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Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine

Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine by La Fontaine, Jean de

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Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant [et] Durand, De l'Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1759. First edition. A large paper copy with leaves measuring 465 x 330 mm (18 3/8 x 13 inches). Four volumes handsomely bound in contemporary French mottled calf. Red and green morocco spine labels with rich gilt detailing, marbled end-papers and all edges marbled. Discreet repairs to the spine ends without rebacking. Internal contents are generally in excellent condition although with the occasional spot of foxing and with a few worm pinholes running through the blank margins. Front inner hinge of Volume IV cracked but holding and slight age-toning to text leaves in that volume. Collating: [iv], xxx, xviii, 124; [iv], ii, 135, [1 blank]; [iv], iv, 146; [iv], ii, 188 [2 blanks]. Complete with the engraved frontis, the extra engraved portrait of Oudry (found only in some copies) and 275 other engraved plates after Jean-Baptiste Oudry by Cochin, Tardieu, Prevost, Chedel, Lempereur, and others, as well as numerous woodcut title vignettes, headpieces and tailpieces. The first plate for Fable CLXXII, "Le Singe et le Leopard" (facing p. 112 in Vol. III), is in the second state with the words "Le Leopard" on the banner. Bookplate of "John Drummond" in all four volumes and a second bookplate with the name illegible. After he became director of the Beauvais tapestry factory, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1685-1755) began to amuse himself sketching subjects from La Fontaine's Fables. He made a total of 276 sketches between 1729 and 1735. The story of how they became the illustrations of the Fables of 1755 - 1759 is told in the "Avertissement de l'editeur" in Volume I by the publisher Montenault, who had bought the sketches. Ourdry's subjects being landscapes and animals, which he had drawn freely for his own enjoyment, Cochin undertook the responsibility of turning these freehand drawings into finished prints. Although Oudry's skill at portraying animals and his interpretation of La Fontaine's humor can hardly be surpassed, Cochin's sure and experienced hand did much to improve the original designs, particularly the figures. He redrew them, correcting the figures and background and supplying precise lines for the engravers. La Fontaine's towering classic of French literature. "They are like a basket of strawberries. You begin by selecting the largest and best, but, little by little, you eat first one, then another, till at last the basket is empty," wrote the famed wit Madame de Sevigne. La Fontaine did not start writing full time until he was over thirty, but he would become one of the major figures in the French canon. His fables are his most well known and well regarded work -- he collected and adapted close to 240 of them. In early editions, La Fontaine drew chiefly from classical western sources, like Aesop and Phaedrus, but as the fables grew in popularity and he added more to them, he would draw from Eastern and Oriental stories as well as Continental ones. The Fables were first released on 1668, with the final 12th book published in 1694. "La Fontaine became the greatest lyric poet of his time" (New York Review of Books).
President Richard M. Nixon Immortalizes Egypt’s Assassinated President Anwar el-Sadat in a Letter to His Widow: ""Men are mortal but the spirit of a man of peace is immortal because it lives on in the millions he has inspired.""

President Richard M. Nixon Immortalizes Egypt’s Assassinated President Anwar el-Sadat in a Letter to His Widow: ""Men are mortal but the spirit of a man of peace is immortal because it lives on in the millions he has inspired."" by Richard Nixon

