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Giacomo Puccini Promises to Send a Photograph of Himself to a Young Admirer by Giacomo Puccini

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: Giacomo Puccini Promises to Send a Photograph of Himself to a Young Admirer
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 11/11/06. Giacomo Puccini was a Italian composer, who left us some of the great operatic works, including La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot.In late 1906, a girl wrote to Puccini, sending her photograph, and asking for one from Puccini. He apparently knew her family and responded with this Autograph letter signed, November 11, 1906, Paris, on Grand Hotel de Londres letterhead. ""Dear Miss, A thousand and thousand thanks for your photography. I will reciprocate as soon as I receive one from the photographer - at present I don't have one - but the first one that I shall receive will be yours. My respects to your dear mother.""

Touch at the Fine Arts, A. by ALKEN, Henry

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Title: Touch at the Fine Arts, A.
Author: ALKEN, Henry
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Thomas M'Lean, 1824. Artists Jargon Satirically Defined Rare in the Original Boards ALKEN, Henry. A Touch at the Fine Arts: Illustrated by Twelve Plates, with Descriptions by Henry Alken. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1824. First edition. Quarto (10 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 257 x 171 mm.). [30], [2, advertisements, verso blank] pp. Twelve hand-colored soft-ground etchings, all with original tissue guards. Each plate with a leaf of descriptive letterpress. Complete with the half-title and the leaf of advertisements. Very small lower marginal stain (1/4 x 5/8 inch) affecting first five leaves of text but not affecting plates. Publisher's red printed boards expertly rebacked and re-cornered in red roan. Smooth spine ruled and horizontally lettered in gilt. Early ink inscription "Mrs. Ablett / Llanbedr Hall / 1850" on verso of front free endpaper. An excellent copy. "A Touch at the Fine Arts...is, according to the preface, 'an attempt to elucidate, by graphic delineations, a variety of terms generally and perhaps exclusively made use of by artists, amateurs, connoisseurs, virtuosos, and the like. Long, indeed, has a generous public been, doubtless, puzzled in the endeavour to discover some ray of meaning in those glowing, brilliant and forcible phrases, which the critical catalogues, Catalogues Raisonnées, etc., of the day are woefully burthened with.' It is a cheap kind of humour at the best. To take two of the most deserving subjects-'A Moving Effect; the Execution rapid,' is represented by a runaway coach, with expressions of the utmost horror in the faces and attitudes of the occupants; 'A Striking Effect, the handling by no means good or pleasant to the eye,' is illustrated by a fracas between two returning roisterers and some night-watchmen. In these and in plate 2, a prison-scene depicting 'An unpleasant effect, but the Keeping is Good,' Alken shows genuine power as a draughtsman, and infuses his work with a character lacking elsewhere. The last plate, indeed, might almost be a coloured lithograph from the hand of Daumier. All twelve plates, it should be said, are soft-ground etchings, with colour applied by hand" (Martin Hardie). Joseph Ablett (d. 1848), descended from a long-established Suffolk yeoman family, purchased Llanbedr Hall, Denbighshire in 1804, and subsequently also nearby estates at Plas Coch and Bathafarn (in 1831). He seems to have built a new house at Llanbedr which was remodeled later, and also to have altered Bathafarn. At his death his estates passed to a cousin, John Jesse, a Manchester surgeon. The Plates: 1. Frontispiece. All Effect-The Subject far from good, but Rich 2. -An Imposing Effect 3. Unpleasant in Effect-but the keeping is Good 4. A Moving Effect-the Execution Rapid 5. A Striking Effect-The handling by no means good, or pleasant to the eye 6. A Forcible Effect 7. A Sudden Effect 8. A surprising Effect-but no Execution 9. A Very Warm Effect 10. A powerful Effect-but the subject rather hurried 11. A Spirited Effect-but no order kept in the grouping of the Figures 12. A very Brilliant Effect Martin Hardie, pp. 183-184 and 319. Siltzer, p. 71. Tooley 58. Not in Abbey.

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Coolidge, Calvin

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Title: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Author: Coolidge, Calvin
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929 Illustrated with 12 black-and-white photographs, including a frontispiece of Coolidge. One of 1,000 numbered copies signed by Coolidge on the limitation page, this being number 26. Publisher's quarter navy cloth, with gray paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, laid paper; lacking publisher's slipcase. Near fine, with a touch of rubbing to spine ends, some light red staining to top of front board, moderately worn corners, and light soiling to front free endpaper. Overall, a sturdy and handsome copy. Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923 - 1929), ascending to the position after President Warren Harding died in office in 1923. Known as a quiet and principled president, he signed the war-denouncing Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), the Indian Citizenship Act (1924), which granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the US, and the Revenue Acts of 1924, 1926, and 1928 to reduce the national debt. In 1927, he famously responded to reporters questioning whether he would run for another term by handing out slips of paper with the statement "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

The Seaman's Guide Round Java .... by Melvill van Carnbee, Pieter [Baron] - EAST INDIES NAVIGATION

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Title: The Seaman's Guide Round Java ....
Author: Melvill van Carnbee, Pieter [Baron] - EAST INDIES NAVIGATION
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good with overall toning.
Description: London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1850. First Edition.. Full contemporary leather - with the owner's initials "A T Q" on the spine.. Good with overall toning.. 8vo, x, [2], [1] - 252 pp.. There are some additional autograph navigational notes on the rear endpaper along with a signature of A T Quijano. Baron Melvill was an officer in the Dutch Royal Navy. The book offered here is based on his experience and research. The research was enhanced by efforts of the Dutch Governor-General of the Indies (van der Capellen) who in 1821 established a commission in Batavia to collect sailing instructions and reports for the Indies. The combined resources resulted in the book offered here. It is supplemented by the work of Lt. H D Smits (Hydrographer at Batavia) who covered the islands east of Java. Smits' work was first published in Batavia in 1848 in both Dutch and English and preceded by a rare illustrated pamphlet on the Banka and Gaspar straits printed at Singapore in 1847. Smits, " ... availed himself of every source of information within his reach; and his descriptions of that chain of islands, however brief, his directions for the channels between them, and his judicious hints about the monsoons and currents cannot fail of being highly useful when crossing that imperfectly explored region." See Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea, pp. 237-242; OCLC cites only one location.

Melissa by Caldwell, Taylor

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: Melissa
Author: Caldwell, Taylor
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth boards under illustrated dust jacket priced at $3.00. Mild edgewear to book & jacket, but a nice copy overall. 1948 on title page, no "A" on CR page.

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The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq by AJAMI, Fouad

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Title: The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
Author: AJAMI, Fouad
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780743236676
Condition: very good(+)
Description: New York: Free Press, 2006. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). xix + 378 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Free Press, (2006). First edition. Pages rather toned, else near fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

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