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Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright

Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright by WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD; STEICHEN, EDWARD; JONES, GARETH

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD; STEICHEN, EDWARD; JONES, GARETH
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: np, 1931. first edition. Very Good. Edward Steichen. EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BY EDWARD STEICHEN; INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT TO WELSH JOURNALIST GARETH JONES. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT ON VERSO: "To Gareth Jones / Frank Lloyd Wright". Also with Steichen's New York Studio stamp (80 W. 40th Street) and a signed autograph note by Gareth Jones: "Urgent. This photograph is valuable. I should like it untouched and returned to Edgar Jones, Eryl, Porthycastell Barry. Gareth Jones Los Angeles Dec. 31". With additional editorial markings. A remarkable vintage Steichen portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright preserving, within a single photograph, two distinct historical encounters separated by several years: first, Wright's carefully managed media rehabilitation campaign of 1931-32 conducted through Edward Steichen's studio portraiture; and second, the celebrated late-1934 Taliesin meeting between Wright and the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, whose subsequent writings transformed the architect into a near-mythic figure for British readers. The photograph is from Steichen's important early-1930s sitting with Wright, undertaken during a period in which the architect was consciously attempting to rehabilitate and reshape his public image. Contemporary accounts make clear that Wright regarded press photography and publication strategy as central to his professional "comeback" efforts of the early 1930s. Steichen - then perhaps the most influential portrait photographer in America - became an ideal collaborator in that effort, producing the now-iconic sequence of Wright portraits that helped define Wright as a man of great stature and historical importance. No vintage prints from this Steichen sitting appear to have entered the market. Surviving examples seem to reside almost entirely within institutional or archival collections. The canonical frontal pose from the session is preserved in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Harvard Art Museums, both descending from Steichen's own estate. The present photograph represents a variant pose from the same sitting: Wright appears in identical attire but rendered in dramatically sculptural lighting, emerging from darkness with an intensity absent from the more formal institutional images. Unlike the Harvard and Smithsonian prints, which remained within Steichen's archive, the present print must have been one of very few to have been given by Steichen to Wright, who then presented it to Gareth Jones. Jones - the brilliant Welsh journalist later murdered after exposing Stalin's Ukrainian famine - became deeply fascinated by Wright. In late 1934, Jones visited him at Wright's Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, interviewing him for an intended article for the Welsh newspaper The Western Mail where Jones worked. Jones viewed Wright not merely as an architect but as a transformative cultural force and fellow Welshman of global significance. His article, appearing in The Western Mail on February 8, 1935, described Wright in glowing terms, perhaps even with a touch of awe. Wright was, according to Jones, a "revolutionary and poetic architect," "one of the very greatest figures of this time," who is "a dreamer and a builder who thinks in terms of centuries." It must have been during Jones's Taliesin visit that Wright presented him with the present Steichen print, personally signing and inscribing it to him on the back. The chronology is unusually precise: Jones's manuscript notation on the verso is dated "Dec 31" (we assume 1934), only weeks before publication of his February 8 article. The editorial markings on the back of the photo indicate that this photo was almost certainly the one used for the published portrait of Wright accompanying the article. The verso of the photograph is rich with information and gives evidence for the sequence of events: Wright's inscription to Jones overlays Steichen's studio stamp; Jones then adds urgent manuscript instructions requesting that the photograph be returned "untouched" to his family home in Barry, South Wales, noting explicitly, "This photograph is valuable"; editorial and production markings indicate handling within the offices of The Western Mail in preparation for publication. In the 1980s, the photograph was acquired by the distinguished Welsh architect and educator Dewi Prys-Thomas, one of the central figures in the development of modern Welsh architecture. The photograph remained, then, within a lineage of Welsh intellectual and architectural modernism extending from Wright himself through Gareth Jones and into the architectural culture of postwar Wales. ---------- Vintage gelatin silver print, c.1931-32, inscribed by Wright to Gareth Jones in late 1934. 23 x 18 cm. Steichen's studio stamp on verso. Signed and inscribed by Frank Lloyd Wright to Gareth Jones; additionally bearing extensive contemporary manuscript and editorial annotations relating to handling and publication. Image with some spots of soiling and imperfections almost exclusively seen in raking light; light wear at edges. Verso with old tape at upper left corner, and soiling and markings indicating signs of use. A BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPH WITH AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE, MARKING A CRITICAL MOMENT IN WRIGHT'S CAREER.
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Nogu taikan by YAMAGUCHI, Ryoshu

