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Oilers try to keep win streak alive, host the Blue Jackets
By The Associated PressJanuary 24, 2023 GMT
Columbus Blue Jackets (14-30-2, eighth in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (27-18-3, fourth in the Pacific Division)
Edmonton, Alberta; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers will try to keep a six-game win streak going when they host the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Oilers beat reeling Canucks 4-2 for 6th straight victory
January 22, 2023 GMT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Bruce Boudreau stood on the bench Saturday night, clapping for the crowd and trying to soak in a bittersweet moment.
Vancouver had just dropped a 4-2 decision to the Edmonton Oilers — the Canucks' third loss in four nights — but chants of "Bruce, there it is!" to the tune of Tag Team's "Whoomp!
Hyman scores twice as streaking Oilers beat Lightning 5-3
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Zach Hyman scored twice and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3 on Thursday night for their fifth consecutive victory.
Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl each had a goal and an assist for the Oilers (26-18-3), who have won their last two at home after losing six of the previous seven at Rogers Place.
Lightning visit the Oilers on 5-game winning streak
Tampa Bay Lightning (28-13-1, third in the Atlantic Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (25-18-3, fourth in the Pacific Division)
Edmonton, Alberta; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NHL LINE: Lightning -119, Oilers -102; over/under is 6.5
Draisaitl scores 2 as Oilers beat Golden Knights 4-3
By MARK ANDERSONJanuary 15, 2023 GMT
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Leon Draisaitl is heating up, and so are the Edmonton Oilers.
He scored two goals Saturday night to help the Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3, giving Draisaitl four goals in three games — all Edmonton wins.
McDavid has 2 goals, assist as Oilers beat Sharks 7-1
By MAX MILLERJanuary 14, 2023 GMT
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the San Jose Sharks 7-1 on Friday night.
Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and two assists, and Klim Kostin, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Ryan McLeod also scored for the Oilers.
Kostin, McDavid lead Oilers' 6-2 rout of last-place Ducks
By GREG BEACHAMJanuary 12, 2023 GMT
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Klim Kostin scored two goals, and Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and an assist apiece in the Edmonton Oilers' 6-2 victory over the last-place Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.
McDavid reaches 500 assists, Oilers beat Islanders 4-2
January 6, 2023 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid set up power-play and short-handed goals in the first period to reach 500 career assists in the Edmonton Oilers' 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Klingberg, Dostal lead Ducks to 4-3 win over Oilers
December 18, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — John Klingberg scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Lukas Dostal stopped 46 shots and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Saturday.
Ryan Strome had a goal and an assist, and Sam Carrick and Cam Fowler also scored for the Ducks.
Hyman's hat trick leads Oilers over Predators 6-3
By JIM DIAMONDDecember 14, 2022 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Zach Hyman had a hat trick, Leon Draisaitl scored twice and added three assists and Connor McDavid had a goal and three assists to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 6-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
Boldy has goal, assist to lift Wild to 2-1 win over Oilers
By MIKE COOKDecember 13, 2022 GMT
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist, Freddy Gaudreau also scored, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 Monday night.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 20 shots for his 10th win of the season for the Wild, who have won eight of 11.
Nugent-Hopkins helps Oilers snap 7-game skid against Wild
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers beat Minnesota 5-2 Friday night to snap a seven-game skid against the Wild.
Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl each had a goal and an assist.
McDavid's 4-point game leads Oilers to 8-2 rout of Coyotes
December 8, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored twice and had an assist as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Arizona Coyotes 8-2 on Wednesday night.
Oilers host the Capitals after McDavid's 2-goal game
By The Associated PressDecember 4, 2022 GMT
Washington Capitals (10-11-4, sixth in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (14-11-0, fourth in the Pacific Division)
Edmonton, Alberta; Monday, 8:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers host the Washington Capitals after Connor McDavid's two-goal game against the Montreal Canadiens in the Oilers' 5-3 win.
McDavid, Draisaitl carry Edmonton to 5-3 win over Montreal
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists, Leon Draisaitl had a goal and three assists and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Saturday night.
McDavid found the Oilers effort to clamp down in the third period most encouraging.
Kaprizov's 3-point game leads Wild to 5-3 win over Oilers
By BRIAN HALLDecember 2, 2022 GMT
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and two assists to extend his career-best point streak to 10 games, and Joel Eriksson Ek added a goal and assist, leading the Minnesota Wild to a 5-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.
Edmonton visits Minnesota after Draisaitl's 2-goal game
Edmonton Oilers (12-10-0, fourth in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (10-9-2, fourth in the Central Division)
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NHL LINE: Wild -136, Oilers +116; over/under is 6.5
Draisaitl, McDavid lead Oilers past slumping Blackhawks 5-4
By JAY COHENDecember 1, 2022 GMT
CHICAGO (AP) — Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist, helping the Edmonton Oilers top the slumping Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Wednesday night for their third straight win.
Connor McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mattias Janmark each had a goal and an assist as Edmonton improved to 2-0 in Chicago this season.
Blackhawks take on the Oilers on losing streak
By The Associated PressNovember 29, 2022 GMT
Edmonton Oilers (9-7-0, fourth in the Pacific Division) vs. Chicago Blackhawks (6-6-3, eighth in the Central Division)
Chicago; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Blackhawks aim to stop their seven-game slide when they take on the Edmonton Oilers.
Bouchard, Draisaitl help Oilers beat Panthers 4-3 in OT
November 29, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Evan Bouchard scored the tying goal with 5 seconds remaining in the third period and Leon Draisaitl got the winner 22 seconds into overtime as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Florida Panthers 4-3 on Monday night.
Edmonton hosts Florida after Bouchard's 2-goal performance
Florida Panthers (9-6-1, fifth in the Atlantic Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (9-7-0, fourth in the Pacific Division)
BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers host the Florida Panthers after Evan Bouchard scored two goals in the Oilers' 4-3 win over the New York Rangers.
Hughes has hat trick, Devils beat Caps for Ruff's 800th win
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jack Hughes had his first career NHL hat trick, Vitek Vanececk made 38 saves against his former team and the New Jersey Devils beat the Washington Capitals 5-1 on Saturday for coach Lindy Ruff's 800th victory.
Oilers score 4 times in third period to defeat Rangers
By ALLAN KREDANovember 26, 2022 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) — Leon Draisaitl scored on the power play with just over two minutes to play and the Edmonton Oilers rallied for four third-period goals to shock the New York Rangers 4-3 Saturday.
Jack Campbell made 20 saves, while defenseman Evan Bouchard scored twice and Dylan Holloway got his first NHL goal in the comeback.
New York in action against Edmonton after overtime win
Edmonton Oilers (9-7-0, fifth in the Pacific Division) vs. New York Islanders (11-6-0, third in the Metropolitan Division)
Elmont, New York; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders host the Edmonton Oilers after the Islanders knocked off the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime.
Devils top Oilers, tie franchise mark with 13th straight win
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Nico Hischier had three assists and the New Jersey Devils beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 Monday night to match a franchise record with their 13th consecutive win.
Jesper Bratt, Dawson Mercer, Damon Severson, Tomas Tatar and Yegor Sharangovich scored for the Devils, who haven't lost since Oct.
By TOM CANAVANNovember 22, 2022 GMT
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The young New Jersey Devils are making a name for themselves — in the team's record book.
Nico Hischier had three assists and the no-name Devils beat the Connor McDavid-led Edmonton Oilers 5-2 Monday night to match a franchise mark with their 13th consecutive win.
Devils bring 12-game win streak into matchup against the Oilers
Edmonton Oilers (9-7-0, fourth in the Pacific Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (13-3-0, first in the Metropolitan Division)
Newark, New Jersey; Monday, 7 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils come into a matchup against the Edmonton Oilers as winners of 12 straight games.
McDavid scores in OT, Oilers beat Golden Knights 4-3
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid scored 1:17 into overtime to give the slumping Edmonton Oilers a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night.
McDavid danced around a defender and chipped a shot over Adin Hill for his NHL-leading 16th of the season.
Oilers take on the Golden Knights, look to break home losing streak
Vegas Golden Knights (13-4-0, first in the Pacific Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (9-7-0, fourth in the Pacific Division)
Edmonton, Alberta; Saturday, 10 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers are looking to break their three-game home slide with a victory over the Vegas Golden Knights.
Ovechkin, Capitals hand Oilers seventh straight loss, 5-4
By The Associated PressNovember 8, 2022 GMT
Alex Ovechkin scored for a third consecutive game, Evgeny Kuznetsov had two goals and two assists and the Washington Capitals beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 Monday night to snap a four-game losing streak.
Capitals play the Oilers on losing streak
Edmonton Oilers (7-5-0, fourth in the Pacific Division) vs. Washington Capitals (5-6-2, sixth in the Metropolitan Division)
Washington; Monday, 8 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals aim to break their four-game slide when they play the Edmonton Oilers.
Benn has hat trick as Stars roll past Oilers, 6-2
November 6, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Jamie Benn scored three goals for his seventh career hat trick and Jason Robertson had a goal and two assists as the Dallas Stars rolled to a 6-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.
Devils rally to beat Oilers 4-3 for 5th straight win
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Miles Wood had two goals and an assist as the New Jersey Devils rallied to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 Thursday night for their fifth straight win.
Ryan Graves and Jesper Bratt also scored for the Devils.
Kane, McDavid combine for 5 goals, Oilers beat Predators 7-4
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Evander Kane had a hat trick, Connor McDavid added two goals and two assists, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Nashville Predators 7-4 on Tuesday night.
Leon Draisaitl finished with a goal and four assists, and Derek Ryan also scored for the Oilers (7-3-0), who have won five games in a row.
Big night for Marchand in return, Bruins beat Red Wings 5-1
By The Associated PressOctober 28, 2022 GMT
BOSTON (AP) — Brad Marchand had two goals and an assist in his season debut and the Boston Bruins extended their winning streak to four games, beating the Detroit Red Wings 5-1 on Thursday night.
Jeremy Swayman made 27 saves, David Pastrnak had a goal and two assists and Charlie Coyle and Craig Smith also scored to help Boston improve to 6-0 at home this season.
Draisaitl's late goal lifts Oilers over Blackhawks 6-5
By MATT CARLSONOctober 28, 2022 GMT
CHICAGO (AP) — Leon Draisaitl scored the tiebreaking goal with 37.6 seconds left and had two assists to lead the Edmonton Oilers past the Chicago Blackhawks 6-5 on Thursday night for their third straight win.
Draisaitl keys Oilers' four-goal 2nd to beat Penguins 6-3
October 25, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers used a four-goal second period to rally for a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night.
Evander Kane, Zach Hyman and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each had a goal and an assist, and Tyson Barrie and Ryan McLeod also scored for the Oilers.
Nugent-Hopkins, McDavid help Oilers beat Hurricanes
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid each had a goal and three assists and the Edmonton Oilers snapped a two-game skid with a 6-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Stone, Kadri lead Flames to 4-3 win over Oilers
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Michael Stone had a goal and two assists and Nazem Kadri added a goal and an assist in Calgary's four-goal first period, and the Flames held on to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 Saturday night.
Connor McDavid opens with hat trick, Oilers beat Canucks 5-3
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had three goals and an assist and the Edmonton Oilers overcame an early 3-0 deficit to beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 on Wednesday night.
Leon Draisaitl added a goal and two assists and Darnell Nurse also scored for the Oilers in the opener for both teams.
Avalanche D-man Cale Makar wins Conn Smythe as playoff MVP
By STEPHEN WHYNOJune 27, 2022 GMT
Cale Makar led the Colorado Avalanche in scoring on the way to winning the Stanley Cup. It was no surprise the dynamic defenseman was the unanimous choice for the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
Avalanche win battle of attrition to reach Stanley Cup final
By STEPHEN WHYNOJune 7, 2022 GMT
With Nazem Kadri out with an injury, Colorado's Mikko Rantanen shifted to center to take his spot and was on the receiving end of a few chops on the back of his leg from Edmonton's Duncan Keith that sent him to the ice.
Monday Sports in Brief
By The Associated PressJune 7, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Artturi Lehkonen scored 1:19 into overtime, and Colorado rallied to beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-5 Monday night, completing a four-game sweep in the Western Conference final and sending the Avalanche to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2001.
Avalanche beat Oilers 4-2 to take 3-0 series lead
June 5, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Pavel Francouz took J.T. Compher off the hook for a penalty with a key save on Connor McDavid. A few seconds later, Compher took the life out of Rogers Place — and put the Colorado Avalanche on the cusp of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Oilers reach West final, eager to add to storied legacy
May 27, 2022 GMT
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers have a rich history. Connor McDavid and Co. are eager to add another memorable chapter.
McDavid's overtime goal Thursday night in Calgary clinched the first playoff Battle of Alberta in 31 years as the Oilers defeated the rival Flames 5-4 to move onto the Western Conference final.
McDavid, Oilers eliminate Flames in OT, on to West finals
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl dominated the first playoff Battle of Alberta in 31 years.
It was fitting Edmonton's dynamic duo combined to end it.
McDavid scored at 5:03 of overtime and the Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Thursday night in Game 5 of the second-round playoff series and advanced to the Western Conference finals.
Oilers win 5-3, push Flames to the brink of elimination
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has suffered through plenty of heartache in Edmonton.
The top pick at the 2011 draft missed the playoffs in seven of his first eight NHL seasons as the Oilers repeatedly fumbled and bumbled their way through what must have felt like a never-ending rebuild.
Kane's 2nd-period hat trick helps Oilers top Flames 4-1
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Evander Kane was without a team in January after having his contract terminated. He's now a crucial member of Edmonton's playoff push.
Kane had three goals in a six-minute span in the second period, Leon Draisaitl set an NHL record with four assists in one playoff period and the Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 4-1 on Sunday night to take a 2-1 lead in their second-round playoff series.
Oilers rally past Flames 5-3 in Game 2 to even series
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The Edmonton Oilers got off to another slow start. This time, they bounced back quickly.
Zach Hyman scored the go-ahead short-handed goal midway through the third period and the Oilers rallied to beat the Calgary Flames 5-3 on Friday night, evening the second-round series at one game apiece.
Tkachuk scores 3, Flames beat Oilers 9-6 in Game 1
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The first Battle of Alberta in the playoffs in 31 years didn't disappoint.
The Calgary Flames got a hat trick from Matthew Tkachuk to outlast the Edmonton Oilers 9-6 and grab Game 1 of the second round series Wednesday night after a blistering game that saw the most goals in a postseason game in 29 years.

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In June of 1994 , I saw Chuck off at the airport for his flight to Virginia Beach where he was attending the Christian Broadcasting Network's annual Victory over Vietnam Conference. I thought for sure God had something to say to him to restore his vision for the ministry He'd birthed in him for Vietnam veterans.
But true to form, God had a different agenda. His plan in sending Chuck to CBN was to get me alone for a whole weekend so He could put His finger on some areas of sin in my life! He needed my full attention so He could begin to convict me on my heart motives.
I was feeling an overwhelming urge to pray. Prayer was my last resort these days. But that weekend, as I quietly spent time in prayer, the Lord took me back to July of 1991. I felt compelled to dig out that journal entry. As I reread the marching orders the Lord has given me, I felt a wave of conviction wash over me.
For the first time in 3 years, I was confronted with the strong feeling that I had been in complete disobedience by getting back into MLM. It was as clear as the inks scrawls in my journal. God had told me what he wanted me to do and I had not obeyed. I had gone off in another direction, just because it sounded good! I had assumed that, because I saw an open door, I should go through it. But the Lord was making it undeniably clear that just because that door was open did not mean He wanted me to walk through it!
The new high-tech communication business that we had jumped into seem to have all the ingredients that the other company lacked. But the Lord was showing me that motives, not good management and great products, were the issue at heart. To get started in the new business, distributors would have to spend anywhere from $1,500 to $5,000. We encouraged people to use their credit cards—to go into debt—to get their business going.
That weekend befor the Lord I was feeling stressed and anxious as I thought of the struggle we were having to rebuild or organizations with a new product and company. The new business was not growing as fast as it needed to in order to cover all the overhead of the office space where we had kept our training center. For the first time in three years I was unsure enough of myself to stop and listen to God. Immediately, he directed me to a book in the bookcase called Men's Manual: Financial Freedom by Bill Gothard. Thinking I'd find some suggestions for the problem of insufficient finances, I turned to the section of the book on financial freedom principles. The words I read pierced my heart.
Purpose number 2 jumped off the page at me.
If people used credit to get involved in our new business, they were bypassing God's caution sign. If the money wasn't available, that was His way of saying "No!" We were suggesting and even encouraging Christians to make it happen on their own without God's blessing or confirmation.
My heart was heavy with conviction as I continued to look through Bille Gothard's book. In the section on developing sales resistance, I found a definition that brought me godly sorrow.
That is exactly what we were doing in our business and in every sales business I'd ever been involved with! As the weight of what I had done began to press down on me, I felt so ashamed. The Lord did an instant replay of every advertisement I'd ever written for the radio ad campaigns. He reminded me of every script I'd ever written for the voicemail message people would hear when they called in for information. He took me back to the way I'd written the slideshow presentation and every other sales tool I had created. I saw those tactics in every promotional campaign I had ever done, even after I became a Christian. My conscience had been activated and I could no longer compromise or straddle the fence by being deceitful or dishonest.
But God wasn't done with me yet. He began to show me how I had been using my God given ability to inspire and motivate people for the wrong ends. I was using my gift to encourage people to the wrong end: to make money and build a successful business, rather than inspiring them to a closer walk with Jesus.
1 Gothard, Bill. Men's Manual, Volume 11 – Financial Freedom, (Oak Brook, IL: Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, 1983), pages 22-25.


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A friend of mine is at work and can't go on reddit and he wants to know what your favorite A7X song is.
Thank you for doing this AMA. Avenged Sevenfold has been my favorite band for a long time and Chapter Four has been my ringtone since like 2006
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A new directive that cracks down on illegal immigration could further stress immigration services and infrastructure in Houston, including detention centers, children's shelters and access to legal aid.
Immigration lawyers expect the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy to impose criminal charges on a much larger number of people crossing the border unlawfully for the first time.
