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Original drypoint etching (Giraffes), 33 x 45 cm, 22.5 x 30.3 cm printed area, on cream wove paper, signed, (no date, but 1949) by RAUSCHENBERG, Robert

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Title: Original drypoint etching (Giraffes), 33 x 45 cm, 22.5 x 30.3 cm printed area, on cream wove paper, signed, (no date, but 1949)
Author: RAUSCHENBERG, Robert
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: The only known signed example of Rauschenberg's first etching, and one of his earliest prints, in fine condition. Provenance: Gi
Description: One of Rauschenberg's earliest prints, depicting several stylized giraffes amidst trees and tall grass. In addition to the drypoint, Rauschenberg employs strips of burlap, which were soaked in acid and laid on the plate, creating a highly textured surface. The effect hints at the overlay process for which he was to become famous. The giraffe motif was used again recently in work in the 1990's. The etching is signed "RAUSCHENBERG" in the plate and additionally inscribed in pencil on the bottom edge, "My Love to HAZEL, Rauschenberg". Hazel was Hazel Larsen Archer, the artist's photography teacher at Black Mountain College and a close friend during this era. Rauschenberg and Larsen Archer remained friends and continued to correspond until she passed away in 2001. The print was executed in late 1949, while Rauschenberg and his wife Susan Weil were studying together at the Art Students League in New York City, following their time together at Black Mountain College, NC. The print is among Rauschenberg's very earliest. David White, archivist for the Rauschenberg Studio, has designated the print as 49.005, with numbers 49.001 - 49.004 being the blueprints executed at Black Mountain. White has stated that there is no priority established for this etching relative to the blueprints, but in his estimation the etching antedated the blueprints. The standard reference for the artist's early prints, Robert Rauschenberg: Prints 1948-1970, (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1971), makes no mention of this etching. Nor is there any mention of this etching in the rest of the literature devoted to Rauschenberg's work. The monograph traces the history of his prints during this era as follows: "Prior to his introduction to the medium of lithography, Rauschenberg had been briefly involved, and then somewhat tentatively and experimentally, with printed images. In 1948-49 he was studying at Black Mountain College in North Carolina with Josef Albers. Of the few works created at that time, only three, all of them unique, are still known to exist. The three extant prints are: The first work was a woodcut, or perhaps series of woodcuts (c. 1948-9), entitled This is First Half of a Print Designed to Exist in Passing Time." (14 woodcuts bound with cord in book form, with a penciled title page). Rauschenberg started working with photography at Black Mountain College where he made a number of blueprints, together with Susan Weil. Of the two or three dozen originally made, Female Figure is the only remaining example. The Automobile Tire Print (1951) was made together with John Cage (who had a car). "I did a 20 foot print, and John Cage was involved because he was the only person with a car who could be willing to do this. I glued together 50 sheets of paper. He drove his A-model Ford through the paint and onto the paper. He did a beautiful job but I consider it my print. The only known signed example of Rauschenberg's first etching, and one of his earliest prints, in fine condition. Provenance: Given by the artist to Hazel Larsen Archer (1926-2001); purchased from the estate of Hazel Larsen Archer in 2003. The only known signed example of Rauschenberg's first etching, and one of his earliest prints, in fine condition. Provenance: Given by the artist to Hazel Larsen Archer (1926-2001); purchased from the estate of Hazel Larsen Archer in 2003.

Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate #8 "Let the Day Perish Wherein I was born. by Blake, William

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Title: Illustrations of the Book of Job. Plate #8 "Let the Day Perish Wherein I was born.
Author: Blake, William
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1826. 1826. Folio, single sheet 16 1/4 x 11, image (inc. platemark) 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine. § First edition, from the printing of 65 sets with the word "Proof" on French wove paper. A fine impression of one of the most affecting plates in this series, in which Job laments his unfortunate existence while his friends bear witness to his grief in silence (Job 3:3). Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake's last completed prophetic book. "It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake's most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense" (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). "The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art" (Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England #8). Bentley, Blake Books, 421A. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 625-641C. Provenance: Sotheby's May 4& 5, 1983.

