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My Brilliant Friend [signed, limited edition]

My Brilliant Friend [signed, limited edition] by Ferrante, Elena

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Title
My Brilliant Friend [signed, limited edition]
Author
Ferrante, Elena
Seller
Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: The Cuckoo Press, in association with Europa Editions for John Sandoe (Books) Ltd, 2015. First edition thus, one of one hundred numbered copies, of a total edition of 126 copies, signed by the author. 315 pp. Quarter Japanese silk, Chiyogami blue and gold paper boards, spine and printed label lettered in gilt. Slightest touch of rubbing to slipcase corners, else a fine copy, as new. A beautiful special edition of the first in Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet, a literary phenomenon. In a recent poll of writers and critics, My Brilliant Friend was voted the best novel since 2000 by the New York Times. The publishers at Sandoe worked closely with Ferrante’s publishers Europa (for the English translation) and E/O (for the original Italian), and were able through these channels to reach out to the author to see if she would be amenable to a limited hardcover edition of her work; she was, and thus the title-page and colophon page were printed and sent to Rome for Ferrante to sign. The pseudonymous Ferrante guards her privacy fiercely, and this edition is likely the only opportunity for a genuine signed copy of her work. The book was designed by John de Falbe & Hero von Friesen, printed by Anthony Eyre at The Letterpress of Cirencester, and handsewn and handbound at the Black Fox Bindery.
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Negro in War-Time by JOHNSON James Weldon SMITH Bolton

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Negro in War-Time
Author
JOHNSON James Weldon SMITH Bolton
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1918. First Edition. JOHNSON, James Weldon. ""The Negro in War-Time"" by Bolton Smith of Memphis, Tennessee. With a Rejoinder by James Weldon Johnson Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, November, 1918. Slim octavo, original printed tan self-wrappers, staple bound as issued; pp. (1-2), 3-11 (1). $2800.First edition of the electrifying response near the end of WWI by James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed Field Secretary to the NAACP, to a white Memphis businessman's article, ""Negro in War-Time,"" included herein with its claims that the ""Negro Press"" presented ""every lynching in its worst aspect"" and promoted disloyalty by making the Black man ""not as jolly, care-free and good-natured as he once was."" Johnson's bold ""Rejoinder"" points to the thousands of Black Americans lynched long before WWI and declares the white ""South will never get to the heart of this problem until it is able to think of the Negro… as a human being.""By the time WWI ended on November 11, 1918, ""Johnson had established himself as one of the great African American polymaths in our history."" A brilliant lyricist, poet and novelist, he was the ""literary broker of… the Harlem Renaissance and the organizational force behind the NAACP."" In particular, the ""American obscenity of lynching infested Johnson's artistic and moral imagination,"" and drove his bold leadership in civil rights (David Blight, New Republic). At the time of this work's publication, only days before Germany's surrender, Johnson was the NAACP's field secretary, and in 1920 became the first Black American to serve as its executive secretary. Here Johnson forcefully responds to an article by Bolton Smith, a white Memphis businessman, that was serialized a few months earlier in a local publication. Smith's article claims that Jim Crow poses only a mild ""inconvenience"" to Black Americans and the Black soldiers who nevertheless display a ""growing sullenness"" in expressing ""their own ideas"" about their rights. To Smith, this speaks to the need for a repeal of the 15th Amendment, and he argues ""all this talk plays so well into the hands of Germany that… we may find that many Negro lynchings are in fact fomented or aggravated by German spies."" In Johnson's Rejoinder, first published by the NAACP in this very elusive first edition, he points to the thousands of Black Americans ""lynched in this country"" well before WWI, and declares ""the present discontent among the colored people is not fomented by pro-German propaganda but by anti-Negro propaganda… the white man in the South knows a good deal about the Negro, but he does not know the Negro… The South will never get at the heart of this problem until it is able to think of the Negro not merely as something just outside the human pale, not merely as an economic asset to the South, but as a human being"" (emphasis in original). First edition, first printing of Johnson's ""The Negro in War-Time—A Rejoinder"" (pp. 8-10); with complete reprinting of Bolton Smith's ""The Negro in War-Time"" (pp. 3-7), serialized in The Public: August 31 and September 21, 1918. Containing NAACP mission statement and membership as of October, 1918 (p. 11); rear self-wrapper listing NAACP Officers and Board of Directors. Not in Blockson. A fine copy.
Hauptgebaude der Berliner Gewerb-Ausstellung

