1861 by Pseudonym (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. 30 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

First edition. [2], i-viii, 1-271 pages. Staple-bound paperback; H 21.5cm x L 14.5cm. Original dark gray paper covers present but now bound underneath a relatively modern soiled green paper front cover with xerox title text and moderately stained tan rear cover; brown binding tape over spine. Newer covers have some curling at corners with the less stiff front cover scuffed along edges. Original front cover has small chip and short tear to fore-edge with small loss to bottom corner whereas original rear cover has large paper loss (H 3cm x L 9cm) loss at top corner with some shallow loss along fore-edge as well as a chip to the bottom corner. Somewhat triangular clipping and loss to top third of front free endpaper. Bottom corners of pages 259 to rear free endpaper mis-trimmed and folded upwards affecting margin only and not the text. Some light toning to interior leaves but overall pages are quite clean. Bibliographical references: Howes M-535 and Dornbusch III. A famous anti-Lincoln tract by Memphis socialite and suffragist Elizabeth Avery Meriwether authored under the pseudonym of George Edmonds. Among her "Authorities" (page iii bibliography) Meriwether cites a book by William H. Herndon titled "Suppressed Life of Abraham Lincoln" albeit undated but supposedly being published shortly after the President's assassination circa 1866. In fact, Meriwether's alleged resource is a bibliographical ghost, i.e. a nonexistent book, and was perhaps created to cast suspicion upon Herndon's quite flattering 1889 biography.…

Hardcover - Original Cloth. First Edition. A FRESHWATER YARN; Being ye true and veracious Log of ye Boats "Fury" and "Kate", while on an Exploring Expedition in ye Month of August, A.D. 1861: Done by ye Three Officers in Charge thereof, viz.:- Captain William Brown, Lieut. Henry Jones, and Lieut. John Robinson. To ye which are superadded sundry Sketches, by ye Hydrographer and Draughtsman, Lieut. Robinson: Ye whole now edited, collated, emendated, and corrected, by Captain Brown. London: Printed by G.J.Yonge, Great Smith Street, 1866, first edition, original cloth gilt-lettered on the front cover, 19 x 12 cm., (viii) + 57 pages, 12 b/w plates all but one with an additional blank leaf facing the image, all edges gilt, small ink mark on the recto of the rear free endpaper, small faint stain affecting the upper margin of all the plates (see the photographs), occasional slight foxing, occasional very slight finger-marking, otherwise in very good condition. Size: 19 x 12 cm. …

16 pp. Original stample-stitched printed red wrappers. 16mo (158:110 mm). This copy from the library of Lev Borisovich Bernstein (1877-1962), a Russian activist and historian who lived in Paris from the early 1900s and was in close contact with many revolutionary figures, including Maxim Gorky. - Small ex-libris stamp of the collector L. B. Bernstein to title page, as well as stamp of the Geneva "Vpered" group. - Front wrappers with old crease; else very good. - Not in the Bernstein and Souvarine catalog (Dekker & Nordemann, 1980). KVK, OCLC show ten copies. …

For the background to this letter see William Otto Henderson, 'The Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-65' (1934) and Angela V. John, 'By the Sweat of their Brow' (2013). Between 14 April and 16 October 1862 Whittaker published a dozen letters on the 'Lancashire Distress' in the London Times, under the pseudonym of 'A Lancashire Lad'. Edwin Waugh, in his 'Home Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine' (1867), describes Whittaker as 'one of the first writers whose appeals through the press drew serious attention to the great distress in Lancashire during the Cotton Famine. There is no doubt that his letters in The Times, and to the Lord Mayor of London, led to the Mansion House Fund. In The Times of April 14, 1862, appeared the first of a series of letters, pleading the cause of the distressed operatives.' The letter is 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. In fair condition, aged and worn. Whittaker begins by apologising to Langley for sending only part of the note intended for him, but as Langley has 'gathered the sense of what the whole note contained', he will not trouble him 'with the same thing again'. Regarding his seventh 'Lancashire Lad' letter he writes: 'In today's Times I try to correct the statement made by the chairman of your Board of Guardians last week. It is a great pity that he should have made that statement, especially as about the very time that he was making it I was consulting with others as to the 400£ distributed to Preston and other towns. He ought to have seen that it is injurious to make any statement which may lead to cavilling, and the more so in a case like this, where the thousands of out-of-work-operatives are becoming more and more dependent upon what is being contributed for their relief. He concludes by suggesting that 'all ought to combine in helping, and that each ought to be specially careful not to say or do anything which might lead to lessening the help afforded to our poor'. Whittaker's later activities are clouded in obscurity. In 1869 the 'Bookseller' reported that 'Mr. John Whittaker, whose letters in " The Times," under the signature of " A Lancashire Lad," led to the formation of the Mansion-House Relief Fund has, we are informed, left the staff of The Daily Telegraph, upon which paper he has been engaged during the last few years, and joined that of The Echo, the new half-penny daily paper.'.…

MASSENET L Homme, Le Musicien Illustrations et Documents inedits. (JULES MASSENET, 1842-1912, französischer Opernkomponist) Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, L. Carteret Editeur, 1. Auflage 1908, ERSTAUSGABE,392 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, Jugendstileinband in bordeaurotem Hldr. mit Golddruck) gr. 4°, Einband fleckig, vorderer Einbanddeckel wasserfelckig, Einbandkanten berieben, Kapitale leicht bestossen, handschriftlicher Besitzvermerk (R.A. Zondergeld) auf vorderem Vorsatz, mit zahlreichen s/w. Abbildungen und Notenbeispielen. - Vorsatz von Louis Schneider in Tinte mit schöner eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert. …

First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute account, for Ukrainian-American readers, of events in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK; not held by the State or National Libraries, Moscow; we find a single institutional copy only at the Ukrainian National Library, Kiev.…