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Typed Letters Signed by O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA

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Title: Typed Letters Signed
Author: O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Abiquiu, New Mexico: np, 1969. first edition. Fine. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE AS ART DEALER FOR HER OWN WORK: A fascinating correspondence between O’Keeffe and disgraced art dealer Andrew Crispo, revealing O’Keeffe’s reluctance to sell her paintings. On September 27, 1969, the 24-year-old art dealer Andrew Crispo (who later became infamous through his connection with the “Death Mask Murder” case), visited O’Keeffe at her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico. While there, Crispo – perhaps trying to make a big splash in the art world – negotiated with O’Keeffe to purchase three of her paintings: “Lake George – Blue” for $6000; “White Birches” for $40,000; “Mule’s Skull and Pink Poinsetta” for $50,000. The first letter in the correspondence, dated September 29, is from O’Keeffe to Crispo, outlining the terms for the sale of “Lake George – Blue” for $6000. This is no simple sale, however – Crispo wants payment terms and O’Keeffe outlines them here: $100 (paid already), $1900 due in January 1970; $2000 in January, 1971; $2000 in January 1972. The most interesting part of the letter, however, is O’Keeffe reluctance to let go of her work. She proposes a deal where she has the right of first refusal to buy it back from Crispo for $6000 should he wish to sell it to anyone. She originally wanted no time limit on this, but Crispo successfully negotiated a window (reflected in a “Note” at the bottom of the letter) of four years for O’Keeffe’s right of first refusal. This letter, signed by both O’Keeffe and Crispo, retains its original envelope, with September 30, 1969 postmark. The negotiations get more complicated when considering two significantly more expensive O’Keeffe paintings. In an October 2, 1969, letter from Crispo (included here), he notes that he gave her deposits ($100 each) on the two paintings and understood the checks and their verbal agreement bound her to sell the painting “White Birches” for $40,000 and “Skull and Poinsettas” (later renamed “Mule’s Skull and Pink Poinsetta”) for $50,000. O’Keeffe was clearly getting uncomfortable with the sale of these paintings; hence Crispo’s insistence that the deal had been made. This hesitancy comes to the fore in the final letter (signed by O’Keeffe) in the collection. Dated December 11, 1969, the letter – after confirming the details of the “Lake George” sale, reads in part: “You may recall that when we first met I told you that I did not wish to sell any paintings. As I have thought things over, it seems best to leave things that way. I would rather keep the two paintings than send them to you.” She then notes that she is returning his two checks for $100 (deposits on the paintings) and the two torn checks are included with this letter (along with the original envelope). O’Keeffe at the time of this letter was 82 years old and it is surprising that she turned down a substantial amount of money for the two paintings. (The $90,000 for the two paintings is approximately $760,000 in today’s dollars.) Perhaps she really couldn’t bear to let them go, or perhaps she sensed something unsavory about Andrew Crispo. In 1969, Crispo had been working at New York City’s ACA Galleries and was likely laying the foundation for his namesake gallery, which he opened a few years later, but in the 1980s and 90s Crispo became notorious for his involvement in the gruesome “Death Mask Murder” case and later served time in prison for extortion. Over time, all three paintings passed through various private collections. “Lake George - Blue”, the only painting Crispo successfully purchased from O’Keeffe, remains in a private collection. “White Birches” is now housed at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, while “Mule’s Skull with Pink Poinsetta” is part of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s collection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. –––––––– In total this archive includes two O’Keeffe typed letters signed, one unsigned O’Keeffe typed letter, and one Andrew Crispo typed letter signed with a duplicate retained copy, a retained copy of a Crispo letter (Dec. 5), two torn checks signed by Crispo and two transmittal envelopes from O’Keeffe. All letters on standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. Mailing fold lines, a few creases, otherwise fine condition with strong O’Keeffe signatures in black ink.

Opera di agricoltura. Nellaqual si contiene a che modo si debbe coltivar la terra: seminare, inserire gli alberi, governar li giardini e gli horti. . by CRESCENTIO, Pietro

