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The Cynic's Word Book (The Devil's Dictionary) by Bierce, Ambrose

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Title: The Cynic's Word Book (The Devil's Dictionary)
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1906. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing, issue with no frontispiece, leaves on spine stem down. BAL's State A with no printer's imprint on copyright page, no priority. Association copy signed by Ambrose Bierce in pencil and inscribed to his friend DeLancey Gill: "with the author's compliments. Washington, D.C., January 21 1907." vi, 234 pp. Bound in publisher's dark olive cloth stamped in red and black, top edge gilt. Very Good with discreet fill-in at head and tail of spine, light rubbing and moderate staining to cloth, and bumping to corners. Hinges repaired with original endpapers preserved, sharp vertical crease to back free endpaper. Scattered foxing, light toning, and occasional thumbing and staining throughout. A worn but skillfully repaired association copy with sound binding. DeLancey Walker Gill was an artist and photographer who directed the Division of Illustration at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1889 to 1932. He was also a member of the exclusive Cosmos Club and a pal of the satirist and newspaper writer Ambrose Bierce, who moved to Washington in 1896. "Bitter Bierce" was famous for breaking friendships, but this one must have lasted: a small note laid in reads: "Dear Babe -- Take good care of this book -- it is one of the few reminders of an old & dear friend -- Dad." "Babe" was Gill's nickname for his daughter Agnes, whose signature is in pencil above the original inscription.

Boilly's Humorous Designs by BOILLY, Louis-Léopold

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Title: Boilly's Humorous Designs
Author: BOILLY, Louis-Léopold
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823 & D. Alexander, 1823. Scarce First British Appearance of Boilly's Grimaces Eleven Superb Hand Colored Lithographs BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. Boilly's Humorous Designs. London: E. & C. M'Lean, 1823 & D. Alexander, 1824. A fine collection from the first UK publication of Boilly's initial plates from his Recueil de Grimaces (1823). Folio (14 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 372 x 264 mm). Eleven superb hand-colored lithographed plates after Boilly. Plate numbers one & six are watermarked "J. Whatman 1823". Original half red morocco over drab gray boards, expertly rebacked to style, original rectangular red morocco label on front cover lettered in gilt "Humorous Designs by L. Boilly". Later endpapers. A superb collection with bright and vivid hand coloring. Exceedingly scarce. 1. Grimaces. Pl:1. Pubd by E & C McLean (Emotions- five male figures) 2. Grimaces. Pl:2. Pubd by E & C McLean (Emotions- five female figures) 3. Grimaces. Pl:3. Pubd by E & C McLean (five men tasting gruel) 4. Grimaces. Pl:4. Pubd by E & C McLean (four men and one woman expressions) 5. Grimaces. Pl:5. Pubd by E & C McLean (five men - various expressions) 6. Grimaces. Pl:6. Pubd by E & C McLean (three men and two women smoking, drinking and using snuff) 7. Beggars. London Pub. by E & C McLean - 1823 (five male beggars) 8. Grimaces. Drawn on Stone and Published by D Alexander, 10 Belgrade Place East Lane, Walworth Road (PL.5) (four men and a woman - various expressions) 9. Mustachios. Drawn on Stone and Published by D Alexander, 10 Belgrade Place East Lane, Walworth Road Nov: 1824 (Pl. 2) (two boys and one girl drawing a moustache on another sleeping young girl) 10. Perfect Felicity. Drawn on Stone and Published by D Alexander, 10 Belgrade Place East Lane, Walworth Rd. (PL.VI) (A man and a woman drinking wine and getting drunk) 11. O you ugly Dog! L. Boilly Aglio Lith. (three boys pointing to an 'ugly' figure) From 1823 to 1828 Boilly worked on a series of ninety-five lithographs, all caricatures representing various human emotions, such as alarm, menace, pain, disgust, or exasperation. "Today, at least outside France, Boilly is best known for his lithographs. Although credited with having drawn the first lithograph in France in 1802, he did not return to the medium until 1822, when he more or less abandoned oil painting. The caricatural aspects of his lithographic work go back to the English caricaturists Cruikshank, Gillray, and Rowlandson and the earlier innovations of Hogarth. His most popular series of lithographs, Recueil de Grimaces, was published between 1823 and 1828... The vignetted subjects of these prints appear to be cut out and applied to a plain background, a format also used by Pigal during the Restoration. The series was so popular that Philipon's printer Aubert re-published it in 1837 under the new title Groupes physionomiques... "The series Recueil de Grimaces, published over the course of five years, included ninety-six lithographs... Boilly's popularity during the Restoration was largely due to this series. The interest in expressive heads had precedent in France... During the late eighteenth century, physiognomy, the art of reading inner character by means of facial expressions, was popularized by engravings illustrating Lavater's well-known Essays on Physiognomy, which may well have influenced the format of Boilly's Recueil de Grimaces' (The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature). The son of a wood-carver, Louis-Léopold Boilly lived in Douai until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Arras to receive instruction in trompe-l'oeil painting at Domenica Doncre before moving to Paris in 1785. Between 1789 and 1791 he executed eight small scenes on moralizing and amorous subjects for the Avignon collector Esprit-Claude-François Calvet (1728-1810), including The Visit (1789; Saint-Omer, Musée Hôtel Sandelin). He exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824 and received a gold medal at the Salon in 1804. These paintings thoroughly observed and reflected all aspects of urban life, its costumes and its habits, between the revolutionary period and the Restoration. In 1823, Boilly produced a series of humorous lithographies entitled Grimaces. In 1833, at a time when his popularity was declining, he was admitted to the Légion d'honneur and the Institut de France. His three sons, Julien Léopold (1796-1874), Édouard (1799-1854) and Alphonse Léopold (1801-1867), were also painters. (Susan Siegfried. The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly, p. 122-123).

