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The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers by James, Henry

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Title
The Aspern Papers
Author
James, Henry
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Biblioctopus (United States)
Description
London: Macmillan, 1888. First Edition. 2 vols. 1st edition (vol. II contains 2 short stories, Louisa Palant and The Modern Warning). Original dark green cloth (almost British racing green). A fine set, razor sharp, extraordinary in the context of a 650 copy 1st printing, and I seldom see common Victorian double deckers that look like this anymore. James was always confident with small lives and big themes, so in The Aspern Papers he tries his commanding hand at Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Bibliomania but Were Afraid to Ask. An American editor, obsessed with the work of an early 19th century Romantic poet, Jeffery Aspern, travels to Venice seeking the love letters that Aspern wrote to his mistress, Miss. Bordereau. He devises a false identity to veil his aims and finds her living in poverty with her niece (Tina), alienated from the world. He becomes their lodger and since Bordereau wishes to protect her niece's future, he eventually takes Tina into his confidence. As Bordereau begins to fade from illness he leaps at the chance and rifles through her desk only to be surprised by the lady herself. At the moment of crux, she suffers a relapse. What follows is a sad case of lover’s blackmail, the eagle brought down by an arrow guided with its own feather. The old lady dies, and though Tina’s love for him becomes clear, his quest is doomed because she will only give the letters to a relative. This is the last novel from James first period of exalted work. During the 1880s he fell into a pattern. He'd create a strong female character, then nullify the false security she clings to. With The Tragic Muse (1890), he tried running a bigger engine powered by a new intricate prose. The aim was to make every sentence a work of art, but the big motor got vapor lock and he quit being a novelist, a career decision that in our day would have landed him on a reality show called Where Are They Now? For 6 years he sharpened his skills writing plays and pondered his new device. Then, in 1897, he tried an experimental novel (What Maisie Knew), followed quickly by 4 others (Poynton, Turn of the Screw, Awkward Age and Sacred Fount). The testing ended with the 20th century, and James reached the pinnacle of his new discipline when he published Wings of the Dove (1902), Ambassadors (1903) and Golden Bowl (1904). All 3 were painful to write and are difficult to access (the last more so). Every thought and image is qualified, but it is The Aspern Papers that hearkens back to the best of the original Henry James, readable, enlightening, intuitive, wise, capturing, and thought provoking.
The Marquis de Villemer

The Marquis de Villemer by Sand, George

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The Marquis de Villemer
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Sand, George
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Biblioctopus (United States)
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Boston: James Osgood and Co, 1871. First American edition, 4to (237 x 155mm), pp. [6], 130, [4]. Original green cloth, titled in gilt; the slightest bit of rubbing to the extremities, coated brown endpapers, light marginal dampstaining, else a superior copy and very good in the scarce green cloth (it was also bound in brown with no priority). Sand's early novels, particularly Lélia (1833) and Indiana (1832), interrogated conventional sexual identities and gender roles with such directness that the French government banned her works from public libraries in the 1830s, a prohibition that had the opposite of its intended effect, propelling Sand to international fame and leading to more sophisticated distribution practices and translations that characterized her later career. Marquis de Villemer, first published in French in 1861, belongs to this later phase and recounts the relationship between Caroline de Saint-Geneix, an impoverished aristocrat working as a companion, and the Marquis de Villemer, using this framework to explore merit versus inherited privilege and the constraints placed on women across class boundaries.
A Midsummer-Night's Dream

A Midsummer-Night's Dream by Shakespeare, William; Arthur Rackham

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Title
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
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Shakespeare, William; Arthur Rackham
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Good
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New York; London: Doubleday, Page & Co.; William Heinemann, 1908. First U. S. trade edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to. Green cloth spine, tan decorated paper over boards, gilt; top edge gilt. Complete with all illustrations which are mounted on tan-colored paper. Boards and top edge rubbed and edges well worn. A good copy with fine illustrations. Latimore & Haskell, p. 32.
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Botanik Für Frauenzimmer und Pflanzenliebhaber Welche Keine Gelehrten Sind by Batsch, August Johann Georg Carl

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Botanik Für Frauenzimmer und Pflanzenliebhaber Welche Keine Gelehrten Sind
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Batsch, August Johann Georg Carl
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Good
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Weimar: Industrie Comptoir, 1798. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. xiv, 194 pages and 4 engraved folding plates containing 101 small but finely hand-colored scientific plant studies. While the plant studies themselves may be scientific, the title indicates plainly that the book itself represents: "Botany for Women and Plant Lovers who are not Scholars". Later half calf, the spine quite worn with losses to leather. The contents very good.
Enajenación del patrimonio de Aranjuez informe presentado al Ilustrísimo Señor Director General del Patrimonio que fué de la corona

