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Collection des plus beaux numeros de comoedia illustre et des programmes by DE BRUNOFF Maurice DE BRUNOFF Jacques

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Title: Collection des plus beaux numeros de comoedia illustre et des programmes
Author: DE BRUNOFF Maurice DE BRUNOFF Jacques
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1922. First Edition. DE BRUNOFF, Maurice, and DE BRUNOFF, Jacques, editors. Collection des plus beaux numéros de Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le début a paris 1909-1921. Paris: M. de Brunoff, [1922]. Small folio, period-style full green morocco, gilt decorated spine and boards, original patterned endpapers, original color pictorial cover illustration laid down internally, uncut. $13,500.First edition of this homage to the Ballets Russes by French publisher de Brunoff, consisting of covers and pages from the French magazine Comoedia Illustré and from Ballets Russes programs, and featuring 42 full-page color plates, 12 two-page color spreads, and hundreds of black-and-white photographs and illustrations depicting sets, costumes, dancers, composers and artists and covering the years 1909 through 1921. Beautifully bound preserving the original pictorial cover illustration and patterned endpapers.""The programmes for the Diaghilev Ballet seasons in Paris and London were published by Maurice de Brunoff. He was the French editor of Comoedia Illustré, probably the greatest of all theatrical magazines. De Brunoff devoted many pages to the early Diaghilev seasons in his magazine. Eventually he began to publish the equally lavish souvenir programmes which contained articles, photographs and reproductions of the designs for the new ballets, all reproduced to the highest quality They are now highly prized collector's items"" (Victoria & Albert Museum Theatre Collections). Includes illustrations and designs by Bakst, Picasso, and Derain, and photographs of Nijinsky, Pavlova, Rubinstein, Karsavina, and Fokine. ""This deluxe volume is an indispensable source for the best in graphic, stage, and costume design of the period; early photographs of performers attired for their roles; and commentaries on the ballet by Maurice Ravel, Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, M.D. Calvocoressi, and Michel Georges-Michel. Among the elegant drawings and pastels are those by Georges Lepape, Jean Dulac, Georges Tribout, Andre Marty, Jean Cocteau, and Valentine Gross The drawings and pastels by Valine Gross are especially interesting because the document, in a charming style, Nijinsky's dance interpretations during actual performances before photographs in the theatre became commonplace"" (Roadcap, The Book of Dance in the 20th Century, 28). No articles appear for the years 1916 or 1918, when performances were halted during WWI. An introductory note by dance critic Valérien Svetlov appears before each season's articles. Text in French. Front cover illustration by painter and ballet designer Natalia Gontcharova preserved on the front free endpaper. Just a few programs with a hint of marginal dampstaining to bottom edge. Color plates, spreads, photographs and illustrations bright and beautiful.

I, Robot by Asimov, Isaac

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Title: I, Robot
Author: Asimov, Isaac
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. 253 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light wear at spine ends, slight lean to binding, and light foxing to text block edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with modest fading to spine panel, light wear, stray mark to front panel at right edge. Price crossed out with pen at front flap, slight foxing to blindside. A superlative copy, uncommon in such excellent shape. Asmiov's sci-fi classic that explores the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Stavrogin's Confession and the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner. With introductory and explanatory notes. Translated by S[amuel]. S[olomonovitch]. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf. by Dostoevsky, F[yodor] M[ikhailovich]

