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POÈMES DE BRANDEBOURG by (BINDINGS - LOBSTEIN). FRÉNAUD, ANDRÉ. JACQUES VILLON, Illustrator

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Title: POÈMES DE BRANDEBOURG
Author: (BINDINGS - LOBSTEIN). FRÉNAUD, ANDRÉ. JACQUES VILLON, Illustrator
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: NRF, 1947. FIRST EDITION. No. 155 OF 170 NUMBERED COPIES, plus 20 hors commerces copies for the author and project collaborators. 282 x 225 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4"). 77, [3] pp. SUPERB CREAM-COLORED POLISHED CALF WITH MOSAIC INLAYS BY LOBSTEIN (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper) upper cover with Cubist crowned king silhouette based on Villon's etchings, with gilt lines and inlays in citron, gray, and vermillion morocco, three of the inlays with raised corrugation, smooth spine with gilt lettering, ochre handmade paper endpapers, leather hinges, top edge gilt. Original paper wrappers bound in. Housed in suede-lined wood veneer chemise with cream calf spine and fore edges, in a matching leather-lipped wooden slipcase. WITH SIX COLOR ETCHINGS BY JACQUES VILLON. Castleman, "A Century of Artists Books," p. 59, 128. Occasional faint offsetting or very light browning to leaves, but still A VERY FINE COPY, with virtually no signs of use. Written when the author was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, this collection contains one of Frénaud's best-known poems, a reworking of the story of the Three Magi, whose images are interpreted in the etchings of Jacques Villon, and in our binding by Alain Lobstein. Frénaud (1907-93) worked as a civil servant before joining the army in 1939; he was captured in 1940 and spent two years in a Brandenburg labor camp before returning to France, where he joined the Resistance. His obituary in "The Independent" noted that he used scraps of papers taken from bags of cement as writing surfaces for his first poems. Surrealist poet Paul Eluard was impressed with Frénaud's verses, and published some in the pamphlets he produced for the Resistance. Many of the poems in the Brandenburg group are dedicated to one or another of Frénaud's fellow prisoners of war. When a copy of the work appeared in the MOMA exhibition "A Century of Artists Books," art historian Riva Castleman wrote in the accompanying catalogue: "In retelling the tale of the Three Kings, Frénaud wrote that they arrived too late, the Massacre of the Innocents had begun. Yet by following the star they continued to hope that the Savior of mankind existed, as those prisoners of the Germans to whom Frénaud dedicated his poems must have done." Villon (1875-1963) was born Gaston Duchamp into an artistic family: his younger siblings were sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Dada artist Marcel Duchamp, and painter Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Describing him as "one of the master etchers of [the 20th] century," Castleman notes that "Villon made some of the most colorful aquatints of the beautiful ladies of the belle epoque during the early 1900s. Shortly thereafter Cubism transformed his visual vocabulary into black and white. Only after World War II, still creating in the Cubist mode, did he return to color for the etchings in [the present] book." Alain Lobstein adapted Villon's Magi for the binding, using gilt and three-dimensional textures to convey the richness of their royal raiment. Lobstein (1927-2005) trained with the successor to Marius Michel, Georges Cretté (1893-1969), before marrying his teacher's daughter and taking over the workshop on Cretté's retirement. Lobstein's obituary in the journal "Arts et Metiers du Livre" (no. 252, Feb/Mar 2006) observes that over a 50-year career he created bindings in a variety of styles, from traditional and retrospective bindings to modern and art bindings. The account characterized him as "a teacher, a trainer . . . [who] knew how to transmit his knowledge with finesse, realism and generosity." According to Flety, Lobstein's bindings--in every genre--"retain a classicism of good quality which makes them appreciated by many bibliophiles." Whether the present example is classical is less relevant than whether it is imaginative, suggestive of content, and pleasing--and there is no doubt it is all three of those..

Robert Frost Signs His Collected Works, Penning an Iconic Line From One of His Great Poems: ""We have ideas yet that we haven't tried"" by Robert Frost