Enajenación del patrimonio de Aranjuez informe presentado al Ilustrísimo Señor Director General del Patrimonio que fué de la corona by Almazan y Duque, José

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Enajenación del patrimonio de Aranjuez informe presentado al Ilustrísimo Señor Director General del Patrimonio que fué de la corona
Author
Almazan y Duque, José
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Title page and half title lacking (supplied in facsimile), boards and spine rubbed, wax remnants to front board, contents and fo
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[Madrid]: [Impr. de los señores Rojas], 1870. First edition. Quarter calf, green paper covered boards, gilt title and decorations, 4 raised bands, marbled end papers. Title page and half title lacking (supplied in facsimile), boards and spine rubbed, wax remnants to front board, contents and folding plates clean, occasional soiling.. 5-178 pp., [4] folding plates. Illus. with 1 folding map. 4to. Rare. OCLC locates four copies: Univ. Conn., Univ. London, BN Spain, CSIC. Palau 7955.
Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective

Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective by GALASSI, Peter and Sherry Turner DeCarava - Roy DeCarava

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Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective
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GALASSI, Peter and Sherry Turner DeCarava - Roy DeCarava
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780870701276
Description
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 280 pages. Produced on the occasion of a major traveling retrospective on DeCarava. Featues an introduction by noted curator and photo historian Peter Galassi and an essay by Sherry Turner DeCarava Includes 194 tritone photographs and an additional 43 duotones. A fine copy in a gray cloth boards in a close to near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with some sunning to the spine. Still a nice copy of what is still one of the best books on this important African-American photographer whose collaboration with Langston Hughes resulted in the classic book "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" is widely considered one of the best photo books of the 20th century.
Skyblue the Badass

Skyblue the Badass by Wiebe, Dallas

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Skyblue the Badass
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Wiebe, Dallas
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ReadInk (United States)
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Very Good in Very Good dj
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Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / Paris Review Editions. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate soiling and light dampstain to top edge of text block (interior of book unaffected), white patch (probably from sticker removal) on ffep, otherwise just lightly shelfworn; jacket slightly tanned at spine, tiny stain at bottom right corner of front panel]. The first of only two published novels by this Kansas-born author (1930-2008), a ribald satire that became a small-scale literary cause célèbre after an excerpt published in The Paris Review in 1967 ignited a somewhat bizarre censorship attempt in the Long Island town of South Farmingdale, N.Y.; in the course of the kerfuffle, TPR editor George Plimpton interceded to speak out against the censorship, and subsequently agreed to published the full novel under the Paris Review Editions imprint. "Skyblue," the book's protagonist -- "the eternal striver who knows we are all losers, the observer who feelingly shares every experience of nature and mankind and yet continually wonders what the hell he's doing here -- the perfect guide to the inevitable defeat that is life" -- was Wiebe's literary alter-ego, and a figure to which he returned in later stories and essays. Better known as a poet and essayist, Wiebe enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Cincinnati; at least one critic has declared his work to be in the same darkly comic literary vein as that of Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Flannery O'Connor. .
Kiki Kogelnik: 1234567: Ceramic Sculptures, 1989/90
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Kiki Kogelnik: 1234567: Ceramic Sculptures, 1989/90 by ZAUNSCHIRM, Thomas

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Kiki Kogelnik: 1234567: Ceramic Sculptures, 1989/90
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ZAUNSCHIRM, Thomas
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9783854150909
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Very Good
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Klagenfurt:: Ritter Verlag,. Very Good. 1991. Paperback. 3854150903 . Text is in German and English. Color and black and white photographs throughout. First edition (paperback). Light damp marks along top and bottom edges, else very good in pictorial wraps. ; 143 pages .
What's in a Name

What's in a Name by Wittlinger, Ellen

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What's in a Name
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Wittlinger, Ellen
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
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9780689825514
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Very good
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 146pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate

Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate by Alpert, Judith L.

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Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate
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Alpert, Judith L.
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781568213637
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Very good
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Northvale: Jason Aronson, 1995. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xxiv, 396pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs. by ADAMS, ANSEL.

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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs.
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Boston (Little, Brown and Company), 1983.. x, 177pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j.

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