ART DECO HAWAII, by Theresa Papanikolas.

HONOLULU: Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014. First edition. Catalogue for the exhibition that took place at the Honolulu Museum of Art from July 3, 2014, to January 11, 2015.

Softcovers, French folds, 137 pages, richly illustrated throughout.

VERY GOOD condition, light wear to the edges, spine ends, and spine folds, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, very presentable copy.

From the front flap: "BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND II, an influential art movement thrived in Hawai'i - artists and commercial illustrators created a romanticized interpretation of Hawaiian culture filtered through the streamlined international Art Deco style. From Arman Manookian's captivating crayon colored modernist canvases portraying a lush, primitive paradise, to tourism brochures urging winter bound Americans to spend "Winter in Hawaii" with an illustration of a Jazz Age gal riding a stylized Waikiki wave, Hawaiian Art Deco defined the islands' fantastical, semi-fictional tourist destination image that endures to this day."

FOUR ISSUES OF OCCIDENT, U.C. BERKELEY'S LITERARY JOURNAL, 1957-1960. DIANE WAKOSKI was a student at UCB during those years, and in these issues she is a contributing poet, as well as an Editor and Manager of the literary journal. These issues contain some of her earliest poems.

Published by the Associated Students of the University of California, 1957-1960. First editions.

The OCCIDENT issues are:

FALL 1957. In this issue Wakoski is listed as being on the Editorial Staff;

SPRING 1958. Wakoski contributes two poems and is listed as Manager of the Publication;

WINTER 1958. Wakoski contributed three poems and is listed as the Editor of Occident;

WINTER 1950: Wakoski contributed two poems and is still listed as the Editor.

All four issues are in generally GOOD condition, some toning, some wear, soiling and creasing to the covers, overall still tight, bright and unmarked.

A nice collection of some of Diane Wakoski's earliest poetry, and a record of her working with poets and literary groups even as a young college student.

POSTERS FROM THE REVOLUTION, PARIS, MAY, 1968 - Texts and Posters by Atelier Populaire. Published by Dobson Books, London, 1969. First edition.

Large format wrappers / softcovers, 11x16 inches (15x40.5 cm), 95 pages.

Condition: The spine is worn, weary, tearing, and the poor glue binding is causing the covers to separate from the inner pages, leaving pages and sections loose but in their proper order. (This publication is well-known for its poor binding which cracks easily.) Nonetheless, the inner pages and posters are complete and, except for the last leaf which has some edgewear, are in very good condition, bright, clean and clear. Thus, only FAIR wrappers and binding with VERY GOOD inner text pages and poster reproductions.

Paris in May, 1968, was a time when workers, students, and intellectuals realized their common struggle against authoritarianism by the rich capitalists, and together fought against masked police who were deporting foreign workers, and politicians who were instituting laws benefiting only the wealthy. 10,000,000 went on strike. Today, the authoritarianism run by wealthy capitalists is all too familiar but the unified struggle against it is, unfortunately, not.

THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR, Volume VI, No. 1, June 15, 1845 through No. 12, December 1, 1845.

LIVERPOOL: Published by Wilford Woodruff and Thomas Ward, Stanley Building, Bath Street, MDCCCXLV (1845).

Binder's tiny signature at the top corner of the front free endpaper "Wm Huline / Binder".

Contemporary paper covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches (4x21 cm). Pagination: general title, preface and index bound at front, 204 pages, blank front and rear endpapers.

ASSOCIATION COPY: Provenance of JOSEPH SLINGER, ORDAINED PRIEST of the LATTER DAY SAINTS in 1840. His signature is at the top of the title page.

From the Minutes of the 1840 LDS Conference: "A general Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was held in the Carpenters Hall Manchester on the 6th day of July 1840...Moved & Carried that JOSEPH SLINGER, George Walker. John Smith...be ordained Priest."

