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The Big Sea

The Big Sea by Hughes, Langston

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$8,500.00
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Title
The Big Sea
Author
Hughes, Langston
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Original green cloth. A few spots to boards, spine fading and slightly cocked
Description
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. 335 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth. A few spots to boards, spine fading and slightly cocked. First edition. 335 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the ffep: "For Noel, and Hollow Hills - happy island in The Big Sea - where this book was finished. Affectionately, Langston Hotel Grand, Chicago, July 26, 1940." In March 1932 Noël Sullivan, a wealthy aspiring concert singer and a patron to liberal and artistic causes, sent Hughes a note of his admiration with an invitation to visit him in San Fransisco. Sullivan, whose housekeeper Eulah Pharr had friends in common with Hughes, had recently performed one of Hughes's poems in concert, set to music by John Alden Carpenter. Hughes stayed with Sullivan in May 1932 while on a lecture tour, and the two developed a very close friendship. "The man and all he stood for endeared him to Hughes, and for a quarter of a century he was the poet's most trusted confidant. [...] as close a friend as any relative Hughes ever had..." (Berry, Faith, Before & Beyond Harlem: A Biography of Langston Hughes, p. 149-150). This was a two-way street, as "Hughes's immediate impact on Noël Sullivan was...dramatic" (Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I, p. 239). Sullivan helped sustain Hughes with occasional financial gifts, he hosted him on most of his visits to California, often gave Hughes the use of his farm in Carmel, where Hughes wrote his first collection of short stories, The Ways of White Folks (1934), which was dedicated to Sullivan. By August 1939, Hughes was determined to "forge his autobiography into 'a real titan's book,'" and he settled at Noël Sullivan's Hollow Hills Farm in Carmel to complete the autobiographical work he started in Chicago, in which he describes his time in Paris (Rampersad, Vol. I, p. 373). He returned again to Hollow Hills in December of 1939 to celebrate the Christmas holidays before heading back to the East Coast. While on the road, he missed the Carmel Valley, writing Sullivan, "'Your farm, Noel, is a little heaven" (p. 381-2). By late July 1940, Hughes headed again to Hollow Hills Farm, where he found construction beginning on a one-room cottage was building for Hughes's use.
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Het Vlas by Andersen, H.C.; Leck

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Het Vlas
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Andersen, H.C.; Leck
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Ursus Books (United States)
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1941. VAN DER LECK, Bart. Het Vlas. Uit het deensch vertaald door Marie Nijland-0van der Meer de Walcheren. By H.C. Andersen. [1], 10, [1] ff., illustrated and decorated throughout by Bart van der Leck. 8vo, 245 x 165 mm., bound in original printed wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Amsterdam: De Spieghel, [1941]. An important but little-known document of the De Stijl movement, and the only example of an illustrated book from the movement. Bart van der Leck (1876-1958), Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist, joined forces with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian to found the De Stijl art movement in the Netherlands. Van der Leck sought to translate physicality into flatness without concern for representing the appearance of things in the natural world. A book of stunning simplicity and almost magical charm. One of 550 copies. From Manet to Hockney 109. De Stijl: Visions of Utopia 68-79. Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 1870-2000, No. 114.
(3 offprints). Includes: AULUCK, & D. S. KOTHARI. "Effect of electromagnetic radiation on the Lamb shift." Offprint from: Proceedings of the Royal Society, London], A, vol. 214, p. 137, 1952.

(3 offprints). Includes: AULUCK, & D. S. KOTHARI. "Effect of electromagnetic radiation on the Lamb shift." Offprint from: Proceedings of the Royal Society, London], A, vol. 214, p. 137, 1952. by AULUCK, F. C.

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Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
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(3 offprints). Includes: AULUCK, & D. S. KOTHARI. "Effect of electromagnetic radiation on the Lamb shift." Offprint from: Proceedings of the Royal Society, London], A, vol. 214, p. 137, 1952.
Author
AULUCK, F. C.
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
London:: Royal Society, 1952., 1952. 8vo. pp. 137-142. Self-wraps; wrinkled. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, SIGNED. Very good. Auluck and Kothari were associated with the University of Delhi. WITH: AULUCK, & D. S. KOTHARI. "Statistical Mechanics and the Partitions of Numbers." Offprint from: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 42, pt. 3, (1946). 8vo. pp. 272-277. Self-wraps; creased. Very good. WITH: AULUCK, & D. S. KOTHARI. "Partitions into Powers of Integers." Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, April 14, Session 1946-47. 8vo. pp. 13-16. Self-wraps; creased. Very good.
29 Drawings from the Michael Berolzheimer Collection restituted by the Albertina

29 Drawings from the Michael Berolzheimer Collection restituted by the Albertina

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29 Drawings from the Michael Berolzheimer Collection restituted by the Albertina
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Munchen: Arnoldi-Livie, 2011. First edition. Softcover. Text in English and features a foreword by R. Bruce Livie Includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy in French style wrappers.

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