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Title: Opera di agricoltura. Nellaqual si contiene a che modo si debbe coltivar la terra: seminare, inserire gli alberi, governar li giardini e gli horti. .
Author: CRESCENTIO, Pietro
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Venice: [Li heredi di Joanne Padouano], 1553. With historiated woodcut initials, printer's device on recto of last leaf. Later vellum, manuscript title on spine; minor paper repairs throughout, one leaf restored. Contemporary annotations. An extremely rare edition (only five copies located) of what was the first agronomic treatise of the middle ages, the original printing of which appeared in Augsburg in 1471. Crescentio was "seventy years of age when he undertook to write, in Latin, a sort of Gentleman's Recreation or Maison Rustique, in twelve books, crammed with information of all kinds likely to be of use to the gentleman farmer." His compendium of agriculture and husbandry provide the botanical background needed for raising crops, and includes topics ranging from water supply, apiculture, the building of granaries and the cultivation of grains. In addition, he discusses arboriculture and horticulture, the hunting and trapping wild animals, the medicinal uses of plants, as well as the diseases of animals, and domestic hygiene. Chapter IV, is devoted to viticulture, wine and the preservation of grapes and raisins. Chapter VIII, which covers gardens, served as a model for many sixteenth and seventeenth century gardening books. The final chapter is a well organized manual of procedure, detailing everything that needs to be done monthly in the orchard, farm and field. The immense value of this work was recognized immediately; Charles V, King of France, first ordered this book to be translated into French in 1373. Since then, it has gone through numerous editions and translations into several languages. Crescentio (1230-1320) is considered the father of agronomic science in Italy. He studied both law and medicine at the University of Bologna, and held several political offices in Italy.

Color compass: an illustrated guide for color mixing selection, color theory and harmony by GRUMBACHER, M.

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Title: Color compass: an illustrated guide for color mixing selection, color theory and harmony
Author: GRUMBACHER, M.
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1977. GRUMBACHER, M. Color compass: an illustrated guide for color mixing selection, color theory and harmony. 20 pp., illustrated. 4to, 290 x 227 mm, publisher's wrappers in slipcase. New York: Grumbacher, 1977. A fine copy of this scarce modern work.

A Photo Signed By Jazz Trumpter Dizzy Gillespie by DIZZY GILLESPIE

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Title: A Photo Signed By Jazz Trumpter Dizzy Gillespie
Author: DIZZY GILLESPIE
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: JOHN BIRKS DIZZY GILLESPIE (1917-1993). Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and singer. In 1989, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.PS. 4 x 6. N.d. N.p. A photograph signed To Jimmie, Be Bop Dizzy Gillespie. The photograph is a black-and-white image of Gillespie smiling and holding a trumpet in his right hand. The photograph is printed on cardstock and is in excellent condition.

Autograph letter signed to Charles V. Walker by Zantedeschi, Francesco

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Title: Autograph letter signed to Charles V. Walker
Author: Zantedeschi, Francesco
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1850. Very Good. Zantedeschi, Francesco (1797-1873). A.L.s. to Charles V. Walker (1812-82). Padua, August 25, 1850. 1 page, plus integral address leaf. 265 x 220 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Zantedeschi, a professor of physics at the University of Padua, was largely responsible for transforming the university's physics laboratory from its former mediocre state into one of the best-equipped scientific laboratories of its time. Among the many instruments and apparatus obtained by Zantedeschi for the laboratory was a series of telegraph machines, including an automatic telegraph capable of transmitting images. He wrote a number of works on electricity and magnetism; see Wheeler Gift. His correspondent, Charles V. Walker, had been involved in telegraphy since the 1840s; in 1848 he sent the first submarine telegraph message from a ship connected by two miles of cable to London Bridge, and in 1876 he served as president of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians. Origins of Cyberspace 215 .

The Problem of Individuality: A Course of Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of London in October 1913 by Driesch, Hans

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Title: The Problem of Individuality: A Course of Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of London in October 1913
Author: Driesch, Hans
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Macmillan & Co., 1914. First edition. DRIESCH'S ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF HIS THEORY OF VITALISM--COPY OF EVOLUTIONIST WHO PROPOSED THE RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS. 22x13.5 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Leigh van Valen to front paste-down, in signature of J. Y. Simpson to front free endpaper, i-ix, 84 pp, [4]. Light wear to corners, fading to spine and cover borders, mottling to endpapers, marginal pencil notations (presumably by van Valen). Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. Cited by Harmen and Dietrich: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology: "On the embryological front, Driesch concluded that development occurred with such regularity, and in the case of the sea urchin proceeded toward an appointed end despite all sorts of introduced disturbances, that it must be guided by a teleological force that had no counterpart in the mechanical or physico-chemical world.'. This force he called entelechy, a term borrowed from Aristotle and referring to an "active principle of converting possibility into actuality. … Entelechy was thus not the blueprint of an organism's organization nor the creative agent that brings it about, but a kind of a mediator similar to a homeostatic governor, that protects the tendency system from being disrupted by extraneous factors (including embryologist's experiments). ... From the principle of teleology and its specific embryological form, entelechy, Driesch moved on to advocate an openly vitalistic philosophy of biology. It was first made manifest in Driesch's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1907-1908 and Published as The Science and Philosophy of the Organism in 1908. A distillation of these ideas published six years later as The Problem of Individuality (1914) will serve as the framework for explicating Driesch's line of argument in favor of vitalism. ... So influential had Driesch's ideas become in biological circles, however, that as late as 1942 the embryologist Joseph Needham felt compelled to insert a whole section (2.16) in his Biochemistry and Morphogenesis to attacking the doctrine of vitalism." PROVENANCE: LEIGH VAN VALEN (1935 – 2010) was an American evolutionary biologist. Van Valen proposed the Red Queen hypothesis (1973), as an explanatory tangent to the Law of Extinction. The Red Queen Hypothesis captures the idea that there is a constant 'arms race' between co-evolving species. Its name is a reference to the Red Queen's race in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, in which the chess board moves such that Alice must continue running just to stay in the same place. He was also interested in fields outside biology, including measure theory, probability theory, logic, thermodynamics, epistemology and the philosophy of science.