Joseph Slinger is also noted as a donor on an 1844 manuscript list of Tithing Donations for the building of an LDS Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Condition: The text block has been professionally resewn, the covers rehinged, and some corners restored; making this a solid copy. The front and rear boards are worn, scraped and rubbed; there is no spine covering, the sewn text signatures are neatly and attractively visible. There is early scribbling (or attempts at writing by a child) on the pastedowns, and a drawing on the front free endpaper, all of which I think adds to the uniqueness of this copy, showing that it was kept in a home and treated as a common book to be marked up and used, not as scarce collectible item meant for a museum. I especially like the naive drawing on the front free endpaper of what appears to be an LDS woman in a modest dress. Also at the top of the front free endpaper is written: "(I. V.?) White's book from (J. C.?) Foss. April 25, 1902". Perhaps these names have an association to the Mormons, but I have been unable to determine it. The text pages are toned as normal, with some foxing, spotting, soiling, marks, edgewear, etc. here and there throughout, but the text is always fully legible. The last issue, No. 12, titled: FURTHER PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS IN AMERICA has relevant marginalia and underlining noting and commenting on various passages. Overall, with the professional resewing and restoration, this is a complete, sturdy, presentable copy.

UNCOMMON with the EARLY LATTER DAY SAINT PRIEST'S PROVENANCE, and with the Binder's Signature.

AMERICAN MUSICIANS, Photographs by LEE FRIEDLANDER.

CHRISTMAS PRESENTATION COPY - SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED by LEE AND MARIA FRIEDLANDER on the half-title page: "Christmas 1998 / For Jenny & Marcus / with Love / Lee & Maria". (As this is a 1998 Christmas presentation, warmly signed "with Love" in the year of publication, there is clearly a relationship between the Friedlanders and Jenny and Marcus. But I can't find it, so I'm leaving it to you to figure out exactly who Jenny and Marcus are and their relationship to the Friedlander family. Please let me know if you uncover it!)

NEW YORK: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, 1998. First edition.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 9.5x10 inches, 295 pages.

FULLY ILLUSTRATED with 514 color and b&w photographs. Musicians photographed include: Mose Allison, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra, and many others.

Condition: FINE book, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a NEAR FINE dustjacket that shows slight signs of handling. A LOVELY copy.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is heavy and will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PRE-WAR PERIOD: PHOTOBOOKS & PRINTS. Maggs Bros.Catalogue 1413. Curation and Text by TITUS BOEDER.

LONDON: MAGGS BROS. LTD., 2007. First and Limited Edition of only 450 copies. ISBN: 9780901953148.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by TITUS BOEDER on the half-title page: "For my esteemed colleague and friend / Titus Boeder".

Hardcovers, no dustjacket as issued, 6.75x9 inches (17x22 cm), 160 pages. Illustrated throughout.

FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear, a lovely, gently used copy.

From the Introduction:

******Maggs is very pleased to be able to offer two important collections relating to Japanese photography from the pre-war period. The first is a group of 135 titles comprising over 1000 books and magazines spanning the rich history of the most challenging period of Japanese artistic photography. Somehow this important field has escaped the attention of art historians, collectors, and curators and these books rarely appear in institutional holdings in America or Europe. Due to the substantial costs involved in the reproduction process, photographic books of this period were often printed in small editions. Many photographers published their work privately or in magazines that would often be discarded. We are offering this collection as a group and no individual prices are available. Price on Application.

The second is a collection of 70 original photographs from the pre-war period. This group was put together by an authority on Japanese modernism and the avant-garde, a person with a deep understanding of the challenges involved in the new ways of looking at reality.

Writing this catalogue has been a very enjoyable tour of discovery for myself. At the same time I am aware of certain shortcomings and would be very grateful for any additional information or criticism that the reader may provide.

Contents: The Beginning of a New Consciousness: Geijutsu Shashin and Pictorialism; The Rise to Prominence of Photographic Magazines and Yearbooks; Modernist Photography (Shinko Shashin); Avant-Garde Photography (From Zen'ei Shashin Avant-Garde Photography to Z???? Shashin Avant-Garde Photography); Photo-Journalism (Hodo Shashin Photojournalism), Realism and Advertising (Kokoku Shashin Advertising Photography); Propaganda & War Photography; Selected Biographies; A Collection of Original Prints.******

About TITUS BOEDER (from the Maggs Bros. website):

******Dr. Titus Boeder has been working for Maggs since 1995 specializing in Far Eastern material - in particular China and Japan. He is particularly interested in books and documents relating to the flow of scientific, political, and cultural knowledge between East and West.

