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[Photographs]: Soldier's Candid and Experimental Photographs during the Vietnam War-Era by Name Withheld

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: [Photographs]: Soldier's Candid and Experimental Photographs during the Vietnam War-Era
Author: Name Withheld
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Berlin, Germany, 1970. Unbound. Very Good. A collection of 2075 black and white photographs of a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany during Vietnam along with images from his work as a photo technician with the military contractor Raytheon. The photographs, measuring approximately between 2.5” x 3” and 8.5” x 11”, are very good with dried glue on some of the versos and some rolled, and some with captions. A substantial archive of photographs taken by a skill photographer stationed in Berlin, Germany from the mid-1960s to the late-1970s. A majority of the photographs show soldiers working and off-duty around the base. There are also images of a military parade with tanks and military vehicles showing Vietnam War protesters with signs and pictures of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Queen Elizabeth. There are a great number of photographs around Berlin during Christmas, as well as numerous images of buildings, homes, churches, and bridges including several pictures taken from a helicopter. The compiler was a skilled photographer with many of the images featuring bokeh, light painting, and double exposure effects. There are also several photographic negatives of a young naked man posing in a garden, with both full body shots and close ups of the man’s genitalia and buttocks. Census records reveal that the photographer never married and this may indicate his interest was confined to men. The remaining photos were taken in American with his family, showing his mother, sister, and brother. There is also an interracial couple with their children that was he presumably close to, interacting with them as the couple with his family at a gathering, suggesting a progressive environment. He worked as a photo lab technician for Raytheon, a manufacturer of weapons and military electronics, as well as commercial electronics for the public. Photos from the 1970s showing a Raytheon press event including images of motherboards and specially designed electronics designed for weapons and computers. Most notable is photos of a watch that has a camera hidden within its face. Our research found nothing about a camera watch developed by Raytheon, suggest it was a nonworking proto-type or has remained classified. An extensive archive of photographs taken by a skilled U.S. soldier stationed in Berlin during the Vietnam War and his postwar career with a military contractor.

The Simple Line SIGNED LIMITED EDITION by van Sandwyk, Charles

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Title: The Simple Line SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
Author: van Sandwyk, Charles
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2007. Limited Edition, First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very good +. Limited Edition, First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Edition limited to 50, of which this is number 10, signed by Charles van Sandwyk to colophon. 13" X 9 3/4". 10 pages, unpaginated. One of 25 copies bound by Claudia Cohen in natural linen over boards, with a printed title label to spine. Faint spot to top edge of text block, stray fibers to cloth, and whiff of cigar scent to pages, else fine. A "love of line" is the inspiration behind this essay about the approach to etching taken by Canadian artist Charles Noel van Sandwyk (born 1966), author of The Parade to Paradise, How to See Fairies, and Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds, and illustrator of the Folio Society editions of The Blue Fairy Book and The Wind in the Willows. Originally penned as the introduction to Twenty-One Years, Twenty-One Prints, a privately issued retrospective limited to just 13 copies, this Heavenly Monkey edition was handprinted in two colors on 250 g Arches Cover paper, comes signed by van Sandwyk, and features the five tipped-in prints of Charles' earliest etchings, plus a new etching created just for this edition and a title page featururing a new drawing pochoir colored by the artist, fittingly of an antelope. The artist writes in his essay: "I have always had a love of line. From the day the first caveman scratched an austere mark on a cave wall, the simple line has remained the distillation of ancient artistic expression. It is the purest and most freely accessible form of communication, and is so effective that several thousand years later, all the charm and finesse of a tastefully rendered antelope on a piece of rock can still be admired and talked about. Just think - simple linework, well preserved, guarantees a visual story for millennia!

The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book; A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations by Rackham, Arthur (Illustrations)

