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[ANONYMOUS], Les sept fruits de la tribulation; and [ANONYMOUS], Miroir d’or de l’ame pecheresse, French translation of JACOBUS DE GRUYTRODE (or JACOBUS DE JÜTERBORG), Speculum aureum animae peccatricis; Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in French

[ANONYMOUS], Les sept fruits de la tribulation; and [ANONYMOUS], Miroir d’or de l’ame pecheresse, French translation of JACOBUS DE GRUYTRODE (or JACOBUS DE JÜTERBORG), Speculum aureum animae peccatricis; Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in French by [ANONYMOUS], Les sept fruits de la tribulation;

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[ANONYMOUS], Les sept fruits de la tribulation; and [ANONYMOUS], Miroir d’or de l’ame pecheresse, French translation of JACOBUS DE GRUYTRODE (or JACOBUS DE JÜTERBORG), Speculum aureum animae peccatricis; Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in French
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[ANONYMOUS], Les sept fruits de la tribulation;
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ELEGANT MANUSCRIPT CONTAINING TWO WORKS OF SPIRITUAL AND MORAL EDIFICATION IN FRENCH TRANSLATION. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in French, France, after 1482, c. 1490. Dimensions 274 x 175 mm. 70 folios, written in a Gothic bâtarde bookhand, 18 large initials parti-colored in red and/or blue, inserted leaf in first quire with FULL-PAGE HERALDIC COMPOSITION IN GOLD, SILVER, RED, BLUE AND BLACK. BINDING: Bound in modern nineteenth-century blue velvet over wooden boards, pink paper pastedowns and endleaves, edges gilt. TEXT: Manuscript contains two works that reflect the spirituality of fifteenth-century Carthusians and their quest for the contemplative life. The first text, Sept fruits de la tribulation, is known in only five extant manuscript and is still unedited. A free French version, probably dating from the fifteenth century, of either the longer Latin Tractatus de tribulacione, or an abridged adaptation of the French Livre de tribulacion. The second text, Miroir d'or de l'ame pecheresse, is a work of spiritual edification which consists of seven sections: on human misery, sin (especially lechery), penance, rejection of the world, the vanity of human wishes, death and hell and heaven. There is neither a modern critical edition of the second text, nor a complete census of the existing manuscripts; the copy here was apparently made from an incunable edition of c. 1490. This manuscript begins with a remarkable added full-page illuminated frontispiece with the coat of arms and motto of Louis de Grolée (fl. late fifteenth-early sixteenth century), the abbot of Bonnevaux and Saint-Pierre de Vienne. PROVENANCE: Copied in France (perhaps northeastern?) based on script and linguistic characteristics, as well as internal evidence. It belonged to Louis de Grolée (fl. late fifteenth-early sixteenth century). It then belonged Charles Chardin, bibliophile. It was later a part of the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, (1792-1872), who has been described as the greatest private manuscript collector of all time. CONDITION: Gold slightly rubbed, some off-setting from heraldic painted composition to opening text page, slight staining in upper margin and into three lines of text ff. 68-69. Overall good condition. Full description and pictures available. (TM 466)
Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britain: An Historic Illumination From a Now Lost 15th Century Work

Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britain: An Historic Illumination From a Now Lost 15th Century Work by Medieval History, Literature, Law|Medieval Art|All Medieval Historical Documents

