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Rigoletto Melodramma di F.M. Piave Musica del Maestro G. Verdi Al più caro de' suoi amici, l'egregio Avvocato Antonio Vasselli in pegno di gratissimo cuore questa edizione consacra Giovanni Ricordi ... Riduzioni per Canto con accomp. di Pfte. [F.40] ... [Piano-vocal score]

Rigoletto Melodramma di F.M. Piave Musica del Maestro G. Verdi Al più caro de' suoi amici, l'egregio Avvocato Antonio Vasselli in pegno di gratissimo cuore questa edizione consacra Giovanni Ricordi ... Riduzioni per Canto con accomp. di Pfte. [F.40] ... [Piano-vocal score] by VERDI, Giuseppe 1813-1901

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Title
Rigoletto Melodramma di F.M. Piave Musica del Maestro G. Verdi Al più caro de' suoi amici, l'egregio Avvocato Antonio Vasselli in pegno di gratissimo cuore questa edizione consacra Giovanni Ricordi ... Riduzioni per Canto con accomp. di Pfte. [F.40] ... [Piano-vocal score]
Author
VERDI, Giuseppe 1813-1901
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Milano: Giovanni Ricordi [PNs 23071-23090], 1852. Oblong folio. Newly bound in quarter black cloth with matching black paper boards, titling to spine gilt. 1f. (recto title incorporating a fine lithographic illustration of a scene from the opening of Act III of the opera by Corbeita after a drawing by Focosi, verso blank), 1f. (recto index of 20 numbers, verso named cast list with statement regarding the first performance), 5-231, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Each number with separate as well as continuous pagination. Named cast includes Mirate as the Duke, Varesi as Rigoletto, Brambilla as Gilda, and Ponz as Sparafucile. Ricordi blindstamp to lower left corner without date. Some browning; minor to moderate foxing; tear to inner portion of pp. 165-66 and pp. 183-84; blindstamp partially trimmed. First Edition. One of two issues (the absence of a date on the Ricordi blindstamp may indicate a slightly later printing). Hopkinson 53A (variant). Fuld pp. 452-53. Crawford p. 605. Chusid p. 141 and pp. 686-87. Title page illustrated in Gatti: Immagini, 63. Rigoletto, in three acts to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse, was first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice on 11 March 1851. "The première, with a cast that included Raffaele Mirate (Duke), Felice Varesi (Rigoletto) and Teresa Brambilla (Gilda), was an enormous success, and the opera, in spite of continuing problems with local censors, almost immediately became part of the basic repertory, being performed more than 250 times in its first ten years. Rigoletto has never lost this position and remains one of the most frequently performed operas in the international repertory. ... Rigoletto is almost always placed as the true beginning of Verdi's maturity, the essential dividing line between 'early' works and the succession of repertory pieces that will follow." Roger Parker in Grove Music Online.
[AUCTIONEER / CONFIDENCE MAN / MURDERER]. A Thrilling Story of James Hanahan alias James D. Burton, Auctioneer. Fifty Years a Fugitive. Price 25 cts

[AUCTIONEER / CONFIDENCE MAN / MURDERER]. A Thrilling Story of James Hanahan alias James D. Burton, Auctioneer. Fifty Years a Fugitive. Price 25 cts by Hanahan (i.e. Hanehan), James (alias James D. Burton)

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[AUCTIONEER / CONFIDENCE MAN / MURDERER]. A Thrilling Story of James Hanahan alias James D. Burton, Auctioneer. Fifty Years a Fugitive. Price 25 cts
Author
Hanahan (i.e. Hanehan), James (alias James D. Burton)
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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Very good
Description
N.p. [St. Louis?]: [Mrs. J.D. Burton], 1912. First Edition. Very good. 16mo. 2 blank ff., 32 pp., 2 blank ff. With reproductions of 5 photographs in the text. Original red printed wrappers bearing title, stapled as issued. Minor wear along spine fold, at one time folded vertically in half. In excellent state. FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF AN AUCTIONEER, CONFIDENCE MAN, GRAFTER, AND MURDER, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The narrative gives the modern reader an insightful view into the ubiquity of "low-level" crime throughout the United States at that time, much of which was never reported to police, and was never recorded in contemporary newspaper accounts. James Hanahan (a.k.a. Hanehan or Henahan) was an Irish emigrant who killed two men in Tennessee and another in Kansas City. He changed his name to James D. Burton and went on the lam for 50 years. "Weary of constantly evading arrest and conscience-stricken in his old age," he made a full confession of his crimes to an editor at the Sunday Post-Dispatch Magazine. He is described as "a little old man, modest, soft-spoken, almost shrinking in his demeanor." Much of the text is written in the first-person, interspersed with media reports about Hanehan's crimes. He gives accounts of his flights from justice, which took him variously to Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Texas, and Oklahoma. Mostly he is involved with grafting under the noses of the local police, whom he paid for protection, and he does not hesitate to identify these individuals and his many accomplices. Hanehan was in and out of jail for half a century, but was never identify as the bespoke murderer, despite his picture appearing regularly in rogues galleries. At the end of the text is an affidavit which states that Hanehan will not be tried for the murders he committed 50 years hence. We have seen mention of an edition published in the same year in Chicago by Lindon Bros. This name appears nowhere on our pamphlet, and if the two editions are indeed discrete their priority has never been explained. However, on the inside of the front wrapper is the copyright statement "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1912, by Mrs. J.D. Burton" (sic!) Scarce.
Moore's Travels: A View of the Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany; A View of the Society and Manners in Italy; A Journal During a Resident in France

