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The 36 Miseries Of Reading And Writing In 1806
by Stephen J. Gertz"TO THE MISERABLE CHILDREN of Misfortune, wheresoever found, and whatsoever enduring — ye who, arrogating to yourselves a kind of sovereignty of suffering, maintain that all the...
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Charles Bukowski In High School
by Stephen J. GertzLos Angeles High School, 1917-1971.Once upon a time - the late 1930s - Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), America's poet laureate of the depths, attended Los Angeles High School. His hard...
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Great Rare Book Gifts For Recent Ex-Convicts
by Stephen J. GertzNew York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. First American Edition..What's the matter, friend? You say you just got out after 20,000 years in Sing-Sing for a penny-ante...
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Scarce Scenes From a 19th C. Courtship & Marriage
by Stephen J. GertzMarriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution? - Groucho MarxYoung cupid held a council, by lover's vows he sworeHe'd hold up for example, a pair of...
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The Man Who Refused To Laugh (And The Book That Laughed At Him)
by Stephen J. GertzOn March 9, 1748 Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, wrote to his son:"Having mentioned laughing, I must particularly warn you against it: and I could...
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Super Copy Of William Burroughs' Scarce Digit Junkie $15,000 At New York...
by Stephen J. GertzA copy of the incredibly scarce first U.K. edition of William S. Burroughs' Junkie, published in London by Digit Books in 1957, is being offered at the upcoming New York Antiquarian...
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Congress Establishes The Dollar And It'll Cost You $50,000 - $75,000
by Stephen J. GertzThe dollar becomes the official coin of the nation in the first printing of An Act Establishing a Mint, and Regulating the Coins of the United States, offered by Swann Auction...
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Clarence Darrow Writes About A Publisher And Prohibition
by Stephen J. GertzOn October 24, 1931, legendary American lawyer and social reformer Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) wrote to American attorney, civil rights pioneer and president of the National...
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Two Great Typewriter Posters From 1909
by Stephen J. GertzPaul Scheurich, 1909.A copy of Paul Scheurich's 1909 poster for Oliver typewriters is being offered by Swann Auction Galleries in its Modernist Posters sale, April 24, 2014. It is...
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The Shocking Hard-Boiled World Of Librarians!
by Stephen J. GertzThey take no guff from deadbeats.Original cover art by Casey Jones for Crackers in Bedby Vic Fredericks. Pocket Books 1053 (1955).Books and snacks in the boudoir are their...
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First Printed Edition Of The Torah In Hebrew $1,400,000 - $2,000,000 At...
by Stephen J. Gertz"The educated man knows, indeed, from his knowledge of history that the art of Gutenberg saw its inception with a Latin Bible in the middle of the XVth century. Yet what layman knows...
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Dime Novels Led To Boy's Death By Lynching
by Stephen J. Gertz"Kansas city, Jan. 24 - The Times' Wichita, Kansas, special says: Reports are received here to the effect that Sheriff Shenneman was shot while arresting Charles Cobb, alias Smith, a...
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Primo Copy Of Piranese's Imaginary Prisons $270,000-$400,000 At Christie's
by Stephen J. Gertz"I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it" (Piranese).A magnificent copy of the scarce...
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An "Excessively Rare" Thomas Rowlandson Suite Of Caricatures
by Stephen J. GertzIn 1800, Rudolph Ackermann, the great print publisher, issued Masqueronians, a suite of six hand-colored emblematic etched plates by the great caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson, each...
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A Superlative Original Kate Greenaway Watercolor
by Stephen J. Gertz A scarce and significant Kate Greenaway painting, this beautiful gouache, an important early example of her evolution as an artist, appeared as "Disdain," opposite p. 84 in The...
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Spectacular Simone de Beauvoir Archive $380,000-$470,000 At Christie's
by Stephen J. GertzAn outstanding trove of over 350 original and unpublished signed autograph letters and postcards written by French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political...
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The Awful Visitation Of Four Dreadful Monsters To Four Young Women
by Stephen J. GertzThe awful Visitation of Four Dreadful Monsters, To four Young Women, at one of their Houses in this Town, where they had met for the Purpose of seeing their intended Husbands.On the...
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Stories By Great Danes Are Not Dogs
by Stephen J. GertzThe literature of mid-nineteenth century Denmark is the subject this anthology of tales and verse selected and translated by Mrs. Anne Bushby (b. ? - d. 1875). “Most of the following...
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Mark Twain, Collector Of Compliments
by Stephen J. GertzLittle Montana Girl's Compliment"She was gazing thoughtfully at a photograph of Mark Twain on a neighbor's mantelpiece. Presently she said, reverently, 'We've got a Jesus like that...
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1st Edition Of Emancipation Proclamation & Final Edition Of Lincoln's Hair
by Stephen J. GertzA copy of the first edition in book form of the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that freed the slaves in the Southern states during the American Civil War, will be offered by...
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