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ETYMOLOGICON MAGNUM [:in Greek]

ETYMOLOGICON MAGNUM [:in Greek]

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
ETYMOLOGICON MAGNUM [:in Greek]
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
1499. Greek type, double column, 50 lines. Typographic devices printed in red, decorated initials by Ioannes Rosos, all woodcuts, headings, brackets, capital for each entry printed in red. 224 leaves. Folio (393 x 273 mm.), finely panelled cont. calf (well-rebacked, joints & edges carefully repaired), later red morocco lettering-piece on spine. Venice: Kallierges & Vlastos, 8 July 1499. First edition; a fine and large copy of the first all-Greek lexicon ever printed and the first book published by the press of Kallierges and Vlastos. With the ownership inscription of Agostino Giustiniani (1470-1536), editor of the Psalterium haebreum, graecum, arabicum et chaldaeum (Genoa: 1516), on the first leaf. “Kallierges spent five years in devising and making his type; this seems to imply a large amount of time spent on experiments…His method seems to have been, that separate punches were cut for letter and accent, or abbreviation; that the two punches were then camped together, and the matrix was struck from the two combined, so that they were cast in one piece; in this way a great saving in the number of punches was effected, through the number of sorts in the finished type was very much larger than it was on the Aldine plan.”–R. Proctor, The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century (1900), p. 21. “No attempt to describe Etymologicon magnum could possibly do justice to what is generally regarded as the finest specimen of Greek typography ever produced and one of the masterpieces of incunabular printing in any language. “Kallierges was in charge of the printing, with Ioannes Grigoropoulos and Nikolaos Vlastos available for consultation on certain technical and artistic points…The greatness of Kallierges’ achievement is that although he made use of well-known decorative designs for the headpieces and illuminated initials, he succeeded in giving his book — especially the Etymologicon — a style that is all their own, of such perfection that the more one looks at them the more one feels not a single stroke is out of place or superfluous”–K. Staikos, “The Printing Shop of Nikolaos Vlastos and Zacharias Kallierges: 500 Years from the Establishment of the First Greek Printing Press” in Cento anni di Bibliofilia: atti del Covegno internazionale, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, 22-24 aprile 1999 (Olschki: 2001). The fine Estelle Doheny copy (her sale Christie’s NY, 22 Oct. 1987, lot 110), with a compelling contemporary provenance. ❧ ie00112000.
IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK

IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK by (BINDINGS - MOSAIC BINDING, CURTIS WALTERS). ORCUTT, W. D.

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK
Author
(BINDINGS - MOSAIC BINDING, CURTIS WALTERS). ORCUTT, W. D.
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1926. First Trade Edition. 228 x 160 mm. (9 x 6 1/4"). 8 p.l., 316 pp., [1] leaf. SPECTACULAR MOSAIC MOROCCO BY CURTIS WALTERS (signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with animated repeating ogival pattern inlaid in several hues of morocco (black, navy blue, light blue, light brown and orange), separated into three panels by thin strips of red morocco and gilt rules, THE COVERS WITH APPROXIMATELY 662 INLAYS IN TOTAL, raised bands, spines compartments ruled in gilt and inlaid with a similar design, gilt titling, NAVY BLUE MOROCCO DOUBLURES bordered with strips of eggplant and red morocco and four gilt rules, navy blue watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others trimmed on the rough. Housed in a marbled paper chemise with red morocco back and matching (slightly worn) slipcase. With color frontispiece and printed tissue guard, 48 black & white plates, one double-page specimen reproduction, and numerous in-text illustrations and specimen page reproductions. With tipped-in "Compliments of the Author" leaf SIGNED by Orcutt. Clizbee, "Curtis Walters, American Binder" in "The American Book Collector" (August, September 1932), pp. 124-34 (this binding pictured in the second plate). Copy included with this item. Very slight offsetting from plates and the odd trivial imperfection internally, otherwise a fine copy IN AN IMMACULATE BINDING. This splendid mosaic binding is a tour-de-force of design and craftsmanship from an underappreciated American binder who specialized in this technique. The foreword to the 10 December 1957 sale catalogue of his bindings at Parke Bernet says that they "constitute a splendid group of American mosaic bindings such as have never been offered for sale before. . . . The description of bindings is always a difficult matter; it becomes practically impossible when one is faced by the stunning variety of complex patterns of colored mosaic inlays which Mr. Walters has assembled with infinite patience, extraordinary skill and sophisticated taste . . . He has invented and brought to perfection a new technique whereby the most intricate inlaid designs can be achieved by a few simple tools, without the use of dies or punches; gilt dots, circlets and fillets are generally applied with restraint. . . . It need hardly be added that all of Mr. Walters' bindings are made of the very finest leathers available, and that their workmanship reveals consummate craftsman[ship] down to the smallest detail." The present item was lot #25 in that sale. Walters became interested in bookbinding around 1900, and studied with such prestigious workshops as William Matthews, the Club Bindery, and Henry Stikeman. In "Hand Bookbinding in the United States Since the Civil War," Thompson tell us of Walters' work: "The infinite variety of design permitted by mosaic work is combined with Walters' marvelous delicacy in color schemes, finely conceived geometric patterns, and tasteful use of gold leaf to produce books that no Americans save perhaps the artists of the Club Bindery could have matched. The utter simplicity of Walters' methods (he used but four tools) belies his perseverance and devotion to his art. Only infinite patience and consummate skill could have produced Walters' bindings." The article by Azalea Clizbee in the accompanying copy of "The American Book Collector" describes Walters' technique for creating his mosaic bindings using only the simplest tools, with plates depicting eight of his bindings, including this one. Although very secondary here, the text is, appropriately, a celebration of book arts--printing, binding, and illustration--by William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953), typographer, printer, and book designer. After graduating from Harvard in 1892, he went to work for the University Press there. He created several typefaces, most notably "Humanistic," based on the humanist hand of 15th century scribe Antonio Sinibaldi. With Daniel Updike and Bruce Rogers, he established the Boston Society of Printers in 1905. He was the author of several works on printing, typography, and the making of beautiful books..
TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL

TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL by A VERY FINE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN LATIN, FROM THE LLANGATTOCK BREVIARY, WITH AN HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING ST. PAUL

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TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL
Author
A VERY FINE MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN LATIN, FROM THE LLANGATTOCK BREVIARY, WITH AN HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING ST. PAUL
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
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Italy [Ferrara], 1441-48. Visible leaf: 245 x 187 mm. (9 5/8 x 7 3/8"); Frame: 380 x 315 mm. (15 x 12 1/4"). Double column, 30 lines in a very fine rounded gothic hand (a few lines of text in the same hand, but smaller). Mounted and in a simple but pleasing gold frame. Visible side with rubrics in red, one-line initials in burnished gold or painted blue, one two-line initial in burnished gold on a pale pink ground with white tracery, a lovely illuminated bar between the columns, with a central plant knot AND SPROUTING IN UPPER AND LOWER MARGINS CLUSTERS OF FLOWERS AND LEAVES IN VARIOUS COLORS AS WELL AS GOLD BEZANTS, outer margin with swirling penwork studded with gilt bezants running the length of the column, each penwork swirl enclosing a painted and gilt flower, with ONE FIVE-LINE HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING ST. PAUL HOLDING A SWORD AND BOOK, the initial painted pink with green leaves and a blue and green acanthus extension on a gilt ground. ◆Not examined outside of frame, but in very fine condition: vellum slightly wavy, text in the bottom margin just a bit faded, but, by all appearances, A VERY CLEAN, BRIGHT LEAF, SPARKLING WITH GILT. Executed with great skill and delicacy and in sensitive Italianate colors highlighted especially by spring green and pink, the present leaf is from a manuscript intended for a powerful aristocrat. It comes from the celebrated Breviary illuminated for the chapel of the Marquises of Este, rulers of Ferrara and Mantua, a manuscript commissioned by Leonello d'Este (duke of Ferrara from 1441-50). Because the d'Este family kept excellent records, we have confidence that this manuscript was done for Leonello by Giorgio d'Alemagna, Bartolomeo de Benincà, Guglielmo Giraldi, and Matteo de' Pasti (see Toniolo, "La Miniatura a Ferrara dal Tempo di Cosmè Tura all'eredità di Ercole de' Roberti" [1998], pp. 19-20 and 76-77). The leaves show subtle variations in the style of the illuminations, a result of work done by a team of artists doing variations on a theme. At one time in a Spanish library, the manuscript was brought to Britain during the Peninsular War and came to be owned by the Rolls family, later Lords Llangattock, of Monmouth in Wales, from whom it takes its name. By the time the work reached Britain, most of the miniatures had already been cut out. The Breviary sold at Christie's on 8 December 1958 (lot #190) to Goodspeed's of Boston, who broke it up. The intact first quire of 10 leaves was purchased by Philip Hofer and given to Harvard (cf. Wieck, "Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts," p. 130 and fig. 74), and individual leaves appeared in 1967 in the catalogues of Folio Fine Art ("the quality of the leaves is extremely high"), Maggs Brothers ("of a very high quality"), and Alan Thomas ("of exquisite quality"). The present example is especially desirable for the portrait of St. Paul, who is depicted holding a sword and book, and whose carefully molded features reflect the growing interest in realistic portraiture in Renaissance Italy..
POINT DE LENDEMAIN. [bound with] FRANCE, ANATOLE. NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR VIVANT DENON

POINT DE LENDEMAIN. [bound with] FRANCE, ANATOLE. NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR VIVANT DENON by (BINDINGS - MEUNIER). DENON, DOMINQUE VIVANT, BARON

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POINT DE LENDEMAIN. [bound with] FRANCE, ANATOLE. NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR VIVANT DENON
Author
(BINDINGS - MEUNIER). DENON, DOMINQUE VIVANT, BARON
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: P. Rouquette, 1889,1890. First work: ONE OF 75 COPIES on Japon, and No. 98 of a total edition of 505. Second work: FIRST EDITION. 240 x 155 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). 1 p.l. (half title), 38 pp., [1] leaf; XII pp. Two volumes bound in one. . LOVELY CELADON GREEN MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID TO A ROCOCO DESIGN, BY CHARLES MEUNIER (stamp-signed in gilt and dated 1908 on front doublure), covers with ornate frame featuring onlaid gray-blue morocco compartments diapered with dotted gilt lines and many gilt volutes, acanthus leaves, turtle doves, and other tools, raised bands, spine compartments with onlaid gray-blue mandorla centerpieces, similarly gilt and framed by volutes, gilt lettering, CELADON GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES, lavishly gilt with repeating rows of flower baskets, iridescent green silk endleaves, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt. Original pink printed wrappers of each work bound in. Housed in a fine (just slightly rubbed) chamois-lined olive green morocco pull-off box resembling a book (thick raised bands, blind ruling, gilt lettering), the spine of the box evenly sunned. With etched frontispiece portrait of the author and 13 illustrations by Paul Avril, most half-page, all in a second state before letters. Faint foxing to half title, otherwise AN IMMACULATE COPY, the binding gleaming and the text untouched. Handsomely printed and illustrated, this libertine tale of seduction and deception in Louis XV's France was lavishly bound in the Rococo style by the master Flety describes as "the apostle of emblematic bookbinding." Legendary among French binders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his energy and imagination, Charles Meunier (1865-1940) was apprenticed to Gustave Bénard at the age of 11, worked for a time in the atelier of Marius Michel, and then set up his own studio when he was 20. According to Duncan & De Bartha, he drew "on both traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration, [mixing] classical punches . . . with newly fashionable incised and modelled leather panels." He was especially adept at creating bindings that were not merely apt for the contents of the book, but that embodied in their design the themes of the work. His Rococo pattern here is extravagant even for that over-the-top style, the decoration as unrestrained as the amoral aristocrats whose exploits Denon exposes here. First printed anonymously in 1777, "No Tomorrow" is narrated by a callow youth who falls under the spell of Madame de T***, a brilliant manipulator who uses his infatuation with her to draw her husband's attention away from her long-term affair with a marquis. Her plan is so successful that she succeeds in enjoying a dalliance with our narrator, convinces both her husband and her lover that she is faithful to them, and keeps all three men on good terms with each other. At the end of his adventure, our hero searches for a moral to the story, but finds none. Like the anti-heroine of his work, our author, diplomat, courtier, and polymath Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), had the wit and the talent to thrive during a tumultuous period in France, managing to stay in the good graces, successively, of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Robespierre, and Napoleon. He had met the last of these rulers at the salon of future empress Josephine de Beauharnais, and was invited by Napoleon to join the Egypt expeditionary force as an arts and culture observer. Earning the moniker "Napoleon's Eye," he made sketches of the remarkable monuments--sometimes while under enemy fire--as well as of the ports, the cities, the inhabitants, and the art, particularly ancient hieroglyphics. When the illustrated account of his journey was published, Russell tells us that Denon became "the first to present to Europe a true and honest image of ancient Egypt" after being "the first European traveller to spend months exploring the desert and recording the monuments he found there." He was "the primary force behind revealing Egypt's civilisation to an astonished Europe." The graceful etchings in the present volume are by the celebrated illustrator Paul Avril (1849-1928), who studied art in various Paris salons, including the École des Beaux Arts. According to Ray, Avril "was a witty and ingenious artist," and a prolific one as well, illustrating a number of bibliophile's editions, as well as classics of erotica. His illustrations here bring to mind work of the Rococo artists Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard. Our edition benefits from the addition of a second work, containing notes on the life of the author by prominent man of letters Anatole France (1844-1924), who would win the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament." The beauty of our item was clearly treasured and protected by previous owners, as it is virtually unchanged from the day it left Meunier's workshop..
FUJI SANJU ROKKEI & EDO YONJU HAKKEI: THE THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF MT. FUJI & FORTY-E