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Title: Robert Frost Signs His Collected Works, Penning an Iconic Line From One of His Great Poems: ""We have ideas yet that we haven't tried""
Author: Robert Frost
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 1930. Robert Frost is perhaps the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, authoring such memorable poems as Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, and The Road Not Taken. He was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, an extraordinary achievement. According to “Contemporary Literary Criticism”, Frost became one of America’s rare “public literary figures, almost an artistic institution.” He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. Frost spoke at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, and on July 22, 1961, was named poet laureate of Vermont.In early 1915, Robert Frost wrote ""The Road Less Traveled"", which featured the now famous lines: ""Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."" This focused on the paths in life we have to take.In the late 1920s, he returned to this, one of his most powerful themes, with the poem ""Riders."" In this poem he states that we are all riders on a metaphorical path of life. He concludes this poem with the great quote: ""We have ideas yet that we haven't tried."" This powerful statement is a forward looking, optimistic perspective on our time spent living, and focuses on the ongoing process of living and choosing. Its broad and optimistic perspective is both iconically Frost, reminiscent of his greatest work, inspiring, and essentially American.Book signed, COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930, featuring this powerful, iconically Frost inscription: ""We have ideas yet that we haven't tried, says Robert Frost. To Stanley Johnson.""

Verzeichniss einer auserlesenen naturhistorischen Bibliothek und einiger andern Schriften, welche von dem allhier verstorbenen Buchhändler Herrn Johann Jacob Gebauer hinterlassen und auf den 18ten Junius 1821…und folgende Tage in dem Gebauerschen Hause…öffentlich versteigert werden sollen durch J. Chr. Lippert by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: GEBAUER, J.J.)

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Title: Verzeichniss einer auserlesenen naturhistorischen Bibliothek und einiger andern Schriften, welche von dem allhier verstorbenen Buchhändler Herrn Johann Jacob Gebauer hinterlassen und auf den 18ten Junius 1821…und folgende Tage in dem Gebauerschen Hause…öffentlich versteigert werden sollen durch J. Chr. Lippert
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: GEBAUER, J.J.)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1 p.l., 28 pp. Small 8vo, self-bound (title & verso of final leaf dusty). Halle: Gebauer, [1821]. The very rare sale catalogue of the natural history library of Gebauer (1745-1818), the Halle publisher and printer. In 1772, Johann Jacob took over the publishing firm established by his father in 1733 and ran it until his own death in 1818. The publishing house was later acquired by his son-in-law C.A. Schwetschke and renamed Gebauer-Schwetschke. During Johann Jacob’s proprietorship, the firm greatly expanded, specializing in scholarly, scientific, and theological works. The archive of the publishing house from its origins is in the city archives of Halle. The main part of the catalogue consists of 697 lots; a supplement has another 112 lots of miscellaneous books. Most of the natural history books are German or Dutch and published in the 18th century. Very good copy. Release stamp on title. Not in WorldCat. ❧ Loh, VI, p. 236 knows of this sale only from a newspaper advertisement.

Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. J.B.G. Haillet de Couronne, Ancien Lieutenant-Général Criminel au Baillage de Rouen, Secrétarie perpétuel honoraire de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de la même Ville, Membre de l'Académie des Belles-Lettres de Caen, etc. by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: HAILLET DE COURONNE, Jean Baptiste Guillaume)

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Title: Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. J.B.G. Haillet de Couronne, Ancien Lieutenant-Général Criminel au Baillage de Rouen, Secrétarie perpétuel honoraire de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de la même Ville, Membre de l'Académie des Belles-Lettres de Caen, etc.
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: HAILLET DE COURONNE, Jean Baptiste Guillaume)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: xvii, 311 pp. 8vo, cont. blue straight-grained half-morocco & paste-paper boards (upper joint a little wormed). Paris: Tilliard Frères, August 1811. A fine sale of 2325 lots, containing about 15,000 volumes, and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. The savant Haillet (1728-1810), a member of a distinguished noble family, formed a library particularly rich in natural history, geography, antiquities, literary history, and bibliography. We learn from the “Avertissement” that Haillet began to collect books at the age of 12 and ultimately formed a library amounting to 48,000 volumes. A fire at the Château de Couronne destroyed more than 16,000 volumes (and another 17,000 volumes or so were considered too damaged to be sold at the auction). He was well-known for his bibliographical expertise and left many scholarly notes regarding various bibliographical projects. Our copy has a contemporary note on the title stating that the sale took place in January and February of 1812. Fine copy and scarce. This copy does not have, as usual, the four-page schedule of the sale. ❧ Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 515. Horne, p. 708–“As M. Haillet not only possessed great taste for bibliography, but was also well skilled in that science; the class of literary history is the most numerous, and most of the works were illustrated by his notes.”.