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Seller: Ursus Books
Title
Nogu taikan
Author
YAMAGUCHI, Ryoshu
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1924. YAMAGUCHI, Ryoshu. Nogu taikan. 4 volumes; 27, 25, 25, 25 colour woodblock plates, each with facing text. Oblong folio, 255 x 365 mm., publisher's silk over boards in 2 chitsu cases. Kyoto-shi: Bijutsu Shoshi Gomei Kaisha Unsodo, 1924. A classic example of Unsodo printing. This unusual collection of 102 exquisite woodcuts show a variety of props and sets for the Noh Drama, as opposed to the usual depictions of costumes.
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Bau und Wohnung

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Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books
Title
Bau und Wohnung
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Nahmen der Werkbundausstellung "Die Wohnung". Architects: Taut, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Peter Behren, Mies, et. al. Well illus. with photos & plans.
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY

[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY

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Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc.
Title
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, 1864. Very Good binding. 3 3/4” x 6 1/8”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen July 25, 1864, and issued to one “Master C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Petersburg, and who swears on the verso printed “that I will bear true faith and yield obedience to the Confederate States of America and that I will serve there honestly and faithfully against their enemies.” It is signed by I. H. Harrington, who was provost marshal of Richmond during the Civil War. C. W. Montague must have been a young man, as he is named as “Master C. M. Montague”~~Some loss to one corner and a small spot of loss in the margins, neither affect the text. Very Good binding.
THE LIVING TALMUD: THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS

THE LIVING TALMUD: THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS

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Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
Title
THE LIVING TALMUD: THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine in a close to Fine slipcase
Description
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Ben-Zion. Small folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half natural-grain goatskin vellum and black cloth stamped in genuine gold, top edge gilt with pure gold leaf; 226 pages. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Judah Goldin. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press with the classical commentaries printed in both English in black ink and Hebrew in red ink. Illustrated with 12 full-page sepia drawings by Ben-Zion. Copy #1085 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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Fruhromanische Kirchenbauten und Klosteranlagen der Benediktiner und der Augustiner-Chorherren Nordlich des Harzes by Zeller, Adolf

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Title
Fruhromanische Kirchenbauten und Klosteranlagen der Benediktiner und der Augustiner-Chorherren Nordlich des Harzes
Author
Zeller, Adolf
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good (Boards are discolored, worn moderately at the corners and edges; white paint is on top and bottom of boards, spine and tex
Description
Berlin & Leipzig: De Gruyter, 1928. Hardcover. Good (Boards are discolored, worn moderately at the corners and edges; white paint is on top and bottom of boards, spine and textblock edges; textblock edges are toned/smudged/worn; inner hinges are cracked; interior is really clean, but there may be occasional smudging or foxing.). Off-white cloth boards with brown lettering; VIII, 73 pp.; 45 panels. Text in German.
Signed Limited Lithograph of Don Drysdale

Signed Limited Lithograph of Don Drysdale by Amore, James M.; [Drysdale, Don]

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
Signed Limited Lithograph of Don Drysdale
Author
Amore, James M.; [Drysdale, Don]
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
1980s. 8" x 10" lithograph. Signed and numbered (number 23 out of a limitation of 30) by artist James Amore in pencil. Additionally signed by Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale. Drawing of Drysdale in pencil, with blue and red coloring. Fine. Overall, a striking piece. Don Drysdale spent his entire MLB career pitching for the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers. In his fantastic career, he earned nine All-Star selections, a Cy Young award (1962), and won three World Series titles (1959, 1963, and 1965). In 1968, he pitched 58 ? consecutive scoreless innings, which was a record until Orel Hershiser surpassed it in 1988. Drysdale was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984. James M. Amore is a noted sports and landscape artist who works in pencil and watercolor.. Signed. Color Lithograph. Near Fine.
Stow-Davis Furniture Company Established 1880 Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Largest Manufactureres of the World's Finest Bank and Office Furniture

