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La Vida es Suenos DeLuxe copy in Japon Nacre with a suite of 10 etchings in sanguine + a suite of 15 unused etchings by Dali Salvador, Calderón de la Barca

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Title: La Vida es Suenos DeLuxe copy in Japon Nacre with a suite of 10 etchings in sanguine + a suite of 15 unused etchings
Author: Dali Salvador, Calderón de la Barca
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: La Vida es Suenos (Life is dream) E. Subirana, Barcelona, 1975. This book is one of 28 copies printed on Japon Nacre paper, lettered from A to Z of which this copy J. Complete portfolio with text by Calderón de la Barca, a medieval play that deals with the philosophical struggle between fate and free will, illustrated by Salvador Dali with 16 original etchings of which one full color, four etchings with two inks (2 plates), six etchings, with two inks (1 plate), and five black and white etchings. This copy of the DeLuxe edition also includes an additional suite of 10 etchings in sanguine and a suite of 15 etchings of the unused plates. The illustrations in this book were started by Dali in 1962 and were completed in 1975. Loose as issued guarded in the original burlap chemise and slipcase. Ref: Michler Löpsinger, Prestel-Verlag, Munich # 792-807.

Three Letters from Frederick MacMonnies to Thomas Dewing Concerning Sculpting the Players’ Club’s Edwin Booth Monument by [Art History – New York City – Theater] MacMonnies, Frederick

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Title: Three Letters from Frederick MacMonnies to Thomas Dewing Concerning Sculpting the Players’ Club’s Edwin Booth Monument
Author: [Art History – New York City – Theater] MacMonnies, Frederick
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Overall excellent.
Description: France, 1910. Three letters totaling twenty-two pages, 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Folded; some with large tears at folds though entirely legible. Overall excellent.. Frederick MacMonnies (1863–1937) was an American expatriate sculptor and painter, known in the US for works including Nathan Hale and Bacchante and Infant Faun. In 1907, New York City’s Player’s Club commissioned MacMonnies to design and produce a monument to the club’s founder, Edwin Booth. Offered here are three letters from MacMonnies to Players Club member and fellow visual artist Thomas W. Dewing (1850–1938) following the commission. MacMonnies seemed to have been under extraordinary emotional stress, writing that he was returning to France as “New York had played on my nerves” (N.d.) and, later, that: “I have been in a collapsed state for about seven months, a sort of nervous prostration, and blue and desperate. You cannot imagine the pleasure your letter gave me, as one of the symptoms of the disease I have is in thinking nobody cares a [?] about you and an utter disbelief in any work you have ever done.” (January 30, 1910) Later news from Dewing would not be so soothing to MacMonnies, as it reached the sculptor that the Players Club had some reservations about his design for the Booth memorial. MacMonnies’ May letter is worth quoting at length, as he justifies his design choices and critiques trends in statuary: “I was sorry & very much surprised to hear you did not like my design for the Booth Memorial, for I have & always have had such implicit confidence & admiration for your taste that I thought there must be something wrong with me & a screw loose somewhere. “I had been highly elated over the design from the first – after making about 75 sketches & going over thoroughly the usual statue & pendant figure on pedestal ‘cliches’, which I think has been the cause of many rotten monuments all over the world [...] really the Moliere Fountain in Paris is a good type of that sort of thing – Moliere seated above & the tragedy & comedy neatly draped over the pedestal; having apparently walked or climbed up on the base & fitted their respective symbols into the mouldings still held in their hands with elbows uncomfortably resting on the base of the statue above. This ‘cliche’ has been used since in every ingeniously idiotic nouveaute in modern European monuments [...] “To avoid this sort of thing naturally was simple & easy, but to find something that would be refeshing, new & suggestive of the Theatre, and be an actors’ monument, instead of a General’s or Statesman’s & be as appropriately suggestive of the Theatre as a General’s monument should be of the battlefield. “I found great difficulty as I say in designing a new type of monument which would only be used in connection with an actor or playwright. [...] I tried to incorporate into my design the great point in the Medici Chapel tombs & of all good architectural figures, which is to inseparably connect the figures with the architecture, & to avoid the clock cliche, of figures appearing to have stopped in passing. [...] “No one knows more about this my dear Dewing than yourself – your work has always had richness & simplicity, dignity, & all the rest, but they are never barren or bald [...] What might naturally appear overloaded or over enriched or complicated in a preliminary sketch in sculpture may in the finished production, appear clear & simple & yet be even more complex than the sketch [...] “The design I have made is in my friends’ opinions here the best thing I have done (several distinguished architects & sculptors to whom I showed it warmly approved), & I am desperately sickened at the thought of having it fall into the list of things not done. I am hoping that in the hurly burly of New York life & your many interests you have not had the time to give the design much attention, and that my long explanation of what I have tried to do & hope to do with it may induce you to look into the matter again.” (May 28, 1910) In 1913, MacMonnies would resign the commission, unable to come to an agreement with the Club over the design.[1] [1] “MacMonnies Quits Booth Memorial; Tells Friends He Has Had Too Much Trouble with the Committee”, The New York Times, July 8, 1913, 6.

