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1. [Baseball] Holway, John. Voices From the Great Black Baseball Leagues. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1975). 9" x 6". 363pp. Orange cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Nice VG+ jacket. With many photo illustrations. A collection of accounts of playing ball in the Negro Leagues. Players covered include Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, etc. One particularly intriguing chapter covers Mrs. Effa Manley, the business manager for the Newark Eagles. $35.00 2 Buechel, Eugene. A Grammar of Lakota. The Language of the Teton Sioux Indians. Saint Francis, South Dakota: St. Francis Mission, 1939. 8.5" x 5.25". 374pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Spine a little rubbed, else near fine condition. A detailed work with chapters on orthography, parts of speech, formation of words, syntax, etc. $40.00

TITANIC SURVIVOR”S FIRST BOOK

3. Candee, Helen Churchill. How Women May Earn a living. New

York: The Macmillan Co., 1900. First edition. Small 8vo. 342p, plus 2pp.

publisher ads. Red cloth, with a new leather spine and label replacing the original perished leather

spine. Institutional gift bookplate on front pastedown, light and unobtrusive 3/4" circular stamp

on title leaf. A very good to near fine copy in an attractive restoration.

The story of the great liner Titanic and its tragedy is really a story about the people who built her

and those who were on board for her first and only voyage. Among the most interesting of the

passengers was a middle-aged divorced American woman, Helen Churchill Candee.

Mrs. Candee, who was 53 in 1912, was at the center of a close-knit group of shipboard friends...all

but she were men. The included an American architect, an English "businessman" with a

somewhat dubious reputation and Col. Archibald Gracie, who later wrote an excellent first-person

account of the sinking.

Contemporary and later accounts of the Titanic indicate that despite her "advanced" age she did

not in any way lack for the attention of the men in her little group, at least two of whom were

clearly smitten with her.

Mrs. Candee left the ship in the same lifeboat as the legendary woman who became known as "The

Unsinkable Molly Brown," and along with the 704 other survivors, was picked up early on the

morning of April 15, 1912 by the rescue ship Carpathia.

But it's the "back story" which makes her such a fascinating historical figure, and shows her to be

among the most important crusaders and pioneers for women's rights in society.

She was born Helen Churchill Hungerford in New York City, the daughter of an affluent

manufacturer. At age 21 she married one Edward Candee and with him had two children. Candee

proved to be a brutal and abusive spouse, and, after a few unhappy years, he abandoned his family.

At the time, such a catastrophe would have probably destroyed many women, left on their own to

raise two young children. But Mrs. Candee barely looked back.. I have always inferred that she was

glad to be rid of Candee altogether...and she put her writing talents to use as a paid contributor to

many important magazines and journals of the day, including Scribner's and The Ladies' Home

Journal.

And as she continued to write, her sphere of interests began to expand, Initially, her articles were

mostly of the kind traditionally reserved for women...home and garden, etiquette, etc., but she

soon began to expound about education, child care, and the role of women in society.

By 1900, she was a well-established and very well-to-do free-lance writer, and Putnam chose to

publish her first book...a daring and in many ways very forward-looking guide for American

women who found themselves in the position of needing to work, or perhaps...even just wanting

to work.

Candee's approach is honest and matter-of-fact...she does not discount the common attitude of the

time which looked on most working women as objects of scorn or pity, and gives good advice

about how, when and where women can enter the workforce and earn a living, while doing

something useful and satisfying.

Many of the suggested careers are not surprising: nursing, teaching, household

management, cooking, etc. but Candee also explores other possible directions, some of which

must have raised some eyebrows at the time: the theater, architecture and design, the law , small

retail businesses, editing, real estate, and other fields then mostly reserved for men.

One of the most interesting and honest chapters is titled "Hack Writing." Yes, right out on the

table, she makes a case for doing what she herself had mastered...writing articles and essays on

anything and everything, and taking any writing assignment so long as a pay check came with it.

Throughout the book, Candee's tone and style is informal, encouraging, and very

conversational. She may have considered herself to be a "hack writer" but she was a great

communicator as well.

Mrs. Candee's next book was a novel about Oklahoma Territory in which she encouraged

settlement there by ambitious men...and women.

She relocated to Washington DC and became friendly with both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, as

well as becoming a successful and well-paid interior decorator and designer (one the the careers

she'd discussed in her first book).

In 1912, she was in Europe doing research for what would become her most successful and

reprinted volume, The Tapestry Book, when she received a telegram saying her son had been injured

in an accident. She then decided to sail home the quickest way she could, which turned out to be

on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

When she entered the lifeboat, she stumbled and broke her ankle, which did not keep her from

doing her share of rowing for the next three hours.

