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One published and one unpublished photograph of Muriel Rukeyser with TLS from Avedon to Rukeyser by Avedon, Richard

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Title: One published and one unpublished photograph of Muriel Rukeyser with TLS from Avedon to Rukeyser
Author: Avedon, Richard
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1976. New York: 1975-1976. Kodak Color Film card box with Muriel Rukeyser's name in her hand on lid containing 1pp. TLS from Avedon to Rukeyser signed in pencil and two gelatin silver prints each 10 x 8 in. (25.9 x 20.8cm) in trace paper sleeves. The first photo is that titled "Muriel Rukeyser, poet, New York City, 7-30-75" with the printed issue statement and guarantee on verso, signed and numbered in ink by Avedon, this being number 50 of 50. The sleeve additionally signed "With deepest gratitude, Dick". The second photo is another image from the same shoot, this showing Rukeyser smiling; the verso is blank. Condition: photos in fine condition, slight toning to sleeves, mailing folds to letter, minimal wear to Kodak box; evidently practically untouched since leaving Avedon's studio. ß Muriel Rukeyser was said to have despised the photo which Avedon took of her on July 30, 1975, and which was included in his exhibition and book Portraits (New York, 1975/1976). This box and its contents, sent by Avedon to Rukeyser was, in her son's words, "a peace offering." In the box, Avedon enclosed the offending portrait, one of only 50, and with it an unpublished photo from the same shoot which Muriel had much preferred. In the two-line letter he reassured her: "Of course I will restrict the use of your portrait. It will appear only in my book which has already been printed." The paper sleeve around the published photo is inscribed more warmly: "With deepest gratitude, Dick." Avedon's Portraits, first displayed in the landmark exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 1975, marked a radical juncture in the tradition of public portraiture. "With uncompromising directness, Avedon portrays his subjects against a bright, white, seamless background, with no props or extraneous details to distract from their person from the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress, and gesture. When everything extraneous is stripped away, what remains is a remarkable intensity of characterization. The people in Avedon's photographs seem posed to walk right out of their frames, immediately recognizable and wholly alive down to the most telling detail." (Met Gallery) In 2002, the Met Gallery honored Avedon's work with major retrospective exhibition. Maria Morris Hambourg, Curator of Photographs and the organizer of the exhibition, noted: "These are pictures of famous people that are not at all about their celebrity. In their exchange with Avedon, each person yields up aspects of his or her interior self, some usually hidden but essential traits. Exactly how the photographer makes visible these fundamental conditions is the mystery of his genius. Collectively, he is addressing our greatness and frailty, the glory and heartbreak of what he calls 'the human predicament.'" These two gelatin prints of Rukeyser are in fine condition and clearly little-handled. Together the photographs and letter form amusing testimony to Avedon's artistic determination and his willingness to occasionally offend his famous subjects in pursuit of his new vision of portraiture. Provenance: the Rukeyser family.

His Fortunate Grace by Atherton, Gertrude

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Title: His Fortunate Grace
Author: Atherton, Gertrude
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1897. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. 8vo, 210, (8, ads)pp. Publisher's decorated light blue cloth, binding yellowed and somewhat weak, closed tears to half-title and title, a good signed copy. ß First edition, signed by Atherton with the date 1934 on the title page. Atherton has also notes "First and only edition! G.A." on the front pastedown. A critique of high society set in the Gilded Age of New York starring a wealthy heiress with an interest in socialism and women's suffrage.

Co-linearity of the gene with the polypeptide chain [first study to show co-linearity] by Brenner, Sarabhai et al.