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Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britain: An Historic Illumination From a Now Lost 15th Century Work
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Medieval History, Literature, Law|Medieval Art|All Medieval Historical Documents
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1450. The sole known surviving piece of a once vast and grand 15th century ""Faits des Romans,"" doubtless for a noble patron of enormous wealth. The artist is a follower of the Coëtivy MasterThe twin nostalgias of Europe— one for the powerful, all-encompassing Roman Empire, the other for connecting with the mysterious pre-Roman peoples— combine in this 15th century French illumination of Caesar’s final, and questionably successful, encounter with the Britons, led by Cassivellaunus. While Caesar won this battle, his dream of a conquered, and Roman, Britain would not be realized within his lifetime. His legacy, however, was studied, admired, and immortalized far after his fatal betrayal by Brutus. This illustration captures this historic moment of Caesar’s triumph, the beginning of the end for the Britons, and the cultural legacy as viewed during the waning of the Middle Ages.In the nineteenth century, European medievalists began shoring up their nations’ relationships with medieval literature to try to create firm claims of their peoples’ innate heroic attributes, their noble histories, their glorious pasts. This led, for example, to the French identifying themselves with the Chanson de Roland and the English lionizing King Arthur. But the desire to have these medieval roots overshadowed the more complicated histories: the Chanson de Roland, though composed in French, is about an emperor best known by his French name, Charlemagne, but who was born in Aachen, Germany and is buried there. The first legends of King Arthur from the 9th century, reflecting a much earlier time, came from Wales, a nation suppressed by the English, and the major inventions in the narrative, like the love story of Guinevere and Lancelot, and the Round Table, were invented in France. Though English storytellers engaged with Arthur and his knights, it wasn’t until Thomas Malory in the 15th century that Arthur became English.During the Middle Ages, Rome was the empire to draw connections to for auctoritas. This is why the empire established by Charlemagne became known as the Holy Roman Empire. Though the term was not in use until the 13th century, the Emperors were instilled with translation imperii-- a transfer of rule directly inherited from the historic emperors of Rome.One aspect of Rome that was particularly admired in the Middle Ages was the conquering and bringing into Civilization of the barbarians north of the Alps and west of the Rhine, that includes Caesar's foray into England and his confrontation with Cassivellanus. Cassivellaunus was likely the chief of the Catuvellauni of Hertfordshire, whose tribal name translates to ‘war-chiefs’. In British accounts, he appears in Welsh literature ranging from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s chronicle about the history of the Kings of Britain in both Latin, Historia regum Britanniae, and Welsh, Brut y Brenhinedd, to the more folkloric-based Trioedd Ynys Prydein (The Triads), the second branch of the Mabinogi, and Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys (The Adventure of Lludd and Llefelys). The British chieftain even appears, briefly, in the Greek Stratagemata by Polyaenus. The Latin literature, of course, written by the winners, includes Julius Caesar’s own Commentary de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic War).During the account of his second campaign in Britain from Gaul in 54 BCE, after a failed first a year earlier, Caesar writes that Cassivellaunus was a rabble-rouser, conquering the Trinovantes, the most powerful British tribe (perhaps how the tribe received their appellation of ‘war-chiefs’). Though his location was betrayed by the Cenimagni, Segontiaci, Ancalites, Bibroci, and Cassi, who had surrendered to Caesar, Cassivellaunus gathered the forces of the Kentish kings, Cinetorix, Varvilius, Taximagulus, and Segovax. The tribes retreated to higher ground when they saw the sheer masses of Romans that Caesar had brought to avert the same failure of preparedness he suffered the year before. The legions established their military camp on the beaches and sought out the Britons. As they searched, their party was harassed by Britons on chariots; it was chariots which had given the edge to the British during Caesar’s first invasion. About 12 miles away, he encountered Cassivellaunus’ forces at a hillfort at the River Stour. A storm destroyed Caesar’s fleet of ships, and the repair gave the Britons time to regroup and rally behind Cassivellaunus.Previously, the Britons operated as independent tribes; under Cassivellaunus, these tribes became an army, growing with more tribes coming to support Cassivellaunus. Their knowledge of the land, and their use of chariots, created a powerful enemy against Caesar’s army which was not used to fighting such a chaotic force. Had the Britons continued this strategy, history might have played out differently; however, they appeared to try to meet the Romans head-on, in large-scale battle, a tactic at which the Romans were well-practiced and deadly.Cassivellaunus’s attempt to attack a foraging party, as had been done to the Briton’s success in 55 BCE, was the beginning of the end for