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A. J. B. from Winston S. C. " - The penultimate volume of The World Crisis, Winston Churchill's history of the First World War, inscribed and dated six days prior to publication by Winston S. Churchill to former Prime Minister Arthur J. Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty when Churchill was forced to resign and "whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics" Churchill "enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years" by Winston S. Churchill

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Title: A. J. B. from Winston S. C. " - The penultimate volume of The World Crisis, Winston Churchill's history of the First World War, inscribed and dated six days prior to publication by Winston S. Churchill to former Prime Minister Arthur J. Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty when Churchill was forced to resign and "whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics" Churchill "enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years"
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Seller: Churchill Book Collector (United States)
Description: London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a remarkable association copy of the penultimate volume of Winston S. Churchills history of the First World War. This jacketed first edition, first printing of The World Crisis: The Aftermath is inscribed and dated to Arthur James Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915 when Churchill was forced to resign. Churchills own words testify most eloquently to his association with Balfour, which both included and exceeded that of a colleague, mentor, or rival: this remarkable man whom I knew, and whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics, I enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years. (Churchill, Great Contemporaries, p.240) The inscription Churchill inscribed this presentation copy of the first edition, first printing, first state of The Aftermath six days prior to publication. Using their respective initials, the tone is familiar, befitting their long association, and the first and third lines have a hint of playful versification. Inked in four lines, the recto of the blank sheet preceding the half title reads: A. J. B | from | Winston S. C. | 1 Mar 1929. This was the last book Churchill published during the recipients lifetime; Balfour died a year later. Condition Condition approaches very good overall in a very good plus dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square, clean, and bright, with vivid spine gilt, sharp corners, and only trivial shelf wear confined to extremities all consonant with a jacketed copy. Unfortunately, the otherwise well-preserved cloth suffers significant blistering, endemic to the edition. In this case the spine is most affected, but also the cover edges and the upper front cover. The contents are uncommonly clean for the edition, crisp and bright with no spotting or previous ownership marks other than the authors inscription. First state of the first edition, first printing, is confirmed by absence of an errata at p.9. We note only minor age-toning and incidental dust to the top edge of the text block. The binding remains firmly attached, despite a cosmetic split at the final free endpaper gutter showing a narrow glimpse of the fully intact mull beneath. The dust jacket is complete apart from fractional chipping to the spine ends, and notably clean, with modest, uniform spine toning. There are short closed tears and wrinkling to the top .5 inch of the spine head. The inscribed volume is housed in a full, dark blue Morocco goatskin Solander case with rounded spine, raised and gilt-rule framed spine bands, tan Morocco spine labels, gilt rule-bordered covers, and marbled paper lining. The association Arthur James Balfour, first earl of Balfour (1848-1930) was among the most significant influences and associations of the first half of Churchills political career. The two were already tethered by friendship and politics when Winston was born, and during Winstons first three decades in Parliament they were almost perpetually connected by oscillations of alignment and opposition, of concurrent and opposing political ascendance. Balfour was friends with Winstons father, Lord Randolph Churchill, and supported Winston in his early endeavors, including publication of his first book and his first election to Parliament. It was in late May 1904, during Balfours 1902-1905 premiership, that young Winston dramatically left the Conservative Party and crossed the aisle to become a Liberal. In late 1911, within weeks of Churchills appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, Balfour resigned as Conservative party leader, a casualty of Conservative losses to the Liberals in policy battles championed by Churchill. Arguably, Balfours most important legacies and most potent time in power came in the years that followed. Moreover, the First World War and its aftermath apropos the title of the inscribed work in question tethered Balfour and Churchill even more than had the preceding decades. On the Dardanelles the strategic initiative that would end Churchills tenure at the Admiralty, the two men were in accord. Indeed, Balfour argued persuasively in favor of Churchills proposal to attack the Dardanelles with ships alone. (ODNB) When the Dardanelles disaster engulfed Churchill and forced his resignation, it was Balfour who succeeded Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. It is worth noting that Balfour anticipated the weapons that would revolutionize naval warfare in each world war the submarine in the First and the aircraft in the Second. Later, as Foreign Secretary, Balfour did much to smooth the way for American co-operation in the war effort. And it was the Balfour Declaration that formally stated that the British government supported the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people a frankly Zionist position to which Churchill would also commit. As Churchill would later be to the genesis of the United Nations, Balfour was committed to the U.N.s ill-fated forerunner, the League of Nations, serving as Lord President of the Leagues Council from 1919-1922. Their final service together was in the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; from 1925-1929, Balfour served as Lord President of the Council while Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. On 1 March 1929 six days before publication Churchill inscribed this volume for Balfour. In the autumn of 1928, ill-health had finally removed the octogenarian Balfour from active work. Balfour died two years later. When Churchill published his Great Contemporaries in 1937, an entire chapter (pages 237-57) was devoted to Balfour. The edition A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the War to end all wars. