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POINT DE LENDEMAIN. [bound with] FRANCE, ANATOLE. NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR VIVANT DENON by (BINDINGS - MEUNIER). DENON, DOMINQUE VIVANT, BARON

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Title: POINT DE LENDEMAIN. [bound with] FRANCE, ANATOLE. NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR VIVANT DENON
Author: (BINDINGS - MEUNIER). DENON, DOMINQUE VIVANT, BARON
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: P. Rouquette, 1889,1890. First work: ONE OF 75 COPIES on Japon, and No. 98 of a total edition of 505. Second work: FIRST EDITION. 240 x 155 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). 1 p.l. (half title), 38 pp., [1] leaf; XII pp. Two volumes bound in one. . LOVELY CELADON GREEN MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID TO A ROCOCO DESIGN, BY CHARLES MEUNIER (stamp-signed in gilt and dated 1908 on front doublure), covers with ornate frame featuring onlaid gray-blue morocco compartments diapered with dotted gilt lines and many gilt volutes, acanthus leaves, turtle doves, and other tools, raised bands, spine compartments with onlaid gray-blue mandorla centerpieces, similarly gilt and framed by volutes, gilt lettering, CELADON GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES, lavishly gilt with repeating rows of flower baskets, iridescent green silk endleaves, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt. Original pink printed wrappers of each work bound in. Housed in a fine (just slightly rubbed) chamois-lined olive green morocco pull-off box resembling a book (thick raised bands, blind ruling, gilt lettering), the spine of the box evenly sunned. With etched frontispiece portrait of the author and 13 illustrations by Paul Avril, most half-page, all in a second state before letters. Faint foxing to half title, otherwise AN IMMACULATE COPY, the binding gleaming and the text untouched. Handsomely printed and illustrated, this libertine tale of seduction and deception in Louis XV's France was lavishly bound in the Rococo style by the master Flety describes as "the apostle of emblematic bookbinding." Legendary among French binders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his energy and imagination, Charles Meunier (1865-1940) was apprenticed to Gustave Bénard at the age of 11, worked for a time in the atelier of Marius Michel, and then set up his own studio when he was 20. According to Duncan & De Bartha, he drew "on both traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration, [mixing] classical punches . . . with newly fashionable incised and modelled leather panels." He was especially adept at creating bindings that were not merely apt for the contents of the book, but that embodied in their design the themes of the work. His Rococo pattern here is extravagant even for that over-the-top style, the decoration as unrestrained as the amoral aristocrats whose exploits Denon exposes here. First printed anonymously in 1777, "No Tomorrow" is narrated by a callow youth who falls under the spell of Madame de T***, a brilliant manipulator who uses his infatuation with her to draw her husband's attention away from her long-term affair with a marquis. Her plan is so successful that she succeeds in enjoying a dalliance with our narrator, convinces both her husband and her lover that she is faithful to them, and keeps all three men on good terms with each other. At the end of his adventure, our hero searches for a moral to the story, but finds none. Like the anti-heroine of his work, our author, diplomat, courtier, and polymath Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), had the wit and the talent to thrive during a tumultuous period in France, managing to stay in the good graces, successively, of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Robespierre, and Napoleon. He had met the last of these rulers at the salon of future empress Josephine de Beauharnais, and was invited by Napoleon to join the Egypt expeditionary force as an arts and culture observer. Earning the moniker "Napoleon's Eye," he made sketches of the remarkable monuments--sometimes while under enemy fire--as well as of the ports, the cities, the inhabitants, and the art, particularly ancient hieroglyphics. When the illustrated account of his journey was published, Russell tells us that Denon became "the first to present to Europe a true and honest image of ancient Egypt" after being "the first European traveller to spend months exploring the desert and recording the monuments he found there." He was "the primary force behind revealing Egypt's civilisation to an astonished Europe." The graceful etchings in the present volume are by the celebrated illustrator Paul Avril (1849-1928), who studied art in various Paris salons, including the École des Beaux Arts. According to Ray, Avril "was a witty and ingenious artist," and a prolific one as well, illustrating a number of bibliophile's editions, as well as classics of erotica. His illustrations here bring to mind work of the Rococo artists Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard. Our edition benefits from the addition of a second work, containing notes on the life of the author by prominent man of letters Anatole France (1844-1924), who would win the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament." The beauty of our item was clearly treasured and protected by previous owners, as it is virtually unchanged from the day it left Meunier's workshop..

The decisive moment by CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri

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Title: The decisive moment
Author: CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952. FIRST EDITION. With 126 photographic illustrations. Publisher’s decorated cloth designed by Cartier-Bresson, and in the original dust jacket. Laid in is the separate leaflet (4to., 12 pp.) containing the captions to the photographs in English. A fine copy. First edition of this landmark work in the history of photography. This is the American issue, though printed in France in collaboration with Éditions Verve. Though many people assume that his “decisive moment” is an ephemeral and spontaneous image representing a snap in time, Cartier-Bresson felt quite differently; his moment is all about composition and how a photograph can communicate to the observer: “If a photograph is to communicate its subject in all its intensity, the relationship of form must be rigorously established. Photography implies the recognition of a rhythm in the world of real things. What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular subject within the mass of reality… In a photograph, composition is the result of a simultaneous coalition, the organic coordination of elements seen by the eye. One does not add composition as though it were an afterthought superimposed on the basic subject material, since it is impossible to separate content from form. Composition must have its own inevitability about it. But inside movement there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.” Parr/Badger I, pp. 208-209; Roth, pp. 134-135; Open Book, pp. 154-155.

