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DIE TRAGISCHE GESCHICHTE VON HAMLET PRINZEN VON DAENMARKIN DEUTSCHER SPRACHE by (CRANACH PRESS). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: DIE TRAGISCHE GESCHICHTE VON HAMLET PRINZEN VON DAENMARKIN DEUTSCHER SPRACHE
Author: (CRANACH PRESS). SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Weimar: Cranach Press, 1928 (copyright 1929). No. 8 OF 230 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER, of a total edition of 255. 365 x 242 mm. (14 1/4 x 9 1/2"). 202 pp., [1] leaf.Translated by Gerhart Hauptmann. FINE ORIGINAL BURNT ORANGE MOROCCO by O. Dorfner of Weimar (signed on rear turn-in), covers with single gilt-ruled border, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, gilt spine titling, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a fine matching morocco-lipped slipcase lined with fleece. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts in the text by Edward Gordon Craig; this copy WITH TWO FULL-SIZE VELLUM LEAVES CONTAINING PRINTED WOODCUTS AND SIGNED BY CRAIG laid in. Printed in red and black. With the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest in Latin and French in margins surrounding the text. With Prospectus laid in at front. Schröder, p. 9; Franklin, p. 164; Ransom, p. 253; "A Century for the Century" 21 (English version). Spine gently and evenly sunned to a less reddish brown, traces of white residue from leather preservative to front board, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, the binding unworn, and IMMACULATE INTERNALLY. A deservedly famous combination of visual daring, printing artistry, and textual scholarship, this is one of the major achievements of private press printing. Undertaken in what Franklin calls "a perfectionist spirit," the book brings together the most glittering names in English and German private printing at the time. In addition to the presence of the woodcuts by Craig, the typographical arrangement of the volume was done by Count Harry Kessler, the title was cut by Eric Gill, the type (in 18-, 12-, and 10-point black letter) was designed by Edward Johnston after that used by Fust and Schoeffer in their Mainz Psalter of 1457, and was cut by Edward Prince (completed after his death by G. T. Friend), and the paper was made by a process devised jointly by Kessler and Aristide and Gaspard Maillol. Franklin says that "anybody who examines the Cranach Press 'Hamlet' must agree it is worthy of its reputation. The paper, superficially like Bachelor's Kelmscott, seems softer and more friendly, appropriate for the expressionist style of Craig's woodcuts. . . . These designs, and Gill's in the Golden Cockerel Chaucer, form the bravest artistic adventure among all private press books." It is increasingly difficult to find well preserved copies of this title, especially in Otto Dorfner bindings. Master binder Dorfner (1885-1955) taught at the School of Applied Arts in Weimar and at the Bauhaus school before founding his own to teach the craft. He was awarded a number of international awards for his bindings, and is particularly noted for his work with the Cranach Press. Dorfner was held in high enough esteem to merit inclusion on the Nazi's "Gottbegnadeten List" ("God-gifted list" or "Important Artist Exempt List") of artists essential to Nazi culture. This 36-page list, assembled in September 1944 by Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler, exempted the named artists from mobilization in the final stages of World War II..

Mules and Men by HURSTON Zora Neale

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Mules and Men
Author: HURSTON Zora Neale
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1935. First Edition. HURSTON, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1935. Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, original brown cloth front board and spine perserved at rear of text. $3500.First edition of Hurston's first non-fiction work""the perfect book"" (Alice Walker)hailed as ""the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore,"" widely viewed as her masterpiece.To Alice Walker, who discovered Hurston through Mules and Men, she was ""The Genius of the South""words Walker engraved on Hurston's gravestone. ""When I read Mules and Men, I was delighted. Here was the perfect book."" To Walker, it embodied ""the quality I feel in most characteristic of Zora's work Black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings""(emphasis in original, Foreword, Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston, xii). ""The first popular book about Afro-American folklore ever written by a Black scholar, Mules and Men so compellingly displays the rich imaginative life in a Black community that Alan Lomax has called it 'the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore.'"" Hurston's influence on African literary tradition continues to grow,"" and Mules and Men stands as ""a key text in African American literary and cultural studies"" (Wall in African American Writers, 175).Even amidst the brilliance of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston's ""presence was legendary."" Trained as an anthropologist at Barnard, she studied with Franz Boas, who ""recognized her genius immediately."" On returning to her home state of Florida, Eatonville, and in New Orleans, she began ""exploring the ways Black history affected folk narratives."" Offering several versions to publishers from 1929 to 1934, ""the book's core70 folktale textsremained the same [but] not until her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine [1934], had been accepted by Lippincott's did Mules and Men find a publisher."" While some questioned her refusal to focus on Black resentment of whites, Hurston was ""determined to prove that Black people did not devote their lives to a morose discussion of white injustice."" To Hurston, Black folk traditions were always the ""more beautiful, the more viable, the more human tradition"" (Hemenway, 6, 60-63, 159-63, 221-26). Hurston ""embraced anthropology's belief that rigorous and systematic training provided its practitioners with a unique vision of the world but where she departed from convention was in her choice of subject matter. To study her own people as a native anthropologist ran counter to the prevailing intellectual winds. Further, her blurring of literary conventions with ethnographic data was a challenge of which she was keenly aware. Hurston's willingness to go against the grain and to experiment with new ethnographic styles and methods positions her as the foremother of what is today called interpretative anthropology, or the new ethnography"" (McClaurin, Zora Neale Hurston). Introduction by Franz Boas. Containing frontispiece, title-page vignette and eight illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias, many full page; musical scores and lyrics. Without the scarce dust jacket. Blockson 852. Jordan 323.13. Front pastedown with beauty salon ownership inscription dated 1935.Pages generally clean, title page and second half title with minor offsetting; spine and board edges darkened, extremities rubbed. A very good copy.

