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Absolutely Live by The Doors: Original Dye-Transfer Production Photograph by THE DOORS. [MORRISON, JIM; LISCIANDRO, FRANK]

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company

Title: Absolutely Live by The Doors: Original Dye-Transfer Production Photograph
Author: THE DOORS. [MORRISON, JIM; LISCIANDRO, FRANK]
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles: Elektra Records, 1970. first edition. Very Good. STUNNING ORIGINAL DYE-TRANSFER PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPH used in the preparation of the cover for the band’s first—and only—live album issued during Jim Morrison’s lifetime. With important provenance. Original vintage color dye-transfer print, 12 x 23 inches, dry-mounted to Bainbridge Bristol Board, with visible period blue art-department retouching along the upper and lower edges; accompanied a backing board signed and inscribed in 1975 by Bob Heimall, the art director/designer for the album, to music-industry executive Stephen Dessau: “To: Stephan [sic] P. Dessau (as in Nassau) / Happy Holiday Diamond Studs! / Remember – your [sic] in over your head! / Bob Heimall ’75”. Issued by Elektra on July 20, 1970, Absolutely Live was the Doors’ first live album and the only one released during Jim Morrison’s lifetime; Morrison would be dead in Paris less than a year later, on July 3, 1971. As such, the album occupies a singular place in the group’s history: the sole contemporaneous live statement through which audiences could hear the Doors officially present themselves as a concert act while Morrison was still alive. Compiled by producer Paul A. Rothchild from performances recorded in 1969 and 1970, including material from the Aquarius Theatre and Felt Forum, the album captured the band in the form for which many admirers considered them most powerful—improvisatory, theatrical, blues-driven, and unstable in the best sense. It also contained the first full official release of “Celebration of the Lizard,” among the most mythic and elusive works in the Doors canon. The present dye-transfer print (with extremely rich color) preserves the underlying live image taken by photographer Frank Lisciandro used in the preparation of the cover, prior to the addition of typography and logo design. Morrison – in a superimposed image taken at an earlier date – appears at right, isolated at the microphone, with the remaining members of the band receding into a saturated blue stage space behind him. The image possesses the nocturnal theatricality appropriate to the band at this moment, while the object itself retains the physical traces of period record-cover manufacture: board mount, hand retouching, and signs of studio handling. Contemporary and later accounts held that Elektra initially favored a grainy, bluish rear-view stage image from the Aquarius Theatre performances, but judged it insufficiently exciting for commercial use. A different, earlier, more conventionally iconic image of Morrison was then incorporated into the final design. Morrison is said to have hated the final version. By 1969–70 his appearance had changed markedly: heavier, bearded, and far removed from the lean black-leather rock-star persona through which he had first entered the popular imagination. The dispute reflected a deep struggle over who would determine Morrison’s public image at the end of the Doors’ great period: Morrison himself, or the commercial machinery that preferred the older myth. Provenance: From the art director for the album Bob Heimall, to music-executive Stephen P. Dessau. With an additional CBS memorandum dated 1979 identifying Dessau as Director of Product Management, East Coast, Epic/Portrait/CBS Associated Labels, and a copy of the album. Los Angeles: Elektra Records, 1970. Original vintage color dye-transfer print, 12 x 23 inches. Only the most trivial wear with absolutely no fading - the colors are superbly rich. A remarkable survival.

The Highway of Temptation & Redemption: A Gothic Travelogue in Two (2) Dimensions by Richard Sexton

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Title: The Highway of Temptation & Redemption: A Gothic Travelogue in Two (2) Dimensions
Author: Richard Sexton
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Full black leather binding with "Japanese stab binding" housed in the orginal black-cloth clamshell case with an engraved title label (engraved on metal) mounted on the case's cover. Custom binding by Rachel Fontenot. Illustrated with 48 pigment prints from photographs each measuring 6 x 6 inches. A 12 x 12 inch pigment print on 14 x 15 inch paper titled "Hot D&J Lounge" accompanies the book. The volume noted as number 5 of 100 copies, signed by Sexton in pencil on the title page, although it is unclear if a total of 100 copies were produced. The publisher noted "Books are produced in lots of four to ten books on an as-needed basis. The edition has been launched with the production of ten books with the introductory price [of $1,500] is guaranteed.

Roll, Jordan, Roll by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PETERKIN, Julia (text); ULMANN, Doris (photographs)

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Title: Roll, Jordan, Roll
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PETERKIN, Julia (text); ULMANN, Doris (photographs)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Trade Edition. First Printing, preceded by a limited edition of 350 copies. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 251pp; illustrated with 70 full-page photographs by Doris Ulmann. Hint of sunning to spine ends, some trivial wear to corner tips, with a tiny splash mark to topstain; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine-sunned, modest wear to joints and extremities, with shallow loss to crown, several tiny nicks and tears to extremities, and a 2" split at lower front flap fold; Very Good+. One of the great documentary photobooks of the 1930's, examining the lives of black plantation workers in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. The idea for the book was originally conceived by American photographer Doris Ullman (1882-1934), who met Julia Peterkin at a literary gathering in 1929 - the same year Ullman had undertaken a project to create a volume of photographic studies of African Americans throughout the South. Ulmann's portraits of the Gullah people were taken on the Lang Syne plantation, owned by the family of Peterkin's husband; paired with text and stories written by Peterkin, Ullman's portraits of the former slaves and their descendants have long been praised for both their quality, and the sense of dignity they convey. Many times scarcer in an attractive jacket than the signed, limited issue, published the same year. BLOCKSON 3932; ROTH 101. PARR-BADGER, Vol.1, p.135.

