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Placets de l'officier Desbans. by SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel; Desbans, Edme-Louis; ROXBURG

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Title: Placets de l'officier Desbans.
Author: SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel; Desbans, Edme-Louis; ROXBURG
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 2007. SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel. Placets de l'officier Desbans. Preface by Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum. 62 pp. Illustrated with 15 facsimile drawings by Gabriel Saint-Aubin, plus a few head- and tail-pieces. Folio, 360 x 235 mm, bound in full red silk over boards, with the gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of Marie-Antoinette on both covers. Paris: 1775 (i.e. London: Roxburghe Club, 2007). Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club. This is a facsimile edition of an original French eighteenth-century manuscript produced in Paris in 1775. Edme-Louis Desbans, born 1728, wrote his own text and orchestrated the production of this superlative manuscript as a petition for his advancement in the French Army. It was intended for two readers only: Marie-Antoinette, the new Queen of France, and her husband Louis XVI. Desbans flatters the new Queen as a patron of a new taste in the arts, architecture, fashion, music (as supporter of her fellow Austrian composer Gluck), and symbolic mother of her adopted nation. For Louis XVI, the petition becomes more down-to-earth and appeals to his sense of majesty, fairness and duty as head of the French nation and the French army. The heart and soul of this Placet can be found in the exquisite pen and wash drawings by Saint-Aubin, which accompany the particular points Desbans is trying to make with the King and the Queen. Two of the most captivating drawings show the performance of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide attended by Marie-Antoinette and the Coronation scene of Louis XVI at Rheims on 12 June 1775. The manuscript was in the possession of Baron Pichon in the late nineteenth century. It then passed into the collection Baron Maurice de Rothschild. In 1963 it was acquired by Mrs Charles Wrightsman of New York. The facsimile was printed by Santiago Saavedra Ediciones of Madrid. Limited to 75 copies printed for gift and for sale.

Popular Education in France: With Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland by Arnold, Matthew; (Trilling, Lionel)

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Title: Popular Education in France: With Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland
Author: Arnold, Matthew; (Trilling, Lionel)
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts Co, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First separate edition. Presentation copy with the ink inscription in the publisher’s hand “With the Author’s Compliments” at the head of the half-title. Above and below that is a much later dedication to Lionel Trilling and another person. A very nice association between two centuries of literary critics across the Atlantic. Trilling, in addition to being a writer and educator, was one of the most important literary critics of the 20th Century. Arnold is known as the preeminent Victorian-era literary and cultural critic. l, [2], 294, 24 ads pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. About Very Good with wear at head and split starting down back of spine, light edge wear, bumped corners, front hinge split but holding.

MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE [Signed] by Wolfe, Tom

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Title: MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE [Signed]
Author: Wolfe, Tom
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780374204242
Description: New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 243 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. White spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$8.95", has mild shelving wear, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear and age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges, light foxing along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1395030. Special Collections.

Il Mistero Del Mondo by WOLF, Silvio, Esther Mathis, Roberta Levi, Yusuke Nishimura, and Filippo Guerrieri

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Title: Il Mistero Del Mondo
Author: WOLF, Silvio, Esther Mathis, Roberta Levi, Yusuke Nishimura, and Filippo Guerrieri
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: San Marco: Jarach Gallery, 2009. First edition. Oblong softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran October 31 through December 31, 2009. Text in English and Italian with biographical information about each artist. Includes images by Esther Mathis, Roberta Levi, Yusuke Nishimura, and Filippo Guerrieri. A very good copy stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Includes a laid in orginal photograph by Yusuke Nishimura. Image measures 5.25" by 5.25" and he has signed and written a note on the verso presenting this catalog to Bonnie Yochelson. Photograph in very near fine condition. A scarce catalog with no copies listed in OCLC.

John Zurier: A spring a thousand years ago by ZURIER, John and Stefan Hordur Grimsson

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Title: John Zurier: A spring a thousand years ago
Author: ZURIER, John and Stefan Hordur Grimsson
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Peter Blum, 2013. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran April 25 through June 22, 2013. Single sheet folded once to create 4 pages. Features Stefan Hordur Grimsson's poem "The Night Shed Its Blue Tears." Includes 1 black and white illustration and information about the exhibition. A very good plus copy that has been folded in half (likely for mailing). An uncommon piece of ephemera for this American artist.

Algeria; A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works by ACKER, Kathy

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Title: Algeria; A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works
Author: ACKER, Kathy
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Aloes Books, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's original pink decorated card wraps. 29pp. Some minor creasing and scuffing to the edges and extremities, a touch of sunning around the spine area; internally clean. A very good copy. A short piece originally published as a short form story entitled "Girl Gangs Take Over The World." Published immediately prior to "Blood and Guts in High School" often cited as Acker's breakthrough publication, "Algeria" is an intense introduction to Acker's speeding, lush, weird writing style where every event is bitter ammunition for an assault on comfort, complacency, and the things we hold taboo.

The Spanish Cape Mystery: A Problem in Deduction by Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)

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Title: The Spanish Cape Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Author: Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (with a Triangle Books (reissue) dust jacket) [a nice clean copy with no significant wear, just a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all in ink) on the half-title page; the jacket is also in beautiful condition, with only some very minor edgewear, all the more remarkable because Triangle Books editions were not known for their production quality]. (illustrated endpaper map) First edition of the ninth Ellery Queen novel (actually the tenth EQ book if you count the 1934 short-story collection "The Adventures of Ellery Queen"), in which a one-eyed giant kidnaps a young heiress and her uncle. This was the final novel in Queen's first period, all books of which shared the "Challenge to the Reader" feature, henceforth abandoned (as were the "Problem in Deduction" subtitles); it was also the first of his works to be adapted for a film (in 1935, with Donald Cook in the role of Ellery). The mismatched jacket (which was on the book as we received it) is probably from a relatively early (pre-1940) Triangle reprint, which retains the same artwork as the first edition jacket (later Triangle printings used different art). (A facsimile of the actual first edition jacket is available (not from us), however, should you wish to dress it up a bit more properly.) .

Kokka : an illustrated monthly journal of the fine and applied arts of Japan and other eastern countries (issue 1373) Maruyama Okyo's "Both Banks of The Yodo River" Handscroll

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Title: Kokka : an illustrated monthly journal of the fine and applied arts of Japan and other eastern countries (issue 1373) Maruyama Okyo's "Both Banks of The Yodo River" Handscroll
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG
Description: Tokyo, 2010. Hardbound. VG. Original tied wraps. appx. 48 pp, many large crisp color plates and bw plates.

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