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La Teseide.

La Teseide. by Bandettini Landucci, Teresa.

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Title
La Teseide.
Author
Bandettini Landucci, Teresa.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Parma: Luigi Mussi, 1805. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (31 cm); 2 volumes. [8], x, 272; 322 pages, and full-page engraved frontispiece of the author (after Angelica Kauffmann, mispelled "Kaufmnan"). Bound in publisher's pasteboard decorated in tortoise shell patterns ("carta tartarugata"), with printed paper labels on spines. Pages bright, fresh, and untrimmed. Binding somewhat abraded along joints, with some slight separation at tail of volume 1. Remarkably well-preserved set in unsophisticated state. References: Ferri, "Biblioteca Femminile Italiana," p. 34 ("edizione magnifica"); Parenti, "Rarità bibliografiche" (1958) vol 4, p. 80 (edizione magnifica e assai rara); paper covers: Quilici, Carte decorate, #100. Teresa Bandettini (1763-1837) filled salons and ballrooms all over Northern Italy performing improvisational poetry, sometimes accompanied by dance, adorned in clothing deemed "Grecian." She worked as a street performer first, gathering crowds, and reciting extemporaneous poetry on any subject that someone would call out, then passing the hat. Self-educated, she became admired for her erudition. (The so-called "improvvisatori" in Italy fascinated the expatriated English Romantics, and were pursued by them.) In addition to her improvised verse, Bandettini composed several structured pieces, including this romance epic in octaves on the adventures of Theseus and the foundation of Athens. While Bandettini's work has been largely ignored by the curriculum, we understand that she overcame debilitating personal circumstances and oppressive class and gender origins to achieve her celebrity. Angelika Kauffmann painted her portrait. The Duke of Modena (and other wealthy patrons) housed her and supported her literary career. Antoine Saliceti, Napoleon's chief administrator in Northern Italy, underwrote La Teseide. (He said that he pitied posterity for not being alive to hear her perform.) Bandettini's name resurfaced in 2002 with the discovery of six lost sonatas dedicated to her by the young Niccolò Paganini. The printer, Luigi Mussi, was Bodoni's star student during the 1790s. Mussi set up his own shop in Parma in 1803, carving a typeface and using page design that closely resembles Bodoni's.
The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed limited edition)

The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed limited edition) by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Oliver Goldsmith

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed limited edition)
Author
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Oliver Goldsmith
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. First American edition. Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 101 to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in; 263 x 197 mm). 231, [1] pp. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Publisher's white vellum, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Some scattered foxing otherwise a Near Fine copy. Reportedly published as a means for thwarting debt, The Vicar of Wakefield became one of the most popular novels of the late 18th century. Mixing irony with sentimentalism, it paints a portrait of village life "narrated by Dr. Primrose, the title character, whose family endured multiple trials -- including the loss of their fortune, the seduction of a daughter, the destruction of their home by fire, and the vicar's incarceration -- before all is put right at the end" (Britannica). Goldsmith was a noted Irish wit and a member of Samuel Johnson's famed literary club, who Johnson praised as: "In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. In style, clear, elevated, elegant." The legend of the book's publication is that Goldsmith was about to be arrested by his landlady for debt, when Johnson was able to sell the manuscript of the novel to a publisher for sixty pounds, saving his friend in the nick of time. For this illustrated edition, Rackham embraced historical costume and his traditional whimsy, despite the more fashionable Jazz-Age and Art Deco style predominant at the time (Husdon). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Hudson, p. 171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p. 170. Near Fine.
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD by (CARADOC PRESS). GOLDSMITH, OLIVER