Problems and Letter to Eugene B Cook by Charles Alexander Gilberg (1835-1898) signed

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Title: Problems and Letter to Eugene B Cook
Author: Charles Alexander Gilberg (1835-1898) signed
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: One page letter with thirteen problems included. (11" x 8 1/2") paper folded in half in Gilberg's hand and signed. The letter discusses with Cook problems to be published in the Toronto Globe and enclosed. Also mentioning books to be brought when the next meet the following Monday. Dated June 17, 1875.Eugene Beauharnais Cook, 1830-1915, whose papers and chess collection is now housed in the Princeton Special Collections Library, was the foremost American problemist of his day. He had many of his chess problems published in Staunton's The Chess Player's Chronicle, and The Illustrated London News. Cook served as President of the New Jersey Chess Association and assumed the post for problem department in The Chess Monthly. At the time, Paul Morphy was the editor of the games section. In 1859 he edited American Chess-Nuts, a major work of chess problems in America, along with Charles Gilberg. He personally composed around 800 problems.Charles Gilberg was also one of the major problemists in the American chess world during his life time. He wrote and co-authored The fifth American chess congress. Containing a full report of the proceedings of the convention of chess players, held in New York, in ... 1880, Catalogue of works on chess comprising the collection made by Charles A. Gilberg to October 12th, 1874 and with Cook American Chess-Nuts.Condition:Folds in the paper for mailing else very good.

[Trade Catalogue] 1899 Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company Makers of "The Heywood" Children's Carriages, Sleeping Coaches and Go-Carts

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Title: [Trade Catalogue] 1899 Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company Makers of "The Heywood" Children's Carriages, Sleeping Coaches and Go-Carts
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Softbound. Card covers. Cloth spine. Good. Folio, 30 by 23 cm. 128, [2] pp. One unpaginated sheet in center. Virtually every page is illustrated, most with a large illustration of a wheeled carriage. A few pages near the end have multiple illustrations of parasols, which were attached to the carriages, and one page has two illustrations of runners, to be used in winter. There is a price list given at the front and on the final leaf. The carriages here used wicker for their cabs, which allowed for elaborate decorative work, and thus the carriages, regardless of their intended purpose, are uniformly pretty. They hark back to a bygone era of horse-drawn carriages, long gowns with intricate lace and flamboyant feather bedecked chapeaux, and decorous strolls through groomed grounds. Heywood Brothers traces its roots back to 1826, Wakefield Company, to 1855. The two rattan and wicker furniture companies merged in 1897, just two years before the issuance of this catalogue. The company subsequently got into other areas of furniture production. The company's primary manufacturing plant was closed in 1979 but some parts of the business survived, and the company sold rights to its wooden furniture designs in the 1990s. Condition: Cover with some chipping, creasing, soiling. Spine cloth peeling at ends. Edge staining to title leaf. Otherwise, clean, with a moderate amount of age toning.

Seasons Greetings 1963. Rx, Eat, Eten, Comer, Taberu, Kooshut, Mangiare, A Manger, Essen... 25 December 1963 by [6550th USAF Hospital, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida]

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Title: Seasons Greetings 1963. Rx, Eat, Eten, Comer, Taberu, Kooshut, Mangiare, A Manger, Essen... 25 December 1963
Author: [6550th USAF Hospital, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [Cocoa Beach, Florida], 1963. Octavo-sized, metal post binding (21.5 x 14 cm), [100] leaves printed rectos only. Illustrated. Author, title, and publication information from cover. A community cookbook, with recipes attributed, from the airmen and airmen's spouses living at Patrick Air Force. Patrick AFB is a significant location in the history of the American space program, and 1963 just two years after the first manned space flight (Gagarin), and the first human-piloted space flight (Shephard). Patrick Air Force, base is now Space Launch 45, "the premier launch delta of the United States Space Force." Thor and Atlas Missiles, as well as the Titan Booster, were the stock in trade of PAFB from the time of this cookbook through the 1980s. The illustration of a space capsule on the front wrapper panel is of a Mercury capsule, the capsule that carried John Glenn on the first American orbital flight in 1962. A bit of light soiling, otherwise fine, in publisher's gray card stock, titled and illustrated in black. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; no other references found, online or otherwise].

Tietokäsikirja: Amerikan suomalaisille, 1912

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Title: Tietokäsikirja: Amerikan suomalaisille, 1912
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Fitchburg, MA: Suom. Sos. Kustannusyhtiö, 1911. Flexible Cloth. 212p., stiff cloth cover, front cover somewhat dented, otherwise very good. The first edition of the annual Handbook for Finnish-American Workers.

[MENU] Waldorf's delicious Thanksgiving Day Dinner

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Title: [MENU] Waldorf's delicious Thanksgiving Day Dinner
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Illustrated cards. Very good
Description: Illustrated cards. Very good. 12 x 10 cm. Two-sided tabletop Thanksgiving Menu featuring Roast Young Turkey, Giblet Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Old Fashioned Stuffing, Hubbard Squash, Potato, Rolls and Butter - with a choice of Apple Pie, Squash Pie, Mince Pie - Coffee or Tea - Only 95c.

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