Giant Brains or Machines That Think by Berkeley, Edmund C.

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Title: Giant Brains or Machines That Think
Author: Berkeley, Edmund C.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sixth Printing. Signed by Berkeley on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price), a few short tears and shallow chips. Beige cloth with black ink lettering and rules on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Berkeley's general audience work about early computers and artificial intelligence.

The Third Reich of Dreams by Beradt, Charlotte

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Title: The Third Reich of Dreams
Author: Beradt, Charlotte
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated from the German by Adriane Gottwald. With an Essay by Bruno Bettelheim. About Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped, a scuff to the lower-right portion of the front panel, generally rubbed and bumped. Black cloth, lightly mottled, with green gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faint green topstain, clean internally. Beradt's work in which she analyzes the dreams of hundreds of people living in Nazi Germany, addressing the question, "How did a whole nation subject itself to totalitarianism and acquiesce in murder?

[Trade Catalogue] Albert Pick & Company. Soda Fountains & Supplies. Catalog B-37

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Title: [Trade Catalogue] Albert Pick & Company. Soda Fountains & Supplies. Catalog B-37
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Albert Pick and Company, 1920. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 29 by 21 cm. 235 pp. With over 60 pages with color illustration (including the inside covers), much of which is full color, with some simply duotone. Albert Pick was established in 1857. It grew to become a highly successful and large full service hotel and restaurant supplies and service company, with the breadth of its goods and services easily evident in this particular catalogue which was directed specifically at what we would today call luncheonette and/or diner restaurants, and thus a subset of the company's considerably more extensive and diverse clientele. In 1926, the company merged with a similar New York-based enterprise to become Albert Pick Barth Company, which boasted of being the largest hotel and restaurant supply company in the world. We believe the company did not survive the depression, and we do not know the fate of its various pieces. In the meantime, the Pick family entered the hotel ownership business and built up a large chain of hotels, a business sold to the Bass family in the 1970s. The most exciting aspect of the catalogue in our view are the depictions of complete standardized soda-lunch rooms, which are rather detailed and comprehensive prototypes for restaurant designs. Each of these designs is given four pages, with color illustrations of the entrance from outside, a side wall, the large dining room from a front and rear view, with a blue print of the interior space and its furnishings, and black and white renderings of some of the wall decorations and of the kitchen. In these pages the company provides all inclusive prices for various elements of the prospective business, so listed as on offer are things such as "Tables and Chairs", "Waiting Room Furniture", "Glassware, Chine and Silverware", "Linens", etc. etc. After the presentation of these model restaurant prototypes, the catalogue goes on to offer as individual items virtually everything a luncheonette or diner might need. Among the more charismatically presented items are a wide array of soda fountains, which here are often substantial pieces of cabinetry and plumbing. Besides this, one can find a wide panoply of display cases, china, glassware, uniforms, and on and on. The catalogue provides a wonderful survey of the material aspects of a restaurant business still relevant today, but it also captures its period design sensibilities with peerless precision. Given the size and importance of the company in its industry, there are institutional holdings of the company's catalogs, but it is our sense that this particular catalog, or type of catalog, is not generally among the Pick catalog's so held. As far as we could tell, there is one holding of a catalog that seems somewhat similar, but of later date, issued by the company. We also found evidence of a microfilm copy of what may be the same catalog. Condition: moderate wear to wraps. Some loss of the paper on the spine, with also a bit of lifting. The cover also has some soiling, with a touch of rippling which may be from contact with water at some point. Minor rippling in the margins of many leaves within. Otherwise, generally clean.