For some months after, she had to walk with a cane, but that did not stop her from joining a

Women's Suffrage march in D.C. in early 1913.

And Candee did not slow down, even as she approached an age where most people at the time

were considered old. During WW1, age nearly 60, she served as a Red Cross nurse in Rome and

Milan. Some reports have stated that one of her patients was Ernest Hemingway...perhaps she

gave him some encouragement in making writing his career.

In the 1920s, she became fascinated with Asia and traveled to

Japan, Formosa, Cambodia, China etc. and published two excellent books about the

region, Angkor the Magnificent (1924) and New Journeys in Old Asia (1927).

And that was not all...even as she approached 80 she continued to write...and write well...for the

National Geographic, and supervised the very successful reissue of The Tapestry Book in 1935.

At long last, her health began to fail but she continued to live a full and satisfying life until

1949, when she died at age 90 at her summer home in Maine.

Although often reprinted in POD and other editions (and despite claims that the book was a "best

seller"), the first edition of How Women May Earn a Living is genuinely rare. This is the first copy we

have seen in our many combined decades of searching.

The restored spine is the work of Sean Richards of Byzantium Studios, one of the most able

binders working today. $500.00

4. Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First edition. 8.25" x 5.25". 220pp., in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. A superior copy. Semi-autobiographical, the story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then - future of 1994. The book includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use. It is the basis for the superb 2006 film of the same name directed by Richard Linklater. The movie starred Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey, Jr. $750.00

5. [Design] Dreyfuss, Henry. Designing For People. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. 9.5" x 6.5". 240pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The VG+ jacket has a small bit of edge wear and rubbing. Dreyfuss was a giant in the development of modern industrial design. With many black & white photographs and drawings. This volume is a treatise on the designer's philosophy. The book is a window into Dreyfuss's career as an industrial designer, illustrating his ethical and aesthetic principles, with design case studies, many anecdotes, and an explanation of his "Joe" and "Josephine" anthropometric charts. $60.00

6. [Disney] Field, Robert D. The Art of Walt Disney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. First edition. 11" x 7.75". 290pp. Beige cloth with black and orange lettering. Very nice near fine condition. This copy is in far better condition than usual. Extensively illustrated in color and black and white, this book is probably the most important early study of Disney and his work. $75.00

7. [Esoterica] Waite, Arthur Edward, translator. Turba Philosophorum. [No place]: Ouroboros Press, 2006. First edition. 8.5" x 5.25". 157pp., plus 5pp. publisher's catalog. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. As new condition. Limited edition, one of only 700 copies. "Known unto the Wise as the Crowd of Philosophers, this twelfth century treatise records the meeting of the "Hermetic Association for the Advancement of Alchemy" and gives voice to the alchemical wisdom of several centuries. Waite's translation of the Turba Philosophorum remains the most complete to date due to the fact that he examined the many variant Latin manuscripts. $100.00

8. [Food – Saul Bass] The Frontier Hotel Venus Room. Las Vegas: circa 1955. 10" x 14". Single sheet, folded once. Beautifully printed on medium card stock. Near fine condition. The illustrated front panel was executed by Saul Bass (1920 - 1996), one of the most influential and trend-setting graphic designers of the latter half of the 20th century. Although he is best remembered for his posters and title credits for such movies as The Man With The Golden Arm, Vertigo, Psycho, Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, North By Northwest, etc. He was also one of the major designers of business designs and corporate logos. In the mid-50s, he and his Los Angeles-based firm were still taking relatively small contracts, such as the design for the newly created Venus Room in the Frontier Hotel in Vegas. A wonderful, mid-century "space age" design and a very rare example of Bass's work. $175.00

9. [Food] How To Make Delicious Rennet - Custards and Smooth Ice Cream. Little Falls, NY: Chr. Hansen's Laboratory, Inc., 1936. 7.75" x 5.25". 27pp. Color illustrated wrappers. Near fine condition. The beautiful color wrappers depict a young girl holding a giant spoon who is surrounded by enormous bowls of ice cream. With lots of great sounding recipes and many color illustrations of desserts. $25.00

10. Goines, David Lance. Queen of Hearts Ball. [Original poster]. [Berkeley: Saint Hieronymus Press, 1977]. 24" x 14.75". Nicely printed in blue, red and orange on a single sheet. Tiny ink price on the reverse, else fine condition. With an image of the queen of hearts holding a rose. The text is right side up below the image as well as upside down above the image to create horizontal symmetry as if it were a playing card. Goines reference number 63. Goines, a widely admired American artist and printer, is especially noted for his beautiful and innovative poster art. He illustrated many cookbooks for chef Alice Waters as well as creating several anniversary posters for her iconic restaurant, Chez Panisse. $75.00

