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John Jackson's Arcady by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Title: John Jackson's Arcady
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1928. First edition. Fine. First separate edition and first edition in book form, following its publication in The Saturday Evening Post on July 26, 1924. An excellent, Fine copy of a Fitzgerald rarity. 192 x 126 mm. 8 pp. Publisher's orange wrappers printed in bluish-gray and black. Bookplate (Charles John Muto, 1962) to inside of front cover. Fresh and unmarked throughout. This scarce publication has only appeared at auction five times, and only once in the twenty-first century. Similarly, OCLC records copies at just twenty-six institutions - remarkably few holdings for a work by one of the most important authors in American literary history. "John Jackson's Arcady" was the last short story Fitzgerald published before departing for the French Riviera to write The Great Gatsby. The story, which follows a disillusioned businessman who flees his office life for his hometown, was "written in a period when Fitzgerald was clearly preoccupied with the composition of Gatsby," and foreshadows several crucial themes later found in Fitzgerald's masterpiece (Mangum, p. 56). Fitzgerald's "can't repeat the past" theme, which echoes in one of the most famous scenes in The Great Gatsby, is prototyped in "John Jackson's Arcady," as well as themes of nostalgia, longing, and regret that would later reappear in the novel. Interestingly, "John Jackson's Arcady" may also have served as inspiration for the 1938 short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, which was then adapted into the classic 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life (see Mangum). This edition is the only book publication of "John Jackson's Arcady" until its collection in The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1979). It was issued here for use as a monologue by students practicing elocution. Mangum, Bryant. "Echoes of Arcady." The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Vol. 5 (2006), pp. 54-64. Fine.

The Masque of Comus by Dulac, Edmund (Illustrator); John Milton

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Title: The Masque of Comus
Author: Dulac, Edmund (Illustrator); John Milton
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, Cambridge, 1954. Limited edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. No. 269 of 1,500 numbered copies. A near fine copy. Quarto (10 3/8 x 7 7/16 inches; 263 x 189 mm.). [8], 57, [2], [1, blank], [12, music], [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. Six color plates, including frontispiece, Barcham Green hand-made paper. Original quarter parchment over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. In the original black cardboard slipcase with spine lettered in gilt. Slipcase with some wear at the edges. The Masque of Comus was the last book illustrated by Dulac, left incomplete at the time of his death in 1956. After missing out on a few projects due to his heart attack in 1949, Macy offered Dulac a choice of titles, eventually commissioning him to paint 10 pictures for Comus. "His pace was slow. He did not get started until June 1952. By October he had finished two illustrations. By April 24, 1953, he reported to Macy that he had completed 4 more for a total of 6. A few weeks later, on May 30, Helen Beauclerk wrote Macy of Dulac's death on May 25th. She told Macy that as recently as May 21st, Dulac had been working on his 7th Comus illustration...Comus was the 250th book Macy had made for his Limited Editions Club...Like all his books, Macy's Comus is a beautiful production" (Hughey). French-born anglophile Edmond Dulac (1882-1953) was one of the most prized artists of the "golden age" of book illustration. A gifted artist, especially in the medium of watercolor, Dulac's ability to render luxurious detail and subtle emotions is otherworldly. He is best known for his illustrations for books and magazines, although he also designed for the stage and wrote music; in moments of financial insecurity he produced serialized cartoons and became an authority on postage stamp design (White). Hughey 103. LEC Bibliography 250. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.

Il gazzettiere americano contenente un Distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo della loro Situazione, Clima, Terreno, Prodotti, Stato Antico e Moderno, Merci, Manifatture, e Commercio Con una esatta descrizione delle Città, Piazze, P by [Gazzettiere Americano]

