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Lettere di molte valorose donne, by Lando, Ortensio; Lucrezia Gonzaga; eds.

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Title: Lettere di molte valorose donne,
Author: Lando, Ortensio; Lucrezia Gonzaga; eds.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1548-49. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (17cm); 161 [3] leaves (including final blank). Printer's device on title page and on verso of last leaf. Woodcut initial H on f.2 populated with racquetball players, and woodcut initial D on f.3 by the figure of a woman petting a boar. Italic and Roman type. Slight yellowing, light water stain to some lower outer corners. A very good copy in c.1750 polished vellum, gilt-stamped title on spine. C16 pen traces. Occasional scattered foxing. References: Adams, L-562; Bongi I, 213-214; BM Italian, 376; Melzi II, 115; Grendler, 14. See also, Meredith K. Ray, "Writing Gender in Womens Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance" (Toronto, 2009); Serena Pezzini, "Dissimulazione e paradosso in Ortensio Lando," in "Italianistica" 31:1 (2002) pp. 67-83; Natalina Bellucci, "Lettere di molte valorose donne...e di alcune pettegolette, ovvero: di un libro di lettere di Ortensio Lando," in Quondam, ed., "Le carte messaggere: rhetorica e modelli di communicazione epistolare..."(Rome, 1981) pp. 255-76. Lettere di molte valorose donne is a collection of model letters written by women to other women, demonstrating (in the context of the "querelle des femmes") that women are in no way inferior to men in eloquence and education. Topics range widely, embracing the commonplaces but with the addition of issues such as marriage, childbirth, the struggle for education, and the attractiveness of men, or lack thereof. The text seems to provide an intimate glimpse into a female network in which advice and comfort are shared. Authorship of Lettere di molte valorose donne puzzles scholars to this day. Published by the powerful Venetian house of Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, there is no attribution on the title page or in the front matter. Lando is only mentioned in the gratulatory verses at the end of the book, where his famous peers, Dolce, Aretino, Sansovino, and Pestalossa, celebrate him for the "copious sweat and considerable personal expenses" that he put into compiling the book. Succumbing to historical bias, nineteenth-century scholarship denied the authorship of the letters from the women who wrote them, insisting that Lando wrote the entire text. Recent research restores the texts to their female writers, and takes the view that Lando, in collaboration with his great friend and sometime patron, Lucrezia Gonzaga, may have done some heavy editing. The eccentric, peripatetic humanist Ortensio Lando was never comfortable with the noble courtesies of his Renaissance world. During his lifetime (ca. 1510-ca. 1559), he was in the top tier of Italian public intellectuals, but unlike his still-famous peers (Dolce, Sansovino, Bembo) he refused to buckle down. He attached himself to Rabelais's circle in Lyon while he worked in Gryphius's print shop there. He was especially close with Étienne Dolet there, the champion of free speech later hanged for heresy. He rambled on to Erasmus's Basel, and then to Germany, and returning to Italy he drifted through various Italian university towns (from Lucca, to Pisa, to Trent). He spent about ten years in Venice, and died, probably in Naples, in the late 1550s. Sometimes he published under his own name, but he frequently used pseudonyms or indeed no name. Despite this unsettled existence, he liked to call himself "Tranquillo."

Jude the Obscure. A Letter and a Foreword by HARDY, Thomas

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Title: Jude the Obscure. A Letter and a Foreword
Author: HARDY, Thomas
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: A contemporaneous typescript of Miss Gilder's review is included, perhaps having been provided by Drake, or Allen, at the time.
Description: Lakewood, OH: Printed for Private Circulation, 1917. First edition. One of 27 copies printed by Paul Lemberly. The foreword is by Clement Shorter. Hardy's reply to Miss Jeannette Gilder, an American who wrote a nasty review of Jude the Obscure for the New York World in December 1895, declines to be interviewed on the subject of the novel. Miss Gilder, who was in England at the time this letter was written in July 1896, asked to meet Hardy, and professed her admiration for his work and claimed that "my review of Jude was written in no unfriendly spirit." The pamphlet prints Miss Gilder's letter and Hardy's extraordinarily gracious reply. After the adverse and obtuse reception that the novel received, Hardy abandoned fiction entirely and turned his creative energy to poetry for the rest of his life. Presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank page to the noted collector and bibliophile Charles Dexter Allen: "To Charles Dexter Allen with regards of Paul Lemperly. Laid in a letter from the bookseller James F. Drake, dated April 24, 1917, thanking Allen for lending him the pamphlet to read. Drake comments that "It seems to me, however, that it was a mistake not to include Miss Gilder's criticism. A contemporaneous typescript of Miss Gilder's review is included, perhaps having been provided by Drake, or Allen, at the time. A very fine copy.. 8vo, original printed wrappers. A contemporaneous typescript of Miss Gilder's review is included, perhaps having been provided by Drake, or Allen, at the time. A very fine copy.

DARK LAUGHTER by ANDERSON, Sherwood

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Title: DARK LAUGHTER
Author: ANDERSON, Sherwood
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Owner name on front endpaper; hinges repaired. Edgewear; tears to top of spine, which is darkened, with no loss; lettering to co
Description: New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper; hinges repaired. Edgewear; tears to top of spine, which is darkened, with no loss; lettering to cover rubbed. Good. Original vellum-backed and tipped boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red. Copy H of 20 Lettered copies (of a total edition of 370) SIGNED by the author. Obviously a scarce issue of this book, a novel that dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and that was influenced by James Joyce's ULYSSES. DARK LAUGHTER was Anderson's only best-seller during his lifetime, though today he is better known for WINESBURG, OHIO. Ernest Hemingway parodied DARK LAUGHTER in his early short work THE TORRENTS OF SPRING. Hemingway's novella mocked the pretensions of Anderson's style and characters. Gertrude Stein, Hemingway's former mentor, objected to the young writer's parody of a writer who had helped him get published, resulting in a falling-out.

The Golden Treasury Abridged from C.H. v. Bogatzky, for the Use of the Children of God, Whose Treasure is in Heaven; Consisting of Select Texts of the Bible, with Practical Observations in Prose and Verse, for Every Day in the Year. With Some Alterations and Improvements by Various Hands. Together with a Few Forms of Prayer for Private Use by Bogatzky, C. H. v.

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Title: The Golden Treasury Abridged from C.H. v. Bogatzky, for the Use of the Children of God, Whose Treasure is in Heaven; Consisting of Select Texts of the Bible, with Practical Observations in Prose and Verse, for Every Day in the Year. With Some Alterations and Improvements by Various Hands. Together with a Few Forms of Prayer for Private Use
Author: Bogatzky, C. H. v.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Henry Willis, 1793. Good. First American edition; oblong 3 3/4 x 5; pp. iii-x, 1-374; full roan over boards; rebacked with brown leatherette; gilt title to spine; small loss to upper corner of front board; wear to leather with some cracking; lacking ffep, else complete; first few leaves with fore-edge brittle (no loss to text); in about good condition.Originally penned in 1746 by German hymn and sacret song writer Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky (1690 - 1774), the book was a daily devotional - providing the readers with specific spiritual texts for every day of the year.

Urbanus, RaiZirr no. 6; summer and fall by Drizhal, Peter, editor. Contributors include Ursula Le Guin, Charles Bukowski, Nina Silver

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Title: Urbanus, RaiZirr no. 6; summer and fall
Author: Drizhal, Peter, editor. Contributors include Ursula Le Guin, Charles Bukowski, Nina Silver
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Urbanus Press, 1993. Paperback. 58p. and ads, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy white wraps decorated with German expressionist cuts. an as-new copy. Some lesbian content.

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