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Photograph of Mary Gill by RAY, MAN [MAN RAY]

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company

Title: Photograph of Mary Gill
Author: RAY, MAN [MAN RAY]
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris: Man Ray, 1931. First edition. gelatin silver print. Fine. STUNNING PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH BY MAN RAY OF MARY GILL; WITH ICONIC ARTIST STUDIO STAMPS ON VERSO INDICATING A CONTEMPORARY PRINTING. "The man who was to become the most important photographer of the 20th Century and one of the leading experimental painters of the modern era was born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia in 1890, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor." Having been introduced to Alfred Stieglitz during the early 1900s in his Manhattan 291 gallery, Man Ray made a name for himself in Paris primarily as a photographer, capturing fashion models and famous subjects like Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Cocteau. (Michael Kilian, "Man Ray - The Legend Lives", The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 11, 1988). In this exquisite photograph, Man Ray captures Mary Gill (sometimes known as "Mary Gill-Einstein" since she was the first wife of the American painter William Einstein, or "Marie Gill" from her time in Paris), looking away to her right. Not many images of Gill appear to have survived: we have located one from the same sitting with Gill staring straight into the camera, as well as several solarized prints from approximately the same time. The soft, slightly blurred tones of this image add an air of mystery to the photograph. The masterful composition, with Gill looking off to one side, complements this mystery with Gill inviting the viewer to follow her gaze and wonder at the source of the thoughts that could produce such an enigmatic (and perhaps melancholic) expression. Dating the print: "Man Ray's real home was Montparnasse. About June of 1922, he moved from the Hotel des Écoles, on rue Delambre, to the studio at 31 bis, rue Campagne Première. Here he flourished. Berenice Abbott, Kiki, Lee Miller, and Marcel Duchamp each worked here. The Art Deco building served as his studio for nearly thirteen years" (Manford). This print bears on the verso two of Man Ray's stamps with the rue Campagne Première address, identified as two of the stamps he used at this address (see Steven Manford, Behind the Photo, where the stamps are labeled "M5" and "M6" by Manford). The print can therefore be dated as between c.1931 (when the image was taken), and 1935, when Man Ray changed his address and stamp. Gelatin silver print. Size (approx.): 6.75 x 8.75 in (17x22 cm); with frame: 18x22 in (46x56 cm). Spectacularly framed under UV-protecting museum glass with inner frame highlighted by white gold leaf over black wood. Fine condition.

Peter Cooper's Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation by PETER COOPER. SLAVERY

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Title: Peter Cooper's Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation
Author: PETER COOPER. SLAVERY
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: "It is a fact that the enslavement of human beings has so far infused its insidious poison into the very hearts of the Southern people, that they have come to believe and declare the evil of slavery to be a good, and to require the power of Government to be exerted to maintain, extend, and perpetuate an institution that enables thousands to sell their own children, to be enslaved, with all their posterity, into hopeless bondage...." The founder of New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art echoes the language and logic of the Emancipation Proclamation (as well as citing some Southern pro-slavery arguments to demonstrate their ridiculousness) in this open letter to President Lincoln. Cooper and the Cooper Union had long been advocates of abolition and both Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had famously lectured at the institution. PETER COOPER. [SLAVERY]. Pamphlet. Letter of Peter Cooper, on Slave Emancipation, Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1862, 8pp., disbound. Excerpts: "It is a fact that the enslavement of human beings has so far infused its insidious poison into the very hearts of the Southern people, that they have come to believe and declare the evil of slavery to be a good, and to require the power of Government to be exerted to maintain, extend, and perpetuate an institution that enables thousands to sell their own children, to be enslaved, with all their posterity, into hopeless bondage...." "In the original formation of that Constitution, it became absolutely necessary to make a compromise with that great and all pervading interest which had then already entered into the very life-blood of the nation, rendering the formation of an union of States hopeless without such a compromise...." "The constitutional requirement to return fugitive slaves on their being demanded by Southern men, having been acknowledged and performed by the States, has been reaffirmed by an almost unanimous vote in Congress....These honest efforts on the part of the North to maintain peace and friendship were met by a relentless war, waged for the destruction of the Constitution and the dissolution of the Union." "The time has now come when Southern men must know that the Union must be preserved, and it is for them to determine whether they will persevere in their rebellion until the North shall be compelled, in the most reluctant self defence, to render contraband of war the slaves and property of all persons found in arms against the laws and Government of the country...." Condition Fine. Disbound and lacking front wrap.

BLONDIE'S Soups • Salads • Sandwiches COOK BOOK by YOUNG, [Murat] Chic

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Title: BLONDIE'S Soups • Salads • Sandwiches COOK BOOK
Author: YOUNG, [Murat] Chic
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: David McKay, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pictorial front and rear cover featuring comic Dagwood and Blondie; matching dustjacket; 141pp. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with several nicks and short tears to the extremities; Very Good+. "Murat Chic Young, the creator of Blondie and Dagwood, is a man who enjoys his food, and he made the Dagwood sandwich a by-word...he has now collected favorite soup, salad and sandwich recipes in a book. He has added amusing personal philosophy and advice about feeding the inner man, and has provided several score of delightful Blondie and Dagwood drawings." (from the dustjacket).

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