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Title: Il gazzettiere americano contenente un Distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo della loro Situazione, Clima, Terreno, Prodotti, Stato Antico e Moderno, Merci, Manifatture, e Commercio Con una esatta descrizione delle Città, Piazze, P
Author: [Gazzettiere Americano]
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: First Italian edition of this comprehensive geographical dictionary of the New World. “This translation of the American Ga
Description: Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Italian edition of this comprehensive geographical dictionary of the New World. This translation of the American Gazetteer [3 vols., London, 1762], is practically a new work, having been greatly enlarged, and with eighty plates and maps engraved for this edition (Borba, p. 347). In the Italian editors introduction, he explains that Americas growing importance in French and English affairs had produced a need for a general text on the continent, suitable for curious amateurs. Of non-Iberian Europe, Italy probably had the longest tradition of travel literature. It was therefore natural for the Italian public to be avidly interested in the new discoveries, even though... these discoveries did not directly concern the Italians (Penrose, p. 304). Of Cuban interest: vol. I contains 4 text pages (pp. 140-44) and a folding map of the islands; vol. II contains 5 text pages and a plan of the port of Havana. Naturally Cuba also appears in the volumes regional maps. The Gazzettiere focuses on the current state of affairscommerce, the arts, and European political influencesas opposed to the history of discovery. As much as it purports to cover all areas of the New World, an English bias is evident; there are extensive articles devoted to the New England area, particularly Boston, the pre-eminent city of the British Empire in America (vol. I, p. 42). A 5-page entry on Brazil appears in the first volume, featuring engravings of a toucan and a monkey. Also included is a map of Condamines 1743 expedition down the AmazonThe majority of the 21 maps contained in the Gazzettiere were based on those of Emanuel Bowen (1714-67), Royal Geographer of George II and Louis XV. * Sabin 26814; Howes, A 207; Borba, p. 347, faulty collation.. Folio. 3 vol. (3) ff. incl. engr. frontis. and title, xxiii, (1), 216 pp, (1) ff.; 256 pp.; 253 pp. (1) ff. 78 maps and plates. Most likely a married set, with vol. 1 in contemporary vellum, lower edge of front cover exposed to pasteboard; remaining vols. in somewhat later vellum, with spines partially rebacked; 19th-century ownership inscription (G. Traccalossi) on verso of frontis., library stamp on half-title and frontis. Light finger soiling, repair to first map, occasional staining but generally good.

Creative Film Associates Program for Das Cabinet der Dr. Caligari (1919) by Anger, Kenneth; Charles McNutt

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Title: Creative Film Associates Program for Das Cabinet der Dr. Caligari (1919)
Author: Anger, Kenneth; Charles McNutt
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Creative Film Associates, 1947. Rare program notes for a 1947 showing of Das Cabinet Der Dr. Caligari by Kenneth Anger and his group Creative Film Associates. 3 pp. printed on rectos only. 8.5" x 13.25", folded horizontally. A few small tears at left edge by staple, sheets slightly irregularly trimmed. Front wrap showcases a long quote from Dr. Wilhelm Stekel's book Sadismus und Masochismus. Actor Fritz Lang and scifi fanzine editor Forrest J. Ackerman are among the people thanked for supporting the showing. This showing was the same year as Anger's breakthrough film Fireworks, which has been called the first gay narrative film in the US.

Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Secret and Truthful Story of the Capture of the Bandits.” by ZOKKINHISEIDAN 賊禁秘誠談

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Title: Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Secret and Truthful Story of the Capture of the Bandits.”
Author: ZOKKINHISEIDAN 賊禁秘誠談
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 39; 41 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo (277 x 187 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers with orig. manuscript title slip, new stitching. [Japan:] after 1782. The story of the life of Ishikawa Goemon 石川五右衛門 (1558-94), a legendary bandit of the late “Warring States” period. Historical sources pertaining to Ishikawa’s life are extremely sparse, amounting to only a few mentions of his execution by being boiled in a vat of oil in Kyoto in 1594, on the order of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The dearth of written sources notwithstanding, in the popular imagination and in artistic expression, Ishikawa became a Robin Hood-like figure who stole in order to give to the poor, and his execution would have been due to his failed attempt to assassinate Hideyoshi. Ishikawa Goemon featured in Kabuki plays of the Edo period. Zokkinhiseidan was never published in the Edo period, circulating only in manuscript form. We find no copy in North America. The earliest known manuscript dates from 1782, and the most recent from 1876. However, other evidence suggests that the book was written as early as before 1776. The contents can be divided into four sections: 1) a discussion of Ishikawa’s ancestors; 2) Ishikawa’s birth in Iga province, his study of ninjutsu, and his travel to Kyoto; 3) his activities as a bandit; 4) Ishikawa breaking into Hideyoshi’s bedroom, his capture and execution by boiling. The authorship of our book is unknown, but there are some clues. Some copies contain a Preface signed “Higashitake Zankō 東武殘光," "Takei Zankō 武江殘光,” or “Zankō, the recluse of Tōbu castle” 東武城隱士殘光. This has led scholars to speculate that the author might have been Masaki Zankō 正木殘光, a known Edo-period storyteller. This conjecture is unproven, however. Very good copy, some thumbing and dampstaining. ❧ Hosaya Tomoko 細谷朋子, “Ishikawa Goemon jitsuroku Zokkinhiseidan ni tsuite” 石川五右衛門実録『賊禁秘誠談』について, Rikkyō daigaku Nihongaku kenkyūjo nenpō 8 (2011): pp. 114-22.