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Author
(CARADOC PRESS). GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Chiswick: The Caradoc Press, 1903. No. 215 OF 360 COPIES on paper (and 14 copies on vellum). 220 x 153 mm. (8 3/4 x 6"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 107, [4], 112-211, [1] pp. Publisher's limp vellum, flat spine with black lettering. Decorative woodcut borders on three pages, fine woodcut capitals in the strapwork style of 15th c. Italian initials, etched frontispiece portrait of Goldsmith by Harry George Webb, and signed by him in pencil. Printed in red and black. Franklin, p. 266; Tomkinson, p. 26. Short tear at bottom of front and rear pastedowns, isolated faint foxing, but an excellent copy, the binding quite clean and the contents very fresh. This attractive ninth publication of the Caradoc Press is the enduringly popular "Vicar of Wakefield." Written in 1761-62 but not published until four years later, "Vicar" was said to have been rescued from some of Goldsmith's unpublished manuscripts by Dr. Johnson, who thus saved the penniless author from debtors' prison by selling it to a publisher for £60. Considered to be the masterpiece of the middle-class domestic novel, the "Vicar" has never gone out of style because its whimsically delineated characters have a delightful simplicity that somehow insulates them against ultimate misfortune, and the innocent and virtuous are rewarded, as they should be, in the end. The Caradoc Press derives its name from a hill in Shropshire, near the birthplace of Hesba Dora Webb, who founded the press with her husband H. George Webb in 1899. The Webbs were responsible from the outset for every facet of Caradoc book production, issuing 20 volumes in the course of a decade featuring, as here, a typeface based on 15th century printer Nicolaus Jenson's celebrated roman founts..
KATHERINE DEMILLE (ca. 1934-36) Photo

KATHERINE DEMILLE (ca. 1934-36) Photo by Paramount

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.
Title
KATHERINE DEMILLE (ca. 1934-36) Photo
Author
Paramount
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Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Just About Fine
Description
Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. [Hollywood]: Paramount Pictures, [ca. 1934-1936]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, blank bottom left corner reinforced on verso with archival paper, just about fine. A strong photo of actress Katherine DeMille, during the two-year period when she was under contract to the studio of Cecil B. DeMille, for whom she was the adopted daughter.
An Act for the Preventing of Persons under age, Apprentices or Servants, being Transferred out of the Province, without the Consent of their Masters, Parents or Guardians

An Act for the Preventing of Persons under age, Apprentices or Servants, being Transferred out of the Province, without the Consent of their Masters, Parents or Guardians

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An Act for the Preventing of Persons under age, Apprentices or Servants, being Transferred out of the Province, without the Consent of their Masters, Parents or Guardians
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Boston: B. Green, 1718. [311-314] pp. Removed, edge worn with minor tears. This also includes acts ordering that debtors should not be held with felons, preventing deceit in gaging casks, and more,
Under Dispute

Under Dispute by Repplier, Agnes

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Title
Under Dispute
Author
Repplier, Agnes
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and soiled, rubbed and with a few small chips and closed tear at the edges. Blue cloth, toned at the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. A collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from Puritans and American culture to writing autobiographies and dogs.
The Mourner

The Mourner by Stark, Richard

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Title
The Mourner
Author
Stark, Richard
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Pocket Books Inc, 1963. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Good. Wraps creased, bumped at the edges and corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, a crease down the spine, clean internally. The fourth Parker novel.
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The Decameron [3 Books] by Boccaccio, Giovanni

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Title
The Decameron [3 Books]
Author
Boccaccio, Giovanni
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Firenze: Il Magheri, 1827. Marbled boards/Leather Spines. Very Good. 1827-8. 5 volumes in 3 books. Leather spines with pressed gilt titles, marbleized paper-backed boards. Text in Italian. Wear to corners, rubbing to cover edges and spine ends and edges, remarkably clean text with only very occasional scattered foxing. Some light chipping to spine of Vol. I-II (first book), which has a bookplate at front pastedown. Original pink place-keeping ribbons present. The Decameron is a collection of medieval allegorical short stories written in the mid-14th century and is considered central to the Western canon, influencing writers ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to George Eliot.
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Cornell's Grammar - School Geography: Forming a Part of a Systematic Series of School Geographies. Embracing an Extended Course and Adapted to Pupils of the Higher Classes in Public and Private Schools by Cornell, S. S.