FUJI SANJU ROKKEI & EDO YONJU HAKKEI: THE THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF MT. FUJI & FORTY-E by HIROSHIGE, Ichiryusai. III

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Title
FUJI SANJU ROKKEI & EDO YONJU HAKKEI: THE THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF MT. FUJI & FORTY-E
Author
HIROSHIGE, Ichiryusai. III
Seller
Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY (United States)
Description
[Edo 1891]. A brocade silk covered album, Oban size, all edge gilt, with a total of 65 fine color prints, including 2 title pages, one dedication print,book size 24.5 x 35.5 cm., 4.15 cm. thick. A stunning group famous sights. R A R E ! . *** **** *** . . A STUNNING EXAMPLE WITH A SIXTY-FIVE . . . COLOR WOODBLOCK BLOCK PRINTS . . . BY THE MASTER OF JAPANESE LANDSCAPE . . * Hiroshige II [1826-1869] and III [1843-1894]: Were one in the same, a pupil of the most famous and great master of landscape & composition, Ando Hiroshige I. . Using his master's name plus his old name Ichiryusai, he was the adopted son of Hiroshige I and was a very skilled painter, who actually painted alongside & with the master until his master's death in 1858. . After that, Ichiryusai specialized in Japan's modernization, railroad prints depicting these new innovations recently imported from the West around Yokohama, as well as issuing many series of beautiful landscape views and scenery. . In his later years, he executed a most beautiful and exquisite set of his own interpretation of his master's most well-known series of prints showing Mt. Fuji and the celebrated places around Edo. This was not done to merely copy the master's works, but rather as a sincere Confucian tribute to his adopted father [& now father-in-law] and master. He married his master's daughter. . He took each of the master's views & repainted them in pastel colors with great control & precision. Some of the more delicate places such as rainbows and clouds behind a flock of birds were actually brushed on by hand, a technique rarely ever done. The woodblocks used were of the highest quality, a majority of which were center cuts & these have left a most beautiful wood-pattern in the print. This example shows 28 prints from the Fuji Sanju Rokkei and 35 from the Edo Yonju Hakkei series, with the title page from each present. . There is a dedication & memorial print to Hiroshige I from his faithful son and pupil. This print is most similar to one found as the frontispiece to the book by E. F. Strange: THE COLOR PRINTS OF HIROSHIGE, London [1925]. . It's clear that this print by Kunisada [who is Toyokuni I] was used as a model by Ichiryusai, as it differs in what the master is holding. Kunisada shows him holding his rosary beads, while Ichiryusai shows the master with his Fude [brush pen] and paper in hand. Ichiryusai and Kunisada had collaborated to issue a series of 36 prints: EDO JIMAN or THIRTY-SIX PLACES OF WHICH YEDO IS PROUD. . Ichiryusai has taken much care to represent the most wonderful views of Mt. Fuji & Edo with great skill. A majority of these prints are certainly well-known to the art world at large, as well as by Japanese print collectors. . Many of these prints show up in the usual reference books. Some of the more famous Edo views are showing a falcon in winter, rain on the river bridge, storks, cat view in Asakusa, busy street scenes, Asakusa temple & lantern in snow, river scenes &c. . Some Mt. Fuji views show many snow scenes, seasonal views, cherry blossoms, a majority show water and mountains, a very charming set of prints. . Alternate title is MEISHO EDO HYAKKEI. . *** THE BINDING: This stunning album is beautifully bound in traditional silk-gilt brocade, with prints on both sides of an accordion folded album. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCES: . L. Roberts: A DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE PRINTS ARTISTS p.44-45 for background on Hiroshige I,II & III. * E. F. Strange: THE COLOR PRINTS OF HIROSHIGE, * R. Lane: IMAGES FROM THE FLOATING WORLD p.232-254, most all of the prints in this album are listed under Hiroshige I's series: MEISHO EDO HYAKKEI: ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO. . *.
A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti.

