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Opera

Opera by PLATO

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
Opera
Author
PLATO
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Venice: Vernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, 1491. Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, August, 13 1491. [And:] FICINO, Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 inches; 301 x 206 mm). [4], 444 leaves. Printed in Gothic type in double columns. With beautifully illuminated initials and border to the first text leaf. Numerous illuminated 7, 8, 9 and 10-line initials heightened in gilt with blue, red and green backgrounds. The initial letter will extend beyond the letter with illumination 5-7 lines both up and down. Additional 3, 4, 5 and 7-line initials in red, blue or gold. The first leaf of text (a1) with two large illuminated initials and a full illuminated border with red, green, blue and gilt scrolls, floral motifs and a shield surrounded by a wreath. This is the first edition to include Ficino's great work Platonica Theologia which was not included in the 1484 edition as Ficino first published his work in 1482. Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation. Second editions of Ficino's translation of Plato's work (first published 1484), as well as his chief philosophical work, the Platonica theologia in which he attempts to illustrate the harmony between Platonism and Christian theology (first published 1482), and this edition is the first to collect both works together in one. With only one complete copy of the 1484 first edition at auction since the the copy that came up in the 1940s. This copy sold in 2021 for $1,026,000. This present edition is realistically the first obtainable edition of Plato's works. 18th-century acid treated calf. Spine with orange morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges dyed yellow and speckled red. Newer endpapers. A small amount of old ink neat marginalia. A small repaired hole to the title-page, not affecting text, just the top edge of some illumination on verso. A very clean and beautiful copy with lovely illumination. Overall a very good copy of the second edition and first obtainable edition of Plato's Opera. Plato was the first of the ancient philosophers to appear in print, and for nearly thirty years Ficino's translation was the only published version available, until the appearance of the Greek 'editio princeps' in 1513. Ficino's translation took twenty years to complete, and during this time he was assisted by members of the Platonic Academy founded by his patron, Cosimo de Medici, whose ambition was to revive the study of Platonic philosophy. "Amidst a great diversity, both of subject and treatment, the dialogues are pervaded by two dominant impulses: a love of truth and a passion for human improvement. While nowhere is a definite system laid down, it has been truly said that the germs of all ideas can be found in Plato." ("Printing and the Mind of Man" # 27, for 1484 edition). BMC V, 465 (IB. 23432); IGI 7861; Polain(B) 3190; Goff P-772; PMM 27. HBS 68663. $75,000.
Akira Book Two (Numbered Limited Edition)

Akira Book Two (Numbered Limited Edition) by Katsuhiro Otomo

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Title
Akira Book Two (Numbered Limited Edition)
Author
Katsuhiro Otomo
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780936211374
Condition
Fine
Description
Limited Hardcover Edition (this being #208 of 1500); A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. This is the English translation of Otomo's popular Manga, Volume II, first published in Japanese in comic format; the Akira series was the basis for a feature film often credited for popularizing Anime in America. This limited edition was published by Graphitti Designs, a division of Marvel Entertainment, in collaboration with Kodansha, Tokyo, the original publishers of Akira. An exceptional copy of a scarce edition, Volume II even more scarce than Volume I; Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship in a sturdy box.
The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement by Iain Pears

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Title
The Last Judgement
Author
Iain Pears
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780575055841
Condition
Fine
Description
First UK Edition/First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. SIGNED by the author to the title page. A pristine copy of this novel, the 4th from Pears featuring Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano; uncommon signed. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
[Scrapbook Assembled by Willia Lucille Pettiford, an African-American Student at the Mary Potter School]

[Scrapbook Assembled by Willia Lucille Pettiford, an African-American Student at the Mary Potter School] by [African Americana]: [Education]: [North Carolina]: Pettiford, Willia Lucille

