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Festival de Fort Boyard: Dream Machines (Exhibition Poster, Signed)

Festival de Fort Boyard: Dream Machines (Exhibition Poster, Signed) by BERTINI, Gianni and Brion Gysin

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Seller: Harper's Books
Title
Festival de Fort Boyard: Dream Machines (Exhibition Poster, Signed)
Author
BERTINI, Gianni and Brion Gysin
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Fold-lines from mailing and some offsetting, with postmarks to verso. Archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexigla
Description
Paris, 1967. Fold-lines from mailing and some offsetting, with postmarks to verso. Archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexiglass (28.75 x 23 inches).. Screenprint to heavy paper (26.75 x 21 inches). One of seven posters designed by Gianni Bertini and Henri Chopin to promote their absurd—and wholly fictitious—Fort Boyard arts festival; with a programme of avant-garde public art from the likes of Brion Gysin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Mimmo Rotella, and Gil Wolman purportedly installed on a 19th century island fortress off the coast of Rochefort, a five hour drive west of Paris. This poster, announcing an exaggerated version of one of Gysin's dream machines—three meters in diameter, to host up to 18 spectators—featuring a striking Mec-Art design from Bertini; SIGNED by the artist in pencil to lower margin, with brief inscription.
Hindu Ritual Life Along the Ganges at Benares, Temples, Bathing Ghats, Cremation Rites, and Ascetic Practice, Archive of 28 Photos circa 1900s

Hindu Ritual Life Along the Ganges at Benares, Temples, Bathing Ghats, Cremation Rites, and Ascetic Practice, Archive of 28 Photos circa 1900s by Hinduism Photo Archive

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Title
Hindu Ritual Life Along the Ganges at Benares, Temples, Bathing Ghats, Cremation Rites, and Ascetic Practice, Archive of 28 Photos circa 1900s
Author
Hinduism Photo Archive
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1900. Hindu religious life in India photo archive showing temple approaches, Ganges riverfront ghats, public ritual bathing, cremation rites, ascetic practice, and pilgrimage activity at Benares around the turn of the twentieth century. Benares, now Varanasi, has long been one of Hinduism's sacred cities, with miles of steps descending to the Ganges for religious bathing and temple access from the river. The Ganges is regarded by Hindus as the holiest river, and ashes of the dead have traditionally been placed in its waters as part of beliefs concerning release after death. Photo archive of 28 black and white real photo postcards, each measuring 3.5" x 5", India, circa 1900s. The verso inscription on one card reads "Benares, India" and "Burning Ghat, Ganges River," anchoring the group to the sacred riverfront where funeral rites, bathing, temple visits, and river traffic occurred in close proximity. A captioned card reading "Hindu Cremation" shows men standing around a raised pyre with a shrouded body, while another scene shows a funeral pyre and stacked wood at a riverside burning ghat. Other cards show pilgrims gathered densely at the water, men and women washing at the riverbank, temple spires rising above crowded steps, boats moored before ghats, a procession moving along a road, a holy man associated with fakir practice on a bed of nails, and repeated views of Benares temples and riverfront architecture. At Benares, religious bathing, cremation, pilgrimage, temple worship, and daily commerce shared the same riverfront, making the ghats one of the most concentrated sacred landscapes in South Asia. Light edge wear, toning, corner wear, scattered soiling, and occasional fading; several cards show stronger surface wear and mounting traces. Overall in good condition. The archive shows turn of the century Hindu ritual practice through cremation, ascetic discipline, river ablution, temple approach, and pilgrimage crowds along the Ganges.
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DESIGN IN THEORY & PRACTICE by Batchelder, E.A.

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Title
DESIGN IN THEORY & PRACTICE
Author
Batchelder, E.A.
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York, 1910. Very Good. 154 illus., 66 plates. Front cover lightly soiled.
Finding a Girl in America: Ten Stories & a Novella

Finding a Girl in America: Ten Stories & a Novella by DUBUS Andre

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Finding a Girl in America: Ten Stories & a Novella
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DUBUS Andre
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Boston: Godine, 1980. 8vo. 185pp. Original cloth; dust jacket; a fine copy save one small chip to rear panel. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Dubus on the title.
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Two Years Beside the Strait. Tangier Journal 1987-1989 by Bowles, Paul

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Two Years Beside the Strait. Tangier Journal 1987-1989
Author
Bowles, Paul
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Peter Owen, 1990. First edition. Wrappers, fine. Inscribed by Bowles "for Mary Robbins who has my aunt's name...." Robbins was a friend of the biographer Virginia Spencer Carr.
Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester.

Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester. by Babson, John J.

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Title
Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester.
Author
Babson, John J.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
A nice copy in VG binding.
Description
Gloucester, MA, 1876. A nice copy in VG binding.. 23 x 18 cm. 187 pp.
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The Determination of the Coordinates of Cities Translation from the Arabic of Al-buryni Kitab Tahdid Nihayat al-Amakin Litashih Masafat al-Masakin by Ali, Jamil

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The Determination of the Coordinates of Cities Translation from the Arabic of Al-buryni Kitab Tahdid Nihayat al-Amakin Litashih Masafat al-Masakin
Author
Ali, Jamil
Seller
Brattle Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Lebanon: The American University of Beirut 1967. Softcover. 9.25" x 6.5". xviii, 278 [2] pp. 72 black-and-white figures within text. In publisher's blue wraps with some edgewear and rubbing. Ownership signature to flyleaf. A Good, sound copy. . Good. Softcover .
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Now, even as then - ... Introduction by A. Edward Newton

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Now, even as then - ... Introduction by A. Edward Newton
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New York, Wilmington, et al.: privately printed, Edie-Davidson, Inc, 1933. First edition printed in a limited but unspecified number at the Holmes Press, Philadelphia; 8vo, pp. 28, [2]; portrait frontispiece, 4 full-p. illustrations; fine in original green cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; glassine jacket a bit chipped and creased. The true and tragic story of Timothy Bancroft's fortune, offered as advice in the wake of the Great Depression of 1929.
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American Ecclesiastes: The Stories of James Pattie. by Batman, Richard.

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American Ecclesiastes: The Stories of James Pattie.
Author
Batman, Richard.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1984]. 1st edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, 378 pp. Plates, maps. Very Good; some stains along edges of text block, in a Near-Fine dust jacket.

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