A Catalogue of an Extensive and Extraordinary Assemblage of the Production of the Aldines Press from its first establishment at Venice in 1494, together with Lynese and Venetian Countefeits, the Giunta and other works illustrative of the series by [Biblioteca Aldina - James Toovey]

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Title: A Catalogue of an Extensive and Extraordinary Assemblage of the Production of the Aldines Press from its first establishment at Venice in 1494, together with Lynese and Venetian Countefeits, the Giunta and other works illustrative of the series
Author: [Biblioteca Aldina - James Toovey]
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: London: James Toovey, [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1880. 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 ¼ inches]. [iv], [54] pp. Beautifully printed on fine paper at the Chiswick Press and illustrated with decorative initial letters throughout. Bound in early 20th century leather backed, marbled paper boards. With the bookplates of Evelyn Philip Shirley and Anthony Robert Alwyn Hobson. Very good copy of this special catalogue of the collection of the Aldine Press formed by the Earl of Gosford during the middle years of the 19th Century. The collection was sold to the bookseller James Toovey in 1878 and through this catalogue offered it enbloc for the price of £ 4000.00. The major portion of the collection remained unsold until Toovey's son Charles sold it to J. P. Morgan in 1899. "In 1880 Toovey printed a special catalogue of the Aldines, probably the finest set that had come on the market since the Renouard sale of 1828." (Seymour De Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts, pp. 157-59.) .

The Celtic Twilight. Men And Women, Ghouls And Faeries by Yeats, William Butler

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Title: The Celtic Twilight. Men And Women, Ghouls And Faeries
Author: Yeats, William Butler
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. green cloth, backstrip evenly faded to brown. Very good
Description: London: Lawrence And Bullen, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, backstrip evenly faded to brown. Very good. 212 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Frontispiece by Jack Yeats, adverts leaf and half title. Publisher's name all in caps at bottom of spine. WADE 8. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated Xmas 1893, back cover decoration in blind. Backstrip worn head and foot with slight loss.

(Ephemera) A Handful of Choice English First Editions newly arrived at Jake Zeitlin: Books. April, 1935 by Zeitlin, Jake;

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Title: (Ephemera) A Handful of Choice English First Editions newly arrived at Jake Zeitlin: Books. April, 1935
Author: Zeitlin, Jake;
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, Books, 1935. Book. Very Good. Two Sheets, Folded. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Printing. 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at top of front wrapper -" J Zeitlin to Gary". Association Copy, from the collection of Gary Steigerwald, who worked for Zeitlin in the 1970s. making this signature from that time period. Two sheets, folded to make 8 unnumbered pages, listing 13 titles. Very Good, small pencil notes in margins p.1and 6, light soiling and wear. SCARCE, particularly so SIGNED. Not located at OCLC..

The Exorcist (Two original photographs from the set of the 1973 film) by William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter, novel); Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb (starring)

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Title: The Exorcist (Two original photographs from the set of the 1973 film)
Author: William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (screenwriter, novel); Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1973 film, one showing director William Friedkin and one showing Friedkin and screenwriter William Peter Blatty. Based on the 1971 novel by screenwriter William Peter Blatty. The first and finest film in the series, following the demonic possession of a twelve-year-old girl and the ensuing attempts to purge her body of the evil spirit. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic, with a strangeness and depth supplied by the strength of Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow's performances. One 9.75 x 8 inches, one 9.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry.

Model Cars and Trucks and How to Build Them by Harvey Weiss

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Title: Model Cars and Trucks and How to Build Them
Author: Harvey Weiss
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Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1974. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A fresh, clean copy of the 1974 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 74 pgs. A superb copy.

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