A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. by Betti, Giovanni Battista

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A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti.
Author
Betti, Giovanni Battista
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1779. BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers, preserved in a red half morocco folding box. Florence: 1779. First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly ornamented capital letters, each letter standing in a bucolic landscape with a corresponding figure from Greek or Roman mythology. It is a work "rare and distinctive for the range of its subjects" (DBI) and draws heavily on the imagery of pastoral Greece. 6 copies in America according to OCLC. Getty, Harvard, NYPL, Redwood Library, Austin, Newberry. An unsophisticated copy, with occasional spots and minor stains, but nevertheless an appealing copy. Bonacini 200; Berlin Kat. 5300; Guilmard 332: See Garvey, E.M. Introduction to the 1969 Facsimile published by Harvard.
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Tsvetovedeniye dlya arkhitektorov [i.e. Color in Architecture] by ALEKSEEV,S.

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Tsvetovedeniye dlya arkhitektorov [i.e. Color in Architecture]
Author
ALEKSEEV,S.
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1938. ALEKSEEV, S. Tsvetovedeniye dlya arkhitektorov. [Colour in Architecture]. 157, [2] pp., illustrated with 12 leaves of plates, some colour. 8vo, 220 x 153 mm., bound in original brown cloth. Leningrad: GONTI, 1938. A very good copy of this work on colour in architecture in Russia. Conceived as a textbook for architecture students in two parts, the first dedicated to general knowledge on colours dealing with such matters as mixing colours, colour and sight, measuring colours, and colour perception. The second part deals with specific problems such as lighting, with the most valuable part of the book being practical advice on the correct usage of colours. Among the tables is one which has all the colours matched with areas of use, resistance to light, main function (inside and outside coverage, decor, roof paint), specific characteristics (chemical reactions to other materials) etc. OCLC lists copies at Texas, CCA, LC, Columbia and Cambridge. The Book of Colour Concepts 760.
[FRENCH RENAISSANCE BINDING BY THE CUPID'S BOW BINDER]. Theophylacti Bulgariae archiepiscopi In quatuor Prophetas enarrationes (trans. Jean Loncier)

[FRENCH RENAISSANCE BINDING BY THE CUPID'S BOW BINDER]. Theophylacti Bulgariae archiepiscopi In quatuor Prophetas enarrationes (trans. Jean Loncier) by Theophylactus of Achrida

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[FRENCH RENAISSANCE BINDING BY THE CUPID'S BOW BINDER]. Theophylacti Bulgariae archiepiscopi In quatuor Prophetas enarrationes (trans. Jean Loncier)
Author
Theophylactus of Achrida
Seller
Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Jacob (Jacques) Bogard, 1549. 8vo (175 x 67 mm). [8], 112 ff., ruled in red. Collation: *8 A-O8, COMPLETE. Contemporary Paris binding by the Cupid's Bow Binder: smooth polished calf, gold-tooled (rebacked with new spine, corners and extremities refurbished, modern pastedowns and endpapers), a.e.g. Contemporary French Renaissance binding by the "Cupid's Bow Binder" who was active from 1545-1556 and was responsible for some of the finest bindings of that age. Among his great patrons were Jean Grolier, Catherine de' Medici, Anne de Montmorency (Constable of France), Louis de Sainte-Maure, Marc Lauryn, and the King of France. It is curious that the name of the Cupid's Bow Binder has so far eluded researchers, especially considering that no less than 46 bindings by him for Jean Grolier survive according to Anthony Hobson. Following that of Gommar Estienne (reliure du roi) he was the most important binder to the King (see Lafitte and Le Bars). Our binding, while comparatively modest, is nonetheless significant because the tool which appears at the four corners of both covers, and vaguely resembles a fleur-de-lys, is not published in the extensive literature about the Cupid's Bow Binder; with it we may be able to identify other bindings from this shop. The central ornament on our binding, ingeniously used twice in the centers, is reproduced by Nixon in his still-indispensible catalogue of "Book Bindings from the Library of Jean Grolier" (tool CB 26). This is one of the most distinctive tools from this bindery (the actual "cupid's bow" tool, after which this workshop was named, is in fact uncommon). Our tool appears prominently on vols. 2 and 3 of Marc Laurin's copy of Pontanus (Venice, 1518) for which see Foot, Henry Davis Gift III, no. 82, and elsewhere. THE PRINTER was the esteemed humanist Jacques Bogard, a nephew of the great Parisian printer-publisher Charlotte Guillard (through her marriage to Claude Chevallion). Whereas biographical details about Bogard are meagre, we know that he was considered to be a brilliant scholar of Greek, and that he was the first editor of Guillard's press at the "Soleil d'Or." Bogard left Guillard's employ in 1541, succeeding his sister-in-law Emee Tousan (widow of Conrad Neobar) as libraire-imprimeur. However, his influence and association with her did not cease: instead, she frequently collaborated with her nephew, notably for the printing of Greek texts and medical treatises. Thus, as early as 1542, they both produced a bilingual (Greek-Latin) edition of Hippocrates; in 1543, Bogard printed three medical treatises (Fuchs, Galen and Hippocrates) on behalf of his aunt. In 1545 he reprinted for Guillard a Latin version of Hippocrates' Aphorisms, as well as an edition of the Iliad. In 1546-1548, he provided to his aunt half a dozen medical treatises by Fuchs. Bogard, his wife, and one of their children died of an epidemic in late 1548. (See Chapter 5 of Remi Jimenes's "Charlotte Guillard: Une femme imprimeur a la Renaissance," 2017, specifically the section on "Les reseaux de Jacques Bogard"). THE TEXT is the principal exegetical work of Theophylactus (1055-1107), archbishop of Achrida (Bulgaria) and a renowned theologian. The work is of further interest for the information it contains on the early Christian sects (Manichaeans, Arians, Nestorians, and others). The commentaries on the Prophets greatly influenced Erasmus and his contemporaries. Our Parisian edition was first published in 1542 and was reissued by Bogard's heirs with a new title-page; another title-page issue bears the imprint of Jean Mace. PROVENANCE: Contemporary inscriptions on title-page: "Perrot" and "Langloir" (priority indeterminate) -- small 19th-century photographic portrait of a military officer pasted to verso of front free endpaper -- Christie's London 22 May 1998, lot 17 -- American collector Albert A. Howard, with his "AHA" book label inside lower. LITERATURE on the Cupid's Bow Binder see Nixon, Grolier p. 58. Nixon, Morgan Library no. 34. Needham, Twelve Centuries nos. 66-67. Arnim, Schafer Einbandkunst no. 39 (featuring the "cupid's bow" tool and Nixon tool CB 26). Lafitte & Le Bars, Relieures royales de la Renaissance, no. 111 and pp. 150, 211, 214. Anthony Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, pp. 61, 65, 227-228. REFERENCES: Renouard, Imprimeurs & libraires Parisiens du XVIe siecle, vol. V, no. 281. This edition is not in Pettegree & Walsby, French Books (but cf. 8834). Not in Adams. Neither the 1542 or 1549 issues are in the BnF according to CCFr.
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The decisive moment by CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri