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President Richard M. Nixon Immortalizes Egypt’s Assassinated President Anwar el-Sadat in a Letter to His Widow: ""Men are mortal but the spirit of a man of peace is immortal because it lives on in the millions he has inspired.""
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Richard Nixon
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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12/10/82. Nixon had himself played a key role in aiding the launch of the peace process, mediating the Sinai I disengagement agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1974Israel and Egypt (with its Arab allies) had been engaged in hostilities for three decades, and this resulted in four wars in twenty four years. The hatreds in the region were fierce, and the constant conflicts seemed interminable. The last of these, the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, was launched by the Arabs as a surprise, and they had initial successes before Israel emerged victorious. Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat’s own brother was killed in that war. No one foresaw peace as a possibility.But President Sadat saw the wars as a disastrous drag on the Egyptian economy and knew that they stood as a barrier to its receiving aid from the United States and many NATO countries. They also tended to throw the Middle East into the arms of the Russians, whom Sadat distrusted. Sadat had no intention of allowing Egypt to become a Soviet satellite.Despite friction with his Syrian allies, Sadat signed the Sinai I (1974) and Sinai II (1975) disengagement agreements with Israel which stated that the conflicts between the countries ""shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means”, and led to the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces in the Sinai, the creation of a U.N. buffer zone in their place, and the implementation of multiple U.S. stations in the Sinai. The also secured for Egypt large foreign assistance commitments. The first of these agreements were mediated by President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and the second by President Gerald R. Ford and Kissinger, who with thus played key roles in aiding the launch of the peace process.Jimmy Carter became President of the United States on January 20, 1977. Israeli and Arab resistance was slowing Sadat’s hoped-for progress, so on November 9, 1977, Sadat made a stunning, dramatic gesture, one that left the world in shock: He would personally journey to Jerusalem to address the Israeli Knesset (parliament) to seek a permanent peace settlement between Israel and Egypt! The Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Menachem Begin, rose to the occasion, and ignoring those who saw Sadat’s move as some kind of trick, cordially invited him to address the Knesset in a message passed to Sadat via the US ambassador to Egypt. This was something of a surprise, as Begin had a reputation as a hard-liner, and some expected him to reject Sadat’s overture. On November 19, 1977, Sadat arrived for the groundbreaking three-day visit, which launched the first peace process between Israel and an Arab state. He met with Begin and spoke before Israel’s parliament, as the world looked on, in utter disbelief, and glued to the television. The astonished, approving reaction of ordinary Israelis and Egyptians who watched Sadat and Begin on live television was itself of importance. The sight of the two leaders facing each other in open, honest debate changed attitudes at the street levels of both countries. Much of the change came from Sadat's choice of words. “The October War,” he said, “should be the last war.”The visit was, however, met with outrage in much of the Arab world. Despite this, Sadat continued to pursue peace with Israel. However, a reciprocal visit by Begin was unsuccessful, and no progress was made toward peace. Then Rosalynn Carter, the U.S. first lady, suggested to her husband President Carter that he invite Sadat and Begin to Camp David, where the relative privacy and seclusion might provide a setting for a breakthrough.Both Sadat and Begin trusted the United States to be an honest broker, and the two leaders accepted Carter’s invitation. The summit began on September 5, 1978, and lasted for 13 days. Carter preferred that the three men work together in private sessions in a small office at Aspen, his cabin at Camp David. Carter compiled a document that encompassed a resolution of the major issues, presented the proposals to each leader in separate meetings, assessed their comments, and redrafted the manuscript some two dozen times, shuttling the manuscript back and forth for their review. The Camp David Accords, signed on September 17, were the first peace agreement between the state of Israel and one of its Arab neighbors, and laid the groundwork for diplomatic and commercial relations.In a ceremony at the White House on March 26, 1979, Sadat and Begin signed the historic peace treaty; it was considered the diplomatic triumph of the the era. President Carter oversaw the signing, and untold millions watched on television. The peace treaty formally ended the state of war that had existed between the two countries. Israel agreed to fully withdraw from Sinai, and Egypt promised to establish normal diplomatic relations between the two countries and open the Suez Canal to Israeli ships (which until then had been banned from the waterway). These provisions were duly carried out. Sadat was vilified for this in many Arab quarters, and Egypt was expelled from the Arab League, but Sadat was determined to end hostilities and move into a better future. He was well aware that his courage might well cost him his life, as he received death threats and some predicted his assassination.For their achievement, Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Then, on October 6, 1981, extremists assassinated Sadat in Cairo. He is widely recognized today as a martyr to peace, and when we hear the phrase “blessed are the peacemakers”, his image immediately springs to mind. Despite the tragedy, the peace process continued without Sadat, and in 1982 Egypt formally established diplomatic relations with Israel. This led to, among many other benefits, increased tourism in the region.Nixon, who with Kissinger got this process going, wrote this letter to Mrs. Sadat, saying her husband is immortal. Typed letter signed, on Nixon’s letterhead, October 12, 1982, with salutation in his hand to Sadat’s widow Jihan el-Sadat, on the occasion of the honoring of President Sadat by the American Society of Travel Agents, as Sadat’s efforts for peace did so much for tourism the region. He was to be awarded its 1st International Peace and Tourism Award. “I am honored to join in this tribute to Egypt’s great President, and also to you, his great First Lady.“Men are mortal but the spirit of a man of peace is immortal because it lives on in the millions he has inspired. President Sadat was such a man. In the year since his voice was silenced events in the Middle East have only proven the wisdom of the strong, measured, deliberate way he sought peace. The impact of his loss is incalculably great; but so too is the gift of his example.”Donald Reynolds was executive director of the American Tourism Society (later the American Society of Travel Agents). Under his leadership, ATSA facilitated travel to Russia and the newly independent republics of the USSR, and later expanded its outreach to the Middle East. His efforts in Egypt brought him in contact with Mrs. Sadat and they became friends. She gave this letter to him, and we obtained it from his heirs. It has never before been offered for sale.
Twenty-Six-Year-Old George S. Patton, Jr. Sets Off to Compete in the First Ever Modern Pentathlon as the US Representative

Twenty-Six-Year-Old George S. Patton, Jr. Sets Off to Compete in the First Ever Modern Pentathlon as the US Representative by George S. Patton

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Twenty-Six-Year-Old George S. Patton, Jr. Sets Off to Compete in the First Ever Modern Pentathlon as the US Representative
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George S. Patton
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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27/05/1912. Patton would compete on the same team as Jim ThorpeGen. George Smith Patton Jr. was one of the most brilliant soldiers in American history. Audacious, unorthodox and inspiring, he led his troops to great victories in North Africa, Sicily and on the European Western Front after the landings on D-Day. At El Guettar in March of 1943 he won the first major American victory over Nazi arms. In July of that year he leaped from a landing barge and waded ashore to the beachhead at Gela, Sicily. In just thirty-eight days the American Seventh Army, under his leadership, and the British Eighth Army, under Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, conquered all of Sicily.He was the leader of his famed Third Army on the Western Front that Patton staked out his strongest claims to military greatness. In ten months his armor and infantry roared through six countries – France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria. It crossed the Seine, the Loire, the Moselle, the Saar, the Rhine, the Danube and a score of lesser rivers; captured more than 750,000 Nazis, and killed or disabled 500,000 others. It was instrumental in winning the crucial battle of the Bulge in December 1944. There were times, in those great days when the tank spearheads of the Third were racing across France with almost unbelievable speed and again when they were cutting the dying Nazi armies to pieces in the final spring of the war, that not even Supreme Headquarters itself knew where his vanguards were. Driven by his iron will, his advanced units had to be supplied with gasoline and maps dropped by air. By the time Germany surrendered on V-E Day – May 8, 1945 – Patton’s Third Army had fought for nine months since becoming operational, capturing more than 80,000 square miles of territory. During that time the Third Army suffered roughly 137,000 casualties, but it had inflicted more than 10 times that on the enemy.Patton was born in 1885 and in May of 1912, he was 26 years. After attending school in Pasadena, Patton enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute. From there he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1909, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. After graduation from the USMA, Patton served in the cavalry in Fort Sheridan, Illinois until December 1911. He was then transferred to Fort Myer, Virginia.Patton, through his training and prior upbringing, was skilled at the events that comprised the pentathlon. Patton was selected for the 1912 U.S. Olympic team for the first ever Olympic modern pentathlon event, held in Stockholm, Sweden. The new event was created to test military men in five sports challenges: fencing, swimming, shooting, equestrian jumping and running. Patton finished a respectable fifth place overall. So in the late Spring/early Summer of 1912, he set about heading to Europe, with the financial support of his father, setting sail in June 1912.Document Signed, Washington DC, May 27, 1912, on Riggs National Bank check stock, being a check for $550 made out to the Atlantic Transport Line for his son's travel to compete in the Olympic Games.Document signed, by George S. Patton Sr. and Jr., Washington DC, June 3, 1912, on Riggs National Bank check stock, being a check for $500 made out to Patton Jr. Signed by Patton Sr. on the front and endorsed by Patton Jr. on the verso.Patton would go on to compete but not to medal. Controversy developed when Patton insisted, that in shooting, one of his bullets had gone through a previously made hole and that he had achieved yet another bulls eye. The judges contended that the absence of another hole indicated a shot had missed the mark entirely. Patton insisted through the rest of his life he had been robbed of his duly earned medal.
Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, des Ecoles d’Italie, de Flandre, de Hollande, et de France; Dessins de différens Maîtres, beaux Bronzes, Pendule dorée, Meubles, Tabatieres d’ancien Laque, & autres Objets de curiosité; Provenans du Cabinet de M. *** [written in cont. ms]: “Nogaret.” Par J.B.P Le Brun, Peintre. La Vente en sera faite le Lundi 18 Mars 1782, & jours suivans…

Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, des Ecoles d’Italie, de Flandre, de Hollande, et de France; Dessins de différens Maîtres, beaux Bronzes, Pendule dorée, Meubles, Tabatieres d’ancien Laque, & autres Objets de curiosité; Provenans du Cabinet de M. *** [written in cont. ms]: “Nogaret.” Par J.B.P Le Brun, Peintre. La Vente en sera faite le Lundi 18 Mars 1782, & jours suivans… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: NOGARET, Armand Frédéric Ernest)

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Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, des Ecoles d’Italie, de Flandre, de Hollande, et de France; Dessins de différens Maîtres, beaux Bronzes, Pendule dorée, Meubles, Tabatieres d’ancien Laque, & autres Objets de curiosité; Provenans du Cabinet de M. *** [written in cont. ms]: “Nogaret.” Par J.B.P Le Brun, Peintre. La Vente en sera faite le Lundi 18 Mars 1782, & jours suivans…
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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: NOGARET, Armand Frédéric Ernest)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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44 pp. Small 4to (185 x 130 mm.), late 19th-cent. brown half-morocco signed “Knecht,” spine gilt. Paris: Lebrun, 1782. An important and rare sale catalogue, fully priced throughout and with nearly all buyers’ names in a contemporary hand. This was the third and final portion of Nogaret’s collection to be sold during his lifetime (1st: Lugt 2791; 2nd: 3153); his estate sale in 1807 (Lugt 7210) offered the inferior leftovers. In the avertissement, Lebrun, this auction’s expert, declares that this catalogue offers an unparalleled selection of Italian paintings. “[Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, comte de] Vaudreuil, whom Alexandre de Tilly remembered as the most magnificent courtier of Louis XVI’s reign, now emerged as the principal figure among a group of ambitious officeholders in the entourages of the queen and the comte d’Artois whose expenditure on luxury objects functioned, at one level, to legitimize their recent appointments to positions of power…Nogaret (1734-1806)… quickly assembled collections of paintings and furniture through the offices of the dealer Lebrun, who was also responsible for guiding Vaudreuil’s purchases…”–C. Bailey, Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris (2002), pp. 174. The present catalogue describes 116 painting lots (by Guercino; Ludovico, Agostino, and Antonio Carracci; Correggio; Pietro da Cortona; Giorgione; Titian; Murillo; Maratta; Panini; Rubens; Rembrandt; A. Brouwer; Metsu; Cuyp; Ruysdael; van der Neer; I. van Ostade; Vouet; Poussin; S. Bourdon; Le Nain; Watteau; Lancret; Natoire; F. Boucher; Greuze; Fragonard; etc., etc.); nine sculptures; and 17 drawings and miscellaneous group lots. This copy is profusely annotated with several layers of contemporary notes. The great collectors and dealers of the time are noted as buyers in the margins — e.g. Lebrun, Donjeux, De Vouge, Langlier, Lebrun jeune, Paillet, Dulac, Quesnay, Hamon, “[Nicolas] Lenoir, arch. de l’Opera,” etc. In addition to these, in what looks like a different hand, a connoisseur has recorded the earlier auction history for a number of lots. A fine copy, with plentiful information on provenance. Engraved bookplate of G[eorges] P[annier] (1853-1944), the Parisian art dealer, and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title. ❧ Lugt 3392. See Blanc, Trésor de la Curiosité, Vol. II, pp. 60-62. P. Michel, Peinture et Plaisir: Les Goûts Picturaux des Collectionneurs Parisiens au XVIIIe Siècle (2010), pp. 62, 303, 307, & 312.
DADA 1916-1923: Catalog of the Exhibition