Mickey Mouse Drawing as the Sorcerer's Apprentice by KIMBALL, WARD

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Title: Mickey Mouse Drawing as the Sorcerer's Apprentice
Author: KIMBALL, WARD
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: With ink and watercolor pencil, Disney animator Ward Kimball has sketched a smiling full length Mickey Mouse dressed as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, bucket in hand. The character became the iconic symbol of the Disney film "Fantasia" released in 1940. Mickey measures approximately 5 inches from tip of hat to top of toe and about the same across. The drawing is accomplished on a 9 x 12 inch firm sketch sheet. The artist has inscribed and signed, "To... Ward Kimball." In overall fine condition; slight bend in lower right corner of the board, two mounting remnants on verso. Kimball was one of the Disney studios Nine Old Men, the group of the Academy Award winning chief animators on Disney's classic films. Kimball was one of the Disney studios Nine Old Men, the group of the Academy Award winning chief animators on Disney's classic films.

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. by COPLAND, Aaron

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Title: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.
Author: COPLAND, Aaron
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: New York: Cos Cobb Press, Inc Book. (1929). Large 4to, original printed pale green wrappers. Pp. 67. Edges of wrappers moderately browned and rubbed, moderate soiling; a very good copy. First edition. One of the first works from the Cos Cob Press, established in 1928 by Copland and Alma Wertheim to promote the works of young composers. Copland dedicated his piano concerto to Wertheim..

Opera medica Omnia ... Accedunt Fabritii Bartholeti ... de dyspnoea, seu de respirationibus libri quinque by [17TH-CENTURY MEDICINE] -- RIVIÈRE, Lazare (1589-1655) – BARTOLETTI, Fabrizio (1586-1630)

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Title: Opera medica Omnia ... Accedunt Fabritii Bartholeti ... de dyspnoea, seu de respirationibus libri quinque
Author: [17TH-CENTURY MEDICINE] -- RIVIÈRE, Lazare (1589-1655) – BARTOLETTI, Fabrizio (1586-1630)
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Venice: ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1735. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio (375 x 240mm). [xxiv], 572pp., [4], 208pp. Title in red and black with ornamental device of the muses. Diagrams interspersed, numerous ornamental initials and head-and tail-pieces. Preface by Jacopo Grando. Contemporary vellum (lacking plate, joints splitting, intermittent foxing). Ownership inscription “A. Docinelli A. M. D. 1864” on title and also “Di Giorgio Bonelli da Mondovi. P.P.” Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. Complete medical works of Rivière. The complete medical works of Lazare Rivière (1589-1655), professor at Montpellier, consists of the Institutiones medicae, together with the Praxeos medicae, and an additional 17 parts on the head, the sense organs, the teeth, the thorax and abdomen, the joints, women’s illnesses and fevers. Also included are 400 observations by the author, approximately 250 communicated to him by fellow physicians, and finally, the Arcana, a collection of secrets giving the chemical formulae for a large number of preparations together with their medicinal properties. At the end, separately paginated, is added a treatise on the symptoms, cause and cure of respiratory problems by Fabrizio Bartoletti (1586-1630). Rivière was the first to introduce the therapy of using metallic compounds internally, known as the spagiric or paracelsian-specific method, and the first to note aortic constriction. Rivière’s work was instrumental in the French Renaissance of medicine.

Porgy by Du Bose Heyward

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Title: Porgy
Author: Du Bose Heyward
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: George H. Doran, 1925. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine copy In a near Fine Jacket.$2.00 On Spine Of Jacket.Rare In This Condition.Beautiful Fresh Copy Of This Classic..

Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark by Vinchent, Julien

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Title: Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
Author: Vinchent, Julien
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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Description: 1879. Very Good. Vinchent, Julien (1822-87). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. Brussels, September 19, 1879. 1- pp. 177 x 113 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Responding to Clark's request for a portrait photograph. Vinchent was Belgium's director general of the post office and telegraph. Origins of Cyberspace 209. .

The Key of Life by YOUNG, Francis Brett

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Title: The Key of Life
Author: YOUNG, Francis Brett
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial Art Deco dust jacket by Ronald McRae, yellow topstain; [6],279pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few closed tears and subsequent creasing, pink portion of spine faded, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. English author's uncharacteristically adventurous romance novel set in Egypt along the Nile.

Advances in Military Medicine Made by American Investigators Working under the Sponsorship of the Committee on Medical Research. Volume I (of 2) only. [Science in World War II series]. by Andrus, E. Cowles, et al., eds.

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Title: Advances in Military Medicine Made by American Investigators Working under the Sponsorship of the Committee on Medical Research. Volume I (of 2) only. [Science in World War II series].
Author: Andrus, E. Cowles, et al., eds.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown & Co., 1948. First Edition. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), liv + 472 pp. Photos., illustrations. Very Good in dust jacket.

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