11. Gutenberg. A Keepsake For This 500th Anniversary. Seattle: (Frank McCaffrey) / [Dogwod Press], 1940. 13" x 10". 6pp. Sewn illustrated wrappers, in the original printed envelope. A beutifully printed booklet, issued as part of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen'scelebration of Gutenberg and his Bible. $75.00

12. Haley, Alex. Roots. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First edition. 9.25" x 6". 587pp. Original brown buckram. Fine condition, in the original slipcase. Limited edition; one of only 500 copies, each signed by Haley. $600.00 13. Johnson, Owen. The Salamander. Indianapolis: The Bobbs - Merrill Company, 1914. First edition. 7.25" x 4.75". 529pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering and an embossed salamander device on the front board. 1915 gift inscription, else fine condition. With 15 full page illustrations by Everett Shinn. Shinn was a highly regarded American Realist painter and member of the so - called Ashcan School. He is most famous for his many paintings of New York and the theater and of various aspects of luxury and modern life inspired by his home in New York City. Shinn’s illustrations are perfect for this book, a feminist novel about a modern girl 'in revolt' in NYC. This book was the basis for two films: 1916 silent film of the same name, directed by Arthur Donaldson and starring Ruth Findlay, and a 1924 film called The Enemy Sex starring Betty Compson, directed by James Cruze. $25.00

14. [Kent, Rockwell] Robinson, Selma. City Child. New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. First edition. 8.5" x 4.75". 64pp. Patterned paper covered boards, blue cloth spine. In the original slipcase. Pencil ownership signature, else near fine condition. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One of only 300 copies, each signed by Robinson and signed by Kent with his heart shaped fingerprint mark. This copy is additionally inscribed by Kent in ink on the half title page: "For Hugh O'Neil by its illustrator, Rockwell Kent." $250.00

15. King, Martin Luther, jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Evanston & London: Harper & Row, (1967). First edition. 8.5" x 5.75". 209pp. Yellow and black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Ownership label on the first leaf, else near fine condition. Nice bright jacket with a tiny hole on the rear panel, and the price on the front flap inked out. This volume is King’s analysis of the state of American race relations and the civil rights movement after a decade of struggle. With chapters covering Black Power, the persistence of racism, etc. $40.00

16. [Labor] Chaplin, Ralph & R.I. Liebich. Song of Separation. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the

World, 1920. 13.25" x 10.25". 2pp. With a few edge tears and an ink price on the front cover, else VG+ condition. Sheet music for a protest song for unjust incarceration of labor activists. The front cover depicts a grieving mother and child, and a man behind bars. Uncommon. $35.00

17. [Labor] Labor's Rights are Threatened by Political Persecution. Labor Demands Freedom For Political Prisoners. New York: National Committee to Win Amnesty for Smith Act Victims, [circa 1951]. 7" x 5.75". Single folded sheet, which opens to 14" x 10". Near fine condition. This circular was issued as a fund raiser for the publisher, a leftist political organization. With text from a CIO resolution, descriptions of the suffering of workers, labor union activities, and more. Also with portraits of Tom Mooney, Albert Parsons and Eugene V. Debs. $25.00

18. Lang, Andrew. How To Fail in Literature. London: Henry and Co., 1890. Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C. and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. 6" x 4.75". 95pp. plus 4 pages of ads. Brown flexible calf. Spine tips and corners are lightly worn, else nice VG+ condition. The text is a speech that Lang gave at the South Kensington Museum. In this volume Lang discusses becoming a writer and getting published. $85.00

19. Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. , (1928). First trade edition. 7.5" x 4.75". 158pp. Pink cloth with gilt cover illustration, rules and lettering, top edge gilt. The book is in fine and bright condition. With illustrations and illustrated endpapers by Ernest Shepard. $75.00

20. [Mountaineering] Kearney, Alan. Mountaineering in Patagonia. Seattle: Cloudcap, 1993. First edition. 9" x 5.75". 143pp. Burgundy cloth boards, in dust jacket. Fine condition. Fine condition jacket. This copy signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the title page. $65.00

21. [Movies] King, Clyde L. The Annals. Volume CXXVIII, November, 1926. The Motion Picture in Its Economic and Social Aspects. Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 1926. 9" x 6". 195pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near fine condition. This early study of the film industry includes chapters on film equipment, film production and distribution, music and motion pictures, lighting, literature and film, reducing film fires, cinema in education, what the movies mean to the farmer, and much more. $75.00

