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ARCHIVE Discussing Proposal for French Production of His Musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY

ARCHIVE Discussing Proposal for French Production of His Musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY by HUGHES, Langston

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Title
ARCHIVE Discussing Proposal for French Production of His Musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY
Author
HUGHES, Langston
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York, 1959. Letters. Near Fine. Interesting archive consisting of 4 SIGNED (as “Langston”) items in green ink and various other pieces concerning a French production of his musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY, all to Léo Sauvage. Included are a TYPED LETTER SIGNED, two AUTOGRAPH NOTES SIGNED, and a SIGNED offprint with a note of “Sorrow for a Midget.” The one-page letter reports having sent a copy of SIMPLY HEAVENLY and suggests some possible alterations and casting for a French production. With the original envelope. The notes, together 11 lines, inquire about progress of a French production and express excitement about a television advertisement for SIMPLY HEAVENLY, written in the upper or lower margins of typed letters to him concerning a legal matter arising from the similarity of the names of the character Jess Simple in Hughes's play and a living playwright Jesse B. Semple. The offprint, SIGNED twice at lower edge of first and terminal pages and additionally INSCRIBED, “For Leo,” on first page and on terminal page: “What's happening with 'Simple' a la francais? . . ./Hazel Scott says she'd love to do it.” From the typed letter dated 8 June 1959: “I posted you a printed copy of the Dramatists Play Service version of SIMPLY HEAVENLY c/o FIGARO. Of course the additional songs used in the Broadway version may be re-inserted, if desired. Or the play may be done as a straight comedy with no songs at all, as it was originally written … since the lyrics are a translation hazzard [sic]…. Hazel Scott might be a good Paris casting for Mamie, the role that brought Claudia McNeill to fame here, and a piano number or two could be especially inserted for Miss Scott, who now lives in Paris. Jimmy (Lover Man) Davis (who lives there, too) might play one of the singing men's roles. June Richmond and other good colored artists also live in France now, so the play should not be too difficult to cast with French speaking artists of color: the Peters Sisters, for example, and Babe Wallace, etc., as well as Ines Cavanaugh; plus the various French Caribbean and African artists who are about.” With a group of 13 printed items with a few scattered underlines or other markings likely in Hughes's hand, including his biography and bibliography, a brochure featuring listing of his audio recordings, a reprint of a newspaper article by him, and sheet music for his “Six Shades of Blue.” Together 22 pages. Léo Sauvage was a drama critic for THE NEW LEADER and the founder of a theater troupe in Marseilles in World War II. He is best known as the author of a controversial book, THE OSWALD AFFAIR, published in. It criticized the Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, alleging that the evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald was flimsy. He wrote that two conspiracies existed, one to kill the President and the other to kill Oswald.
Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England

Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England by PEPYS, Samuel

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Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England
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PEPYS, Samuel
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
London: Printed for Ben Griffin, 1690. First Edition of the Author's Only Acknowledged Publication [PEPYS, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688. London: Printed for Ben Griffin, 1690. First edition with the Griffin-Keble imprint. Small octavo (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 inches; 170 x 110mm). [4], 214, [18], [2, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White after G. Kneller. With a large folding sheets of accounts. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine and recornered. Edges speckled red. Boards tooled in blind. Rear hinge professionally repaired. Some browning from glue to endpapers, otherwise internally a very clean copy. A 1 3/4 inch closed tear to leaf M4 (page 167), not affecting text. Handsomely housed in a morocco backed chemise, stamped and lettered in gilt and a slipcase with morocco edge. "This is the diarist's only acknowledged publication. Upon this he lavished a great deal of thought and care. It represents a side of Pepy's life which is apt to be ignored." (Pforzheimer 793). Grolier, Wither to Prior, 662. Pforzheimer 793. HBS 65158. $3,000.
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POLYCHRONATIC DECORATION AS APPLIED TO BUILDINGS IN THE MEDIEVAL STYLES... by Audsley, Wm & Geo

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POLYCHRONATIC DECORATION AS APPLIED TO BUILDINGS IN THE MEDIEVAL STYLES...
Author
Audsley, Wm & Geo
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
London: Sotheran, 1882. Hardcover. Good +. Large folio. t.e.g. 36 visid chromolithographic plates, printed by Firmin-Didot with descriptive text. Minor wear to eover: rubbed edges, fraying on spine ends. Gilt on cover.
Frisius, D. Medicus Chirurgus et Anatomicus Excellentissimus, Physicus Reipubl. Noriberg Ordinarius. Engraved Portrait by H. Leonard

Frisius, D. Medicus Chirurgus et Anatomicus Excellentissimus, Physicus Reipubl. Noriberg Ordinarius. Engraved Portrait by H. Leonard by Coiterus, Volcher