DADA 1916-1923: Catalog of the Exhibition by DUCHAMP, MARCEL; JANIS, SIDNEY

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DADA 1916-1923: Catalog of the Exhibition
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DUCHAMP, MARCEL; JANIS, SIDNEY
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The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
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New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. First edition. Custom box. Very Good. DUCHAMP'S FAMOUS "CATALOG" FOR THE CELEBRATED 1953 DADA RETROSPECTIVE. "Duchamp planned, organized, and installed a major historical show of international Dada at the Janis Gallery in 1953. More than two hundred works of art and documents were on view, each one identified in a Duchamp-designed 'catalog' that was itself pure Dada - a tissue-thin broadsheet with written texts (by Jean Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jacques-Henri Lévesque, and Tristan Tzara) in contrasting typefaces, set in narrow columns that ran diagonally down the page. When the sheets were delivered to the gallery, Duchamp took one, crumpled it up into a ball, and told Janis to mail it as it was, and Janis did so, to the confusion of numerous art lovers who wondered why they were being mailed trash. (A wicker basket of crumpled catalogs stood beside the gallery door at the opening.) "Duchamp was represented in Janis's Dada show by four works: Tu m', his last painting on canvas; To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, the glass study he had done in Argentina; the ready-made Fresh Widow; and Janis's replica of Fountain, installed over the door at the entrance, with a sprig of mistletoe dangling from its inverted bowl." (Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, 378-9).
 With text by Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Jacques-Henry Lévesque, Tristan Tzara; Arp's and Tzara's texts were translated by Duchamp. Ref. Schwarz 543. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. Single sheet of thin tissue-like paper, 25x38 inches (96.5x63.5 cm). It's possible this example was crumpled, but it clearly has been stored flat and folded now for some time. With closed tear at center (with no loss); a few tiny tears at folds and edges. Housed in custom cloth box. Rare in such good condition. AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF DADA HISTORY.
PENELOPE'S WEB

PENELOPE'S WEB

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PENELOPE'S WEB
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East Hampton, NY: Barry McCallion, 2024. blue cloth-covered boards, cover design of painted on the front cover, cloth clamshell box, title on paper spine label. McCallion, Barry. large 4to (10 1/4 x 13 inches). blue cloth-covered boards, cover design of painted on the front cover, cloth clamshell box, title on paper spine label. thirteen hinged pages, unpaginated, but each is a full-page spread, with one page colophon at rear. Unique foldout Artist Book by Barry McCallion. Fine in fine clamshell box. Penelope's Web - the making of an artist's book Barry McCallion "Penelope's Web is a work of weaving on many levels. The background story is familiar enough: twenty years have passed since the fall of Troy, but Odysseus has not returned to Ithaca. Convinced that he is dead, unruly suitors descend on his estate, make free with the wine, mistreat the servants, and reduce the farm flocks to barbeque. When the suitors insist that Penelope choose one of them to marry, she delays by weaving a shroud by day and undoing the work by night. The story of Penelope's attempt to deceive the suitors occurs three times - at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of the poem. The story is told by three different characters. First by Antinous, one of the suitors, who is outraged and indignant over Penelope's "duplicity." Next, Penelope confides in the shabby wanderer (Odysseus in disguise) who has arrived at her door. Lastly, the ghost of Amphimedon, one of the slain suitors, upon reaching Hades, tells the story of Penelope's ruse to Agamemnon. Although the versions are widely spaced throughout the poem, each 'telling' mirrors the one before it and whole sentences are repeated. Antinous, Penelope, and Amphimedon may have different perspectives: one criticizes, one confides, and one laments, but they rely on the same narrative framework and use the same expressions. Homer, subtly turning from one narrator to another, is weaving and unweaving Narrative itself, using multiple voices and different perspectives to pull us back and forth through narrative time. I began the book by printing each of the speeches, first in black, then in drop-out type, on several colors of card stock. These printed texts were intended for collage and paper weaving. For the book's pages I chose sheets of heavy beige, brown, and red St. Armand paper. Where appropriate, I treated pages as looms by incising parallel lines, after which I cut the texts into long strips then wove the strips through the incised lines. Other pages were collaged with images and designs made from India ink drawings, metallic inks, acrylic paint, and rubber stamps of farm animals. Sometimes the printed word was legible, often (as in the woven pages) I reduced the text to an abstraction, and it became a pattern. I assigned each narrator twelve pages and began the sections with a handwritten copy of the speaker's speech. Antinous, the first to be heard, is a living suitor and, as such, has his mind on the worldly benefits of marrying Penelope. I collaged his pages using the objects of his desire: gold and silver coins, outlines of a female form, and the cutout rubber-stamp forms of farm animals. I wanted the viewer to feel his ambition, his sense of urgency, so I cut through some of the pages, supplying the viewer with a rear-view of what has gone before and a preview of what is to come. Penelope's twelve pages are quite different. While Antinous and the others go on with their riotous living, Penelope is trapped, a strong woman weakened by circumstance. Odysseus, her long-absent husband, is presumed dead and custom expects a widow to marry. Besieged by suitors, watching the estate's resources plundered, Penelope tells us her plan: "First a god gave me the inspiration to set up a great web on my loom... So, by day I used to weave the great web, but every night I had torches set beside it and undid the work." Her deception succeeds for three years, but eventually, a maid betrays her to the suitors and her ruse is discovered. Penelope presents a character in contrasts: she is beautiful and noble while her circumstances are degraded. I designed many of Penelope's pages in glittering color, but opposed the colors with a motif of interlocking rectangles and other images suggesting confinement and constraint. When I cut through Penelope's pages, the openings reveal a network of bars and blank walls. Each new 'view' opens onto further obstructions. I wove some text strips into a dense web, and separated others into individual words arranged along a tight, dizzying spiral. Her situation seems hopeless; she has no one to tell her misfortunes but the shabby old wanderer who, in chapter 19, asks merely for a place to rest. In despair, she ends her tale with the words: "And now I can neither evade marriage with one of them nor think of any means of escape." The theme of escape and confinement plays out in subsequent chapters as Odysseus shuts the palace doors, trapping the suitors inside the great hall. As they flee for their lives, the suitors form a great wheel of moving and falling bodies, a form I employed several times throughout the book. Amphimedon, our third speaker, is killed by Odysseus, arrives in Hades, and tells his story to Agamemnon. He accuses Penelope of concocting an elaborate plan to "bring about our downfall and our death." Agamemnon is an interesting choice of listener, having returned from the war in Troy years before, only to be the victim of a plot by his own wife. For Amphimedon's pages I conjured the dim, shadowed world of Hades. I removed the red paper used for the Antinous and Penelope sections and substituted a sheet of heavy, black paper. I further dulled the beige and brown pages with areas of gray acrylic paint, and stark black and white type. I drew outlines of a male figure that resembles the chalk outline at crime scenes. Hollowed-out and insubstantial, the splayed figure of Amphimedon tumbles through space. All is underworld: bleak, unregulated and untethered. Words form lines and swirl around the souls of the dead. Twisting and turning on the page, they take a meandering, somewhat aimless journey of their own. I have made 'woven' books before. Lines of interwoven type hold a particular fascination for me; I experience a certain 'thinklessness' and meditative immersion in repetition. The Odyssey has always appealed and finding Penelope's story repeated in essentially the same language by different people asked interesting questions, which making Penelope's Web helped me address. Then, too, there is the sense that an episode or action, told and retold from different points of view, is very modern. Or is it? We know it as the Rashomon effect: the presentation of multiple, contradictory viewpoints / the fragility of Certainty, and its replacement by a world guided (or misguided) by ambiguity and indeterminacy. Did you hear that? What sounds like a new perspective in modern literature may just be a three thousand year old echo." From the artist's website: "Barry McCallion was born in the Bronx, New York and received degrees from Columbia University (English Literature) and Claremont Graduate University (Sculpture). His natural inclination to travel has been officially sponsored by the DAAD artist in residence program to Berlin, the Cite des Arts Atelier in Paris and most recently, by the Visual Arts Board of the New Zealand and Australian Arts Councils. The artist currently lives and works on the east end of Long Island, New York.
Descrizione della Reale Galleria di Firenze secondo lo stato attuale