Stow-Davis Furniture Company Established 1880 Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Largest Manufactureres of the World's Finest Bank and Office Furniture

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Title
Stow-Davis Furniture Company Established 1880 Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Largest Manufactureres of the World's Finest Bank and Office Furniture
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
[Grand Rapids]: Stow-Davis Furniture Company, 1930. Paperback. Very Good. photos, unnumbered pages, Softcover in original wrapper. Oblong (36 x 26 cm.). Binding rather edge-worn, especially back cover. No. 6 Net Price Lists No. 6 and 56 for Bank and Office Furniture July 1,1930 from Clark & Gibby, Inc. in New York City for the items listed in the Stow-Davis Company catalog stapled inside front cover.
Masters of the 5-String Banjo in Their Own Words and Music

Masters of the 5-String Banjo in Their Own Words and Music by Trischka, Tony; Pete Wernick

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Title
Masters of the 5-String Banjo in Their Own Words and Music
Author
Trischka, Tony; Pete Wernick
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780786659395
Condition
Very Good
Description
Roanoke, VA: AcuTab Publications, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 413pp. Quarto [28 cm] Illustrated wraps. Some mild shelfwear to wraps. Two short tears at spine ends. Distributor's stickers and price on wraps. Internally, clean and bright. A comprehensive book on the banjo. The authors spent four years researching, organizing and fine tuning this project. The result is that this book has over 400 pages of interviews, tunes, photos and analysis, covering every conceivable aspect of the three-finger style.
Zhang Xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang by XIAOGANG, Zhang and Jonathan Fineberg

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
Zhang Xiaogang
Author
XIAOGANG, Zhang and Jonathan Fineberg
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781935410430
Description
New York: Pace, 2013. First edition. Oblong softcover. 39 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 29 through April 27, 2013. Features text by Jonathan Fineberg. Includes numerous color illustrations and a checklist. A fine copy in stiff wrappers with ribbon ties and from the library of Lucas Samaras with estate stamp. A very nice copy of this elaborate production with an interesting provenance.
William Zorach Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, 1911-1922

William Zorach Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, 1911-1922 by ZORACH, William and Donelson F. Hoopes

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Title
William Zorach Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, 1911-1922
Author
ZORACH, William and Donelson F. Hoopes
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Museum, 1968. First edition. Softcover. 71 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 26, 1968 through January 19, 1969. Features text by Donelson F. Hoopes. Includes some color and numerous black and white illustrations, chronology and a checklist. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with some slight foxing and a small tears to the fore edge of couple pages.
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THE ROMANCE OF AIR-FIGHTING by Anderson, R. Wherry

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Title
THE ROMANCE OF AIR-FIGHTING
Author
Anderson, R. Wherry
Seller
THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
THE ROMANCE OF AIR-FIGHTING, Doran, 1917, first American edition, near fine in wraps.
The English Church and its Bishops 1700-1800

The English Church and its Bishops 1700-1800 by Abbey, Charles J.

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Title
The English Church and its Bishops 1700-1800
Author
Abbey, Charles J.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
VG.
Description
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1887. VG.. 2 vols. 22 cm.
The Military Establishment: Its Impacts on American Society

The Military Establishment: Its Impacts on American Society by Yarmolinsky, Adam

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Title
The Military Establishment: Its Impacts on American Society
Author
Yarmolinsky, Adam
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. 2nd printing. Edge wear, boards bowed. 1971 Hard Cover. 434 pp. Explores the growth of the American military since WWII, and the way that it has affected social norms.

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