They could serve sentences that range from 90 days to as long as 6 months. While waiting for their parents to serve their time, children of border crossers would be placed into special shelters – many of which are located in Houston.
"Houston has a large concentration of detention centers that take care of children," said Anne Chandler, executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center in Houston, which works with women asylum seekers. Chandler said close to a dozen shelters are located in Houston. They house hundreds of immigrant children.
Chandler said immigrant children who are separated from their parent can be younger than five years old and mothers, who are serving time, worry about where to find their kids.
"We find women, who are just trying to track down their children, who have been rendered to be an unaccompanied child and put into by force, without any legal process or representation, who have been taken from them and put into a federal system of foster care," said Chandler.
Legal professionals that work with undocumented immigrants also worry that separating families can make it harder to make a winning case for asylum.
"This will create just more challenges in a system that's already really stressed in a lot of ways," said Megan McKenna, a spokesperson for KIND, a group that helps provide legal representation for unaccompanied minors and refugee children in Houston and other cities nationwide.
She said often times children aren't told by their parents the exact reasons they fled their country, which can make it harder to win an asylum case.


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Developed for firms and regulators, the Behavioural Analytics System is validated by a community of leading financial institutions and through the traditional processes and timetables of regulatory scrutiny. Sybenetix is currently working with partners to scale its Behavioural Analytics Model using cloud infrastructure being developed for the granular data reporting required by MiFIDII. The company is also solving new regulatory challenges associated with the use of AI in financial services.
The Industry Sandbox could help accelerate Sybenetix's development process through a faster, more efficient digital collaboration framework that creates new standards for proactive conduct risk management while further reducing costs and risk for both firms and regulators.
Ultimately, the value proposition of the Sandbox for RegTech firms, financial institutions and regulators is its capacity to accelerate off- market testing to on-market use and scaling. The key is designing the right process and testing mechanisms within the Sandbox that all stakeholders can align around to validate new RegTech solutions. For example, defining a standardised set of KPIs for more effective regulatory outcomes of new solutions that link directly to the application of core technologies and business models. This should include an assessment of how new solutions and models reduce operational risk compared with legacy systems and models. For example, how systems scale with the speed, breadth, accuracy and transparency required under new regulations.
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Yellow instead of white! Fields that once had been white were now covered with golden glory, and the view for miles, as the sun shone, was one of entrancing beauty. At the back of the change of colour is a story which makes the heart of many beat with gladness, for it tells of the new birth-throes of a great nation.
In many parts of China, when the poppy-fields bloom, bright red and rich purple make the landscape appear as if it had been dipped in blood. In the north of the province of Yunnan, in South-west China, where the change of colour I am writing about has taken place, the red and purple poppies were rarely seen. They did not flourish in the local soil, and had been generally discarded in favour of the plants with the pure white flowers. The sight of a great plain covered with the white poppy in full bloom is one that can never be forgotten. To stand on the walls of a Chinese city and look out on a white plain was a privilege to be gained twice in the year – once when the winter snow fell and hid all the bareness of the fields and the dirt of the roads under its soft but cold garment, and again in the late spring when the much-prised opium crop was in full bloom. Then it might seem as though there had been a belated fall of snow, but as the sun shone with great power and the white picture did not melt away but rather got whiter and richer one soon realised that it was not snow but beautiful flowers that covered the fields. Year after year this white picture was the despair of those who were seeking the highest welfare of a great people.


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As Trump Blocks Refugees, Africans Fleeing Violence Make the Treacherous Trip to the U.S. through Mexico
December 13, 2017 | Molly O'Toole | Intercept
The hostel in Tapachula looked at first like any other border town flophouse. Dark back rooms with naked mattresses. Dust unspooling in the sunlit lobby. A bird cage under a dirty towel. A few tenants hung out over smartphones, skin slick in the thick air of southernmost Mexico. Then a young woman in a black hijab passed through.
"Salam alaikum," she said, exchanging greetings with a Somali student who'd folded himself onto a small bench in the lobby. Her long skirt disappeared around the corner.
The student chose the pseudonym Ahmed Ali Hassan, the Somali equivalent of anonymity, and kept his voice low. He was 24, and the hostel's other guests were mostly young African men like him.
Another Somali sat down next to Hassan, warning that my colleague and I could be spies. The month before, American voters had elected Donald Trump, who campaigned on suspicion of refugees and Somalis in particular. Now they had their own.
The Somali turned to me: "Do you know Sarah Palin?"
I said I didn't, and he got up, unimpressed. "Check your luck," he said over his shoulder. "She calls the shots now in Trump's White House."
"Maybe they are rich in the USA," an Eritrean interjected. "They can help us." Hassan shrugged.
Welcome to " Mama Africa," as the hostel has become known, thanks to the new clientele.
After serving Mexicans and Central Americans for years, the 24-room, $2.50-a-night hostel has reinvented itself in order to meet a surge of African migrants transiting Mexico. When I met Hassan there last December, most of the tenants hailed from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia. Last year, Mexican authorities recorded nearly 4,000 Africans entering the country, an almost 400 percent increase from 2014. This year, as of November, more than 1,800 Africans have arrived, including 84 Somalis. They are fleeing poverty, civil war, jihadi insurgency, and famine, and way stations in Mexico like Mama Africa are merely a pause along an unbelievable route to the most unlikely of destinations: the United States, under the new anti-immigrant regime of President Trump.
Trump's policies may be exacerbating the global refugee crisis and unwittingly bringing it to his doorstep.
Trump's latest travel ban – which the Supreme Court allowed to take effect last Monday – indefinitely bars most citizens from seven countries, including Somalia. And while refugees aren't subject to the ban, the administration is making it harder than ever to ask for a safe haven in the United States. After a total halt to refugee admissions, the Trump administration announced it would resume resettling them, but made 11 countries subject to additional scrutiny, again including Somalia. Trump cut the number of refugees the United States will accept this year to 45,000, a historic low.
The administration's cynical calculus is that it is less burdensome to "keep them over there." Yet Trump's policies may be exacerbating the global refugee crisis and unwittingly bringing it to his doorstep.
By slashing assistance to African countries with some of the largest refugee populations but stepping up counterterrorism strikes, Trump risks fueling the conflicts that compel people to migrate in the first place. And by cracking down on immigration, whether through travel bans or near-impossible requirements, he is simultaneously closing the few official avenues refugees have for resettlement. Like Hassan, many now believe their only chance at survival is to get themselves onto U.S. soil and claim asylum.
Bill Frelick, director at Human Rights Watch's refugee program, told me the administration's "short-sighted" approach "is going to be far more costly and potentially more destabilizing."
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
As the United States and Europe resort to increasingly draconian deterrents to keep out migrants, African nations hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees are beginning to push them out. Meanwhile, South and Central American countries maintain some of the most relaxed immigration requirements in the world. The combined effect has busted open this migration route through the Americas to the United States.
It's not without risk. When I met Hassan in Mama Africa, he walked us through his four-month exodus for hours, but declined to give his contact information. He did not want to be found again – not by me, not by immigration authorities, and not by those in Somalia who wanted him dead. Not when he'd made it this far, traversing 11 countries and entire continents. Not when only the last obstacle remained.
"At this time, Donald Trump is president – he hates all Somali people," Hassan told me matter-of-factly. "Because one Somali guy is terrorist, he doesn't represent all Somalis." Still, he was undeterred. "I have to reach, to make my dream come true."
African migrants arrive at the border between Guatemala and Mexico during the summer of 2016. Most migrants fly from Africa to Brazil or Ecuador then travel by foot, boat, and bus to the United States. Photo: Encarni Pindado
In Somalia, Hassan spent his mornings watching his family's small shop, and his afternoons studying project management at a nearby university. He described it as a "normal life," but it soon ran aground on what he wryly called Somalia's "special problem" – two wars. "One war, with the terrorists and the government, and the second war, by tribes and clans," he said.
Since the collapse of Somalia's government in Mogadishu in 1991, decades of sectarian conflict, armed militias, and inept governance have led to the label of " failed state." Constant outside meddling, in particular by the United States, has exacerbated the instability, according to Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center.
On November 3, the U.S. military bombed Islamic State fighters in Somalia for the first time, after a decade of counterterrorism strikes aimed at the militant group Shabab. Trump has loosened Obama-era restrictions to allow offensives in Somalia and greater risk of civilian casualties. But the head of U.S. Africa Command reportedly delayed flexing his new authorities due to militants mixing in with civilians displaced by famine. In October, attacks in Mogadishu attributed to Shabab killed some 400 people.
As for Hassan, he'd fallen in love with a girl he met in his family's shop, though she was from the largest tribe, and he was from the smallest. They eloped after her relatives rejected his marriage offer. They were forced to return when they ran out of money. Her brother broke his own hand beating her, and her relatives demanded Hassan's family hand him over.
He fled, and a week later, they killed his brother instead.
"My brother died to save me," Hassan said without looking up, tears falling into his hands. "I am responsible."
They may have killed Hassan, too, had he not known another way out: The migration route that winds up through the Western Hemisphere from South to North America. From Africa to Brazil, then Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala, to reach Mexico. Last stop, the U.S. border.
