blodget william (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Zustand: Fair. - Octavo. The remnants of a gilt-lettered leather spine are present, but the covers are lacking. 53 pages with engraved head- & tail-pieces. The front & rear endpapers are soiled & there is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. There is occasional soiling to the text & the front edges of a few overlapping pages are darkened. Good reading copy. Two nineteenth-century satiric pieces. The author of the mock-heroic "Dorriad" was anonymous. "The Great Slocum Dinner", according to the introduction, was by the authors listed above. These pieces relate to the "Dorr Rebellion", a brief armed uprising [1841-1842] in Rhode Island led by Thomas Wilson Dorr. The insurrection was precipitated by the increasing disenfranchisement of the citizens of Rhode Island, many of them recent Irish Catholic immigrants, who were unable to vote because of a requirement that voters own at least $134 of landed property.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Simpson, H. Dennis (cover); Lowthian; Sheldon, William; Iligan, Ralph; Blaisdell, Elinor; Reed; Diamond (illustrator). First Edition. 68 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of shoeshine boy; Bright colour Parker pen ad inside front cover; Nice colourr Ritz cracker ad; Post-War Education - A Canadian Problem; Trans-Canada Telephone System one-page ad; Canada Dry colour ad; What the War Has Done to Canada; A White Candle (short story); All in the Family (short story); Swap King Jack Redshaw of Granville Illinois - photo-illustrated article; Christmas Gift (short story); Dog Days in Paris - great photo-illustrated article of Parisians and their dogs; Man of the Month, G.B. Gordon, President of Dominion Textile Company; Jergens Lotion ad features lovely photo of Janet Blair; Lovely one-page colour-photo Oldsmobile ad features a blue 1946 four-door; Fantastic colour two-page ad for the 1946 Chevrolet (red four-door); Colour one-page Waterman's pen ad; Nice colour Maxwell House coffee ad shows lady struggling to hold her groceries; Colour ad for Stokely's tomato juice; Small ad for the Rosicrucians AMORC of San Jose, California; Anita Ellis appears in Don Juan lipstick ad; Mackenzie King goes to London; Rolex ad; Developments in Science; Nice half-page colour ad for Clark's Mincemeat; Fantastic Chase & Sanborn coffee ad features Charlie McCarthy cartoon; One-page colour-photo Swift's Premium ad features Christmas ham; Nice one-page Singer sewing machine photo- ad; Very nice one-page colour Pontiac ad features red Silver Streak leading a parade of previous Chevs from 1935 through 1942; Arrid ad features photo of Eleanor Holm; Nice colour Frigidaire range ad inside back cover features grandma cooking steak; Back cover features lovely colour-illustrated ad for GSW's kitchen pots (white with red trim); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy.