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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Aardema, Verna

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Title
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Author
Aardema, Verna
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
The Dial Press, 1975. first. hardcover. near fine/near fine. First printing stated on copyright page. Book near fine, dent to edges middle of bottom covers, faint tanning to spine and cover edges, water stain to top of front cover and to top and bottom of rear cover. Dust jacket near fine, slight soiling, front flap clipped at bottom but price at top not clipped.
Cecil Beaton. Two Autograph Letters Signed, with descriptions for Look magazine photographs, and one typescript unsigned

Cecil Beaton. Two Autograph Letters Signed, with descriptions for Look magazine photographs, and one typescript unsigned by BEATON, CECIL

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Cecil Beaton. Two Autograph Letters Signed, with descriptions for Look magazine photographs, and one typescript unsigned
Author
BEATON, CECIL
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Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description
Beaton writes two work related letters to Peter Van Slingerland, a "staff writer" for Look Magazine, on "The Drake" hotel stationery, New York, undated. Beaton stayed at The Drake hotel in 1956 when he photographed Marilyn Monroe there. He was also staying at the hotel in 1961 when he sketched a costume design for the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Turandot" (in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum). In the Sept. 1, 1959 (Volume 23, no. 18) issue of Look Magazine, Beaton's photographs of Japan were published. The group offered here is related to that issue. Beaton writes that he is," Pleased with the choice of your layout & am sending you suggested captions for one or two of the pictures...." He refers to his "forthcoming book Japanese," which was published in 1959. He signs, "Cecil Beaton, " on the second page of the bifold hotel stationery. Beaton includes two pages of descriptions for the Look article in the letter which begins, "I trust you will be able to use some of the enclosed suggestions for captions - I shall be sad if you don't include the picture of the Kimono's being tried [sic] by the Katsma River...." This one page letter on bifold Drake hotel stationery is also signed in full, "Cecil Beaton." The enclosed four page descriptions of his photographs were Beaton's suggestions for his photographs' captions and offer offer his view of his own work. "The Geisha's Kimono is sprinkled with flowers that change with the season - orange leaves & crysanthemums [sic] appear with autumn, apple blossom petals with the end of winter - Yet the Geisha fashions remain unchanged...this object de vitrine has an abiding allure...The make-up is traditional & never varies...she has perfected the art of being entertaining and alluring. These Cezanne-[like formations are the mountains seen on the road to Nikko...The monochrome effect is typical of Japan as it is in reality though unlike the picturesque interpretation we see. We see a sudden snow fall descent on the elaborate roofs of the temples of Nikko...curved, carved and gilded...painted with scarlet lacquer...The men shoveling the snow appear as if in fancy dress...This is great sightseeing...Perhaps the book will yield more specific information." The undated typescript is the letter and descriptions typed on "Look" magazine stationery, titled, "Letter and information from Cecil Beaton, Drake hotel, NYC." The enclosed descriptions were written on both sides of one 4to sheet of Drake Hotel stationery and on two sides of a bifold sheet of one 8vo page of hotel stationery. Beaton known primarily as a photographer was also an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for film and theater. As photographer, Beaton wrote to Peter Van Slingerland, "staff writer" for Look Magazine who authored a number of articles in the late 1950s and 1960s. He is known for his 1966 book, "Something Terrible Has Happened: The Account of the Sensational Thalia Massie Affair" about a woman raped in Hawaii. The victim's mother, a socialite, was charged and convicted of murdering the man who was believed to have been the rapist. Clarence Darrow defended the mother who served no time for the crime.
The Beggar's Opera [Sixth Edition] [bound with] The Second Part of the Beggar's Opera [Pirated First Edition]

The Beggar's Opera [Sixth Edition] [bound with] The Second Part of the Beggar's Opera [Pirated First Edition] by Gay, John (1685-1732) ; music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)

