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Slave Songs of the United States

Slave Songs of the United States by (Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKin Garrison, Editors)

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Title
Slave Songs of the United States
Author
(Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKin Garrison, Editors)
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
New York: John Ross & Co. (Nation Press), 1871.  8vo. 225 x 140 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches].  xliv, 115 pp., with the half-title.  Bound in original purple cloth , title in gilt on front board; binding faded, front hinge cracked, yet sound; paper stock showing some browning in the outer margins.  Signature of Theo F. Seward on title-page. First edition; this copy with the printed paper imprint of John Ross pasted over the original imprint of Simpson & Co. on the title-page.  This historic collection was the first collection of slave songs to appear in print and was compiled by white northerners who live among the ex-slaves in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia as teachers and missionaries.  The 38 page preface offers valuable insight into performance practice, voice quality, song types, the shout, and other aspects of slave songs.  The detailed Table of Contents indicates the geographical sources of the songs and the names of the contributors; notes are attached to many of the songs. The editors include William Allen, professor of ancient languages at the University of Wisconsin.  He was a contributor to the North American Review, the Nation, and edited a series of school books for children.  Charles Pickard Ware was the superintendent of the freeman on plantations at Port Royal and transcribed many slave song with tunes and lyrics.  Lucy McKim Garrison who as “a pianist and teacher had little importance, but she was well trained and sensitive, the only practicing musician among the Northerners who collected slave songs in the Sea Islands during the Civil War.”  She was the niece of William Lloyd Garrison and was educated in New Jersey with the Grimke sisters where she learned the violin and piano. This copy belonged to Theo. F. Seward, a musical educator, composer, and editor of many of the musical publications in New York City.  He took charge of the Fisk Jubilee Singers and wrote down more than one hundred of the plantation melodies.  Samuel Allibone.  Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Supplement I, p. 135.  Notable American Women II, p. 23-24.  Library Company, Negro History Catalogue no. 129.  Joseph Sabin, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 82067.
David Hammons: Selected Works

David Hammons: Selected Works by HAMMONS, David

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David Hammons: Selected Works
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HAMMONS, David
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
A fine copy in illustrated wrappers.
Description
New York: Zwirner & Wirth, 2006. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Tall octavo. An elegant catalogue published on the occasion of David Hammons' exhibition at Zwirner & Wirth (Feb. 21–Apr. 1, 2006). Introduced by text from Franklin Sirmans ("Searching for Mr. Hammons") and illustrated after full-bleed color installation photographs.
Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Eté Opéra Comique en trois Actes dédié à sa Majesté Guillaume III Roi des Pays-Bas, Prince d'Orange-Nassau Grand Duc de Luxembourg ... Poeme de MM. Rosier et de Leuven... Accompagnement de Piano par M. Vauthrot. Prix: 12f. net. [Piano-vocal score]

Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Eté Opéra Comique en trois Actes dédié à sa Majesté Guillaume III Roi des Pays-Bas, Prince d'Orange-Nassau Grand Duc de Luxembourg ... Poeme de MM. Rosier et de Leuven... Accompagnement de Piano par M. Vauthrot. Prix: 12f. net. [Piano-vocal score] by THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896

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Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Eté Opéra Comique en trois Actes dédié à sa Majesté Guillaume III Roi des Pays-Bas, Prince d'Orange-Nassau Grand Duc de Luxembourg ... Poeme de MM. Rosier et de Leuven... Accompagnement de Piano par M. Vauthrot. Prix: 12f. net. [Piano-vocal score]
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THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Léon Escudier [PN B.C. 1149], 1859. Octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers. 1f. (title with publisher's catalog to lower), 1f. (named cast list and table of contents), 272 pp. Lithographed. Partially uncut. Named cast includes Lefebvre, Grimm, Couderc, Boulo, Battaille, and Bellecour. Publisher's handstamp to lower margin of title. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled; minor loss to head of spine; small tear to margin of lower repaired. Minor internal wear, foxing, soiling, and staining; several signatures detached. A later printing of the first version of the opera. Printed from Bureau Central de Musique plates. Lesure II p. 165-166. OCLC 21860489. Le Songe d'une Nuit (A Midsummer Night's Dream), to a libretto by Joseph-Bernard Rosier and Adolphe de Leuven, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 20 April 1850. "In 1850 Thomas wrote the Shakespearean potpourri Le songe d'une nuit d'été, which has little to do with A Midsummer Night's Dream; it includes Falstaff, Elizabeth I and Shakespeare himself in the cast, and has an unusually high proportion of its action devoted to drinking ... Apart from signalling the composer's interest in Shakespeare, this opéra comique shows Thomas' ability to fuse many of the operatic styles current in his day, and demonstrates his increasing skill at orchestration, particularly in the entr'actes. The piece was revived at Compiègne in 1994 to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel." Richard Langham Smith in Grove Music Online.
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A MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA; Being a treatise on recent and fossil shells by WOODWARD, S. P.

