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Ritter, Charles F. American Legislative Leaders. Five volumes in all. Westport, 1996-2000, 1996

Ritter, Charles F. and Jon L. Waklyn, Editors. American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910. [With] Sharp, James Rogers and Nancy Weatherly Sharp, Editors. American Legislative Leaders in the Northeast, 1911-1994. [With] Sharp, James Rogers and Nancy Weatherly Sharp, Editors. American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994. [With] Sharp, James Rogers and Nancy Weatherly Sharp, Editors. American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994. [With] Sharp, James Rogers and Nancy Weatherly Sharp, Editors. American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994. Five volumes in all. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996-2000. Cloth, light shelfwear. Owner stamp to front pastedown of one volume, owner signature to front free endpaper of another, interiors otherwise clean. Very good. * A thorough biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1850 to 1994. Each volume also includes detailed analytical introductions, bibliographies and statistical appendixes that cover political party and home county, years in speakership and house, political party and home county, gender, racial background and birth and death dates, education, religious, military and marital background, occupations, membership in voluntary organizations, public offices before speakership and public offices after speakership.

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Mishler, William: A MEASURE OF ENDURANCE: THE UNLIKELY TRIUMPH OF STEVEN SHARP, New York Knopf Publishing Group 2003
ISBN: 0-375-41133-X New

<strong> Steven Sharp was a hardworking, energetic sixteen-year-old growing up in eastern Oregon, in a remote high desert valley. His family was his harbor. Nothing pleased him more than the outdoor life, fending for himself in the nearby mountains. <P> In the last hour of the last day of a summer job on a local ranch, his life was changed forever when a huge baler he was inspecting suddenly and mysteriously turned itself on and severed both of his arms. Slipping in and out of consciousness, stumbling through a field, he followed a fence to a nearby house. Soon he was on an airplane, hoping time was still on his side. His recovery was amazing. Somehow he maintained his optimism and his zest for living. In the hospital, his desire to get on with his life inspired both his doctors and his fellow patients. He returned to school, joking to reassure his classmates on what could have been an awkward first day. His relaxed, down-to-earth manner put his family and neighbors at ease. Finally he was back in his beloved mountains, hunting and fishing with the hospital's prosthetics and his own rigged-up rifle compensating for his missing arms. Although he was convinced that the machine that had injured him had malfunctioned, he had no intention of seeking redress - farm life had its risks and rewards. He wasn't going to dwell on the past or let his setback change his way of life. But by an amazing quirk of fate - a friend's memory of a notice in a three-year-old magazine - he came to learn that others had been similarly injured while using the same kind of machine. Now, with the help of a brilliant and idealistic trial lawyer named Bill Manning, whose commitment to Steven seemed something of acompletion to his own spiritual journey, Steven took on the multinational, multibillion-dollar company, withstood their counterattack, and emerged triumphant. SYNOPSIS Poet and retired literature scholar Mishler tells how Sharp lost both his arms during a summer farm job when a baling machine malfunctioned, how he survived, adapted his life to the loss, and eventually sued the manufacturer. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly This is a well-paced, vibrant chronicle of the trials, both physical and legal, endured by Steven Sharp, a farm boy from rural Oregon who, at the age of 17, lost both of his arms in an accident involving a defective hay baler. Given the emotional nature of the topic, Mishler does a fine job of telling a compelling story without indulging in purple prose or mawkishness. That's not to say, however, that he doesn't highlight the tragedy of Sharp's ordeal. After all, Sharp was an athletic, outdoorsy kid who was specifically chosen to run the baler because of his presence of mind and attention to safety. That Mishler never gets carried away with melodrama, however, may owe to Sharp himself and his nearly stoic reaction to his plight. The people of the community come across as real rather than bucolic stereotypes, and the dialogue, filled though it is with phrases like "I ain't" and "It don't," is not overdone. Mishler keeps the legal struggle between Sharp and the manufacturer animated, though it drags a bit at times, particularly since the crux of the issue comes down to one's definition of the word "off" (as in, had Sharp really turned the baler off before trying to clean it). The defense attorneys are not rendered in a favorable light, but they're hardly demonized. In all, Mishler offers an absorbing account of a tenuous legal battle and, more strikingly, a resonant portrait of a determined individual for whom some small measure of victory was recouped for all that he lost. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Severely injured by an accident with farm machinery, Oregon native Steven Sharp persevered through pain and disability to reclaim his life and ultimately find justice in court against the machine's multinational manufacturer. Aside from the circumstancES... Published at Twenty Four dollars</strong> Hardcover 6 x 9 in