Moore's Travels: A View of the Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany; A View of the Society and Manners in Italy; A Journal During a Resident in France by Moore, John

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Moore's Travels: A View of the Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany; A View of the Society and Manners in Italy; A Journal During a Resident in France
Author
Moore, John
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Very good
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Dublin: G. Burnet; W. Gilbert, 1799. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 7 volumes. Full contemporary marbled calf, spines riled and tooled in gilt, with leather lettering labels, gilt. We note some nicely done early hinge repair, general light hinge and edge wear, else this is a very good set. The France, Germany and Switzerland set is in 2 volumes, and is the fourth edition; Italy is in 3 volumes and is also the fourth edition; The Journal is in 2 volumes and is the first Dublin edition. Moore is considered one of the best travel writers of the late 18th century. His Journal documents his time in revolutionary France, and includes eyewitness account of the royal family's treatment. .
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THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS *** ASSOCIATION COPY *** by Anderson, Poul

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THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***
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Anderson, Poul
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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*** ASSOCIATION COPY *** THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, Doubleday, 1961, first edition, near fine in like dust-wrapper. Review copy with accompanying review slip laid in. Inscribed by the author to one of his publishers. Nice association thus.
Observations On Reversionary Payments

Observations On Reversionary Payments by Price, Richard

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Observations On Reversionary Payments
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Price, Richard
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London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1772. Second edition. Hardcover. 404 pp. Rebound with leather label. The second edition contains supplementary material adding to and refining Price's earlier work.
Legal Document for the Sullivan Hotel in Claremont, New Hampshire, 1885

Legal Document for the Sullivan Hotel in Claremont, New Hampshire, 1885

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Legal Document for the Sullivan Hotel in Claremont, New Hampshire, 1885
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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Includes an eight page inventory of the hotel which is very detailed. It goes room by room including the cellar and dining room. Some creasing and chipping on folds.
The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The Sandbox: Three Plays, Introduced by the Author [Signed Bookplate laid-in]

The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The Sandbox: Three Plays, Introduced by the Author [Signed Bookplate laid-in] by ALBEE, Edward [Edward Franklin Albee III]

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The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The Sandbox: Three Plays, Introduced by the Author [Signed Bookplate laid-in]
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ALBEE, Edward [Edward Franklin Albee III]
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in dark blue on spine; dustjacket; 158pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Light tanning and rubbing to board edges; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with shelf-soil, 0.5" tear to front spine fold, and tiny tears and creases to extremities; Very Good. Albee's first commercially-published book. AHEARN APG 001c. [84316].
Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809.
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Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809. by CORNWELL, Bernard.

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Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809.
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CORNWELL, Bernard.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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9780670639441
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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NY:: Viking,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0670639443 . The first Sharpe novel. First American edition. Some foxing on fore edge, spot of soiling on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few short closed edge tears) dust jacket. .
Nuremberg and Vietnam. PAPERBACK

Nuremberg and Vietnam. PAPERBACK by Taylor, Telford; Benjamin Ferencz new introduction

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Nuremberg and Vietnam. PAPERBACK
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Taylor, Telford; Benjamin Ferencz new introduction
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
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9781616190330
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2010. ISBN-13: 9781616190330; ISBN-10: 1616190337. With a New introductory Essay by Benjamin Ferencz Taylor, Telford. Nuremberg and Vietnam. An American Tragedy. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, [1970]. xxvii, 224 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. With a New Introductory Essay entitled "Will We Finally Apply Nuremberg's Lessons?" by Benjamin Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, author of Defining International Aggression: The Search for World Peace (1975), Adjunct Professor of International Law, Pace University and founder of the Pace Peace Center. ISBN-13: 9781616190330; ISBN-10: 1616190337. Paperback. Five untrimmed pages. Else fine. $23.95 * A title in The Lawbook Exchange series, Foundations of the Laws of War. Originally published three years before the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1973, this important book is not a polemic, but a sober account of the Vietnam conflict from the perspective of international law. Framed in reference to the Nuremberg Trials that followed the Second World War, it describes problems the United States may have to face due to its involvement in the Vietnam conflict. After presenting a general history of war crimes and an account of the Nuremberg Trials, Taylor turns his attention to Vietnam. He also examines parallels between actions committed by American troops during the then-recent My Lai Massacre of 1968 and Hitler's SS in Nazi-occupied Europe. Telford Taylor [1908-1998] was chief counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials. Later Professor of Law at Columbia University, he was a vigorous opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy and an outspoken critic of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War. His books include Sword and Swastika: Generals and Nazis in the Third Reich (1952), Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations (1955) and The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir (1992).

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