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Sweet Bird of Youth [Typescript] by Williams, Tennessee

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Seller: Biblioctopus

Title: Sweet Bird of Youth [Typescript]
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: 1959. Loose sheets typed on versos only, letter size, 127 leaves. The typescript of the play used for publication of the first edition by New Directions. The sheets are accompanied by an envelope addressed to New Directions with a handwritten note from Edwin Erbe, former publicity director for the publisher. Near fine. Sweet Bird of Youth opened on Broadway in March 1959, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page, and it was a hit, but it was the last time Williams and Kazan would work together, and the last time Williams would have a major new play received without the qualification that he was in decline. It is a play about the terror of aging and the corruption of the young, set in a Gulf Coast hotel room where a gigolo and a fading movie star cling to each other as proof that time can be outrun, and it cannot.

Le Livre des Ballades by [Rackham, Arthur] Fort, Paul

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Title: Le Livre des Ballades
Author: [Rackham, Arthur] Fort, Paul
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza, 1920. Limited to 300 copies with an extra-suite of (13 of 14) mounted color plates, this being copy no. 256 of a total edition of 1300. Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/8; 303 x 232 mm). Collating 108, [2]. Publisher's original pictorial tan wrappers. Fourteen mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards. Headpieces, typographical devices. The duplicate color plate "La France" is missing from the additional suite. Otherwise a Near Fine copy. First edition in French of the Rackham-illustrated Some British Ballads (1919) including additional black and white vignettes. Paul Fort translated the original ballads and there are some included that are not found in the English edition. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell 50-51. Riall 137.

HALLELUJAH (1929; ca. 1930 first French release) Program by Les Miracles Cinema

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.

Title: HALLELUJAH (1929; ca. 1930 first French release) Program
Author: Les Miracles Cinema
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Les Miracles Cinema. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Paris: Les Miracles Cinema, [ca. 1930]. Vintage original French program, pictorial wrappers, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2" (22 x 14 cm.), stapled, 16 pp. Light creasing, near fine. A program for King Vidor's Black-cast film, the second such talking film, with six full-page images of actors, four half-pages of scenes from the movie, and one 2 x 9" (5 x 23 cm.) image of the actors with their arms raised. This program is very scarce. Not in OCLC.

BUSTER CRABBE | HOW TO SWIM IN NINE EASY LESSONS (1938) Set of 4 beefcake photos by Paramount

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Title: BUSTER CRABBE | HOW TO SWIM IN NINE EASY LESSONS (1938) Set of 4 beefcake photos
Author: Paramount
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paramount. No binding. Very Good. [Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Set of four (4) Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photos. Minor corner creases and wear to all. One has chip at top right corner, another has chip at bottom left corner. Overall very good. Four photos in a series called "How To Swim in Nine Easy Lessons". The series includes nine photos as indicated; present are numbers 1, 6, 8 and 9. Each has a blurb printed on the verso explaining the swim technique which Buster is demonstrating. They were used to publicize his appearance in the Paramount film Tip Off Girls. The Olympic swim champ was popular and utilized in film for his physique more so than his acting talents, but he did make for an iconic Flash Gordon. From the Kenneth Anger collection, but not stamped. Anger may have been planning a beefcake storyline for one of his books, or just liked collecting beefcake photos of the stars. Photos coded P1498-240, 241, 243, 248.

Everest by Unsworth, Walt

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Everest
Author: Unsworth, Walt
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Seattle: Cloudcap, 1989. Second Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The second edition of Everest by Walt Unsworth, signed by Ed Webster, Peter Athans and Carlos Buhler.. Octavo, xvi, 704pp. Blue hardcover, title stamped in silver gilt on spine. Stated "second, revised and enlarged edition, 1989" on copyright page. Appears unread. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, $45 retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear, a bright example. Signed on the title page by Ed Webster, Peter Athans and Carlos Buhler. The first edition of Everest by Walt Unsworth was published by The Chaucer Press in London, in 1981. (Neate U21).

Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective by WILKE, Hannah and Thomas H. Kochheiser

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA

Title: Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective
Author: WILKE, Hannah and Thomas H. Kochheiser
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780826207036
Description: Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Retrospective monograph on this important American artist. Edited by Thomas H. Kochheiser. Essay by Joanna Frueh. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations along with some of Wilke's writings as well. An about very good copy with the top corner of the text block somewhat bumped/creased and with bumping to the top corners of the cloth boards in a close to near fine dust jacket with a small edge tear to the top of the front panel and some other very slight wear. Despite the flaws, a nice copy.

Descrizione delle Sculture, e Pitture che si trovano al Campidoglio, compilata da Agostino Tofanelli, Direttore del Museo, Protomoteca, e Gallerie Capitoline by CAPITOLINE MUSEUM, ROME

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Title: Descrizione delle Sculture, e Pitture che si trovano al Campidoglio, compilata da Agostino Tofanelli, Direttore del Museo, Protomoteca, e Gallerie Capitoline
Author: CAPITOLINE MUSEUM, ROME
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 168 pp. Small 8vo (164 x 95 mm.), cont. pink paste-paper wrappers (edges worn). Rome: Mordacchini, 1825. A scarce revised and updated edition (1st ed. under this title: 1819) of this museum catalogue. It describes the institution’s paintings and sculptures, a number of which had been seized by the French during the conquest of Italy and subsequently returned. A very good copy; some soiling and wear to the wrappers. ❧ For an account of the museum’s establishment see C. Paul, “Capitoline Museum, Rome: Civic Identity and Personal Cultivation,” in The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of an Institution in 18th- and Early 19th-Century Europe (2012), pp. 21-45.