the Britons now. Though he had unified some of the tribes, the Trinovantes remained staunchly against Cassivellaunus since he murdered their king. The murdered king’s son bargained with Caesar— his tribe would support Rome and Rome would defend the tribe from any retribution. This gave the Romans a newfound understanding of the land and the warfare tactics of the Britons. Once again the tribes were divided which inclined them to making alliances with Rome. The final two-fronted battle between the Romans and Britons saw British defeat. It is this routing of the British charioteers that the French illuminator included in this illustration of the Faits de Romains some 1500 years later.The Britons essentially defeated, Caesar sent Commius, the King of the conquered Atrebates, to negotiate peace. Cassivellaunus agreed to paying tribute. In writing up the terms, Caesar used specific legal terms which would eventually make Britain a province of Rome. But this would not come to pass before Caesar’s untimely death on the Roman Senate floor nearly a decade later. It would be another century before Britain came truly under Roman rule.In 13th century medieval writers began to compile works by Caesar, Lucan, Suetonius and Sallust, retelling Caesar’s life in the format of a chanson des geste (a song of deeds)— the same genre as the Chanson de Roland. The text, which is listed under many names but most commonly Faits des Romans, grew very popular from 14th century onwards, with over 50 manuscripts now recorded – these usually grand commissions for noble reading with many miniatures set into the text columns opening significant chapters, of which this extract serves as an example.This miniature depicts the great scene introduced above: Caesar's confrontation with the Cassivellanus during the former's great invasion of Britain.Caesar routing the chariot-mounted forces of the British cheiftain Cassivellanus, miniature on a cutting from an illuminated manuscript of the Faits des Romains[France (most probably Paris), mid-15th century]. The illuminator represented the two armies in armor contemporary with his own time— the armor of chivalric knights— rather than the Roman legion outfits of Caesar’s time and blue-painted leather-clad attire of the Britons. Differentiation between the Britons and the Romans is made by the Britons wearing blue and white tunics over their armor and using bows, while the Romans have pikes and silver armor without tunics (with the exception of a figure who may be Commius, a Celt-turned-Roman-ally).An historic cutting of an illumination on verso and 16 lines of one of two original columns of text on recto. 128x98mm in total. Text column of 102mm on verso. Written in Middle French in a Gothic bâtarde script with minimal abbreviations for legibility. Some oxidation from the silver-gilt on the illustration have bled through to the text side, but still legible. Illumination is flanked on both sides by blue and gold acanthus leaves and green-leaved penwork-foliage. Illuminator applied silver to highlight the armour of the armies and gold touches to illuminate Caesar himself.The artist is a follower of the Coëtivy Master (worked in Paris, c. 1450-85), and shares that artist’s simple but delicate facial modelling as well as his love of finely depicted drapery.What remains of the text here allows us to see that this miniature came from a very grand manuscript, almost certainly produced at vast expense for an important noble patron. Its text was clearly in two columns, like many grand copies of the text, with column-wide miniatures set at the head of crucial chapters. Examination of other copies of the text shows that about 3700 characters of text are missing between the foot of the miniature on the recto and the first partial line of text on the verso here. With an approximate average line length of 41 characters here, this allows us to predict that the miniature here most probably sat in the inner column of the recto, and thus some 90 lines of text are missing between its foot and the first line of text on the other side. Allowing for two columns, this indicates that each column had 45 lines plus the 12 lines on the verso of this fragment, allowing us to predict that the text on each page of the parent manuscript was approximately 57 lines in height. This is more than the 50 lines in some of the grandest surviving manuscripts such as BnF, Fr. 64, made in the fifteenth century for an unknown noble patron. In addition, as the cutting here gives us measurements for the column width (95mm.) and the line height (5mm.), we can further calculate that the parent codex of this cutting had a text block of approximately 285 by 220mm. (the last 95+95mm. plus 30mm. for an approximate gutter measurement). BnF Fr. 64 has a text block that measures 278 by 200mm., and a complete size including borders of 430 by 315mm - comparable to the copy from the library of the Comte d'Angouleme (Fr. 250: 420 by 317mm.), but far smaller than that made for a member of the De Fou family, and later taken into the fine library of Cardinal Richelieu (Fr. 23,084: 345 by 245mm. and with only one miniature). The parent codex of the present miniature must have been on the same scale as Fr. 64 and 250, if not slightly larger. It was a vast codex produced on a scale to impress through its sheer opulence, doubtless for a noble patron of enormous wealth.
Future President William McKinley Urges High-Tariff Advocate the American Protective Tariff League to Keep Active and Vigilant in the Cause