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it. The World Crisis was published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. The first four volumes span the 1911-1918 war years, with two supplemental volumes. This fifth volume, The Aftermath, covers the postwar years 1918-1928 a decade-long span during most of which both Churchill and Balfour served in high Government office. As the title implies, the sixth and final volume, The Eastern Front, covers the eastern theatre. The British first editions are handsome, but the smooth navy cloth bindings proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents quite prone to spotting and toning. Moreover, the cloth binding of this fifth volume (the one inscribed to Balfour) proved particularly susceptible to blistering delamination of the binding cloth from the binding structure beneath. First editions in dust jackets let alone inscribed presentation copies are an elusive prize. When these volumes were published, between 1923 and 1931, booksellers often discarded the dust jackets. Even those spared by booksellers often did not survive. Reference: Cohen A69.2(IV).a, Woods/ICS A31(ab); Langworth p.105 4,000 character version: This is a remarkable association copy of the penultimate volume of Winston S. Churchills history of the First World War. This jacketed first edition, first printing of The Word Crisis: The Aftermath is inscribed and dated to Arthur James Balfour, the man who replaced Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915 when Churchill was forced to resign. Churchills own words testify most eloquently to his association with Balfour, which both included and exceeded that of a colleague, mentor, or rival: this remarkable man whom I knew, and whose friendship, across the vicissitudes of politics, I enjoyed in a ripening measure during thirty years. (Churchill, Great Contemporaries, p.240) Churchill inscribed the presentation copy of the first edition, first printing, first state of The Aftermath six days prior to publication. Using their respective initials, the tone is familiar, befitting their long association, and the first and third lines have a hint of playful versification. Inked in four lines, the recto of the blank sheet preceding the half title reads: A. J. B | from | Winston S. C. | 1 Mar 1929. This was the last book Churchill published during the recipients lifetime; Balfour died a year later. Condition approaches very good overall in a very good plus dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square, clean, and bright, with vivid spine gilt, sharp corners, and only trivial shelf wear confined to extremities all consonant with a jacketed copy. Unfortunately, the otherwise well-preserved cloth suffers significant blistering, endemic to the edition. In this case the spine is most affected, but also the cover edges and the upper front cover. The contents are uncommonly clean for the edition, crisp and bright with no spotting or previous ownership marks other than the authors inscription. First state of the first edition, first printing, is confirmed by absence of an errata at p.9. We note only minor age-toning and incidental dust to the top edge of the text block. The binding remains firmly attached, despite a cosmetic split at the final free endpaper gutter showing a narrow glimpse of the fully intact mull beneath. The dust jacket is complete apart from fractional chipping to the spine ends, and notably clean, with modest, uniform spine toning. There are short closed tears and wrinkling to the top .5 inch of the spine head. The inscribed volume is housed in a full, dark blue Morocco goatskin Solander case with rounded spine, raised and gilt-rule framed spine bands, tan Morocco spine labels, gilt rule-bordered covers, and marbled paper lining. Arthur James Balfour, first earl of Balfour (1848-1930) was among the most significant influences and associations of the first half of Churchills political career. The two were already tethered by friendship and politics when Winston was born; Balfour was friends with Winstons father and supported Winston in his early endeavors. During Winstons first three decades in Parliament they were almost perpetually connected by oscillations of alignment and opposition, of concurrent and opposing political ascendance. Churchill dramatically left the Conservative Party during Balfour s premiership. In late 1911, Churchill was ascendant as newly-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, while Balfour resigned as Conservative Party leader, a victim of his Party s electoral defeats by Churchill s Liberals. The First World War and its aftermath apropos the title of the inscribed work tethered Balfour and Churchill even more than preceding decades. On the Dardanelles the strategic initiative that ended Churchill s tenure at the Admiralty, the two men were in accord. Indeed, Balfour "argued persuasively in favor" of Churchill s proposal to attack the Dardanelles with ships alone. (ODNB) When the Dardanelles disaster engulfed Churchill and forced his resignation, Balfour succeeded Churchill at the Admiralty. Reference: Cohen A69.2(IV).a, Woods/ICS A31(ab); Langworth p.105

Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca by SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft

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Title: Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Author: SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Description: London: for G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1823, 1823. FIRST EDITION OF HER SECOND NOVEL. 3 vols., 7-3/16" x 4-7/16", bound in 1/2 tan speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges, internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, a VERY GOOD set. Shelley's second novel, a study of sexual politics, considered by many to be her finest work. "Her creation of Frankenstein at the age of eighteen is a marvel known to many; but few if any are aware that Valperga, her second novel, excels the first almost as much as Alastor surpasses Queen Mab. It is, indeed, her best novel, having a richness of imaginative style and a creative force in combination with a thoroughness of scholarship that are exhibited in none of her other works. Shelley and Godwin enthusiastically recognized its advance beyond Frankenstein, and rightly expected great things of her in the future." (Frederick L. Jones The Letters of Mary W. Shelley)

Medical Bibliography. A. & B. by Atkinson, James

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Title: Medical Bibliography. A. & B.
Author: Atkinson, James
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: John Churchill, 1834. 8vo. Original cloth, recased retaining original spine and remains of original paper label. Light foxing to preliminary and last few leaves but a very good copy. Medical library bookplate on pastedown; no library stamps.Perhaps the funniest book in the entire history of bibliography, and one of the most eccentric publications ever issued. This privately printed work was a satire on the bibliographical scholarship of its time. Garrison-Morton 6754.1. .

Naked Lunch by Burroughs, William

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Title: Naked Lunch
Author: Burroughs, William
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1959. First American edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth over gray paper boards. Top edge stained black. First issue unclipped dust jacket without the zip code in the publisher's address on back panel. A lovely copy in a bright dust jacket with just a bit of crinkling to crown. William S. Burroughs' infamous novel meanders through the absurd and perverse in an improbable, non-linear narrative. While the adventure jumps from fictional dictatorships, to Mexico, to space, much of the book remains inspired by Burroughs' own drug addiction and his friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Upon its publication in Paris in 1959, The Naked Lunch was banned from numerous cities, though its literary significance was later recognized by Time magazine and the book was included in their list of the top 100 English language novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel was adapted into a (nearly as infamous) surrealist film by writer-director David Cronenberg in 1991. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Epistolarum selectarum Centuriae II by CESARI, Domenico

