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Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, some-times of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of S. Peters Coll. in Cambridge

Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, some-times of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of S. Peters Coll. in Cambridge by Crashaw, Richard (1612-1649)

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Title
Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, some-times of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of S. Peters Coll. in Cambridge
Author
Crashaw, Richard (1612-1649)
Seller
Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1646. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. This is the issue with the title page set within a decorative typographical border (no precedence is given.) An excellent, tall copy, unusually bright and clean. Bound in contemporary sheepskin (with some wear, abrasions and stains.) The best copy to come onto the market in many years. First edition of Crashaw’s “Steps to the Temple” and “Delights of the Muses.” This volume contains Crashaw’s best-known poems: "The Weeper", "Wishes: To his (supposed) Mistresse", and his “Hymn to Saint Teresa”, which provided the inspiration to Coleridge’s "Christabel". Also included is Crashaw’s poem in praise of George Herbert, “On Mr. George Herberts Booke entituled The Temple of Sacred Poems, sent to a Gentlewoman.” Along with Donne, Herbert and Marvell, Crashaw was one of the most important of the Metaphysical poets. "Compared with one another, Crashaw represents more of Donne's ecstasy, and Herbert more of his reason" (George Williamson) The son of a Puritan clergyman who eventually converted to Catholicism, Crashaw is best known for the intensity of his religious poetry. “It is certain that Crashaw's English poetry was mostly written during his years in Cambridge. He wrote both on secular as well as sacred themes, but it is for his devotional poetry that he is rightly best remembered. His poetry was published in Steps to the Temple: Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses by the royalist publisher Humphrey Moseley in 1646, with an expanded edition in 1648. As the title indicates Crashaw is presented as heir to George Herbert, another poet with Cambridge roots. But the styles of the two poets are different. Crashaw's devotional celebrations focus on believers as part of a large congregation, adding their voices to a chorus that stretches across liturgical history. “A number of his poems originate in well-known medieval hymns, which he adapts rather than translates precisely. Crashaw has a preoccupation with female saints (the Virgin, Mary Magdalen, St Teresa), and this has generally supported a view of his Roman Catholicism. His thorough devotion to the Virgin, including accepting a version of her Assumption, would certainly have been frowned on by many within the English church, while St Teresa is one of the most celebrated of Counter-Reformation saints. However, interest in these figures was not particularly exceptional within Cambridge and Oxford Laudian circles. Crashaw's devotional orientation and his poetic manner are distinctive when placed within the larger body of contemporary writing, but are less so when witnessed alongside the preoccupations of Laudian Cambridge. “Crashaw's poetic voice is a conspicuous one in English, however, and possesses an exuberant, often ecstatic quality that builds over many lines, celebrating an emotional excitement that greatly surpasses the tenor of the scriptural or medieval texts on which the poems are often founded. Crashaw's version of the medieval ‘Sancta Maria dolorum’ readily exemplifies this. Imploring Mary, witnessing her son's crucifixion, to teach the poet an appropriate fervour to share in the event, he asks that the poet, the Virgin, and by implication the reader may ‘study him so, till we mix / Wounds; and become one crucifix’, and concludes with a desire for an emotional merging that sees him become the child suckling on his saviour. “Much of Crashaw's English writing, both sacred and secular, builds on the epigram, the genre in which he gained his initial reputation. A number of his English poems are indeed versions of the Latin epigrams published in his Epigrammata. In his longer poems Crashaw frequently writes what can virtually seem a series of extended epigrams. For instance, each of the thirty-one stanzas of ‘The Weeper’, Crashaw's poem on Mary Magdalen, is effectively a separate epigram commemorating the penitent saint's tears. This allows the poet full exercise in varying rhetorical exaggeration and invention around a theme, a common feature in contemporary neo-Latin verse. It is less usually employed to this extent in accomplished English poetry and has sometimes resulted in Crashaw's work being critically censured as ridiculously extravagant: And now where're he strayes Among the Galilean mountains, Or more unwelcome wayes, He's follow'd by two faithful fountains; Two walking baths; two weeping motions; Portable, & compendious oceans. (‘The Weeper’, Poems) (Thomas Healy, “Richard Crashaw” ODNB).
FÊTES GALANTES