Another field of expertise is photographic material from China and Japan: Titus has formed a number of important collections of 20th century Japanese photobooks, covering all the trends in pre-1945 (pictorialism, modernism, avant-garde, and propaganda) as well as the post-war movements of realism, subjectivism, and the individualistic trends of the 70s and 80s.

He is fluent in German, Japanese, and Mandarin.******

MEDICAL and SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS in the CHRISTIE CASE, by FRANCIS E. CAMPS, M.D. Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College.

Published by Medical Publications Limited, London and New York, 1953. First edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, Francis Camps, on the front free endpaper.

Copy of JOHN E. MURDOCK, noted Forensic Science Investigator, with his signature at the top of the front pastedown.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, 6x9 inches, xxiii + 244 pages. ILLUSTRATED "With 47 Diagrams and Photographs and 6 Coloured Plates".

GOOD condition: The covers have some small white spots, there is a bit of wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and the spine gilt is faded but legible, otherwise the covers are solid and well bound. Internally the pages are very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

SCARCE book, especially so with the Signature and Inscription of the author and forensic witness Francis Camps, and the association to criminologist John E. Murdock.

About FRANCIS CAMPS and the CHRISTIE MURDER CASE (from Wikipedia):

******Francis Edward Camps, b.1905 d.1972, was an English pathologist noted for his work on the cases of serial killers John Christie and John Bodkin Adams. He was professor of Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, and President of the International Association of Forensic Scientists. He was the author of many papers on forensic medicine.

Camps gave critical evidence during the 1953 trial of John Christie, providing the court with a detailed report on the bodies found at 10 Rillington Place. Camps' report showed a consistent pattern of attack by Christie. His forensic evidence left little doubt that Christie murdered the victims and that Timothy Evans, who had been convicted and hanged for two of the murders, was innocent.

The Christie case was the most prominent of a series of miscarriages of justice which ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in England, Wales and Scotland in 1965.******

About JOHN E. MURDOCK (from an online obituary):

******John E. Murdock, b.1938 d.2025, was Chief of the Contra Costa County Forensic Services Division (crime laboratory) for many years. He was an expert firearm and toolmark examiner. Though Murdock worked on many high profile criminal cases, he was most proud of his work on two cases for the Innocence Project, where his expertise helped secure the release of Patrick Pursley (who had spent 25 years in prison) and Bryan Foshay (who had spent 9 years in prison) following their wrongful convictions for murder based on misleading forensic evidence. The Pursley case was the first in the United States to allow post conviction firearms testing.******

About JOHN CHRISTIE - Serial Killer (from Wikipedia):

******John Reginald Halliday Christie, b1899 d.1953, was an English serial killer who murdered at least eight people - including his wife Ethel - by strangling them inside his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of his victims were found in a wallpaper covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards in the front room. Christie was eventually arrested and convicted of murder, for which he was hanged.

Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine. In 1950 Timothy Evans was charged with those murders, found guilty and hanged. Christie was a key prosecution witness in the Evans trial. When his own crimes were discovered three years later, it became evident that Christie's murders included Beryl Evans and her daughter, and that the police mishandling of the original inquiry allowed an innocent man to be hanged and Christie to escape detection, enabling him to commit a further four murders.******

Filled with remembrances, signatures, and drawings, by men and women in post WWI. Most of the remembrances are from 1919, with some later ones being from 1920-1926. Many are from women soldiers in the Q.M.A.A.C, and other British Women's army corps;; and many are from male soldiers in the R.A.S.C. and similar army corps. It was a time of love and death, love lost and love being sought. Many of the signatures come from Curragh (a notorious training camp in Ireland).

There are some lovely and sad drawings and texts, dealing with parting and death. Including a lovely poem by Emily Dickinson with an associated drawing. One "poem" by a woman soldier is very racially offensive, but is the only one that I found..

I'm not sure who this belonged to, possibly Maria Macaulay, but clearly a woman in the Q.M.A.A.C.

Leather covers, 6.5x7 inches (17x18 cm), 60 leaves all with writing and/or drawings, some on both sides of the leaf, some on one side only.

VERY GOOD condition, tight, bright, clean and clear.

A look at post WWI, not from the perspective of battle weary men, but from that of an army woman who, from the tone of the comments in the autograph book, seemed to send soldiers off and bring them home with a friendly female touch.

