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The Lulu Plays with artwork by William Kentridge by Frank Wedekind; Luigi Castiglioni

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: The Lulu Plays with artwork by William Kentridge
Author: Frank Wedekind; Luigi Castiglioni
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. [Castiglioni, Luigi, binder.] Wedekind, Frank (1864-1918). The Lulu plays . . . with sixty-seven drawings by William Kentridge. 169, [3]pp. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. 341 x 260 mm. No. 353 of 400 copies signed by the artist. Custom binding by Luigi Castiglioni consisting of undyed and dyed pigskin, red suede endpapers, four cutouts in the front cover embellished with metal ornaments, half pigskin chemise with title in red leather onlay, custom slipcase; binder's name tooled in gilt on the inside front cover. Prospectus included. Fine. Printed on Hanemühle Biblio paper in Perpetua and Gill Sans types. William Kentridge is an internationally known South African artist, printmaker and filmmaker working in the satiric tradition of Daumier, Goya and Hogarth. Kentridge's drawings illustrating the Arion Press edition of the Lulu plays were used in the New York Metropolitan Opera's 2015 production of Lulu. .

Albert Sidney Johnston, At Camp Floyd After Participating In The Utah War, Writes To His Wife About Photography And Mentions Salt Lake City And Their Children by ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON

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Title: Albert Sidney Johnston, At Camp Floyd After Participating In The Utah War, Writes To His Wife About Photography And Mentions Salt Lake City And Their Children
Author: ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON (1803-1862). Johnston was an American Army officer who fought in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican War, and the Utah War. When the Civil War broke out, Jefferson Davis thought very highly of Johnston and appointed him a full general. He was killed at Shiloh and became the highest-ranking officer to die during the Civil War.AL. 8 x 10. 2pg. May 11, 1859. Camp Floyd, Utah. An autograph letter signed J to his wife Eliza. Johnston wrote from Utah, where he was stationed in the Utah War: My dear wife I have received your letter of April 3d. I am glad to know that you and our dear little ones are all well. Your criticism of the Photograph is quite correct, and will continue to be so, until the process is sufficiently rapid to catch some familiar impressions, when the subject or sitter is unconscious of his likeness being taken or measurably so; while his attention is devoted to keeping still & his head is placed between the legs of a pair [of] calipers for that purpose, there will be no recognized impression of the countenance & only such as one as the novelty of his or her position may impress, especially if the Photographer, so now assumes a pleasing impression. For any other purpose in they uses of pictures than obtaining the human face divine, the act is priceless. Its insufficiency in that respect makes it necessary that we shall still depend upon that genius, which can catch familiar impressions. Although evanescent, and transfer them to the Canvas, the countenance cannot or with honest folks does not conceal the emotions after the mind or heart, they are possibly the same thing, the impression I wear in looking upon you, is faithfully interpreted by you. I am unconscious what it is I could not simulate it, if I would, of course, it could not be enhanced by putting my head between the legs of calipers in front of a lens, with the Photographer looking at me with the pleasing anticipation of a successful result. It can be only reproduced or brought to life when I look at you. You are the source of its existence, its life and I feel sure that it will always life and have its being in your presence. A train for Salt Lake City from Los Angeles passed through camp a few days since. Your Brother was well and although he neglects to write her remembered to send me a barrel. I send my love to all and above all to Sid & Clung & Griffin If I can send you three moreskins I will they will make a large cape, muff & bands & perhaps a cape + bands for Maggy. J. He then added a postscript of I sent payable to your order my pay account for April by last mail please acknowledge receipt. At the top of the first page, he wrote Mrs. E.G. Johnston Louisville Kentucky. The letter has mailing folds and cross writing on the first page. The second page has less staining than the first page. Johnston is scarce to rare in fully handwritten letters.

Philadelphia Doctor Tries to Enlist for the Mexican War by (MEXICAN WAR)

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Title: Philadelphia Doctor Tries to Enlist for the Mexican War
Author: (MEXICAN WAR)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ALS. (1786-1857). Marcy was a New York Governor and Senator, and Secretary of War during the Mexican War. ALS. 1pg. 7 " x 9 ". Novr 24th 1846. Philada. An autograph letter signed "Thos Oliver Goldsmith M.D." two times to Secretary of War William Marcy. After the start of the Mexican War, Goldsmith appeals to be sent to Mexico: "As a Regt of Volunteers is called from Pennsylvania, and as many of my friends will be in said Regt, I desire the appointment of Surgeon for Regt. I do not know whether the Col will appoint or the appointment reserved by the War office. In either case I would most anxiously be a candidate for the post. I can produce the best of qualifications as to character and capability (references to Drs. McClellan and Wm. C.C. Barton of Philada). I would state I have lived in the S. West of Louisiana on the lakes, a country similar to Mexico. I know its Geography climate and the nature of its diseases and if such an appointment could be made by you, you will confer a favor... I am a graduate of Medicine and have been practicing Medicine for 14 years, a part of the time in Louisiana near Texas, the balance in Kensington Phila Co Pa." The letter has the usual mailing folds with two toning bands on the integral address leaf

