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Tristan und Isolde, an opera. 6 original set designs by the noted American artist Robert Perdziola (born 1961), two dated April 1983m one signed with the artist's initials, the others unsigned by WAGNER, Richard 1813-1883

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Title: Tristan und Isolde, an opera. 6 original set designs by the noted American artist Robert Perdziola (born 1961), two dated April 1983m one signed with the artist's initials, the others unsigned
Author: WAGNER, Richard 1813-1883
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Three of the designs are in pen and wash and are identified by the artist as being for Acts I, II and III. Sheet size 305 x 388 mm. The remaining designs are in pencil and are also identified by the artist as being for Acts I, II, and III, although for different scenes. Sheet size 268 x 355 mm. Minor wear. In very good condition overall. "The ancient Tristan legend, probably of Celtic origin, achieved its first literary form in the 12th century. The version used by Wagner as the basis for his drama was that of Gottfried von Strassburg (fl1200-20). Wagner conceived the idea of writing an opera on the Tristan subject in the autumn of 1854, but the earliest dated surviving sketch (an elaboration of two fragments) is from 19 December 1856, at which point he was still engaged on Act 1 of Siegfried. Tristan und Isolde is regarded as a milestone in the history of music, largely on account of its pervasive emancipation of the dissonance. The far-reaching influence of the work in technical terms is matched by the overwhelming effect the extremity of its emotional expression has had on generations of artists in all media. On one level, Tristan is the ultimate glorification of love: 'a monument to this loveliest of all dreams', as Wagner put it. But on another level, the work goes beyond emotional experience and enters a metaphysical realm. Human existence and the outer material world of phenomena are ultimately transcended and salvation found in the embrace of the noumena, the ultimate reality." Barry Millington in Grove Music Online Perdziola, an internationally-recognized set and costume designer for theater, opera, and ballet, has worked extensively throughout the United States at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Theatre of Chicago, American Ballet Theater, Shakespeare Theater in Washington, Boston Ballet, and Miami Ballet, as well as for various Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera, the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover, the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom, the Finnish National Ballet, the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan, and the Sydney Opera House. The artist has received three Helen Hayes awards and a Helpmann award; he has also been nominated for numerous additional awards.

Postcard photograph with autograph signature of the German actor. Addressed to Walter Honig in Vienna by WALDEN, Harry 1875-1921

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Title: Postcard photograph with autograph signature of the German actor. Addressed to Walter Honig in Vienna
Author: WALDEN, Harry 1875-1921
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Studio of Becker & Maass in Berlin, with their stamp to lower right corner. From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (b. 1934). Slightly worn. Harry Walden was a German stage and screen actor with a short but vibrant career. He appeared in many classical stage productions and was a noted interpreter of Oscar Wilde's plays. He also appeared in the films "The Mandarin" (1918), "Der Umweg zur Ehe," and "Zwei Welten" (both 1919). In 1921, at age 45 Walden was killed in a tragic incident that rocked Berlin society. A contemporary article in the New York Times reported that Walden's wife, the actress Frieda Wagen-Hohenthal, attacked Walden and his stepson with a razor while under the influence of morphine, then turned the knife on herself. All three of them died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. The Honig family emigrated from Vienna to England in September of 1938 and then to the United States in 1939. The family papers are held at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. "Horne had a voice of extraordinary range, rich and tangy in timbre, with a stentorian chest register and an exciting top... In concert she once achieved the feat of singing in a single programme Rossini arias and Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene, proof of her exceptional versatility. Throughout her lengthy career she was an admired recitalist, singing lieder, mélodies, and Spanish and American songs with equal aplomb." Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online.