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Title
The decisive moment
Author
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952. FIRST EDITION. With 126 photographic illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth designed by Cartier-Bresson, and in the original dust jacket. Laid in is the separate leaflet (4to., 12 pp.) containing the captions to the photographs in English. A fine copy. First edition of this landmark work in the history of photography. This is the American issue, though printed in France in collaboration with Éditions Verve. Though many people assume that his “decisive moment” is an ephemeral and spontaneous image representing a snap in time, Cartier-Bresson felt quite differently; his moment is all about composition and how a photograph can communicate to the observer: “If a photograph is to communicate its subject in all its intensity, the relationship of form must be rigorously established. Photography implies the recognition of a rhythm in the world of real things. What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular subject within the mass of reality… In a photograph, composition is the result of a simultaneous coalition, the organic coordination of elements seen by the eye. One does not add composition as though it were an afterthought superimposed on the basic subject material, since it is impossible to separate content from form. Composition must have its own inevitability about it. But inside movement there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.” Parr/Badger I, pp. 208-209; Roth, pp. 134-135; Open Book, pp. 154-155.
みんなうんち [Minna Unchi] [Everyone Poops, or Everybody Poops]

みんなうんち [Minna Unchi] [Everyone Poops, or Everybody Poops] by Gomi, Taro

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Title
みんなうんち [Minna Unchi] [Everyone Poops, or Everybody Poops]
Author
Gomi, Taro
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Tokyo: Fukuinkan-Shoten, 1977. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing in the original Japanese language of this best-selling plotless children's book. Bound in publisher's original stiff printed wraps. Very Good with toning and wear to wraps, musty odor and sporadic foxing to pages. Very uncommon indeed--while everybody poops few can own a book this rare, plus most things that poop do not have money.
The Railroads of America

The Railroads of America by Armitage, Merle

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Title
The Railroads of America
Author
Armitage, Merle
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce - Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First edition. First edition. Signed by Merle Armitage on paste down, inscribed to former owner. 318, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's blue and red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, chipped at head and tail, unclipped. A photographically-illustrated guide to the railroads of the USA circa 1952, written and designed by Merle Armitage.
THREE BOOKS FROM THE FANTOD PRESS: The Pious Infant; The Evil Garden; The Inantimate Tragedy

THREE BOOKS FROM THE FANTOD PRESS: The Pious Infant; The Evil Garden; The Inantimate Tragedy by Edward Gorey

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Title
THREE BOOKS FROM THE FANTOD PRESS: The Pious Infant; The Evil Garden; The Inantimate Tragedy
Author
Edward Gorey
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Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: The Fantod Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Paperback. Fantod Press Edward Gorey set #1 published in 1966. The three booklets are in fine condition in the original publisher's envelope. The envelope is chipped along its edges but inherently whole and complete. An early Gorey item; this true first printing is scarce in fine condition.
Zndh bad whdt rz mndhy xlqhay ayran زنده باد وحدت رز مندهى خلقهاى ايران ["Long live the unity of the people of Iran" - Poster celebrating Iranian Kurdish revolutionaries]

Zndh bad whdt rz mndhy xlqhay ayran زنده باد وحدت رز مندهى خلقهاى ايران ["Long live the unity of the people of Iran" - Poster celebrating Iranian Kurdish revolutionaries]

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Title
Zndh bad whdt rz mndhy xlqhay ayran زنده باد وحدت رز مندهى خلقهاى ايران ["Long live the unity of the people of Iran" - Poster celebrating Iranian Kurdish revolutionaries]
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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n.p., 1970. 19.5x28 inch poster, somewhat wavy from rolling, lower left corner torn, some edge stains and small chips. Undated, but text in Kurdish at lower right states that it was published "On the occasion of the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Mullah Awara, the hero of the Kurdish people." Mullah Awara (Ahmad Shalmashi) was a leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, executed in 1968. Additional text states that it was also the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Comrade Bashir Khosravi, a member of the Revolutionary Organization, and the tenth anniversary of the death of Mullah Yawarah.
Fetish times; the worlds most outrageous newspaper, number 119 Special Transsexual Issue

Fetish times; the worlds most outrageous newspaper, number 119 Special Transsexual Issue

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Fetish times; the worlds most outrageous newspaper, number 119 Special Transsexual Issue
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Van Nuys, CA: B&D Company, 1984. 31p., tabloid format newspaper; spinefold worn and slightly chipped, foxed along spinefold, corner of page 21 is torn, else good. Features both lesbian and trans lesbian erotica.
American labor faces the future; the problems of trade unionism in the light of the San Francisco General Strike. Letter of William Green to Charles S. Zimmerman, reply of Charles S. Zimmerman to William Green

American labor faces the future; the problems of trade unionism in the light of the San Francisco General Strike. Letter of William Green to Charles S. Zimmerman, reply of Charles S. Zimmerman to William Green by Zimmerman, Charles S. [and] William Green

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Title
American labor faces the future; the problems of trade unionism in the light of the San Francisco General Strike. Letter of William Green to Charles S. Zimmerman, reply of Charles S. Zimmerman to William Green
Author
Zimmerman, Charles S. [and] William Green
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Dressmakers Union Local 22, ILGWU, 1934. Pamphlet. 18p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, creased else very good condition.
Original Photo Album of a French Wedding