Carrousels et Baraques by Tijtgat, Edgard

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Title: Carrousels et Baraques
Author: Tijtgat, Edgard
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Cyril Beaumont, 1919. First Limited Edition. Folder. Very Good. No. 107 of 150 limitation, on Papier de chine. Oblong, 23 by 27 cm. 7 pp. 6 mounted color plates, representing fairs in Belgium and England (three each. The palette is the artwork is tenebrous like pre-Provincal van Gogh, and the style is deliberately primitive as one finds with other post-Impressionists, among them Vlaminck, Vuillard, etc. Through these means Tijtgat conveys a sense of nostalgia, distance and loss towards the gay subject matter. The folder cover is lightly soiled. The contents are clean and fresh.

Gerald Ford Signs A Time To Heal by GERALD FORD

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Title: Gerald Ford Signs A Time To Heal
Author: GERALD FORD
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: GERALD FORD (1913-2006). Ford was the Thirty-Eighth President. SB. 6 x 9 . 454pg. No date. No place. A Time To Heal signed Gerald R. Ford on a Presidential book plate attached to the first free endpage. It has a fine dustjacket with light sunning to the spine and a couple short tears,, and the tight book is in extremely fine condition overall.

Lectures on Malarial Fevers by Thayer, W S

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Title: Lectures on Malarial Fevers
Author: Thayer, W S
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A very good copy.
Description: New York: D Appleton and Co., 1897. First Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A very good copy.. 8vo. There are 3 tinted plates and 2 fldg. charts. An interesting study of the pathology of malarial infections with commnetary on blood work and history of the literature on the subject. An interesting book. See G - M,

Finnegans Wake, Chapter One. The Illnesstraited Colossick Idition by James Joyce and Tim Ahern

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Title: Finnegans Wake, Chapter One. The Illnesstraited Colossick Idition
Author: James Joyce and Tim Ahern
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780295959917
Condition: Very good
Description: Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. [88]pp. Pages slightly tanned, wraps lightly rubbed, else very good.

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