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Title: The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book; A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
Author: Rackham, Arthur (Illustrations)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. Rackham, Arthur. First trade edition, octavo size, 287 pp. The work of Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), an eminent illustrator of many books which often depict fantasy and fairy tale subjects, is still loved and collected today. Rackham contributed illustrations to many popular stories, such as "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", "Alice in Wonderland", and the Brothers Grimm fairy tales; in the Preface to this work, Rackham wrote: "[f]or this book I have gone to those old favourites of the nursery that have such a hold on our affections that their incidents, characters, and even phrases have become part of our everyday thought and expression" (p. 7). Included in this volume are: "Hop-O'-My Thumb" (Perrault), "Dick Whittington" (Traditional English), "Jack and the Beanstalk" (ibid), "Beauty and the Beast" (Madame de Villeneuve), "Henny-Penny" (Traditional English), "The Story of Sindbad the Sailor" (The Arabian Nights), "Jack the Giant-Killer" (Traditional English), "The Ugly Duckling" (Hans Andersen), "The Princess and the Pea" (ibid), "Blue Beard" (Perrault), "The Story of Aladdin..." (The Arabian Nights), "The Sleeping Beauty" (Perrault), "The Barmecide's Feast" (The Arabian Nights), "Toads and Diamonds" (Perrault), "The Three Bears" (Southey), "Ali Baba" (The Arabian Nights), "Cinderella" (Perrault), "Puss in Boots" (ibid), "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Hans Andersen), "Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving), "Little Red Riding-Hood" (Perrault), "Hansel and Grethel" (Grimm), and "What the Old Man Does Is Always Right" (Hans Andersen). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full rust-coloured cloth over boards, black lettering and decorations on the front and spine, light brown debossed decorations on front and spine, illustrated endpapers in sepia, coloured frontis ("New Lamps for Old") one of eight full-colour illustrations throughout, sixty black-and-white illustrations throughout, many full-page, some in-text, some chapter tailpieces; octavo size (8 15/16" by 6 1/4"), pagination: [1-6] 7-287. In the publisher's dust jacket with the correct price of "8/6 Net" on the lower front flap, one of the eight colour illustrations reproduced on the front panel (Hop-o'-my thumb...), surrounded by a border with brown lettering with "two small sketches in colour at the top...These small sketches appear only on the dust wrapper" (per Latimore & Haskell, p. 88), black lettering and decorations on the spine, black pattern surrounded by a black border on the back panel, publisher's ads for other Arthur Rackham books on the front flap with the price at the bottom, back flap blank. ___CONDITION: Near fine and could almost be deemed fine, with clean boards utterly without wear, the stamped colours deep and unrubbed, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a hint of sunning to the top and bottom edges, some toning to the endpapers, else fine. The dust jacket a bit better than good, unclipped, with all component parts present and attached; overall edgewear especially on the front panel including several closed tears and some creasing along the edges. A lovely example of the book in a good dust jacket, of which there are only a handful available. ___CITATION: Latimore & Haskell, p. 69; Riall p. 182. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Carte-de-Visite Vignette Portrait of the Anti-Slavery Author Rachel W. Moore by [Abolition] Henszey & Co

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Title: Carte-de-Visite Vignette Portrait of the Anti-Slavery Author Rachel W. Moore
Author: [Abolition] Henszey & Co
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Philadelphia: Henszey and Co, 1860. Albumen photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on mount. Excellent condition with clipped corners and minimal wear. Near Fine. Rachel Wilson Moore, a Quaker from Philadelphia who had strong anti-slavery views, traveled to the Caribbean and South America in the 1860s to try to save her ailing health. She published her journals from the trip under the title Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, Kept During a Tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64 With Notes from the Diary of her Husband; together with His Memoir. The book described the conditions of the enslaved people in the Caribbean, which she considered to be worse than the conditions in the American South. Offered here is a photograph of Moore, identified on the verso, from the Philadelphia studio Henszey & Co., likely from the late 1860s, showing an elderly Moore in a bonnet. We find no other records of the image.

THE ANTILLES: Fragments of Epic Memory by Walcott, Derek

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix

Title: THE ANTILLES: Fragments of Epic Memory
Author: Walcott, Derek
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780374105303
Condition: Fine in near fine jacket.
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of Walcott's lecture, delivered on the occasion of his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1992. 7.5'' x 5''. Original gilt-stamped green boards. In original unclipped ($7.00) pictorial dust jacket with art by Walcott. Unpaginated. Inscribed by Walcott on half-title page. Minor wear to jacket, small spot to rear endpaper.

The Merry Marcos by Angelo, Valenti, writer and illustrator

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Title: The Merry Marcos
Author: Angelo, Valenti, writer and illustrator
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Viking Press, 1963. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. The dust jacket has minor chips to the head of the spine.

Music Libraries and Instruments. Papers read at the Joint Congress, Cambridge, 1959 of the International Association of Music Libraries and the Galpin Society. Foreword by C.B. Oldman by SHERRINGTON, Unity and Guy Oldham, eds

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Title: Music Libraries and Instruments. Papers read at the Joint Congress, Cambridge, 1959 of the International Association of Music Libraries and the Galpin Society. Foreword by C.B. Oldman
Author: SHERRINGTON, Unity and Guy Oldham, eds
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Hinrichsen, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full black cloth, titling gilt to spine. 300, v-xvi (publisher's advertisements) pp. Small bookseller's labels to lower outer corners of front endpapers. Uniform light browning; title page slightly foxed.

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