About the QMAAC (from Wikipedia):

******The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (QMAAC) from 9 April 1918, was the women's corps of the British Army during and immediately after the First World War. It was established in February 1917 and disbanded on 27 September 1921.******

ELEGANZE DELLA LINGUA TOSCANA E LATINA, SCIELTE DA ALDO MANUTIO, utilissime al comporre nell'una e l'altra lingua. Tavola copiosissima...

[ELEGANCE OF THE TUSCAN AND LATIN LANGUAGE, CHOSEN BY ALDO MANUTIO, very useful for composing in both languages. Very copious table...]

VENETIA [Venice]: Aldus [Aldine Press / Paolo Manuzio], 1556. FIRST EDITION.

Pasteboard covers, cord binding, 8vo., approx 4.5x6.5 inches (11x16 cm). Italic type. Pagination: [2] blank front leaves, A-I8, K10, [1] blank rear leaf: total of 82 printed leaves: [1], 2-73, [9]. Aldine anchor and dolphin printer's device on title page.

GOOD condition: Professionally strengthened, making this a solid, lovely copy. Manuscript title on the spine is worn but visible; the front cover has a later, neat handwritten title on it. The front and rear inner hinges are split but holding well with the cord binding. The text block is tight. There are very early names, doodles and drawings on the front and rear blank endpapers which I think adds to the uniqueness of this copy, it shows that many books even in 1556 were treated as books to be marked up and used, not as scarce collectible items meant for museums. I wish I could translate these early owner's names, including one on the front pastedown and one that is marked out but still sort of visible on the title page, but alas, I cannot. There are many very early underlinings of words with manuscript calligraphy notes in the margins next to them on the first 15 leaves; subsequently there are additional margin notes here and there throughout. Was this an early scholar or student's copy? There is a smudge, small tear, corner crease, mark, here and there. Overall a complete, solid, bright, presentable copy.

RARE 1556 first edition printed in Venice by Paolo Manuzio, made unique and interesting with the early doodles, names, and annotations, giving the book an "I was there" authenticity, imho.

About PAULUS MANUTIUS (from Wikipedia):

******Paulus Manutius (aka Paolo Manuzio), b.1512 d.1574, was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius.

The printer's mark of the Aldine Press, used by both Aldus Manutius, the father, and his sons, is known as "the anchor and the dolphin".******

WOMEN OF TURKEY AND THEIR FOLK-LORE, by Lucy M.J. Garnett, with Introductory Chapters by John S. Stuart-Glennie. Includes a color, ethnographic fold-open map.

TWO VOLUMES (complete in two volumes):

Volume I: THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN, with Introductory Chapters on the Ethnography of Turkey and Folk Conceptions of Nature.

Volume II: THE JEWISH AND MOSLEM WOMEN, with Concluding Chapters on the ORIGINS OF MATRIARCHY.

LONDON: David Nutt, 1890 and 1891. First editions.

Hardcovers, professionally rebacked and reinforced making the two volumes solid, well bound, and attractive; burgundy cloth covered spine with original spine leather mounted to spine cloth, marbled paper covered boards, leather corners; 6x8.5 inches (14x21.5 cm). Pagination: lxxviii, 382; xvi, 616. The folding color map is present (it is often lacking) and bound in V.I following page liv.

GOOD condition: The covers have been professionally restored, the boards have scrapes and rubs, the spine leather has numerous chips, overall these covers are now sturdy and attractive; internally, there a previous owner's signature at the top of the half-title page of each volume, otherwise the inner pages are very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, well-preserved set.

Important book about Women of Turkey, written by a woman.

About LUCY GARNETT (from Wikipedia):

******Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, b.1849 d.1934, was a British folklorist, ethnographer, and traveler. She is best known for her work in what is now Turkey, Northern Greece and Albania.******

THE TREES. A BROADSIDE POEM by ADRIENNE RICH. ILLUSTRATED by JOAN GOGUEN.

Published by LOWELL HOUSE PRINTERS, The College Yard, CAMBRIDGE, May, 1964.

Limited Edition, this being 1 of only 75 copies. "This poem was hand-set and printed in 14-point Garamond Roman in an edition limited to 75 copies by the Lowell House Printers. Illustration by Joan Goguen. The College Yard, Cambridge, May, 1964".