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Title
[Scrapbook Assembled by Willia Lucille Pettiford, an African-American Student at the Mary Potter School]
Author
[African Americana]: [Education]: [North Carolina]: Pettiford, Willia Lucille
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[Oxford, N.C., 1939. Very good.. [32] leaves, illustrated with many dozens of ephemeral items, mostly school-related printed materials, newspaper clippings, and greeting cards pasted in or laid in. Folio. Contemporary dark green cloth backstrip, light green boards with floral illustration inset into front cover, string tied. Moderate scuffing and edge wear to boards. An intriguing scrapbook assembled by a young Black woman named Willia Lucille Pettiford of Jamaica, Long Island while attending the African-American Mary Potter Academy in Oxford, North Carolina in the late-1930s. The scrapbook is populated with dozens of newspaper and magazine clippings of notable African Americans, as well as famous performers, a combination of Black and white stars of the stage and silver screen. Willia pasted in excerpts about W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Bentley, Florence R. Beatty, Mary McLeod Bethune, Paul Robeson, and others. Willia also included several printed event programs, invitations, and notices from the school, including a hand-made program for the Mary Potter Athletic Banquet on April 25, 1938; a May 3 violin recital sponsored by the Oxford Music Lovers' Club; a May 13, 1938 "Oratorical Contest" at the school; an April 17, 1939 performance of the "Oxford Music Lovers' Club;" a May 13, 1939 meeting of the Young People's League of the Cape Fear Presbytery; and the Mary Potter School's baccalaureate exercises for both 1938 and 1939. She also cut out portions of the school newsletter or yearbook and used them in the scrapbook. "Mary Potter Academy was launched in 1889 with George Clayton Shaw as principal, a post he held until 1936. Shaw was born to slaves in Louisburg in 1863. His mother, Mary Penn Shaw, had been provided what he described as 'a fairly good education' and she instilled the importance of education in her six children, all of whom became educators. George Shaw graduated from Lincoln University (in Pennsylvania) in 1886. He studied at Princeton Theological Seminary before completing studies at Auburn Theological Seminary (New York) in 1890. While in New York, Shaw met Mary Potter, secretary to the Presbyterian Freedmen's Board and benefactor of the educational improvement of freedmen. Potter provided funding to establish the first school for African Americans in Granville County (Oxford), where in 1888 he founded Timothy Darling Presbyterian Church. Called Timothy Darling (for Shaw's teacher) until 1892, the school was funded by the Board of Missions for Freedmen, New York Synodical Society, and Albany Presbytery. It would later serve as a private boarding school, until the 1950s, then as a public high school until 1969. In 1970 Mary Potter became an integrated middle school" - NC.gov.
Hymn. The Indian's Prayer

Hymn. The Indian's Prayer by [Native Americans]: [Music]: [Cowdell, Thomas Daniel]

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Hymn. The Indian's Prayer
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[Native Americans]: [Music]: [Cowdell, Thomas Daniel]
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
[Boston]: Shepley & Wright, Printers, Congress Street, 1835. Broadside, 8.75 x 5.25 inches. Ample margins, but unevenly trimmed along bottom edge. Otherwise light wear. Near fine. A nice example of a scarce broadside song sheet once attributed to William Apess, a Pequot Methodist minister, though it was in fact written by British Methodist emigre to Nova Scotia. This is the first separate printing of the song, arranged in three five-stave musical notation followed by the lyrics printed in five six-line stanzas. The song itself is focused squarely on Native American religious conversion; the note just below the title reads: "Religion -- the pure religion of the BIBLE -- is the same in substance, where it was received into the humble mind, -- among untutored Indians, as among the most civilized of our race. See, in the following Hymn, the 'inside heart,' of a truly penitent Indian, who had embraced the gospel with his whole soul." The tune became a standard in the Methodist Church in the ensuing years, with early generations believing it was written by Apess because of its publication in the 1831 second edition of Apess's autobiography A Son of the Forest. It had actually been published first twenty years earlier, in Cowdell's The Nova Scotia Minstrel. Despite its misunderstood origins, the song itself lived on in Methodist hymnals and even in publications by the assimilationist Carlisle Indian School. Of additional interest to American printing historians, the broadside is one of the few surviving products of the short-lived Boston printing firm of Shepley & Wright.
Constitution for College Chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [wrapper title]