Those from the Horn of Africa, like Hassan, have paved this path of more than 27,000 miles through word-of-mouth, social media, and payment to smugglers. The route isn't new, but Mexican authorities have seen the number of migrants from Africa grow from a trickle to just under 10,000 over the past five years, with Somalis accounting for about a quarter. This year alone, Africans are on pace to top 2,000.
Mexican authorities have seen the number of migrants from Africa grow from a trickle to just under 10,000 over the past five years.
Those numbers may pale in comparison to the Mediterranean Sea crossing to Europe. But if they can only get there, Mexico may be the one place in the world right now where it's easier to be a refugee from Africa.
Instead of dutifully serving as the United States's last line of defense, this year, Mexican officials have provided 98 percent of African arrivals with " transit visas," or papers that permit them to continue north, compared to only 2 percent of nearly 70,000 Central American arrivals.
Legal obligations make it more difficult for U.S. immigration authorities to turn migrants out if they claim asylum upon reaching U.S. soil, and migrants know this. By last September, when Hassan needed to get out of Somalia, fast, he was well-aware of the big-haired American who called for a "shutdown of Muslims," but also that the surest way to make it to the United States was to get to Mexico and present himself at the border.
Bringing little more than the phone numbers of a few Somalis who'd made it, Hassan crossed into neighboring Kenya. There, he linked up with Somali middlemen who took his passport to secure documents for South America.
When Hassan boarded a flight from Kenya to Brazil, he'd heard the journey could be deadly, but he also knew he'd be with other Somalis. Relaxed visa requirements in South America have lured African migrants by the thousands, particularly to Brazil and Ecuador, whose standards are among the most lax.
The risks for any migrant making their way through the Americas are well-documented: Death. Extortion. Rape. But on top of these, African migrants share the acute vulnerabilities of lacking documentation, not speaking the language, and carrying more cash. By the time I met Hassan in Mexico in December, he had spent roughly $10,000.
Hassan and other migrants hid money in their socks, shoes, pockets, bags, underwear, and mouths. He still lost much of it after being robbed repeatedly.
In Peru, he said, taxis drivers promised to take them around immigration checkpoints, but instead held them up with knives. They then took them to the police – who charged $20 a person to let them continue.
"'Otherwise we will kill you,'" Hassan said the police told them.
African and Haitian migrants cross the river on the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Photo: Encarni Pindado
In Turbo, Colombia, around 40 men from a local gang showed up at his group's hotel. One Somali who could speak a little Spanish translated: "'Give them the money – they will shoot you now.'"
One man asked Hassan's size, eyeing his sneakers – where he was hiding $3,000. They were too big, so the man left them.
In the Darién Gap, the nearly 20,000-square-mile mass of jungle and swamp dividing continents and crossing Colombia and Panama, Hassan said he began to see bodies.
"I can't express some words what I saw there," he said.
Ditched by their guide, Hassan's group wandered lost for so long that his legs started swelling. When they at last reached a camp in Panama, authorities there had to cut his boots off.
Nicaragua, which has blocked migrants, was the closest Hassan came to dying. Smugglers herded a group of roughly 100 Indians, Pakistanis, Eritreans, and Somalis into a truck with no air. They'd paid about $1,200 a head.
The group tore two small holes in the side of the trailer, and took turns gasping for air. The drivers stopped only once, to tell their illicit cargo: "If they catch us for human trafficking, they will kill us."
Hours later, the doors flew open, and the drivers yelled at them to run toward the woods, and the Honduran border. But at least one Eritrean and Indian, Hassan said, hadn't made it.
He took a bus to Guatemala, then to the Suchiate River marking the border with Mexico. For a few dollars, countless people and palates of goods crisscross the international waters, guided by young men pushing long sticks through the mud like cheap gondoliers. Hassan crossed to Tapachula.
"They all believe [they are] going to die," Hassan said. "All of us, every one."
The details of Hassan's story couldn't be independently verified, but the outline aligns with what other migrants in Tapachula described to me, as well as many accounts collected by other journalists, human rights groups, and institutions, such as the United Nations.
"They all believe [they are] going to die," Hassan said of the journey. "All of us, every one."
Migrants wait at the Siglo XXI immigration detention center in Tapachula, Mexico. Most of them have come from Brazil or Ecuador, in a long and very dangerous journey that they hope will end in the United States. Photo: Encarni Pindado
Siglo XXI, Latin America's largest detention facility, is located blocks away from Mama Africa.
There, immigration authorities direct migrants to form two lines: one for Central Americans and one for everybody else. When I visited last December, that was mainly Cubans, Haitians, and Africans.
A Cuban couple sweated next to a stack of hard suitcases, while young Somali and Cameroonian men perched on planters, some sporting gold watches and white sneakers. Older Haitian men fiddled on cheap phones.
The scene underscored the complexities of a mass migration that many American politicians still paint as simply desperate Mexicans. While African migrants number far fewer than the Central Americans they journey alongside to the United States, their ranks have, in fact, grown far faster.
Mexico has had to adapt, Mark Manly, the U.N. refugee agency representative in Mexico, told me.
"The country is adjusting to the reality that many of the people arriving are refugees," he said, "not all migrants in transit."
"The country is adjusting to the reality that many of the people arriving are refugees, not all migrants in transit."
When the couple hundred Africans showing up in Chiapas a decade ago grew to thousands, Mexican authorities had few diplomatic ties to their countries, and few resources to deport them back. So they began providing transit visas that gave them 20 days to get to the border – itself a potentially treacherous journey.
Word of this fast-track to the United States has spread and may be drawing more.
"We get migrants of all colors – blue, green," joked Ignacio Alejandro Vila Chávez, a Mexican government lawyer representing migrants in Chiapas, who's trained at U.S. Justice Department seminars. He said the African influx is one of the most significant changes he's witnessed.
Bertrand Chofong, one of a group of three stylish Cameroonian migrants outside Siglo XXI, told me, "If I didn't leave my country, I would be dead by now."
Cameroonian security forces detained the 21-year-old nursing student amid deadly unrest between minority English speakers and a French-speaking majority. Upon release, he fled immediately to South Africa. From there, his path aligned exactly with Hassan's.
Chofong was hoping to join his mother in Maryland. After he and his companions got transit visas from Siglo XXI, they'd take a bus straight to Tijuana. Smugglers had given them directions on how to get the rest of the way North.
Migrants wait at Siglo XXI in Tapachula. They will be spending few days in detention while Mexican authorities approve their exit permit to leave the country, which will allow them to travel legally to the northern border with the United States. Photo: Encarni Pindado
Even if Africans like Hassan or Chofong to make it to the border, what happens next is unclear. While Mexico City will not necessarily deport them, Washington would certainly like to.
According to an analysis of the latest Homeland Security data, from January to September, immigration authorities have approved affirmative asylum requests 20 percent less on average compared to the Obama administration's final year.
In fiscal year 2017, U.S. Border Patrol deemed 6,728 Africans at ports of entry, including 187 Somalis, "inadmissible," refusing them admission to the country. The administration also deported more than 521 Somalis to Mogadishu, compared to 198 in fiscal year 2016. The Somali ambassador to the United States has protested this, saying it is still too dangerous, while some advocates have expressed concerns that Somali asylum-seekers are being coerced into signing letters saying they wish to go back.
U.S. border authorities are trying to deter asylum claims by requiring would-be refugees to wait in Mexico, said Frelick of Human Rights Watch.
"Which you would assume would require the consent of the Mexican government," Frelick said, continuing, "This is not a cozy relationship at the moment."
Mark Yarnell, a liaison to the U.N. and senior advocate at Refugees International, told me that "if safe and legal pathways aren't there, [refugees] are going to link up with smugglers and take riskier options, and more people are going to die."
Trump argues refugees should return or just stay home. But even members of his own cabinet and party warn that relying on defense alone without diplomacy and development will make the U.S. less safe.
The new administration has met opposition to its early proposals to gut the budget for foreign aid and the State Department, which would decimate Africa operations. In September, the Republican-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee soundly rejected the plan.
At the same time, Trump's loosening of the military's rules of engagement in Africa has come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of American troop deaths in Somalia, Niger, and Mali.
Yarnell said he's concerned by the administration's blind faith in firepower.
"With Somalia, as with a lot of these places, the military isn't a panacea."
"With Somalia, as with a lot of these places," he said, "the military isn't a panacea."
Bruton, of the Atlantic Council, said the Trump administration seems to be spearheading a global "militarization" of refugee policy, with other countries deciding to follow his dogma. Since Trump's election, Kenya, for example, has renewed its threats to shutter the world's largest refugee camp where Somalis have lived for decades, and vowed to appeal a February court decision blocking the move. In doing so, Kenyan officials point to the United States's and Europe's lead and demand more money for security.
"Trump's solution seems to be 'build a wall,'" Frelick told me. "But that also telegraphs to Somalia's neighbors, and Syria's neighbors, and Afghanistan's neighbors: 'We're building our wall and pushing people back; you can build your wall, and do the same thing.'"
As for Hassan, I do not know whether he made it to his American dream. He hoped to join family in New York after turning himself in once he'd crossed the border.