Broadside with b&w illustration, printed on fine, watermarked, cream colored, rag paper, 12.5x17.5 inches. The watermark is an image of a hammer and anvil.

NEAR FINE condition. A light crease near the top edge, waviness to the edges where the broadside was "pulled" in the hand-press printing process, as normal. A Lovely Broadside.

This broadside came from the estate of Dennis C. Turner, a San Francisco Doctor who was a Friend of Many Poets and Artists, and who was also a Fine-Printer and broadside publisher in his early days at Harvard when he was involved as one of the student printers at the LOWELL-ADAMS HOUSE PRINTERS. He was a longtime friend of Cecil Day Lewis, Albert Gelpi, and a number of other poets and writers. He died in 2013.

These LOWELL HOUSE, COLLEGE YARD (Harvard) broadsides from the mid 1960s, especially those by important American poets, are SCARCE.

About LOWELL HOUSE PRINTERS:

******Lowell House Printers was a printing press located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for producing limited edition books and pamphlets. One example is "The Trees", a poem by Adrienne Rich with illustrations by Joan Goguen, published in 1964 in an edition of 75 copies. The press was associated with Lowell House, one of the residential houses at Harvard University.******

FIRST BOOK IN HAWAIIAN - A TEXT BOOK IN THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. By M.H. Atcherly [Mary H. Atcherly].

HONOLULU: Published for the Territory of Hawaii by the Hawaiian Board of Missions; printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1930. First edition, as indicated by the date 1930 on the title page and at the end of the preface.

Hardcovers, 5.5x8 inches, 94 pages.

Though there were many dictionaries of and scholarly books on the Hawaiian language published prior to this work, this was the first book published in Hawaii exclusively as a school textbook for the teaching of the Hawaiian language to Hawaiian high school students.

GOOD condition, professionally rebacked making this a solid, well bound copy; the covers have some rubs, soiling, and light wear; internally, there are tiny holes to the gutter edge of the pages from an old sewn binding of the signatures (threads long gone, perfect binding holding well), the blank endpapers are toned and the text pages lightly so; overall, this is a complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked copy.

From the Preface:

******The Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii in the session of 1923 passed Act 243, entitled "an act to provide for the preparation and publication of a school text book in the Hawaiian language." In pursuance of this act, Governor Lawrence M. Judd arranged with the Hawaiian Board of Missions for the publication of the manuscript which had been prepared by Mrs. Mary H. Atcherley. Other documents had been submitted, but it was felt that Mrs. Atcherley's contribution was better fitted for the purpose than similar studies.

It is intended that this First Book in Hawaiian shall be used in the junior high schools and high schools throughout the Territory, but it is hoped that other schools will make use of this material in acquiring a knowledge of the Hawaiian language.

Grateful acknowledgement is hereby made not only of the material submitted by Mrs. Atcherley but also suggestions from a similar work by Messrs. John Wise and F. E. Midkiff, of the Kamehameha Schools, and the work of the late Professor W. D. Alexander entitled, "A Short Synopsis of the Most Essential Points in Hawaiian Grammar." - HENRY P. JUDD, Editor, Hawaiian Board of Missions, Honolulu, February 1930.******

From the March 10, 1930 Honolulu Star-Bulletin, page 18:

******HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY THE TERRITORY

Increased interest in the Hawaiian language is evident in the publication of a "First Book in Hawaiian" by authority of the legislature. The manuscript was prepared by Mrs. Mary H. Atcherley, and Governor Judd arranged for its publication with the Hawaiian board of missions.

The volume has just come off The Star-Bulletin press...The new volume is a textbook containing the elements of Hawaiian grammar and a limited vocabulary.*****

About MARY H. ATCHERLY (from Wikipedia):

******Mary Ha?aheo Atcherley (born Mary Ha'aheo Kinimaka, April 24, 1874 - March 8, 1933) was a Hawaiian activist. She was one of the first native Hawaiian women to run for public office in the Territory of Hawaii.****** You can read much more about her on her Wikipedia page.

WONDERLAND '98. READ IT THEN PROFIT BY YOUR READING AND GO AS SEE IT. REACHED BY THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. Text by Olin Wheeler.