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A MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA; Being a treatise on recent and fossil shells
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WOODWARD, S. P.
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Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
London: Crosby Lockwood, 1890. Reprint of fourth edition (1880). Waterhouse, A. N.. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 542, 85, 48, 16. Index, catalogs. With an appendix by Ralph Tate. Copiously illustrated with drawings by Joseph Wilson Lowry and A. N. Waterhouse; fold-out map. Black cloth, TEG. Cover spotted, edges little soiled, map partially separated at creases, donor's presentation on verso of half-title. 2 Parts in 1. small 8vo. pp. xvi, 542, 85, [1] + [64]ads. with half-title. folding map (torn at fold) & 24 plates (incl. frontis.). numerous text figures. Good.
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns] by Artemis Joukowsky; Ken Burns [fwd.]

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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]
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Artemis Joukowsky; Ken Burns [fwd.]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780807071823
Condition
Very Good
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Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. Very Good/Very Good +. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xv,[1],255pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket and board margins, textblock fore-edge lightly finger-soiled, else Very Good or better. Signed by both Joukowsky and Burns on title page with brief inscription by the former. Accompanying volume to Ken Burns' documentary PBS film of the same title, retracing the humanitarian work of Reverend Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha, who both undertook multiple rescue missions to save Jewish refugees and political dissidents from the Nazis in Prague and Vichy France.
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New Map of the United States of America. Facsimile of the 1857 map by Young, J H

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New Map of the United States of America. Facsimile of the 1857 map
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Young, J H
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Fine
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Rand McNally, 1981. Fine. Young, J H. New Map of the United States of America. Facsimile of the 1857 map. New York: Rand McNally, 1981. Illustrated. 27 x 17 inches. Book condition: Near fine with slightly bumped edges. Each state is outlined in bright and harmonious pastel colors. Printed in commemoration of Rand McNalley's 125th anniversary.
A Modern Tragedy

A Modern Tragedy by Bentley, Phyllis

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A Modern Tragedy
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Bentley, Phyllis
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ReadInk (United States)
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Near Fine in Very Good dj
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New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1934. First American Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only, faint soiling to bottom edges of covers; jacket a bit edgeworn, with some wrinkling and minor paper loss at spine ends, tiny pull-tear near bottom of spine panel, light soiling to rear panel]. Depression-era tale set against the backdrop of the textile business in Yorkshire, this novel tells of the tribulations of an ambitious young man whose burning desire to marry a society girl leads him to compromise his principles. The stunning dustjacket design is by Boris Artzybashoff. .
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MILTON AVERY by (Avery). Haskell, Barbara

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MILTON AVERY
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(Avery). Haskell, Barbara
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New York., Harper & Row, Publishers., 1982. 4to. First edition. 224 pages. Fine condition. Softcover. Includes chronology, bibliography and exhibition history.
Vietnam Revisited; Covert Action to Invasion to Reconstruction

Vietnam Revisited; Covert Action to Invasion to Reconstruction by Dellinger, David

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Vietnam Revisited; Covert Action to Invasion to Reconstruction
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Dellinger, David
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780896083196
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Very Good
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Boston: South End Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, lightly bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, some marginalia throughout. A history of Vietnam and its relationship with the West from the member of the Chicago Seven.

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