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The Beggar's Opera [Sixth Edition] [bound with] The Second Part of the Beggar's Opera [Pirated First Edition]
Author
Gay, John (1685-1732) ; music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)
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Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: John Watts & T. Read, 1749. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. A 'Forbidden' Augustan Sammelband A significant eighteenth-century manuscript containing the definitive Augustan satire and its censored sequel. The Beggar's Opera (1749) features the music woodcut within the text rather than as a separate appendix. It is bound here with a contemporary 1729 pirated edition of Polly, published anonymously the same year as the official subscription release. While the original Beggar's Opera revolutionized London theater as an anti-opera lampooning Italian style and political corruption, Polly was so biting in its satire of Robert Walpole that it was banned from the stage for nearly 50 years. KEY FEATURES +++ Music: Numerous woodcut musical scores integrated within the text, including the overture. +++ Sequel: Includes the rare 1729 pirated edition of Polly, issued during the height of Gay's legal battles with unauthorized printers. +++ Binding: Modern full calf with harp-design compartments, floral blind-stamped borders, and a red leather title label. +++ Provenance: From the scholarly collection of Anton Vishio, Sr. +++ Catalog: Includes the 8-page publisher's catalog of John Watts at the rear. CONDITION: Very Good. The modern binding is tight, square, and handsomely executed. The text block is clean with light, even age-toning and occasional minor blemishes. The first few leaves show delicate edges. 8 inches tall; renewed endpapers. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - John Gay's The Beggar's Opera remains the sole enduring example of the satirical ballad opera, a genre that weaponized popular tunes to expose social injustice and the absurdity of the Italian opera craze. Its sequel, Polly, became a cause célèbre of 18th-century censorship; banned by the Lord Chamberlain, the text became an instant forbidden bestseller. This volume documents the transition of the work from a theatrical performance to a literary protest, captured here in the format favored by 18th-century gentleman scholars. SUBJECTS: Ballad Opera, Augustan Satire, 18th Century Theatre, Censorship, Pirated Editions, Drama, Music Score, Literary Sammelband. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: ESTC T13803; Pickering & Chatto (1909), p. 63.
Original 1968 Face the Nation Transcript of Tom Hayden's Interview, on Youth Radicalism, Revolution, and the Vietnam War

Original 1968 Face the Nation Transcript of Tom Hayden's Interview, on Youth Radicalism, Revolution, and the Vietnam War by Tom Hayden; Radical Activism

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Original 1968 Face the Nation Transcript of Tom Hayden's Interview, on Youth Radicalism, Revolution, and the Vietnam War
Author
Tom Hayden; Radical Activism
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1968. [Counterculture] [Vietnam War] SDS New Left leader Tom Hayden on CBS News' Face the Nation, December 8, 1968. Original CBS News transcript addressing the New Left, youth radicalism, and Nixon's America. Washington, D.C.: CBS News, 1968. Original mimeographed transcript, 11" x 8.5", 16 pages. Marked "TRANSCRIPT" in red on front wrapper, with release date and broadcast details printed at top. Scarce original broadcast transcript of Face the Nation, aired December 8, 1968, featuring Tom Hayden, co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and a principal theorist of the New Left. Interviewed just months after the police riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago-where Hayden was a principal organizer of the protests-this nationally televised appearance marked one of the most visible attempts to articulate radical youth perspectives to a mainstream American audience. Introduced as "a leader of the anti-war movement" who had also "visited Hanoi twice", Hayden is questioned by CBS correspondents Martin Agronsky, John Hart, and Robert Walters on youth activism, civil disobedience, and revolutionary change. Asked whether he believed Nixon's administration would be harder on the New Left than Johnson's, Hayden replied: "I think that it probably will be tougher... More people are being sent to jail. More people are facing a very difficult period with the authorities. But that is not the main problem... The main problem is that President Nixon is going to be even more out of touch with the realities that young people in this country face than President Johnson was." Hayden repeatedly returns to the alienation of youth, situating their activism within a broader context of social and ideological breakdown. On page 10, he declares: "The democratic idealism of America has gone down the drain, and that money and profits and military might have become the Nation's central ideals... These young white people, whether they are in the beat generation or in the late fifties, or the civil rights workers of the early sixties, or the draft card burners, or the yippies-all are part of this series of events in the country, and I think that this is a revolutionary series of events unfolding."Asked pointedly, "Do you regard yourself as a revolutionary?" Hayden responds simply: "Yes." Yet he carefully distances himself from armed insurrection or coup-style upheaval. On page 16, he asserts: "We are obviously not for a revolutionary coup because we don't think a small number of revolutionaries could somehow slip into the White House one night and take it over. We are for a broad people's movement, a very democratically based movement." The tone of the interview is cautious but direct, as the CBS correspondents seek to portray Hayden as either a dangerous radical or an articulate spokesman for generational discontent. When Hart pushes Hayden on the legitimacy of confrontation or violence, Hayden answers, "I don't know what you're talking about." This restrained but confident demeanor helped define his public reputation in the wake of the DNC protests, particularly as he and others faced conspiracy charges in what would become the infamous Chicago Seven trial the following year. Tom Hayden was, by 1968, one of the most visible figures of the American New Left. As the primary author of the Port Huron Statement (1962), Hayden had articulated SDS's early call for "participatory democracy" and grassroots activism. By the late 1960s, SDS had evolved into a decentralized movement involved in organizing draft resistance, supporting Black liberation, and confronting U.S. imperialism at home and abroad. Hayden's visibility was heightened not only by his involvement in Chicago but also by his 1965 visit to North Vietnam-a gesture that marked him as a traitor to some and a hero to others. The Face the Nation appearance was one of the few mainstream media platforms where a radical antiwar voice reached a national audience during the election aftermath of 1968, a year defined by assassination, uprisings, and generational crisis. The program aired just weeks after Richard Nixon's victory and offered a snapshot of a volatile and rapidly polarizing American landscape. While mainstream press reviews of the interview were mixed, with some calling it "measured" and others "provocative", it remains a landmark moment in the history of U.S. televised dissent. An exceptional primary source capturing the rhetorical strategy and revolutionary vision of one of the 1960s' most consequential activists. Seldom seen in the trade, this complete, unredacted broadcast transcript offers a rare record of how the New Left attempted to challenge the Cold War consensus in real time, through national media. Light toning and edgewear; faint staple rust; very good.
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Autograph Letter Signed by YURKA, Blanche

