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21 Photo Promotional Cards for L'Exposition Coloniale Performances; Pernod Fils pavilion by Baker, Joséphine [Photographer: Lucien Lorelle]

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Title: 21 Photo Promotional Cards for L'Exposition Coloniale Performances; Pernod Fils pavilion
Author: Baker, Joséphine [Photographer: Lucien Lorelle]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Paris: Studio Lorelle, 1931. Very good. 21 small format black-and-white photographic cards (5 1/8" x 2 5/8") featuring portraits of Baker by photographer Lucien Lorelle (1894-1968). The cards promoted Baker's appearances at the Pernod Fils pavilion during the 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibition, where she sold recordings and books to benefit colonial charities. Each card presents a different pose and costume, documenting the range of Baker's performance personae. Baker appears in an array of ensembles: elaborate feathered capes, her banana skirt costume, nautical-inspired skirts, and pearl necklaces, with several images featuring her topless. Other photographs capture her posed at a piano in a silk gown. The front of each card displays Baker's image alongside text adapting her recent hit song "J'ai deux amours" (I have two loves, my country and Paris), reimagined as: "JOSÉPHINE BAKER chante: J'ai deux amours... PARIS... ...PERNOD fils." The verso provides venue details, noting the pavilion's location at the edge of Lake Daumesnil, near the Indochinese Restaurant, and identifies Baker as "la Grande Vedette du CASINO DE PARIS." Minor handling wear consistent with period ephemeral advertising materials, one with trimmed borders; else near fine. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, Joséphine Baker arrived in Paris in 1925 and within months became the city's most electrifying sensation. Her "danse sauvage" at the Folies Bergère (performed in little more than a girdle of artificial bananas) scandalized and mesmerized audiences in equal measure, transforming the twenty-one-year-old into Europe's highest-paid entertainer. She embodied the contradictions of her age: a Black expatriate who fled segregation only to become what scholars call "a floating signifier of cultural difference," initially designated "Queen of the Colonies" for the 1931 Colonial Exposition (a role she couldn't officially hold as a non-colonial subject), yet ultimately transcending these imposed identities through sheer force of talent and will. The war years revealed another Baker entirely. Working clandestinely for the French Resistance, she earned the Croix de guerre, Médaille de la Résistance, and Légion d'honneur. She stood beside Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the only women to speak at the 1963 March on Washington. She created her "Rainbow Tribe" (twelve adopted children of diverse ethnicities) as a living rebuke to racism. In 2021, France interred her in the Panthéon, the first Black woman and first American-born woman to receive such honors, confirming what even a cursory knowledge of her life makes evident: she remains an enduring symbol of artistic innovation, political courage, and the transformative possibilities of performance.

Systême général d'administration pour les pauvres, ou projet d'un réglement relatif au soin des pauvres by HARL, Johann Paul (1772-1842)

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Title: Systême général d'administration pour les pauvres, ou projet d'un réglement relatif au soin des pauvres
Author: HARL, Johann Paul (1772-1842)
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Erlangen: Junge, printer to the University, 1824. 8vo (193 x 122 mm). [2], 47 pages. A fine copy on heavy wove paper, bound in contemporary crimson morocco-grained boards, covers gold-tooled with central torch and wreath ornament and floral acanthus roll border, blue endpapers, edges delicately mottled and gilt (very slight scuffing to front cover). Paper label inside lower cover with number 515.*** First edition, printed for private circulation, of a rather sinister proposal to alleviate poverty by creating work houses and free education for children of the (deserving) poor, while simultaneously benefiting Germany’s textile industry. Professor of political economy and administration at Erlangen, Harl enjoyed the patronage of Maximilian Joseph, Count von Montgelas, prime minister of the Bavarian court, and a rationalist, secularist promoter of absolute monarchy. Harl wrote prolifically, published the journal Cameral-Correspondent from 1805 to 1812, and, thanks to Montgelas, even obtained the cross of the Legion of Honor. After the latter’s dismissal in 1817, Harl’s cameralist views became discredited. “His contemporaries judged him harshly ... [Moritz von] Mohl called his principal writings “of bottomless uselessness” ("von bodenloser Unbrauchbarkeit," ADB). Harl sank into obscurity and committed suicide in 1842. In the first chapter, Harl attempts to distinguish the deserving poor, who because of age, infirmity, or catastrophe truly cannot provide for themselves, from the lazy masses, who shirk work and live off the public dole. In Chapter II these undeserving poor are more closely identified with those who beg. To extirpate this evil the giving of alms to beggars should be outlawed. A more concrete recommendation, and the heart of Harl’s proposal, is the establishment of work houses, for those who cannot find work elsewhere (his sole acknowledgement of possible economic causes of poverty). If poor youth learn the joys of work, they will be inspired to change their state. Chapter III advocates the establishment of free schools for the children of the Good Poor, who by the age of six can also start working, in spinning or other textile-related tasks. In Chapter IV the work houses or “establishments of voluntary occupation” are described in more detail: unlike the “odious and dreaded” houses of forced labor, they are to be strictly voluntary. Besides offering employment they will provide some training, in spinning, of linen, hemp, and wool, and occasionally knitting. Indeed, the key to Harl’s proposal lurks at the end of Article 45, p.44: “It is in poor houses that one can most advantageously produce this kind of work [textile preparation], which is globally necessary and which at present we are obliged to have done in foreign lands.” Finally, the establishments would be essentially non-profit: the profit and benefit to the state will be reaped by the stimulus to the economy and reduction of the numbers of those living in poverty. Presented in numbered articles, with typographic distinctions of the most important points, the neat paragraphs thinly disguise Harl’s sometimes fuzzy analysis. But his treatise points to the pervasiveness of poverty in Europe on the eve of the industrial revolution, and the growing concern among political theorists for the social menace presented by the poor, though not for the people themselves. Harl wrote the treatise in German, and an unnamed French friend translated it into French, as stated in the preface to the 1837 reprint of the text, which also provides the date of this edition and explains that it circulated privately for presentation only, to “sovereigns, princes, and ministers” (p. xi). The German text (Entwurf eines rationellen und allgemeinen Armen-Versorgungs-Systems) was published in 1825. OCLC lists 2 copies of this edition in the US (Penn and U. Chicago, acquired from us), and two copies of the more common 1825 German edition (Harvard Business and Yale). On Harl, see Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 10 (1879), 601-602.