Hauptgebaude der Berliner Gewerb-Ausstellung by PEEP SHOW

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Title
Hauptgebaude der Berliner Gewerb-Ausstellung
Author
PEEP SHOW
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Germany, 1896. PEEP SHOW. Germany: 1896]. Six lithograph panels, including front and back panel. All panels with cut outs. The front pictorial panel with peep hole and back board with cut-out covered by orange tissue paper. (6 x 4 3/4 inches; 154 x 120 mm). Joined together by onion-skin bellows. Measures approximately 16 inches when opened. Some minor soiling and rubbing to boards. Paper bellows with some toning and dampstaining. A few small tears to bellows. Images very bright. Overall a very nice example. This peepshow features the interior of the main building of the Berlin Trade Exhibition, showcasing foods and luxury goods, statues, home furnishings, artworks and clothing. On the outside of back board, images of various buildings in Berlin including the Department of Fisheries, Department of Gas and Water, Department for Food and Luxury Goods, Department of Chemistry, Main Restaurant, and School Building. HBS 69596. $1,500.
The Lives; of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. To which are added some Letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge: : with other to his Mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert, written by John Donne, afterwards Dean of St. Pauls

The Lives; of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. To which are added some Letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge: : with other to his Mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert, written by John Donne, afterwards Dean of St. Pauls by Walton, Izaak

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Title
The Lives; of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. To which are added some Letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge: : with other to his Mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert, written by John Donne, afterwards Dean of St. Pauls
Author
Walton, Izaak
Seller
Locus Solus Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Nineteenth-century owner's ticket to front pastedown; ink inscriptions, sizeable chip to p. 9-10 of Donne with loss of text; sma
Description
London: Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. Nineteenth-century owner's ticket to front pastedown; ink inscriptions, sizeable chip to p. 9-10 of Donne with loss of text; small chip to B4 (p. 15-16) of Hooker; F1 (p. 65-66 of Donne) missing; Hooker mispagination from 157ff.; generally soiled, with occasional small chip; endsheets discolored from binding leather; covers worn, backstrip partly separated.. 8vo, [2], [xii], 88, 79, 140 (i.e. 120), 104pp; contemporary panelled calf. Walton's Lives, short biographies of notable poets and clergymen, appeared serially and were here collected together for the first time in a single volume. The life of Sanderson was written in 1678 and did not appear together with these four until 1825, well after Walton's death in 1683. As with other copies of this edition, this one bears several small ink corrections to the text believed to be by Walton himself.
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Cortege Priapique by APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME

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Cortege Priapique
Author
APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
La Havane: Au Cabinet des Muses, 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Title in red and black. 8vo, contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers, as issued; small tear to spine; contents clean; card slipcase (split). Number 73 of 125 copies on Japon.
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MENDICIDAD EN MEXICO: BENEFICENCIA PUBLICA DEL D.F.; Departamento de Acción Educativa, Eficiencia y Catastros Sociales

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MENDICIDAD EN MEXICO: BENEFICENCIA PUBLICA DEL D.F.; Departamento de Acción Educativa, Eficiencia y Catastros Sociales
Seller
Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Condition
(some uncut pages; foxing, chipping on wrps. and spine)
Description
México: A. Mijares y Hno, 1931. (some uncut pages; foxing, chipping on wrps. and spine). ind., duo tone plates, appen., tbls., color pict. wrps. A 1920 study on the homeless and beggers in Mexico City, their illegal activities and their organizational abilities, with statistical information on type of blue collar workers and their salary ranges. Illustrations by Leal.
[OUTDOOR SPORTS] THE WATERS OF YELLOWSTONE WITH ROD AND FLY