Descrizione della Reale Galleria di Firenze secondo lo stato attuale by MUSEUMS. ITALY. Cambiagi, Gaetano (attrib.)

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Descrizione della Reale Galleria di Firenze secondo lo stato attuale
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MUSEUMS. ITALY. Cambiagi, Gaetano (attrib.)
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Florence: Per Gaetano Cambiagi, 1792. Hardcover. Fine. Bound with: Massi, Pasquale, da Cesena Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da Pasquale Mass Cesenate Custode del Museo Stesso/ Catalogue Indicatif des Antiquitès Composant Le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican par Paschal Massi de Cesèns Garde du dit Musèe. Roma: Presso Lazzarini, 1792 Two Octavo Volumes in one: 15.5 x 10 cm. I. (Cambiagi): 279 p. Octavo: A-Q8, R12. II (Massi): [4] 216 pp. Collation: [ ]2, a-m8, n12 (- blank [ ]1) FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. Bound in early 19th c. quarter sheep and boards, with vellum corners. Gilt title label to spine “Galleries di Florence et Rome”. Some wear to boards and corners, hinges lightly rubbed. The text is in fine condition, edges of the text-block stained an even yellow. I. Guide to the Uffizi: An important guide to Florence’s Uffizi galleries, documenting the radical re-organization of the Medicean collections under the Dukes of Lorraine, and in particular the dramatic changes made by Grand Duke Peter Leopold (1747-1792). “Across his twenty-five year reign (1765-1790), Duke Leopold made significant changes to the artistic culture of Florence, including a wholesale renovation of the Uffizi, bringing it… towards the modern museum.”(Reid) The guide is attributed to the publisher, Gaetano Cambiagi, custodian of Florence’s two astounding public libraries: the Uffizi’s Bibliotheca Magliabechiana and the magnificent Bibliotheca Marucelliana; and author of a history of the Uffizi (1779.) Cambiagi’s guide book replaced the long-out-of-print and out-of-date guide written by Giuseppe Bianchi in 1759. (Luigi Lanzi’s 1782 description of the Uffizi collections, “La Real Galleria di Firenze accresciuta, e riordinata per comando di s.a.r. l'arciduca granduca di Toscana” was not designed for use as a hand-held guide book.) The book appeared shortly after the death of Peter Leopold, whose great contributions to the Uffizi are described on pages 23 ff. and are manifest throughout the book in the description of the collections and their arrangement. The reorganization was executed under three directors of the museum: Giuseppe Querci (1769–73), Raimondo Cocchi (1773–75), and especially Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni (1775–93) in (often fraught) collaboration the museum’s first co-director, Luigi Lanzi (1732– 1810). For a detailed discussion of the transformation of the Uffizi collections under the Dukes of Lorraine, and of Peter Leopold in particular, see Callum Reid, “Twenty Magnificent Temples of the Arts” Geographic Schools in the Uffizi Gallery” in “Florence After the Medici Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790” Chapter 10. II. The Vatican Museums: Massi’s “Indicazione Antiquaria” is the first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of visitors by the keeper of the museum, Pasquale Massi of Cesena. II. Here bound with a contemporary guide book to the Uffizi galleries in Florence. The Museo Pio-Clementino was the first major curatorial museum within what are known today collectively as the Vatican Museums. In 1771, Pope Clement XIV had Michelangelo Simonetti adapt the Belvedere Pavilion to accommodate the papal collection of ancient art. When Clement’s successor, the avid art collector Pius VI, was elevated to the pontificate in 1775, the pace of acquisition increased dramatically and very soon the collections outgrew the rooms arranged for them by Simonetti. In 1776, Pius VI called for a radical restructuring of the existing museum and the construction of new, grand spaces to house the ever-expanding collection. Massi’s catalogue, a room-by-room guide of the museum with descriptions of all of the artifacts and artworks housed therein, is an invaluable record of how the greatly expanded museum of antiquities looked in the late 18th century, with its newly constructed series of rooms and the recently installed masterpieces of ancient sculpture -the fruits of some of the most important excavations in Italy, including the excavation of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli. In addition to providing a record of the arrangement of the exhibits, Massi’s catalogue, in which he provides details of provenance, acquisition, and attribution of each artwork described, serves as a history of the museum’s formation, and preserves valuable information about the art trade and the function of archaeology in the late 18th century. Massi has used a system of numbers and letters to indicate which works were added to the museums by Julius II and his various successors, above all Clement XIV and the then-current pope, Pius VI. In his introduction, Massi tells us that he has designed his guide for portability and easy reference by tourists, by arranging the descriptions of the objects in each room in the form of a walking itinerary. Since it is necessary at two points to retrace one’s steps, Massi’s guide leads us along one side of each room as we proceed through the galleries. When it is time to reverse our course, he leads us along the opposite side of the rooms already traversed, thus keeping us engaged and entertained as we retrace our steps through the vast complex. Our tour begins at the new entrance to the museum, in the corridor of Cleopatra, also known as the corridor of the inscriptions, just within the new entrance to the museum. We then pass through two vestibules. The first one is square, with frescoes by Giovanni da Udine in the vault. In it we encounter the tomb of the Scipios and the Belvedere Torso. The second vestibule is round and in its center is a large bowl made of pavonazzetto. From here we proceed through a corridor into the porticoed, octagonal courtyard of the Belvedere, the site of Julius II’s first installation of ancient sculpture, transformed by Simonetti in the 1770’s. Massi then leads us through the hall of the animals, the gallery of statues, the gallery of busts, and the “loggia scoperta” (the room of masks). We make our way back through these galleries to arrive at the series of rooms created by Simonetti in the 1780’s. The first of these is the hall of the muses. We then enter the breathtaking Sala Rotonda (with its immense, newly installed, ancient porphyry basin from the Domus Aurea), through which we make our way to the Sala of the Greek Cross, where we find the newly installed ancient porphyry sarcophagus of Constantine’s daughter, Constantia. From here Massi takes us, via Simonetti’s new staircase, up past the unfinished hall of the biga, to Bramante’s vast gallery of the candelabra, which is itself divided into numerous rooms with vases, statuary, and jewelry. Exiting by the stairs we visit the library and trace our way back through the new wing and via the Belvedere courtyard (where we marvel at the Laocoön and the Belvedere Apollo) to the cortile, the great open court of the complex, where our tour ends.
Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte

Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte by Weber, Carl Martin

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Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte
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Weber, Carl Martin
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Dessau & Leipzig: Auf Kosten der Verlags-Kaffe, 1784. Weber, Carl Martin (1734-1800). Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte. 8vo. [16]. 538, [36]pp., plus final blank. Dessau & Leipzig: Auf Kosten der Verlags-Kasse, 1784. 202 x 123 mm. 19th century marbled boards, light wear. Minor foxing and toning but very good. First Edition of Weber's "Plan of a select practical medical library for future physicians." The work is "an annotated bibliography, arranged by subject, and chronologically indexed by date of publication within each subject, with an author index at the end" (Garrison-Morton.com 7194). .
Hardtack and Coffee; Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life

Hardtack and Coffee; Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life by Billings, John D.

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Hardtack and Coffee; Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life
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Billings, John D.
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Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition of Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, a memoir by John D. Billings.. Octavo, vi, 408pp. Brown cloth, title stamped in gilt, campfire scene stamped in black. Solid text block. Faint foxing to endpapers, private ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise clean. A touch of wear to heel of spine. This work is complete with six color plates and two hundred illustrations by Charles W. Reed. (Nevins I, 59) (Dornbusch I, 46) A beautiful, bright example. Scarce in this condition. A classic "reminiscences of solder life in the Civil War," from John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Artillery. Billings recounts in "simple language," not battle maps and artillery movements, the "trivial and daily aspects of solider life in the Federal Army." (Eicsher 449).
Tour Of Duty; John Kerry And The Vietnam War

Tour Of Duty; John Kerry And The Vietnam War by Brinkley, Douglas [Kerry, John]

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Tour Of Duty; John Kerry And The Vietnam War
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Brinkley, Douglas [Kerry, John]
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The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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9780060565237
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Fine
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New York: William Morrow, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition of Tour of Duty by Douglas Brinkley, signed by former Secretary of State, John Kerry.. Octavo, xiii, 546pp. White hardcover, brown spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with full number line. Likely never read. In publisher's near fine dust jacket, retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear. Signed by John Kerry on the half title page. John Kerry (b. 1943) is the first United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, who assumed office on January 20, 2021 with the entrance of the Biden administration. He served as a United States Senator from the state of Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013, when he was asked to join the Obama administration as the 68th Secretary of State. In 2004, he ran against President George W. Bush for President of the United States. He fought in the Vietnam War, where he received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. After the war, he became an outspoken critic of the war, launching his political career in the process.
Trying Cases to Win. 5 Volumes. Complete set