ST. PAUL: Northern Pacific Railway / Chas. S. Fee, 1898

Pictorial wrappers with a bare-breasted goddess of fertility, two naked cherubs, and a cornucopia on the front cover, 6.75x9.75 inches (25x17.5 cm), 103, [5] pages. Illustrated throughout with drawings, photographs, and full-page maps.

Promotional publication promoting the Northern Pacific Railway route and the lands and National Parks it crossed. Issued yearly.

GOOD condition: The covers have edge wear, tears and chips to the spine, and a small corner piece missing from near the bottom of the spine, but the front and rear wrapper images remain bright and clear. Internally, there is some professional reinforcement to the inner hinges, making this a solid, well bound copy; the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

The original 1898 issue of Wonderland '98 with the art-deco bare-breasted fertility goddess cover is quite hard-to-find.

THREE IMPORTANT FRENCH REVOLUTION DOCUMENTS, SIGNED:

(1) EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DU COMITÉ DE SALUT PUBLIC DE LA CONVENTION NATIONALE...l'an deuxième de la République française une et indivisible... [Extract of the Committee for Public Safety...1793-1794].

Single-fold 4-page document, 8.75x13 inches, printed and manuscript, written on 3 pages (front and inner two pages.

SIGNED by FIVE MEMBERS of the Powerful Committee:

Lazare CARNOT, Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS, Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE, Pierre Louis PRIEUR, and Robert LINDET.

GOOD condition, soiling, toning, edgewear, corner creases and wear, horizontal creases from being folded to a small size; still solid with writing that is bright and legible throughout. Brilliant signatures.

(2) LÉGION D'HONNEUR / Paris, 1814

À MONSIEUR LIEUTENANT GÉNÉRAL COMTE BELLIARD, GRAND CORDON DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR.

Official document awarding the Legion of Honor Grand Cross to Lieutenant General COUNT BELLIARD. SIGNED illegibly. Paper document, 7.5x12 inches oblong, printed and manuscript on one side only.

GOOD condition: some creasing, soiling and toning, still solid, bright and clear.

The Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, aka the Grand Cross, is the highest award that France can bestow upon a citizen.

(3) REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / DEPARTEMENT DE LA GUERRE...l'an 10 de la République française une et indivisible [1801-1802].

MANUSCRIPT LETTER on official MINISTER OF THE WAR letterhead, SIGNED by ALEXANDRE BERTHIER, the Minister of War, to his brother GENERAL LEOPOLD BERTHIER.

Single-fold 4-page document, 8.5x12 inches, printed and manuscript, letter written on the front page, addressee information on the back of the last page.

FAIR condition, the single-fold document is completely split at the fold, there is soiling, toning, edgewear, corner creases and wear, and horizontal creases from being folded to a small size; still complete (though split) with writing that is bright and legible throughout.

********************************** About the French Revolution SIGNERS of these documents (from Wikipedia):

JEAN-MARIE COLLOT D'HERBOIS aka "The Butcher of Lyon", b.1749 d.1796, was a French revolutionary. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, and was responsible for the execution of more than 2,000 people in the city of Lyon.

LAZARE CARNOT, b.1753 d.1823, was a French mathematician, physicist, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution.

JACQUES-NICOLAS BILLAUD-VARENNE, b.1756 d.1819, aka "The Tiger", was a French lawyer and a major figure in the French Revolution. He was one of the most militant members of the Committee of Public Safety, and is considered a key architect of the REIGN OF TERROR.

PIERRE LOUIS PRIEUR, b.1756 d.1827, was a French lawyer. During the French Revolution he served as a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He voted for the death of King Louis XVI.

JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBERT LINDET, b.1746 d.1825, was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. Lindet refused to sign the order for the execution of Danton and members of his party. When asked why, he replied: "I am here to protect citizens, and not to murder them".

AUGUSTIN DANIEL BELLIARD / COMTE BELLIARD, b.1769 d.1832 in Brussels, was a French general who was awarded the Grand Cordon [Grand Cross) of the Legion of Honor (Highest Order of the Legion of Honour) in 1814. Louis XVIII awarded him the title Peer of France.

LOUIS-ALEXANDRE ALEXANDRE BERTHIER, b.1753 d.1815, was a French military commander during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War and served as chief of staff to Napoleon Bonaparte. Berthier died by either suicide or murder shortly before the Battle of Waterloo.