[OUTDOOR SPORTS] THE WATERS OF YELLOWSTONE WITH ROD AND FLY by Howard Back

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Title
[OUTDOOR SPORTS] THE WATERS OF YELLOWSTONE WITH ROD AND FLY
Author
Howard Back
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good+ binding
Description
New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher's green cloth binding; 149 pages; complete with black and white photographic illustrations throughout; in an unclipped dust jacket; the jacket has some chips around the edges; some where at the folds; a bit of soiling on the back, there is a previous owners inscription on the front end paper. Very Good+ binding / Good dust jacket.
MOMENTS OF AN ITALIAN SUMMER

MOMENTS OF AN ITALIAN SUMMER by Wright, James

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Title
MOMENTS OF AN ITALIAN SUMMER
Author
Wright, James
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Wash, DC & San Francisco: Dryad Press, 1976. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wraps. 34pp. Drawings by Joan Root. Softcover issue. 50 copies were bound in boards numbered and signed by Wright and Root; the wrappered issue was unsigned. This copy has been signed by Wright on the title page. Cover type is Perpetua. Text is Bembo. Paper is Hopper Sonata Vellum and Becket cover. Shallow wrinkle on rear cover bottom corner. Near Fine condition. From the collection of RichardLlautz, Professor of modern poetry at La Salle Univ with his penciled initials on the last page upper corner.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Disneyland 1961 Original 35mm Slide Images Photos Photographs (Lot 1)

Disneyland 1961 Original 35mm Slide Images Photos Photographs (Lot 1)

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Title
Disneyland 1961 Original 35mm Slide Images Photos Photographs (Lot 1)
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
1961. Fine. This listing is for a group of original 35mm slides which are in red letter Kodachrome Transparency mounts date stamped July 1961 and in fine condition. This group includes an image of a riverboat, grounds near the general ticket booth, the Tomorrowland Rocket, bandmembers in a parade, and Skull Rock in Fantasyland.
Frankie Doodle

Frankie Doodle by Batsford, Ben

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Title
Frankie Doodle
Author
Batsford, Ben
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.. Very Good. 1939. Comic Book. [modest age-toning and light edgewear to covers, slight spine roll; NOTE that this has been graded by book standards, NOT on the comic-book grading scale]. (Single Series No. 7) Series (color cartoon strips) A rare-ish one-off comic book (in a slightly larger, magazine-size format), consisting of reprints of Sunday entries in Ben Batsford's strip about a pugnacious newsboy. It originated as a strip called "Susie Sunshine," created by Earl Hurd, which ran in the New York Evening Graphic from 1927 to 1929, and was then handed off to a couple of other artists (one of whom changed the title to "The Boomers"), before being taken over by Batsford in 1934, at which point the title was changed again to "The Doodle Family," and finally "Frankie Doodle." It ended in 1938, although the character headlined at least two comic-book-format issues, this one and Sparkler Comics #2 (1940). .
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Carteia; Excavaciones financiadas Por La "William L. Bryant Foundation" (U.S.A.)

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Carteia; Excavaciones financiadas Por La "William L. Bryant Foundation" (U.S.A.)
Seller
Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description
Madrid: Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Direccion General De Bellas Artes, Servicio Nacional De Excavaciones Arqueologicas, 1967. Memoria redactada por...Daniel E. Woods, Francisco Collantes de Terán y Diorme,Concepcion Fernandez-Chicarro y de Dios. 114p., plus 26 full-page b/w plates at the end, many b/e text illus., some foldouts, original stiff printed wrappers. SIGNED presentation on the front cover: "For Arthur M. Berger with very best wishes, Dan Woods 1972." (Excavaciones arqueologicas en España, 58).
Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination

Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination by (WELLS, H.G., Ursula Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis and L. Frank Baum)

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Title
Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination
Author
(WELLS, H.G., Ursula Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis and L. Frank Baum)
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780862730956
Condition
Very Good
Description
(London: Octopus Books / St Michael, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Sarah Silcock. Pages faintly age-toned with slight foxing on the edges, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Short stories by H.G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum and more.
The Genius of Wedgwood

The Genius of Wedgwood by Young, Hilary

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The Genius of Wedgwood
Author
Young, Hilary
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 234pp+ index. Very good in publisher's wraps.

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