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TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST by AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH UNUSUAL HISTORIATED INITIALS FEATURING THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST

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Title: TEXT FROM HYMNS TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST
Author: AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN, WITH UNUSUAL HISTORIATED INITIALS FEATURING THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Bruges, ca. 1465. 193 x 145 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 3/4"). Single column, 21 lines in a gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, one two-line initial in gold filled with blue on pink ground, WITH THREE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS: ONE FEATURING AN OVAL-SHAPED PIECE OF FLESH WITH A GASH IN THE CENTER, AND TWO WITH CHRIST'S DISEMBODIED FOOT, SHOWING THE PUNCTURE WOUND FROM THE CRUCIFIXION, each initial in pink or blue with white tracery, filled with dark pink and thin gilt lines and dots, four wavy blue rays radiating from behind each appendage, all within a thin gilt frame, both sides with a three-quarter border consisting of hairline vines, gold bezants, and a few colorful flowers. ◆Vellum a shade less than bright, faint marginal rumpling, trivial paint transfer on one initial, BUT IN FINE CONDITION, the initials richly painted and extremely well preserved. From a manuscript probably produced in Bruges for the English market, this leaf contains arresting initials that direct the viewer's attention to the wounds endured by Christ during the Passion. According to Roger Wieck, Passion Cycle images enjoyed a particular vogue in 15th century Dutch, Flemish, and English Books of Hours, including those that were exported to England. In the present example, the strikingly unusual imagery includes the wounds of the left and right foot, as well as the spear injury to Christ's side, depicted as an oval piece of flesh with a laceration across the center. A sister leaf to the present item features three additional initials showing a portrait of Christ wearing the Crown of Thorns, his gaze fixed directly at the viewer, and in separate initials his left and right hands appear disembodied and displaying the stigmata. The parent manuscript containing the present leaf sold at Christie's on 15 November 2006 (lot 16), the description for which gives us additional information about the book's contents and provenance: it was made for the Use of Sarum, included a calendar with the English saint Thomas Becket and Popes Gregory and Silvester (with their names crossed out, indicating that it was in England through at least the time of the Reformation), and contained an early ownership inscription of a woman named Bridget Lowe with a Middle English inscription on the pastedown. Christie's also attributed the parent manuscript to the workshop of William Vrelant, with miniatures possibly by his chief assistant, the Master of the "Vraie Cronique Descoce." They note that this work is "of higher quality than many of the works that satisfied the English demand for Netherlandish illumination" and that it "demonstrates why Vrelant appealed to the great bibliophiles of the Burgundian Netherlands." Vrelant was the leading purveyor of books of private devotion in Bruges during the third quarter of the 15th century, and his prominent position among Flemish illuminators of the time is indicated by the considerable number of manuscripts illustrated in his manner by other miniaturists both in Bruges and in nearby cities in Flanders. Similar examples to the present leaf can be found in intact Books of Hours at the Philadelphia Free Library (MS Widener 3) and the Huntington (HM 1086)--both of which were produced in Flanders or the Netherlands around the same time as the present work. The present leaf surpasses both of these examples in terms of excellence of the artistic hand and attention to detail..

