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THE TRAGEDIES, GATHERED BY JHON BOCHAS, OF ALL SUCH PRINCES AS FELL FROM THEYR ESTATES THROUGHE THE MUTABILITY OF FORTUNE SINCE THE CREATION OF ADAM, UNTIL HIS TIME. ["FALL OF PRINCES"] by [BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI]. LYDGATE, JOHN

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Title: THE TRAGEDIES, GATHERED BY JHON BOCHAS, OF ALL SUCH PRINCES AS FELL FROM THEYR ESTATES THROUGHE THE MUTABILITY OF FORTUNE SINCE THE CREATION OF ADAM, UNTIL HIS TIME. ["FALL OF PRINCES"]
Author: [BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI]. LYDGATE, JOHN
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Iohn Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne oueragainst the Conduite in Flete-strete. Cum priuilegio per septennium, [1554 or 1555]. Third or Fourth Edition of the First English Translation of "De Casibus Illustrium Virorum.. 340 x 220 mm. (13 1/4 x 8 3/4"). 9 p.l., clxiii, xxxvi, xxxv-xxxvii, [1] leaves (complete, including "A Memorial of such Princes" leaf, often lacking, at the end; collates as ESTC). Translated from the French version of Laurent de Premierfait by John Lydgate. Attractive 19th century honey-brown morocco by Francis Bedford (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers gilt with French fillet frame, oblique bouquets at corners, raised bands, spine compartments with central fleuron framed by geometrical compartments filled with floral tooling, gilt lettering, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Title page and Gg4 recto (title page of a suppressed supplement dealing with English notables) with woodcut title border, the top compartment with the Royal Arms, termini at sides, the pedestal at base with a tablet showing one boy waking another with the motto "Arise for it is day" (McKerrow & Ferguson 76a), A4 recto with woodcut depicting the Creation of Eve, flanked by terminal side-pieces, woodcut historiated and floral initials throughout. Printed in black letter. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of Christopher William Beaumont Pease; rear pastedown with bookplates of John William Pease and Lord Wardington. Chrzanowski 1555b; Pforzheimer 73; Luborsky & Ingram 3178; STC 3178; ESTC S107087. Spine somewhat sunned and dulled, extremities very lightly rubbed, boards with a couple of faint scratches, but the once very handsome binding still attractive. Title leaf and final leaf extended at foot, first few and last couple of leaves (excluding title and final leaf) with small minor repair at upper corner, probably pressed and perhaps lightly washed at the time of binding, isolated trivial stains, but the text still surprisingly fresh, remarkably clean, and entirely smooth. This is a desirable copy of an important 16th century translation of Boccaccio's study of the vicissitudes of fortune, prepared by John Lydgate, a poet much influenced by Chaucer. Educated in the Benedictine monastery where he eventually served as prior, Lydgate (ca. 1370 - 1449/50?) was a respected poet whose works, DNB tells us, "bear the mark of a pious and learned mind." And an indication of his importance is reflected in Chrzanowski's statement that "well into the 16th century, the premier poets of England were considered to be Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Lydgate." Undertaken ca. 1431 at the request of the duke of Gloucester, the 36,365 lines here, divided into nine books, required a massive effort that took until 1438 or 1439 to complete. In the text, a parade of notable historical figures pass before "Bochas" (Boccaccio), telling of the turns of fate that brought their careers and reputations crashing down from a pinnacle. According to DNB, Lydgate's interpretation of the work "urges the traditional doctrines of moderation, the avoidance of pride, and the pursuit of virtue, and demonstrates the horror of discord and strife between kinsfolk. This advice, though couched in general terms, was highly relevant to contemporary princes." This relevance led to popularity: more than 30 manuscripts of the work survive, and it was printed previously in 1494 and in 1527. The final leaf here (Gg4) contains the title page for "A Memorial of Such Princes, as since the Tyme of King Richard the Seconde, Haue Been Unfortunate in the Realme of England," intended for issue with "Fall of Princes" but suppressed by Queen Mary. It was finally published, as the famous "Mirrour for the Magistrates," in 1559, after Elizabeth I had ascended the throne. The binding here is by the eminent West End bindery of Francis Bedford (d. 1883) and was owned by three generations of the Wardington family, who created one of the finest private libraries in England. It contains the bookplates of Northumberland banker John William (Beaumont) Pease (1869-1950), who began the collection; a grandson, Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington (1924-2005), who was, successively, Chairman, Vice-President, and then President of the Friends of the British Library; and a great-grandson, the Hon. Christopher William Beaumont Pease (b. 1970). The Wardington sales at Sotheby's in London were major bibliophilic events in 2005 and 2006. The very expert extension at the bottoms of the title leaf and the (rare) final leaf would seem to suggest that these come from another copy (the leaves are not facsimiles). In any case, every recent copy sold at auction (according to RBH) lacked one or both of these leaves or had other leaves supplied. This fact, plus the fine state of preservation of our copy and its distinguished provenance surely are more than enough to compensate for the volume's one appreciable shortcoming..