Future President William McKinley Urges High-Tariff Advocate the American Protective Tariff League to Keep Active and Vigilant in the Cause by William McKinley

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Future President William McKinley Urges High-Tariff Advocate the American Protective Tariff League to Keep Active and Vigilant in the Cause
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William McKinley
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07/12/1892. Starting in the Civil War, protection was the ideological cement holding the Republican coalition together. High tariffs were used to promise higher sales to business, higher wages to industrial workers, and higher demand for their crops to farmers. Democrats said it was a tax on the little man. Bliss was a successful wholesale merchant and Republican Party operative, and was a founder and first president of the American Protective Tariff League, which was campaigning to convince the American voter of the advantages of a protective tariff to labor and the industries of the United States. McKinley would run for president on a high tariff platform a few years later. Bliss declined to run as McKinley’s vice president in 1900 but had served in his cabinet as Secretary of the Interior until 1899.In this letter, McKinley writes his future Secretary of the Interior Cornelius Bliss concerning the American Protective Tariff League. Typed Letter Signed “W. McKinley, Jr.” December 7, 1892, to prominent Republican politician Cornelius Bliss. “I am very glad to learn that the Tariff League is to continue its work. It has been of great service in the past and it has greater opportunities for the future; and its cooperation was never so much needed as now. Do not relax in a single particular. The cause is worthy of your best efforts, and the approval of the people is sure to come.” McKinley added the “Jr.” to his signature all his life until the death of his father in a few weeks before this letter. Apparently he stopped using it either shortly after this or may he have signed it this way out of habit so soon after his father’s death.
VIII Sonate Per Cembalo Opera Prima

VIII Sonate Per Cembalo Opera Prima by ALBERTI, Domenico ca. 1710-1746

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VIII Sonate Per Cembalo Opera Prima
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ALBERTI, Domenico ca. 1710-1746
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London: J. Walsh, 1748. Oblong folio. Modern carta rustica. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-18, [i] (blank), 20-27, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. Ownership inscription in ink of late Romantic priest, church musician, and writer on music Henry Aston Walker (1834-1906), Vicar of Chattisham, Ipswich and choirmaster at St. Alban's, Holborn from 1862-1899. First and last leaves slightly worn and soiled; minor repair to outer margin of final leaf. First authorized edition. Smith and Humphries 15. BUC p. 16. RISM A653. Alberti was an Italian composer, harpsichordist, and singer. "[His] claim to historical recognition rests traditionally on his harpsichord sonatas, in which the arpeggiated bass that lent his name a posthumous notoriety is a prominent feature (see Alberti bass). In his lifetime, however, Alberti was equally famous as a singer and as a performer (sometimes as self-accompanist) on the harpsichord. ... Of his non-musical career little is recorded except that he served the Venetian ambassador, Pietro Andrea Cappello, as a page on a visit to Spain about 1736, provoking Farinelli's admiration of his singing, and subsequently joined the household of Marquis Giovanni Carlo Molinari in Rome. His harpsichord sonatas are generally believed to date from these last years. ... Alberti's sonatas survive in manuscripts as complete works and isolated movements and it is not yet possible to state accurately how many survive, although the number probably exceeds 40. Eight sonatas, constituting the so-called op.1, were published by Walsh in 1748 in response to an act of flagrant plagiarism by Alberti's former pupil, the castrato Giuseppe Jozzi (c1710-c1770), which became a cause célèbre. (Jozzi continued the deception after his removal to Amsterdam.) All Alberti's sonatas follow the two-movement scheme popular with contemporary Italian keyboard composers. The two movements are contrasted in character rather than tempo; although both are cast in binary form, that of the first often prefigures sonata form, whereas the second retains the modest proportions and uncomplicated design of a dance movement." Michael Talbot in Grove Music Online While Alberti did not invent the arpeggiated bass figure to which he lends his name today, he does use it quite frequently in his sonatas. It may have been one of his preferred rhythmic devices when accompanying himself at the harpsichord. Whether the music is slow or brisk, the figuration is most often used to complement cantabile (i.e. singing-like) passages. It serves to guide the ear as the narrative of a piece unfolds. Sonata II, for instance (p. 4) begins with a forthright theme, constructed over a romanesca bass (a common baroque and classical harmonic gambit, similar to the Pachelbel canon). Soon after the statement of the theme (over a walking eighth-note bass), the familiar four-note arpeggios commence. Alberti then develops it by repeating fragments of its melody, and reshaping its contours over new harmonies. His style of repetition when developing material is unpredictable, a welcome contrast to the familiar quality of his musical vocabulary. As Sonata II wears on, Alberti introduces more and more distant harmonies: A flat and D flat major chords, in the key of F major. Keyboard players and listeners today may find that elements of Alberti's style are reminiscent of later musical styles. The Alberti bass brings to mind the classical sonata of the 1770s-1790s. Alberti's harmonic explorations are bold, unexpected, and even Romantic-sounding, at times, like the exotic turns of phrase that adorn Robert Schumann's 1838 piano piece "Von fremden Ländern und Menschen." A landmark publication in the history of the keyboard sonata, suffused with Alberti's rich harmonic imagination.
Guernica Drame Lyrique en trois Actes Poème de P. Gailhard & P. B. Gheusi ... Partition Chant et Piano transcrite par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score]