1906 Atlanta Massacre; in Le Petit Journal by [African Americana]

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Title: 1906 Atlanta Massacre; in Le Petit Journal
Author: [African Americana]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Paris: Le Petit Journal, 1906. First Edition. 1st Continental appearance (?), covered earlier in the U.S. and U.K. Original sheets (4), as issued. Very good. The massacre took place from September 22–24, upwards of 100 Black residents of Atlanta were murdered in an event that was, in the immediacy, misrepresented regionally, downplayed nationally and then ignored locally for 100 years. The details can be easily researched, with numerous scholarly works published in the past 20 years. We’d say this illustration, and its report, would add to any African American archive that includes the event. The Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906 was a devastating episode of racial violence that erupted between September 22-26, when white mobs, inflamed by sensationalized and fabricated newspaper reports of Black men assaulting white women, descended upon Atlanta's Black communities. The violence was situated within a heated gubernatorial campaign where both candidates, M. Hoke Smith and Clark Howell, editors of competing newspapers, explicitly campaigned on platforms to disenfranchise Black voters and stoked racial tensions through inflammatory journalism. What began at Five Points in downtown Atlanta quickly spread as mobs killed at least 25 African Americans (with unofficial estimates ranging from 25-100), destroyed countless Black-owned businesses and homes, while police officers and some militia members either participated in or did nothing to stop the violence. The massacre reflected growing white resentment toward Atlanta's expanding Black population and their increasing economic success in what was considered the capital of the New South. The 1906 Atlanta massacre carried profound significance for 20th century history and the trajectory of civil rights activism. As historian Clifford Kuhn notes, the violence "discredited for many Black leaders the accommodationist strategy of Booker T. Washington among the leadership of Black America, and gave new legitimacy to the more aggressive tactics for achieving racial justice epitomized by W.E.B. Du Bois,” who wrote a poem titled "A Litany of Atlanta" in response to the violence. The event directly influenced the founding of the NAACP in 1909 and contributed to a shift toward more activist approaches to civil rights. Despite its historical importance, the massacre was "forgotten or minimized for decades in the white community and ignored in official histories of the city" (New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2022). It wasn't until 2006, on its 100th anniversary, that the event was publicly commemorated, and only in 2007 did it become part of Georgia's public school curriculum, demonstrating how this critical historical event was effectively brushed under the rug for a century.

A Collection of Five Fabulous California Mid-Century Architectural Drawings by A. Carlson; Tennant; P.E.T. (Artists)

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Title: A Collection of Five Fabulous California Mid-Century Architectural Drawings
Author: A. Carlson; Tennant; P.E.T. (Artists)
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: California: QRS Corporation (?), 1966. Drawing. Fine. No Binding. A collection of 5 architectural drawings, all bearing logo of "QRS Corporation", four measuring 14 1/2" x 20" and the fifth, 16" x 20". Pen and ink with watercolor and marker on textured drawing boards with taped edges. Three have drawings for different concepts for Carnation Ice Cream Fountain - Lunch, each signed Tennant in pencil . The fourth, Grist Mill Health Foods, is signed PET in pencil bottom right. The fifth, 16 x 20, is for First California Federal, pencil signed R. Carlson '66. All are Fine. Given that the Carnation Ice Cream Cafe located in Yesterland, Disneyland, is housed in a Victorian era building, and First California Federal was not incorporated as the first federal credit union in California until 1980, these are most likely student works completed for an architectural drawing class in the mid 1960s. No record of a QRS Corp. architectural firm found. As a group a striking collection of mid-century California architecture and advertising..

The Heather Blazing [Signed bookplate] by Colm Toibin

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Title: The Heather Blazing [Signed bookplate]
Author: Colm Toibin
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780330321242
Condition: Very Good +
Description: London: Picador, 1992. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Picador, 1992. First UK Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm); [vi], 245pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with author photo on back flap and price intact (£14.99). Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping. Jacket generally creased, scuffed and rubbed with no tears and light toning to verso top margin. Board corners and spine ends bumped with light soiling and binding cocked due to binding error (final pastedown not centered on back cover. Endsheets have some black rubbing to gutters but otherwise pages clean. A Very good or better copy in like jacket. Bookplate signed by Colm Tóibín loosely laid in. This is the second of his novels and earned him an Encore Award in 1993.

Stefan George und die Blatter fur die Kunst, Deutsche Geistesgeschichte Seit 1890 by Wolter, Friedrich

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Title: Stefan George und die Blatter fur die Kunst, Deutsche Geistesgeschichte Seit 1890
Author: Wolter, Friedrich
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Condition: Very Good+
Description: Berlin: Georg Bondi, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Navy cloth, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; dust jacket; large 8vo (6.75 x 9.5 inches); pp. 589, [3] (ads), plus frontispiece and 4 plates. Boards lightly rubbed; text block very slightly tanned. Dust jacket dust-soiled, and chipped and wrinkled along the edges; in mylar.

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