Ehon Kusa Nishiki 繪本草錦 [The Picture-Book of Brocade Plants] by SEKKŌSAI KITAO TATSUNOBU (or TOKINOBU) 雪坑齋北尾辰宣

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Title: Ehon Kusa Nishiki 繪本草錦 [The Picture-Book of Brocade Plants]
Author: SEKKŌSAI KITAO TATSUNOBU (or TOKINOBU) 雪坑齋北尾辰宣
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 39 leaves. Two parts in one vol. 8vo, orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers a little wormed), new stitching. Osaka: Kashiwabaraya Seiemon, 1764. First edition. Sekkōsai was an artist active in Osaka, ca. 1740-50. He illustrated books and theater programs and also designed a number of prints. This is “the best of Sekkōsai’s sumi-printed books, consisting of a wide range of miscellaneous pictures, some in Kanō or even Itchō style. The profile drawing of a girl wearing a kimono patterned with white hares and drooping willow wands is unusually winning.”–Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 299. A fresh copy, with some worming, occasionally repaired, touching images. We do not find it offensive. References Brown, Louise Norton. Block Printing & Book Illustrations in Japan. London: 1924, p. 64.

Ask Yo-D ler [Card game box title]

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC

Title: Ask Yo-D ler [Card game box title]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Askyo-Deler Co, 1912. Very good. 27 (of 28) 3½” x 2½” cards in a 3½” x 2¾” clothcovered cardboard box. Very good: one card lacking; box a bit edge worn but sturdy; cards fresh with a touch of scuffing. This is a rare work of advertising and product placement in the form of an illustrated card game manufactured in New York. Each card features the name of a product, a relevant illustration, and four taglines, one of which is printed in red. There are seven numbered “suits” of four cards each, labeled “Clerks,” “Jobbers,” “Manufacturers” or “Retailers.” The “Clerks” card is missing from group 3. We imagine the point of the game could be to collect all the cards in a category, played a la “Authors” or “Go Fish,” or maybe by players guessing the correct slogan for each good. The cards advertise brands of skin cream, toothpaste, talcum powder, coffee, high heels and safety razors, Campbell's Soup, the Victor Talking Machine, “French Pocket Hat” and more. Volume 181 of the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office shows that the patent application for the game was filed in May 1912, with the trademark registered that August. This box indicates that the game was issued in between those months. A rare, illustrated advertising game in excellent condition. Not recorded in OCLC.

What Does Your Cup Reveal by Smith, Kizzie Everhart

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Title: What Does Your Cup Reveal
Author: Smith, Kizzie Everhart
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc, 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline to top and bottom edges. Red wrappers, illustrated in blue and white; wear at spine and some splitting to bottom two inches. With the bookseller ticket of the Corner Bookshop to the front, inner wrapper panel. [OCLC locates three copies; William G. Lockwood Collection of Romani and Gypsy Stereotypes].

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The Sultan's Perfect Tree. by YOLEN, Jane.

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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB

Title: The Sultan's Perfect Tree.
Author: YOLEN, Jane.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780819308641
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: NY:: Parents' Magazine Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0819308641 . First edition. Paper clip impression at the top of the first few pages, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. .

Jupiter by Astronomy. Simon, Seymour (Auth)

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Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA

Title: Jupiter
Author: Astronomy. Simon, Seymour (Auth)
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: William Morrow & Co (1985). Glossy pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light surface rubbing. All about the giant, stormy planet, illustrated with photographs. Fascinating.. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Square 4to.

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