LE ROMAN COMIQUE. ["THE COMIC NOVEL"] by (BINDINGS - STIKEMAN & CO.). SCARRON, PAUL

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Title: LE ROMAN COMIQUE. ["THE COMIC NOVEL"]
Author: (BINDINGS - STIKEMAN & CO.). SCARRON, PAUL
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: Jouast, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1880. No. 64 OF 170 LARGE PAPER COPIES on Holland paper, from a total edition of 220. 220 x 138 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/8"). Three volumes. Preface by Paul Bourget. MOST ATTRACTIVE NAVY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY STIKEMAN & CO. (stamp-signed on front turn-ins, covers with gilt-ruled frame, oblique fleurons at corners, raised bands, spine compartments intricately gilt, with lancets and volutes emanating from a central rosette, gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt floral roll, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. With 10 etchings by A. Salmon after Leopold Flemeng. A Large Paper Copy. Short, thin cracks in half of the six joints, isolated faint marginal discoloration or tiny spots of foxing, other trivial internal defects, otherwise very fine--clean and fresh internally, in well-preserved attractive bindings. This is an attractive Large Paper Copy of Scarron's mirror of the slightly seamy side of 17th century French society, offered here in bindings by an important New York firm. "The Comic Novel" follows the picaresque adventures of young Le Destin, who joins a troupe of actors on the road. Prominent among the characters is the diminutive M. Ragotin, who writes dramas for the company and is constantly trapped in absurd imbroglios. The present work was originally published in parts in 1651 and 1657. The author had planned a third part, but died before the work was completed. Paul Scarron (1610-60) was not only known for his prolific output as a novelist, dramatist, and poet, but also for his curious and difficult life. He was severely deformed by what is thought to be polio, endured considerable pain, and, in an effort to find relief, became addicted to opium. Nevertheless, at 42, he married the beautiful young Françoise d'Aubigné, who, after Scarron's death (and by then known as Madame de Maintenon), became Louis XIV's mistress and eventually his morganatic wife. Our three-volume edition of "Comique" was produced by Damase Jouaust, who specialized in luxury printings intended for bibliophiles, issued on special papers, and often with pleasing etchings, as here. This copy is significantly enhanced by its appealing midnight blue bindings. During the period from the retirement of William Matthews to the establishment of the Club Bindery, there was no better binder in America than Henry Stikeman, who exhibited "extraordinary skill . . . in design, inlaying, and tooling." (Maser Collection) Stikeman's firm did high-end publisher's bindings as "bread and butter" work, and luxurious gilt-tooled bindings for collectors. According to Jeff Stikeman, binding expert (and great-great-grandson of Henry's brother George), those bindings signed "Stikeman" or "Stikeman & Co." (as here) are finished by hand and are much preferred to the firm's later blocked bindings, which are signed "Stikeman & Co., NY." (The former were done from 1887 to about 1915, the latter from 1915 to 1939.)..

Global Fax Festival: Arkestado por David Hammons by HAMMONS, David

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Title: Global Fax Festival: Arkestado por David Hammons
Author: HAMMONS, David
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: All elements housed within thick plastic portfolio, with titles printed in red and black. Minor scuffing to portfolio; close to
Description: Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2000. All elements housed within thick plastic portfolio, with titles printed in red and black. Minor scuffing to portfolio; close to fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Catalogue published on the occasion of the elegant multimedia installation "arkestrated" by David Hammons for Madrid's Crystal Palace (Jun. 1–Nov. 6, 2000), in which incoming messages rained down from nine fax machines installed within the glass ceiling of the 19th century conservatory. Various contents: a [60] pp. brochure, fully-illustrated after black-and-white installation photographs, with exhibition credits published to verso of rear wrapper; a folded exhibition poster; a trifold brochure inviting participants with corresponding fax numbers; an invitation to the October 1st concert conducted by Butch Morris to animate the space; a CD documenting Morris' performance (Conduction #113, Interlight); and loose facsimiles of 300 specimen faxes that were transmitted and printed during the event.

3 Graffiti Artists: Exhibition of Graffiti Paintings by A-One, NOC + Toxic by A-One, NOC, and Toxic

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Title: 3 Graffiti Artists: Exhibition of Graffiti Paintings by A-One, NOC + Toxic
Author: A-One, NOC, and Toxic
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Minor wear to stapled wrappers; near fine.
Description: New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1985. Minor wear to stapled wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Thin quarto. Catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, featuring graffiti paintings from A-One, NOC, and Toxic (New York, Mar. 14 - Apr. 6, 1985). With 8 of the exhibited works reproduced in black-and-white.

Swan by GUSTAFSON, Mats

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Title: Swan
Author: GUSTAFSON, Mats
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Fine in blindstamped gray boards. Pretty book.
Description: New York: JMc & GHB Editions, 2009. Fine in blindstamped gray boards. Pretty book.. First Edition. Tall quarto. Edition of 1000 copies. With 16 color reproductions of Gustafson's ethereal pastels of swans, including one lovely gatefold. Printed in conjunction with an exhibition of the same work at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, 10 December 2009 to 23 January 2010.

Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum

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Title: Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Antwerp: Ioan. Steelsii, 1543. Full Calf. Good. 16mo. 113 by 75 mm. Paginated partially in ink, with about 330 leaves. Psalms rendered in both Greek and Latin. Held only by Aberdeen, Luzern and SSB (Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek), according to OCLC First Search, although there were other contemporaneous versions of the same. Condition: calf of binding scuffed somewhat heavily in places, with extremities, joints and edges rubbed. Minor wormholing in early leaves -- no effect on readability.

POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT by Hardy, Thomas

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Title: POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1902. (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902.) Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First Edition of Hardy's second volume of verse, which (like the first, WESSEX POEMS), consisted of only 500 copies. None of Hardy's exceedingly scarce multi-volume novels consisted of fewer copies; for example, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE and TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES each had a 1000-copy first edition. This title, actually published in November 1901, contains 99 poems, some of which deal with the Boer War; WESSEX POEMS had contained 51 poems. POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT marks the end of Hardy's association with the publishing firm of Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. (and their successors, Harper & Brothers of London, of which Clarence McIlvaine was in charge). This is a near-fine copy (a few minor rear-cover marks, endpapers cracked). In our experience, though both WESSEX POEMS and this title consisted of the same number of copies, this is a considerably scarcer book -- in fact, this is only the fifth copy that we have been able to offer during our forty years in business. Purdy pp 107-119.

INA CLAIRE / THE AWFUL TRUTH (1922) Photo of Broadway production by White Studios

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Title: INA CLAIRE / THE AWFUL TRUTH (1922) Photo of Broadway production
Author: White Studios
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) sepia-tinted single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Ina Claire, Paul Harvey, Bruce McRae, Cora Witherspoon, Charles Frohman production, Henry Miller's Theatre. Arthur Richman's play would serve as the basis for the classic 1937 Leo McCarey screwball comedy with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. It was about a soon-to-be divorced couple who go to all lengths to ruin the other's new romances. In 1922, Ina Claire was a darling of Broadway. She is best remembered for her role as the Grand Duchess opposite Greta Garbo in NINOTCHKA. This play ran for 144 performances between Sep. 1922 and Jan. 1923. On back in pencil is ""Bruce McRae, Ina Claire, The AWFUL TRUTH,"" and the WHITE STUDIOS ink stamp. One small tear at the right edge border near bottom, Bottom right corner is creased. Top and bottom left corners are chipped, VERY GOOD-FINE.

She; A History of Adventure by Haggard, Rider

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Title: She; A History of Adventure
Author: Haggard, Rider
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: New York: Harper, 1886. First Edition. Published Dec. 24, 1886, preceding the London edition of Jan. 1, 1887, though both title pages are dated 1887. Also preceding Munro's pirated edition in wrappers dated Dec. 31, 1886 and Harper's reissue in wrappers. Original publisher's three-quarter cloth (also seen in half cloth) and marbled paper over boards, 8vo (175 x 125mm), pp. vii, 316, plus two color plates inserted. Rubbed and toned, bookplate to the front pastedown, very good. THE imperial adventure novel, a fever dream of Africa in which a Cambridge scholar and his ward discover a lost civilization ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queen who bathes in the pillar of life and destroys what she loves. It has never been out of print, it has been filmed at least seven times, and it remains, after Dracula, the most influential fantasy of the Victorian era, the one that taught an empire to dream about what might be waiting 'for them' in the blank spaces on the map.

Works by AMES, Fisher

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Title: Works
Author: AMES, Fisher
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: Boston, T.B. Wait & Co., 1809., 1809. First edition. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart. Full old calf (re-hindged with original spine laid down). Very good 519 pages. Heraldic arms on cover of the Society of Writers to the Signet. Small bookplate. Very good. 519 pages. Includes his comments on James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Ames (1758-1808), lawyer, New England Federalist, U.S. Congressman. Sabin 1303.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Hartford High School Annual Yearbook The Owl, 1897 by Hartford High School Yearbook

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Title: Hartford High School Annual Yearbook The Owl, 1897
Author: Hartford High School Yearbook
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1897. The 1897 Hartford High School Annual The Owl Yearbook. This 19th century hardcover yearbook includes many great photographs and text showing students in high school activities and sports, humor, literature, and local advertisement from Hartford small businesses. Many Photograph club includes : Varsity Football; Track Team; Drama "Mr. X" , Banjo Club ; Mandolin Club; and the Debate club; This Yearbook gives a great idea of American high school life at the end of the 19th century. Very good condition.

