61. Levy, Arthur Joseph / Zangwill, Israel.

Archive / Collection of more than 350 items, letters, documents, ephemera, pamphlets, manuscript notes, receipts , manuscript letters from the private library of Providence (Rhode Island) lawyer, Arthur (Art) Joseph Levy. The collection includes an important, controversial typescript-essay (8 pages) on Israel Zangwill’s address before the American Jewish Congress at Carnegie Hall on October 14th, 1923 (″Watchmen, what of the Night ?”); with manuscript annotations and remarks on Israel Zangwill’s position “the hopes of Jewry for the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine are doomed to disappointment”. The collection includes a plethora of interesting letterheads of jewish organizations and also important documentation of Levy’s contribution to and support for the “Palestine Foundation Fund”, (receipt from Boston, Mass. June 1923). Levy, who was a graduate of Brown and Boston University Law School, practiced law in Providence, Rhode Island and led an active life as a member and leader of several Jewish civic organizations, such as the Jewish Family and Children’s Service, which he established and led for twenty years, Rhode Island Jewish Historical Society, the Temple Beth-El Brotherhood, the Miriam Hospital, the Touro Fraternal Association and the Jewish Home for the Aged of Rhode Island. He was also a prominent member of the American Bar Association, the Brown University Alumni Association and the Brown Club of Rhode Island. Highly regarded as a jurist, he was a member of the Commission to Consolidate State Laws, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Federal Tax Institute of New England and an editor of the Rhode Island Bar Journal. Included in this archive are a group of letters written during World War I discussing his role in the Jewish Welfare Board of the United States Army and Navy, an invitation to a fund-raising dinner for the Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island, a group of documents and letters discussing the establishment of a Jewish country club in Providence, several documents from the early 1920s concerning the mostly Jewish fraternity Phi Epsilon Pi and several items relating to Levy’s personal life, such as personal letters, bills from clothiers and invitations to social events. (Main source of the description of this archive is the research of our colleague Greg Talbot from The Lawbook Exchange).

Providence (Rhode Island), Cambridge (Massachusetts), New York, 1917 – 1931. Octavo and A4. Two heavy folders with original documents. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

62. [Lincoln, Abraham] Hurt, James.

Writing Illinois – The Prairie, Lincoln and Chicago.

Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1992. 16 x 24 cm. 154 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

63. Martin, Robert Montgomery.

The British Colonies; Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources. 6 Volumes bound in 3 Volumes (Text only without maps and illustrations). The Set includes: Volume I – British North America / Volume II – Australia / Volume III – New Zealand, Tasmania / Volume IV – Africa and the West Indies / Volume V – British India / Volume VI – Ceylon, East India and Meditteranean Settlements /

First Edition. London and New York, The London Printing and Publishing Company [that was J. and F. Tallis], no year (c. 1850). Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). Volume I (British North America [Canada / USA]): Frontispice illustrated titlepage, XXIV, 360 pages with pages 1 – 9 missing / Volume II (Australia): pages 361 – 744 pages / Volume III (New Zealand / Tasmania): II, 384 pages. / Volume IV (Africa and the West Indies): II, 188 pages / Volume V (British India): II, 564 pages with pages 455 – 456 missing / Volume VI (Ceylon, East India and Mediterranean Settlements): II, 172 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative publisher’s halfleather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines. Bindings rubbed but overall in firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All maps and illustrations besides one illustration removed by a previous owner. In the course of removal of maps and illustrations, one page slightly torn and 11 pages of text missing. This is still one of the most important text-sources of British Colonial History, itsevaluation in Britain and a plethora of data on economical and political impact the Colonies had for the former Empire. No other contemporary 19th century publication includes details on colonial produce, movement of population and local History from Tasmania to Quebec, from Hong Kong to Heligoland (Helgoland), and in general on the depition of “England, the ‘Nursing Mother’ of Nations” (Introductory page XXIV by Montgomery Martin).

64. [McAfee, Mildred Helen] de la Mare, Walter.

Ding Dong Bell.

London, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 76 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and fully signed by de La Mare to American academic Mildred Helen McAfee Horton on front free endpaper: “Helen McAfee with all good wishes from Walter de la Mare – June 1924”.

65. McMillan, D.C.

The Elective Franchise in the United States.

New York, P. Putnam’s Sons, 1878. 18.7cm x 12.7cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by the author to american lawyer and politician Peter Butler Olney.

66. Mead, Robert Douglas.

Journeys Down the Line – Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

First Edition. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. 15 cm x 22 cm. 609 pages with a Map to the pastedown and endpaper, totled “Alaska and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline”, showing the Route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska. Original Hardcover andl illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare.

67. Mills, C. Wright.

The New Men in Power – America’s Labor Leaders. With the assistance of Helen Schneider.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 323 pages. Several tables throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with obvious signs of external wear to the dust jacket and minor wear to the cover. Pages only slighty discoloured. Name in ink pen on endpaper. Annotations in pencil throughout.

68. Morgan, Ted.

Valley of Death – The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War.

New York, Random House, 2010. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXII, 722 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Rare. Out of print.

69. Morphy, Countess [Hincks, Marcelle Azra].

English Recipes – Including the Traditional Dishes of Scotland, Ireland & Wales. [Including loosely inserted a Recipe for “Danish Pastries” and “Savarin a la Pompadour”].

New York, Herbert Joseph Ltd. for Selfridge & Co. Limited, 1935. 13,5 cm x 21,5 cm. 224 pages. Modern Hardcover / Recently rebound in modern cloth with new endpapers. Bookblock firm but with some foxing and occasional staining. Otherwise in very good, now firm and restored condition.

70. [Moylan, General Stephen] Griffin, Martin I.J.

General Stephen Moylan.

Philadelphia, 1909. 16 cm x 24 cm. 142 pages. Original hardcover. Slightly damaged binding. A few loose pages. Contains some children’s drawings in pencil, and a note in ink describing where it was purchased in 1931.