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Birthday Card to Amy Winehouse

Birthday Card to Amy Winehouse by [Winehouse, Amy]; Adele; Mark Ronson

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
Birthday Card to Amy Winehouse
Author
[Winehouse, Amy]; Adele; Mark Ronson
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine.
Description
n.p.: n.p., 2008. Near fine.. Original birthday card inscribed to Amy Winehouse by her producer Mark Ronson and a then up-and-coming singer, Adele. Though undated, the card is almost certainly from Winehouse's infamous 25th birthday party, where the singer failed to show up. Held on September 14th, 2008 at one of the Winehouse's favorite clubs, Jazz After Dark in Soho, both Ronson (who produced more than half the tracks for BACK TO BLACK) and Adele were in attendance - as were both of Winehouse's parents and a host of friends. Despite (reportedly) several taxis and pleas from friends, the singer refused to leave her house, and the party broke up around 2am without the singer having ever appeared - a fact seized upon by the tabloids the following day. But at the time of this card's inscriptions Winehouse was at the height of her fame and power. The previous year she'd won five GRAMMYs for her album BACK TO BLACK. And while her paparazzi exploits were beginning to gain more traction, it's also true that she was in many ways at the pinnacle of her career, her reputation more "sex and drugs and rock-and-roll" than the sadder, seedier one soon to follow. Adele, however, was largely a newcomer. Ronson had produced the first single off of her debut album 19, "Cold Shoulder," just months before, and the younger singer was still very much framed in the press (along with singers like Duffy) as "the new Amy Winehouse." But in Adele's case, the connections were more than just superficial. Both singers had attended London's Croydon school as students and Adele has frequently admitted her debt to Winehouse: "[H]er first album, FRANK [...] really changed my life. I went to music school when I was 14, and when I was like 15 and a half, FRANK came out. I used to see her on TV or in magazine shoots with a pink electric guitar. I used to think she was the coolest motherfucker on the face of the Earth" (quoted in Sanchez). Indeed, Adele's career has in many ways seemed almost a mirror image of what Winehouse's was, or might have been - as popular and beloved as her former schoolmate's was controversial and condemned. And the two singers continue to be mentioned together. Several years ago, Ronson had to deny quotes that appeared in the VILLAGE VOICE attributed to him that Winehouse was before her death "unnerved" by Adele's success. More recently, Adele's song, "Love Is A Game," which closes her recent album, 30, seems to be both inspired by and in direct dialogue with Winehouse's "Love is a Losing Game." And numerous reviews of 30 have pointed out the debt to Winehouse on that more jazz- and soul-influenced album. Shortly after Winehouse's death in 2011, Adele encouraged her audience at an Albert Hall concert to hold up their phones: "So Amy can see us now, from upstairs." A stupendous association between these two vocal and song-writing giants. 6.5'' x 6.5''. Commercial pictorial birthday card picturing a black-and-white photo of an elderly couple. In original envelope addressed by Ronson: "Amy [inside a heart]." Inscribed inside the card first by Ronson: "Dear Amy / Happy Birthday / + / Lots of Love / From / Mark / xo." Additionally inscribed beside that by Adele: "a very happy birthday / love / Adele / xxx." Provenance: Julien's Auctions, Property from the Life and Career of Amy Winehouse, lot 401 - with original lot tag and description card laid in. A copy of the full-color limited edition slipcased hardcover auction catalogue (508 pages, fine condition - this item, page 239) is also provided. Mild wear to the card; some touches of soiling to envelope. Otherwise bright and sound.
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE DIPLOMA ISSUED TO FLETCHER TALBOT FROM TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY SIGNED BY HENRY CLAY AND 12 OTHERS

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE DIPLOMA ISSUED TO FLETCHER TALBOT FROM TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY SIGNED BY HENRY CLAY AND 12 OTHERS

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DOCTOR OF MEDICINE DIPLOMA ISSUED TO FLETCHER TALBOT FROM TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY SIGNED BY HENRY CLAY AND 12 OTHERS
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Lexington, Kentucky, 1838. Frame Dimensions: 25" x 29.5"; Document Dimensions: 16" x 19.5". In Very Good condition and displayed in matted gold-colored frame. Light age toning to document. Frayed beige ribbon woven in at bottom. Thirteen signatures at bottom as well, including that of U.S. congressman, Secretary of State, and Transylvania University faculty member Henry Clay. "AD QUOS HAR LITERAE PERVENERINT, / Salutem in Domino. / Scialis nos, Curatores Prasidem atque Professores / Medicine Academia Transylvaniensis, / Auctoritate Nobis Commissa, /Fletcher Talbot / Medicina Scientia diligenter instructum et in publicis examina tionibus decime quarto die Martis Annoque Domini millesimo octingentesimo tricesimo octavo habitis approobatum / Doctorem Medicine / constituisse eiqur honores atque omnia et singula jura et privilegia illius Gradus donavisse." Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Kentucky in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He also served as Secretary of State during the administration of John Quincy Adams. In addition to his public service, Clay worked as a lawyer and was appointed to the faculty of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, the first university west of the Appalachian Mountains, in 1805. 1411702. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Cæsar (Caesar) Cascabel