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Frisius, D. Medicus Chirurgus et Anatomicus Excellentissimus, Physicus Reipubl. Noriberg Ordinarius. Engraved Portrait by H. Leonard
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Coiterus, Volcher
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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1669. Print: 179x118 mm. Mount: 210x152 mm. Print is mounted on paper. Some small tears in left and bottom margins, very faint soiling.
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Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and mdoern English translation by Beryl Rowland. Very fine copy in fine dust jacket by Rowland,Beryl, editor

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Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and mdoern English translation by Beryl Rowland. Very fine copy in fine dust jacket
Author
Rowland,Beryl, editor
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 1981. Garrison-Morton (online) 6981.
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was In It

The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was In It by SANDBURG, Carl

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The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was In It
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SANDBURG, Carl
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1967. Harriet PINCUS. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Harriet PINCUS, illustrator. First edition thus. 8vo oblong; [28]pp; green textured paper over board, lion wearing a chef's hat and carrying a cake stamped in black on the front, lettering in black on spine; color pictorial endpapers; fp and color pictorial title page; clipped color pictorial dust jacket with a $3.25 price on the front flap, small closed tear to bottom front, crease to rear jacket fore edge with chips, chip to spine, age-toned edges; fine in very good plus dj. One of Carl Sandburg's (1878-1967) Rootabaga Stories, first published in 1922. Sandburg was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet, biographer, and journalist whose work influenced the early to mid-20th century. Colorful and imaginative illustrations throughout by Harriet Pincus (b. 1938), whose papers are housed in the du Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Workers' Education; A Quarterly Journal, Volume 1, No.2, July-August 1923

Workers' Education; A Quarterly Journal, Volume 1, No.2, July-August 1923 by Workers Education Bureau of America

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Workers' Education; A Quarterly Journal, Volume 1, No.2, July-August 1923
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Workers Education Bureau of America
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine in Wraps, as Issued
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New York: Workers Education Bureau of America, 1923. Book. Fine in Wraps, as Issued. Pamphlet. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fine. 16 page stapled in pictorial wrappers. Articles by A.J. Muste, George S. Lackland, Hilda Smith and Algernon Lee. Scarce..
MAKING A SCENE

MAKING A SCENE by Wu, Constance

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MAKING A SCENE
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Wu, Constance
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9781668015681
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Fine
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First edition, first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies issued by the publisher with a tipped-in page signed by Wu for promotional purposes. Black and white photographs."Signed Edition" sticker on the dustjacket front panel. Blurbs by Kaling, Khong, Schumer, Wafina. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Wu's first book.
Ships of Steam.

Ships of Steam. by Buchanan, Lamont.

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Ships of Steam.
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Buchanan, Lamont.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
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Spine lightly sunned, else very good condition, no dj.
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New York: McGraw-Hill, (1956). Spine lightly sunned, else very good condition, no dj.. 25 cm., 192 pp. b/w plates
The Color Revolution. Color Lithography in France 1890-1900.

The Color Revolution. Color Lithography in France 1890-1900. by Cate, Philip, Denis.

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The Color Revolution. Color Lithography in France 1890-1900.
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Cate, Philip, Denis.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
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VG in soft covers.
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Rutgers NJ: Rutgers University, (1978). VG in soft covers.. 30 cm. IX pp. 147 pp. color and b/w plates and ills.
Locke's Education for Liberty

Locke's Education for Liberty by Tarcov, Nathan

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Locke's Education for Liberty
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Tarcov, Nathan
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780226789729
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 272pp. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Toning, chipping, creasing, and rubbing to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Small tears to top of both sides of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Faint number stamp to front free end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Locke's Education for Liberty presents an analysis of the crucial but often underestimated place of education and the family within Lockean liberalism. Nathan Tarcov shows that Locke's neglected work Some Thoughts Concerning Education compares with Plato's Republic and Rousseau's Emile as a treatise on education embodying a comprehensive vision of moral and social life. Locke believed that the family can be the agency, not the enemy, of individual liberty and equality. Tarcov's superb reevaluation reveals to the modern reader a breadth and unity heretofore unrecognized in Locke's thought.(Publisher).
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Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Stories [3 Volumes] by Dickens, Charles

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Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Stories [3 Volumes]
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Dickens, Charles
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
Description
New York: Standard Book Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Two novels in three volumes. About Very Good. Red cloth, faded at the spines, some bumps and bits of fraying at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges, clean internally.
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Claras Kinder Mit einem Nachwort von Eva Weissweiler und Gedichten von Felix Schumann by [SCHUMANN, Clara]. Schumann, Eugenie

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Claras Kinder Mit einem Nachwort von Eva Weissweiler und Gedichten von Felix Schumann
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[SCHUMANN, Clara]. Schumann, Eugenie
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
ISBN
9783920862057
Condition
Very Good
Description
Köln: Dittrich-Verlag, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. Boards. 373 pp. In dustjacket.

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