But what his already epic journey makes clear is that Trump's ad hoc immigration and national security strategy is proving counterproductive.
Many migrants bring with them indomitable resilience, born of the desperation that prompts a 24-year-old Somali student to defy an American president and seek out a new home more than 20,000 miles away.
In Mama Africa, after Hassan recounted his exodus across the world in minute detail, I remarked stupidly on his photographic memory.
"I'll never, ever forget this journey," he told me quietly. The threats he survived had cemented every detail in his mind, along with a bleak lesson: "There is no humanity."
The International Women's Media Foundation supported this project as part of the Adelante Latin America Reporting Initiative.
Molly O'Toole
Molly O'Toole is a freelance international correspondent and an Investigative Reporters and Editors fellow. She contributes to The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, The Intercept, The New Republic,… Read More.
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Musical Décimas of Love & Lost Love Camastra, Caterina. Amapolas. Tacámbaro: Taller Martín Pescador, 2020. Small 4to (26 cm, 10.25"). 40 pp.
• Dra. Camastra was born in Brescia and educated in Italy, England, and Mexico, where she now lives and works as a translator, professor, researcher, and poet. The present work, written in décimas, concerns love and loss of love. In his prologue to these poems, Alexis Díaz-Pimienta writes "He aquí, entonces, un poemario-florilegio" (p. 9) and that Camastra has a "manera tan musical de hablar el español que tiene, ese su castellano italianizado, o su italiano mexicanizado, me es imposible leer sus verso sin oírla respirar, o sentirla reír incluso entre las líneas." And David Huerta also is very enthusiastic: "¡He aquí a una italiana, Caterina Camastra, que escribe poemas en español y lo hace con maestría, y con brillo! El libro Amapolas es una feliz resurrección del siglo XVI con muchas gotas mexicanas de sabores populares, jaranas y ritmos bailables." He summarizes by saying that she is "Una poeta diestra en las modulaciones populares y cultas, unidas en el vaso de una artista consumada."
The work is printed in an edition of only 100 copies: Florencio Ramírez was the compositor and Juan Pascoe and Martín Urbina were the printers at Pascoe's Taller Martín Pescador. The poems are set in 16 point Bembo with the prologue in 12 point Bembo, cast by Bradley Hutchinson in Austin; the heavy, rich paper is Tamayo De Ponte and the four vignettes are renderings of ornaments used in colonial Mexican books in the period 1566 to 1605.
• Bound in stiff textured charcoal paper wrappers and sewn on vellum strips in a colonial Mexican–style binding. New. (41409)
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The Broadway (of New Haven) Broadsides — Scarce Small Press Items Capet, Uther [pseud. of Arthur Head]. [20 pieces from the Profile Press.] An adventure achieved by one, Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, about the year 1430 A.D. being at that time thirteen years old. New Haven: The Profile Press, 1930. 8vo (22 cm, 8.65"). [4] ff. (2 copies of the above). [with (all following the same author's, unless specified; all New Haven: The Profile Press, 1930)] The American scene. 8vo (25 cm, 9.9"). [4] ff. [and] Apologia pro arte poetica sua. 8vo (25 cm, 9.9"). [4] ff. [and] B., R.T. The ballad of Tuttle's. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.65"). [1] f., fold. [and] The color: A retelling of some well-known tales of the American Negro. 16mo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). [4] ff. [and] Colourations: Four sonnets. 16mo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). [4] ff. [and] Ex: Four characters of mooted fame with prologue & epilogue. 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.75"). [4] ff. [and] Field, Eugene. Little Willie. Folio (32 cm, 12.6"). [1] f. [and] Four English stories drawn from contemporary sources. 8vo (25 cm, 9.9"). [2], 4, [2] pp. [and] Four stories from the Jewish-American. 16mo (22 cm, 8.65"). [2], 4, [2] pp. [and] Four stories from the modern American. 16mo (22 cm, 8.65"). [2], 4, [2] pp. [and] Four stories from the old Spanish. 16mo (22 cm, 8.65"). [2], 4, [2] pp. [and] Hot from Hollywood. 8vo (25 cm, 9.9"). [4] ff. [and] Ode in imitation of Horace. 8vo (24.6 cm, 9.7"). [1] f., fold. [and] On the menstrual phase of literature and art. 16mo (20.4 cm, 8"). [1] f., fold. [and] Pullman recreations. 16mo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). [2], 4, [2] pp. [and] Stenographic sallies. 16mo (21.5 cm, 8.4"). [2], 4, [2] pp. [and] A Western fairy tale. Folio (32 cm, 12.65"). [1] f. (2 copies).
• Collection of largely humorous verse and prose pieces in broadsides and small pamphlets, printed for the author and "issued at odd intervals" from Head's Bookshop on Broadway in New Haven. These items were issued in limited editions that ranged from 25 to 110 copies; An Adventure is represented here by numbered copies 15 and 44 of 50 printed and signed by "Capet," while Apologia is numbered copy 89 of 110 printed and signed. Many of the items reflect particular early 20th-century sensibilities — pretty blonde stenographers are the subject of "new position" jokes, the "American Negro" tales involve foolishness and philandering (and the word "coon"), a blustering Hollywood director thinks "Hunchback of Notre Dame" is a college play about a football hero. On the other hand, An Adventure is a Gothic fantasia about a young Malatesta's brush with the bloody ending of the tale of Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, while Colourations comprises four wholly serious sonnets.
In a more serious vein, Head (1887–1963) was the author of Antiquities of Yale and the New Yale Guide, as well as a poet and a patron and supporter of both the Brick Row Book Shop and the Yale University Library. Several of the items here make Yale references, like the barroom ghosts who "puffed at their pipes and their stogies / And pulled at their Phantoms of Ale, / Recalling the things that were Bogies / When they were assembled at Yale"; Ex is specifically about four different gentlemen expelled from Yale for reasons including bad grades, vandalism, and bawdiness.
• Folded as issued. 10 of the pamphlets with small inscription "M. Clark" or "Clark" pencilled on front wrapper. Apologia with two pencilled corrections. Upper edges of Hot from Hollywood chewed. Minor age-toning, occasional small spots and edge nicks. Overall a clean, crisp collection of these uncommon pieces. (36453)
Chromolithographed Illustrations by Eleanor Vere Boyle Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm; Sarah Austin, transl.; Eleanor Vere Boyle, illus. The story without an end. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. 4to (25.8 cm, 10.15"). Frontis., vi, [2], 40 pp.; 15 col. plts., illus.
• Based on the original German by Carové, Austin's version of this idyllic children's story is decorated with a frontispiece, 15 chromolithographed plates and additional in-text illustrations done from designs by "E.V.B." This was acclaimed Victorian fairytale artist Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916), whose otherworldly, Pre-Raphaelite–influenced illustrations, particularly the color-printed plates, beautifully reflect the text's ethereal meditations on the peace and joy to be found in the natural world by imaginative observers. An 1868 edition was the first appearance of this popular story featuring Boyle's artwork, with the present example being its fourth printing.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, front cover with a stunning gilt- and black-stamped dragonfly, spiderweb, ivy, and butterfly design. All edges gilt. Original guard leaves present.
• Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 108; Osborne Collection, pp. 329/30 (both for first ed.). Bound as above; spine sunned and worn, sides with small areas of light discoloration, corners rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked gift inscription to Muriel. A very few instances of small, faint spots or smudges, pages and plates overall clean and pleasing. Intact copies with all plates present in unmodified original bindings are now uncommon. (40768)
A Thoughtfully Cautious Gift Cavendish, George; Samuel Weller Singer, ed. The life of Cardinal Wolsey ... Metrical visions, from the original autograph manuscript. Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1825. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.125"). 2 vols. I: [5], x–xxvii, [5], 344 pp. (lacking half-title); 6 plts. II: lxxii, 304 pp.; 3 plts.
• Chiswick Press edition of what some consider to be the first major English biography along with Cavendish's verse tragedies, here with supplementary material including illustrative letters and documents; a dissertation on the true author of the Life by Reverend Joseph Hunter; and "Extracts from the life of . . . Queen Anne Boleigne, by George Wyatt" with a series of letters about her. Elizabethan scholar Singer (1783–1858), who edited these texts, also owned a bookshop, wrote a history of playing cards, and served as the librarian to the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street. The volume is illustrated with nine plates of portraits, facsimiles, and scenes from the cardinal's life.
Evidence of Readership: A past reader has added several lengthy marginal notes as well as a few smaller ones in pencil in both volumes, usually in relation to women mentioned in the text.
Provenance: An armorial bookplate of Samuel Edward Herrick with the motto "virtus omnia nobilitat" appears on the front pastedown of both volumes with the inked note "Gift of Jno. M. Fiske Xmas 1892" at the bottom (Fiske and the Rev. Herrick were both members of the City Missionary Society of Boston); a one-page letter from Fiske to a Mr. Doer written on Boston Custom House Stationary and tipped into the first volume notes, if he already owns the set, "I have the assurance of friend Bartlett of Hornhill that he will exchange it for something not already on your shelves." Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.
