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Villette (in 3 vols.)

Villette (in 3 vols.) by [Brontë, Charlotte] Currer Bell

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Villette (in 3 vols.)
Author
[Brontë, Charlotte] Currer Bell
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1853. First edition. Near Fine. With the publisher's catalogue dated January 1853 at the end of volume one. A Very Good+ copy, a clean and appealing set overall. Three volumes, octavo (121 x 191 mm). Collating complete except for the half-titles: [4], 324, [12 pp., publisher's catalogue]; [4], 319, [1]; [2], 350, [2] pp. Attractively bound in late nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Minor edgewear. Some light occasional foxing and a few dusty finger marks. Leaf O2 in volume one with a small amateur tape repair to margin (not touching text). Small modern ink ownership stamp to lower pastedown of each volume. Published under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and final novel released during her lifetime, following Shirley (1848) and her massively influential debut Jane Eyre (1847). Villette, a masterpiece in its own right, "powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self possession...Brontë's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness" (Vintage). Since its publication, Villette has inspired a broad range of writers, from George Eliot to Kazuo Ishiguro; in the Common Reader, Virginia Woolf called it Brontë's "finest novel" and praised the emotional depth and poetry of the writing (p. 224). Sadleir 394. Near Fine.
The Famous Black Moguls. Song and Chorus. [From A Trip to Coontown]

The Famous Black Moguls. Song and Chorus. [From A Trip to Coontown] by [African-Americana – Performance] Johnson, Billy; Cole, Bob

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Title
The Famous Black Moguls. Song and Chorus. [From A Trip to Coontown]
Author
[African-Americana – Performance] Johnson, Billy; Cole, Bob
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: Howley; Haviland and Co, 1898. Folio, 4 pp. Covers split, stamp from a Kalamazoo, Michigan piano store near publisher information, otherwise near fine, with the lithographic illustration very bright and attractive, very good overall. Very good.. An illustrated sheet for “The Famous Black Moguls,” one of the opening choruses from A Trip to Coontown, the musical comedy written, produced, directed, and performed by Bob Cole and Billy Johnson during the 1897–1898 theatrical season. The show is recognized as among the earliest full-length musical productions created and staged under African American creative control. The work evolved from Cole’s earlier sketch At Jolly Coon-ey Island, written for Black Patti’s Troubadours, and its title parodied the popular musical A Trip to Chinatown (1891). Production records identify “The Famous Black Moguls” as an early Act I number performed by the character Captain Fleetfoot, placing it among the introductory musical selections used to establish the show’s principal characters and theatrical setting. The show premiered in South Amboy, New Jersey, on September 27, 1897, and later appeared in New York at the Third Avenue Theatre in April 1898. Theater historian Thomas L. Riis and co-authors describe the production as: “performed, directed, and produced by African Americans, an astounding feat in an era where few independent theaters could even consider taking a chance on such a production. Unfortunately, the play—like so many other nineteenth-century African American documents and artifacts—was lost, and scholars could only make conjectures (based mainly on newspaper reviews) about what it looked and sounded like. ”[1] Peter Lefferts, in “A Chronology of the Career of Bob Cole: Materials for a Biography,” found a program from April, 1898 that identifies “The Famous Black Moguls” was the first song in the production.[2] We are unable to identify the artist for the illustration. We find one copy of this sheet in OCLC, at the British Library Reference Collections, and nothing else from the original show in commerce at the time of writing. Overall a very scarce and attractive sheet from an important production with little surviving ephemeral record. [1] Krystyn R. Moon, David Krasner, and Thomas L. Riis, “Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown,” African American Review 44, no. 1/2 (2011): 7–24. [2] Peter M. Lefferts, “A Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of Bob Cole: Materials for a Biography”, Faculty Publications: School of Music. 56 (University of Nebraska, 2016).
CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS

CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS by AUDEN, W. H

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Title
CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS
Author
AUDEN, W. H
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head
Description
New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head. Preceded by the English edition. SIGNED by the author below his crossed-out name on the title page.
Post-Graffiti

Post-Graffiti by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel, Crash, Daze, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Kenny Scharf, et al.