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Title: Co-linearity of the gene with the polypeptide chain [first study to show co-linearity]
Author: Brenner, Sarabhai et al.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1964. Sarabhai, A. S.; Stretton, A. O. W., Brenner, Sydney (1927- ); and Bolle, A. Co-linearity of the gene with the polypeptide chain. Offprint from Nature 201 (1964). [4]pp. Text illustrations. 280 x 218 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Light browning, minor creasing, small marginal tears, otherwise very good. First Separate Edition. Brenner and his colleagues performed the first study to show co-linearity; i.e., that there is a simple congruence between the amino acid sequence of a protein and the nucleotide sequence of the gene determining that protein. Brenner and his team were working with "nonsense" mutants, called amber mutants, that terminated protein synthesis in E. coli genes. "The presence of random nonsense mutants would therefore yield multiple random protein fragments of different sizes. . . . [W]e now suddenly realized that since we had all these amber mutants in this gene we could give a topological proof of co-linearity. And we wouldn't have to do any protein sequencing! The only assumption we would have to make is that the protein is always read from the same end, which seemed a very reasonable one. So in 1964 we published a paper which proved that the gene and the protein were co-linear by an argument that was totally unexpected at that time. We showed that as the amber mutations moved further and further to the right in the position of the gene, we got progressively more and more of the protein made :(Brenner, My Life, p. 103). Co-linearity means that changes in DNA sequence can produce changes in protein sequence at corresponding positions. Working independently, Charles Yanofsky and his colleagues were also able to show co-linearity; "it was the Yanofsky work on tryptophan synthetase that was to provide the specifics of amino acid substitutions with gene mutations" (Brock, p. 312). .

Engraved Portrait by Brady

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Title: Engraved Portrait
Author: Brady
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: W. Richardson. Plate: 175x136 mm. Margin: 290x206 mm. Very faint creasing, top and bottom margins are fraying, very light foxing.

Thayer's One Hundred Formulas, a Handbook of special and practical information and knowledge. Price one dollar. [with:] Twelve Sample Receipts from.. by Thayer, S.A. [Samuel A. Thayer]

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Title: Thayer's One Hundred Formulas, a Handbook of special and practical information and knowledge. Price one dollar. [with:] Twelve Sample Receipts from..
Author: Thayer, S.A. [Samuel A. Thayer]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Boston: J.H. Hartley, Printer, 71 Olive Street, 1883. Two pieces. Octavo-sized booklet (18 x 12.5 cm.), 30 pages. With: a hand bill for same. Bifold (21.7 x 14 cm.), [4] pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting collection of recipes medicinal, household, and otherwise useful, drawn from vegetable chemistry. Includes medicines, syrups, extracts, tinctures, infusions, concentrations, balms, ointments, washes, liniments, drops, powders, solutions, uses in wine, uses as food supplements, hair restoratives, creams, & hair dyes, hair pomades, deodorizing powder, skin creams, cough remedies, herbals, flowers, roots, seeds, sugar coated pills, fragrant oils, cooking extracts, teas, biscuits, puddings, sodas, dyes, ink, druggist colors, home remedies, and much more. There are a fair number of recipes for soda water and bitters, including some odd ones like Peruvian Tonic Bitters. Publisher's pale blue printed wrappers, with one light stain to the front wrapper panel; otherwise fine. [OCLC locates eight copies].

The Granite Iron Ware Cook Book... Price 25 cents by [St. Louis Stamping Company (St. Louis, Mo.)]

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Title: The Granite Iron Ware Cook Book... Price 25 cents
Author: [St. Louis Stamping Company (St. Louis, Mo.)]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: St. Louis, Mo.; New York: St. Louis Stamping Company; [chromolithography by Donaldson Brothers], 1887. Small pamphlet, stapled in wrappers (12.75 x 8.75 cm.), 64 pages. Wood engraved illustrations throughout, and chromo-lithographically illustrated wrappers. Publication date from front wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A small but beautifully produced promotional cookbook, advertising the full line of iron ware kitchenware from the St. Louis Stamping Co. Includes testimonials, recipes, and lots of illustrations of the many products they produced. The illustrated wrappers depict a woman in her kitchen admiring her Iron Ware on the front panel, and, a young boy fishing with an Iron Ware pail at his side. Some closed wormholes to leaves at rear, not affecting text. Otherwise, near fine in near fine wrappers. The rear wrapper panel bears the stamp of "Wm. Bischof, Wholesale and Retail Hardware, 169 Main Street, Nebraska City, Neb."[Cagle 956; Wheaton & Kelly 2489; Axford 190].

Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics by Korzybski, Alfred

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Title: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Author: Korzybski, Alfred
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Description: Lancaster, PA and New York: Science Press, 1933. First printing. FIRST PRINTING OF SCIENTIST-PHILOSOPHER ALFRED KORZYBSKI'S MAGNUM OPUS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, Blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, i-xx, 798 pp, illustrations. Light wear to spine ends, otherwise near-fine in custom archival mylar cover. ALFRED HABDANK SKARBEK KORZYBSKI (1879 - 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language. For Korzybski, people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality. To embody this insight, Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: "The map is not the territory". Korzybski's work culminated in the initiation of a discipline that he named general semantics (GS). As Korzybski said, GS should not be confused with semantics, a different subject. The basic principles of general semantics, which include time-binding, are described in the publication Science and Sanity, published in 1933 (offered here). After the publication of Science and Sanity he traveled about teaching briefly in many schools and universities. In 1938 Korzybski founded the Institute of General Semantics in Chicago. The post-World War II housing shortage in Chicago cost him the Institute's building lease, so in 1946, he moved the Institute to Lakeville, Connecticut, USA, where he directed it until his death in 1950.

Steps Must Be Gentle by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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Title: Steps Must Be Gentle
Author: WILLIAMS, Tennessee
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A fine copy, virtually untouched save one small loss to the rear panel of the plain wrapper
Description: New York: Targ Editions, 1980. A fine copy, virtually untouched save one small loss to the rear panel of the plain wrapper. 8vo. 22, [3] pages. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 350 copies signed by Tennessee Williams. Designed and printed by Ronard Gordon at The Oliphant Press, and bound by Spink & Gaborc.

Household Tales of Moon and Water by WILLARD, Nancy

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Title: Household Tales of Moon and Water
Author: WILLARD, Nancy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: San Diego, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. Light spotting to sheet edges, near-fine. FIRST EDITION, second printing. WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION by Willard to Myra Cohn Livingston, with a drawing on a crescent moon and star.

The Princess Anne Hotel, Virginia Beach, VA

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Title: The Princess Anne Hotel, Virginia Beach, VA
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: [Norfolk, Virginia?]: 1893. Oblong 12mo (5.125" x 7.375"), pictorial light blue wrappers. 16 pp., numerous illus. throughout, map on last p. (3" x 4.875"). Early ownership inscription in ink on title page: "Anthony W. Knapp Princess Anne Hotel Virginia Beach Va March 1898." CONDITION: Very good, light wear to wrappers and first page. An apparently unrecorded 1893 edition of this amply illustrated guide to Virginia Beach's Princess Anne Hotel and vicinity. It includes several train itineraries, descriptions of the resort, and brief notes on the various amusements of its surroundings. The hotel accommodated four hundred guests, boasted electric lights and bells, and a variety of indoor games and entertainments. The hotel was built after a railway from Norfolk provided easy access to the oceanfront in the early 1880s, and by 1888 it had become a "Grand Hotel, like no other" ("The Princess Anne"). It is advertised here for its "Absolute Healthfulness," "Superior Accommodations," "unsurpassed Cuisine," and "Perfect Service," and the area is later noted for "notably free from mosquitos." According to Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett, former president of the American Medical Association, Virginia Beach was endowed with "supreme attributes of sanitary power." Not so healthfully, it burned down in 1907, and the site was later purchased by the military and used as a strategic defense point during World War I. REFERENCES: "The Princess Anne Hotel: There Was No Finer Place, Anywhere," The Historical Marker Database online.

Albumen photograph, Cabinet size, Henry Van der Weyde, London, photographer by LANGTRY, LILLIE

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Title: Albumen photograph, Cabinet size, Henry Van der Weyde, London, photographer
Author: LANGTRY, LILLIE
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Langtry is shown in three-quarter length profile, on photographer's mount measuring 6 1/2 by 4 1/4. "Mrs. Langtry" is printed on the mount between the gold embossed photographer's name on the left and address on the right. The photograph and mount are in exceptional condition. "Copyright" is imprinted on left lower portion of the photograph and photographer's name is imprinted on lower right. An appealing image.