Cæsar (Caesar) Cascabel by Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905)

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Title
Cæsar (Caesar) Cascabel
Author
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905)
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
iv+373 pages with eighty-one plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in the variant mustard cloth with spine and cover lettering in gilt and black pictorial on spine and cover. Translated from the French by A Estoclet. Illustrations by George Roux. First American edition preceding the English edition.Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. Caesar Cascabel recounts the journey of the travelling circus of the Cascabel family, from Sacramento as far as European Russia, while passing by Canada, Alaska, the Strait of Behring and Siberia. The head of the Cascabel household had to start this perilous voyage after the money intended to pay the tickets of the boat, which was to take them along to France from New York, was stolen by thieves. So, Caesar crosses initially the vast forests of Canada. At the border of Alaska, they save the life of Mr Jean, a banished Russian aristocrat who had been just attacked by outlaws. They also make the acquaintance on this occasion of Kayette, a young Indian woman, who had also dashed for the noble Russian. After having waited a few weeks that the Strait of Behring freezes, all the family finally thrusts upon the sea of ice but, in the medium of the crossing, the temperature of the air increases dangerously and the ice is parceled out. The caravan of the Cascabels is detached soon from the ice-barrier on an iceberg and our heroes start to drift across the Arctic Ocean. When the Cascabels finally manage to reach the northern coast of Siberia, they are made prisoners by a local tribe who requires from them a ransom for their release that they cannot obviously provide. Next spring, Cesar Cascabel, by using its gift of ventriloquy, frightens the chief of the tribe and manages to obtain his release. The Cascabel company, meanwhile, increased its numbers with two Russian sailors who were also prisoners. These sailors are in fact the two brigands who had attacked Mr Jean in the Canadian forest. They now envisage to rob Cascabel, with the assistance of accomplices, when the company is crossing the chain of the Ural. Meanwhile, Jean and Kayette fall in love and see with anxiety come the time of the separation. Condition: Corners gently bumped, light age toning to preliminary pages, some internal fingering, end paper renewed, spine darkened else a very good copy.
Bananas (Original photograph from the 1971 film)

Bananas (Original photograph from the 1971 film) by Woody Allen (director, screenwriter, starring); Mickey Rose (screenwriter); Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Natividad Abascal (starring)

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Bananas (Original photograph from the 1971 film)
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Woody Allen (director, screenwriter, starring); Mickey Rose (screenwriter); Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Natividad Abascal (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1971 film, showing director Woody Allen behind a pile of bananas. With the stamp of London Press Photos Ltd. on the verso, along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Anxious to impress his activist ex-girlfriend, a blue collar worker travels to a fictitious South American country, where he is unwittingly conscripted into a group of violent revolutionaries. Shot on location in New York and Puerto Rico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a few tiny nicks and a small, faint splash to the bottom edge.
BACKGROUND TO DANGER

BACKGROUND TO DANGER by Ambler, Eric

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BACKGROUND TO DANGER
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Ambler, Eric
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
BACKGROUND TO DANGER, Knopf, 1937, first American edition, folded, gathered and sewn sheets unbound. An advance copy (?) of the authors first book printed in the USA. A very good copy housed in custom tray-case. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).
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COSTUMES BY EROS by Aiken, Conrad

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COSTUMES BY EROS
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Aiken, Conrad
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
COSTUMES BY EROS, Scribners, 1928, first edition, a vg copy. 1/3,005 copies.
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution

Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution by ZUNES, Stephen and Jacob Mundy

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Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
Author
ZUNES, Stephen and Jacob Mundy
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780815632191
Condition
Fine
Description
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 319pp. Ownership signature (in one hand) of George and Jean Houser on the title page (see below). Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear. With a press release laid in. George Houser was a minister, Civil Rights activist, and activist for the independence of African nations; he is quoted in this book on p.112. In 1942, with James Farmer and Bernice Fisher, he co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago.
Promise and Performance: The Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Reveals Itself