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Autograph Letter Signed
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YURKA, Blanche
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
1940. ("Blanche Yurka") boldly penned in black ink, New York, December 2, n.y., ca. 1940, on bifold lead, 5" x 7 3/4", 3 pages. Very good. To columnist Walter Winchell In part: "A good Czech simply hates not to have a chance3 to fight! Being deluted into a good American doesn't apparently make any read difference! . .". Signed by Author(s). No Binding. Very Good.
The Scold's Bridle

The Scold's Bridle by Walters, Minette

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The Scold's Bridle
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Walters, Minette
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780312113773
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 327pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($21.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by Walters on the title page. A gorgeous collectable copy of the author's third novel.
A History of Juab County

A History of Juab County by Wilson, Pearl D.; June McNulty and David Hampshire

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Title
A History of Juab County
Author
Wilson, Pearl D.; June McNulty and David Hampshire
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780913738207
Condition
As new
Description
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As new/as new. 335pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Navy blue boards. Illustrated with photographs. In shrink wrap. One of the uniform Utah county histories published as part of the Utah Centennial County History Series to celebrate Utah's centennial.
Life's Dream

Life's Dream by YAFFA, Claire

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Life's Dream
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YAFFA, Claire
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9781932646276
Condition
A fine copy with some light wear and a few small stains to the jacket
Description
UNKNO, 2007. A fine copy with some light wear and a few small stains to the jacket. 8 x 10 inches. 80 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Signed by author on half title. "A distinguished photographer respected for her images of the most needy in society - the homeless, abused children, children with AIDS - Yaffa also has an eye for the delicae and often unnoticed images that surround us. Accompanied by a brief poetic text, the books focusses our eyes on the beauty and mystery that can be found in every day objects.
The Great Bank Robbery (Original photograph from the 1969 film)

The Great Bank Robbery (Original photograph from the 1969 film) by Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, John Anderson (starring); Hy Averback (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter); Frank O'Rourke (novel)

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The Great Bank Robbery (Original photograph from the 1969 film)
Author
Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, John Anderson (starring); Hy Averback (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter); Frank O'Rourke (novel)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Zero Mostel. Based on the 1961 novel by Frank O'Rourke. A genre-bending film combining a heist feature and a comedy Western, in which multiple gangs converge on the town of Friendly, Texas, in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the west. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 1631.
SF Health Care Coalition Bulletin: May 1981

SF Health Care Coalition Bulletin: May 1981

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SF Health Care Coalition Bulletin: May 1981
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: the Coalition, 1981. Single issue of the bulletin, 6p., 8.5x11 inches, creased from being folded for mailing with stamp and address label on back panel, tears at staple hole, lightly toned at edges. Addressed to Steve Hamilton, an early member of the Revolutionary Union.

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