Guernica Drame Lyrique en trois Actes Poème de P. Gailhard & P. B. Gheusi ... Partition Chant et Piano transcrite par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score] by VIDAL, Paul 1863-1931

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Guernica Drame Lyrique en trois Actes Poème de P. Gailhard & P. B. Gheusi ... Partition Chant et Piano transcrite par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score]
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VIDAL, Paul 1863-1931
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Paris: Choudens Fils [PN A.C. 9757], 1895. Large octavo. Full black cloth with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 213, [i] (blank) pp. Binding slightly worn. Occasional minor foxing; some signatures split or partially split; handstamps to free front endpaper and first three leaves. Second version.
Photographs (Inscribed with Original Drawing)

Photographs (Inscribed with Original Drawing) by GINSBERG, Allen

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Photographs (Inscribed with Original Drawing)
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GINSBERG, Allen
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[Altadena]: Twelvetrees Press, 1990. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Second printing. Folio. This copy boasting an original ink drawing from Ginsberg across title page spread, SIGNED and entitled "Tyger;" inscribed to Harper Collins editor Terry Karten in 1993. Contents: 91 full-page reproductions of Ginsberg's black-and-white photographs, accompanied by his own captions in facsimile manuscript; including all of the famous images of the Beats (Roth 266-267). One of 5000 copies.
A Communication to A.A.’s Physicians from Bill W. December, 1965.

A Communication to A.A.’s Physicians from Bill W. December, 1965. by [ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS]. Wilson, Bill writing as “Bill W.”

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A Communication to A.A.’s Physicians from Bill W. December, 1965.
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[ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS]. Wilson, Bill writing as “Bill W.”
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(np): (np), 1965.. First edition.. 4to. 28 pp w/appendixes. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. The first of Bill W.’s pamphlets on this controversial subject, much of it based on the research of Drs. Abram Hoffer and Humphrey Osmond. Uncommon. Bishop & Pitman 1637, which offers a publication date of 1966.
Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: Together With The Love Sonnets Of Proteus

Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: Together With The Love Sonnets Of Proteus by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen

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Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: Together With The Love Sonnets Of Proteus
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Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
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Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. Hardcover. Orig. parchment paper spine and plain cream boards. Very good in dust wrapper with lettered spine. Very good. 203 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 on Dutch handmade paper (of 550) with title page, border, and initial letters, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Printed at the University Press. Half centimeter loss at backstrip head. KRAUS 38.
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Papekost, Opgedist in Geuse Schotelen Handelende van de Pausselyke Opkomst, Afgodery, en Beeldendienst, mitsgaders hun Val en Einde. [Bound with:] Vervolg der Paapekost, vrugteloos voor hun opgedist: als mede de Rymende Roomsche Echo, het Geuse Paternoster Blokziel by [ANTI-CATHOLICISM] [STEVERSLOOT, LAURENTIUS].

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Papekost, Opgedist in Geuse Schotelen Handelende van de Pausselyke Opkomst, Afgodery, en Beeldendienst, mitsgaders hun Val en Einde. [Bound with:] Vervolg der Paapekost, vrugteloos voor hun opgedist: als mede de Rymende Roomsche Echo, het Geuse Paternoster Blokziel
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[ANTI-CATHOLICISM] [STEVERSLOOT, LAURENTIUS].
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[Leiden?]: Op kosten van den Uitgever [J. du Vivie?], 1720. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contemporary calf spine gilt, modern marbled paper over boards, modern calf over corners, red leather spine label, all edges sprinkled red. 6 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches (17.75 x 11 cm); [6], 180 pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved illustrations in text; [6], 72 pp. Wear to spine, modern calf repair over tail of spine, contents with occasional pale spotting and light toning. A satirical illustrated poem in Dutch about the Catholic Church, with some bawdy engravings showing monks and nuns (two with bare bottoms).
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Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music by Wilson, Colin

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Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music
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Wilson, Colin
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New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Black cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 215. Spine tips gently rubbed; discreet ownership marking on FFEP; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket just a little scuffed along the edges, otherwise fine -- nice and bright in mylar.
Three Note Cards With Analog Color Photographs of Black Male Nudes