Constitution for College Chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [wrapper title] by [African Americana]: [NAACP]

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Title
Constitution for College Chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [wrapper title]
Author
[African Americana]: [NAACP]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
About very good.
Description
New York, 1948. About very good.. 19pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, light soiling, small chip to outer edge of first leaf, short closed tear to outer margin throughout. The very rare 1948 constitution written specifically for college or university chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The constitution's stated objects are delineated in Section 2, the first of which seeks "to inform students of the problems affecting the Negro and other minority groups, to advance the economic, educational, social, and political status of colored people and other minority groups and their harmonious cooperation with other peoples." The college groups are also intended "to stimulate an appreciation of the Negro's contribution to civilization." The constitution is organized into fifteen articles covering the typical areas, but also with campus-specific needs: name, objects, officers, faculty adviser, committees, membership qualifications and dues, meeting rules, order of business, and so forth. The main qualification for membership is defined as "any student regularly enrolled in College or University." We locate no copies of this 1948 constitution in OCLC, though some examples may certainly reside in larger archival collections. A 1978 edition appears in an archival collection at Yale.
Catalogus Novus nundinarum Autumnalium Francofurti ad Moenum, anno M. D. XCV. celebratarum: eorum scilicet librorum, qui hoc semestri partim omnino novi, partim denuo vel forma, vel loco, à prioribus editionibus diversi, vel accessione aliqua locupletiores, in lucem prodierunt, & his Nundinis fuerunt expositi

Catalogus Novus nundinarum Autumnalium Francofurti ad Moenum, anno M. D. XCV. celebratarum: eorum scilicet librorum, qui hoc semestri partim omnino novi, partim denuo vel forma, vel loco, à prioribus editionibus diversi, vel accessione aliqua locupletiores, in lucem prodierunt, & his Nundinis fuerunt expositi by PORTENBACH, Johann Georg

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Catalogus Novus nundinarum Autumnalium Francofurti ad Moenum, anno M. D. XCV. celebratarum: eorum scilicet librorum, qui hoc semestri partim omnino novi, partim denuo vel forma, vel loco, à prioribus editionibus diversi, vel accessione aliqua locupletiores, in lucem prodierunt, & his Nundinis fuerunt expositi
Author
PORTENBACH, Johann Georg
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Typographical device on title. [12] (of 14) leaves, lacking the final two leaves. Small 4to, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards. Frankfurt am Main: J. Saur, [1595]. An incomplete copy, lacking the final two leaves, of the autumn 1595 catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair issued by Portenbach; WorldCat locates no copy in North America. These fair catalogues created a revolution for the book trade. They were the best and, indeed, only source from which scholars and booksellers could discover when and by whom any particular book had been published. The “catalogues represent the first international bibliographies of a periodic character, attempting to list every six months all new publications issued in Europe, and they can be considered the prototype of today’s Books in Print. The books are arranged by subject; for the first time, place, publisher, and date are always mentioned.”–Grolier Club, Bibliography, 24. Georg Willer issued the first Frankfurt Book Fair catalogue in 1564. It enjoyed great success and soon attracted competitors. The first to issue rival fair catalogues were the Augsburg booksellers Portenbach and Lutz, who published a series from the spring of 1577 until the spring of 1590, when the two partners fell out. They went their separate ways, each continuing to publish Frankfurt book fair catalogues, still in competition with Willer. Fine copy. ❧ Graham Pollard, The Distribution of Books by Catalogue (1965), Chapter III.
MYSTERIES OF TRADE, OR THE GREAT SOURCE OF WEALTH; CONTAINING RECEIPTS