Trying Cases to Win. 5 Volumes. Complete set by Stern, Herbert

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Trying Cases to Win. 5 Volumes. Complete set
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Stern, Herbert
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9781616193447
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2013. ISBN-13: 9781616193447. ISBN-10: 1616193441. Stern, Herbert J., Esq. Trying Cases to Win. Originally published: New York: Aspen Publishers, 1991-1999. Reprinted 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 5 Volumes. xv, 685; xv, 457; xviii, 450; xviii, 448; xviii, 584 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616193447. ISBN-10:1616193441. Hardcover. New. $950. * The trial process is the sum of its parts: opening argument, direct and cross examination, and summation. In Trying Cases to Win, nationally known trial lawyer Herbert J. Stern provides an overall blueprint for conduct in the courtroom as he guides the reader through each of these segments. Rather than a collection of anecdotal war stories from various trials, Stern outlines the nuts and bolts of the right-and wrong-approach, processes and strategies for every component needed for trial success. Each volume is also available separately. The complete five-volume set includes: Voir Dire and Opening Argument, Direct Examination, Cross Examination, Summation, Anatomy of a Trial (co-authored with Professor Stephen A. Saltzburg). Herbert J. Stern is a highly regarded trial lawyer and accomplished teacher of trial techniques. A partner and founding member in the New Jersey law firm of Stern & Kilcullen, Stern is a former Federal Judge, having served as United States district judge for the District of New Jersey from 1974 to 1987. He established his reputation as an advocate while serving as a trial attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the United States Department of Justice from 1965 to 1969 and as United States attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1970 to 1974 when he won a national reputation for unprecedented convictions of numerous public officials. He was founder and Co-Director of the Advocacy Institute at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1980 to the present. He was Special Counsel for Hon. Lawrence Walsh, Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra Prosecution, 1988. Judge Stern was the subject of the book, Tiger in the Court (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1973). He is the author of Judgment in Berlin (New York: Universe Books, 1984) which was made into a major motion picture with Sean Penn, and Martin Sheen playing Judge Stern; and, most recently, Diary of a DA: The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Took On the Mob, Fought Corruption, and Won (New York: Skyhorse Pu.
Report pf the Committee Appointed by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Portland, to Investigate the Causes and Consequences of the Riot, on the Evening of June, 1855

Report pf the Committee Appointed by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Portland, to Investigate the Causes and Consequences of the Riot, on the Evening of June, 1855 by Willis, William

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Report pf the Committee Appointed by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Portland, to Investigate the Causes and Consequences of the Riot, on the Evening of June, 1855
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Willis, William
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Portland: Benjamin D. Peck, 1855. 50 pp. Wraps soiled, worn and minor stains. A scarce report on the riots over laws prohibiting alcohol use in Port except for medical purpose. The Mayor Neal Dow was a major Temperance advocate and when the public heard that the city government was hoarding alcohol resident began to riot. Dow ordered shots to be fired into the crowd and a man was killed and the crowd was dispersed. The next year this early temperance law was repealed.
Two variants of 1926 Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown Music Program

Two variants of 1926 Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown Music Program by Robeson, Paul and Lawrence Brown

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Two variants of 1926 Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown Music Program
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Robeson, Paul and Lawrence Brown
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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New York: The Pond Bureau, 1926. Two generic 4-page single folded sheets with biographical content and excerpts of positive reviews in the press. Each of these has a sheet placed in them with a program for the event at the Lyceum Theatre on April 22, 1926. These programs date from the beginnings of the collaboration between Robeson and Brown. Good with wear, toning to the pages and folds.
Studies in the Seven Arts

Studies in the Seven Arts by SYMONS, Arthur

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Studies in the Seven Arts
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SYMONS, Arthur
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Covers with slight rubbing and marking
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London: Constable, 1906. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Covers with slight rubbing and marking. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, untrimmed. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Edward Hutton from Arthur Symons, November 1906." Essays by Symons on Rodin, Moreau, Whistler, Richard Strauss, Eleonora Duse, et al. Bookplate of Estelle Doheny (slight offset on inscription opposite). A very good copy. (BA).
Dining With My Friends

Dining With My Friends by Gaige, Crosby

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Dining With My Friends
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Gaige, Crosby
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Boards. Very good, in fair dust wrapper
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New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards. Very good, in fair dust wrapper. 292 pages. 21.5 x 14.5. cm. This copy was a gift from Ann Seranne, a food consultatnt and former editor at Gourmet magazine to Doreen Feng Bedell, the best-selling cookbook author of The Joy of Chinese Cooking. Signed on the front free end paper: 10/24/55 To Doreen - Who should have known - and would have loved Crosby Gaige Anne Seranne. A post card is laid in addressed to Doreen Badell. Seranne, a good friend of Gaige's was featured in this book on page 207-210. Gaige, a theatrical producer, writer, printer and binder, cattle breeder, and most notably gourmet and cook, presents his favorite meals, including menus, recipes and the famous people he dined with. Luminaries such as Merle Armitage, James Montgomery Flagg, Andre Simon, add their treasured recipes - an all around who's who of the artists, editors, and captains of industry during the 1920's through the 1940's. Clean copy. Dust wrapper chipped with major tears and splits.
The Monastery

The Monastery by Scott, Walter Scott

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The Monastery
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Scott, Walter Scott
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Edinburgh: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, Bookseller to the King, Edinburgh, 1820. First Edition. 3 vols. 1st edition. Original boards and labels, rebacked with new endpapers (a fitting match). Soiled and worn else very good, but troublesome to weigh against other sets, because variables won’t and constants aren’t. Just after publishing Ivanhoe, Scott returned to his Scottish roots for this novel. The monastery of the title is Saint Mary’s Cistercian Abbey and the action is mostly within or surrounding it. The time is the Scottish Reformation (16th century) when the religious question had not been settled, but Scott wrote as the detached narrator, and presents its resolution as inevitable. The characters are (as is the custom in historical romance) a gathering (or a compaction) of real and fictional figures, playing out their personal, petty roles, rendered (and contrasted) against the great events surrounding them, as worldly life goes on, oblivious to all private vicissitudes and recoveries. The only grown–up hero, with a marginally objective sense of the times, is the Catholic Benedictine/Cistercian monk, Sub-Prior Eustace (once William Allan) who fights for his lost cause as stubbornly and gallantly, as would Robert E. Lee, 300 years later.
Camels Coming [I Think I Hear Camels Coming], 1-6

