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MADAME BOVARY. Provincial Manners by Flaubert, Gustave

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Title: MADAME BOVARY. Provincial Manners
Author: Flaubert, Gustave
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1886. [an amazingly fine copy] Translated from the French Édition Définitive by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886. 2 pp preliminary ads. Original aqua-blue cloth decorated in gilt, black and dark grey. First English Edition of Flaubert's masterpiece, which was destined to become one of the great classics of world literature. Portraying the frustrations and love affairs of romantic young Emma Bovary, married to a dull provincial doctor, the book -- first published in French in late 1856 -- resulted in Flaubert being prosecuted on moral grounds. However, he won the case, while the book gained notoriety that spurred its sales in France. It was MADAME BOVARY that established Flaubert as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel, with his objective, precise style typified by his use of "le mot juste." Somerset Maugham selected MADAME BOVARY as one of the ten greatest novels, saying that "Flaubert created the modern realistic novel and directly or indirectly has influenced all the writers of fiction since his day." Although the novel did appear in the early 1880s in America (a little-known undated Peterson edition, probably 1881), it did not appear in England until here in 1886, because UK publishers would not touch it -- due to the fact that the lending libraries (responsible for most of any novel's initial sales) would likewise refuse it. Enter the Italian (but London-born) publisher Henry Vizetelly, who in 1886 established this publishing house and set about publishing "Realistic Novels" that the lending libraries had been preventing the English public from reading -- beginning with this book. It was largely Vizetelly, and the public clamoring for his books (despite his being prosecuted for obscenity), who brought about the decline and ultimately the demise of the three-decker format in Britain -- in 1894, coincidentally the year of Vizetelly's death. The translator -- and the author of the 16-page Introduction about Flaubert and the writing of MADAME BOVARY -- was Eleanor "Tussy" Marx (1855-1898), the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. As a child she had played in his study as he wrote DAS KAPITAL (published in 1867), and at the age of 16 she became his secretary, accompanying him to socialist conferences around the world. Her father died in 1883, soon after which she and Edward Aveling, under the aegis of Friedrich Engels, saw to the publication of the second volume of DAS KAPITAL. In 1886, the year this book was published, she toured the US with Aveling and the German socialist Wilhelm Liebknecht. A dozen years later (in early 1898), she discovered that the ailing Aveling had secretly married a young actress and, at age 43, "Tussy" ended her life with cyanide -- very similarly to how Emma Bovary had ended her life with arsenic. This is an amazingly fine copy -- by far the best we have ever seen. Typically, copies have substantial soil and rubbing of this aqua-blue cloth -- but this copy is clean and bright, essentially without wear or soil. The dark green coated endpapers are intact, and the volume is tight. One could not hope for a better copy, of this literary classic that brought together a great author, the debut of a historically-significant publisher, and a talented translator and feminist. Housed in a clamshell case with leather labels.

Mémoires de Charles Perrault, de l’Académie Françoise by PERRAULT (Charles);

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Title: Mémoires de Charles Perrault, de l’Académie Françoise
Author: PERRAULT (Charles);
Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description: PERRAULT (Charles): Mémoires de Charles Perrault, de l'Académie Françoise et Premier Commis des batimens du Roi. Contenant beaucoup de particularités & d'Anecdotes intéressantes du ministère de M. Colbert. Avignon: {Pierre Patte,] 1759. First edition of the Memoirs by the author of Mother Goose's Tales, very rare when preserved in an elegant ancient binding as our copy. Tchemerzine, V, 188 The Memoirs stop after the break with Colbert and were published by the architect Pierre Patte. Originally coming from the region of Tours, but established in Paris, the Perrault family belongs to a haute bourgeoisie of Robe with a modern and Jansenist sensibility whose sons are lawyer (Jean), receiver general of finances (Pierre), architect and doctor (Claude) or doctor in theology (Nicolas). As for Charles, if he seems to follow a banal course of a future robin (brilliant literary studies at the college of Beauvais in Paris, law degrees, and registration at the bar in 1651), he actually breaks with the school institution. Then, we see him trying to celebrate the great events of the kingdom: odes on peace on the occasion of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), on the wedding of Louis XIV and Marie-Therese (1660), on the birth of the Dauphin (1661), with a controversial literary talent (by Racine) but with a growing political success, to the point of appearing soon to the young King and his administrators as a great choice to carry out the cultural project of the reordering of France; while he is committed to the superintendence of the royal buildings, Perrault who has proved again his encomiastic science (Discours sur l?acquisition de Dunkerque par le roi? 1663), is appointed, on the recommendation of Chapelain, secretary of the Petite Academy (future Académie des inscriptions et des belles-lettres). He is elected to the French Academy (1671) of which he became Chancellor at the death of Seguier (1672) and redefines its rules of operation. Its effectiveness is once again such that, in the same year, Colbert creates for him a tailor-made position (the general control of the buildings). After the death of Colbert (1683), he is dismissed from his position of Controller General and excluded from the Petite Académie by Louvois; only remained Director of the Academy, he is de facto placed in an almost total retreat at the age of fifty-five. Charles Perrault then devotes himself to the education of his children (he was a widower since 1678), but more importantly resumes and deepens a religious reflection (Épître chrétienne sur la pénitence, praise of Louis XIV protector of the Catholic religion, 1683, ode Aux nouveaux convertis, 1685, etc.), which will prove to be the ethical base of the upcoming Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. As evidenced by his consultation with two religious, former moderates, Bossuet and Huet, about his Saint Paulin évêque de Nole (1686), epic in six songs that appears to be followed by an epistle to Fontenelle, Le Génie. On January 27, 1687, the public reading of the Siècle de Louis XIV by Charles Perrault, to the glory of the Moderns, caused a quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns to burst, whose stakes exceed the controversies of their respective leaders, Boileau and himself. In fact it will result in the reconciliation (1694) of those who probably were differently of the same opinion? (Boileau).

