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• An Early 250th Birthday Present

  

  Capon. Lester J. (editor)

  The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

  $250.00

  Founding Lines

  University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1959.  Two volumes. Complete correspondence between founding fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.  Includes the correspondence between Abigail Adams and Jefferson. Inscribed by editor Lester J. Capon.  Spines lightly sunned otherwise fine.  Slipcase rubbed at extremities with a few tape repairs.  No dust wrappers as issued. The correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s, and served the early Republic–each, ultimately, in its highest office. At Jefferson’s defeat of Adams for the presidency in 1800, they became estranged, and the correspondence lapses from 1801 to 1812, then is renewed until the death of both in 1826, fifty years to the day after the Declaration of Independence. One of the monuments of American scholarship and, to quote C. Vann Woodward, ‘a major treasure of national literature.’ less

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• Historian's First Book with Warm Inscription

  

  Ellis, Joseph J.

  The New England Mind in Transition

  $400.00

  Founding Lines

  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition of author’s first book, warmly inscribed to Ellis’ close associates: “For Rik & Margot / Who have had / the dubious privilege to / watch young Ellis in / transition as he wrote / this book. Johnson was no / more indebted to that “School / of the Prophets” than I am / to you” Signed as “Joe Ellis” and dated in the year of publication. A fine copy in near fine dust wrapper with some slight fading to the spine, trifle rubbing to the spine tips, one tiny nick, and a little soiling. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his work Founding Brothers, exploring how the interactions between the leading figures of the US Constitutional era profoundly influenced the early development of the Republic. Ellis is also credited with leading a revival of interest in John Adams, a President he viewed as under-appreciated for both his character and achievements. The New England Mind grew out of Ellis’ PhD dissertation at Yale (The Puritan Mind in Transition: The American Samuel Johnson (1696-1772)). While at Yale, Ellis became close friends with Richard “Rik” Warch, a fellow graduate student and then member of the faculty, and his wife Margot. Warch was the author of a history of Yale in the early 18th century, attended by Johnson, and Ellis cites Warch’s doctoral dissertation as “the best secondary account of the intellectual and religious climate at early Yale” in the bibliographical essay of his work. The “School of Prophets” in the inscription refers to the title of Warch’s own book-length treatment of his dissertation (School of Prophets. Yale College, 1701 – 1740 also published by the Yale University Press). less

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• Scarce Hardbound Edition Signed by Poet

  

  Carroll, Jim

  Living At The Movies

  $650.00

  The Redbridge Book Co.

  New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First edition of the poet’s third collection of poems and first to be issued by a commercial publisher.   Issued in both hardcover and wrappers simultaneously, this is the scarce hardbound  edition.  Estimates put the print run for the hardbound edition at a couple of hundred, with few likely distributed to the public. Signed by the poet on the title page and very uncommon thus. Darkening to board edges as is common for this title.  Small spot to text block, last page has a small stain and some bleed through from the rust colored end paper. Overall, a better than very good copy. Pictorial dust wrapper, featuring wraparound cover artwork by Larry Rivers and Ted Berrigan blurb, presents very nicely indeed, overall very good, not clipped and without any tears, chips, fading or rubbing but a little tanned at the edges, slight staining to rear flap, front flap a little creased, and verso of dust wrapper is textured, cause indeterminable, with the result that the front and rear panels are not tactilely smooth. less

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  Offered for Sale by: The Redbridge Book Co.

• Uncommon Limited Edition Signed by Photographer

  

  Newton, Helmut

  Sex and Landscapes

  $500.00

  The Redbridge Book Co.

  Mary Boone de Pury & Luxembourg Catalog 2001. Limited edition 486 / 500 copies signed by Newton. A fine copy in wrappers. less

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  Offered for Sale by: The Redbridge Book Co.