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Autograph letter signed ("H. Berlioz") regarding his article on Dmitri Bortnyansky by BERLIOZ, Hector 1803-1869

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Title: Autograph letter signed ("H. Berlioz") regarding his article on Dmitri Bortnyansky
Author: BERLIOZ, Hector 1803-1869
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: 2 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated "31 Juillet," no year. To an unidentified male correspondent. On lined paper. In French (with translation). Berlioz apologizes for not being able to edit his article on Bortnyansky, with which he hopes his correspondent will be satisfied. "The fragment of musical criticism which I wanted to add to the item on Bortnianski is in the hands of Mr. M. Levy's printer who is at present bringing out a book which contains this article. It is impossible for me - since the printer is not in Paris - to rework my manuscript. Therefore be good enough to be satisfied with the Russian article; it is accurate, on the whole, and it would be difficult for me to redo a study on Bortnianski and Emperor of Russia's singers that is already done." The composer/critic goes on say that he would be happy for extracts of the article to appear in L'Illustration and, in a postscript, asks his correspondent to send him a copy of the periodical in which his article appears. Slightly worn; creased at folds and very slightly overall. Dmitri Stepanovich Bortnyansky (1751-1825) was a Ukrainian singer, composer, and music director active in Russia. "During the 19th century Bortnyansky choral concertos and hymns gained popularity across Western Europe; some copies of concertos preserved in the library of the Hofkapelle in Vienna date from as early as 1780. Berlioz, who heard the concertos in Russia in the 1840s, praised the 'incredible freedom' of their approach to choral sonority (Les soirées de l'orchestre, Paris, 1852) and included Bortnyansky's music in several of his own concerts in Paris." Marika Kuzma in Grove Music Online "[Berlioz] stands as the leading musician of his age in a country-France-whose principal artistic endeavour was then literary, and in an art-music-whose principal pioneers were then German. In many senses the Romantic movement found its fullest embodiment in him, yet he had deep Classical roots and stood apart from many manifestations of that movement. His life presents the archetypal tragic struggle of new ideas for acceptance, to which he gave his full exertions as composer, critic and conductor. And though there were many who perceived greatness in his music from the beginning, his genius only came to full recognition in the 20th century." "Berlioz's views were presented regularly to readers of the Paris press ... He published three collections of criticism: Les soirées de l'orchestre (1852), Les grotesques de la musique (1859) and A travers chants (1862). In his feuilletons he wrote of new operas and singers ...; his opinion on momentous occasions was of crucial interest, for example at the première of Le prophète in 1849. He reviewed most of the concerts of the Société des Concerts; he wrote of new instruments and musical gadgets, of his own impressions of music abroad, and of important musicians visiting France; he wrote biographical notices of Gluck, Beethoven, Spontini, Méhul and himself; he wrote fiction and fantasy, often with a critical purpose; he wrote serialized treatises on orchestration and conducting. There are, in short, few facets of musical practice of the time untouched in his feuilletons ... In general Berlioz's opinions are trenchant and clearly expressed." Hugh Macdonald in Grove Music Online.

[Op. 95]. Le Petit Chaperon Rouge Double choeur pour voix de femmes et d'enfants. Avec acct de piano ou d'orchestre Pour le chorale des lycées de jeunes filles de Paris Poème de Guy de Teramond ... op. 95. Chez Alphonse Leduc: Paris. Autograph musical manuscript signed by BUSSER, Henri 1872-1973