Three Note Cards With Analog Color Photographs of Black Male Nudes by Jamal

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Three Note Cards With Analog Color Photographs of Black Male Nudes
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Jamal
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Three blank note cards, each featuring a tipped-on analog print by African American photographer Jamal, who published under his own imprint, Brothers/The MPP Company, based in Oakland, Calif. Two are color and one is black-and-white. All show muscular young Black men fully nude. Jamal's work represents reclaiming and honoring of the Black male body through the erotic gaze of a Black gay photographer. CONDITION: Two as new; one with diagonal crease to outside upper corner of card; all with original blank envelopes and in original clear mylar sleeves.NOTE: Photos masked for public posting. Unmasked photos upon request.
Six Blank Note Cards Reproducing Black-and-White Male Nudes

Six Blank Note Cards Reproducing Black-and-White Male Nudes by Frank "Franco" Tarsitano

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Six Blank Note Cards Reproducing Black-and-White Male Nudes
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Frank "Franco" Tarsitano
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Note cards reproducing black-and-white photographs of muscular Asian, Black, Latine and White men in their 20s and 30s, all shot against blank studio backdrops by San Francisco pho­to­grapher Frank "Franco" Tarsitano (although no photographer's credit appears). Five of the cards show nude or semi-nude men individually or in groups. One shows a pair of men kissing; both are wearing U.S. Navy uniforms. Tarsitano published the cards under the Q Cards imprint of his Ram Studios Photo­graphy business. Three cards of the cards include original blank envelopes and are in original mylar sleeves sealed with a neon orange label from Wild Card, a gay gift shop that operated in San Francisco's Castro District from 1996 to 2018; one also features a smaller white Wild Card logo label. All three have vintage price stickers from the shop on the sleeves.Card series nos. 0106, 0109, 0115, 0123, 0128 & 0131.
Pirates in Oz

Pirates in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson; L. Frank Baum [Royal Historian of Oz]; John R. Neill [illus.]

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Pirates in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson; L. Frank Baum [Royal Historian of Oz]; John R. Neill [illus.]
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Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1931. Very Good. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1931. First Edition in binding variant A with spine imprint in boldface. Large octavo. 280 pp. 12 color plates, including frontis, complete; numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations throughout. Dark green cloth stamped in black with front cover paper label full color illustration. Illustrated endpapers, printed in black. No dust jacket. Light wear to extremitiesm, some rubbing to front illustration, corners bumped. Boards a bit shaky in binding, but overall holding. Ownership page filled in but interior else unmarked. Twenty-fifth entry in the Oz book series, and picks up with Ruggedo the Gnome King seven years after Peter Brown hit him with a silence stone at the end of The Gnome King of Oz. [Bienvenue p. 113].
LIARS IN LOVE

LIARS IN LOVE by YATES, Richard

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LIARS IN LOVE
Author
YATES, Richard
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Mild sunning to the spine. About Fine
Description
New York: Delacorte, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Mild sunning to the spine. About Fine. Uncorrected Proof in light blue printed wraps of this fine collection of short stories by a master of the form. Publicity slips laid in.
Bush's Watchmakers Catalogue Circular featuring Self- Generating Gas Blow-Pipe Lamp

Bush's Watchmakers Catalogue Circular featuring Self- Generating Gas Blow-Pipe Lamp

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Seller: Eclectibles
Title
Bush's Watchmakers Catalogue Circular featuring Self- Generating Gas Blow-Pipe Lamp
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Description
Pittsburgh, PA, 1844. A 4pp circular featuring images, narrative and pricing information on the Self-Generating Gas Blow-Pipe Lamp, Bush's Wheel Protector, Roller Remover, Ruby Pin Adjuster, Movement and Fan Washers, Material Cup, Pivot Wire and Case Spring Extractor. For sale at Goddard, Hill & Co. Jewelry. Pittsburgh, PA. Measures 8 1/2"x 5 1/2". Letterfolds.
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THE STONES OF GREEN KNOWE by Boston, L.M