Empire of the Sun by Ballard, J. D.

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Title: Empire of the Sun
Author: Ballard, J. D.
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780575034839
Description: London: Victor Gollancz, 1983, 1983. 1st Edition. Published in London by Victor Gollancz, 1983. First Edition, Uncorrected Typescript. Book in good condition with tear along the side of bottom of spine, and missing about one square inch of top spine cover, fading, discoloration, and some staining on covers and spine, also other minor creases on back. No DJ.

Seven Keys to Baldpate [Photoplay Edition] by Biggers, Earl Derr

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Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate [Photoplay Edition]
Author: Biggers, Earl Derr
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap. [1925] (c.1911). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Fair dj. [good sound copy, minor wear to extremities, a little dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is heavily worn, missing about 2-1/2 inches from bottom of spine, large chip at left edge of rear panel, small bits of paper loss at several corners, various small tears and creases]. (4 B&W film stills) The first novel by the author who would later achieve lasting fame as the creator of Charlie Chan, this "mystery romance" about a young novelist who sequesters himself in an isolated mountain inn in order to concentrate on writing a novel was a big hit when it first appeared as a newspaper and magazine serial in January 1913. It was published in book form by Bobbs-Merrill the following month, and by September a dramatized version (written and produced by George M. Cohan) had opened on Broadway, where it ran for over a year. Although Cohan had not appeared in the play, he did choose to play the lead in the second film version (also his first movie appearance), released in 1917. (It had been preceded by an Australian film adaptation in 1916.) The present volume is the tie-in with the third film version, starring Douglas MacLean, released by Paramount in 1925; four more film adaptations were to follow (in 1929, 1935, 1947, and 1983, the latter under the title HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS). NOTE that this dust jacket is not the original (movie-themed) version, but rather has been transferred to this copy from a slightly later Grosset & Dunlap printing of the novel. (The jacket can be dated as 1928, both because of the text touting Biggers as the author of the first three Chan novels -- published in 1925, 1926 and 1928 -- and because the artist's signature reads "Skrenda28." Skrenda, as most photoplay edition collectors will know, was responsible for dozens of Grosset & Dunlap's dust jackets in this genre.) .

The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle by Yallop, David A.

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Title: The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle
Author: Yallop, David A.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Fine in Very Good dj
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket has several short tears and some associated creasing at the top and bottom edges of the front panel and a tiny chip at the bottom edge, dog-earing along the top edge of the rear panel, and is slightly faded along the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper illus.) A well-researched examination of the myth-shrouded Roscoe Arbuckle murder-rape case, this was the first book to bring any kind of historical rigor to bear on that tragic episode. Includes a detailed filmography (compiled by Samuel A. Gill) and an extensive bibliography. .

REBEL POWERS by BAUSCH, Richard

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Title: REBEL POWERS
Author: BAUSCH, Richard
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Slight foxing to bulked text edges. Near Fine
Description: Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, (1993). First Edition. Wraps. Slight foxing to bulked text edges. Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy marked Uncorrected proof on the title page in glossy red wraps. The story of Connie Boudreaux, wife of a Vietnam War hero who is sent to prison for a petty crime, and her struggle to care for her family.

The Spider Who Saved Christmas: A Legend by Arroyo, Raymond

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Title: The Spider Who Saved Christmas: A Legend
Author: Arroyo, Raymond
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781644132111
Condition: Very Good
Description: Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2020. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 11x8x0. Gallegos, Randy. Small surface tear on two pages (publisher defect), otherwise an excellent copy. 2020 Large Hardcover. [40 pp.] Beautiful color illustrations by Randy Gallegos throughout. Radiating the wondrous spirit of the season, The Spider Who Saved Christmas rekindles an ancient legend, casting new light on the story we thought we knew. Created by New York Times Bestselling Author Raymond Arroyo (with illustrations by Randy Gallegos), The Spider Who Saved Christmas spins the enchanting faith-filled tale of Nephila, a cave-dwelling spider who plays a pivotal role central to the Christmas story. This instant classic reveals the origin of Christmas tinsel and reminds us that hope can always be found even in dark places where we least expect it.

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