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?; My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alda, Alan

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Title: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?; My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
Author: Alda, Alan
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. The first edition, first printing of If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?, signed by Alan Alda.. Octavo, xviii, 213pp, [5]. Cream hardcover. Stated "First Edition," with a full number line on the copyright page. Appears unread. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, retail price on front flap. Signed by the author, Alan Alda, on the second free endpaper.

Johnny No-Trump; a play in two acts by Mercier, Mary

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Title: Johnny No-Trump; a play in two acts
Author: Mercier, Mary
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1968, 1966). First Edition. Stapled wraps. (printed wrappers) [light external surface waar only] (B&W photo frontispiece of stage setting) One of the more notable (and unjustified) flops in Broadway history, this drama is set in the parlor of an old house in a small Long Island town, and centers around a 16-year-old boy (the title character), an aspiring poet, and his relationship with his family -- in particular his Uncle Harry, a 60-something guy who's a sort of prototypical Archie Bunker type. The original (1967) New York production starred James Broderick, Pat Hingle, and Sada Thompson -- and also marked the Broadway debut, in a small role, of 19-year-old Bernadette Peters (who had already been acting professionally for about ten years). The play rather infamously closed after a single performance -- not necessarily because of bad reviews (the notices were mixed), but as William Goldman later wrote in his book "The Season," it "had no power connected with it." (Goldman also dubbed it "the best new American play of the season.") The play's genesis and demise are discussed at some length in the 1973 book "Broadway's Beautiful Losers: The Strange History of Five Neglected Plays." Playwright Mercier, for her part, seems to have vanished from the theatrical scene (and who can blame her?): the only other work credited to her in the OCLC catalog is a book of poetry published in 2002. .

[RADIO] Fun Fare by Fisher, Helen Stevens - "Little Lady of the House"

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Title: [RADIO] Fun Fare
Author: Fisher, Helen Stevens - "Little Lady of the House"
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Color illustrated wraps. Very good
Description: N.D.C., 1939. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. Youngren, Max. 30 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Written by one of Chicago's women of the "Golden Age of Radio," Helen Stevens Fisher, best known as "The Little Lady of the House" who was featured on The National Farm and Home Hour (NBC) - one of the most popular radio programs of the 20th century. Fisher was the Barbara Walters of her time, wrangling nationally famous personalities and stars coming through Chicago to join her on air and talk abouth themselves on the broadcast. Booklet is filled with wacky party ideas: Millionaire's Party, Paper Sack Party, Treasure Trail... all accompanied by menus and recipes. Illustrated throughout. Covers lightly rubbed at edges.

Commemorative Porcelain Dessert Plate. "Commemorating Col. Lindbergh. First to navigate the air in continuous flight from New York to Paris -- 1927

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Title: Commemorative Porcelain Dessert Plate. "Commemorating Col. Lindbergh. First to navigate the air in continuous flight from New York to Paris -- 1927
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Seabrig, Ohio: Limoges China Co, 1927. Near Fine. Appealing dessert plate issued shortly after Lindbergh's historic flight, with a centerpiece cameo portrait of a smiling young Lindbergh surrounded by a collage pictorial showing the Statue of Liberty on one side, the Eiffel Tower, on the other, and the sea and clouded sky in the background, all framed by a flowered laurel. The plate itself is otherwise yellow, with a gilt rim, and square-ish, with rounded corners. It is 22 cm across measuring from a straight edge to its opposite straight edge. Small chip on bottom rim, not visible from front of plate.

Tartuffe by Wilbur, Richard; Moliere

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Seller: Sanctuary Books

Title: Tartuffe
Author: Wilbur, Richard; Moliere
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt Brace, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy of this fine translation of Tartuffe by Richard Wilbur.

Jack and Jill: A Village Story. by ALCOTT, Louisa May.

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Title: Jack and Jill: A Village Story.
Author: ALCOTT, Louisa May.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: Garden City:: Nelson Doubleday,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. No statement of printing. Very good or better in like dust jacket. .

Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery

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Title: Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: University of New Mexico, 1975. Very Good. Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1975. 112pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with soiling on back cover..

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