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The Road Is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938 [inscribed to Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington]

The Road Is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938 [inscribed to Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington] by Penrose, Roland

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Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Title
The Road Is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938 [inscribed to Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington]
Author
Penrose, Roland
Seller
Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: London Gallery Editions, 1939. First edition. Publisher's wood-grain boards, lettered on the front board and spine (design by Hans Bellmer). Photographic endpapers. Photomontage frontispiece; 37 black and white photographs and a drawing, text in black and red. Some minor foxing to boards, slight chipping to head of spine. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 132 (H.C.). Originally created as a unique visual diary dedicated by Penrose to Lee Miller as a souvenir of their travels through the Balkans in 1938. The following year, Penrose created this edition: "I amused myself further by finding a friendly printer who happily put at my disposal his entire stock of type which I used freely in unconventional lay-outs to emphasise what I had to say." In his afterword to the Getty facsimile published in 2003, curator Weston Naef said of it, "the 1939 edition of The Road Is Wider Than Long occupies an unheralded place in the history of early modern artists' books. It is one of the few books by a Surrealist artist to have been illustrated with photographs. It is also one of the first artists' books to use the new and inexpensive method of offset lithography printed on ordinary commercial printing paper rather than traditional lithography printed on expensive handmade paper and issued in a very limited edition." Roland Penrose was the primary carrier of surrealism from France to England. He organized the International Exhibition of Surrealism in London in 1936, and a solo show of Max Ernst's in London in 1937. Leonora Carrington saw this show and was immediately captivated; "I fell in love with Max's paintings before I fell in love with Max." She met him at a dinner party soon afterwards, and their amour fou began immediately. Max and Leonora remained close to Penrose and his partner (later wife) Lee Miller, both of whom visited them when they lived in Saint-Martin d'Ardèche in the south of France before the war disrupted their bliss. This copy is inscribed to Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, with a drawing of an eye within a heart and a warm dedication to his longtime friend and mentor Ernst, "qui a eté la boussole vertical de ma route depuis LONGTEMPS." Although the inscription is undated, the book must have been given to Max and Leonora in 1939, the year of publication, the year in which their idyllic existence in southern France was destroyed. Penrose and Miller's journey through the Balkans was similarly overshadowed by impending war; an evocative and poignant object.
POSTER FOR WORLD PREMIERS OF "BLEU SHUT" AND "LAST SUPPER"

POSTER FOR WORLD PREMIERS OF "BLEU SHUT" AND "LAST SUPPER"

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POSTER FOR WORLD PREMIERS OF "BLEU SHUT" AND "LAST SUPPER"
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
San Francisco, 1970. Very Good. Framed poster, image measuring 19" x 28", black printing on white glossy paper. Near fine condition with minor wrinkling. Not examined outside of frame.The San Francisco Art Institute was “the first and only racially integrated art school in the United States in the 60s (Harvard Film Archive). This poster features two important works of experimental cinema, by one white and one black filmmaker.Bleu Shut is something of an underground classic. "Robert Nelson was one of the key artists of the American experimental film movement, particularly in his home base of San Francisco, where he was the first head of the San Francisco Art Institute's film department." (AMPAS).The Last Supper is the first film by William Henderson. An important voice in experimental cinema, Henderson was also one of the few black experimental filmmakers of the time.A version of this poster was issued as one side of the November 1969 issue of The Front. However, our copy was never folded. Note: The "Society For A******* and Idiots" has the same acronym as the San Francisco Art Institute.Extra postage for international or priority.
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DIFFERENCE Between Mr. E---- and the Protestant Dissenting Minist

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DIFFERENCE Between Mr. E---- and the Protestant Dissenting Minist
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description
1702. THE DIFFERENCE Between Mr. E---- and the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of D---- truly Represented. [Dublin? 1702?] 4to. 13 p. Caption title. Trimmed closely on a few leaves, but without loss. Contemporary notation on first leaf "Ex lib: Ni: Knight...." On Thomas Emlyn's theological dispute in Dublin. ESTC T301337 attributes the work to Joseph Boyse and records only the BL copy.
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Early Pulp on Interracial Relationships Harlem is My Heaven, 1952 by African American

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Early Pulp on Interracial Relationships Harlem is My Heaven, 1952
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African American
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1952. [Interracial Relationships] [Pulp] Gordon, Ian. Harlem Is My Heaven (The Night Thorn). New York: Berkley Publishing Corp. First edition, 1952. Original illustrated wrappers depict a white man on his knees embracing a Black woman dressed in a vibrant off-shoulder blouse and skirt, her expression distant and reflective. 8vo, 159 pages. This mid-century pulp novel explores the taboo topic of an interracial relationship in the United States during the 1950s. Originally published under the title The Night Thorn, the novel belongs to a wave of sensationalist fiction that dramatized racial and sexual boundaries under the guise of urban noir and erotic pulp. Set in Harlem, a historically Black neighborhood in New York City known for its vibrant cultural life and political activism, the story likely engages with race as both a social boundary and an eroticized construct. Novels like this often walked a fine line between critique and exploitation-feeding white readers' curiosity about Black urban life while reinforcing stereotypes or fantasies of forbidden desire. While Harlem Is My Heaven cannot be understood as a progressive or empathetic portrayal by today's standards, it offers valuable insight into how popular literature reflected and shaped mid-century American attitudes toward race, sex, and identity. Overall very good condition.
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Epistolae Karolini aevi. Tomus IV

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Title
Epistolae Karolini aevi. Tomus IV
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description
Hannover: apud Weidmannos, 1974. Edidit Socieitas aperiendis fontibus rerum germanicarum Medii Aevi. Editio secunda lucis ope expressa. v 811p., original stiff printed wrappers (bit of clear arachival mending tape reinforcing the front hinge, mostly unopened, quarto format. Reprint of the 1902-1925 parts, issued here in one complete volume (Monumenta Germaniae historica. Epistolarum tomus 6).
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The Believer, Issue 16

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The Believer, Issue 16
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
McSweeney's. Very Good+. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good Plus. Slight shelf-wear to edges of cover and head / tail of spine. Subscription card is NOT present. ; Volume 2, Number 8. .
Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters
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Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters by Giese, Karsten; Laurence Marfaing (eds.)

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Chinese and African Entrepreneurs: Social Impacts of Interpersonal Encounters
Author
Giese, Karsten; Laurence Marfaing (eds.)
Seller
Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9789004386808
Condition
LikeNew
Description
Leiden and Boston: Brill [2019]. Softcover. 9.25" x 6". xi, 287 pp. Black illustrated wraps. Slight scuffing and soiling to wraps, top of spine slightly bumped. Near Fine. ISBN 9789004386808 . LikeNew. Paperback .

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