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Shepard, Odell; and Manchester, Frederick A. IRVING BABBITT: MAN AND TEACHER. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941.

The Editor Odell Shepard's Copy of the First Edition of Babbitt's Biography, Together with the Publisher's Dummy, each with Profuse Notes and Corrections by the Editor, and a Letter From Babbitt's Wife - 8vo, light blue cloth (spotted); titled in gilt on spine; in pictorial red & white dw (soiled & chipped with several small tears & pieces out at edges). xiii, [i] & 337pp. Frontispiece & 3 plates. Very good.<p>First edition, one of 1,000 copies printed. Includes a biographical sketch by Dora D. Babbitt, and memoirs by T.S. Eliot and others. (Gallup B-37).<p>Odell Shephard's copy, signed by him on front pastedown, and with profuse pencil notes, corrections and emendations by him throughout the text.<p>Together with: THE PUBLISHER'S DUMMY FOR THE BOOK "IRVING BABBITT: MAN AND TEACHER". 8vo, light blue cloth (dye faded along joints) titled in gilt on spine; in pictorial red & white dw (soiled & slightly creased; a few chips to top edge). The publisher's dummy, with half-title, ad, frontispiece, title & copyright pages, 2 pages of contents, additional half-title, pages 9-16, and 164 blank leaves bound in to the thickness of the published edition. Very good. <p>The editor, Odell Shepard, has made numerous pencil notes in the margins of the few pages of text here present. Shepard has written a fascinating note on the title page: "Planned during the first meeting of these two men at a dinner in the Atheneum. Pasadena 1934.--F.A.M. did most of the correspondence. He also arranged for the final publication, without consulting his co-editor. This finally led to a permanent breach." This statement may well explain Shepard's copious notes & corrections present in these two volumes. Following Dora Babbitt's Biographical Sketch of her husband which appears as an introduction to the book, Odell Shepard has penciled: "It was two or three days later [following Babbitt's death], and at my Summer home 'Vaucluse', in north western Connecticut -- that I first learned of his death. It hit me hard! Mrs. Babbitt told me, some weeks later, that I.B. had expressed a wish on hisdeath-bed that I should write his biography. This I could not do, partly because there were too many stripes of opinion to be reconciled, partly because--in spite of my debt to him--I was unsympathetic. This book was the compromise finally made. O.S."<p>Thoughout the book, Shepard's notes shed additional light on the subject of his biography. To the sentence at the bottom of page 10 of the publisher's dummy: "For Babbitt, as for Matthew Arnold, conduct was always three-fourths of life--in fact, so very nearly four-fourths that I am persuaded that the disaffected among his readers have for the most part risen in revolt not so much against his ideas as against a seriousness that concedes so little margin for the unrenounced frivolity of human nature." Odell Shepard has underlined the word "seriousness" and added this observation: "Not that so much as a superficial coldness, ultimately due to fear of normal emotions--or at least the normal expression of it." About Babbitt's excitement and admiration for the poet Leopardi's "dream of immersion in the infinite," Shepard comments: "Buddhistic--and also Dantesque. It is, of course, Leopardi's greatest line." Shepard's personal experiences from his acquaintance with Babbitt often reveal the humanity and warmth of this seemingly solitary man. Marking a passage written by K.T. Mei (page 122 of the book): "He [Babbitt] regularly stayed away from the commencement exercises at the University, and when his duty as a father required his presence at his son's graduation, he laughlingly announced: 'This is the first Commencement I have attended in may years.'...Babbitt was a solitary figure in a crowded metropolis of learning....", Shepard has penciled in "But he was present when I read my 'Scholar in War Times' poem in Soldier's Fields, and also when I read my Phi Beta Kappa poem in Memorial Hall."<p>Additionally laid in at rear are 2-1/2 pages of notes penned in ink by Shepard on three 8"x5" sheets. Also laid in is a 2-page TLS by Irving Babbitt's wife, Nora Babbitt, on both sides of a 6-3/4"x5-1/2" sheet. In her letter, Nora Babbitt mentions several minor misstatements which she originally missed seeing when proofreading . Additionally, she expresses concern about a rather disparaging statement Hoffman Nickerson made about Irving Babbitt's mother and hopes that it has been omitted from the final version of the book.<p>Odell Shepard (born in Sterling, IL, July 22, 1884). American essayist, poet & biographer. Pulitzer Prize winner. Studied at the Northwestern School of Music until 1904, during the last year of which he was city editor of the Evanston (IL) Index. Obtaining a Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1907, he went on the acquire a Ph.D. as instructor in English from Harvard in 1916. During that period he was first an organist at various Chicago Churches, and an instructor of English at Smith Academy in St. Louis. He married in 1908. In 1917 he was appointed Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College (Hartford, CT). In 1916, he published his first work, a Shakespearian outline which he followed the next year with a book of his poems "A Lonely Flute". He published a study of Bliss Carman's poetry in 1923 and four years later published a volume of essays "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye", a work which garnered the praise of Brooks Atkinson. To prepare for his 1937 biography of Bronson Alcott "Pedlar's Progress", he read all fifty volumes of Alcott's journals as well as his correspondence and contemporary records. "'Pedlar's Progress', which the late Ernest Sutherland Bates called an important contribution to American letters, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best biography of the year. 'It reflects faithfully the Arcadian innocence of this transcendental peddler who had the heart of a child and the mind of a seer,' said Henry Steele Commager...." (Kunitz & Haycraft "Twentieth Century Authors"). In 1941, he co-authored a fascinating biography of the American scholar and "Humanist", Irving Babbitt, a man annointed by Mary M. Colum as "The heir of intellectual Puritanism".