The County Regiment: A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War by Dudley Landon Vaill

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Title: The County Regiment: A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War
Author: Dudley Landon Vaill
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Litchfield County, CT: University Club, 1908. Full leather. Very Good. The 1908 1st edition. Solid and VG in its dark-green pebbled leather, with bright gilt-titling and insignia at the front panel. Light scuffing to the panels, light wear at the spine crown. 13 illustrations --including the frontispiece-- complementing Dudley Landon Vaill's text.

The Messerschmitt 109 in Italian Service 1943-1945 by Ferdinando D'Amico & Gabriele Valentini

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Title: The Messerschmitt 109 in Italian Service 1943-1945
Author: Ferdinando D'Amico & Gabriele Valentini
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Boylston, MA: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A crisp, bright copy of the 1985 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Fine pictorial dustjacket. Tall quarto, 128 pgs.

(Literary Periodical.) , The Monitor, Designed to Improve the Taste, the Understanding, and the Heart. Volume I.

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Title: (Literary Periodical.) , The Monitor, Designed to Improve the Taste, the Understanding, and the Heart. Volume I.
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Book. Boston: R. Bannister, 1823. 8vo, early full calf. Pp. viii, 424. Some soiling and stains, a sound copy. The first year complete of a monthly periodical for youth over the age of 15, with literary anecdotes, historical profiles, religious articles, etc..

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Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet: Illustrated Collector's Edition

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Title: Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet: Illustrated Collector's Edition
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781598114133
Condition: Fine
Description: Covenant Communications, 2007. Fine. Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet: Illustrated Collector's Edition. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2007. 1st edition. 362pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine.

The National Geographic Magazine (February 1948: vol 93, no. 2)

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Title: The National Geographic Magazine (February 1948: vol 93, no. 2)
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: National Geographic Society, 1948. Very Good. The National Geographic Magazine (February 1948: vol 93, no. 2). Washington D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1948. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and bumping. Former owner's name on front cover and first two pages.

Sunstone Magazine (Vol. 9.2, Autumn 1984)

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Title: Sunstone Magazine (Vol. 9.2, Autumn 1984)
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sunstone Foundation, 1984. Very Good. Sunstone Magazine (Vol. 9.2, Autumn 1984). SLC: Sunstone Foundation, 1984. 48pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with bumped spine edge and moderatly soiled rear panel. Former owner's name and address on rear panel.

THE AMERICAN GUIDE by Alsberg, H. G. (ed.); Weldon Kees

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Title: THE AMERICAN GUIDE
Author: Alsberg, H. G. (ed.); Weldon Kees
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Hastings House, 1949. First Edition. Blue cloth, gold lettering; 8vo. 1348 pp. Pp. 72-80 is an essay covering the entirety of the history of American Literature written by Weldon Kees. A guidebook for the entire US. An easily very good copy lacking the dust jacket.

Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I. by WOODFILL, Walter L.

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Title: Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I.
Author: WOODFILL, Walter L.
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Da Capo, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full mid-blue cloth with titling silver to spine. xiv, 372 pp. With occasional illustrations. Slightly worn.

Beau Sabreur by Wren, P.C. (Percival Christopher)

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Title: Beau Sabreur
Author: Wren, P.C. (Percival Christopher)
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Spine and portions of bottom and fore edge margin stained. 1927 Hard Cover. x, 370, [4] pp. Photoplay edition featuring stills from the Paramount motion picture. The second in a trilogy of historical novels beginning with Beau Geste and ending with Beau Ideal. This volume focuses on the adventures of Major De Beaujolais, an officer in the French Foreign legion. Beau Sabreur is a thrilling romantic adventure that transports readers to the captivating world of the Sahara desert. As the sequel to the successful "Beau Geste," the novel continues the gripping tale with members from the original novel, providing a seamless and engaging continuation of the story. The plot begins with three Legionnaires facing trouble as they fail to return promptly from furlough, leading them to find themselves in a precarious situation. The hero's valiant duel with a traitor elevates him to the title of "Beau Sabreur," adding an intriguing layer to his character. Sent into the desert to learn the ways of the Arabs and assist in forging a peace treaty, the hero encounters a fascinating American journalist, igniting a romance that adds depth and emotional resonance to the narrative.

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