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Semina VI [6] by Berman, Wallace. David Meltzer

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Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Semina VI [6]
Author: Berman, Wallace. David Meltzer
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: [Houseboat, Boardwalk #2], Larkspur, CA: Wallace Berman, 1960. First edition. [14] unbound sheets, laid into a printed manila pocket mounted in a folded printed cover. Some foxing and soiling to covers, minor creasing to lower corners; still much better than usually seen. One of 335 copies printed. This sixth issue of Berman’s legendary journal is given completely to Meltzer’s poem “The Clown,” printed in red ink on thirteen separate sheets, along with a printed title-page with Berman illustration. “Type handset and done on warped 5 x 8 inch Handpress.” Meltzer formed a strong bond with Berman while living in Los Angeles at the end of the 1950s; he admired Berman for his ability to “combine and construct the images of a culture that was becoming increasingly mass-mediated and one dimensional into artworks that contained elements of an ongoing mystery.” (quoted in Semina Culture, p. 224) Kherdian, p. 3. Lepper, p. 312. Clay & Phillips, pp. 78-79. Semina Culture, p. 62. In Numbers, pp. 339-344.

Oriental Wisdom; Its Principles and Practice by ALEXANDER, C. [Claude Alexander Conlin]

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Title: Oriental Wisdom; Its Principles and Practice
Author: ALEXANDER, C. [Claude Alexander Conlin]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: C. Alexander Publishing, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's black heavy grain embossed cloth titled and decorated in blind and gilt to spine and front board. 557pp. Some light bumping to spine ends and extremities, and a small patch towards the bottom front corner where either liquid or some light abrasion has taken the gloss off the cloth. A cheaply yet solidly produced book, a very good, handsome copy indeed. Internally clean. Marbled blue-green endpapers. Portrait photographic frontispiece. Relatively cheap paper stock, but miraculously free of heavy toning or spotting. A further expansion to the empire of Claude Alexander Conlin, aka "Alexander the Crystal Seer", "Alexander; The Man Who Knows" and occasionally just "Alexander"; stage mesmerist and magician par excellence, thoroughly unqualified wearer of turbans and appropriator of "Oriental" wisdom and magic, serial husband (accounts of how often he was married differ on whether it was 7 times, 14 times, or some potentially bigamous number in between), and avid debunker of charlatan mediums whilst occasinally moonlighting as one in the meantime. It's a real mystery that there was room for both Alexander and L.W. de Laurence in the same nation at the same time. This particular work with its attempted exposition on everything that could be packed under the "oriental" banner from Pranic Yoga, to High Hindu Magic, to "Oriental Psychic Broadcasting" which appears to be telepathy with a bunch of hypnotism techniques thrown in to make sure one gets the required response. It dates from the period when Alexander was seemingly unable to reconcile his debunking of commercial spiritualism and fake mediums, with his stubbornly held belief that spiritualism and the wider esoteric world held authentic power and mystery. Very much a man of skill and personality, who seemed to combine the cynical and expedient techniques of showmanship and stagecraft, with a genuine curiosity regarding the various 'wisdoms' he utilised to put on a good show. An interesting example of what happens when getting paid is more important than just about anything else.

Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne ou Histoire, Par Ordre Alphabetique, de la Vie Publique et Privee de Tour Les Hommes Qui Se Sont Fait Remarquer Par Leurs Ecrits, Leurs Actions, Leurs Talents, Leurs Vertus ou Leurs Crimes by MICHAUD, Louis-Gabriel

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Title: Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne ou Histoire, Par Ordre Alphabetique, de la Vie Publique et Privee de Tour Les Hommes Qui Se Sont Fait Remarquer Par Leurs Ecrits, Leurs Actions, Leurs Talents, Leurs Vertus ou Leurs Crimes
Author: MICHAUD, Louis-Gabriel
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (United States)
Description: Paris: Ch. Delagrave et Cie, n.y.. Hardcover. Complete 45-volume set. Small 4to. Dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Varying paginations (generally 700+ per volume). Overall very good. Mild ex-library, with each volume bearing paper label at foot of spine, circular institutional inkstamp on half-title and/or title page, bookplate on front and rear pastedown and little else; text blocks are uniformly tight and nice and free of edge tears, with no brittleness whatsoever. Full set of this enormous biographical dictionary of notable French figures of the 18th and early 19th centuries, entirely in French and in two-column format, compiled over the course of several decades by the French historian/author/bookseller/printer (1773-1858) and first published in this 45-volume form in 1843. This highly-cryptic edition defies every best effort at dating, but is perhaps late 19th/early 20th century. Title translates: "History, In Alphabetical Order, of the Public and Private Life of the Men Who Have Made Themselves Noticeable by Their Writings, Their Actions, Their Talents, Their Virtues or Their Crimes." Definitely for the Francophile par extraordinaire. Additional shipping, needless to say, will be required.

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