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Hecatomphila che ne insegnia l'ingeniosa arte d'Amore - Deiphira che ne mostra fuggir il mal principiato amore, pur hora venuto ne le mani de gli huomini

Hecatomphila che ne insegnia l'ingeniosa arte d'Amore - Deiphira che ne mostra fuggir il mal principiato amore, pur hora venuto ne le mani de gli huomini by ALBERTI, Leon Battista

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Title
Hecatomphila che ne insegnia l'ingeniosa arte d'Amore - Deiphira che ne mostra fuggir il mal principiato amore, pur hora venuto ne le mani de gli huomini
Author
ALBERTI, Leon Battista
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
Venizia: Marchio Sessa, 1534. Small 8vo.  155 x 95 mm., [6 x 3 ¾ inches].  27 ff.  Illustrated with a playful woodcut border enclosing the title, an engraved initial letter, and Marchio Sessa's printer's mark.  Bound in full green levant morocco signed Lortic, decorated with blind fillets on each board and gilt floral tools at the corners, enclosing a gilt decorative floral pattern in the center of the boards; internal dentelle, gilt edges, spine with bands with title engraved in gold with microscopic characters An elegant edition of the Manuale d'Amore (Love Handbook) written by Leon Battista Alberti, which discusses how Renaissance women are loved and feared by the men in their lives and households.  Originally published as two works in Padua in 1471 under the common titles of Hecatomphia and Deiphira, Alberti first proposes a dialogue of an experienced woman speaking to young female listeners and teaching them how to gain and preserve a lover's affection.  In Deiphira Alberti reverses course and creates a dialogue between a young man and his mentor and demonstrates how through the act of love and passion a woman enchains man, clouds his reason and ability to exercise his will.  This edition printed in Venice in 1534 combines both of these rare titles into one essay and continues the tradition of ars amatoria, the instructional elegy on love, first written by Ovid in the second century.  Guido Cavalcanti and Giovanni Boccaccio contributed to this tradition in the 13th century, and Alberti among others in the centuries to come would continue to write about the impact of amorous relations between men and women and the extacy and sorrow caused by the passions in the lives of mankind. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, I, p. 703. British Library, Short-Title Catalogue of  Books Printed in Italy, p. 15.  Sander, Le Livre a Figures Italien, I, 149.   Brunet, Manuel du Libraire, I,131.  Ebert, A General Bibliographical Dictionary, I, 346. .
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Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary by YORK Alvin SKEYHILL Tom

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Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary
Author
YORK Alvin SKEYHILL Tom
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1928. First Edition. Signed. YORK, Alvin, with SKEYHILL, Tom. Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. $4800.First edition of this acclaimed Medal of Honor winner's account of his life in war and back home in rural Tennessee, signed by him.From an impoverished family in rural Tennessee, York ended up in the army in World War I only after claim of conscientious objector status was rejected. In October 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, York led an attack on a German machine-gun nest that killed at least 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132 of them. Initially awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, he was shortly after given the Medal of Honor, the United States' military's highest decoration. Although at first unnoticed after the war, a 1919 article in the Saturday Evening Post brought intense media attention to York; the combination of his rural and picturesque (if also impoverished) background, his innate modesty, and his wartime valor appealed immensely to the American public. But York repeatedly refused to capitalize on his fame, turning down book and movie deals for years. York only agreed to publish this work—focused equally on his early life in Tennessee and his military exploits—in order to fund ""a school which he has built for his neighbors' children."" The 1941 movie Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper, was based in large part on this account. Both critically and popularly successful, it was the highest grossing movie of 1941, earning 11 Academy Award nominations, with Cooper winning Best Actor. Book about-fine, front inner hinge expertly reinforced, dust jacket with mild toning to spine, a few short closed tears, a little bit of wear to spine corners. Scarce signed and in dust jacket.
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TRUE AMERICAN

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TRUE AMERICAN
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description
1801. THE TRUE AMERICAN. Trenton: Matthias Day & Jacob Mann, Apr. 21, 1801. Vol. I no. 6. Separated at center fold, a trifle browned and soiled.
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Where I Live. Selected Essays. by Williams, Tennessee

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Where I Live. Selected Essays.
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Williams, Tennessee
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Description
New York: New Directions, 1978. Paperback. Very Good+. First paperback edition. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the half-title. A clean copy.
Populist Manifesto

Populist Manifesto by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

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Populist Manifesto
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Somerset, ENG: RiffRaff Poets. Jumbo postcard [14.5 cm x 21 cm] Printed in black ink. Fine. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the reverse. RiffRaff Poets card number 75. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.
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SONGS OF MODERN GREECE WITH INTRODUCTIONS, TRANSLATIONS, AND NOTES by Abbott, G. F.

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SONGS OF MODERN GREECE WITH INTRODUCTIONS, TRANSLATIONS, AND NOTES
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Abbott, G. F.
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Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Cambridge: The University Press, 1900. 307 pages. Ex-library copy with typical markings. Contents are otherwise clean and sound. Blue cloth binding is tight with gilt stamping and light soil. Overall a good copy. .
Gorky Park (Original photograph from the 1983 film)

Gorky Park (Original photograph from the 1983 film) by William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy (starring); Michael Apted (director); Martin Cruz Smith (novel); Dennis Potter (screenwriter)

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Gorky Park (Original photograph from the 1983 film)
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William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy (starring); Michael Apted (director); Martin Cruz Smith (novel); Dennis Potter (screenwriter)
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: Eagle Associates, 1983. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1983 film. A political thriller about a Soviet militsiya officer named Arkady Renko who stumbles across a plot involving a fur trader and the KGB. Shot on location in Finland, Sweden, Scotland, and Russia. 8 x 10 inches. A stamp to the verso, else Near Fine.

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