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Horn, Ernest, Maude McBroom, Kathryn Smith: More Adventures (Progress in Reading) Ginn and Company 1940
G- Armstrong Sperry

Blue cloth pictorial cover. The spine tips are rubbed a bit, but their are not worn, a school stamp on front blank endpaper, otherwise no other school marks. Pages yellowing a bit, otherwise good. This reader is from the Progress in Reading series. Each story contains illustrations as well as wonderful color, sometimes two pages, of color painting-like pictures by Mr. Sperry. (Who of course is the noted author of Call It Courage) These illustrations are of the type you do not see any longer; beautifully done. Text also includes many helps for teachers or those that homeschool on reading comprehension, roman numerals, and much more. Stories and helps included are Engato the Lion Cub by J.H. Driberg, Learning to Outline, Making Soap in Pioneer Days, Using the Contents, The Snowbabies Own Story by Marie A. Peary, Words out of Place, Strange Ways of Telling Time, Finding Names in the Telephone Book, Poison Ivy, Learning to Read a Graph, Elephants, Public Property, Nazar the Shepherd by Anna Ratzeberger, How to Remember What You Read, Daniel Boone - A Brave Pioneer, Can You Complete These Sentences?, The Thermometer, The Little Brown Bat, Which Should You Do?, Early Colonial Schools, Learning to Use An Index, A Jungle Boy Gets Lost by Elizabeth K. Steen, Can You Tell Which is Right?, How Well Do You Remember?, Our Enemy the Rat, Chose the Right Way, Roman Numerals, Down the Congo, A Test of Memory, Do the Birds Help Us?, Chosing the Right Answer, More or Less, Gunning for Seal by Donald Baxter MacMillan. The text doesn't appear to have been issued. Hard Cover Ex-School Text

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MOLL, Herman (1654-1732): [Africa] To the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow, and Monmouth, &c. This Map of Africa,

London: H. Moll, T. Bowles, P. Overton, [circa 1720]. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in excellent condition. Repaired center fold. 22 5/8 x 37 3/4 inches. 25 1/2 x 41 inches. Herman's Moll's magnificently detailed map of Africa, one of the finest depictions of the continent made in the eighteenth-century This elegant map of Africa evinces the fact that the continent's coastlines were then very well-known, in great contrast to its heart, referred to as "Ethiopia," a land "wholly unknown to the Europeans." While various European explorers had gone some distance up the Senegal, Niger, Nile and Zambezi rivers, the enigmatic nature of the interior would remain largely intact until the third quarter of the nineteenth-century. As indicated by the detailed toponymy of the west African coast, various European powers maintained an active presence there; a pictorial inset in the lower left of the map depicts "Cape Coast Castle," a major British fortress in modern-day Guinea. The Portuguese controlled trade south of the Congo River on the west coast, and on the eastern coast in the busy trading regions centered on the island of Zanzibar. South Africa was dominated by the Dutch, who founded Cape Town in 1652. A beautiful view of the majestic harbour of the Cape, featuring the unmistakable sight of Table Mountain occupies the lower right of the map. Moll drew on Edmond Halley's revolutionary hydrological chart for his detailed depiction of the ocean currents. This includes the annual periods and direction of the Monsoons in the Indian Ocean that could either greatly assist or completely hinder the progress of sailing vessels. The present map was part of Herman Moll's magnificent folio work, a New and Compleat Atlas. Moll was the most important cartographer working in London during his era, a career that spanned over fifty years. His origins have been a source of great scholarly debate; however, the prevailing opinion suggests that he hailed from the Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Germany. Joining a number of his countrymen, he fled the turmoil of the Scanian Wars for London, and in 1678 is first recorded as working there as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas. It was not long before Moll found himself as a charter member of London's most interesting social circle, which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill. It was at this establishment that speculators met to trade equities (most notoriously South Sea Company shares). Moll's coffeehouse circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these friends, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was later conveyed in his cartographic works, some appearing in the works of these same figures. Moll was highly astute, both politically and commercially, and he was consistently able to craft maps and atlases that appealed to the particular fancy of wealthy individual patrons, as well as the popular trends of the day. In many cases, his works are amongst the very finest maps of their subjects ever created with toponymy in the English language. Shirley, Maps in the Atlases of the British Library I, T.Moll-4b, 6; Cf. Reinhartz, The Cartographer and the Literati: Herman Moll and his Intellectual Circle