A Breath from the Veldt by Millais, John Guille

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Title: A Breath from the Veldt
Author: Millais, John Guille
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Henry Sotheran, 1895. First edition. First trade edition. Folio (15 1/8 x 11 5/8 in; 384 x 296 mm). x, 236 pp.Bound c. 1949 in half crimson morocco over pale red cloth ruled in gilt. Spine with six raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpaperes, top edge gilt, others uncut. Engravings exhibit light spotting to margins. A very small rub spot to lower board. Otherwise a fine copy. Thirteen uncolored electro-engravings with tissue guards, including frontispiece, twelve full-page black and white plates, 125 black and white text illustrations. Housed in a cloth slipcase. John Guille Millais (1865-1931) was an English artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialized in wildlife and flower portraiture. He traveled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. His was clearly a wanderlust based on a desire to see, record and paint the natural world. To this end he traveled widely in Europe, Africa and North America. A Breath of the Veldt, based upon his trip to South Africa, was his second of seventeen books on his travels and the wildlife of the places he journeyed through. It is quite likely that Millias influenced Rider Haggard's Alan Quarterman novels. Millais was was the friend and biographer of F.C. Selous, the big-game hunter that Haggard based Quartermain upon, and his descriptions of the Veldt, in which Haggard set so much of his fiction, were most certainly read and referenced by Haggard. "Never before, or elsewhere, have the winged and furred creatures of the wild lived in their lithe beauty and fantastic grace as in these delicate drawings" (Mendelssohn).

THE SHADOW LINE. A Confession by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: THE SHADOW LINE. A Confession
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1917. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published about a month after Dent's London edition, of one of Conrad's most autobiographical tales. To quote from the dust jacket, The "shadow line" is that dim boundary that divides youth from maturity. How a young first mate, who unexpectedly finds himself in command of a sailing vessel, leaves his carefree youth behind forever in the agonizing responsibility of a twenty-one day voyage from Bankok [sic] to Singapore. His ship is becalmed, the whole crew stricken with fever and no quinine in the medicine chest! The American edition was set from proof sheets supplied by Dent, after which Conrad made changes that were effected in the UK edition but not in the US one; as a result, "the American edition provides an interesting intermediate text between the English Review [appearance] and the first Dent edition, showing the extensive changes made from serial to copy text for the book, as well as the further polishing which took place in proof" [Cagle]. This volume is in just-about-fine condition (a trace of rubbing at the corners). Included is the scarce 1917 dust jacket, which is scarcer than the Dent dust jacket; American jackets reading "Doubleday Doran" on their spines are from later printings after 1927. The jacket is in good-to-very good condition (separated at the rear hinge and partly along the front flap, slightly chipped at the spine ends, dampstain at the lower edge). Supino A20.4.0; Cagle A21b.1.

Tiger Juan by Ayala, Ramon Perez de; Starkie, Walter [Translator]

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Title: Tiger Juan
Author: Ayala, Ramon Perez de; Starkie, Walter [Translator]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. [vi], 312 pp. Original orange cloth, black lettering. Near Fine in Very Good spine-sunned pictorial dust jacket, worn and a little soiled along edges, corners of front flap clipped but price of $2.00 still present. The acclaimed Spanish's novelist's first work to be published in the United States, first published in Spanish in 1926. Rare in original jacket.

WITCH, WITCH! : Stories & Poems of Sorcery Spells & Hocus-Pocus by Arrowood, Clinton; Shaw, Richard; Brothers Grimm; Oscar Wilde; Ben Jonson; Nancy Gorgorian

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Title: WITCH, WITCH! : Stories & Poems of Sorcery Spells & Hocus-Pocus
Author: Arrowood, Clinton; Shaw, Richard; Brothers Grimm; Oscar Wilde; Ben Jonson; Nancy Gorgorian
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Description: New York / London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1975. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Inscribed first edition of these spooky, gothic, and fantastical tales for children - including works by Oscar Wilde, Ben Jonson, Nancy Gorgorian, and the Brothers Grimm. 9'' x 6''. Original olive pictorial paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Arrowood in black and white. 206 pages. Inscribed by Arrowood on front free endpaper in three different color inks: "For Gary & Phipps / With Warmest Wishes / Clinton Arrowood." A bit of wear and toning to edges, touch of foxing to top edge. Spine rather sunned. Bright.

Illustrated Advertising Ephemera for State Line Steamship Company

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Title: Illustrated Advertising Ephemera for State Line Steamship Company
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Fair. Water staining, toning, dust soiling, small surface tear to verso. Lacks calendar; cover only. Ink stamp to verso.
Description: New York, NY and Chicago: Austin Baldwin & Co, 1880. Fair. Water staining, toning, dust soiling, small surface tear to verso. Lacks calendar; cover only. Ink stamp to verso.. Advertising calendar cover (lacking the actual calendar) produced by Austin Baldwin & Co. to promote State Line, a steamship company. Depicts the company's "State of Nebraska" mid-voyage against a cloudy sky. States that in the calendar, "Sailing Days in Red", noting voyages "between New York, Glasgow, Belfast and Liverpool". Measures approx. 10" by 8", chromolitho on thick card with machine-cut holes at head for hanging the calendar.