みんなうんち [Minna Unchi] [Everyone Poops, or Everybody Poops] by Gomi, Taro

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Title: みんなうんち [Minna Unchi] [Everyone Poops, or Everybody Poops]
Author: Gomi, Taro
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tokyo: Fukuinkan-Shoten, 1977. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing in the original Japanese language of this best-selling plotless children's book. Bound in publisher's original stiff printed wraps. Very Good with toning and wear to wraps, musty odor and sporadic foxing to pages. Very uncommon indeed--while everybody poops few can own a book this rare, plus most things that poop do not have money.

THREE BOOKS FROM THE FANTOD PRESS: The Pious Infant; The Evil Garden; The Inantimate Tragedy by Edward Gorey

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Title: THREE BOOKS FROM THE FANTOD PRESS: The Pious Infant; The Evil Garden; The Inantimate Tragedy
Author: Edward Gorey
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: The Fantod Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Paperback. Fantod Press Edward Gorey set #1 published in 1966. The three booklets are in fine condition in the original publisher's envelope. The envelope is chipped along its edges but inherently whole and complete. An early Gorey item; this true first printing is scarce in fine condition.

Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]

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Title: Bond, U[lysses] S[impson]. [Ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Madison, Arkansas, 1964. Very good. Metal ashtray with a diameter of 5½” at its widest. Very good with moderate wear and light staining. This is a marketing ashtray for U.S. Bond's Motel which was located in Madison, Arkansas. The owner of the motel, Ulysses Simpson Bond attended what became Morehouse College and then Oberlin Business College, and then returned home to Madison. In addition to the hotel, he managed the family gravel business, and manufactured funeral supplies. He was named one of the ten leading Black Arkansans in 1953. This ashtray lists the motel's location as “40 miles west of Memphis, Tenn. For Colored.” The motel first appeared in the Negro Travelers Green Book in 1954 and their 1955 advertisement in the Green Book stated that the motel was “The South's finest and one of America's best Motels for Colored.” A fine artifact of both African American entrepreneurship and the challenges faced by Black travelers in the segregated South.

The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius; Comprising The Satyricon and Poems by Petronius, Gaius

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Title: The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius; Comprising The Satyricon and Poems
Author: Petronius, Gaius
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Translated by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Limited to 650 copies signed by Jack Lindsay. Good. Half-vellum, faded at the spine, scuffed and bumped at the edges, with marbled paper on the boards, equally worn. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally.

Ladidah by Walthall, Hugh

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Title: Ladidah
Author: Walthall, Hugh
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ithaca: Ithaca House, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Walthall on the title page and with textual corrections on a few page. Near Fine. Wraps faintly toned and rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Les Diners de Gala by DALI, Salvador

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Title: Les Diners de Gala
Author: DALI, Salvador
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Condition: Cloth illustrated boards. Near fine, in very good foil dust wrapper
Description: New York: Felice, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cloth illustrated boards. Near fine, in very good foil dust wrapper. DALI, Salvador. 320 pages. 31 x 22 cm. Lavishly produced in color/black and white illustrations, photos, and gold illustrated dustwrapper. Beginning with a description of "Dalinian Gastro Esthetics, and dedicated to Gala dinners, including the Menu of the 2500th Anniversary of The Foundation of the Persian Empire (Iran) in October, 1971 (catered by Maxim's), this tome is a bacchanalian extravaganza. Interior crisp and clean. Boards very lightly rubbed at edges. Foil wrapper lighty scuffed. Covered in protective mylar.

Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed] by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, Mary

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Title: Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed]
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, Mary
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and dark grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-592pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Max Kennedy / "We'll never turn back" / Mary King." Old splash marks affecting upper half of front pastedown, faint foxing to text edges, though contents are clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $22.95), with light surface wear, some rubbing to extremities, faint foxing on verso, and a few tiny splash marks to front flap; Very Good+. Memoir by King (b.1940), a white civil rights activist drafted into the movement by Ella Baker, recounting her involvement with SNCC, the 1964 murder of three of her fellow workers in Mississippi, and her association with Julian Bond, Marion Barry, Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. 82648.

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The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Macabre Stories / The Randolph Carter Tales / Stories of the Dreamlands / At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories / The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories / The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (six volume set). by LOVECRAFT, H. P.

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Title: The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Macabre Stories / The Randolph Carter Tales / Stories of the Dreamlands / At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories / The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories / The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (six volume set).
Author: LOVECRAFT, H. P.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781784288600
Condition: Fine
Description: London:: Sirius,. 2020. Hardcover. Fine. Complete in six volumes. All volumes are fine in cloth bindings with silver lettering and design. No dust jackets, as issued. Housed in a fine slipcase. . 1784288608 .

Furnishings by Artists (Original catalog for the 1980 exhibition) by [Al Aguilar, Charles Arnoldi, Billy Al Bengston, Scott Burton, John Chamberlain, Ron Cooper, Robert Mangurian, Guy Dill, Laddie John Dill, Paul Donin, Greg Ericson, Frank Gehry, Percy Gibbar, George Herms, James Isermann, Mark Keisermann, Kim MacConnel, M

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Title: Furnishings by Artists (Original catalog for the 1980 exhibition)
Author: [Al Aguilar, Charles Arnoldi, Billy Al Bengston, Scott Burton, John Chamberlain, Ron Cooper, Robert Mangurian, Guy Dill, Laddie John Dill, Paul Donin, Greg Ericson, Frank Gehry, Percy Gibbar, George Herms, James Isermann, Mark Keisermann, Kim MacConnel, M
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Otis/Parsons Gallery, 1980. Vintage catalog for an exhibition held from June 6 through July 13, 1980, at Otis/Parsons Gallery in Los Angeles. Illustrated in black-and-white. Faint rubbing near the binding, else about Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.

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