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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 122 pages. Very good in a good dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, boards show faint toning toward edges, binding remains sound. Jacket has a couple of edge tears taped from behind by prior owner, along with two slight losses to front panel.. The case of a 17 year old girl who became a heroin addict and marries a dealer. Jacket photograph by Lotte Jacobi.

London: Oldburne, 1958. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles. No significant wear to book Jacket has a couple of short, cleanly closed edge tears, a few tiny rubs, and a hint of browning to edges of rear panel. Fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket.. Black and white frontispiece and photographic plates. George Burchett was kicked out of school at age 12 for tattooing his classmates. After a stint in the Royal Navy--from which he absconded--he became a full-time tattoo artist in 1900.<br /> <br /> He served a broad clientele, including the wealth upper class and European royalty. Burchett pioneered cosmetic tattooing in the 1930s with innovations such as permanently darkening eyebrows. <br /> <br /> Burchett died suddenly in 1953, but left a trove of documents, pictures, annotated appointment books, a diary, and even a draft of a memoir. These are the basis of the present work--a rich resource on the… Read More

Washington: (S.n.), 1863. Wraps. Octavo. 8 pages. Fine. Some minor creasing at top edge toward fore corner.. Frederick Law Olmsted--pioneering American landscape architect and co-designer of New York's Central Park--here gives a very interesting report in his role as General Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War.<br /> <br /> Olmsted gives a good outline of the activities of the Sanitary Commission in connection with the Battle of Gettysburg. He first describes the logistics for the staging and distribution of supplies, and for the relief and transportation of wounded. He then lists principle articles and their quantities distributed for relief of the wounded on the battlefield in the ten days following the battle. This included some 60 tons of perishables which were delivered by refrigerated railcars and 8,500 dozens of eggs collected from farm houses in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. <br /> <br /> In conclusion, Olmsted says, "The… Read More