Promise and Performance: The Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Reveals Itself

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Title
Promise and Performance: The Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Reveals Itself
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
(Republican National Committee, 1936. Softcover. Good. First edition. Good with water stains along the spine and soiled covers in wrappers. Individual pages have some minor water tidelines at the top. 64 pages.
Remarks on Colour

Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Remarks on Colour
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
University of California Press, 1977. Cloth. Fine/Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of the 1977 1st thus, the 1st appearance of this bi-lingual (both in English and its native German) edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket, with none of the fading one often encounters at the spine. Octavo, edited by G.E.M. Anscombe, translated by Linda L. McAlister and Margarete Schattle.
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| Geidai Museum Collection Exhibition: Shibata Zeshin Draft Sketches for the Meiji Palace Ceiling by Yokomizo, Hiroko (and) Masato Satsuma

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| Geidai Museum Collection Exhibition: Shibata Zeshin Draft Sketches for the Meiji Palace Ceiling
Author
Yokomizo, Hiroko (and) Masato Satsuma
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG+
Description
Osaka: Toho Shuppan, 2005. Softcover. VG+. A softcover exhibition catalogue. Pages: (2), 3-47, (1). Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. Hard to find exhibition catalogue.
Turnbull

Turnbull

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Title
Turnbull
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG (Covers may have slight edge wear or scuffs, otherwise clean.)
Description
New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc, 1963. Softcover. VG (Covers may have slight edge wear or scuffs, otherwise clean.). Green wraps. [22] pp. 19 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1963 exhibition featuring sculptures rendered by Scottish artist William Turnbull (1922-2012). Catalogue lists 32 works, many illustrated here. With a chronology and exhibition history.
The Art World: A Monthly for the Public Devoted to the Higher Ideals. April 1917 Combining the Craftsman. Volume II, Number 1

The Art World: A Monthly for the Public Devoted to the Higher Ideals. April 1917 Combining the Craftsman. Volume II, Number 1

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The Art World: A Monthly for the Public Devoted to the Higher Ideals. April 1917 Combining the Craftsman. Volume II, Number 1
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Kalon Publishing Company, Inc, 1917. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Includes articles on Degeneracy in art, town and country embellishments, Japanese ideas in an American House, Craftsman houses, Fruit Trees, Bird Houses, 19th century painting, and more. Illustrated white paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Chipping and tears to paper on spine. Both wrappers are detached but present. Minor spotting and soiling to covers, but clean interior. Includes many full page black and white photographic reproductions of art. About 100 pages. PER/061020.
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FORM OF ADMISSION AND STANDING RULES; of the First Congregational Church, Charlemont, Mass. Adopted January 20, 1866

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FORM OF ADMISSION AND STANDING RULES; of the First Congregational Church, Charlemont, Mass. Adopted January 20, 1866
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Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
Greenfield, MA: Franklin, 1866. First Edition. 12mo, 20. sewn self wraps, a good copy.
Gallipoli

Gallipoli by Jack Bennett

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Title
Gallipoli
Author
Jack Bennett
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780312315726
Condition
Near Fine
Description
First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this novel that is based on the screenplay written by David Williamson from a story by movie director Peter Weir. This copy is clean, bright, and tight only showing some mild shelf wear to the spine ends and some light rubbing to the jacket corners and edges, else F/F. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection.
The Word of Wisdom: Is It a Commandment or Isn't It

The Word of Wisdom: Is It a Commandment or Isn't It by Witt, Hugo W.

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The Word of Wisdom: Is It a Commandment or Isn't It
Author
Witt, Hugo W.
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Midvale, UT: Kogon Publishers. Original Kogon publication. Paperback. Very good. 21pp. Very slim octavo [22 cm] Stapled tan and black printed wraps. Written by a convert to the Mormon (L.D.S.) Church. A tract citing references from Journal of Discourses, Doctrine and Covenants, and The Seer by Orson Pratt.
The Mastermind of Mars

The Mastermind of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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The Mastermind of Mars
Author
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Ace, 1963. Soft cover. Near Fine. Roy Krenkel Jr.. Vintage Paperback. Ace F-181 . $.40 Cover Price. Sharp Unread First US Paperback Printing. No date given other than original 1928 book publication date but actually 1962. (ISFDB). It was published in paperback in 1955 by Pinnacle in the UK. Square, tight and clean throughout save moderate page toning. Rear cover edges mildly toning. A hint of wear at the bottom rear edge. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Classic cover art by Roy Krenkel, Jr. and interior illustrations by J. Allen St. John. A very pretty collectable copy.

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