THE ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL by (GILL, ERIC)

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Title: THE ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL
Author: (GILL, ERIC)
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. No. 4 OF 85 SPECIAL COPIES printed on archival rag paper (and 1,350 copies of the ordinary edition.). 349 x 267 mm. (13 3/4 x 10 1/2"). Two volumes plus portfolio.. Publisher's deluxe biscuit-colored morocco over reddish-brown linen, flat spines with gilt titling. In the original slipcase. Profusely illustrated with more than 1,000 reproductions of Gill's works; THIS SPECIAL COPY ACCOMPANIED BY A PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT ENGRAVINGS PRINTED DIRECTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Haven O'More, the Garden Collection. In pristine condition. This is the deluxe copy of a comprehensive survey of Gill's work as an engraver and typecutter, prepared as a labor of love by his nephew, Christopher Skelton. Glaister describes Eric Gill (1882-1940) as "an English craftsman, engraver, type designer, sculptor, and philosopher whose influence on contemporary book production has been profound and world-wide." Gill studied lettering as a young man under Edward Johnston, then for five years, beginning in 1905, designed and engraved title pages and initials for books printed by Count Harry Kessler at Insel Verlag, Leipzig (Kessler would go on to found the Cranach Press in 1913). Later, Gill did a great deal of woodcut illustration for other private press publications, especially the Golden Cockerel Press (including memorable work for the famous "Four Gospels," "Troilus and Criseyde," and "Canterbury Tales"). The 993 illustrations in the body of the present offering and the 51 in the appendix include all of the wood engravings from those works, as well as Gill's other book illustrations, individual engravings, typefaces, Christmas cards, and bookplates. The subjects, for the most part, are either religious or erotic--and sometimes, controversially, both. The portfolio prints are "A Garden Enclosed," "Self-portrait," "Surrexit Alleluia," "Tree and Dog with Flames," "St. Thomas's Hands," "Girl with a Mirror," "I Am a Little World," and "Man and Woman Embracing." Skelton (1925-92) learned printing from Gill's son-in-law René Hague, and operated a private press from 1968 to 1985. This is the magnum opus of that workshop. This copy comes from the Garden Collection, assembled by Haven O'More with funding from Michael Davis, which was the most outstanding library of notable books put together in America in the second half of the 20th century. When it was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1989, the sale brought in $16.2 million. The library included high spots from all periods (the four Shakespeare folios, the first of "Don Quixote," and Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" brought in more than $5 million alone), and the collection was breathtaking in its impeccable condition..

An American Pilgrimage: Portions of the Letters of Grace Scribner (Signed by Lynd Ward, Winifred Chappell, and Harry F. Ward / Ex-libris Lynd Ward's sister) by Ward, Lynd (Woodcuts); Selected and arranged by Winifred L. Chappell; Foreword by Harry F. Ward

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Title: An American Pilgrimage: Portions of the Letters of Grace Scribner (Signed by Lynd Ward, Winifred Chappell, and Harry F. Ward / Ex-libris Lynd Ward's sister)
Author: Ward, Lynd (Woodcuts); Selected and arranged by Winifred L. Chappell; Foreword by Harry F. Ward
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: Vanguard Press with the Methodist Federation for Social Service, 1927. First edition, association copy. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 89pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Blue cloth over boards. With only light wear to the extremities. In a dust jacket, with taping to the edges on the reverse (a bit of this taping is visible through the edge tears). Dance 012. Ex-libris Lynd Ward's sister Muriel Ward, with her bookplate on the front pastedown. From the dust jacket- "Grace Scribner began life in a lumber village, with little preparation for the bitter struggles she was later to face and overcome. After years of confusion and suffering she at last found the opportunity which enabled her to devote herself, body and soul, to her lifelong faith- the religion of humanity." Signed by Lynd Ward, Winifred Chappell, and Harry F. Ward (Lynd Ward's father - a Methodist lay minister, political activist, and cofounder of the ACLU) on the front free endpaper.

The Dakota Mission: Past and Present. A.D. 1886 [wrapper title] by [Native Americans]: [Education]: [Williamson, John P.]