• NSTC 2C12319. On Cavendish & Singer, see: DNB (online). Half red roan in imitation of morocco and Papier Tourniquet paper–covered boards, spines lettered and compartments stamped in gilt, overprinted marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut; gently rubbed, hinges (inside) starting to crack. Light age-toning with the very occasional stain, light foxing or offsetting around plates. Provenance and readership indicia as above, some pencilled notes very faint. A nice edition of an influential work. (39444)
Star-Crossed Italian Lovers — Peregrino & Genevera Caviceo, Jacopo. Il peregrino. Vinegia: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. 8vo (15 cm, 5.9"). [16] pp., 271, [1 (blank)] ff.; illus.
• "Nuovamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto, et alla sua pristina integrita ridotto": an uncommon early edition of Caviceo's best-selling, often translated, and widely influential romance. The author had a complicated life which included dropping out of law school shortly before he could be expelled, becoming a court historian and diplomat in Parma, being banished from that city for seducing a nun (and possibly more than one), voyaging in the Middle East and India, and embroiling himself in various political intrigues before working his way to the post of Vicar General in cities including Rimini, Ravenna, and Florence. His classically inspired novel, first published in 1508 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia, is a romance in which Peregrino tells the ghost of Boccaccio all about his globe-spanning quest to satisfy his passion for the fair Genevera — with the plot incorporating the author's own travel experiences.
In addition to the woodcut architectural border on the title-page (previously used in the printer's 1536 edition of Boccaccio's Laberinto), the text is decorated with one large and two small woodcut illustrations, the large cut showing our lovelorn hero tormented by two satyrs playing fantastical string and wind instruments, under the banner "Ancora spero solver me."
WorldCat locates only three U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.
• Adams C1190; EDIT 16 CNCE 71312; Brunet, I, 1701; Index aurel. 134.670. 19th-century half calf over marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped olive morocco title-label and gilt-tooled bands, all page edges speckled in brown; binding rubbed and worn, joints cracked but holding. First gathering very possibly supplied from a different copy. Front pastedown with two older cataloguing slips affixed; front free endpaper and (tipped-in) fly-leaf with later inked annotations in Latin and Italian. Occasional small spots of foxing and ink staining; a limited circle of light waterstain(?) to last leaf; a very few small early inked marks of emphasis in margins. A solid, eminently readable copy of an important, readable, and uncommon early prose romanzo d'amore. (37524)
Adventures of an Unfortunate Spaniard Céspedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de. Poema tragico del español Gerardo, y desengaño del amor lascivo. Primera, y segunda parte. Madrid: Don Pedro Marin, 1788. 4to (20.8 cm, 8.4"). [4], 447, [1] pp.
• A popular, oft-translated and much reprinted picaresque novel, from the pen of a Spanish Golden Age novelist and historian. It tells the story of the protagonist's desperate love for four women! John Fletcher used the work as source material for both The Spanish Curate and The Maid in the Mill. This is a revised edition, following the first of 1615; it is not widely held in U.S. institutions.
• Brunet, I, 1756; Palau 54187. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled bands; binding lightly scuffed (most notably at spine), spine with tiny pinholes, front joint just starting from head. Front pastedown with attractive small ticket of a prominent Madrid bookseller. Pages generally lightly age-toned with scattered faint spotting; some leaves browned. (29248)
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The Development of a Hacienda in the YUCATAN — 1626–1866 (Chalmuch Hacienda, Yucatan, Mexico). Manuscript cahiers on paper of land transfers and inventories, in MAYA and Spanish. Chalmuch, Merida, elsewhere in Yucatan: 1626–1866. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). 132 ff. (14 blank).
• Law suits between Yucatan hacienda owners — ONE A WOMAN — and between hacienda owners and Indians; estate inventories and land transfers (three in Maya); materials showing usefully characteristic environmental effects — from the early 17th century and continuing through the middle of the 19th, these documents chronicle the development of the Chalmuch hacienda, situated approximately 12 kilometers west of the center of Merida.
In the Yucatan — for geographic, geologic. ecologic, and economic reasons, particularly the quality of the soil and the lack of water for irrigation — haciendas had a later appearance than in other parts of Mexico, especially in the center and north, where their development began in the decade after the fall of the Aztec Empire. It was not until the 17th century that haciendas began to be established in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The earliest document in these five sewn-files is dated 18 May 1626 and concerns the settlement of a law suit between Bernardo de Sosa Velazquez and the Indians of the towns of Santiago, Cauqall, and Vac regarding unused lands and hills. The suit was settled in favor of Sosa with the provisos that he occupy the lands, build on and populate them, and bring in cattle within one year. The addition of new land to this original sitio is the substance of the remaining documents. Among them are two estate inventories and three documents of the first third of the 18th century in Maya (land transfers).
In the 1850s and '60s there was a land dispute between Doña Pastora Castillo, owner of the Oxcun hacienda, and Bernardo Cano, owner of the Chalmuch hacienda (represented by Sr. José Vicente Solís, his agent), concerning the need for a survey of boundaries. The dispute dragged on and in 1866, during the attempted reforms of Maximilian's Empire, these documents were presented before the state's Land Inspection Section and were certified by the Chief of Inspection with his stamp. The Land Inspection Section was responsible for the preparation and revision of plans, the comparison of land documents, and the measurement of land held by each hacienda, as well as certification of location, boundaries, and owners.
Provenance: From the private archive of the Chalmuch hacienda.
Documents such as these showing the growth and development of haciendas in the central part of Mexico are fairly common but extremely uncommon for the Yucatan. Similarly colonial-era documents in Nahuatl are fairly commonly available in the marketplace but comparable ones in Maya are rare. This is the first gathering of land documents for the Yucatan and the first manuscripts in Maya that PRB&M has had in its decades of dealing in Mexican colonial-era manuscripts — see images below for the latter.
Manuscripts from the Yucatan are notorious for having suffered environmental and ecological damage: damp and insect problems. These are no exception, but as such they are excellent for teaching purposes as well as traditional research. One cahier has extensive worm/insect damage, another has faded ink from exposure to long-term humidity, and others are just fine. Here is the opportunity to show (and for students to practice) how to use light sources of various wave-lengths for making faded writing jump off the page and how to carefully interleave a document with thin Mylar sheets to save leaves from further damage during reading and page-turning.
(We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the state archive of the Yucatan in explaining the significance of the stamps of the Land Inspection Section that appear in some of the documents. It is good to be assured that they are indication of private, not government, ownership.)
• Each cahier is housed in a Mylar sleeve and the five are contained in a blue cloth clamshell box. Condition is extremely variable: as above, one cahier has extensive worm/insect damage, another has faded ink, and others are just fine. Stamps are present as mentioned above. A rare surviving compilation and one that is instructive from multiple perspectives. (40308)
A Southern Hero Enters the "Brawl with Boston" — Illustrated by CHRISTY
Girl Heroes, Prominent! Chambers, Robert W. The maid-at-arms. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. Frontis., vi, [6], 342, [6] pp.; 7 plts.
• First edition of this novel from the "Cardigan" series, set in New York state during the American Revolution and written by an author best known for his important supernatural work The King in Yellow. The plot here stars George Ormond, a Southerner of good family; it also features a character named Catrine Montour, based in part on the half-French, half-Native American "Queen" Catherine Montour (1710–1804), while the climactic rescue involves two maidens riding to the aid of an officer captured by Senecas. The eight halftone plates were done by Howard Chandler Christy, and the belles are much in the style of his famed Christy Girls.
This is the genuine first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover with Art Nouveau water lily design and gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title.
• Binding as above, minor rubbing at extremities. Front free endpaper with pencilled Christmas gift inscription dated 1902; back free endpaper with rubber-stamped numeral (no other markings). Pages and plates clean. A very nice copy. (28585)
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Legal Age for Marrying Charles IV, King of Spain. Begins: Don Carlos ... Con fecha de diez de Abril de este año he tenido a bien expedir mi Real Decreto del tenor siguiente." [Madrid: No publisher/printer, 1803]. Folio. [4] pp. (last blank).
• Clarification of an earlier royal decree concerning legal marriage age for "españoles" outside of Spain (and who were not orphans) was required and obtained from the courts. Now the king orders local officials in the Spanish Empire to obey and publish the original decree with its amendments.
Signed by the crown with a wooden stamp, "Yo el Rey."
This copy sent to Santiago, Chile, and docketed there.
• Removed from a nonce volume. Clean and untattered. (25817)
Return to Your Homes, Fallen Women (Cheap Repository). Onesimus; or, the run-away servant converted. A true story. London: Sold by J. Marshall, R. White, & S. Hazard, [1796]. 12mo (17.7 cm, 6.96"). 16 pp.
• "Shewing what a wonderful Improvement in his Condition ONESIMUS experienced after he became a Christian": A chapbook version of the New Testament tale, from the Cheap Repository's "Sunday Reading" series. After the main story comes an exposition on the moral, aimed at those who have gotten themselves into bad ways of life — in particular, "those unhappy women, who . . . have run away from their proper home . . . and who are now ruined in their character, who are also plunged by their growing necessities into a life of open and allowed sin, and are perishing both as to body and soul" (p. 11).
The title-page features a woodcut vignette of Paul, chained in the dungeon, handing Onesimus the letter to deliver to his master Philemon. This printing is uncommon, with a search of WorldCat locating only a handful of U.S. institutions reporting actual hard copy holdings.