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Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books
Title
THE STONES OF GREEN KNOWE
Author
Boston, L.M
Seller
Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
New York: Antheneum, 1976. First edition Octavo. Bound in maroon cloth. With the exception of a mere glimmer of edgewear at the lower edges and a previous owner's name on the front pastedown, this is a fine copy of a book generally requiring many apologies for condition..either as an ex-library copy or having been overly, albeit lovingly, handled by a child. In pictorial, mylar protected, dust wrapper, which exhibits a few minor chips and nicks..not price-clipped and exceedingly bright. A very satisfying copy of one of the series of books that continues to delight new and returning readers alike.
Black Poetry of the French Antilles: Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guiana. [cover title]

Black Poetry of the French Antilles: Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guiana. [cover title] by Wolitz, Seth L., 1938-2024, translator

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Title
Black Poetry of the French Antilles: Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guiana. [cover title]
Author
Wolitz, Seth L., 1938-2024, translator
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Berkeley: Fybate Lectrure Notes, 1967. Limited Edition of 477 copies. Paperback. Very Good. 37p. Softcover in originial wrapper. 22 cm. Minor cover soiling and wear. This copy was INSCRIBED twice inside front cover; once to Gerry by "Seth" (Wolitz) and also to Moira by someone whose name appears to be "Dicene." Copy #160 of 477 numbered copies -- 20 lettered copies numbered I-XX and belinging to the translator were also published. Includes poetry by Rene Balance, Jean Brierre, Roussan Camille, Aime Cesaire, Leon Damas, Gilbert Gratiant, Jcques Roumain and Guy Tirolien.
Wormwood - Literature of the Fantastic Supernatural and Decadent Number 7, Autumn 2006

Wormwood - Literature of the Fantastic Supernatural and Decadent Number 7, Autumn 2006 by Valentine, Mark; Editor

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Title
Wormwood - Literature of the Fantastic Supernatural and Decadent Number 7, Autumn 2006
Author
Valentine, Mark; Editor
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780174428343
Condition
Fine
Description
Leyburn, North Yorkshire, UK: Tartarus Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps 92pp. Beautiful First Edition of this well-regarded anthology of stories and essays around the world of fantasy and horror fiction and the genre's authors. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.
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Norbert Tadeusz: Iocus solus, Fleisch- Variationen; Bilder und Zeichnungen 1970-1984

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Title
Norbert Tadeusz: Iocus solus, Fleisch- Variationen; Bilder und Zeichnungen 1970-1984
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG- interior; outer folio has ex-lib. sticker on back cover
Description
Berlin: Galerie Poll, 1984. Softcover. VG- interior; outer folio has ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Color-illustrated white card folio with black lettering; 24 pp. with color and bw images. Text in German; each color plate is preceded by a correlative bw study. Very little text. The theme is variations on meat/flesh.
The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture

The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture by Abel, Richard

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Title
The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture
Author
Abel, Richard
Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN
9781412818575
Condition
Fine
Description
Routledge, 2011-05-30. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x0x9. Mustard cloth under yellow illustrated dust jacket priced. New copies in shrinkwrap from the estate of the author. Richard Abel was an energetic bookseller and publisher in the Pacific Northwest, founding or helping to found Timber Press, Amadeus Press, Blackwell North America, Champoeg Press, and Richard Abel Associates. This not only traces the history of print, but also its influence.
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... SECOND SPEECH ON THE SUB-TREASURY BILL.; Delivered March 12, 1838 by WEBSTER, Daniel

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Seller: Second Life Books Inc
Title
... SECOND SPEECH ON THE SUB-TREASURY BILL.; Delivered March 12, 1838
Author
WEBSTER, Daniel
Seller
Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 29. Disbound. Title little torn at left edge, o/w VG.
Kenyon Review Volume I Number 4 Fall 1979

Kenyon Review Volume I Number 4 Fall 1979 by SHARP, Ronald, Frederick Turner, and Saul Bellow (editors)

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
Kenyon Review Volume I Number 4 Fall 1979
Author
SHARP, Ronald, Frederick Turner, and Saul Bellow (editors)
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Gambier, OH: Kenyon Review, 1979. First edition. Softcover. Features an interview of Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Also includes 6 poems by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2 poems by Galway Kinnell, W.D. Snodgrass's "The Fuehrer Bunker" and Joyce Carol Oates' "White Shadow." A clean very near fine copy in wrappers.
Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida
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Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida

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Title
Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780226734392
Condition
Very Good
Description
University of Chicago Press. PAPERBACK. 0226734390 Clean, has a good binding and crisp pages, no marks or notations. Minor wear to corners. HS. . Very Good.

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