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[The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du mal by Baudelaire, Charles

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Title: [The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du mal
Author: Baudelaire, Charles
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing containing the six suppressed poems: "Les Bijoux", "Le Léthé", "A celle qui est trop gaie", "Lesbos", "Femmes damnées", and "Les Métamorphoses du vampire." With the following issue points: "Feurs" in the headline on pp. 31 and 108; with p. 45 misnumbered 44, and with the last word of the first line on p. 201 "captieux" instead of "capiteux." The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal consisted of 1,300 copies, 200 of which were seized and mutilated after the six "notorious" poems were censored. Bound in full brown morocco with matching marbled-sided slipcase lined in brown morocco by Rene Lieffer, with original second state pale yellow wraps with rear wrap announcing Les Fleurs du Mal bound in. Extra-illustrated with 12 later plates bound in between the title page and first chapter. The extra plates include etchings, engravings, and photographic plates; two of them are illustrations of the "flowers," prepared for later editions. A majority of the remaining plates are portraits of Baudelaire, designed by himself, Manet, Courbet and others. pp. [7], 6-248, [4] + 12 pp. of plates. Near Fine with light foxing to textblock edge and lightly and sporadically throughout. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, and with several modern inscriptions to preliminary blanks from recent owners. Light rubbing to binding and slipcase. A beautiful and grangerized copy. Baudelaire's masterpiece and most famous work, a book of lyric poetry expressing the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. An enormously influential collection of poems famously dubbed a "frisson nouveau" (a "shock" or "shudder" or "thrill" of the new) by Victor Hugo, condemned by French authorities, and held up by the Symbolists and their descendants as one of the first stirrings of literary modernism.

Comic History of England, The [and] The Comic History of Rome by A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott; LEECH, John, illustrator

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Title: Comic History of England, The [and] The Comic History of Rome
Author: A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott; LEECH, John, illustrator
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1872. Leech at His Most Celebrated The Comic History of England & Rome - The Great Victorian Satirical Chronicles [LEECH, John, illustrator]. A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts. By John Leech. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1855. [Together with:] The Comic History of Rome. Illustrated by John Leech. [London]: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [n.d., ca. 1855]. Early editions. Three octavo volumes bound in two (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 217 x 132 mm.). xii, 320; xii, 304; xii, 308 pp. Title-pages printed in red and black. The Comic History of England with twenty hand-colored steel-engraved plates (including frontispieces), 200 woodcuts, and wood-engraved title-page. The Comic History of Rome with ten hand-colored steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece), 98 woodcuts, and wood-engraved title-page. Handsomely bound ca. 1920 by Bayntun (stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper) in full salmon scored calf. Covers double-ruled in gilt, spines with five shallow raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, brown and green morocco labels, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in the original fleece-lined red cloth slipcase. A fine and most attractive set. A cornerstone of Victorian comic illustration, these two works represent the most celebrated collaboration between John Leech and Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, and stand among the defining achievements of mid-nineteenth century English satire. Originally issued in parts, The Comic History of England achieved immediate and enduring popularity, presenting a gleefully irreverent re-imagining of the national past - from the Romans to Queen Victoria - through a succession of vividly comic episodes. Its companion, The Comic History of Rome, extends the same treatment to the ancient world, blending classical subject matter with distinctly Victorian wit. Leech's illustrations - both the finely hand-colored plates and the profusion of woodcuts - are central to the success of the enterprise. As a principal artist for Punch magazine and illustrator of A Christmas Carol, Leech helped define the visual language of Victorian humor. His style, at once spontaneous and observant, captures the manners, absurdities, and social nuances of the age with remarkable immediacy. As Simon Houfe observes, Leech established "a convention of social humour that was to last until the 1920s," and his drawings - though often rapidly executed - retain a freshness and vitality that continue to resonate. In these volumes, his work ranges from broad caricature to subtle social observation, offering a richly textured and highly entertaining visual chronicle of both ancient and modern folly. Well-bound sets such as the present example, combining the two Comic Histories in an elegant and cohesive format, are increasingly sought after, particularly when the plates retain strong contemporary coloring and the bindings are of this quality. See: Abbey, Life, 434 and 435; Martin Hardie, pp. 210-211; Tooley 295 & 298.

Autograph Letter Signed, Poland, Maine. January 16, 1809, to her cousin, James Barnes, and other relatives, in Pomfret Vermont. by Barns, Lucy (1780-1809)