FÊTES GALANTES by Verlaine, Paul. Barbier, Georges (illustrator)

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FÊTES GALANTES
Author
Verlaine, Paul. Barbier, Georges (illustrator)
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Paris: H. Piazza, 1928. First Edition Limited. Soft cover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Printed paper covers with illustrations on front and back, title on spine, and tissue guards. Exceptionally rare, this is numbered VI of XXV copies that were printed on imperial Japanese paper, containing 20 colored illustrations by Barbier. (The remaining two hundred copies numbered from 26 to 225 were printed on imperial Japanese paper, containing a black version of the illustrations; and eight hundred copies numbered from 226 to 1025 were on pure vellum paper.) In original glassine that is tanned and chipped. George Barbier (1882-1932) was a French illustrator in the early 20th century. He designed theater and ballet costumes, illustrated books, and produced haute couture fashion illustrations. Barbier led a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were known as "The Knights of the Bracelet.
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of a Japanese-American Woman in Los Angeles and Japan]

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of a Japanese-American Woman in Los Angeles and Japan] by [Japanese-American Photographica]: Yamasaki, Yoshiko

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Title
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Life of a Japanese-American Woman in Los Angeles and Japan]
Author
[Japanese-American Photographica]: Yamasaki, Yoshiko
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Los Angeles, 1951. Very good.. Thirty leaves, illustrated with 307 photographs between 1.75 x 1 inches and 7.5 x 9.75 inches, most leaves with at least one manuscript annotation in white ink, mostly in Japanese but occasionally in English, and ink annotations to the versos of the corner-mounted photographs. Oblong folio. Contemporary tan paper-covered boards, string tied, with picture window on front cover showing a floral scene of three roses above the word "Photographs." Minor rubbing and edge wear to covers, short closed tear to front cover, small chip to spine of rear cover. Minor marginal chipping to album leaves, some loose photos. A unique collection of photographs centering on Yoshiko Yamasaki (1929-2013), a young Japanese-American woman in Los Angeles, as well as some of her life and her family’s life in Japan. The album documents her life in the immediate post-World War II years, and features Yoshiko, her friends, and family alone or in groups, at church and at school, posed with friends and classmates on outings, and more. Yoshiko and her family and friends are dressed mostly in western-style or American-style clothing, but occasionally also in traditional Japanese dress in certain studio settings. Most of the manuscript annotations are in Japanese, but some of the later notations are written in English. Some of the identified American locations in the pictures include Hollenbeck Park, Venice Beach, Santa Monica Beach, the Huntington Library's Rose Garden and Japanese Garden, San Pedro Harbor, Arroyo Seco, Exposition Park, Mexico, and some street scenes, including a couple in front of the Tampico Club that was located at 1943 1st St. The largest photograph pictures the attendees of the 5th Annual Baptist Union Conference at Pine Cliff in early September 1950. Much further information is waiting to be gleaned from the wealth of manuscript annotations written in Japanese. Born in Tokyo in 1929, Dorothy Yoshiko Yamasaki passed away in Rancho Palos Verdes in 2013 after living most of her life in Anaheim. A wonderful collection of original and unique photographs memorializing a young Japanese-American woman's life in California and Japan.
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Peter Ibbetson; Trilby; The Martian by DU MAURIER, George

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Peter Ibbetson; Trilby; The Martian
Author
DU MAURIER, George
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London & New York: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.; Harper Bros., 1898. FIRST EDITION IN SINGLE BOOK FORM; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE MARTIAN. With hundreds of illustrations. Uniform bindings by Bayntum in blue polished calf, covers with gilt double-ruled around edges and inner dentelles, spine in 6 compartments. Spines with incorrect dates (binder's error); all edges gilt. These books are in mint condition, preserved in a box. First editions in single book form (The Martian is first American edition).
Maine and its Role in American Art, 1740-1963