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Title: Stavrogin's Confession and the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner. With introductory and explanatory notes. Translated by S[amuel]. S[olomonovitch]. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf.
Author: Dostoevsky, F[yodor] M[ikhailovich]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Richmond [Surrey, England]: The Hogarth Press, 1922 First edition, first binding. . Publisher's blue and white patterned cloth, with light blue spine and paper label title to front board and spine. . Octavo. Pages 1-6 are publisher's ads, normally bound at the end. Mild shelf wear to board extremities. Light staining at board edges. Some chipping and staining to spine label. Pencil annotations to text throughout, indicating edits and re-pagination for subsequent edition. Otherwise, pages bright. Archival tape applied to gutter of half-title. A very good copy, with a unique place in Hogarth publication history The present work contains several fragments of works by Dostoevsky: "Stavrogin's Confession" (a chapter from the novel Besy, known in English as Demons); "The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner," a sketch for a novel that Dostoevsky never completed; and an unpublished chapter from The Possessed. The gathering and publication of these fragments is explained in the Translator's Note and the additional prefatory note "New MSS. Of Dostoevsky," attributed to the Russian Government, which detail the recent discovery of several of Dostoevsky's notebooks in the Russian State Archives. Additionally, the Hogarth collection includes commentary by V, Friche and N. Brodsky (whose remarks were likewise initially published by the Russian Government), as well V. Komarovich, previously published in the periodical Builoe. From the commentary titled "The Unfulfilled Idea" — "An analysis of The Life which reveals the autobiographic substratum lets us see with greater certainty the personal traits in those other novels of Dostoevsky's into which The Life of. Great Sinner split off."

The Individual in the Animal Kingdom by Huxley, Julian S.

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Title: The Individual in the Animal Kingdom
Author: Huxley, Julian S.
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912. First edition. INTRODUCTION OF THE "ARMS RACE" METAPHOR FOR COEVOLUTIONARY ADVANCES--BY A FOUNDER OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS. 12x17 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, illustrated title to cover, frontis figure of Volvox, i-ix, [3], 167 pp, 4 pp publisher's book list. Spine faded, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Cited in Reiss & Ruse The New Biology (2023): "The inevitability of biological progress became the leitmotif of all of Huxley's subsequent writings, despite the fact that he tried to remain, at least in part, true to Darwinian mechanism. In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912), he drew an interesting cultural-biological analogy, using the turn-of-the-century naval arms race between Britain and Germany as the example. First, the cultural: "Halfway through the century, when guns had doubled and trebled their projectile capacity, up sprang the 'Merrimac' and the 'Monitor, secure in their iron breast-plates; and so the duel has gone on". Concluding: "Each advance in attack has brought forth, as if by magic, a corresponding advance in defence" Then, the biological: "With life it has been the same: if one species happens to vary in the direction of greater independence, the inter-related equilibrium is upset, and cannot be restored until a number of competing species have either given way to the increased pressure and become extinct, or else have answered pressure with pressure". Adding: "So it comes to pass that the continuous change which is passing through the organic world appears as a succession of phases of equilibrium, each one on a higher average plane of independence than the one before, and each inevitably calling up and giving place to one still higher."

European Paintings: Catalogue of Collection by Zeri, Federico and Ksenija Rozman

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Title: European Paintings: Catalogue of Collection
Author: Zeri, Federico and Ksenija Rozman
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG
Description: Ljubljana, Slovenia: Narodna galerija, 2000. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 333 pp.; 84 color plates, many bw figures. A guide to the collection of European paintings held at Narodna galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Extensive text about the artists and works.

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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel. by ABBEY, Edward.

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Title: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel.
Author: ABBEY, Edward.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780805009217
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY:: Henry Holt,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0805009213 . Abbey's finest novel. First printing. Light foxing on top edge, else near fine in a near fine first state (uncorrected errors on front and rear flaps) dust jacket. ; 485 pages .

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Studies in Medieval Cistercian History Presented to Jeremiah F. O'Sullivan

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Title: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History Presented to Jeremiah F. O'Sullivan
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ISBN: 9780879078133
Description: Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1971. xi, 204 [1]p., dj. Contains ten English-language essays by various scholars, plus a bibliography of the honoree (Cistercian studies series, 13).

Building The British Empire; To the End of the First Empire by ADAMS, James Truslow

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Title: Building The British Empire; To the End of the First Empire
Author: ADAMS, James Truslow
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Description: New York: Abbeville, 1938. hardcover. 438pp. 8vo, cloth. N.Y., 1938.

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