[Trade Catalogue] Thomas Goode & Co. (London) Ltd

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Title: [Trade Catalogue] Thomas Goode & Co. (London) Ltd
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Thomas Goode & Co. (London) Ltd. Printed by Tresises (London) Ltd., Buron-on-Trent, 1960. First Edition presumed. Hardcover. Snakeskin. Spiral within. Fine. Beautiful and unique trade catalogue for bone china and earthenware, with binding of full white snake skin. Being a rather opulent catalogue, it was supposedly for sale, carrying a price of half a guinea, as printed discreetly on the rear endpaper lower right corner, but we would surmise that it was sent and/or given to established customers complementarily. N.d., circa 1960. 8vo. 24 by 19.5 cm. 32 pp. Counted in the page enumeration are ten full color chromolithographic plates of china, with plates to a single manufacturer or brand -- Spode (2 color plates), Royal Crown Derby, Minton, Wedgwood (also 2 color plates), Royal Worcester, Hammersley, Booth, Simpson. The golds and some other colors are especially rich and have an illuminated quality. Facing each color plate is a detailed price list for what is depicted. The first page with content, the frontis, so to speak, is an attractive etching of the Mayfair-based store. Final eleven pages cover the shapes and sizes of the china on offer, with line drawin vignettes aplenty. Leaves are all on a glossy paper stock, with an aqua background, border or bands. The business, which is still in operation, was founded in 1829. With a separate cover on the company's stationary in the front.

Bell’s British Theatre. [Twenty-one volumes]. by Bell, John; Editor.

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Title: Bell’s British Theatre. [Twenty-one volumes].
Author: Bell, John; Editor.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Printed for John Bell / T. Lowndes, 1780. Twenty one [21] volumes. Duodecimo, uniform early polished calf, calf labels, gilt-decorated spine. Extra engraved titles, all entries with separate engraved frontises (few folded). Very Good; covers strong and tight with light shelfwear and scuffing.

ORIGINAL ART SIGNED. Pen and ink Sketch of eight characters from "Bringing Up Father" with Snookums drawn in pencil peeping in from the right, 8 x 9 inch card stock unevenly cut. Signed, "From Geo. McManus." Some soiling, tape on verso from prior mounting and pencil docketing "circa 1933 by McMANUS, GEORGE

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Title: ORIGINAL ART SIGNED. Pen and ink Sketch of eight characters from "Bringing Up Father" with Snookums drawn in pencil peeping in from the right, 8 x 9 inch card stock unevenly cut. Signed, "From Geo. McManus." Some soiling, tape on verso from prior mounting and pencil docketing "circa 1933
Author: McMANUS, GEORGE
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
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Lizzie Nutt's Sad Experience. A Heart Broken, and a Family Plunged in Grief. WRECK AND RUIN! The Shooting and Tragic Death of Noble-Hearted Captain Nutt, Lizzie's Brave Father, Who Flinched Not, Like a True Soldier, to Die in Defence of His Daughter's Honor. The Great Dukes Trial at Uniontown, PA. Full Account, and all "Those Terrible Letters." by [ Women's Studies ]

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Title: Lizzie Nutt's Sad Experience. A Heart Broken, and a Family Plunged in Grief. WRECK AND RUIN! The Shooting and Tragic Death of Noble-Hearted Captain Nutt, Lizzie's Brave Father, Who Flinched Not, Like a True Soldier, to Die in Defence of His Daughter's Honor. The Great Dukes Trial at Uniontown, PA. Full Account, and all "Those Terrible Letters."
Author: [ Women's Studies ]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1883 McDade #718 calls this the second edition."The Dukes-Nutt affair was an internationally famous murder case of romance, betrayal and honor. What started out as a small dispute and an unwanted engagement led to multiple murders…[T]he passion and recognition of this grandiose affair…at times seems fictitious, due to its many plot twists and scandals," (Uniontown Public Library website). Publisher's pale blue pictorial paper wrappers. 6 x 9 in. . With seven-full page illustrations. Some chipping and soiling. Back cover illustrated with an imagining of the murder. Some dustsoiling to leaves, mostly to pp. 61-62. A very good copy of a fragile item. In 1882, when Lizzie Nutt was in her early twenties, she was engaged to aspiring Democratic politician Nicholas Lyman Dukes (b. 1851). Their engagement was tumultuous, and Dukes sought to end the relationship by sending a letter (reproduced in the present item) to Nutt's father, Captain Nutt. In the letter, Dukes alleged that Nutt had been unfaithful and promiscuous, and claimed there were rumors of her behavior going around the city of Uniontown. Captain Nutt reacted poorly, and he and Dukes exchanged hostile correspondence until Captain Nutt took matters into his own hands and confronted Dukes at his home on Christmas Eve of 1882. After a fight between the two men, Dukes shot Captain Nutt. In March of 1883, Dukes was tried for the murder of Captain Nutt and found not guilty. Controversy surrounded the trial due to what many saw as an unjust verdict.

JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, FOR THE SESSION OF 1865--66 by Virginia

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Title: JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, FOR THE SESSION OF 1865--66
Author: Virginia
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Richmond: Allegre & Goode, Printers, 1866. Original half sheep and marbled boards [rubbed, front cover detached but present]. 550pp. Lightly toned, Good+. The Session began on December 4, 1865. Governor Peirpoint's opening message observes, "The former slaves of the state have become freemen. Much apprehension is felt in regard to the future of these people." Fears of "an indisposition on the part of the negroes to work" should not result in new legislation. "Freedom, in its great essential, consists in the privilege to a man of appropriating whatever he earns to his own use. To be free, labor must be voluntary. Idleness brings its own punishment." In a lengthy discussion of Reconstruction he assures his constituents of his opposition to the proscription of former Confederates: "I have made every exertion to restore to each man in the state all the rights of a citizen...No state can be governed under a republican form of government where three-fourths of the people, embracing the largest tax-payers, are disfranchised." This book records Virginia's earliest efforts to recover from the devastating War-- with much material on transportation, fiscal policy, banking, legal and constitutional responses to the change in the status of the former slaves. Swem [Official Documents] 15408.

Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style by Wood, Martin

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Title: Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style
Author: Wood, Martin
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780711224292
Condition: Very good
Description: London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 200pp. Very good hardback in a jacket that shows some light wear to the extremities.

Return of the Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Frank Frazetta Cover Art

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Title: Return of the Mucker
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Frank Frazetta Cover Art
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Ace Books, 1974. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Slightly tanned, else a very good, tightly bound example with a flat, uncreased spine.

Eva Luna by ALLENDE, Isabel

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Title: Eva Luna
Author: ALLENDE, Isabel
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394572734
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 271 pages. The third book from this important Chilean-American author. A close to near fine copy in cloth boards with some foxing to the page edges and in a near fine dust jacket.

INTREPID #17: Of Love, Abiding Love by [WILLIAMS, William CarlOS] Mazzaro, Jerome

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Title: INTREPID #17: Of Love, Abiding Love
Author: [WILLIAMS, William CarlOS] Mazzaro, Jerome
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Buffalo: Intrepid Press, 1970. First edition. One of 1,200 copies printed. Stapled photograpic covers; small 8vo. 54pp. Eight photos of WCW. Very Good in illustrated wraps. Entire contents based on two essays about Williams Carlos Williams given by the author at the Univerisity of Parma in 1969.

VOLUME 2: CAMELBACK TWILIGHT: THE HARD COAL CARRIERS by BERNET, Gerard E.

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Title: VOLUME 2: CAMELBACK TWILIGHT: THE HARD COAL CARRIERS
Author: BERNET, Gerard E.
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: Williamsport, PA: RAE Publishing, Inc, 1995. First Edition. 8vo., black pictorial wraps; 95 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight; small ink presentation on title page).

Under the Midnight Sun : Centennial History of Scandinavian Mission by Zobell, Albert L

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Title: Under the Midnight Sun : Centennial History of Scandinavian Mission
Author: Zobell, Albert L
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Deseret Book, 1950. Fine. Zobell, Albert L . Under the Midnight Sun : Centennial History of Scandinavian Mission. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1950. 197pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardbound. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly chipped edges.

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