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Title: The Dakota Mission: Past and Present. A.D. 1886 [wrapper title]
Author: [Native Americans]: [Education]: [Williamson, John P.]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Minneapolis: Tribune Job Printing Co, 1886. 27pp., plus additional printed note tipped in on first leaf of text. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Three binder holes punched along spine, moderate toning and dust-soiling to wrappers, ownership signature in blue ink on front wrapper. Soft vertical crease throughout. A handful of blue ink underlinings to text. About very good. A scarce compilation of articles from a confederation of American religious missionary organizations working in various populations of Dakota Indians in the Midwest and Far West, compiled by John P. Williamson, a Presbyterian and "Missionary to the Indians" in the Dakota Territory. Williamson also served as the treasurer of the Native Missionary Society. The Dakota Mission was made up of members of the Presbyterian and Congregational orders, as well as groups like the American Board, the American Missionary Association, the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The present work includes nine articles by members of these various groups, including three by Williamson ("Early Missions to the Dakota Indians in Minnesota," "Poplar Creek Mission" and "The Dakota Native Missionary Society"), as well as "Sisseton Mission" by Martha Riggs Morris; "The Yankton Mission" by Nancy Hunter; "Wolf Point Mission, Montana" by Rev. George W. Wood; "The Congregational Division of the Dakota Mission" by Rev. Alfred L. Riggs; "The Santee Normal School" by "One of the Teachers;" and "The Swiss Missionaries" by Rev. Samuel W. Pond. In describing their work, these authors necessarily discuss various aspects of the lives and culture of Native Americans.

Promotional sheet (167 x 196 mm.) for the Amsterdam bookstore, printed on one side & stamped by OTHER BOOKS AND SO

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Title: Promotional sheet (167 x 196 mm.) for the Amsterdam bookstore, printed on one side & stamped
Author: OTHER BOOKS AND SO
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Amsterdam: [1975-77]. Scarce piece of Other Books and So ephemera. Founded by Ulises Carrión (1941-89) and Aart van Barneveld (1951-90) as an artist-run bookshop and exhibition space in April 1975, the space was at the nexus of a network of artists involved in stamp and mail art, as well as the publication of artists' books. This small sheet, stamped with the store's first address, 227 Herengracht, lays out the kinds of books that the duo strove to stock and display in their shop. Near fine; three punched holes, just touching the printed text.

Archive of 26 original die-cut wax-based advertising stickers, circa 1980s by [Advertising]

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Title: Archive of 26 original die-cut wax-based advertising stickers, circa 1980s
Author: [Advertising]
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Racine, Wisconsin: S.C. Johnson, 1980. Archive of 26 vintage wax-based die-cut stickers advertising S.C. Johnson products. The S.C. Johnson company was founded in 1886 in Racine, Wisconsin, primarily selling wax for parquet flooring. The company would expand throughout the twentieth century, eventually departing from wax-based products in 1955 with the launch of Raid insecticide, accompanied over the next three years by a new suite of products, including Off! insect repellent, Pledge cleaner, and Glade air freshener. The company continues to operate today as one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the United States. The stickers on offer here were likely created for distributors' use, and advertise a wide variety of Johnson products, including Agree shampoo and conditioner, Glade aerosol spray, Edge shaving gel, Off! insect repellent, Shout laundry spray, Befresh toilet bowl deodorizer, Scrunge sponge, and more. The archive also includes four sale signs for use during spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Sheets 8.5 x 11 inches. Generally Near Fine.

Hills (Chicken) Mash 100 LBS. Net Feed Mill Bag

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Title: Hills (Chicken) Mash 100 LBS. Net Feed Mill Bag
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Framed and glazed. Fine
Description: Gladstone, NJ: G.F. Hill & Co. 1 vols. Framed and glazed. Fine. 1 vols.

Starboard Wine; More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Delany, Samuel R.

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Title: Starboard Wine; More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
Author: Delany, Samuel R.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pleasantville: Dragon Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Delany on the half-title. Very Good. Black cloth, lightly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, lacking the errata sheet, clean internally. A collection of eleven essays and three letters about science fiction in general as well as authors like Robert Heinlein, Thomas Disch, and Joanna Russ.

Bound To Be The Best The Club Bindery by Thoms G.Boss

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Title: Bound To Be The Best The Club Bindery
Author: Thoms G.Boss
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Condition: Fine
Description: Thomas G.Boss, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1/550 Copies Exquisite Book Of Book Binders. Beautifully Illustrated Many Gorgeous Color Plates..

Medicine Men - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Adams, Alice

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Title: Medicine Men - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Adams, Alice
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780679454403
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679454403 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Alice Adams directly on the title page; Adams's Medicine Men is a powerful, poetic novel about a group of Native American men who, over the course of several decades, struggle to maintain their culture and traditions as they face increasing assimilation by white society. The novel follows the men as they face the challenges of their changing world, from the fraught politics of treaty-making to the everyday challenges of trying to hold onto their ancient ways. Adams brings the story to life with her evocative and compelling writing, and her characters are unforgettable.; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Gandhian Perspectives on Human Rights

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Title: Gandhian Perspectives on Human Rights
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1999. Very Good. Gandhian Perspectives on Human Rights. Rajghat, New Delhi: NP, 1999. 42pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping.

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