Modernizing Fire Departments in Massachusetts and the Northeast, Archive of 33 Photos Documenting the Transition from Horse-Drawn Steam Engines to Modern Automotive Fire Trucks, 1910-1940s by Fire Department Modernization

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Title: Modernizing Fire Departments in Massachusetts and the Northeast, Archive of 33 Photos Documenting the Transition from Horse-Drawn Steam Engines to Modern Automotive Fire Trucks, 1910-1940s
Author: Fire Department Modernization
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1910. [Technology][Rescue Operations] American fire engine modernization archive documenting the transition from horse drawn steam engines to motorized trucks and rescue wagons in Massachusetts and across the Northeast between the 1910s and 1940s. Fire departments across the U.S. began to transition from horses and steam pumpers to gasoline powered apparatus to account for urban growth, taller buildings, electrical wiring, and automobile traffic, changing the speed and scale of emergency response. The archive records identified departments and apparatus makers, including Mack, GMC, Ford, Seagrave, Studebaker, American LaFrance, and Maxim, mostly showing departments across Massachusetts departments and with additional images from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Photo archive of 33 silver gelatin photographs, many with captions, ranging from 2 x 3 to 4 x 6 inches, chiefly Massachusetts, with additional material from Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, 1910s to 1940s. Fire engines and firefighters appear in station fronts, street parades, apparatus portraits, airport grounds, and active fire scenes. Captions identify New York City Rescue 1 Mack; Syracuse Rescue 1 GMC; Highland Park, Pennsylvania Rescue 2 Mack; Plainfield, New Jersey Rescue GMC; Chelmsford, Massachusetts Emergency No. 7 Studebaker; Camp Edwards, Massachusetts Mack Engine 4; Needham, Massachusetts Mack Engine 3; Lawrence, Massachusetts Engine 3 American LaFrance; Boston Ladder 8, Ladder 9, and Ladder 21; Cambridge Engine 3; Canton, Massachusetts Mack engine; Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Engine 3 and Ladder 3; Barrington, Vermont; Stoneham, Massachusetts Bell Block; River Street, Boston; First Scientist Church, Somerville; and Fort House, Somerville. Horse drawn apparatus appears outside Hope No. 1 in Pittsburgh and in a parade scene, while motorized ladder trucks carry long wooden extension ladders, hose reels, searchlights, bells, sirens, polished pumps, and side mounted tools. The images provide a side by side record of old and new fire protection: horse teams, exposed steam machinery, open cab ladder trucks, and later motorized emergency vehicles. Chas. E. Beckwith's Fire Dept. Photographer stamp connects at least part of the group to a specialist working for Massachusetts fire departments. Photographs stapled to eight disbound black album pages; scattered fading, handling wear, with legible captions. Some with additional handwritten captions on versos. Overall in good condition.

14 Poets, 1 Artist. December 12-14, 1958, New York by (ANTHOLOGY)

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Title: 14 Poets, 1 Artist. December 12-14, 1958, New York
Author: (ANTHOLOGY)
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine copy
Description: (Highlands, NC: Jargon Society), 1958. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A "New York Portfolio" with poems by Paul Blackburn, Bob Brown, Edward Dahlberg, Max Finstein, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Denise Levertov, Walter Lowenfels, Edward Marshall, E. A. Navaretta, Joel Oppenheimer, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jonathan Williams, & Louis Zukofsky; poets' portraits by Fielding Dawson. Jargon 31. Jaffe B1. Signed by Dawson on the envelope. Fine copy. DAWSON, Fielding. 8vo, loose sheets in folder, portraits by Fielding Dawson, original printed envelope. Fine copy.