MYSTERIES OF TRADE, OR THE GREAT SOURCE OF WEALTH; CONTAINING RECEIPTS by BEMAN, David

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MYSTERIES OF TRADE, OR THE GREAT SOURCE OF WEALTH; CONTAINING RECEIPTS
Author
BEMAN, David
Seller
Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1825. ALL VARIETIES OF FORMULAS, RECIPES - INCLUDING FERMENTED LIQUORS, PORTER, ALE, NUMEROUS VARIATIONS OF BEERS AND WINES BEMAN, David. THE MYSTERIES OF TRADE, OR THE GREAT SOURCE OF WEALTH; CONTAINING RECEIPTS AND PATENTS IN CHEMISTRY AND MANUFACTURING; WITH PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE USEFUL ARTS. Boston: Printed for the Author by Wm. Bellamy, 1825. 152 pp. + errata slip tipped in at end. 8vo., strait grained morrocco with gilt and blindstamped boards, gilt spine, discreet paper spine label. Spine partially detached at head. Ex-library with usual markings. Inscription on ffep: "Francis Brinley / Roxbury Oct 23 - 1826 - Bought at auction for 25 cents by Edward Brinley"; top corner of ffep chipped. Recipes for making beer, ale, porter and wine; spirits; vinegar; bread; leather and tanning; chemical tests for gold and other metals; blacking; butter; the restoration of paintings; varnishes; curing of meats, etc. Scarce.
Tintype and albumen portrait photographs of a women housed in a double-sided brooch

Tintype and albumen portrait photographs of a women housed in a double-sided brooch

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Tintype and albumen portrait photographs of a women housed in a double-sided brooch
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
1870. One albumen and one tintype oval seated portrait photograph in a decorative gilded swivel-mount brooch with pin. 2-1/2 x 2 in. Fine. One albumen and one tintype oval seated portrait photograph in a decorative gilded swivel-mount brooch with pin. 2-1/2 x 2 in.
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Service: A Trilogy on Colonization. A Budding Gourmet, McTowers Maid, Tijuana Maid by Rosler, Martha

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Service: A Trilogy on Colonization. A Budding Gourmet, McTowers Maid, Tijuana Maid
Author
Rosler, Martha
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
New York: Printed Matter, Inc, 1978. Oblong perfect-bound book (12.7 x 20.3 cm.), [unpaginated]. FIRST EDITION, from an unnumbered edition of 1000. Three postal or mail art works by Martha Rosler combined into one offset printed artist's book. Contains "A Budding Gourmet," "McTowers Maid," and "Tijuana Maid." "This is a book of three novels and one translation. In their original form the novels were sent through the mail as postcard series, one card about every five to seven days. Mail both is and isn't a personal communication. But whether welcome or unwelcome it thrusts itself upon you, so to speak, and must be dealt with in the context of your own life. Its immediacy may allow its message to penetrate the usual bounds of your attention. A serial communication can hook you, engaging your long-term interest (intermittently, at least). There was a lot of time -- and mental space -- around each installment of these novels, time in which the communication could unfold and reverberate. So they are long novels, and slow ones . . . ." (the author's preface). Fine, in photo illustrated wrappers.
Dining for Moderns, With Menus and Recipes: The Why and When of Wining. Compiled by Mrs. G. Edgar Hackney. Wine notes by Peter Greig. Edited by Ann R. Silver

Dining for Moderns, With Menus and Recipes: The Why and When of Wining. Compiled by Mrs. G. Edgar Hackney. Wine notes by Peter Greig. Edited by Ann R. Silver by [Hackney, Irmgard, compiler]; [New York Exchange for Woman's Work]