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, Poland, Maine. January 16, 1809, to her cousin, James Barnes, and other relatives, in Pomfret Vermont.
Author: Barns, Lucy (1780-1809)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Folio, two pages, plus stampless address leaf, formerly folded, some splitting along folds, light toning to text, else very good. 1809 Lucy Barns, author of "The Female Christian", first defense of Universalist theology by an American woman, writes her cousin six months before her death at 29. Though she had never met her young cousin, Barns was happy to learn, from his father and sister, that he was "... engaged in the useful and pleasing theme of learning…I flatter myself you will make good improvement of what you learn. You are young, and now in the time to lay up in store a rich fund of knowledge and information, which may serve for use and entertainment, in a day of adversity, or in a more advanced period of life. I hope, therefore, you will attend closely to the cultivation of your mind; not only with regard to the various branches of literature, but also attend to the study of that pure and undefiled religion which is only acceptable in the sight of our heavenly Father. I am of opinion that a person, who possesses a well cultivated and virtuous mind, enlightened by the cheering rays of the gospel of our dear Lord and Saviour, enjoys an everlasting source of happiness within himself. Tho' surrounded by misfortunes, he hardly feels the weight of their afflictions, and tho' adversity aims her cruel shafts at his heart, the thing is scarcely perceptible, and when, by the cruel machinations of the wicked, he is deprived of his liberty and the society of his friends, and thrown into the most dark and solitary dungeon, he there enjoys company, light and freedom: tho' health and fortune forsake him, he still possesses an inexhaustible fund of riches, and his consolation remains unbounded, and tho' death, with all his horrors, stares him in the face, he is not affrightened, but bids a sincere welcome to the grim messenger, and cheerfully resigns his immortal soul into the hands of his God. We were disappointed in not receiving any letters from you; and do let me ask, why you are so backward about writing letters? Particularly to your cousins - . 'Has thou no friend to set thy mind abroad Good sense will stagnate: thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.' I doubt not but you have many pleasing thoughts and agreeable ideas, which might have been very entertaining, as well as edifying, had you been so generous as to have committed them to us: it might, likewise, have been of some advantage to yourselves, for 'Teaching, we learn, and giving, we retain The births of intellect, when dumb forgot.' But I forbear to complain more, trusting you will be more liberal for the future. I beg you will be so good as to present my grateful love and sincere respects to my honored grandma'am and aunt; may it be some consolation to them to know that, although I am sick, and surrounded with trials, thro' the goodness of God, I enjoy that health and peace of mind which is far preferable to bodily health, or to all the riches of the East. 'Tho' sickness blasts my hopes of earthly bliss, And sinks my feeble frame extremely low, My soul on high ascends, and mounts the throne, Where joys unencumbered from our Maker flow.' I hope, and trust that they also, as well as yourselves possess that peace of mind, and faith in the gospel, which seems our happiness here, and furnishes us with the hopes of a happy immortality hereafter. I do not forget cousin Elisabeth, she, also has a share in my regards, and good wishes for her happy welfare…" This letter from a "frail, bedridden" young woman, written in the last months of her life, is remarkably mature and authoritative, given the patriarchal culture of America in the early years of the 19th century in which she lived. Her iconoclastic religious views were, in fact, so powerfully espoused that she even "converted" her father, a Methodist Minister, to the Universalist theology. In a recent anthology, "Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936", a chapter is devoted to Barns, with excerpts from her writings, which were collected, after her death from asthma, a life-long affliction, in the booklet, "The Female Christian, Letters and Poems Principally on Friendship and Religion". The biographical sketch in that chapter notes that her letters were "highly esteemed for the comfort and conviction of the truth of Universalism" and were "notable for their energy of faith, hope and love inspired by her trinitarian Universalist religion." Universalism, which evolved into Unitarianism, held that all humans, whatever their religious belief, would eventually receive spiritual salvation. Barns' "heartfelt belief in God's universal love for humankind" was a theological principle that later led many Universalists and Unitarians, such as William Ellery Channing, Maria Weston Chapman, Lydia Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Higginson, Harriet Martineau, Samuel May, Theodore Parker, and Henry Thoreau, to become passionate anti-slavery Abolitionists. The original printing of "The Female Christian1" is very rare, but so esteemed by later Universalists that it was reprinted in Ohio in 1816 and again in 1904. Lucy Barns' letters are of equal rarity. ArchiveGrid showing no institutional holdings of her correspondence. 1. Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 16950, Noyes, R.W. Bibliography of Maine imprints to 1820, 444, Skillin, G.B. Bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820, 09-09, Stoddard, R.E. Catalogue of books and pamphlets unrecorded in Oscar Wegelin's Early American poetry, 1650-1820, 12, Stoddard, R.E. Bibliographical description of books and pamphlets of American verse printed from 1610 through 1820, 883

I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story; With Lonnie Wheeler by Aaron, Hank

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Title: I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story; With Lonnie Wheeler
Author: Aaron, Hank
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9780060163211
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. The first edition of I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story, signed by Hank Aaron.. Octavo, xvii, [1], 333pp, [1]. Yellow hardcover, maroon cloth spine, title in gilt. Stated "First Edition," with a full number line on the copyright page. A few thumb marks along text block, internally clean. Complete with 12 photographic plates. In the publisher's dust jacket, $21.95 on front flap, light shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron on the front free end paper. Hank Aaron (1934-2021) was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons from 1954 to 1976, primarily with the Atlanta Braves, finishing his career with the Milwaukee Brewers. He was a 25-time All-Star, National League Most Valuable Player in 1957, and won three Gold Glove Awards. Aaron led the Braves to a World Series championship in 1957 and ended his career with 755 home runs, surpassing Babe Ruth's record in 1974, a mark that stood until 2007. He retired with 3,771 hits, 2,297 RBIs, 2,174 runs, and remains the all-time leader in RBIs, total bases, and extra-base hits. Aaron was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.

Zen yang jian ding shu hua 怎樣鑑定書畫 by Zhang Heng 張珩

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Title: Zen yang jian ding shu hua 怎樣鑑定書畫
Author: Zhang Heng 張珩
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe 文物出版社, 1966. 28p., slender booklet, very good, first printing. On the identification of antique paintings and calligraphy.

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