Original Photo Album of a French Wedding

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Title
Original Photo Album of a French Wedding
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good overall.
Description
Paris: n.p., 1920. Very good overall.. Carefully assembled and curated French wedding album likely dating from the mid 1920s, including portraits of the bride and groom, the wedding party, family and guests, with two shots of the reception. A striking collection of photos, making dramatic use of natural light to capture the upper-class bride and groom and their attendants in their finery, and an artful object. 7.25'' x 5.25''. String-tied album in paper binding with pearl finish. Stamped "Souvenir de Mariage" in gilt at front, with photographer's mark at lower corner, "A. Braunstain/ Paris/ 12 Rue d'Hauteville." Contains thirty gelatin silver photographs fixed to stiff leaves recto only. Album bowing slightly. Boards edgeworn with some rubbing. Interior clean and sound. Photographs generally fine.
Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]

Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]

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Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Madison, Arkansas, 1964. Very good. Metal ashtray with a diameter of 5½” at its widest. Very good with moderate wear and light staining. This is a marketing ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel which was located in Madison, Arkansas. The owner of the motel, Ulysses Simpson Bond attended what became Morehouse College and then Oberlin Business College, and then returned home to Madison. In addition to the hotel, he managed the family gravel business, and manufactured funeral supplies. He was named one of the ten leading Black Arkansans in 1953. This ashtray lists the motel's location as “40 miles west of Memphis, Tenn. For Colored.” The motel first appeared in the Negro Travelers Green Book in 1954 and their 1955 advertisement in the Green Book stated that the motel was “The South's finest and one of America's best Motels for Colored.” A fine artifact of both African American entrepreneurship and the challenges faced by Black travelers in the segregated South.
Palestine Folk Dance Series Nos. 1-6

Palestine Folk Dance Series Nos. 1-6

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Title
Palestine Folk Dance Series Nos. 1-6
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Printed wrappers. Some toning and shelfwear, but very good. Vols. 1-4 have ex-libris stamp of Herb Kummel
Description
Tel-Aviv: Lion the Printer, 1946. First edition. Photographs, diagrams, and music, some pages laid-in. 6 vols. Printed wrappers. Some toning and shelfwear, but very good. Vols. 1-4 have ex-libris stamp of Herb Kummel. First edition. Photographs, diagrams, and music, some pages laid-in. 6 vols. Folkloric collection of dances, recorded by Gert Kaufmann, for the Zionist Organisation Youth Department. With text in English, with music in Hebrew and romanized Hebrew. Includes: No. 1) Horra Agadati No. 2) Sherele No. 3) Mayim-Mayim No. 4) Horra No. 5) Bo-Dodi No. 6) Goren.
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Pablo Picasso: 1969-1970 en Avignon. Du 1er Mai au 30 Septembre 1970 au Palais des Papes en Avignon, Exposition Concue et Mise au Point by Zervos, Yvonne; Zervos, Christian; Picasso, Pablo

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Title
Pablo Picasso: 1969-1970 en Avignon. Du 1er Mai au 30 Septembre 1970 au Palais des Papes en Avignon, Exposition Concue et Mise au Point
Author
Zervos, Yvonne; Zervos, Christian; Picasso, Pablo
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
G+. Wraps have wear around edges, some staining/markings, tape repairs to fraying at head/tail of spine and bumping around corne
Description
Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1970. Softcover. G+. Wraps have wear around edges, some staining/markings, tape repairs to fraying at head/tail of spine and bumping around corners. Interior clean and unmarked besides penciling on front end paper.. Quarto. Softcover. Plain paper wraps with blue titles. [200] pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. French text. Dans le cadre du XXIVe Festival d'Avignon.
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Classical Realism Newsletter: Dedicated To A Renewal In The Visual Arts (Periodical run, 2003-2006)

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Title
Classical Realism Newsletter: Dedicated To A Renewal In The Visual Arts (Periodical run, 2003-2006)
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG, small stamp on covers.
Description
Minneapolis, Minn: American Society of Classical Realism, 2006. Softbound. VG, small stamp on covers.. CAVE. 6 loose issues. This small lot contains issues 13-18 (2003-2006). This newsletter picks up from where the defunct Classical Realism Journal left off when it ceased publication, though in a slightly more modest format. An important source of scholarly essays and articles, as well as announcements.
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Zechyr: Zeichnungen 1967 - 78

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Title
Zechyr: Zeichnungen 1967 - 78
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG-: Exlibrary book, with a sticker at the base of the spine. Some peeling to the clear protective jacket. Peeling on the back c
Description
Linz: Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, 1978. Softcover. VG-: Exlibrary book, with a sticker at the base of the spine. Some peeling to the clear protective jacket. Peeling on the back cover, with a small portion of the illustrated wrap missing (about the size of two postage stamps). Clean body pages and solid binding.. Black-and-white illustrated wraps. 160 pages; [11] pages of plates; profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Contains a foldout display.
The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius; Comprising The Satyricon and Poems

The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius; Comprising The Satyricon and Poems by Petronius, Gaius

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Title
The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius; Comprising The Satyricon and Poems
Author
Petronius, Gaius
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Translated by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Limited to 650 copies signed by Jack Lindsay. Good. Half-vellum, faded at the spine, scuffed and bumped at the edges, with marbled paper on the boards, equally worn. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally.
Ladidah

Ladidah by Walthall, Hugh

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Ladidah
Author
Walthall, Hugh
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Ithaca: Ithaca House, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Walthall on the title page and with textual corrections on a few page. Near Fine. Wraps faintly toned and rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
Our Stake in the South

Our Stake in the South by [African Americana]: Johnson, Charles S.