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Dining for Moderns, With Menus and Recipes: The Why and When of Wining. Compiled by Mrs. G. Edgar Hackney. Wine notes by Peter Greig. Edited by Ann R. Silver
Author
[Hackney, Irmgard, compiler]; [New York Exchange for Woman's Work]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
[New York]: Published by and for the benefit of The New York Exchange for Woman's Work; [Elert Printing Company, Inc.], 1940. Octavo-size (23 x 15 cm.), 72 pages. Cover title: New York Woman's Exchange Presents Dining for Moderns. Advertisements inside covers and interspersed. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of sorts, that is, one compiled to benefit a cause, but one aimed not at cooks but rather at gentlewomen who employ them. "The first rule to remember," instructs Irmgard Hackney, Chairman [!] of the Woman's Exchange Revue," concerns your cook. Don't make her nervous" (preface, page 5). The menus and recipes of Dining for Moderns were drawn from the first three years of the Revue (1938-1940; though the serial had begun life under the name Exchange Revue in 1936), an organ of a New York instantiation of the woman's exchange movement incorporated in November 1878. Originally established to benefit "women of cultivation in reduced circumstances," the Exchange prospered long (its last store, on East 60th Street, closed in 2003) and became as well known in the middle decades of the last century for its restaurants as for its promotion of domestic arts and crafts by women. Irmgard Glinicke (Mrs. George Edgar) Hackney (1892-1976) perceived the need for a kind of manual for women with maids who must fulfill the duties of society hostess but do not particularly relish the role. "You'll be astonished how often you can repeat your dinners with only slight variations to fool your husband" (in her case, an investment analyst for a firm on the Stock Exchange). Patés, canapés, consumés, Lobster Thermidor, Noisette d'Agneau--a snapshot of the cuisine of philanthropic board members, not of those in "reduced circumstances." The "wine notes" by Peter Greig –a name some may recall from the inaugural issue of Gourmet Magazine – might be (only slightly unfairly) summarized: "all that is necessary is to ask a wine merchant" (page 6). A few marginal ink marks, and some light spotting throughout; some pages have creases. In publisher's wire spiral-bound, tan and burgundy stiff wrappers. Some rubbing to edges, otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates seventeen copies; Brown 2324 (corporate name misspelled); not in Cagle].
Cold Water

Cold Water by Jewett, Doctor Charles

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Cold Water
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Jewett, Doctor Charles
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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Lowell, MA, 1845. An unrecorded Temperance broadside. Jewett, 1807-79, was a leader of the Temperance movement for many years. No copies located. Good with foxing.
Letter From Col. Doyle Commander in Chief Office Head Quarters Calcutta Jan. 23, 1819 to the Right Honorable Geo. Caning

Letter From Col. Doyle Commander in Chief Office Head Quarters Calcutta Jan. 23, 1819 to the Right Honorable Geo. Caning

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Letter From Col. Doyle Commander in Chief Office Head Quarters Calcutta Jan. 23, 1819 to the Right Honorable Geo. Caning
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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Doyle announces that Ensign H.C. Jones of the Bengal Engineers (Recommended by Camming) will be constructing public buildings in Mayapore. Good with the usual folds.
DE CHIRICO: The Metaphysical Period 1888-1919

DE CHIRICO: The Metaphysical Period 1888-1919 by Baldacci, Paolo

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DE CHIRICO: The Metaphysical Period 1888-1919
Author
Baldacci, Paolo
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780821224991
Condition
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Description
Boston: Bullfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First English language edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition in English of Baldacci's massive survey of de Chirico's early life and works. Monograph on the period from Giorgio de Chirico's birth through February 1919, the "date of Roberto Longhi's savage criticism of his first solo exhibition at the Bragaglia Gallery, and as such the first clear manifestation of the Italian art world's rejection of the 'ideology' inherent in Metaphysical art." Remains an important reference. 13'' x 11''. Translated by Jeffrey Jennings. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped ($95.00) dust jacket. 444 pages. Black remainder mark to lower edge of text block. Mild wear to book and jacket.
Freyschütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen arrangé en Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto & Violoncelle par Joseph Küffner ... Pr. 5 fl. 36 Xr. [Set of parts]

Freyschütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen arrangé en Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto & Violoncelle par Joseph Küffner ... Pr. 5 fl. 36 Xr. [Set of parts] by WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826

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Freyschütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen arrangé en Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto & Violoncelle par Joseph Küffner ... Pr. 5 fl. 36 Xr. [Set of parts]
Author
WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
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Mayence: Chez B. Schott fils Editeurs de Musique de la Cour de S. A. R. le grl Duc de Hesse [PNs 1754-1755], 1823. Folio. Disbound. Title-page lithographed, with a fine bust-length portrait of Weber; music engraved. Excerpts from Weber's opera arranged for string quartet by Joseph Küffner. Violino primo: [i] (title), 2-23, [i] (blank) pp. Violino secondo: [i] (blank), 2-22 pp. Viola: 2-19, [i] (blank) pp. Violoncello: [i] (blank), 2-19, [i] (blank) pp. Occasional minor soiling, foxing, and small stains. Jähns p. 305. OCLC 1513693817, 778430768. "With the overwhelming success of his opera Der Freischütz in 1821 [Weber] became the leading exponent of German opera in the 1820s and an international celebrity. A seminal figure of the 19th century, he influenced composers as diverse as Marschner, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, and Liszt." Michael C. Tusa in Grove Music Online.
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Schumann Piano Music: BBC Music Guides by [SCHUMANN, Robert]. Chissell, Joan

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Schumann Piano Music: BBC Music Guides
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[SCHUMANN, Robert]. Chissell, Joan
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
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Very Good
Description
London: BBC Publications, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 72 pp.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1933, 1940) Set of 2 photos

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1933, 1940) Set of 2 photos by Np

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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1933, 1940) Set of 2 photos
Author
Np
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Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
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Fine
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Np. No binding. Fine. One vintage original 4 x 5" (10 x 13 cm) and one 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy gelatin silver photo. Both have information blurbs and stamps on verso, both fine. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. Millay is primarily known for her poetry, particularly her famous lines "My candle burns at both ends / it will not last the night / but ah my foes, and oh my friends it gives a lovely light," from the poem First Fig. She is also recognized as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for her collection The Ballad of the Harp Weaver. Beyond her poetry, she was a prominent voice for women's rights and sexual freedom during the Roaring Twenties. (Wikipedia) Smaller photo is date stamped June 5 1933, and its original blurb on verso states that the Vassar graduate will be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Larger portrait shows her speaking on radio and is dated Aug. 1, 1940, with text noting she is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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5000 Years of Korean Art by Sunu, Choi

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Title
5000 Years of Korean Art
Author
Sunu, Choi
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Seoul: Hyonam Publishing Company, [1979] First edition. Cloth. Folio. With 378 full-page color and b&w photographic reproductions, and 180 additional black and white photographic reproductions; map of historical sites; and chronological table. Some light staining to covers, apparently offsetting from bindery glue. Otherwise fine in fine d.j. A lovely book
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD AND OTHER STORIES

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD AND OTHER STORIES by BETTS, Doris

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BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD AND OTHER STORIES
Author
BETTS, Doris
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
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NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition. Signed by Betts on the half-title page. Uncommon to find a signed copy! This collection of short stories was nominated for a 1974 National Book Award. The first story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" was adapted into the short film “Violet,” which won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards. It was later adapted into the musical “Violet.”. 8vo., two-toned cloth in dust jacket; 192 pages. Very Good (moderate soil to spine & tiny number stamped on lower edge of front endpaper (see image); tiny binding defect rear pastedown with contents clean & tight); very minor wear & soil (but no tears or chips; $6.95 is present on the front flap) d/j.
THE SHERLOCK HOMES CARTOON BOOK

