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Uncle Tom's Cabin by CRUIKSHANK George STOWE Harriet Beecher

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author
CRUIKSHANK George STOWE Harriet Beecher
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1852. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. With Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank. London: John Cassell, 1852. Thirteen parts. Octavo, original pale yellow wrappers, bound by string; housed in a custom chemise and solander box. $8100.Second English edition (published the same year as the Boston first edition) of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s galvanizing novel of slavery, the first to feature illustrations by celebrated artist George Cruikshank, in the very fragile original thirteen issues.""The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since"" (PMM 332). Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial novel proved immediately successful upon its publication in book form, and publishers in England, aware of the nation's large and vocal anti-slavery contingent, quickly issued their own editions (14 English editions appeared in 1852 alone). This edition, with frontispiece, title page vignette and 27 full-page wood engravings after George Cruikshank, is frequently referred to as the first English edition; however, BAL asserts that the C.H. Clarke edition was advertised as being available in April 1852, while the first part of Cassell's edition was not available until October 1852. As noted in the Cruikshank bibliography, the edition in parts was printed ""in yellow paper printed wrappers of very poor quality, and hence difficult to get in a good state"" (Cohn, George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raissoné, 777). See: BAL 19518, Note; Grolier English 100 91; Grolier American 100 61. Cohn 777. Fragile wrappers fresh and clean with virtually no wear. Very rare in such outstanding condition.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author
Dickens, Charles
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Near Fine. A handsome, Near Fine copy. Bound in publisher's full maroon morocco gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. While copies of this work in the publisher's deluxe binding usually appear in a green morocco, this example is in a much scarcer maroon morocco in much the same style. Complete with the frontisportrait (in the first state) and thirty-nine plates. Minor rubbing to extremities. The usual spotting to plates, but cleaner than is usually seen. A scarce and attractive survival in the scarce publisher's maroon morocco. "Dickens' third novel has always been a favourite with the general public. Indeed, it was the book's huge sales that enabled Dickens to give up parliamentary reporting and become a full-time writer...The theatricality of the novel attracted new and more appreciative critical attention [and it] demonstrates the inextricable link between public and private" (Bannerjee). A satire tackling the injustices faced by both women and men within the Victorian class system that relied so heavily the social status of the patriarch, the novel follows Nicholas Nickleby as he seeks to support his mother and sister after his father's death. When Nicholas' father dies after losing all of the family's money, it is up to the young man to emerge as the new and more morally sound patriarch. Dashing and likable, Nicholas ultimately prevails, dodging shady characters along the way and securing a respectable life in Devonshire for his extended family. Smith, Part I: 5. Near Fine.
Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]

Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971] by ARBUS, DIANE

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]
Author
ARBUS, DIANE
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Charles Cowles, 1971. First edition. Original wrappers, custom box. Very Good. THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. By 1971, "an appreciation of [Arbus's] photography was building in the art world at large... The most gratifying acknowledgement of her as an artist came not from a museum but from a magazine. Through Henry Geldzahler, the contemporary-art curator at the Metropolitan Museum, Arbus arranged a meeting with Philip Leider. The founding editor of Artforum, an influential monthly art magazine that championed modernism, Leider regarded the sculptor and land artist Robert Smithson as the most significant artist of the day. He had never featured a photographer in his pages. He didn't believe photography mixed with painting and sculpture; he wasn't even convinced that it was an art form. But he agreed to meet Geldzahler in Arbus's apartment and look at the pictures in her portfolio. "Even though he was very aware of Arbus by reputation, he didn't know her work well. The box of ten photographs astounded him. He wanted to reproduce all of the pictures in his magazine. Arbus offered him stacks of other photographs, which he looked through as she chatted with Geldzahler. A central tenet of modernism, as formulated most forcefully by the critic Clement Greenberg, is that a painter or sculptor should respect and exploit the capacities and limitations of the form in which he works. Since a canvas is flat, for example, a painter mustn't resort to trickery that would suggest otherwise. He should emphasize the flatness. Studying Arbus's pictures, Leider concluded 'that Diane's work accomplished for photography what we demanded be accomplished, under the needs of Modernism, for all arts: it owed nothing to any other art. What it had to offer could only be provided by photography.' He committed himself to publishing her work. He ended up not being able to use all ten of the photographs, but he did take six, giving each a full page. Indeed, for one of them-the pro-war demonstrator in the straw boater-he went a step further. He placed it on the cover. To jump from never including a photographer to assigning one the most prominent place in the magazine was a huge leap. The showcase for Arbus in the May 1971 issue of Artforum marked a key moment in the recognition of photography as more than a handmaiden or stepsister of art. Fully fledged, photography had flown the nest. It was a grown-up art form, with Arbus clearly a leader" (Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer). With Arbus's "poetic and gnomic" text-five short standalone paragraphs-introducing her work (ibid.). Tragically, Arbus would commit suicide only two months later, in July 1971. "Five Photographs by Diane Arbus". IN: Artforum, May 1971, Volume IX, No. 9. Quarto (10.5x10.5 inches); custom cloth box. Light rubbing to wrapper covers; text fine. An outstanding copy of a critically important issue that has become difficult to find in collectible condition.
International Night Life: The Magazine of Night Club Activities: Volume One, Number One

International Night Life: The Magazine of Night Club Activities: Volume One, Number One

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Seller: Sanctuary Books
Title
International Night Life: The Magazine of Night Club Activities: Volume One, Number One
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Philadelphia: Great Eastern Associates, n.d. (c. 1950?). Paperback. Very Good+. Staple-bound color illustrated wraps; 4to; pp. [16], with ads and illustrations in b/w and full-color. Covers a little rubbed along the edges; small spot of soiling at top margin of front cover. Includes 8 full-page color engravings from paintings of the women featured in the revue at the International Casino; a program of the BRAVO revue; and more.
An Exhibition of Paintings by Setsuko

An Exhibition of Paintings by Setsuko by SETSUKO

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
An Exhibition of Paintings by Setsuko
Author
SETSUKO
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London and Tokyo, Japan: The Lefevre Gallery and The Seibu Department Stores, Ltd, 1989. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 5-27, 1989 in London and November 18-19, 1989 in Tokyo. Text in English and Japanese. Features a foreword by Denys Sutton. Includes numerous color illustrations and a checklist. A near fine copy in wrappers.

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