Provenance: From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• ESTC T48869. Removed from a nonce volume, title-page with early inked numeral in upper outer corner and pencilled publication date annotation in lower margin. Pages clean. (41156)
Scarce 19th-Century Massachusetts Women's Aid Cookbook Church of Christ (Millis, MA). Church Aid Society. The Millis cook book, a collection of tested receipts, contributed by the ladies of Millis. West Medway, MA: H.A. Bullard, 1894. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 100 pp.
• First edition: Early New England example of the charitable fundraiser cookbook genre, assembled by the Church Aid Society of the Church of Christ of Millis, MA, with the wrappers bearing an engraved illustration of the church building and a horse and buggy out front; the usual array of local advertisements are present, along with a laid-in newspaper clipping on "Pickles that Will Add a Tang to Next Winter's Meals." Pencilled annotations to the present copy include a list of ingredients for what appears to be a type of mince pie featuring apples, beef, and "all kinds spice"; a note on baking time for one recipe; and an addition of 2 lbs. sugar to a cucumber pickle recipe.
WorldCat reports no institutional holdings of this first edition. Of the second edition (1895), WorldCat locates only one copy (at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center!).
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana; not in Cook, America's Charitable Cooks. Original printed paper wrappers as above; wrappers separated and much chipped (though not into cover vignette), with old cellophane tape repairs. Pages age-toned and slightly brittle, with some edges chipped or with short tears, some corners dog-eared. Annotations as above. Worn; still, an uncommon and evocative item. (38108)
Pickering BCP Facsimile — Large & Lavish Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common prayer: King James, anno 1604, commonly called the Hampton Court Book. London: William Pickering (pr. by Charles Whittingham), 1844. Folio (35.1 cm, 13.8"). [260] pp.
• Pickering's beautiful type facsimile of Robert Barker's 1604 edition — a.k.a. the Hampton Court Book — here in a Rivière binding. Charles Whittingham printed the work on handmade paper in black-letter type for Pickering, who, inspired by the printing of Aldus Manutius, published in 1844 a series of six such facsimiles of important editions of the Book of Common Prayer, each of which was illustrated with wood-engraved initials and ornaments done by Mary Byfield, and limited to only 350 copies printed on paper (with another two on vellum). The original title-pages were reproduced for each in red and black, and in the case of the present example, the almanac pages likewise printed in red and black. Each book in this homage to important editions of the BCP was an outstanding example of the Victorian-era Gothic design movement, and Kelly notes that these volumes are "considered to be among the finest work of Whittingham."
Binding: Signed 19th-century dark brown morocco framed and panelled in single gilt and double blind fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, surrounding a central arabesque medallion; spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis decorations in compartments, and gilt-stamped publication information. All edges gilt. Front lower turn-in stamped by Rivière.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with small stamp of B[asil] M. Pickering, who took over the business after his father's death; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.
• Brunet, I, 1108; Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1844:29; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1844.4; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 85; McLean, Victorian Book Design, 13; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 222. Bound as above, joints and extremities showing moderate rubbing. Scattered spots of faint to mild foxing, pages generally clean and fresh. (39585)
An Acclaimed "Elizabethan" Pickering Production Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland together with the psalter or psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. London: William Pickering, 1853. 12mo (18.4 cm, 7.25"). [720] pp.; illus.
• Accessible, beautiful Pickering edition of the BCP, inspired by the 1569 edition of A Book of Christian Prayers, a.k.a. "Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book." Mary Byfield engraved this version of the frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth, as well as the woodcut borders, done after designs by Dürer, Holbein, and others; Kelly notes that this volume is considered Byfield's masterpiece. The printing was elegantly accomplished by Charles Whittingham, predominantly in a clear and legible yet historic-feeling roman with blackletter captions in the borders.
Binding: Publisher's red morocco, covers with ornate blind-stamped frame, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-tooled compartment decorations, board edges with gilt roll, turn-ins with blind roll. All edges gilt and gauffered. Front free endpaper stamped "Bound by J. Wright."
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of John Turner Ettlinger. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.
• Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1853:22; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1853.8; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), pp. 32 & 86. Bound as above; spine slightly darkened, rubbing to joints and edges nicely refurbished. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with Ettlinger's pencilled inscription. Pages very faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. A solid, satisfactory copy of this attractive and important edition. (40309)
Capturing an Age One Biography at a Time [Clarke]. The Georgian era: Memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth. London: Vizetelly, Branston, & Co., 1832–34. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.65"). 4 vols. I: Frontis., 582 pp.; 12 plts. II: Frontis., [2], 588 pp. III: Frontis., [2], 588 pp. IV: Frontis., 588 pp.
• First edition: Concise yet entertainingly anecdote-laden biographies recounting the accomplishments and characters (foibles and all) of the most prominent figures of the age: nobles, churchmen, politicians, dissenters, military and naval officers, jurists, physicians, voyagers and travelers, scientists, writers, economists, architects, artists and musicians, etc. All the expectable princesses, duchesses, and countesses are present, along with a handful of women represented in other categories — the preponderance falling under the "Vocal Performers" and "Actors" headings.
The first volume is illustrated with 12 plates each offering four rows of small portraits, some intriguingly expressive; each volume opens with an engraved frontispiece portrait of a royal George.
• NSTC 2C23867. Recent textured maroon cloth, spines with gilt-stamped black leather title and volume labels; title-pages institutionally pressure- (not rubber-) stamped. Scattered light spots of staining, pages generally clean; first few leaves of voI. II with outer margins chipped. A hefty, substantive evocation of Georgian life and times. (30012)
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From Soups to Sundries — Plus SHAKESPEARE et al. Congregational Church (Lenox, MA). Ladies. Cook book compiled by the ladies of the Congregational Church, Lenox, Mass. Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Publishing Co., 1897. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.15"). 56 pp.
• SCARCE fundraising cookbook from a Massachusetts church group: 31 pages of recipes, each section opening with a food-related literary quotation, followed by several pages of local advertisements and blank leaves for adding recipes (unused here). Each printed recipe is attributed. One handwritten sheet with recipes for lemon pie, sponge cake, "Pork Cake," and piccalilli (here labeled "Picolillia," and described as "capital") is laid in.
WorldCat finds no institutional holdings of this charitable publication.
• Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, 116. Publisher's tan cloth–covered boards, front cover with decorative title stamped in olive; cloth dust-soiled and showing mild bubbling, with extremities rubbed. A few corners dog-eared. Occasional small pencil marks; scattered spots of staining. An uncommon item, showing only minimal kitchen wear. (38307)
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"I am anxious you should do a writing portrait . . . " Cook, Eliza. A.L.s. ("Eliza") to "My dear Sec." London: 6 June 1860. 12mo (7.25" x. 4.5"). 1 p.
• Cook (1818–89) was a Chartist poet, author, and proponent of political and sexual freedom for women. She writes, "I am again here for a few days . . . and want to know if you can receive me on Friday about eleven. I am anxious you should do a writing portrait to see which will afford you most satisfaction. I will bring the proofs of the sonnet with me."
Provenance: Residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop (1930–79), via the son of Michael Papantonio (2009).
• Very good condition. Tipped onto a slightly larger sheet. With the integral blank. (25726)
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A Really Scarce Book & an Author Who is an Enigma Corke, Miss. 'What shall we do with them?' A history of the London and Brighton convalescent home. London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1882. 12mo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., vii, [1 blank], 157, [1] pp.
• This rare history of the still-extant London and Brighton convalescent home was clearly written as a fund raising publication: "It is hoped that the profits of the sale of this volume will considerably augment the Free Fund of the Crescent House" (title-page). The convalescent home was, and still is. for elderly and needy women; a previous fundraising endeavor for the purchase of the "Crescent House" on the Marine Parade, in Brighton, had been heavily subscribed and accumulated over GBP4,500, as attested to by the published list at the rear of this volume.
Miss Corke's identity remains a mystery despite two of her other publications being noted on the title-page; searches for those titles found no copies listed in WorldCat or COPAC.
The present work is also not listed in WorldCat, and via COPAC we find only one copy — at the Bodleian.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
• NSTC 0946400. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped on front cover with ferns in black and author and title in gilt; binding darkened and rubbed, slightly cocked. Occasional light foxing; oil-like stain in lower area of the final 20 leaves. An interesting late-Victorian women's social and medical work. (39657)
A Woman DEAD
Yet "Living" Cox, Samuel Hanson. The dead are the living. A sermon preached on Lord's day afternoon, October 1, 1843, on occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Mary L., the wife of the Rev. Ward Stafford, A.M.[,] of this city. New-York: John F. Trow & Co., Printers, 1843. 8vo. 30 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• A sermon and eulogy on the death of Mary Stafford "but a few years a wife . . . a disciple of Jesus Christ . . . an instructoress of youth."
• Good. Ex-historical society copy (rubber-stamps, "New Jersey Historical Society," on front cover and title-page). Pencil marks to front cover. Some chipping to front cover and first page. (290)
Too Vicious & Offensive for its Time Crane, Stephen. Maggie a girl of the streets. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1974. 8vo. 105, [3] pp.; 6 plts.