COLONIZATION AND COMMERCE. AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, NOVEMBER 29, 1859. BY... OF MISSOURI by Blair, Frank P., Jun.

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Title: COLONIZATION AND COMMERCE. AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, NOVEMBER 29, 1859. BY... OF MISSOURI
Author: Blair, Frank P., Jun.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [Cincinnati?, 1859. 8pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, light margin spotting. Good+. Blair explains his pet project: combining emancipation with colonization "in the congenial regions of the American tropics, for such of our negroes as are now free, or who hereafter may be enfranchised by States or individuals, and who may choose to go there, and to offer them such inducements, by securing them self-government, free homesteads, and protection against foreign or domestic molestation, as they will not and cannot refuse." Blair argues that "the two races cannot occupy the same States without mutual injury." And slavery injures, most of all, other whites "by monopolizing and degrading all the industrial occupations, which elsewhere supply the wants of an independent yeomanry, puts education within their reach, and makes improvement possible." FIRST EDITION. LCP 1253. Not in Sabin, Thomson, Eberstadt, Work.

The Gray Prince by Jack Vance

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Title: The Gray Prince
Author: Jack Vance
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780672519949
Condition: Very Good
Description: Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Company, 1974. Very Good/Very Good -. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1974. First Edition, stated first printing. Octavo (21.5cm); 191pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with silver stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed. Boards faded along edges. Binding sound. Textblock foxed; endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good.

Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci [Limited Edition] by Paul Valery

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Title: Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci [Limited Edition]
Author: Paul Valery
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1931. Very Good+. [Paris]: Editions du Sagittaire, 1931. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies on Velin de Rives of which this is no. 829. Quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],163pp.; facsimile annotations by the author printed in margins throughout. Light wear and dust-soil, else a Very Good or better example.

Manuscript Music Arrangement for the Guitar for "We Have Lived and Loved Together" by Bell, V. B. (Herz, Henri)

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Title: Manuscript Music Arrangement for the Guitar for "We Have Lived and Loved Together"
Author: Bell, V. B. (Herz, Henri)
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: S. l.: By the author, 1880. Very good. Manuscript, n. d. (second half of the 19th century[?]); single sheet, pp. [2]; score and lyrics in blue and brown ink; 10 1/4 x 9; loss of paper to upper left corner, not affecting text, but for one letter of the title; crease line through middle and several closed cuts to edges; vertical split, crudely, but lovingly sewn together with period thread; occasional spotting; overall in good condition.A lovely rendition of Henry Herz' (1803 - 1888) "We Have Lived and Loved Together," it was arranged for the guitar by V. B. Bell for one Mrs. Caroline Schoch - possibly a teacher of German at the Indiana State Normal School.

The New York Annual Register for the Year of Our Lord 1832. by Williams, Edwin

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Title: The New York Annual Register for the Year of Our Lord 1832.
Author: Williams, Edwin
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: 12mo (7 x 4 1/2), original printed and illustrated boards, with leather spine with gilt lettering, illustrated, 396 pp. plus ads. Binding worn and a bit faded, top cover detached, extremities worn and rubbed, spine is split, which makes the book almost two parts, pagination appears complete, but could be lacking frontispiece or front endpaper, contents a bit aged, foxed and browned. The register was first published in 1830, which makes this the third installment, and includes useful information about manufacturing, banking, schools, post offices, courts and newspapers. There is even a list of lawyers and clergymen, and the book comes with its own almanac. This edition also contains several illustrations, including a full page engraving of an early railroad train.

Partial Set of Walt Disney Themed Playing Cards: Pinocchio; Mickey Mouse; The Three Little Pigs; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Vols. 2, 3, 5, 6) (Russell's Popular Games) (Mickey Mouse Library of Card Games 'A Bus Load of Fun' Set) by [No Author]

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Title: Partial Set of Walt Disney Themed Playing Cards: Pinocchio; Mickey Mouse; The Three Little Pigs; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Vols. 2, 3, 5, 6) (Russell's Popular Games) (Mickey Mouse Library of Card Games 'A Bus Load of Fun' Set)
Author: [No Author]
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Leicseter, Mass: Russell Mfg Company. Unbound. Good. Lacks volumes 1 and 4, as well as the bus box that originally accompanied the set. Two seams split with one on Three Little Pigs box repaired with clear tape. 2 5/8 x 1 7/8. Circa 1940, based on the movies included (Pinocchio was released in 1940, the others in the 1930s). Each card features a notable character, a number, and a suit (though these do not seem to follow the traditional suits). An interesting bit of vintage Disney history.

MEXICAN MENU: ESPECIALIDADES: CON SUS HELADOS PIDA UD. GALLETAS "CASA

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Title: MEXICAN MENU: ESPECIALIDADES: CON SUS HELADOS PIDA UD. GALLETAS "CASA
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: México, D.F.: [publisher not identified], 1940. color plate. Printed vintage color lithography sheets with advertising and used for resturant menus. Blank.

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