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SARAH VAUGHAN (ca. 1950s) Photo archive

SARAH VAUGHAN (ca. 1950s) Photo archive by Np

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.
Title
SARAH VAUGHAN (ca. 1950s) Photo archive
Author
Np
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Np. No binding. Very Good+. Collection of eight approximately 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white photos of jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan, generally very good+ or better, with photo agency stickers on verso, ca. 1950s. In an elaborate long gown. With photographer stamp on verso and printing notations. Duke Ellington, George Shearing, Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. From a Carnegie Hall concert of 1/1/57. With stamps on back from a magazine file. - Vaughan and Eckstine singing into a microphone for MGM Records. With stamps on back from a magazine file. Vaughan with Jimmy Jones at piano and arranger Tadd Dameron. Photo was published in Metronome magazine, April 1950. Vaughan seated, singing. Printing notations on front with stamps on back from a magazine file. A close-up of Vaughan singing into a microphone, printed very dramatically in dark shades of black and gray. Two different shots of Vaughan (one of them double weight) with a matching dress and turban, singing from a score. Critic Gary Giddins described her as the "ageless voice of modern jazz -- of giddy postwar virtuosity, biting wit and fearless caprice". He concluded by saying that "No matter how closely we dissect the particulars of her talent... we must inevitably end up contemplating in silent awe the most phenomenal of her attributes, the one she was handed at birth, the voice that happens once in a lifetime, perhaps once in several lifetimes. Her voice had wings: luscious and tensile, disciplined and nuanced, it was as thick as cognac, yet soared off the beaten path like an instrumental solo... that her voice was a four-octave muscle of infinite flexibility made her disarming shtick all the more ironic."
ANTONIN ARTAUD [ca. 1940] French portrait

ANTONIN ARTAUD [ca. 1940] French portrait by Np

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.
Title
ANTONIN ARTAUD [ca. 1940] French portrait
Author
Np
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Np. No binding. Near Fine. [Paris, ca. 1940]. Vintage original 8 1/2 x 6 1/2" (21.5 x 15 cm) borderless black-and-white French portrait, near fine. Photo of the avant-garde playwright associated with the Theatre of Cruelty.
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Statue in a Field by SOLANO, Solita [Pseudonym of Sarah Wilkinson

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Statue in a Field
Author
SOLANO, Solita [Pseudonym of Sarah Wilkinson
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Calf slightly scuffed, acidic paper somewhat browned as inevitable, otherwise a very good copy
Description
(No place, but Paris: Privately Printed, No date, but 1934). First edition of this collection of poems, the last poem in the book, "The River Flows", dated at the end "Paris, 1934". Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper (of the binding): "To Louise With love and gratitude / Solita December 1936." In addition, a small note is laid in that reads: "Louise dear - don't grieve & cry - It'll all be forgotten soon - so don't worry. Jamie." Statue in a Field consists of twenty-two poems, including the long sequence entitled "Frontispice" (sic) which consists of twelve sections and begins "I was a brown child." In literary circles, Solano is best known as the lover and secretary of Janet Flanner, the brilliant author of the "Letter from Paris" [1925-1940] and "Letter from France" [1944-1965] in the New Yorker. In the 1930s, Solano met and for a while became the secretary of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff. She became an authority on Gurdjieff's philosophy and edited the works of Kathryn Hume on him. Among other followers of Gurdjieff were Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of the Little Review. It is possible that the person to whom Solano inscribed this copy of Statue in a Field was Louise Davidson, an actress and theater manager in Paris, who was also part of the Gurdjieff circle. Calf slightly scuffed, acidic paper somewhat browned as inevitable, otherwise a very good copy. Small 8vo, rebound in half-calf & marbled boards with original yellow front wrapper bound in. Calf slightly scuffed, acidic paper somewhat browned as inevitable, otherwise a very good copy.
New Light from the Great Pyramid

New Light from the Great Pyramid by Parsons, Albert Ross

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Seller: Thorn Books
Title
New Light from the Great Pyramid
Author
Parsons, Albert Ross
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Metaphysical Publishing Company, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large 8vo. xvi,420 pp. plus publisher's ads. Blue cloth, gilt spine title and gilt illustration of the solar system on the upper board. Frontispiece illustration of Uxmal, a color plate, illustrations, and a folding chart in the rear. Binding worn at edges and hinges, text shaken, a few paragraphs early on with some highlighting and a sticker removal from the spine base, else this is a very good copy. "The astronomical-geographic system of the ancients recovered and applied to the elucidation of history, ceremony, symbolism, and religion, with an exposition of the evolution from the prehistoric, objective, scientific religion of Adam Kadmon, the macrocosm of the historic, subjective, spiritual religion of Christ Jesus, the microcosm....... .
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RADITZER by MATTHIESSEN, Peter

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Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
Title
RADITZER
Author
MATTHIESSEN, Peter
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Two tiny stains to fore-edge of text block. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with very minor rubbing to the spine tips and c
Description
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Two tiny stains to fore-edge of text block. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with very minor rubbing to the spine tips and corners. His third novel, fourth book. INSCRIBED for------ "with best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper in 1963. An uncommon early inscription.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXVI (36) May 1888 - October 1888 (New Series Vol. XIV)

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXVI (36) May 1888 - October 1888 (New Series Vol. XIV) by [Whitman, Walt; Theodore Roosevelt; Henry James; Frederic Remington; Matthew Arnold, et. al.]