De vita, & rebus gestis Andreae Auriæ Melphiae principis libri duo. Ab auctore postremò recogniti. by SIGONIO, Carlo (1524-1584)

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Title: De vita, & rebus gestis Andreae Auriæ Melphiae principis libri duo. Ab auctore postremò recogniti.
Author: SIGONIO, Carlo (1524-1584)
Seller: Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Description: AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY ENTIRELY UNOPENED 4to (220x158 mm). [4], 123, [1] leaves. Collation: +4 A-Z4 Aa-Hh4. Leaves +4 and Hh4 are blank. Printer's device on title page. Contemporary cardboards "alla rustica", spine with ink title and the later shelf mark "1734" and, on a label, "1494". On the front flyleaf engraved bookplate Antonia Suardi Ponti. Some quired browned, some marginal foxing, a bit loose and with the binding partially detached from the book block, but an exceptional copy entirely uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION in Latin (an Italian translation appeared in Genoa in 1598), published posthumously, of the first biography of the great Genovese condottiero and imperial admiral Andrea Doria (1466-1560), who fought for the emperor Charles V in the wars against the king of France Francis I and commanded several expeditions against the Ottoman Empire between 1530 and 1541. Carlo Sigonio, from Modena, first studied Greek under Francesco Porto da Crotone, then attended the philosophical schools of Bologna and Padua. In 1545 he was made professor of Greek in his hometown. In 1552 he was called to teach in Venice, in 1560 he obtained the chair of eloquence in Padua, and then from 1563 onwards he taught in Bologna. The great reputation that he acquired with his works on Greco-Roman antiquities, was only affected in the last years of his life by the controversy that arose around the Consolatio Ciceronis, a forgery that he made from some original fragments of Cicero. Edit 16, CNCE30866.

Le laisser-aller des elimines by Gaston Chaissac

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Title: Le laisser-aller des elimines
Author: Gaston Chaissac
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Bassac: Plein Chant, 1979. 19 cm; 96 pp; "Petit livre attachant et très intéressant de 96 pages sur papier velin. 23 lettres dactylographiées accompagnées de leurs dessins (lettres-dessins) et parfois de leurs fac-similés. Initiée par un article que Coutant écrivit sur Chaissac dans la revue "Le Phare", cette correspondance prend place à une période charnière de la vie de Coutant. Atteint de tuberculose, il se mit à rencontrer des artistes, songea un moment à cette autre vocation, organisa une exposition collective incluant Chaissac et finira par rencontrer ce dernier chez lui. Coutant choisira la voie religieuse ; le livre comprend d'ailleurs le fameux "faire-part d'ordination" dessiné par Chaissac, ainsi que des réflexions caustiques et contrastées sur l'Eglise et la religion." (http://klorsct.free.fr/coutant/ouvrages.htm).

Russian Fairy-Tales

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Title: Russian Fairy-Tales
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
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Description: Very Good+. Hardcover. A Very Good+ edition with soiling to the boards and a price sticker on the rear ; 8vo .

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