ANN SOTHERN CLASSIC MGM PIN-UP (1942) Oversized photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Title: ANN SOTHERN CLASSIC MGM PIN-UP (1942) Oversized photo
Author: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942]. Vintage original 10 x 13" (25 x 32 cm.) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Near fine. Ann Sothern sports the latest in ladies two-piece swimwear for this elegant cheesecake pin-up. All the stars posed for this type of photo to keep the American soldiers' spirits up during World War II. The pin holes at corners indicate its pin-up use. There is no blurb nor photographer stamp.

[POLITICAL] [ETCHING] Prize Beef or Luxury in the Nineteenth Century by Williams, Charles

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Title: [POLITICAL] [ETCHING] Prize Beef or Luxury in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Williams, Charles
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Hand colored etching. Very good
Description: S W Fores, 1802. Loose_leaf. Hand colored etching. Very good. Williams, Charles. A waggish sense of humor is presented here in this etching. A massive butcher presides in front of his stall, pointing out the benefits of a gargantuan joint of beef. His clientele, dressed in ostentatious costume look on as he points of the merits of his wares: "There is not such dignified Beef in the Market - believe me Right Honorable every Inch of it; Coronets marked in the fat and Genealogy in the lean - had it pon Honor - from my Lord cram Bullock, - delicious! - you may smell the Oil Cake a mile - no vulgar ingredients - only half a Crown per pound - a mere trifle - I have indeed some low bred beef at Sixpence but I am sue Sir it would not suit your refined Taste." The gentleman answers: "Why look ye - Master Suet as I am not over ambitious, if you please - I'll have a slice of the Citizen." His wife adds: "Husband dont be so Wulgar I say send home a Sir Loin of true Nobility." Light foxing, small close tear to top edge. Past crease marks visible.

Wanderers in the mandala. by ZELLER, Ludwig.

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Title: Wanderers in the mandala.
Author: ZELLER, Ludwig.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: Toronto: Oasis, , 1978.. First edition, deluxe numbered issue.. [20 pp]. A touch of discoloration to front cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 27 numbered copies for friends of the author. English version by A.F. Moritz and Susana Wald.

ALEMBIC by Hollo, Anselm

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Title: ALEMBIC
Author: Hollo, Anselm
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: London: Trigram Press, 1972. First edition. Near fine.. Inscribed first printing of this collection by the Finnish-born poet and translator, from the library of Washington DC poet and musician Terence Winch. 5'' x 8.25''. Original black, white, and orange pictorial wrappers. Black endpapers. Printed on tan, orange, and yellow paper. Unpaginated. Illustrated with drawings by John Collings. Inscribed on half-title page: "For Terry Winch - one glad afternoon in D.C., - all best - 6:V:77 * Anselm." Light edgewear, minor corner creasing to some pages.

Native Nations; First Americans as Seen by Edward S.Curtis. Edited by Chistopher Cardozo by Curtis, Edward S.

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Title: Native Nations; First Americans as Seen by Edward S.Curtis. Edited by Chistopher Cardozo
Author: Curtis, Edward S.
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Seattle: Little, Brown, 1993. First edition. Small folio, 160 pp., boards, dust jacket. Fine. Additional shipping required.

Michael Wison: First Kind Sight by WILSON, Michael and Dave Nixon

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA

Title: Michael Wison: First Kind Sight
Author: WILSON, Michael and Dave Nixon
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Florence, KY: Hennegan, nd. First edition. Softcover. Features words by Dave Nixon. Includes numerous black and white images. A fine copy in wrappers. Uncommon. A nicely printed catalog.

Gerry Bergstein

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Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Title: Gerry Bergstein
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-. Some shelf wear/soiling on covers. Minimal page creasing.
Description: New York: Stux Gallery, 1986. Paperback. VG-. Some shelf wear/soiling on covers. Minimal page creasing.. Oblong white stapled wraps with red lettering. 8 pp. 4 color plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held October 8-November 1, 1986.

Candide [ROCKWELL KENT ILLUSTRATIONS] by Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arout de; Kent, Rockwell (Illust.)

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Title: Candide [ROCKWELL KENT ILLUSTRATIONS]
Author: Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arout de; Kent, Rockwell (Illust.)
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 11 1/2" X 7 3/4". 111pp. Very mild wear to red cloth over boards with light rubbing to covers and edges. Bump to tail of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Mild wear to clipcase with rubbing and toning to covers and edges. This special edition of Candide contains all of the original illustrations, including specially designed chapter heads, as well as hundreds of miniature drawings interspersed by the illustrator within paragraphs themselves.

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