingstone Instituite, 1950. Communications from the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, No. V.

4. Mackintosh, C.W.  Some pioneer missions of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland / by C.W. Mackintosh. Northern Rhodesia : the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1950. Occasional papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum no. 8.

5. Norman, L.S.  Nyasaland without prejudice: a balanced, critical review of the country and its peoples / by L.S. Norman, with a foreword by Sir Alfred Sharpe. London : East Africa Ltd., 1934.

6. Posselt, F.W.T.  Fact and fiction: a short account of the natives of Southern Rhodesia / by F.W.T. Posselt, foreword by Sir Herbert Stanley. Bulawayo, Rhodesia : Rhodesian Printing and Pub. Co., 1942. Rev ed.

7. Shepperson, George.  Independent African: John Chilembwe and the origins, setting and significance of the Nyasaland native rising of 1915 / by George Shepperson and Thomas Price. Edinburgh : University Press, 1958.  Encl: card from Shepperson to C.T. Kadzamira; note from publisher; Nyasanet postings re: John Chilembwe

8. Smith, Gordon W.  Malawi past and present: selected papers from the University of Malawi History Conference, 1967 / edited by Gordon W. Smith, Bridglal Pachai, Rodger K. Tangri. Blantyre, Malawi : CLAIM Christian Literature Assoc. in Malawi, 1971.

9. Wood, J.R.T.  The Welensky Papers: a history of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland / by J.R.T. Wood. Durban, South Africa: Graham Publishing, 1983.  Signed copy [by author, Welensky, Banda, and Kaunda]; Limited edition  Encl: Two pictures of Brody and Kenneth Kaunda; two pictures of Brody and Banda; a one Kwacha (Malawi) currency note from 1988; a two Kwacha (Zambia) currency note, date unknown; a one hundred Kwacha (Zambia) currency note, date unknown; a letter by Brody concerning Kaunda’s signing of the book; a letter by Brody concerning Banda’s signing of the book; a Christmas card from Ian MacLeod to H.K. Banda.

10. Young, Cullen.  Notes on the history of the Tumbuka-Kamanga peoples in the northern province of Nyasaland / by Rev. T. Cullen Young. London : Religious Tract Society, 1932.

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Title : [Portrait of Joseph Priestley]

Authors : Mezzotint by Charles Turner after Henry Fuseli

Description : Mezzotint portrait in Rosewood frame stolen from a Surrey auction house. NB accompanying image of different impression of same print.

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An original cabinet photo of the original “Buster Brown”. The name Buster Brown is written in ink on the mounting board right below the actual photographic image. Buster Brown’s dog, “TIGE” is sitting on top of his railroad transport cage. There are two or three men standing in the background. This image was photographed in Stamford, Texas during the teens or 1920′s. The size of the mounting board would be approximately 8 inches X 11 inches.

If you have any information about this photo, please contact John Moschiono at (713) 444-4107 or johnmos@airmail.net

Title : Healths Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering The Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food Used in this Nation. Written by that ever Famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doct

Authors : Muffett, Thomas [1553-1604]. [Moffett, Thomas]. Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655 [editor].

Date of publication : 1655

Publisher : Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard, London

Description : Recently rebound in period style in mottled, dark-tan calf with blind ruled borders and attractive blind-stamped corner pieces.  Signatures [A2-4], B-2P4 (bound without [A1], the preliminary imprimatur leaf, as are both copies in the British Library); L2 mis-assigned L3.  [6], 296 pages; page [6] of preliminary leaves numbered ’8′.

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Oldroyd, Osborn H.  ~LINCOLN’S CAMPAIGN, Or The Political Revolution of 1860.  Profusely Illustrated.  With Fourteen Portraits and Biographies of Presidential Possibilities for 1896. ~Laird & Lee, Chicago: (1896).  pp. vi, 241 + Portrait Frontis and full page plates.  Text drawings.  Fourteen portraits and biographies of presidential possibilities for 1896.  Front hinge cracked.  Paper beginning to brown at edges.  XLib from Amherst College Library given by Arthur Curtiss James of the Class of 1889 for books in American History.  Large 12mo.  Original full blue gray cloth binding with gilt portrait of Lincoln on front board.  Old library label on spine.  Hardbound.

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JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS, SAINT. 345?-407. Accipe candidissime lector opera divi Joannis Chrysostomi archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani. Basel: Jacob Wolff for Wolfgang Lachner, 1504.
CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS. 1425-1495. Sermones de quadragesimales, de adventu, de timore…. Venice: Gabriel de Grassis, 1485.
VALLA, LAURENTIUS. 1406-1457. Elegantiae de linguae latinae. Venice: Philippus Pincius, February 8, 1492.
BEAUVAIS CATHEDRAL. GRES, GUILLAME DE. Manuscript on vellum, in Latin, March 24, 1258. 1 p, oblong 4to (155 x 210 mm), 20 lines, in a fine secretarial Bâtard hand; later docketing on verso. Fine condition.
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT, on vellum, 6 ll, in Latin, 12mo (130 x 85 mm), [late 14th century], being fragments of a Breviary, initials and rubrications in red and blue with extensions, with later FULL-PAGE MINIATURE of Virgin Mary in a rose-garden bound in, later blindstamped sheep over boards.
[BONAVENTURA, SAINT. 1221-1274.] BALAINIUS, JOANNES. Index generalis in omnes D. Bonaventurae super quatuor libros sententiarum. [-In primum librum sententiarum.] Venice: [al segno della Concordia], 1580.

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The Quark and the Jaguar
by Murray Gell-Mann

First edition. Encased in a clear plastic protective cover (which may have been since removed); pristine condition.  Inscribed by the author to Mel Schwartz. The inscription read something like “To Mel Schwartz from ‘the top quark’.” The inscription may have been signed “Murray”.

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Dahl, Roald. JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. A Children’s Story.  Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1961),small 4to., publisher?s red cloth with blind stamped illustration, dust jacket. (viii), 118, (2) pages.  First edition, first state of the author’s first book for children. Bound by H. Wolff. The US edition preceded the British edition by six years. There are four full-page color plates and many other illustrations, including one full-page, which are in black, white, and shades of peach. The book is fine, but the dust jacket shows wear at the spine ends and corners, with a few additional creases and tiny closed tears. Quite attractive.

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