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Title: [Op. 95]. Le Petit Chaperon Rouge Double choeur pour voix de femmes et d'enfants. Avec acct de piano ou d'orchestre Pour le chorale des lycées de jeunes filles de Paris Poème de Guy de Teramond ... op. 95. Chez Alphonse Leduc: Paris. Autograph musical manuscript signed
Author: BUSSER, Henri 1872-1973
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Folio (ca. 360 x 273 mm). [i] (title), 20, [i] (blank) pp. Notated in black ink on music paper with 20 printed staves per page. Scored for double choir and piano. The work begins in A minor, in 3/4, Très Allant (quasi Allo). Textual incipit: "Dans la forêt où rien ne bouge ..." The engraver's copy, prepared for the publishing house Alphonse Leduc et Cie. With the composer's autograph signature ("Henri Busser") and date ("Paris, Août 15") to p. 20. Occasional erasures and corrections in black ink in the composer's hand. Lower edge of title with publisher's handstamps and manuscript date ("[19]35") and plate number ("A.L. 19,198") in an early hand. Numerous editorial markings, minor annotations, and occasional corrections in one or more early hands in pencil and red crayon. Slightly worn and soiled; minor ink smudges to three pages slightly affecting notation. A piano-vocal edition of Le Petit Chaperon, with plate number A.L. 19,198, was published by Alphonse Leduc in 1935. Not in the Grove Music Online works list. "Firmly rooted in the French 19th-century tradition, Büsser's symphonic and choral writing is indebted to Gounod and Saint-Saëns. He is best known, however, for his dramatic works, which betray Wagner's impact in both their form and their use of the orchestra. The influence of Debussy, whose advice Büsser sought over the opera that became his most successful, Colomba (c1902-10), is also evident in certain harmonic procedures and in an acute sensitivity to orchestral colour. The ballets, such as the light-hearted La ronde des saisons (1905) with its amusing descriptive touches, provide further evidence of his keen dramatic sense." Barbara L. Kelly in Grove Music Online.

[A Pair of Wrynecks on a Branch] by [PAILLOU, Peter (1720-1790)]

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Title: [A Pair of Wrynecks on a Branch]
Author: [PAILLOU, Peter (1720-1790)]
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: [London, 1780. Watercolour and gouache drawing, on laid paper. Inscribed on verso "By Paillou / Given me by Mr. More" Peter Paillou was a British painter best known for his works of natural history. He worked for two leading 18th-century naturalists, Taylor White and Thomas Pennant, painting bird pictures, many of which were engraved and used as plates in Pennant's books.

Jules Feiffer Large Collection of Satirical Comics on 1960's Politics From Nixon, Vietnam, to Angela Davis c. 1960 to 1973 by Jules Feiffer Satirical Political Comics

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Title: Jules Feiffer Large Collection of Satirical Comics on 1960's Politics From Nixon, Vietnam, to Angela Davis c. 1960 to 1973
Author: Jules Feiffer Satirical Political Comics
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1963. Jules Feiffer Satirical political comic strips on Vietnam, Watergate, Black Power, Attica, Angela Davis, and Richard Nixon contained in a large scrapbook. Many clipped newspaper strips carrying pencil dates from the late 1960s into 1973. The selections concentrate on public language under pressure: a Vietnam policy strip warns that China, African, and Latin American policy will follow if public opinion is not contained; a 1968 election strip reduces choice to "Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson"; and a protest strip moves from "Free Huey" to "Free Angela," "Free Attica," "Free all political prisoners," and "All power to the people" before ending with a police figure. Feiffer's satirical method, built from anxious monologues, repeated faces, and abrupt moral reversals, fits the scrapbook's movement from Johnson era war politics to Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Judge Sirica, San Clemente, and Watergate tapes. The volume preserves Feiffer's newspaper circulation. Feiffer, Jules. Scrapbook of over 150 syndicated comic strip clippings. United States: Publishers-Hall Syndicate and other newspaper syndicates, circa 1966 to 1973. Large folio scrapbook measuring 14" x 12" x 1" with textured cream cover titled "Scrap Book," post binding, and numerous newspaper comic strips mounted to brown scrapbook leaves. Most clippings carry the printed masthead "Feiffer," copyright lines, and Publishers-Hall distribution statements; scattered pencil annotations date individual strips, including notations from 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973. Included Feiffer strips address the Vietnam War, the 1968 election, Czechoslovakia and Vietnam as paired accusations of "Russian invasion" and "American aggression," police authority as a religious sect devoted to "Law," "Order," "The Flag," and "Retribution," Dr. Benjamin Spock and child rearing recast through war protest, and the 1960s as a sequence in which public figures "got shot" or "got elected" beneath a quotation attributed to Spiro T. Agnew. Later pages include Feiffer strips on Nixon and Congress, San Clemente, censorship in film, student protest, Jane Fonda, gay liberation, women's liberation, Black Power, and Cambodia, with a small number of Pat Oliphant Nixon and Judge Sirica Watergate clippings and another newspaper comic strip mounted near the end. Feiffer's satire emerged from The Village Voice in the 1950s and entered mass newspaper syndication during the years when antiwar organizing, civil rights activism, student protest, second wave feminism, and Watergate forced political language into daily print culture. The scrapbook's concentration of dated clippings gives American history, journalism history, comics studies, and book history collections a reader assembled sequence of newspaper satire retaining the paper stock, cropping, paste marks, and handwritten dating absent from later anthology publication. Original post binding present; worn at the spine with many loose pages; scrapbook leaves toned and brittle; clippings with some paste staining but remain legible. Overall good condition. Reader assembled concentration of Feiffer's syndicated satire records how Vietnam, protest politics, family roles, and Watergate were clipped, dated, and kept in newspaper form.