THE SHERLOCK HOMES CARTOON BOOK by BILGREY, Marc

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THE SHERLOCK HOMES CARTOON BOOK
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BILGREY, Marc
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
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Cuckoo Bird Press, 1981. BILGREY, Marc. THE SHERLOCK HOMES CARTOON BOOK. NY: Cuckoo Bird Press, [1981]. Sm. 8vo., printed wraps. First Edition. Near fine (minor wear). $10.00.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, ON THE CANALS OF NEW YORK, FOR THE YEAR 1857 by [N.Y. Canals]

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, ON THE CANALS OF NEW YORK, FOR THE YEAR 1857
Author
[N.Y. Canals]
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1858. Original printed front title wrapper [old rubberstamp, light dust and wear]. 192pp, plus folding canal-related maps and plans [several clean splits at the folds]. Clean text. Bound in modern cloth with gilt-lettered spine title. Good+.
[INDIA] HINDU ICONOGRAPHY IN TANTRAYANA BUDDHISM

[INDIA] HINDU ICONOGRAPHY IN TANTRAYANA BUDDHISM by R. S. Singh

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[INDIA] HINDU ICONOGRAPHY IN TANTRAYANA BUDDHISM
Author
R. S. Singh
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
New Delhi: Ramanand Vidya Bhawan, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; burgundy cloth binding; 92 pages, followed by xix pages of photographic images; there are no ownership marks in the book; the front board is a bit stained and slightly bowed. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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A TO Z OF SMALL CREATIONS: PEOPLE, PRESSES, PUBLICATIONS by Yule, Dorothy A.

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A TO Z OF SMALL CREATIONS: PEOPLE, PRESSES, PUBLICATIONS
Author
Yule, Dorothy A.
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Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Middleton, Ohio: The Miniature Book Society. Fine. 2017. Hardcover. Bound in red silk, with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine and contents are bright and clean with illustrations. This book is a Limited Edition, one of 340. A beautiful copy in Fine condition measuring 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches. .
Shakespeare and Some Commentators; An Address to the English Speaking Union at San Francisco, April 25, 1933, by Oscar Sutro

Shakespeare and Some Commentators; An Address to the English Speaking Union at San Francisco, April 25, 1933, by Oscar Sutro by Sutro, Oscar

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Shakespeare and Some Commentators; An Address to the English Speaking Union at San Francisco, April 25, 1933, by Oscar Sutro
Author
Sutro, Oscar
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Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: Privately Printed [by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn], 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 125 copies, octavo size, 28 pp., inscribed by Oscar Sutro. This edition, privately printed for prominant San Franciscan and member of the SF Roxburghe Club 1933-1935 Oscar Sutro (1874-1935), contains an address regarding William Shakespeare, who "of all men understands the English language" (n.b., quote from p. 1). Printed by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America in the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter cream parchment spine with blue paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine, title page illustration and tailpiece reproduced from an early edition of Shakespeare; Poliphilus handset type on Unbleached Arnold paper, octavo size (9 3/8" by 6 3/8"), pagination: [i-ii] 1-26, one of 125 copies, unnumbered, privately printed for Oscar Sutro, with his inscription in the year and month of publication on the front free endpaper: "To my loyal friend / Christine Ramsey (?) / with high regard / Oscar Sutro / May 1933". ___CONDITION: Fine, with clean boards, perfectly straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; light off-setting on the free endpapers (from the glue used on the pastedown endpapers), else a fine copy. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography, no. 183. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
DUENDE 8: Movements/Sequences

DUENDE 8: Movements/Sequences by IRBY, Kenneth

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DUENDE 8: Movements/Sequences
Author
IRBY, Kenneth
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very Good -.
Description
Placitas, NM: Larry Goodell / Duende, 1965. First Edition. Very Good -.. Poems by Irby with a one-page note for Irby from Robert Creeley. 38pp. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled mimeo wraps. Very good minus. Read wrapper torn at top staple, but still intact. Pages toned. Else sound and clean.
Walt Whitman: A Study and Selection