22. [Movies] Original black & white photographic portrait of Jane Russell. 10" x 8". Fine condition. Inscribed by the legendary actress in silver "Robert, God bless, Jane Russell." Russell was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. $35.00

23. [Movies] Original black & white photographic portrait of Myrna Loy. 10" x 8". Fine condition. Inscribed by Loy "For Robert, most sincerely, Myrna Loy." Loy is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man movies and for her role in The Best Years of Our Lives. $75.00

24. [Native Americana] Curtis, Edward S. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. The North American Indian Being A Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska. Volume 18. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970. 9.25" x 6". 253pp. Rust red and black cloth with gilt lettering. Near fine condition. Stated "Third reprinting 1980." These reprint editions are uncommon in commerce. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. This volume describes "the more representative tribes of the Canadian province of Alberta." With much on the alphabet used in recording Indian terms, the Chipewyan, the Western Woods Cree, and the Sarsi. This volume also features much on tribal mythology, summaries of the tribes, and vocabularies of their languages. $225.00

25. Percy, William Alexander. Enzio's Kingdom and Other Poems. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1924. First edition. 8" x 5". 140pp. Green paper covered boards. Spine a bit darkened, mild edge wear and soiling; generally nice VG+ condition. Percy was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. He edited the Yale Younger Poets series, the first of its kind in the country. He also published four volumes of poetry with the Yale University Press. A Southern man of letters, Percy befriended many fellow writers, Southern, Northern and European, including William Faulkner. He socialized with Langston Hughes and other people in and about the Harlem Renaissance and was a sort of godfather to the Fugitives at Vanderbilt. $35.00

26. Poe, Edgard Allan. Edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Politian. An Unfinished Tragedy. Richmond: The Edgar Allan Poe Shrine, 1923. First edition. 9" x 6". 89pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Ownership signature, else near fine condition. Limited edition; of only 250 copies printed. This work is the only play known to have been written by Edgar Allan Poe. The play fragment was written in 1835, but was never completed. It is a fictionalized version of a true event in Kentucky: the murder of Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825. The so-called "Kentucky Tragedy" became a national headline and attracted several fictional representations. Poe set his version in 16th-century Rome. Poe wrote the play during his time with the Southern Literary Messenger and during some personal crises. $75.00

27. Sassoon, Siegfried. Rhymed Ruminations. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1940. First trade edition. 8.75" x 5.5". 52pp. Blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Neat ownership signature, else fine condition. The jacket is nice but has a very light bit of edge wear and a lightly darkened spine. $30.00

28. [Titanic] Baltzell, William. The Wreck of the Titanic. Chicago: Aubrey Stauffer & Co., 1912. 13.5" x 10". 5pp. With some mostly closed edge tears, hinge internally reinforced, ownership signature on the front cover, else VG+ condition. A memorial song about the legendary maritime tragedy. With several illustrations of the vessel and Captain Smith on the front cover. $30.00

29. Warhol, Andy, et al. Andy Warhol's Index (Book). New York: Random House, Inc., 1967. First edition. 11" x 8.5". 241pp. Stiff metallic wrappers. Light edge wear; very nice VG+ condition. A better than average copy of a book often found banged up. Includes the following gee gaws: 1. Pop-up castle is in near fine condition. 2. The red accordion, which still squeaks when opened quickly. 3. The pop - up bi-plane is in fine condition. 4. The Chelsea Girls ad is in fine condition. 5. The dodecagon is detached but present. 6. The Lou Reed pictorial record has been reatttached to the tab with tape. 7. The tri-fold pink and rainbow noses are in fine condition. 8. The pop - up tomato paste can is in fine condition. 9. The warm water tabs are still attached, and in fine condition. 10. The balloon is attached to the right page, as is common, and with some

discoloration to both pages. The postcard is missing. All in all a very nice example of the first printing of this important 20th Century artist's book. $300.00

30. [Washington] The New Leaf. State Training School, Chehalis, Washington. Volume 32, No. 6. June, 1951. Chehalis, Washington: State Training School. Printed By the Boys, 1951. 9.25" x 6". 9pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. A newsletter, printed by the inmates of the Washington state reform school and orphanage, which opened in 1891. With several poems, an article on the school's farm, classes, athletics, and much more. $45.00

31. [Washington, University of] University of Washington Daily. Vol. XCVI. March 30, 1945. Seattle: University of Washington , 1945. 22" x 17.5". 4pp. Folded once, else nice VG+ condition. An April Fools' Day edition of this UW student paper. With funny articles on the discovery of 2600 cadavers on campus, the arrest of the 5000 in a University black market scandal, notification of a new course in Pig Latin being offered, etc. $30.00