VICTOR LÉOPOLD BERTHIER, b.1770 d.1807, was a French general of the Revolution and Empire. His brother was Louis-Alexandre Alexandre Berthier.

THE LITERATURE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: A Classified Catalogue of Select Publications in the Different Departments of that Science, with Historical, Critical, and Biographical Notices. By J. R. McCulloch [John Ramsay McCulloch].

An extensive bibliography of, "in some measure a history of Political Economy, as well as a critical catalogue of the principal economical works" (Preface).

LONDON: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, MDCCCXLV [1845]. First edition.

Hardcovers, professionally (and beautifully) rebound in modern half-leather and decorative paper covered boards, gilt spine title label, 8.5x5.5 inches (21.5x14 cm). Pagination: xiii, [3], 407 pages.

VERY GOOD condition: The modern covers are FINE. Internally, there is a "University of California" blindstamp on the title page and first page of text, and a "Withdrawn" ink stamp on the verso of the title page; but these are the only ex-libris indications I found. Otherwise, the pages are lightly toned as normal, with a small tape repair, smudge, and mark here and there, overall the inner pages are tight, clean, clear and unmarked. A complete, beautifully bound copy of this original 1845 work.

RARE first edition of this important economics bibliography.

About J. R. McCULLOCH (from Wikipedia):

******John Ramsay McCulloch, b.1789 d.1864, was a Scottish economist, author and editor, widely regarded as the leader of the Ricardian school of economists after the death of David Ricardo in 1823. He was appointed the first professor of political economy at University College London in 1828. McCulloch collected the early literature of political economy, and wrote on the scope and method of economics and the history of economic thought. He edited the 1828 edition of The Wealth of Nations.******

TRANSFER 21 - THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE [now San Francisco State University], Spring 1966, Number 21.

Includes student ANNE RICE'S SECOND PUBLISHED STORY (the first with Counts, Bats, and mysterious, drippy, dark surroundings). Also contains poems by STAN RICE, Anne Rice's husband. And to top it off, there is an insert with a poem by the author THOMAS SANCHEZ.

The story by SFSU student ANNE O'BRIEN RICE is titled "NICHOLAS AND JEAN". It is subtitled "Chapter One of a Nouvella" (sic). This is Anne Rice's second published work, the first having been published in Transfer #19. "Nicholas and Jean" is, however, Anne Rice's first work with the eerie sensibilities of "Interview with the Vampire", and her other Vampire novels. "Interview with a Vampire" was published in 1976, ten years after the publication of this story / chapter one of a novella.

Anne Rice's "Nicholas and Jean" is 7 pages long (pages 3-9). Stan Rice has 3 poems in the issue, and Thomas Sanchez has two poems, one which is on an insert.

Printed paper covers, side stapled, 5.5x8.5 inches, 48 pages.

GOOD condition: The wrappers have pulled from the staples at the front fold but are holding on at the back fold, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, presentable copy.

Rare look at Anne Rice's early drift towards Vampires and Vampirism.

IMÁGENES ARGENTINAS EN QUINCE XILOGRAFIAS. [IMAGES OF ARGENTINE in FIFTEEN LITHOGRAPHS].

Fifteen (15) lithographs of various Argentine scenes. Each lithograph is hand signed by the artist, Pablo Fabisch. The loose lithographs are held in a printed folder; they are accompanied with six folded together leaves (12 pages) of descriptive text in Spanish and some German.

FOLIO SIZE, the lithographs are printed on 14x17.5 inch sheets, and held in a slightly larger folder. LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION, this being #226 of 400 total copies, so stated on the last page of the descriptive text leaves.

VERY GOOD condition, just light wear.

Published by Edicion Galeria Bodo, [1970].

From the Colophon page (translated): Under the artist's supervision this edition was completed in Buenos Aires on September 17, 1970.

About PABLO FABISCH (from the Arte de la Argentina website):

******Pablo Fabisch, b.1903 Berlin d.1974 Buenos Aires. A painter, engraver, and book illustrator. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Emil Orlik. He settled in Argentina in 1937, and became an Argentine citizen in 1951. He has had solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Berlin and elsewhere.******