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LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY

LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY by Stein, Gertrude

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY
Author
Stein, Gertrude
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Paris: Imprimerie Union / (Plain Edition), 1930. First printing. Very good.. First edition of this first book from Stein's Plain Edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein - and which Toklas repudiated. After Stein's death, Alice Toklas stewarded Stein's posthumous literary reputation, both assisting editors of new editions of Stein's texts and providing assistance (or obstacles, as the case may be) to biographers. At the time of this book's inscription, novelist Elizabeth Sprigge was working on her first biography, about the Modernist Swedish author August Strindberg, that would be favorably reviewed for its "remarkably accurate and clear treatment of a controversial figure" (Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 22 No. 1, 28). Toklas's 1954 inscription here - "with love [...] Devotedly" - indicates that Toklas and Sprigge began a friendship on warm terms. Indeed, Toklas was impressed by Sprigge's biography of Strindberg upon its release the next year, and she initially supported Sprigge's idea of writing a biography of Stein because of it. In 1953, Toklas wrote her own editor at Harper to provide a connection for Sprigge to publish her planned biography of Stein; it was, Toklas's biographer remarked, "a recommendation that Alice came to regret" (Simon, 283). As Sprigge continued gathering material for the biography, it became clear that she intended to "include personal details [...] a practice Alice would not allow" (Simon, 284). Toklas warned off friends whom Sprigge was contacting and, in 1956, argued at length with Sprigge regarding the content of the biography - especially her own role in it. Toklas argued she herself "had no place in the book except, perhaps, as the editor of the Plain Edition" (Simon, 284), Stein and Toklas's short-lived small press that published this book. Harper ultimately published Sprigge's GERTRUDE STEIN: HER LIFE AND WORK in 1957, much to Toklas's dismay. One of Stein's most under-appreciated books, LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY was the first of the books Stein published herself, frustrated as she was by a lack of a regular outlet for her work. It was available only in this edition until 1969, when Something Else Press republished it. A fragile book often found in shabbier condition, an important copy. 7'' x 5''. Publisher's original blue printed boards. No jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies. 240 pages. Inscribed by Alice Toklas on the front free endpaper: "Once again with love to Elizabeth [Sprigge] / Devotedly / Alice / Saint-Medard 54 - Paris." Spine faded, but titles legible. Extremities worn, rubbing overall. Else sound.
Speak Out for Justice [caption title]

Speak Out for Justice [caption title] by [Civil Rights Movement]. [Alabama]. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
Speak Out for Justice [caption title]
Author
[Civil Rights Movement]. [Alabama]. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
About good.
Description
[Greenville, Al, 1965. About good.. Photo-illustrated broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old tears repaired with cello tape on verso, four cello tape reinforcements along edges, noticeable tanning, old folds. Top corner chipped away. A highly-ephemeral and likely unique surviving example of this broadside handbill issued by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Greenville, Alabama in the heat of the Civil Rights Movement. A central photograph picturing a young Black woman and a group of African-American activists facing off against police occupies about half of the broadside, with the words "Speak Out for Justice" emblazoned above and below the photograph. Added by typewriter are the words, "Greenville, Alabama. 11/65" and "Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President." As with many other places in the South, Greenville, Alabama had been the site of numerous clashes between African-American citizens and police officers during the struggle for civil rights. The impetus for the present handbill was likely related to the recent clash between R.B. Cottonreader, a County Project Director for the SCLC in Greenville, and local authorities. Cottonreader and the SCLC sued the mayor and various officials in Greenville over the summer of 1965 for violating multiple constitutional rights relating to assembly, equal protection, voter registration, and more. Cottonreader and other African-American activists continued their civil disobedience into November (the date typed on the present handbill). Eventually, the U.S. District Court in Alabama found both Cottonreader and the local officials equally culpable for the unrest in Greenville.
ELIMUS

ELIMUS by Windeler, B.C.; Shakespear, D. [Illustrator]

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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA
Title
ELIMUS
Author
Windeler, B.C.; Shakespear, D. [Illustrator]
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. Limited First Edition #150/300. Hardcover. Thin Octavo, 45 pages. In Very Good Minus condition. Spine red with no lettering. Quarter bound in red cloth with grey paper boards. Spine slightly cocked. Minor shelfwear and soiling. Slight foxing and bowing to boards. Minor bleeding to red dye where cloth meets the front board. Minor agetoning to pages. Pages uncut. SH consignment. Shelved case 9 3/4. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403300. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Exhibition card: stanley brouwn (6 June-19 August 2012)

Exhibition card: stanley brouwn (6 June-19 August 2012) by (BROUWN, Stanley)

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Exhibition card: stanley brouwn (6 June-19 August 2012)
Author
(BROUWN, Stanley)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Printed on both sides. Card. Villeurbanne: Institut d'art contemporain, 2012. Announcement card for a brouwn (1935-2017) museum exhibition that never occurred. The artist withdrew weeks before the vernissage. Fine.
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TROIS SECONDS D'ETERNITE; THREE SECONDS TO ETERNITY. by Doisneau, Robert

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Title
TROIS SECONDS D'ETERNITE; THREE SECONDS TO ETERNITY.
Author
Doisneau, Robert
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: Contrejour, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 2nd French ed. Wonderful French photos printed in heliogravure as in the 1st ed.
The Little Regiment; and Other Episodes of the American Civil War

The Little Regiment; and Other Episodes of the American Civil War by Crane, Stephen

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Title
The Little Regiment; and Other Episodes of the American Civil War
Author
Crane, Stephen
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket. Beige buckram, heavily toned and soiled, stained at some spots. Square and firmly bound though the hinges are broken, bookseller's ticket inside the front board. A collection of six stories related to the American Civil War from the author of The Red Badge of Courage.
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Petits Contes de Chez Nous by VERITÉ, Marcelle

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Title
Petits Contes de Chez Nous
Author
VERITÉ, Marcelle
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Bruges: Desclee de Brouwer, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. HEBBELYNCK Jeanne. Oblong 4to, presumed first edition or early printing. Pictorial paper over boards a tad soiled and chipped about edges, but internal near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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A Leaf of Spring by Yesenin-Volpin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich

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A Leaf of Spring
Author
Yesenin-Volpin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Bilingual edition. Translated by George Reavey. 173p., dj. Poems and an essay by this young Russian poet-philosopher.
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THE ROMMANY STONE by Yoxall, J. H.

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Title
THE ROMMANY STONE
Author
Yoxall, J. H.
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Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. (Gypsy Novel) 330 pages, pictorial boards, spine ends and cover corners are slightly rubbed, scuffed, otherwise a nice copy. .

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