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Arethuse ou La Vengeance de l'Amour, Ballet Mis en Musique ... Representé pour la première fois par l'Academie Royale de Musique Le quatorziéme jour de Juillet 1701. [Vocal score] by CAMPRA, André 1660-1774

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Title: Arethuse ou La Vengeance de l'Amour, Ballet Mis en Musique ... Representé pour la première fois par l'Academie Royale de Musique Le quatorziéme jour de Juillet 1701. [Vocal score]
Author: CAMPRA, André 1660-1774
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Christophe Ballard, seul Imprimeur du Roy pour la Musique, ruë S Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse ... Avec Privilege de Sa Majesté, 1701. Oblong quarto. Full contemporary dark brown mottled calf with spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt, decorative gilt tooling to edges, marbled edges and endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. ("Table"), [iii] ("Airs a jouer"), [i] ("Memoire des Oeuvres de Monsieur Campra"), i-lvi (prologue), 231, [i] ("Extrait du Privilege") pp. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; free front endpaper lacking. Moderate browning; occasional, mostly marginal staining and soiling; title foxed; minor loss to blank upper margin of "Airs a jouer" and page i of prologue; occasional dampstaining, small tears, and other minor defects. First Edition. Very scarce. BUC p. 157. Lesure p. 94. RISM C707. No copies recorded by RBH at auction since 1947. Arethuse was first performed on 14 July 1701. Campra "was a leading figure in French theatrical and sacred music in the early 18th century. ... [His] musical style is seen at its best in his opéras-ballets. As he himself stated, it is a mixture of French 'delicatesse' and Italian 'vivacité'. The syllabic airs with short symmetrical phrases, a delicate sense of orchestral colour and an expressive and organic use of vocal ornamentation are characteristically French, as is the five-part texture inherited from Lully, which prevails in many symphonies. The complex vocalises of the ariettes and da capo airs, the concerto-like rhythms of certain ritournelles and the use of rapid modulations all come from Italy. Mellers observed that Campra was 'perhaps the most enchanting of dance composers'. He is borne out by the gestic directness of the minuets, with their almost Haydn-like triadic melodies, the carefree humour of the rigaudons in Les âges, with their unabashed parallel 5ths, suggesting the rustic dances of his meridional homeland, and the kinetic energy of the contredanses and forlane, which have an extra measure thrown in here and there to avoid symmetrical phrase groupings. ... Campra was the most catholic of the generation of composers that flourished between Lully's death (1687) and Rameau's début as an opera composer (1733). It is no longer possible to sustain the argument that Campra and his contemporaries were mere 'imitators of Lully'. With his delicate sense of orchestral colour, the kaleidoscopic brilliance with which he used the dance, his gift for melody and his sensitivity to the expressive possibilities of harmony, Campra greatly expanded the musical vocabulary of Lully. Through his opéras-ballets he introduced a degree of verisimilitude to the French lyric stage. On his limited scale and at his best, he was a poet who, like the painter Antoine Watteau, created a world half real, half fantasy. His awareness of the primary role of the musician in opera was not shared by most contemporaneous French aestheticians, but it enabled him to turn to the Prince of Conti after the first performances of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie in 1733 and prophesy: 'There is enough music in this opera for ten operas; this man will eclipse us all'." James R. Anthony in Grove Music Online.

Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. [Star Spangled Banner] by Key, Francis Scott [Star Spangled Banner]

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Title: Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. [Star Spangled Banner]
Author: Key, Francis Scott [Star Spangled Banner]
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York, 1857. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, xii, (13)-203 pp. First edition. The first edition of the Star Spangled Banner in book form. It had been printed only as a broadside in 1814. A BAL 11093 binding B, with no sequence noted. A good plus to very good minus copy with excellent contents. Lean to spine, chipping to cloth at head and heel of spine, contemporary ownership signature to title page, light normal shelfwear. Remains well preserved. "'The Star-Spangled Banner' has been in recent times censured for its awkward melodic line, but its lyrics are now so much a part of the popular patriotic imagination that any attempt at literary analysis would perhaps seem unusual. (The second and third stanzas of the original song are often omitted in public ceremonies as a gesture of courtesy to the British; the words "hireling and slave" of stanza three refer to the common British practice of using mercenary soldiers.) It is interesting that the critic Charles F. Richardson, writing in American Literature, mentions the "bald, rude rhymes" in the work. He goes on to say that the song, along with "Adams and Liberty" and "Hail Columbia," is "so closely enshrined in the patriotic heart . . . that no one stops to think of . . . [its] literary poverty" (vol. 2 [1889] p. 26). Richardson's comments seem a just assessment of a work that had not yet become a national symbol." - ANB. Please contact us for additional pictures or information. Sabin 37669. BAL 11093.

JEAN HARLOW (ca. 1931) Photo by George F. Cannons - 2 by George F. Cannons

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Title: JEAN HARLOW (ca. 1931) Photo by George F. Cannons - 2
Author: George F. Cannons
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: George F. Cannons. No binding. Fine. [Los Angeles: George F. Cannons, ca. 1931]. Vintage original 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" (18 x 23 cm) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo. Ink stamped on verso with photographer credit, fine. British photographer George F. Cannons has captured a truly unique spirit in this portrait of Jean Harlow during her freelance period between her star debut in Hell's Angels and her MGM contract period, most likely when she made Three Wise Girls for Columbia. With extreme soft focus and without her extravagant make-up she appears demure -- the girl next door -- and most likely her true self. Cannons, who came from London, was first associated with Mack Sennett from 1924-27. In 1927 he opened his Little English Studio on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, across the street from the Garden of Allah Hotel, and was no longer associated with a movie studio. He returned to England in 1934.

The Just and the Unjust by Cozzens, James Gould

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Title: The Just and the Unjust
Author: Cozzens, James Gould
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo.,434pp. Sharp Stated First Edition, bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in white on spine. Square, tight and generally clean throughout with little if any page toning. Some spotting to end-papers. Some bumping to spine ends. Clipped dust-jacket has nicks and closed tears along the edges, tips and spine ends. Still fresh and bright. A solid overall, collectable copy at a great price. (Hubin p. 96).

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Isabel Bishop. by YGLESIAS, Helen.

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Title: Isabel Bishop.
Author: YGLESIAS, Helen.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780847809769
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY:: Rizzoli,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0847809765 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

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