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Title
Our Stake in the South
Author
[African Americana]: Johnson, Charles S.
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: Sidney Hillman Foundation, 1956. Very good.. 11,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Mild creasing. Minor toning and dust soiling. An address by Charles S. Johnson, the first Black president of Fisk University, before a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1956 on subject of education and desegregation in the South, two years after the decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. He denounces the "little men of less noble designs and foreshortened vision" who have appeared to oppose desegregation, and calls for unity of the nation with Southern Black workers and students, "in building mutual tolerance and respect, and an acceptable way of life, compatible with the principles reaffirmed and made final by the court." Johnson was an important Southern civil rights leader in the first half of the 20th century, but passed away suddenly shortly after giving this speech. OCLC locates three individually catalogued copies.
Les Diners de Gala

Les Diners de Gala by DALI, Salvador

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Title
Les Diners de Gala
Author
DALI, Salvador
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lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
Cloth illustrated boards. Near fine, in very good foil dust wrapper
Description
New York: Felice, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cloth illustrated boards. Near fine, in very good foil dust wrapper. DALI, Salvador. 320 pages. 31 x 22 cm. Lavishly produced in color/black and white illustrations, photos, and gold illustrated dustwrapper. Beginning with a description of "Dalinian Gastro Esthetics, and dedicated to Gala dinners, including the Menu of the 2500th Anniversary of The Foundation of the Persian Empire (Iran) in October, 1971 (catered by Maxim's), this tome is a bacchanalian extravaganza. Interior crisp and clean. Boards very lightly rubbed at edges. Foil wrapper lighty scuffed. Covered in protective mylar.
Street Portraits (Signed)

Street Portraits (Signed) by BEY, Dawoud

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Street Portraits (Signed)
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BEY, Dawoud
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Fine in embossed cloth boards with black-and-white images affixed to both front and rear panels.
Description
London: MACK, 2021. Fine in embossed cloth boards with black-and-white images affixed to both front and rear panels.. First Edition. Quarto. 120pp. SIGNED by the photographer to a slip bound at rear. Between 1988 and 1991, Bey traveled around American cities shooting intimate portraits of Black communities; the participants were given a small black-and-white Polaroid as a gift. Illustrated with 70 reproductions, followed by a poetic afterword by Greg Tate. An important early series from one of the most influential photographers of his generation.
Autograph Letter Signed, with initials G.W.C., North Shore, [Staten Island] April 11, 1861 to “X” a friend living in Paris who apparently wrote for the New York Evening Post

Autograph Letter Signed, with initials G.W.C., North Shore, [Staten Island] April 11, 1861 to “X” a friend living in Paris who apparently wrote for the New York Evening Post by Curtis, George W.

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Autograph Letter Signed, with initials G.W.C., North Shore, [Staten Island] April 11, 1861 to “X” a friend living in Paris who apparently wrote for the New York Evening Post
Author
Curtis, George W.
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
12mo, 4 pages, in very good, clean and legible condition.1861 Journalist and writer, George William Curtis critiques New York Art – as Civil War begins. "My dear X – I foolishly sent you the first of the exchange to the old number in Ecurie d'Artois… My novel is published and I shall send it to you as soon as I find a good chance. And the Academy is open but the exhibition is very poor – the poorest of late years. Elliott is mad with them and sends nothing. Hicks has only two small landscapes, Kensett one landscape and one portrait. Church one small bit. Gray the best portrait I have seen from him. Page as Dolce far Niente and a Bacchus. Gifford a Catskill Sunset a la Church, but very fine. W. H. Furness a noble portrait of his father. McEntee a good but not interesting Italian Summer. Baker several female heads as usual, Huntington two streaked landscapes and some portraits, not good to my eye. Leutze a very poor "Meeting of Lafayette and his wife at Olmetz" Eastman Johnson who has really carried off the honor of the last two years, has several small and good, but not very striking things. It is the last exhibition in the old North St. rooms, and now they are to go to the new building, of which a Mr. Wright has made a design. It is Venetian more than anything else… I repeat here because you may possibly miss my other letter that Parke Godwin has written to you, Poste Restante, asking you to write regularly to the Eve. Post. I hope you will do it. He offers $ 10 a letter … Give my love to Lizzie and the children. We are all well. Annie is "expecting" any day…" After living at Brook Farm and traveling for years in Europe and the Middle East, George William Curtis returned to New York to become a celebrated journalist, editor, author and man about town. By the time he wrote this letter, he had already published six books, his seventh being the novel Trumps, which he mentions in this letter. Curtis' interest in art is rarely cited in his biographies, but his description here of the opening of the 35th annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design is interesting for his critiques of the work of artists like McEntee, Leutze, Church, Kensett, Eastman Johnson and Charles Loring Elliott (who actually did send some works to the exhibition, including, notably, an oil portrait of photographer Matthew Brady). The date of the letter appears at first glance to be April 1, but another glance shows a small mark next to the "1" which is actually a second 1, and should be correctly read as April 11. The exhibition opened on April 12, with a "private viewing" for critics on the night of April 11. The later date is supported by his comment that his wife – sister of Robert Gould Shaw, future commander of the famous Black Regiment, the 54th Massachusetts – was "expecting any day" – she, in fact, gave birth to their daughter Elizabeth on April 16. What makes the date significant, of course, is that the Civil War began with the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12. So Curtis probably wrote this letter, with its chit-chat about art, on the very day that saw the outbreak of a conflict which would have a great impact on his own life. Having been a founder of the Republican Party, he was to become an ardent supporter of President Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, his \views finding national prominence, when in 1863, he became political editor of Harper's Weekly, making him one of the most influential American journalists in shaping wartime public opinion
Nervous Times - Limited Signed Edition

Nervous Times - Limited Signed Edition

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Nervous Times - Limited Signed Edition
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780900063626
Condition
Fine
Description
Signed Limited Edition, this being #66 of 250: A Fine book without dust jacket as issued. A beautiful copy of this limited publication of an address Le Carre gave at the Savoy hotel at the annual dinner of the Anglo-Israel association. A unique item for the Le Carre fan! As new and unread with no visible flaws; will ship in a sturdy box.
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed]

Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed] by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, Mary

