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Variedades; O Mensagero de Londres

Variedades; O Mensagero de Londres by WHITE, Joseph Blanco

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Title
Variedades; O Mensagero de Londres
Author
WHITE, Joseph Blanco
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
London: R. Ackermann, 1824. Variedades; o Mensagero de Londres:. Periodico Trimestre. Tomo I [II]. London: R. Ackermann, 1824-1825. First edition. Nine numbers in two octavo volumes (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 234 x 151 mm). [4], 102, 101*-102*, 103-499, [1, reference], [2, table of contents]; [2], 399, [1, reference], [2, table of contents] pp. With 108 engraved plates, ninety-nine of which are hand-colored. Each Quarter section with and engraved frontispiece portrait. Also with tow folding facsimile letteres, a folding chart and a copy of a Five Pound Note. White's article on translating Poetical Shakespeare can be found on page 74 of volume I, number I. Contemporary red diced calf. boards tooled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. A small amount of toning, mainly to title-pages. Some offsetting from plates to text pages. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Overall a very good set. "In 1823, about half a century before Velasco published his inaugural translation, we find an article that highlights the need for a 'poetic translation' of Shakespeare's works. The author of the article was Joseph Blanco White, priest, journalist, political and religious thinker, literary critic, and translator. He was born in Seville, in 1775. At that time, his name was José Maria Blanco. His paternal grandfather, William White, had come to Spain from Ireland in the early 18th century to run a mercantile house, and, at some point, the family name was changed to 'Blanco' (Spanish for 'White'). José María had a strict Catholic formation, but, profoundly disappointed with the Church and with Spanish politics, he moved to London in 1810, he converted to Protestantism and he changed his name to Joseph Blanco White. He kept both the Spanish and the English versions of his name side by side, and this doubling reflects an awareness of the double context in which he was writing. He becomes deeply interested in British literature, particularly in the new Romantic ideas, but he never lost sight of the situation in Spain He was concerned with the relations between the Peninsula and its Spanish-American colonies, and he enthusiastically wrote in support of the colonies' autonomy from the Central Council at Seville. In fact, he published his proposal for translating Shakespeare poetically in the quarterly Variedades o Mensagero de Londres, a journal he edited for the London printing house of Rudolph Ackermann but which was addressed to Spanish-American readers. This context is important for understanding Blanco White's theoretical stance. His contact with Romanticism, for instance, gave him tools to defend Shakespeare against the attacks of French and Spanish neoclassicists. He explains that a 'poetic translation' has the benefit of conveying the general 'tone of thought' and the transcendent 'originality of Shakespeare's genius'- even when it cannot reproduce his 'particular beauties' which, for Blanco White, are inseparable from the language in which they were written. But the proposal to translate Shakespeare's works as poetry- by which he meant lyric poetry-has other implicit benefits: it displaces the focus away from the terrain of the theatre and from the standards of unity and decorum that were the stronghold of neoclassicism. Indeed, he explicitly argues that Shakespeare's genius stands apart from the 'frenzies' of the theatre of his time." (The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare Poetry Pg 696-697). HBS 66900. $4,500.
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Around the Theatres (Volumes I and II) by Beerbohm, Max

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Title
Around the Theatres (Volumes I and II)
Author
Beerbohm, Max
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
London: William Heinemann, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good+. Two volumes, both in original cloth (1, bright blue, 2, bright red) with paper spine label. Volumes from larger set of the "Works of Max Beerbohm," limited to 780 sets. Spines a little sunned; spine tips and corners gently bumped; light foxing on prelims, terminals, and along edges of text block. Previous owners' (tasteful) bookplates on front paste-down.
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A Brush with Shakespeare: The Bard in Painting by Anderson, Ross (Ed.)

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A Brush with Shakespeare: The Bard in Painting
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Anderson, Ross (Ed.)
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. Illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's signature. With black and white and color illustrations.
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Libertine Lyrics, by Various Authors Mostly of the XVII and XVIII Centuries by Amour, Anthony (illus.)

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Libertine Lyrics, by Various Authors Mostly of the XVII and XVIII Centuries
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Amour, Anthony (illus.)
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good+. Decorative paper over boards, paper spine label; slipcase; 8vo; pp. [94]. Spine a bit tanned; some light wrinkling scattered throughout text block. Slipcase sunned and cracked.
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The Grabhorn Press: A Biography. by Wentz, Roby

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Title
The Grabhorn Press: A Biography.
Author
Wentz, Roby
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1981 One of 750 copies printed at the Grace Hoper Press, whose proprietor, Sherwood Grover, had once worked for the Grabhorns. Quarter natural linen over patterned boards, gilt spine. Quarto. Twenty pages of illustrations, including mostly of pages of books from Grabhorn Press. Index. Printed in black and red. Fine in plain paper dust jacket. The definitive history of the Grabhorn Press, from its founding in 1912 in Indianapolis, through five decades in San Francisco, up to the death of Edwin Grabhorn in 1968. This is much an essay about people as about books. Books were their lives. But they were human beings, greatly talented human beings, motivated as are we all by the emotions of love, kindness, pride, ambition, pity, jealousy, and every other ennobling and belittling drive. From them and their humanity came great books".
St. Louis: A City in Decay" in Forum Magazine (November 1939); Also "California's 'Grapes of Wrath'.

St. Louis: A City in Decay" in Forum Magazine (November 1939); Also "California's 'Grapes of Wrath'.

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St. Louis: A City in Decay" in Forum Magazine (November 1939); Also "California's 'Grapes of Wrath'.
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Forum Magazine, 1939. Quarto. This article shows why St. Louis was already in decay though at the time it was the eighth largest city in the country. There is a reason its Art Museum never flourished, and its director was fortunate to escape to the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. It is understandable that T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams both flourished once they left the intellectual sterility of the city. This article traces the roots of that problem. P. 200-206. Strangely there is also an article by Frank J. Taylor, "California's 'Grapes of Wrath'," which attempts to deny the reactionary attempt to create the repression against the Oakies and their companions whose main crime was attempting to find economic survival in a system weighed against them. In reality, the power brokers in Bakersfield forced the Public Library system to remove all their copies but they did send them to all the other libraries in rural California. It is difficult to believe but the ad on page 1 offers signed original lithographs of Grant Wood "Fertility", Thomas Hart Benton "Frisky Day", and others at $5 each from the Associated American Artists. Bound in red, white and black paper wraps, some wear to spine ends, yapped edges with tiny edge tear. A very good copy.
ROBERT CREWS

ROBERT CREWS by Berger, Thomas

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ROBERT CREWS
Author
Berger, Thomas
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780688119201
Condition
Near Fine
Description
NY: William Morrow & Co., 1993. First edition. first prnt. Signed by Berger on the title page. Spine cloth ends lightly pushed; dustjacket with minimal rubbing. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Suggestions for Local Woman's Divisions

Suggestions for Local Woman's Divisions

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Suggestions for Local Woman's Divisions
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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New York: Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1941. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 4x8 inches, date penned on rear panel else very good condition.

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