[Western Trip Album Compiled by Female Travelers.]

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Title: [Western Trip Album Compiled by Female Travelers.]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: Various Places With an Emphasis on California and Missouri, 1912. Very good +. Many photos measure around 5” x 3” with around one third are captioned. Album good due to detached covers, photos generally very good plus or better. This is an album documenting trips by three unknown women with around half the photos being posed shots of unknown family and friends while the rest are compelling photos of California, Kansas and several other areas as described below. We think the compiler was from Kansas City as that's where the album starts and it ends in Hannibal, Kansas. In Kansas City we see some street scenes and an electric park. The section on Hannibal has at least 30 5x7s of churches, public buildings, the Mark Twain Hotel and a fantastic birdseye view of Main Street. Also around Hannibal we see Mark Twain's Cave, an exceptional shot of a riverboat and two large mini-panoramas. At least 100 photos were taken in California. They include a series at a ranch in El Cajon where the compilers picked grapes, several at the Coronado Hotel and several more of their lodgings at a “tent city” at Coronado Beach. There's a birdseye view of Coronado Beach, scenic shots around La Jolla and Point Loma and photos in and around Redondo Beach and the Hotel Del Rey. There are at least a dozen photos around Santa Catalina Island and a couple in Tijuana including a street scene. Other interesting photos include a few of a train wreck in Colorado and a few more in Seattle. There are also at least six photos showing buildings and exhibits at 1909's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as well as the second ever Indianapolis 500 in 1912. There are at least 20 other great RPPCs including street scenes in Illinios, Michigan and Michigan City, Indiana.

Fire Correspondents, Engineers, Drivers, and More: A Collection of 88 Calling/Business Cards of Individuals for Fire Correspondents and other "Fire"- Related Professions

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Title: Fire Correspondents, Engineers, Drivers, and More: A Collection of 88 Calling/Business Cards of Individuals for Fire Correspondents and other "Fire"- Related Professions
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Very good. Light dust soiling, toning.
Description: United States, 1900. Very good. Light dust soiling, toning.. A large collection of approx. eighty-eight (88) printed calling cards/business cards related to "fire" professions, most dating from around the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and appearing to be mostly from New England and the Midwest. The majority are listed as fire correspondents, with some doubling as fire fighters. Some of the related professions include: engineer; fire commissioner; foreman; driver; and assistant. Three of the cards are accompanied by CDV's. The largest card measures approx. 2.75" by 5.25". Several feature attractive firefighter motifs showing horse-drawn fire wagons or helmets and ladders. What makes these cards so fun, aside from the professions, is that many have chosen to include their journalistic nicknames on the cards. Examples include: "Wandering Jew"; "Jerry"; "Greenhorn"; "Harpy"; "Beppo"; "Big Bonanza"; and "Lengthy" During the 19th century, a "fire correspondent" was not a formalized journalistic role with a single definition, but was instead an informal title or function for a newspaper employee who reported on fires. These reporters worked within a competitive and often chaotic press environment to provide the public with urgent news of fires, which were a constant and significant danger in the crowded, predominantly wooden cities of the era.