CINQ SAPATES by BRAQUE, GEORGES, Illustrator. (BINDINGS - BRINDEAU). PONGE, FRANCIS

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Title: CINQ SAPATES
Author: BRAQUE, GEORGES, Illustrator. (BINDINGS - BRINDEAU). PONGE, FRANCIS
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: [Maeght], 1950. No. 82 OF 101 COPIES. 408 x 280 mm. (16 x 11"). 50 pp., [2] leaves. INGENIOUS DOVE GRAY CALF BY FRANÇOIS BRINDEAU (stamp-signed on front doublure), covers with geometric onlays that are variations of the number 5 ("cinq"), some highlighted with white-tooled parallel lines, author's name and title lettered in blue on upper cover, artist's name and date on lower, smooth spine, gray calf doublures, gray suede free endleaves, edges untrimmed. Original printed gray wrappers bound in. Housed in (lightly scuffed) matching gray linen clamshell box, gray calf label lettered in blue and white on spine. With five half-page black etchings by Braque. HALF TITLE WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR OF BLUE LEAVES AND INSCRIPTION BY BRAQUE: "Pour Max Pellequer, bien amicalement, G. Braque 1951." Peyré, "Peinture et Poésie," p. 149; The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960, 37. Isolated faint marginal foxing, slight crease to title page, but a VERY FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright internally in a pristine binding. Bound to a sculptural Art Deco design, and elegantly illustrated and inscribed by a great 20th century artist, this is a collection of five poems about "sapates"--valuable gifts hidden inside a gift of lesser value, such as a diamond ring inside a cupcake. Our volume does not fall under this category: its outside is every bit as impressive as the contents. The celebrated French artist Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a painter, collagist, printmaker, and sculptor who made important contributions to the Fauves movement in the early 20th century, and to the development of Cubism, in which he and Picasso were the leading lights. The illustrations here, done near the end of his long career, depict the five "sapates"--oil, olives, a jug, a rough sketch of a fish, a shutter--in simple black and white, with more realism than his Cubist works but still in simple, pared-down lines. To accompany the inscription of this volume to banker Max Pellequer (d. 1974), nephew of Picasso's friend André Level, Braque added a small painting of cerulean blue leaves, a single note of color in the blacks, whites, and grays of the text, and one picked up by binder François Brindeau, who used that hue for the lettering on the covers. Brindeau studied at the École Estienne, graduating in 1976, and then worked with Jean de Gonet. He created the present binding for bibliophile and former Olympic rowing medalist Maurice Houdayer (1931-2020), a connoisseur of contemporary bindings who had a great love of Art Deco. Houdayer served as president of the Amis de la Reliure Originale, and assembled an impressive collection of illustrated books in bindings he commissioned from innovative designers. Montpellier-born poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988) was known as "the poet of things" because he wrote about simple everyday objects like the subjects of the present work. His poetry invites us to contemplate often overlooked commonplace objects, and perhaps in doing so, to discover something about the human psyche. Literary critic David Gascoyne noted that Ponge "addressed himself to the common reader in the hope of persuading us that poetry is not merely a preoccupation of the idle and overeducated.".

Acts Passed At A Congress Of The United States Of America by [Washington, George] Carter, Jimmy; Clinton, Bill

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Title: Acts Passed At A Congress Of The United States Of America
Author: [Washington, George] Carter, Jimmy; Clinton, Bill
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, Inc, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Acts Passed at a Congress of The United States of America, in Commemoration of the Opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. September 27, 201. Quarto, xiv, [15]-93, [13pp]. Publisher's imitation calf binding, title stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers, with facsimile of Washington's bookplate on the front endpaper. Includes a 48-page program for the Grand Opening celebration. Housed in custom blue cloth box, invitation to the event on the front pastedown, lined with brown felt, silk bookmark, blue paper slipcase. This work is signed by President Jimmy Carter, who signed it with a full signature, and Bill Clinton, who dated his signature "10/13/16." This work is a reproduction of the official printing of the Acts of the first Congress, including the first official printing of the Bill of Rights. (Evans 22189) (Sabin 15493).

Plenty Coups by King, Charles E.