• "First proper publication" of Crane's original unexpurgated, unrevised text, here with an introduction by Shirley Ann Grau and six full-page gravures printed by Photogravure and Color Company from copper etchings by Sigmund Abeles. The volume was designed by Abe Lerner and printed by A. Colish in Bell and Franklin Gothic on Curtis rag paper, and bound by Tapley-Rutter in quarter black goat and gray striped buckram.
This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator; the appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 479; BAL 4068; Williams & Starrett 1. Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; binding very clean and fresh, wrapper also, slipcase showing very minor shelfwear only. A very nice copy. (31258)
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"Just 25 Yards of Sail to Carry TWO People Across the ATLANTIC OCEAN!" Crapo, Thomas. Strange, but true. Life and adventures of Captain Thomas Crapo and wife. New Bedford: [self-published] Capt. Thomas Crapo, 1893 [but, really, 1899 or later]. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). 151, [1] pp.; illus.
• A whaler's account of his life and times, culminating with the voyage he and his wife made from New Bedford, MA, to Penzance, England. Joanna Crapo was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a dory boat, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This is an early reissue of the first edition, with a postscript written by Mrs. Crapo sometime after the captain's death in 1899.
• Forster 32; Toy 156. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities slightly rubbed, spine with small spots of discoloration. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean; a nice copy. (33301)
Years & Years' Worth of Self-Sacrifice — On Both the Man's & the Woman's Part Crawford, F. Marion. A rose of yesterday. New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1897. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [4], 218, [10 (adv.)] pp.
• A seemingly impossible romance between two mature individuals, one unhappily married; Crawford, a prolific and best-selling author, includes extended meditations on divorce and on women's rights, with the latter focusing on the perceived undesirability of trading the right to vote for the privilege of being supported by a man. This is an early reissue, marked "tenth thousand," of the first edition of the same year.
Binding: Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, front cover stamped with gilt rose and ribbon design, spine with similar motifs; front cover signed "G.W.E." — George Wharton Edwards.
• BAL 4200. Binding as above, gently faded overall, slightly cocked, edges and extremities rubbed. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. A few scattered faint spots, pages overall clean. (35835)
Ephemeral MIMEOGRAPHED DeMolay Cookbook DeMolay Mothers' Club. Success is automatic with a DeMolay Mother's Club cook book. [U.S.: ca. 1950?]. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [26] ff.
• Recipes from women associated with the DeMolay fraternal organization, founded in Kansas City in 1919. This small-scale, lovingly self-produced mimeographed booklet — presumably a fundraising effort — opens with Spiced Peach Salad Molds (leading a pack of other gelatin-based salads and molds), and includes Fisherman's Pie (made of tuna fish, hard-boiled eggs, a can of peas, and a can of mushroom soup topped with mashed potatoes), along with a recipe for oven-fried chicken to serve 50 and a range of desserts including Maple Pecan Chiffon Pie, a variation on the classic Ritz [Cracker] Pie, and Busy-Day Cake with Lazy Daisy Frosting. The cover, although now faded, appears to have borne a hand-drawn design, and there is no publication information provided; however, many of the recipes were contributed by Hilda Stone, Priscilla Carroll, Virginia Sanborn, Arlene Curtis, Doris Crouse, and Alma VanHorn.
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Front wrapper says "Mother's Club," but all online references to the organization give either "Mothers' Club" or "Mothers Club.". In original hand-inked wrappers, on original plastic rings; wrapper design faded, edges worn with short tears. Pages clean, unmarked, and unstained. A surely uncommon if not now unique item, with no holdings discoverable. (38138)
Judith & Holofernes — A "Last-Era" Bodoni Di Calboli Paulucci, Francesco. La Giuditta: Canti del marchese Francesco di Calboli Paulucci fra gli Arcadi Euricrate Acrisioneo; membro ordinario Dell'Accademia Italiana, ecc. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1813. Large 4to (31.9 cm, 12.56"). [8], xiii, [3], 207, [1] pp.
• First edition: A lengthy verse retelling of Judith's triumph in a large handsome font, two verses to a broad page, dedicated to Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. Bodoni began the preparation of this edition, and Luigi Orsi finished it after his death; one of his final works, this impressive large quarto embodies the later, absolutely unadorned Bodoni aesthetic.
A search of WorldCat finds only seven U.S. institutions reporting ownership.
• Brooks 1146; De Lama, II, 218–19. Contemporary speckled paper–covered boards, framed in single blind roll, spine with later gilt-stamped red leather title and publisher labels; spine darkened, edges and extremities chewed, back joint starting from head and foot. Front pastedown showing small line of adhesion from now-absent affixed label. A very few faint spots of foxing only, indeed happily few as Bodoni productions can go; internally, an attractive, wide-margined example, with its page edges untrimmed. (40201)
Congo Mission Press Hymnal — LONKUNDO Disciples of Christ Congo Mission. Bonkanda wa nsao ya Nzakomba. Bolenge, Congo Belge: Disciples of Christ Congo Mission, 1918. 12mo (28 cm; 7.125"). 231 hymns.
• The fifth edition of the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission's Lonkundo Hymn Book. The Disciples of Christ Congo Mission (DCCM) arrived in the Congo in 1889 with the intention of developing an indigenous church that would provide change to the whole Congo social order. After developing a written form of the local language, Lonkundo, the DCCM began publishing hymnbooks and educational pamphlets, although Eva Nichols Dye, an early DCCM missionary, would later lament the inaccuracy of their understanding of the language.
From the preface: "This fifth edition of the Lonkundo Hymn Book is a result of the joint labor of the missionaries and the native Christians." One of those missionaries was "Alice Ferren Hensey, 1907–31, a talented musician and poet . . . [she] translated many hymns and songs, and taught them to new Congo Christians" (Smith). This is a mission press production and was actually printed in Bolenge.
• On the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission, see: Fifty Years in Congo by Herbert Smith. Publisher's green cloth-covered light boards, spine sun-faded. Some dust-soiling and dog-earing, but withal, a nice copy. (40440)
Daughter Jean is the Interesting One Duke of Gordon's three daughters; To which are added, The Brewer laddie; and The Hero may perish. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [1840s]. 12mo. 8 pp.
• The Duke of Gordon's three daughters leave Castle Gordon for Aberdeen. Lady Jean runs off with Captain Ogilvie, who is stripped of his rank as a punishment. After bearing him three children, Lady Jean grows weary of living in poverty and returns to her father's castle; however, all ends well: Ogilvie discovers that all his brother's children have died; he is now "heir of Northumberland"; and Lady Jean becomes Countess of Northumberland.
Title woodcut vignette of a man in doublet and hose with a plumed helmet and a sword; "[No.] 18" printed at foot of title. Very scarce chapbook edition.
• Unbound; removed. Very good. (37146)
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New Homes, NEW HEARTS Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
• First edition: Two intertwined stories of learning to love again after loss, set at Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green, mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J. Turner and printed in green.
Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback, front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
• Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)
Very Quick & Easy Duran, Helen C. Mexican recipe shortcuts or casserolization of the classics (a quick & easy Mexican cookbook). Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press, 1983. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). viii, 40 pp.; illus.
• First edition. Written by "a busy mother of four and author of Blond Chicana Bride's Mexican Cookbook," this extremely entertaining guide to Americanized shortcut versions of classic Mexican dishes opens with a recommendation for kids' parties: "tacos" where the seasoned meat, along with sauce and cheese, is poured directly into cut-open bags of corn chips — a strikingly early, if not the first, printed recipe for the walking taco, a.k.a. frito pie, a dish which made its debut at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The booklet is illustrated with images taken from a number of 19th-century travel books and periodicals, along with pen and ink sketches by Helen Mattison of Albuquerque.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers, front wrapper with two small, faint spots of staining and slight smudging. Small area of faint staining to upper edge of some leaves, one page with spots of staining, otherwise clean. An amusing combination of the "harried housewife" genre and the growing American appetite for Mexican-ish foods. (36189)
BAL Author, before Her Whirlwind Episode with POE Durfee, Job, & Sarah Helen Whitman. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of Wednesday, Jaunary [sic] 13, 1847. Providence: Charles Burnett, jr., 1847. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). 42, 5, [1] pp.
• Durfee (1790–1847), Chief Justice of Rhode Island, expounds on "the Rhode-Island Idea of Government" (p. 40), and his words were "Published at the request of the Society" (title-page). This was first printed in the Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction (Providence: Charles Burnett, Jr., 1847), vol. II, no. 1.
But for many, of far more interest is the "Poem, by Sarah Helen Whitman. Recited before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of January 13, 1847; previous to the delivery of Judge Durfee's discourse" (sectional title at rear). Whitman (1803–78) was variously a poet, essayist, Transcendentalist, spiritualist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe! The author of her page on the Poetry Foundation website characterizes her as "intelligent, gifted, witty, and warm" and says "She was widely read." The fact is she is one of few women given space in the Bibliography of American Literature, that bastion of white male authors.
Provenance: Gift inscription on front wrapper, "Jno. McClellan, Esq. with the respects of E. Dyer, Jr."
• BAL 21359B; Sabin 21425. Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. (40377)
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