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HAWKES, W. [New York City and environs] The Country Twenty Five Miles round New York, Drawn by a Gentleman from that City,

London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett, January 1st, 1777. Copper-engraved map by J. Barber, with original outline colour, on laid paper watermarked 'LVG'. 24 5/8 x 19 1/2 inches. An extremely rare map, a broadside that captures the dramatic events that were unfolding in the New York theatre of the Revolutionary War This exceptionally rare map is a highly important historical document of Britain's New York campaign, conducted in 1776, the first full year of the Revolutionary War. It was printed as a broadside to inform the British public about the exciting news from across the Atlantic. The survival rate of broadsides is extremely low, and this example is exceptional in that it has survived in remarkably excellent condition. This work would have been one of the most effective communication tools of the time, as it pictorially represented the geography of the theatre of events, and explained the principal aspects of the conflict in a clear and concise manner. The present example is the third of four issues of this map, and as it deals with a story in progress, each new edition was updated from the former. The finely engraved map is centered on the city of New York, located on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. A series of concentric circles, each at five mile intervals, radiate from this epicenter. The map embraces the area as far north as the Tappan Zee, as far south as the Shrewsbury River in Monmouth County, New Jersey, as far west as Parsippany, New Jersey, and as far east as Hampstead, Long Island. Outlined beautifully in original colour, the map features all major towns, country churches and battle sites, indicated with pictorial symbols, and delineates all of the important roads. In essence, the map encompasses the entire theater of the New York campaign, featuring all of the geographical information an informed reader would need to know in order to place war news in its proper context. Beneath the map is the "Chronological Table of the Most Interesting Occurences since the Commencement of Hostilities in North America," which begins with the mention of what would later be known as the Boston Tea Party on December 16th, 1773. It proceeds to recount the early events of the war itself, most notably the Battle of Bunker Hill outside of Boston (June 17th, 1775) and the British evacuation of that city after a year-long siege on March 7th, 1776. The list of events is expressed in a professional manner, referring to the British respectfully as "His Majesty's" forces and the Americans as the "Provincials." While reading through the events up into the summer of 1776 it would seem that providence was not on the British side, a point underscored by the notation on July 4th, 1776 which reads "continental congress declares the United States of America Independent". This impression is accurate, as the British had been effectively driven out of the Thirteen Colonies. If "His Majesty's" forces wished to take war to the Americans, they would have to act with great speed and force. As one follows the events from mid-July as it turned into August, one notices that such a reprise was in the works. A massive force of 88 ships and 34,000 troops congregated on and around Staten Island under the overall command of General Sir William Howe. As noted on the map itself, the British landed at Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn on August 22nd, and the note on the 27th that reads "the Provincials defeated" could not have been a greater understatement. This refers to the Battle of Long Island, the largest altercation of the entire war, in which the British decisively defeated the Americans, forcing them to abandon the island for Manhattan. The note after September 11th, which mentions the "conference" between the British command and a "Deputation" of Americans, refers to a meeting in which an American embassy under Benjamin Franklin rejected British terms for ending hostilities following the American defeat in Brooklyn. This set the stage for the successful British invasion of Manhattan. While that island was not fully secured by the British until November, 1776, it became the principal British base, remaining in their possession for the duration of the war. In addition to the fascinating chronological table, the text section provides a great deal of fascinating and historically important information. There is the "Alphabetical Table of the Principal Towns in North America and their Distance from New York," and a table listing the population statistics of the various American colonies, which notes that New York province then had an estimated 250,000 inhabitants. The right-hand column features information regarding the command structure, troop-strength, and the general disbursement of both the British and American forces, which placed information that would have frequently appeared in the newspapers in a coherent and orderly context. Hawkes, who took over the business of the esteemed cartographer Thomas Kitchin, likely intended this work to be purchased by members of the country's wealthy merchant class whose financial concerns were greatly mitigated by the conflict. This point is supported by its issue price of "One Shilling," a considerable sum at the time for a single printed sheet. This fine work is not only an attractive and scarce cartographic object, but an extremely important document relating to the history of the Revolutionary War and the development of the media and war reporting in the eighteenth-century. Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 146/1; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 1096; Steven & Tree, "Comparative Cartography," 43(c), in Tooley, The Mapping of America

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