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Title: Epistolarum selectarum Centuriae II
Author: CESARI, Domenico
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi for Girolamo Tamburini, 1621. 8vo (150 x 98 mm). 2 parts, continuously paginated. Engraved fold-out title signed F. B. F. [Francesco Brizio fecit], [22], 262 pages (pp. [126-128] blank). Two woodcut initials. Marginal tear at fold of engraved title, very occasional minor marginal dampstain. Contemporary parchment (stain on front cover, backstrip torn). Provenance: author's presentation copy, ex dono inscription from the recipient: 1621 / Donum ipsius Auctoris, mihi Michi / Angelo Actio, Bononia [?].*** First Edition of a collection of 200 Neo-Latin letters from a professor of literature (umane lettere) at the University of Bologna, addressed to an array of local (all male) intelligentsia, most from Bologna or nearby towns. An index lists the recipients in alphabetical order of first name. Most received one letter; a few carried on a more frequent correspondence. The edition was edited and printed at the expense of one of the correspondents, Girolamo Tamburini, and was evidently distributed privately to Cesari's other correspondents. This copy was given by the author to the protonotary apostolic Michael Angelus Actius (recipient of one letter, p. 20). Correspondents include prelates, monks, philosophers, theologians, jurists, professors of logic, literature, law and medicine, poets, members of chivalric orders (the Hospitallers, the Order of St. Stephen), senators of Bologna, and two cardinals (Carlo de' Medici and Carlo Madruzzo). Subjects are suitably elevated - ethics, religion, philosophy, classical writers (Plautus's comedies, Tacitus), his interlocutors' poetry - displaying Cesari's erudition, but not (in Vernarecci's view) a commensurate purity of style. Other than a few circumstantial orations, in Italian and Latin, Cesari's main published work consisted of 500 letters. These first two hundred were reprinted in 1623 by B. Cocchi, along with a separate edition containing two hundred more letters. The final centuria appeared in 1624. OCLC, USTC and ICCU record no copies of any of these epistolary collections in American libraries. ICCU ITICCUBVEE�38789; USTC 4000795; cf. A. Vernarecci, Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri di Fossombrone (1872), p. 13.

Type-Faces by Amanda Blanco (b. 1933), photographer

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Title: Type-Faces
Author: Amanda Blanco (b. 1933), photographer
Seller: John Howell for Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780937048405
Condition: Fine
Description: Northridge, CA: Santa Susanna Press, 1988. Portfolio. 12 13/16 x 9 9/16 inches. Sheets loosely laid in cloth portfolio: v, [2], 12 signed photographs mounted on the rectos, p1, colophon] pp. Half-title, title page, 12 black-and-white photographic portraits of Ritchie, SIGNED AND NUMBERED on the mount by the photographer, SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell on the colophon; text clean, unmarked. All loosely laid-in to a clam-shell box with an aperture design on the front cover by Joseph D'Ambrosio; binding square and tight. LH823-016. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 65 copies, this is copy number 29. Photographs by Amanda Blanco, Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell, "About the Photographer" by Norman E. Tanis (1929-2010), Director of University Libraries at California State University, Northridge, 1969-1991. This portfolio was designed, printed, and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio using hand set Della Robbia type and a Vandercook No 4 proof press. "Since I knew Ward personally, I tried to make this work portray not only aspects of his career, but also to mirror the warm and sensitive personal side of the man. Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward's longtime friend who wrote the portfolio's foreword, laid the groundwork for this goal. I chose the sequence of photographs from the many Amanda showed me, and wrote the captions to street the man as well as his work." D'Ambrosio. REFERENCE: D'Ambrosio, A Memoir of Book Design, pp. 102-3. 29 copies OCLC.

The Golden Ass. Translated by William Adlington, MDLXVI. by Apuleius, Lucius.

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Title: The Golden Ass. Translated by William Adlington, MDLXVI.
Author: Apuleius, Lucius.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red boards, with restored tan buckram spine; original paper title labels printed in red (the publisher included an "extra" title label folded into each copy of the book, and the "extra" label was applied to the restored spine). Title label on upper board dusty. Cloth a bit worn along edges and at corners. Some very slight toning near upper margin and along edges of text block. Numbered and signed "Scott-Thaw" on justification page.

Magyar Nyomdászat: A Könyvnyomtató és Testvériparágak Havi Szakfolyóirata

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Title: Magyar Nyomdászat: A Könyvnyomtató és Testvériparágak Havi Szakfolyóirata
Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description: Year 35, No. 1 (January 1923) through Year 35, No. 12 (December 1923), 12 issues bound in 1, 228 pp. serial devoted to numerous aspects of the Hungarian printing industry, including advertising posters, book cover design, print ads, etc., heavily illustrated throughout, many images in excellent color, some tipped-in. 4to. 3/4 cloth and boards, spine slightly faded, bottom right-hand corner bent on front, original wrpps. bound in. Budapest 1923. A fascinating glimpse into the Hungarian printing world during an influential period of Eastern European design.