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Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed]
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, Mary
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and dark grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-592pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Max Kennedy / "We'll never turn back" / Mary King." Old splash marks affecting upper half of front pastedown, faint foxing to text edges, though contents are clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $22.95), with light surface wear, some rubbing to extremities, faint foxing on verso, and a few tiny splash marks to front flap; Very Good+. Memoir by King (b.1940), a white civil rights activist drafted into the movement by Ella Baker, recounting her involvement with SNCC, the 1964 murder of three of her fellow workers in Mississippi, and her association with Julian Bond, Marion Barry, Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. 82648.
Golden Book of Poems [alt. title "Golden Book of Original Contemporary Poems for Adults and Children"]

Golden Book of Poems [alt. title "Golden Book of Original Contemporary Poems for Adults and Children"] by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON McHENRY, Martha; Eideen Molloy, illus

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Golden Book of Poems [alt. title "Golden Book of Original Contemporary Poems for Adults and Children"]
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON McHENRY, Martha; Eideen Molloy, illus
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Vantage Press, [1985, 1990]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],55pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine a bit sunned, light soil to rear panel, else Fine. Collection of poems for children by the African American San Francisco-based educator.
Merle Travis: Hit Parade Folio No. 1

Merle Travis: Hit Parade Folio No. 1 by Travis, Merle

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Merle Travis: Hit Parade Folio No. 1
Author
Travis, Merle
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Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
First Edition. 49 pp., offset on commercial stock, saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers. Occasional illustrations. Folio. Very good. Minor shelfwear, a few light bumps. [2166] A songbook of originals by country musician Merle Travis, known for his unique guitar style. The booklet includes a short biography and a short text by Travis titled "I Remember…" This copy with an additional folded sheet front the publisher, printed with three additional songs, laid in. Uncommon in better-than-good condition.
The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Macabre Stories / The Randolph Carter Tales / Stories of the Dreamlands / At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories / The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories / The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (six volume set).
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The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Macabre Stories / The Randolph Carter Tales / Stories of the Dreamlands / At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories / The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories / The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (six volume set). by LOVECRAFT, H. P.

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The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Macabre Stories / The Randolph Carter Tales / Stories of the Dreamlands / At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories / The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories / The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (six volume set).
Author
LOVECRAFT, H. P.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9781784288600
Condition
Fine
Description
London:: Sirius,. 2020. Hardcover. Fine. Complete in six volumes. All volumes are fine in cloth bindings with silver lettering and design. No dust jackets, as issued. Housed in a fine slipcase. . 1784288608 .
A Century Heritage: Fourth Ward 1849-1949

A Century Heritage: Fourth Ward 1849-1949

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A Century Heritage: Fourth Ward 1849-1949
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good +
Description
Salt Lake City, UT: [The Fourth Ward of Salt Lake City], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 42 pp. Octavo. Illustrated paper over boards with spiral binding. Signed by Glen L. Rudd on page 23. Missing one rung of spiral binding. Boards toned. A history of the Salt Lake City Fourth Ward.
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FROM WITHIN : SELECTED WORKS BY THE ARTISTS/INMATES OF NEW YORK STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AT AUBURN (MAXIMUM SECURITY)

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FROM WITHIN : SELECTED WORKS BY THE ARTISTS/INMATES OF NEW YORK STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AT AUBURN (MAXIMUM SECURITY)
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art, 1973. Saddle-stitched. Octavo, unpaged booklet and folded brochure in illustrated box. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus container. Container in illustrated paper with white print. Spine is grey without print. Cover if booklet is black with white print, brochure is white with black print. Brochure cover has light smudging. Illustrations are b&w. Catalog of exhibition held at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 2-March 25, 1973. 1370722. FP New Rockville Stock.
The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays

The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays by YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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Title
The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays
Author
YOURCENAR, Marguerite
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1984. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A collection of literary essays by Yourcenar translated who collaborated with Richard Howard on the translation of most of them and with Grace Frick who translated "Humanism and Occultism in Thomas Mann." A clean and tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine in a near fine dust jacket with some slight wear.
Furnishings by Artists (Original catalog for the 1980 exhibition)

Furnishings by Artists (Original catalog for the 1980 exhibition) by [Al Aguilar, Charles Arnoldi, Billy Al Bengston, Scott Burton, John Chamberlain, Ron Cooper, Robert Mangurian, Guy Dill, Laddie John Dill, Paul Donin, Greg Ericson, Frank Gehry, Percy Gibbar, George Herms, James Isermann, Mark Keisermann, Kim MacConnel, M

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Title
Furnishings by Artists (Original catalog for the 1980 exhibition)
Author
[Al Aguilar, Charles Arnoldi, Billy Al Bengston, Scott Burton, John Chamberlain, Ron Cooper, Robert Mangurian, Guy Dill, Laddie John Dill, Paul Donin, Greg Ericson, Frank Gehry, Percy Gibbar, George Herms, James Isermann, Mark Keisermann, Kim MacConnel, M
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Otis/Parsons Gallery, 1980. Vintage catalog for an exhibition held from June 6 through July 13, 1980, at Otis/Parsons Gallery in Los Angeles. Illustrated in black-and-white. Faint rubbing near the binding, else about Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
Little Women: Illustrated by M. E. Gray (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)

Little Women: Illustrated by M. E. Gray (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series) by Alcott, Louisa May

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Little Women: Illustrated by M. E. Gray (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)
Author
Alcott, Louisa May
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780679436423
Condition
Very Good
Description
Everyman's Library, 1994-11-22. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x8. Gray, M. E. Dust jacket and book are in very good condition. Movie themed jacket. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.
Hero in Disgrace: The Life of Arctic Explorer Frederick A. Cook

Hero in Disgrace: The Life of Arctic Explorer Frederick A. Cook by Abramson, Howard S.; Cook, Warren, Sr

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Title
Hero in Disgrace: The Life of Arctic Explorer Frederick A. Cook
Author
Abramson, Howard S.; Cook, Warren, Sr
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9781557783226
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Paragon House, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, sticker remnant on rear jacket panel, boards lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. xix, 250 pp. Examines the exploits of the explorer Frederick A. Cook and offers new evidence supporting his claim to discovery of the North Pole.

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