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Title
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXVI (36) May 1888 - October 1888 (New Series Vol. XIV)
Author
[Whitman, Walt; Theodore Roosevelt; Henry James; Frederic Remington; Matthew Arnold, et. al.]
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Century Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes "Army Hospitals and Cases. Memoranda at the Time, 1863-65" by Walt Whitman on pages 825 - 830 and also a poem by Whitman: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" on page 735; multiple articles by Theordore Roosevelt including: "Frontier Types" (831 - 843), "Sheriff's Work on a Ranch" (39 - 51), "The Ranchman's Rifle on Craig and Prairie (200 - 212), all illustrated by Frederic Remington; "The Liar: In Two Parts" Henry James on page 123 - 135 and 213 - 223; and "Milton" by Matthew Arnold (53 - 55). Bound in three quarter black leather over black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. A few chips to leather and wear to hinges, edges, corners, and spine ends. Foxing to first and last pages. Illustrated. 960 pages. PER/060718.
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The Aircraft Year Book for 1923 by AERONAUTICAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF AMERICA

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Title
The Aircraft Year Book for 1923
Author
AERONAUTICAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF AMERICA
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(-)
Description
New York: Aueronautical Chamber of Commerce, 1923. hardcover. very good(-). Illustrated with photographs and design drawings. 8vo, pale green cloth, (bottom edge of front cover and spine are discolored and scuffed). New York: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, (1923).
The Pigman.

The Pigman. by ZINDEL, Paul.

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Title
The Pigman.
Author
ZINDEL, Paul.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
NY:: Harper & Row,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Brief gift inscription (from 1968) on front paste-down, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few short closed edge tears, tape shadows on verso, lower corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket. ; 182 pages .
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A "Puzzle Drive" with Union Stone Puzzles. The Sphinx by Union Stone Company

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A "Puzzle Drive" with Union Stone Puzzles. The Sphinx
Author
Union Stone Company
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: A. Paul Fricke. Very good. Puzzle with original box and instruction booklet, n. d. (second half of the 19th century); box - 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 1/2 - with chromolithographed illustration to top half; booklet with stapled, chromolithographed wraps and illustrations in red; seven, cut stone pieces forming the puzzle; box with a bit of wear and nicks and cuts to edges; booklet with several manuscript notes and check marks; overall in about very good condition. An unusual advertising piece, it was published by the Union Stone Company of Boston, known for manufacturing cast stone (a concrete mixture "that employed molded shapes, decorative aggregates, and masonry pigments to simulate natural stone") through the Sorel process. According to the booklet, 135 shapes could be made, using all 7 stones of the puzzle in each figure.
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55 Ways to Save Eggs by Royal Baking Powder Company

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Title
55 Ways to Save Eggs
Author
Royal Baking Powder Company
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1917. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-22; stapled lithographed wraps; tiny nicks to tips of spine, else very minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. On the premise that in many recipes, in which eggs were used, the number of them could be reduced by replacing them with baking powder, the booklet was published as an advertisement for the Royal Baking Powder Company and cleverly listed recipes "the old way" and "the new way" next to each other, where the new way used Royal Baking Powder in place of all, or most eggs called for in the recipes.
A Few Facts About Canning

A Few Facts About Canning by John L. Gaumer Co

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Title
A Few Facts About Canning
Author
John L. Gaumer Co
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
1895. Oblong booklet (8.9 x 16.2 cm.), 8 pages. Illustrated with photographs and engravings. Promotes the Mudge Patent Canner, a household canning processor that “does away with the stewing kettle” and is “the cheapest, most efficacious and economical system of putting up high-standard goods that has ever been invented.” The Boston Cooking School Magazine reviewed the device saying, “a great point in its favor is that, by the use of the canner, fruit or vegetables are not subjected to long cooking, and thus flavor, color and form are preserved. Another consideration is that, by this process, no dishes are required, as the fruit to be ‘put up’ is put at once into the jars…” Stapled in green wrappers. Fine. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies].
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POEMS OF HERRICK by Herrick, Robert

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POEMS OF HERRICK
Author
Herrick, Robert
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
London: Caxton Publishing Company, (1907). A 12mo., 285 pages, including glossary and an index of first lines. Bound in original decorative brown cloth. Top edge gilt. Edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Portrait frontispiece and pictorial title page by A. S. Hartrick. Eight full page color plates by Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes. A bit of wear at the head of the spine and corner tips, endleaves browned, else a fine copy.
The London Chronicle. Vol. LXII. No. 4800

The London Chronicle. Vol. LXII. No. 4800

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The London Chronicle. Vol. LXII. No. 4800
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
London: T. Wilkie, From Thursday, August 9, to Saturday, August 11, 1787. Approx. 12" x 9¼", pp. 137-144 [i.e. 8 pages]; 3 columns per page, removed from binding, two historiated initials, magenta tax stamp at lower corner verso of the first sheet. Includes: travels through Germany translated from a series of letters, foreign news on various army troops, a small paragraph conerning a woman with the skin condition vitilio (though not known at the time) as communicated to the Royal Society, a letter from Dr. Samuel Johnson to Joseph Baretti, marriages & deaths, auction announcements, ship news, stocks, and patent medicines.
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Going to the Fair

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Going to the Fair
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Sun Dial, 1939. Good. Going to the Fair. NY: Sun Dial, 1939. 96pp. Illustrated. 4to. Cloth. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges and bumped spine ends. Slightly faded at edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with rubbing, fading, and several large chips and a couple pieces missing, mainly at edges. A preview of the New York World's Fair 1939. Together with what you should look for and what you should see in the city of new York.

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