Camels Coming [I Think I Hear Camels Coming], 1-6

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Camels Coming [I Think I Hear Camels Coming], 1-6
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Near Fine
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Albuquerque/Reno: I Think I Hear Camels Coming. 1965-1966. The first six issues of this little poetry magazine edited by Richard Morris, which ran at least nine issues: a second series was started in 1972. Contributors include d.a. levy, Paul Blackburn, Clarence Major, John Sinclair, Fielding Dawson, Theodore Enslin, Margaret Randall, Clayton Eshleman, Judson Crews, and Larry Eigner, among others. All but #4 have mailing information on the rear cover (and #3 also has an address stamped on the front cover). The lot is otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.
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Desert Images: An American Landscape by Abbey, Edward; photographs by David Muench

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Desert Images: An American Landscape
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Abbey, Edward; photographs by David Muench
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Fine
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. A Chanticleer Press Edition. Photos by David Muench and text by Edward Abbey. Bound in publisher's original beige cloth with the spine stamped in orange and in a beige cloth covered slipcase with the covers stamped in orange. Folio measures 17 by 10 5/8 inches. Slipcase measures 17 5/8 by 10 7/8 inches.
Georgian Stories 1925

Georgian Stories 1925 by [Huxley, Aldous]

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Georgian Stories 1925
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[Huxley, Aldous]
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Very Good
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Illustrated with portraits of the authors. Very Good in an about Near Fine jacket, toned at the edges, rubbed and bumped at the edges and folds. Quarter olive cloth with blue paper on the boards, rubbed through at the corners. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. A collection of stories by authors who began publishing in the Georgian period. This, the third volume in the series, features "Little Mexican" from Aldous Huxley, "The Shameless Behaviour of a Lord" by Michael Arlen, "The Story of the Siren" by E.M. Forster, "The Island" by L.P. Hartley, among others.
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A MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF MUSIC by Stanford University

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A MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF MUSIC
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Stanford University
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Stanford, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Edited by N. van Patten. Printed by Ward Ritchie. A collection of musical manuscripts & of printed & engraved scores inscribed by composers & given to Stanford.
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Schweizer Hotelplakate. Swiss Hotel Posters. Affiches des hotels suisse. Manifesti albergatori della svizzera 1875-1982 by Wobmann, Karl, [ed.]

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Schweizer Hotelplakate. Swiss Hotel Posters. Affiches des hotels suisse. Manifesti albergatori della svizzera 1875-1982
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Wobmann, Karl, [ed.]
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Luzern: Biregg Verlag, [1982] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations of 170 posters. Fine in fine d.j. Text in German, French, Italian and English.
Frülingsluft. [Piano-vocal score]

Frülingsluft. [Piano-vocal score] by STRAUSS, Josef 1827-1870

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Frülingsluft. [Piano-vocal score]
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STRAUSS, Josef 1827-1870
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Wien: Doblinger (Bernhard Herzmansky) [PN D. 2882], 1910. Quarto. Original publisher's dark ivory decorative wrappers printed in dark blue, with small portrait of Strauss. 1f. (recto title printed in dark blue, verso cast and contents), 3-133, [i] (blank) pp. Uniformly browned, slightly heavier to edges of upper wrapper, with small datestamp to blank upper portion. First Edition, later issue. Weinmann p. 33. Josef Strauss, composer, conductor, and violinist, was the second son of Johann Strauss i.
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A Letter to John Clare. by ANDERSON, Jon.

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A Letter to John Clare.
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ANDERSON, Jon.
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Derry: Rook Press, (1976).. First edition.. 11 x 8 1/2 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. Anderson’s poem with two drawings by William Lint. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Anderson.
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THE OUTLET by Adams, Andy & Smith, E.B.

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THE OUTLET
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Adams, Andy & Smith, E.B.
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THE OUTLET, H-M, 1905, first edition just about a vg copy. Six illustrations by E. Boyd Smith.
Tribute to Thomas Davis

Tribute to Thomas Davis by YEATS, W.B.

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Tribute to Thomas Davis
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YEATS, W.B.
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Oxford: Cork University Press, 1947. First Edition. Slim octavo; navy blue cloth, with white title label printed in black affixed to front panel; 22pp. Some trivial rubbing to title label, else Fine. An account of the Thomas Davis centenary meeting held in Dublin on 20th November 1914.
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INTRODUCTION TO SILVER. Catalogue of An Exhibition

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INTRODUCTION TO SILVER. Catalogue of An Exhibition
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
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1953. AN INTRODUCTION TO SILVER. Catalogue of an Exhibition .... Newark: The Newark Museum, [1953]. 4to. 59 p. Plates. Wrappers. Includes New Jersey silver.
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Gauguin by ALLEY, Ronald

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Gauguin
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ALLEY, Ronald
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
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very good
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New York: Marboro, 1961. hardcover. very good/very good(-). 48 color illus. & 6 b/w illus. 96pp. Small, square 4to, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper worn New York: Marboro Books, (1961).
Steel-Engraved Portrait

Steel-Engraved Portrait by WASHINGTON, Martha

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Steel-Engraved Portrait
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WASHINGTON, Martha
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1873. WASHINGTON, Martha. Steel-Engraved Portrait. A 5.4-inch by 7-inch steel-engraved portrait of Martha Washington. From "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America," New York, 1873. Likeness from the original painting by Chappel with facsimile signature below engraving. Near fine. $12.50.

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