12 Postcards from the Diana Press by [Czarnik, Casey; Coletta Reid]

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Title: 12 Postcards from the Diana Press
Author: [Czarnik, Casey; Coletta Reid]
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Description: Baltimore: Diana Press, 1973. First Edition. Twelve offset-lithograph postcards (5 ½" x 3 ¼") printed in red and black, on gray paper, titled and copyright on the verso. The designs are adapted from 20th century linocuts, primitive art and sculpture; depicting fertility idols, goddesses, and abstractions, a couple with quotes. Original envelope with the publisher's rubber-stamped address. Founded in Baltimore in 1972 by Coletta Reid and Casey Czarnik, Diana Press was among the earliest and most important lesbian-feminist publishing houses in the United States, operating as both a commercial print shop and a radical publisher committed to bringing openly lesbian literature into print at a moment when mainstream houses would not touch it. Its catalogue included early work by Rita Mae Brown, Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, and Elsa Gidlow, as well as a reprint of Jeannette Foster's pioneering Sex Variant Women in Literature. This set of twelve postcards, issued in 1973 at the beginning of the press's publishing operation, reflects the visual vocabulary the Women in Print Movement was developing for itself; goddess iconography, fertility figures, and primitive and folk forms drawn from sources outside the male-dominated Western canon, adapted into inexpensive, mass-producible objects that carried feminist imagery into everyday circulation. The press relocated to Oakland in 1977 and closed in 1979, following a fire, an act of vandalism, and internal disputes; surviving ephemera from its Baltimore years is now scarce.

Truthful Jane by Kingsley, Florence Morse

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Title: Truthful Jane
Author: Kingsley, Florence Morse
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Description: New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1907. Hardcover. 329p + advertising page, torn at bottom corner, ownership name and stamp on front pastedown rear hinge starting, shelfwear, faded spine, first edition, first printing (1) on final page as called for by Zempel & Verkler, bound in wine cloth boards with decorative blind stamp on front cover, white titles. Ohio author of mostly Christian novels and tales. Best known for her book "Titus: A Comrade of the Cross". In six weeks, 200,000 copies had been printed to meet demand. She later published two other works of Christian fiction: the sequel to her original entitled "Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross", and the epic tale "The Cross Triumphant.

L'Oeuvre d'Orgue de Jehan Alain ... Tome II by ALAIN, Jehan 1911-1940

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Title: L'Oeuvre d'Orgue de Jehan Alain ... Tome II
Author: ALAIN, Jehan 1911-1940
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Alphonse Leduc [PNs A.L. 19744, 20102-20105], 1971. Folio. Original publisher's ivory wrappers with titing within ruled border to upper. Unbound as issued. 1f. (blank), 1f. (recto title and contents, verso blank), 1f. (recto small illustration by the composer, verso blank), 36, [i] (blank), [i] (publisher's catalogue "Musique pour Grand Orgue") pp. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Minor browning. New edition edited by Marie-Clair Alain, reissued from editions ©1939, 1943, and 1952. "Alain's musical language is a faithful reflection of his original personality. An instinctive musician, but one trained in the disciplines of counterpoint, he wrote music that has a natural fluidity, infused with the spirit of dance. It requires from the performer what Olivier Alain has called an 'active rubato'. Alain's preferred forms are the fantasy and the variation, but with an acute sense of proportion, an avoidance of exaggeration, and the absolute sincerity of a generous, passionate nature. Harmonies are immensely rich, polymodal or chromatic; the composer loved sequences of 6th chords and the polytonality of superimposed triads." Aurélie Decourt, Georges Guillard, Brigitte Massin and Gilles Cantagrel in Grove Music Online.

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