The Brickbuilder: An Architectural Monthly (4 Issues 1915)

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Title: The Brickbuilder: An Architectural Monthly (4 Issues 1915)
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG- (ex-museum library w/ donor insert, stamps to covers, some pencil identifiers. issues have some scuffs & edge-wear to covers
Description: Boston: Rogers and Manson Co, 1915. Softcover. VG- (ex-museum library w/ donor insert, stamps to covers, some pencil identifiers. issues have some scuffs & edge-wear to covers; cover spines ragged, torn w/ some split. issues/textblocks appear to have had their staples removed and then re-applied; may issues is loosely laid into original cover). tan stapled wraps w/ printing. various paginations w/ bw illustrations. "An architectural monthly" that began its publication in 1892. This lot includes issues January, February, March and May of 1915. Pages inspected and appear clean, but, may have instance of notations, etc. Remains a nice set. Set is packaged in library archival box, with each individual issue within it's own file folder.

Birds, Boughs & Blossoms: Jessie Arms Botke, 1883-1971 by Trenton, Patricia; Solon, Deborah Epstein

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Title: Birds, Boughs & Blossoms: Jessie Arms Botke, 1883-1971
Author: Trenton, Patricia; Solon, Deborah Epstein
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781886394001
Condition: VG. Only slight touches of shelfwear around edges.
Description: Carmel, CA: William A. Karges Fine Art, 1995. Softcover. VG. Only slight touches of shelfwear around edges.. Square quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 90 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Jessie Arms Botke is recognized as one of the great decorative painters of her era, specializing in images of birds rendered with her signature gold leaf technique. Born in Chicago, she trained at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago beginning in 1902. Botke took her first trip to the West in 1906, bartering several paintings for a round-trip ticket on the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway. In 1909, she embarked on a three-month trip to Europe, returning home to Chicago with renewed determination & focus. In 1911, Botke moved to New York & was hired by Albert Herter for a position at the Herter Looms. It was through one of Herter's commissions that Botke started painting images of birds. In 1915 she married Cornelis Botke, a Dutch artist living & working as an architectural renderer in Chicago. Both she & Cornelis often worked in concert on large commissions, & it was her commercial popularity that gave the couple its financial stability. After several years in Chicago, the couple moved in 1919 to Carmel, California. They briefly lived in Los Angeles in the late 1920s before buying property & building a ranch in Wheeler Canyon, Ventura County, California, in 1929. It was from this rather unlikely spot that Botke orchestrated her career while tending to the duties of the ranch. Maintaining an exhausting painting schedule throughout her lifetime, she exhibited at venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Academy of Western Painters, & the National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors.

George Bellows' Men of the Docks

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Title: George Bellows' Men of the Docks
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: As new.
Description: New York, New York: Christie's, 2007. Softcover. As new.. Color illus. wraps; 31 pp.; 1 color gatefold; 9 plates and figures, 8 color, 1 bw. From the auction PORT-1911, held on November 29, 2007, which sold George Bellows's "Men of the Docks." Essay included.

John Stenvall: Retrospective by Burney, Charlotte

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Title: John Stenvall: Retrospective
Author: Burney, Charlotte
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG.
Description: San Jose, CA: Bingham Gallery, 1994. Staplebound. VG.. Quarto. Staplebound. Illustrated wraps. 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

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Studien zur Philologie und zur Musikwissenschaft

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Title: Studien zur Philologie und zur Musikwissenschaft
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9783110217636
Description: Berlin, New York: Walther de Gruyter, 2009. Herausgegeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. 292p., b/w illus., original red cloth (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Neue Folge, Bd. 7. Sammelband I).

A History of American Marine Painting. by Wilmerding, John.

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Title: A History of American Marine Painting.
Author: Wilmerding, John.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: The complex history of American marine painting is presented here in a clear, readable and above all, in a visually satisfying m
Description: Salem MA.: The Peabody Museum., (1968).. The complex history of American marine painting is presented here in a clear, readable and above all, in a visually satisfying manner by an internationally renowned authority. A superbly handsome book, very generously illustrated, it is in fine condition in its dust jacket.. 28.5 cm. xxiii; 279 pp. Color and b/w portraits, seascapes, and landscapes as plates.

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