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Title
Cornell's Grammar - School Geography: Forming a Part of a Systematic Series of School Geographies. Embracing an Extended Course and Adapted to Pupils of the Higher Classes in Public and Private Schools
Author
Cornell, S. S.
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863. Good. Civil War edition, with the Census of 1860 tipped-in (population and principal town of each state); 11 x 9 1/4' pp. [3], 4-108; brown, wngraved paper over boards and 1/4 black morocco; illustrated with numerous engravings, 27 full- and double-page, hand-colored maps, and 32 smaller, in-text, hand-colored maps; spotting and wear to paper on boards; small rubbed spots to tips of spine; census sheet uniformly browned; occasional spotting and foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; in good or better condition. In an ironic twist, some of the best-known atlases and geographies in the second half of the 19th century were created by a largely-unknown female author. Sarah Sophia Cornell (uncertain, possibly 1815 - 1875) had her works published by Appleton under S. S. Cornell, which would prompt author John Alfred Nietz to assume she was a man and to refer to her in his book "Old Textbooks" as "he" and "his." Most of her writings went through more than 20 printings. Her curret geography, published in the midst of the Civil War, had various maps revised and differing from those in previous editions.
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The Wonder and the Worth of Books by Downey, David G.

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Title
The Wonder and the Worth of Books
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Downey, David G.
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York / Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, 1915. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1915); 6 3/4 x 4; pp. [13]; grey wraps, printed and ruled in black and blue; light wear and creasing to edges and tips of spine; in very good condition. David G. Downey (1859 - 1935) was an author, educator, and long-time book editor for the Methodist Episcopal Church. His current pamphlet contained a short, but poignant essay on the significance of books.
Danger Forward: The Story Of The First Division In World War II

Danger Forward: The Story Of The First Division In World War II by United States Army

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Title
Danger Forward: The Story Of The First Division In World War II
Author
United States Army
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Society of the First Division; Albert Love Enterprises, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Cloth boards have minor wear. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Mapped endpapers.
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152

Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 by David Petersen

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Title
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152
Author
David Petersen
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9781932386745
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author with a doodle to the title page. The second volume in the Mouse Guard series. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
A.A.A. Five German Printmakers

A.A.A. Five German Printmakers

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Title
A.A.A. Five German Printmakers
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Eclectibles (United States)
Description
Manufacturer: Associated American Artists. Location: New York. Date: 1971. Pages: 27 Subject Matter: Gallery Exhibition, printmaking, German printmaking. A catalog of a show of German print makers that ran from January 25th to February 15th 1971. Artists included are Bernhard Jäger, Arnold Leissler, Wolfgang Oppermann, Reiner Schawrz, and Jan Voss. Each artist has a short description about them including basic facts, and a list of other important exhibitions they have been in. Each artists have several pieces in the catalog, shown in both color and B&W photographs. Included are separate price list of each piece, an order form, and an 'errata' note. Written in German. Slight cover wear, and the interior pages have minimal toning and soiling. 9" x 7 1/4
Sieraden van kunstenaars (soto, pomodoro, pol bury, lichtenstein, del pezzo, fontana, youngerman e.a.) en twee nieuwe ontwerpen van emmy van leersum en gijs bakker (24 November-24 December 1970)

Sieraden van kunstenaars (soto, pomodoro, pol bury, lichtenstein, del pezzo, fontana, youngerman e.a.) en twee nieuwe ontwerpen van emmy van leersum en gijs bakker (24 November-24 December 1970) by SERIAAL, gallery

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Title
Sieraden van kunstenaars (soto, pomodoro, pol bury, lichtenstein, del pezzo, fontana, youngerman e.a.) en twee nieuwe ontwerpen van emmy van leersum en gijs bakker (24 November-24 December 1970)
Author
SERIAAL, gallery
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Announcement card, text on recto, verso blank. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1970. Card announcing an exhibition of artist-designed jewelry. Fine.
The Continuing Zionist Revolution. A reply to Dr. Abu-Lughod's 'The Continuing Palestinian Revolution'

The Continuing Zionist Revolution. A reply to Dr. Abu-Lughod's 'The Continuing Palestinian Revolution' by ANKORI, Zvi

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The Continuing Zionist Revolution. A reply to Dr. Abu-Lughod's 'The Continuing Palestinian Revolution'
Author
ANKORI, Zvi
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Jerusalem: Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 42pp. Near Fine. A rebuttal to remarks made by Abu-Lughod at a 1969 University of Iowa symposium on "Middle East Problems in Perspective.
The Hotel

The Hotel by Bowen, Elizabeth

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Title
The Hotel
Author
Bowen, Elizabeth
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Black cloth boards with paper label to spine, purple endpapers. First US edition stated. White stain to spot on front cover, owner's name to front endpapers. A good reading copy of Bowen's first novel.

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