Walt Whitman: A Study and Selection by [Whitman, Walt] Gerald Bullett

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Walt Whitman: A Study and Selection
Author
[Whitman, Walt] Gerald Bullett
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number 76 of 780 copies, for the United States. Printed at the Curwen Press. White and black patterned paper covered boards over black cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Browning to covers and wear to edges and spine ends. Offsetting to endpapers, minor toning to interior, and foxing to first and last pages. Clean overall. 166 pages. POE/051018.
Bible Lands. Quarterly Paper of The Jerusalem and the East Mission. No.113, Vol.VII. July, 1927

Bible Lands. Quarterly Paper of The Jerusalem and the East Mission. No.113, Vol.VII. July, 1927 by Ward, Algernon, ed. Bearder, Noel J., assistant editor

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Bible Lands. Quarterly Paper of The Jerusalem and the East Mission. No.113, Vol.VII. July, 1927
Author
Ward, Algernon, ed. Bearder, Noel J., assistant editor
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good -
Description
Leicester, UK: W. H. Lead, 1927. Paperback. Very Good -. Paperback. Very good minus in original pictorial wrappers, side-stapled. Chipping and tearing along rear fore edge of wrapper; soiling to some portions of wrapper. Light soiling to a few portions of interior; top corner of several pages folded over in rear; no loose pages. Illustrated with b/w photos. Antiquated signature to front cover. Pages 799-822. In wraps. Religion. REL/01074.
A Goddess Named Gold

A Goddess Named Gold by Bhattacharya, Bhabani

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A Goddess Named Gold
Author
Bhattacharya, Bhabani
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled and rubbed, bumped at the corners. Quarter yellow cloth, faded at the edges, with black paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Bhattacharya's modern fable of India at the time of Independence, the story of a village girl who receives a magical amulet that turns copper into gold if she does good deeds.
Ten Little Indians

Ten Little Indians by Alexie, Sherman

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Ten Little Indians
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Alexie, Sherman
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780802117441
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Grove, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original yellow cloth over boards, spine stamped in blue.
William Harper: Self-Portraits of the Artist - sacred & profane

William Harper: Self-Portraits of the Artist - sacred & profane by ALLEN, Jane Addams - William Harper

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William Harper: Self-Portraits of the Artist - sacred & profane
Author
ALLEN, Jane Addams - William Harper
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 1991. First edition. Oblong softcover. [32 pages.] Features an essay by Jane Addams Allen. Includes 12 color plates, list of previous exhibitions and other biographical information. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers.
Gay Ol' Times: Gay and Lesbian Alliance newsletter; vol. 14, #3, June/July 1993: Frank Howard & Chuck Bateham Together Again

Gay Ol' Times: Gay and Lesbian Alliance newsletter; vol. 14, #3, June/July 1993: Frank Howard & Chuck Bateham Together Again

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Gay Ol' Times: Gay and Lesbian Alliance newsletter; vol. 14, #3, June/July 1993: Frank Howard & Chuck Bateham Together Again
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Roseburg, OR: GALA, Gay and Lesbian Alliance, 1991. 12p. newsletter, sheets folded to 7x8.5 inches, calendar of events, photos, columns, ads, fold crease, 2-hole punch.
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Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913 - 1962 by AMBROSE, Stephen E.

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Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913 - 1962
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AMBROSE, Stephen E.
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
fine
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. hardcover. fine. Illustrated in black and white. 752 pages. 8vo, cloth backed boards, slightly stained, lacking the dust wrapper. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1987). A fine copy.
The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War

The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Cornwell, Bernard

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The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
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Cornwell, Bernard
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780061969638
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harper, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 468pp. Beautiful Stated First US Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($25.99), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.
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Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape. by Belleville, Bill.

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Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape.
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Belleville, Bill.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, (2006). First Edition. Signed by the author. Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), xx, 199 pp. Photos. Fine in dust jacket.

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