Maine and its Role in American Art, 1740-1963 by Mellon, Gertrud and Elizabeth Wilder editors

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Maine and its Role in American Art, 1740-1963
Author
Mellon, Gertrud and Elizabeth Wilder editors
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. 178 pp. Good condition with light wear to the jacket. The binding has wear to the corners but overall, in very good condition. This copy owned by Maine rare bookseller Gary Woolson. It is inscribed on the flyleaf to Gary by Rockwell Kent and signed by Andrew Wyeth. The half title has an inscription to Gary and a watercolor painting by Waldo Pierce. Laid into the book is a letter from Waldo Pierce to Gary in 1965 with a watercolor decorated envelope by Peirce. Also, a typed letter dated 1968 from Gary with a handwritten response by Pierce. A marvelous lot.
GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR: Stories

GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR: Stories by Wallace, David Foster

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GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR: Stories
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Wallace, David Foster
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780393027570
Condition
Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description
New York, London: W.W. Norton Company, 1989. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Wallace's second book and first collection of short stories. At the time of GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR's publication, THE NEW YORK TIMES praised Wallace as "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent, one unafraid to tackle subjects large and small. Ever willing to experiment, he lays his artistic self on the line with his incendiary use of language, at times seeming to rip both the mundane and the unusual from their moorings, then setting them down anew, freshly described." A beautiful copy of this early Wallace title. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Publisher's original quarter black cloth over pale blue boards. In orginal unclipped ($17.95) pictorial jacket designed by Debra Morton Hoyt. x, 374 pages. Signed by Wallace on the title page. Trace wear. Faint toning here and there. Else bright, sound, and clean.
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Podvernuvshiisia sluchai /Emigrantskaia lirika/ (Happenstance /Emigrant Lyrics/) by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)

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Podvernuvshiisia sluchai /Emigrantskaia lirika/ (Happenstance /Emigrant Lyrics/)
Author
Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1966. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-89, [6]; beige-and-gray patterned wraps, printed in brown; light wear to tips and a bit of age-toning to spine; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his contemporaries. Spending most of his life in France, he founded the Dadaist group "Palata poetov" and was known to take inspiration for his art from classical composers, particularly Tchaikovsky and Bach.
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REPORT ON THE ART OF WAR IN EUROPE IN 1854, 1855, AND 1856 by DELAFIELD, Richard

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REPORT ON THE ART OF WAR IN EUROPE IN 1854, 1855, AND 1856
Author
DELAFIELD, Richard
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1860.
La Parte Occidentale della Nuova Francia o Canada

La Parte Occidentale della Nuova Francia o Canada by ZATTA, Antonio

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La Parte Occidentale della Nuova Francia o Canada
Author
ZATTA, Antonio
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1788. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 12.25" x 16.75". Beautiful early map of part of Ontario and Quebec including the Ottawa River and lower Hudson's Bay. Montreal is noted lower right and indigenous names are noted. Part of a twelve section map comprising the Italian edition of Mitchell's map of North America. Light stains lower right but otherwise in good condition. Antonio Zatta (1775-1797) was the most prominent Italian map publisher of the late 18th century. His Venice-based publishing company produced maps that mark an important transition from 18th- to 19th-century cartographic styles. He updates and redefines the traditional title cartouche by replacing the mythic elements common in earlier maps with more representative images.
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War Books. A Lecture Given at Manchester University February 15, 1929 by TOMLINSON, H. M.