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ALLEN, John Fisk (1785-1865): Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. With a brief account of its discovery and introduction into cultivation: with illustrations by William Sharp, from specimens grown at Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Boston: printed and published for the author by Dutton & Wentworth, 1854. Folio. (27 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches). Letterpress title (verso blank), 1p. dedication to Caleb Cope (verso blank), 12pp. text (numbered [5]-16); 1p. index, plate list, note and errata (verso blank). The text printed in gold throughout. 6 chromolithographed plates by Sharp & Sons of Dorchester, Mass.(5 after William Sharp, 1 after Allen). Early half calf over purple pebble-grained cloth covered boards by F. Sissons of Worksop, England (with their label on the front pastedown), with contemporary red morocco gilt title label on the upper cover. A monument to American colour printing, a work which launched the age of chromolithography as an art in the United States, and one of the most beautiful flower books ever produced. This an extraordinary copy with the text printed in gold throughout, believed to have been done for presentation and known only by Allen's own copy. The Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America, provides an appropriate showcase for this gigantic water lily, first discovered along the Amazon River and then taken to Britain for cultivation. The so-called "vegetable wonder" was first described by Sir R.H.Schomburg in 1837. From the details he gave, the botanist John Lindley suggested that the lily was a new genera and put forward the name Victoria Regia in honour of Queen Victoria during the first year of her reign. "The giant water-lily is a spectacular flower; nineteenth century commentators describe with amazement the vast dimensions of its floating leaves, which could exceed two meters in diameter, and its great white flower, which opened in the evening and closed again at dawn in a truly lovely spectacle" (Oak Spring Flora.). In 1853, Allen, a well-respected horticulturalist and author of a treatise on viticulture, cultivated a seed from the water-lily given him by Caleb Cope, president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the man in whose garden the water-lily first flowered in America on 21 August 1851. Working at his home in Salem, Massachusetts, Allen tended the seed from January to July, when, on the evening of July 21st, the flower finally bloomed. Motivated by his success, Allen hoped to make the glory of the water-lily available to a wider audience, and engaged the services of William Sharp, a British-born artist and pioneer of chromolithography then working in Boston. Sharp had been practicing with the new technique of chromolithography as early as 1841, the first person to do so in the United States. His early efforts can be seen in Mattson's The American Vegetable Practice (1841), but, as McGrath states, those chromolithographs are merely "passable." Fortunately, Sharp improved his technique, and his next major project, the plates for Hovey's The Fruits of America (1852), demonstrated to all who viewed them the colourful and dramatic potential of chromolithography. Still, the process was in its infancy, and it would take a work of tremendous ambition to satisfactorily popularise the technique. Allen's proposed book on the water-lily provided such a vehicle. Though the first plate of the Victoria Regia is based on a sketch Allen composed himself, the remaining five plates, which show the gradual development of the flowers from bud to full bloom, are wholly attributable to Sharp. Superlative in concept, colour, and execution, they became the first benchmark of the art. "In the large water lily plates of Victoria Regia, Sharp printed colors with a delicacy of execution and technical brillance never before achieved in the United States" (Reese, Stamped with a National Character). This extraordinary copy of the great work has the text printed in gold throughout. The only other comparable copy which we have been able to locate is recorded in the 5 May 1913 Annual Report of the Essex Institute (now part of the Peabody Essex Museum): "From the estate of Misses Elizabeth C. and Marion C. Allen of this city the Institute has received Mr. John Fisk Allen's own copy of his finely illustrated monograph on the 'Victoria Regia' which was printed in gold ink." That the author's own copy was similarly printed in gold suggests that such copies were of a very special nature, and were probably produced for presentation. While the provenance of this copy is unknown, given the contemporary English binding, it seems likely that this copy had been sent to England by Allen to a botanist as esteemed as Joseph Hooker, Joseph Paxton, or another as intimately involved in the cultivation of the famed water lily. Great Flower Books (1990) p.69; Hofer Bequest 72; Hunt Printmaking in the Service of Botany 56; Nissen BBI 16; Reese Stamped with a National Character 19; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 85; Tomasi An Oak Spring Flora 106.

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Trey Nash: C sharp 2008, Franzis 2008
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