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Title: Plenty Coups
Author: King, Charles E.
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Description: Livingston, MT: C.E. & Hattie King, 1900. Silver gelatin photograph [18 cm x 13 cm] / [7" x 5"] matted and in a wooden frame [30 cm x 25 cm] / [12" x 10"] In nice condition with good contrasts. Manuscript note on the reverse of the photograph: "Order from numbers on back of print. Can supply any order desired at 50 cts. ea. Address Livingston, Mont. Your friend C.E. King." Full portrait of Plenty Coups (c.1848-1932) in a war bonnet standing in front of a teepee. Plenty Coups was a chief of the Crow Nation and the Grand Chief of the Indian Commission. Plenty Coos won his way to a chieftain according to the custom of the old time Indians long before there were any reservations. Formally he was the head of the division known as the Mountain Crows, and on consolidation of the tribes became head chief of all. C.E. (Charles) and Hattie King were photographers in Tacoma in the latter part of the 19th century. Charles King was hired by Northern Pacific in the 1870s to photograph land where the tracks were to be laid between Livingston and Tacoma. In the 1880s, Charles and Hattie were hired to photograph local churches, residences, and ships. Charles was known for being one of the earliest photographers to capture an image of Mount Rainier. Charles King would go on to serve as a Tacoma Police Captain.

LGBTQ+ Representation in European Cinema, Mädchen in Uniform Lobby Card and Postcard Archive, 1958 by Christa Winsloe Mädchen In Uniform

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Title: LGBTQ+ Representation in European Cinema, Mädchen in Uniform Lobby Card and Postcard Archive, 1958
Author: Christa Winsloe Mädchen In Uniform
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1958. Schneider, Romy (subject). Mädchen in Uniform photograph archive, 1958, documents early cinematic representation of same-sex desire in European film, focusing on one of the first narrative works to depict lesbian relationships within an institutional setting. The material provides primary visual evidence of how female intimacy, authority, and repression were portrayed on screen, supporting research into LGBTQ+ film history, censorship, and postwar European cultural production. Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform). Directed by Géza von Radványi. France / West Germany, 1958. Archive of 9 photographic items, including 8 original real photo postcards and 1 original photograph. The images prominently feature Romy Schneider in various roles and settings from the film, including portraits in school uniform and staged scenes emphasizing the regimented environment of the girls' institution. One Romanian-captioned postcard ("Fete in Uniforma") depicts Schneider in a masculine suit and bowtie, visually engaging with gender presentation and performance. Another image shows Schneider with fellow students leaning from a balcony, while a larger group scene presents rows of uniformed students with Schneider centered among them, reinforcing themes of conformity and individuality. A separate photograph features co-star Lilli Palmer in formal dress, highlighting contrasting adult authority figures within the narrative. The compositions emphasize costume, posture, and group arrangement, central to the film's depiction of discipline and emotional tension. This archive emerges from a period when LGBTQ+ themes were heavily regulated in international cinema, with Mädchen in Uniform continuing the legacy of its 1931 predecessor by presenting a same-sex relationship within a boarding school context. Its delayed release in the United States reflects the constraints of the Motion Picture Production Code, which limited explicit portrayals of homosexuality in American distribution. The film's inclusion in the Berlin International Film Festival underscores its recognition within global cinema despite such restrictions. Minor wear consistent with handling; overall very good condition. A cohesive visual record of early lesbian representation and gender expression in postwar European film.

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

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Title: Sophie's Choice
Author: William Styron
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394461090
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first trade edition with the number line ending in a 2 (indicates first printing for Random House); a Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front free end paper. Basis for the outstanding movie starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. This copy is in near fine condition showing only some light rubbing to the spine and board edges and some faint age-spotting to the exterior text block, else fine. Housed in a clean and bright very good dust jacket that shows some moderate sunning to the spine, some mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges, and a light crease to the front flap. A handsome copy of this novel whose title has entered the vernacular for making a decision between impossible choices, Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Promotional Poster : The Wretched Stone by Van Allsburg, Chris ( Illustrator)

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Title: Promotional Poster : The Wretched Stone
Author: Van Allsburg, Chris ( Illustrator)
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 18 1/2" x 25 1/4". Publisher's promotional poster, 18 1/2 " w x 25 1/4" h distributed at the ABA trade show in 1991. Near Fine, faint crease near edge. With a wonderful Van Allsburg illustration, different than the one seen on the dust jacket. Well suited for framing. All posters will be sent loosely rolled in a mailing tube..

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Fear; Trump in the White House by Woodward, Bob

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Title: Fear; Trump in the White House
Author: Woodward, Bob
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781501175510
Description: New York, Etc.: Simon & Schuster, 2018. 1st Printing. [xxiii] 420 [1]p., colored illus., dj.

To the Homeward-Bound Americans [A Ses Allies Americans La France Reconnaissante 1914-1919] by Van Vorst, B.

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Title: To the Homeward-Bound Americans [A Ses Allies Americans La France Reconnaissante 1914-1919]
Author: Van Vorst, B.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Paris: Lang, Blanchong & Co., 1919. Softcover. First edition; pictorial stapled wraps; minor wear to covers; illustrated; original portrait of a soldier to front cover verso; near fine.A souvenir of appreciation given by the French to American soldiers returning home after WWI. The portrait of an unknown soldier (most probably the recipient of the pamphlet) pasted on front cover verso is a nice uncommon touch.

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