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War Books. A Lecture Given at Manchester University February 15, 1929
Author
TOMLINSON, H. M.
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine copy
Description
Cleveland, OH: Rowfant Club, 1930. First edition. Limited to 215 copies printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Fine copy. Small 8vo, cloth-backed decorated boards. Fine copy.
Teton Mts. Jackson Lake

Teton Mts. Jackson Lake by Haynes, Frank Jay

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Teton Mts. Jackson Lake
Author
Haynes, Frank Jay
Seller
Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
St. Paul, MN: Haynes Picture Shops, 1917. 17302. Silver print photograph [7.5 cm x 23 cm] that has been hand-tinted on a gray mount [14.5 cm x 34 cm] with a gilt stamped border. Nice condition. Lovely hand-colored panorama of Jackson Lake, which is located in Grand Teton National Park. Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921) was employed by the Northern Pacific RR in 1875 to take pictures along their route from Minnesota to the West Coast for advertising and promotional purposes. From 1884 through 1915 Haynes operated a lucrative service industry in Yellowstone National Park making and selling souvenir photographs, taking pictures of tour parties, and publishing graphic souvenirs. F. Jay Haynes was known as the "Official Park Photographer.
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Peter and the Wolf by Voigt, Erna; Sergei Prokofiev

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Peter and the Wolf
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Voigt, Erna; Sergei Prokofiev
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
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Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Erna Voigt. SIGNED. Oblong quarto (26.5 cm x 24.5 cm) in boards over cloth spine. Light shelfwear to jacket; light rubbing to extremities, else boards are crisp and unworn; interior is clean and crisp. Signed and inscribed by Voigt, on the each free endpaper: "With best wishes! Erna Voigt, West Germany/Munich Jan 12, 1982". Illustrator Erna Voigt's clever realizations of Prokofiev's characters move through idyllic landscapes reminiscent of tapestry-work. Each page of text features the musical motif and instrument associated with that part of the story.
The Dragons of Expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history

The Dragons of Expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history by Robert Conquest

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The Dragons of Expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history
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Robert Conquest
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780393059335
Condition
Fine
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. An exceptional copy of this well received look into the course of history; uncommon in the first printing. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
In the Dark, Move Slowly

In the Dark, Move Slowly by ANHAVA, Tuomas (poems); Anselm Hollo (translation and selection)

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In the Dark, Move Slowly
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ANHAVA, Tuomas (poems); Anselm Hollo (translation and selection)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Cape Goliard Press / Grossman Publishers, 1969. First Edition. First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (22cm); blue-green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [40]pp. Remainder mark to lower edge of textblock, with very slight spine lean, and lower corners lightly bumped; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has modest shelfwear, dust-soil and rubbing, and damp-stains to lower spine panel, rear spine fold, and rear flap hinge; red remainder marks to flap folds; Good. Finnish author Anhava earned the Eino Leino Prize and was editor-in-chief of Finland's literary magazine Parnasso. Poems selected and translated from Finnish by Hollo. [83002].
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Primer Simposio Mundial sobre Epigrafia Maya

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Primer Simposio Mundial sobre Epigrafia Maya
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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National Geographic Society, 1987. Very Good. Primer Simposio Mundial sobre Epigrafia Maya. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1987. 181pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Previous owner's name on front endsheet..
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To Gettysburg by Train

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To Gettysburg by Train
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Thomas Publications, 1989. Very Good. To Gettysburg by Train. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1989. 30pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good.
On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Man. Translated into English by Charles Donald O'Malley. De Ovi Mammalium et Hominis Genesi . . . With an introduction by I. Bernard Cohen.

On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Man. Translated into English by Charles Donald O'Malley. De Ovi Mammalium et Hominis Genesi . . . With an introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. by BAER, Karl Ernst von.

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On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Man. Translated into English by Charles Donald O'Malley. De Ovi Mammalium et Hominis Genesi . . . With an introduction by I. Bernard Cohen.
Author
BAER, Karl Ernst von.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Cambridge:: History of Science Society, 1956., 1956. Offprint from: ISIS, vol. 47. [117]-153 pp. Original wrappers. Near fine.

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