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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK by Baldwin, James

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Title: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Author: Baldwin, James
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780803741690
Condition: Very good.
Description: New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Very good.. Rare uncorrected galleys of the first edition, made up from sheets from the limited edition (and with an unsigned limitation page), of Baldwin's great novel centered around a Harlem love story. With every year that passes since Barry Jenkins's shimmering and triumphant 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin's love story, the contemporary critical reaction to the novel - hostility to the very concept of a love story, that base and contemptible form; contempt for the unmistakable stamp of human affections and the ineradicable stain of sentimentality on every page - becomes trickier to understand in context. Anatole Broyard, vibrating with absolute contempt in THE NEW YORK TIMES, brought out the biggest gun of 1974 when he wrote that BEALE STREET "could make it equally well as a 'gothic novel'" - so successful has been the genre's rehabilitation that the word, like "romance," no longer functions lethally as an unanswerable insult. The firing pin is rusty, the trigger is stuck, the gun will not go off. A deeper reading came from the unfailing Joyce Carol Oates, who likewise noted the "very traditional celebration of love" at the novel's heart, but found nothing there to mock or denigrate: "IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a moving, painful story. It is so vividly human and so obviously based upon reality, that it strikes us as timeless-an art that has not the slightest need of esthetic tricks" (Oates). Rare in this format. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original blue printed wrappers. Publicity leaf, dated December 1973, lists publication date as May 24, 1974 with price of $6.95 for trade and $25 for signed limited edition. [14], 189, [1] pages. Spine toned and titled "Baldwin" in pen; some mild creasing, soil to wraps. Penned notes, marginalia, and other reader marks, presumably a contemporary reviewer's, throughout. A few unobtrusive stains internally. Overall sound.

G.T.T. Gone to Texas: Letters From Our Boys by Thomas Hughes [ed.]

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Title: G.T.T. Gone to Texas: Letters From Our Boys
Author: Thomas Hughes [ed.]
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Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Macmillan and Co, 1884. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 228 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Missing printer's notice on final page. Boards lightly worn along edges, corners bumped, and light spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Foxing to preliminaries but overall pages clean and unmarked. A series of letters dating from 1878 to 1883 describing life ranching and farming in Texas. [Basic Texas Books 98; Herd 1091; Raines p. 121].

ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 201-400). Two Volume Set. by Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.

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Title: ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 201-400). Two Volume Set.
Author: Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995. Two Volume Set. Paperbound (stiff gold wrappers), Plates 201 through 301, Plates 302 through 400 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author’s private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru’s orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru’s rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrations, including more than 150 new distribution records and more than 100 new species from Peru. The Icones is issued as loose-leaf pages for intercalation according to the user’s preference or as two paper-bound fascicles with a perfect binding. One side of each page is occupied by a full-page botanical line drawing. The other side of each page includes the place of publication, synonymy, a detailed description, known distribution, voucer specimens, observations on identification, comments on taxonomic questions, habitat, and flowering season.

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