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Title
Post-Graffiti
Author
BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel, Crash, Daze, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Kenny Scharf, et al.
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Minor edge-wear to illustrated wrappers; near fine.
Description
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1983. Minor edge-wear to illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Thin quarto. Catalogue for the exhibition "Post-Graffiti" at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (Dec. 1 - 31, 1983). An important early catalogue marking the transposition of graffiti from the streets of New York to the white cube of the gallery, featuring images of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daze, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, Angel Ortiz, and Kenny Scharf, among other artists. With introductory texts by Dolores Neumann and Sidney Janis. Cover design by Crash.
Letters on Organization

Letters on Organization by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON, J.R. (pseud. of C.L.R. James)

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Title
Letters on Organization
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON, J.R. (pseud. of C.L.R. James)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Detroit: Facing Reality Publishing Committee, [1963]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle-stitched into yellow mimeographed card covers; 59pp. Light wear and dustiness to covers, ink date to upper right corner of front cover, with subtle toning to text edges; contents clean; Near Fine. A late work from Facing Reality, a small faction of C.L.R. James loyalists that remained following the split in the Johnson-Forrest Tendency in 1955. The group was led by Martin Glaberman in the U.S. and C.L.R. James in England. The contents consist of a series of letters from James to Glaberman (who he addresses as "Marty"). "The letters put forward the idea that the changes in the world since Lenin's time have not merely changed the objective situation which Marxists face but have also changed the working class and the conceptions and ideas of people all over the world. The threat of atomic weapons, the experience of two world wars, a major world-wide depression, fascism and the development of capitalist production itself -- all have combined to create universal hostility to present day society, in developed and undeveloped countries alike...The Marxist organization must be able to recognize this drive toward a new society, record it and align itself with it in a newspaper. The kind of preparation necessary for producing a successful newspaper and the kinds of discipline and attitudes which must be attained before a newspaper can become possible are detailed" (from the preface). A significant collection of correspondence, uncommon in commerce. OCLC notes 10 holdings, of these, only 7 in U.S. institutions.
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film)

Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film) by Sylvia Kristel (starring); Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina (starring)

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Title
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film)
Author
Sylvia Kristel (starring); Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film, including a program, ten lobby cards, and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in image making, fourth wall breaking, and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism, voyeurism, and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films, down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel, far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards (10): 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs (2): 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued.
Die Erregung, Hemmung und Narkose

Die Erregung, Hemmung und Narkose by Vvedenskii [Wedensky], E N - NEUROLOGY

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Die Erregung, Hemmung und Narkose
Author
Vvedenskii [Wedensky], E N - NEUROLOGY
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good.
Description
Bonn: M Hager, 1904. First German Ed. Offprint.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. Very Good.. 8vo, 152 pp. There are text illus. throughout. This is a report of Wedensky's extended researches into the physiology of peripheral nerves. It was originally published in Russian in 1901 and then presented at the 5th congress of physiology in Turin and published in the Archiv. fur die ges. Physiologie (this offprint). Wedensky examines three distinct action states of the nerve and re-defines the general theory of nerve excitation in relation to the central nervous system. See G-M for author's other entries.
Sunset Canyon (Black Sun)

Sunset Canyon (Black Sun) by ABBEY, Edward

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Title
Sunset Canyon (Black Sun)
Author
ABBEY, Edward
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780900735035
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
London:: Talmy, Franklin Limited,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0900735031 . A novel. The American edition was published under the title BLACK SUN. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine (tiny closed edge tear at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. ; 159 pages .
The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc: P.S. 1 The Clocktower

The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc: P.S. 1 The Clocktower

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The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc: P.S. 1 The Clocktower
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1980. First edition. Softcover. 44 pages. An exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 28 through November 9, 1980 at P.S. 1 and then September 17 through October 11 and October 22 through November 15, 1980 at the Clocktower. Features a brief text by Alanna Heiss. Includes numerous black and white illustrations of the various exhibitions and installations by the likes by Roni Horn, Allen Ruppersberg, Barbara Guest and numerous others. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism FIRST EDITION WITH PROVENANCE

Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism FIRST EDITION WITH PROVENANCE by Abbott, Sidney; Love, Barbara

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Title
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism FIRST EDITION WITH PROVENANCE
Author
Abbott, Sidney; Love, Barbara
Seller
Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780812814095
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Stein and Day, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Sappho Was a Right-On Woman comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950-2023). The first nonfiction book to discuss lesbianism positively and non-diagnostically and the first to examine the connection between feminism and lesbianism, Sappho Was a Right-On Women is the work of two important lesbian feminists, influential in the Gay Liberation Movement, and both active members of the National Organization of Women (NOW): Sidney Abbott (1937-2015), a member of Lavender Menace, and Barbara Love (1937-2022), a member of the 1973 presentation persuading the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from the DSM. This is an admittedly worn but complete first edition of this landmark work, with notable provenance. Dr. Bette Tallen's copy, with her ownership signature to front free endpaper. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 251pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved jacket. Heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with open tears to edges and extremities, including slight loss to author's name at head of spine, sunning to spine and surrounding panels, creasing and surface wear, and foxing to verso. Bound in red paper over boards, with author signatures in gilt to upper board, spine backed in maroon cloth and lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with sunning to edges, dust soiling, and bumping to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block and to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Admittedly a first printing of this landmark work that has a history of its own, as evidenced by the detailed physical condition provided above, but one with a relevant and meaningful provenance, from the collection of the late Lesbian and Women's Studies scholar and activist Dr. Bette S. Tallen.
Rules Of The Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, For The Government Of The Transportation Department

Rules Of The Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, For The Government Of The Transportation Department

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Rules Of The Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, For The Government Of The Transportation Department
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co., Printers, 1889. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original black cloth. Minor wear to extremities, barely through cloth on bottom corners. Slight nick to cloth of spine. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. 122 pages.
Una Importante Colección de Obra Gráfica y Libros Ilustrados de Joan Miró

Una Importante Colección de Obra Gráfica y Libros Ilustrados de Joan Miró

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Una Importante Colección de Obra Gráfica y Libros Ilustrados de Joan Miró
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
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Very Good
Description
Madrid: Sotheby's, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. A catalogue in Spanish for a major auction held in Barcelona of 305 of Miro's graphic works. With illustrations of each item auctioned. Accompanied by an insert with prices realized. Hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt titling to front cover. Damp staining to bottoms of covers not affecting interior pages. In a green pictorial dust jacket with titling on front. Very good. Measures 11 inches. Unpaginated. ART/071122.
Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780

Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780

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Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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London: Country Life, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Articles on Scottish farming, Cyclopean kilns and quarries, the Fiat 1256 Special Salon, Dutch art coming to Scotland, Galloway, National Pony Show, and more. Illustrated blue paper wrappers with white spine panel titled in blue. Soiling and wear to covers and edges. Clean interior. Minor wear to page edges. pagination: 368 - 422. PER/102621.
Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me

Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me by AMER, GHADA (artist); Maria ELENA BUSZEK (contributor)

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Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me
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AMER, GHADA (artist); Maria ELENA BUSZEK (contributor)
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9781932598254
Condition
A clean and fresh copy
Description
New York: Gagosian, 2006. First edition. A clean and fresh copy. 11 x 10 inches. 70 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth boards. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2006.
Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It by Rand, Ayn

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Philosophy: Who Needs It
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Rand, Ayn
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780672527258
Condition
Good
Description
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($15.95), a few shallow chips and tears at the edges. Green paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, many dog-eared pages with pencil marginalia. A collection of Rand's essays that reveal "the hidden philosophic premises at work in the human soul.
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MR. WEBSTER'S ADDRESS AT ANDOVER,; November 9, 1843 by WEBSTER, Daniel

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MR. WEBSTER'S ADDRESS AT ANDOVER,; November 9, 1843
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WEBSTER, Daniel
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Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1843. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 44. Disbound. VG.
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The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia

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The Shadow of the Wind
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Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Very Good
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Penguin, 2004. Very Good. Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos. The Shadow of the Wind. Graves, Lucia. NY: Penguin, 2004. 486pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges and tar in top of front joint. Previous owner's name on first and last pages..

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