[COMMERATION OF THE OPENING OF THE FRED W. SMITH LIBRARY FOR THE STUDY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON] ACTS PASSED AT A CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK .. by Mount Vernon Ladies Association

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Title: [COMMERATION OF THE OPENING OF THE FRED W. SMITH LIBRARY FOR THE STUDY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON] ACTS PASSED AT A CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK ..
Author: Mount Vernon Ladies Association
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine binding
Description: Francis Childs and John Swaine. Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. A very handsome presentation of a facsimile edition of George Washington’s copy of Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, bound in paper covered boards designed to mimic speckled calf with a leather label stamped “President of the United States”. Marbled endpapers, and a facsimile of President Washington’s bookplate on the pastedown. Housed in a blue suede clamshell box, with a facsimile of the plate for the Washington Bookplate laid down, and stamped “Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States 1789”. On the verso of the lid of the box is the invitation of “In Commemoration of the Opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. September 27, 2013”. Laid in is the 43 page pamphlet for the Grand Opening Celebration; with color illustrations and portraits; bound in blue paper with a gold foil pastedown of the Washington bookplate. The whole housed in a printed blue cardstock sleeve. A splendid memento an important event in Washington studies. Fine binding.

THE SECRET RIVER by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan; Weisgard, Leonard

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Title: THE SECRET RIVER
Author: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan; Weisgard, Leonard
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Scarce first printing of this Newbery Honor-winning work by the author of THE YEARLING, a magical realism tale of a young Black girl's efforts to feed her community during the Great Depression. THE SECRET RIVER turned up among Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's papers after her death, a fully finished manuscript "quite different in style from her other work" (Introduction). Printed on brown paper with richly textured black-and-white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard, the physical form of this book creates additional atmosphere for Rawlings's story of a Florida forest. Issued at a period when US publishers rarely showcased Black heroes in children's books, it set the stage for other award-winning books like THE SNOWY DAY - though a Black author would not win the Newbery Honor until Virginia Hamilton in 1974, with M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT. 8'' x 6''. Original brown pictorial cloth binding. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated, printed on brown paper. Jacket with light edgewear, a bit of loss to lower spine; one small tape reinforcement to verso. Binding with mild bumping to spine ends. Tight and clean.

A Plain American in England by Whitefield, Charles T. [Doubleday, Frank Nelson]

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Title: A Plain American in England
Author: Whitefield, Charles T. [Doubleday, Frank Nelson]
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Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. Tear to paper spine. 1910 Hard Cover. 41 pp. Frank Nelson Doubleday, (born Jan. 8, 1862, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.â€”died Jan. 30, 1934, Coconut Grove, Fla.), American publisher and founder of the book-publishing firm Doubleday & Company, Inc. Doubleday wrote A Plain American in England (1910) under the pseudonym Charles T. Whitefield. - Britannica

The Passion of Ayn Rand by Branden, Barbara

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Title: The Passion of Ayn Rand
Author: Branden, Barbara
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780385191715
Condition: Fine
Description: Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Branden on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), bumped and with a short closed tear at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter blue cloth with grey paper on the boards, lightly rubbed gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first biography of Rand written by the co-founder of the objectivist-centered Nathaniel Branden Institute.

Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of the Mind by Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson

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Title: Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of the Mind
Author: Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780674714458
Condition: Very good
Description: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. vi, 210pp+ index. Very good hardback in a slightly tanned jacket.

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