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The First Part and the Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha

The First Part and the Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha by Ashendene Press; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The First Part and the Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha
Author
Ashendene Press; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[Chelsea]: [The Ashendene Press], 1927. First Ashendene edition. Fine. One of 225 copies on Batchelor paper, out of a total edition of 245 copies. A bright, Fine set. Two large folio vols (430 x 308 mm). Beautifully bound in original full white pigskin. Printed in red and black in Ptolemy type; text in double columns; border and initials designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W. M. Quick and Geo. H. Ford. Bookplates of Don Cameron Allen to upper pastedowns. A bit of smuging to binding, and small scuffs to leather at head of spine, still an excellent set. "First appearance of Ptolemy type. Ashendene knight-in-armour paper...taken as a single work Don-Quixote is the largest of the Ashendene books. It has an interesting alternative to Hewitt's drawn or printed initials, the successful but unrepeatable device of neo-Kelmscott initials, borders and opening words cut on wood from designs by Louise Powell. The new Ashendene type was imitated and adapted from the Geographia of Ptolemaeus, printed by Leonard Holle at Ulm in 1482. In two columns, with red used chiefly for headings and shoulder notes, decorated but not illustrated, this link with the Kelmscott past was an entirely successful venture" (Franklin). "One of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times" (PMM 111, first edition). Originally published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of Western literature, it is often cited as the first modern novel. Ashendene Bibliography XXXVI. Fine.
Portfolio of Drawings and Memoir Documenting a Forty-Day Internment at Ellis Island While Fleeing Nazi Persecution in 1941

Portfolio of Drawings and Memoir Documenting a Forty-Day Internment at Ellis Island While Fleeing Nazi Persecution in 1941 by [Judaica - World War Two - Immigration - Ellis Island] Rosendor, Bitia

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Portfolio of Drawings and Memoir Documenting a Forty-Day Internment at Ellis Island While Fleeing Nazi Persecution in 1941
Author
[Judaica - World War Two - Immigration - Ellis Island] Rosendor, Bitia
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Overall very good to excellent.
Description
New York City, 1941. Thirty-three sketches, mainly measuring 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 inches, affixed to black construction paper. Sketches are pen and ink or pencil, some with captions. With seventeen typed pages, mainly measuring 6 ½ x 7 inches. In an 11 x 14 ½ inch portfolio. Spine of portfolio missing, all pages separated; sketches excellent, construction paper with much marginal chipping; typed pages with adhesive verso else excellent. Overall very good to excellent.. Bitia Rosendor (1920–2011) was a Jewish artist, born in Jerusalem and raised in Antwerp, Belgium. Rosendor studied painting and sculpture at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, but her studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. The Rosendor family fled Europe via Portugal in 1941 and were detained at Ellis Island, where these sketches were produced. The sketches include portraits of other detainees and immigration employees and views from the island. Most have captions, including brief notes about the subjects such as “She became hysterical and was taken to the hospital”, “A little orphan, going all alone to the Dominican Republic”, and “‘Liberty’, through bars”—the latter on an illustration of the Statue of Liberty seen through the bars on the internment center’s windows. The typed text describes Rosendor’s experience waiting for the family’s Visa to be approved. The ordeal is mostly one of boredom; she writes: “Everyone had the same endless day to pass, but everyone passed it differently. There was no possible way to be original, but each of us retained her or his personality. The emptiness of the hours was heavy to bear.” The boredom, though, is punctuated by “incidents”; some negative, as when “Once a Chinese girl wept for three days uninterrupted, refused to eat, refused everything”, and some positive as when “A friend seen last time at the Antipodes” disembarks “from a newly entered ship [...] and suddenly: ‘YOU’! -’YOU’”. Rosendor would live with her family in Brooklyn until the 1950s, when she returned to Europe with her husband, Jewish-American painter Martin Reisberg, a fellow immigrant whom she met in the city. The pair returned to Belgium where they ran a gallery and created exhibitions together until Rosendor’s death in 2011. Of interest to scholars of the Holocaust, American immigration, and the Jewish immigrant experience in the 1940s.
Racine et Shakspeare

Racine et Shakspeare by STENDHAL

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Racine et Shakspeare
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STENDHAL
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
A Paris: Chez Bossange, Delaunay, Mongie & Les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1823. M. de. [Beyle, Henri]. Racine et Shakspeare. [and] No. II. À Paris: Chez Bossange père, DeLaunay, Mongie, [and] Les Marchands De Nouveautes, 1823, 1825. Very scarce first edition of both volumes. Two octavo volumes in one (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm). [1]-55, [1, blank]; [4], [3, advertisements], [1]-103, [1, errata] pp. Half-titles for both volumes. Bound together in twentieth-century half brown levant morocco over marbled paper boards by Stroobants. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top-edge gilt, others partially uncut. Red silk page-marker. A few pages trimmed shorter at the fore-edge, but with no loss of text. Some minor marking to back board. A bit of very light foxing. Overall an excellent, near fine copy. Marie-Henri Beyle, known under his pseudonym, de Stendhal, was born in Grenoble, France in 1783 and died in Paris in 1842. Although employed at various military and government posts throughout his life, his underlying passion for art and literature is expressed in his writings, penned between 1812 and 1839. His peers and contemporaries included Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and George Sand. Perhaps most famous for his novel, Le Rouge et le Noir (1831), his earlier essays and short works reveal his artistic and literary development. This polemic treatise signaled Stendhal's entry into the struggle between classicism and romanticism. A second essay on Racine and Shakespeare (referred to as 'Shakespeare II') was published in 1825 (of which is also present here). Ebisch & Schüking, A Shakespeare Bibliography, p. 151; Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique de la France, p. 284-5; Lanson, Gustave, Manuel Bibliographique de la Litterature Française Moderne, 19078. Not in OCLC, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, or Brunet. HBS 66771. $3,500.
Palingenesien: Jean Paul's Fata und Wercke vor und in Nurnberg

Palingenesien: Jean Paul's Fata und Wercke vor und in Nurnberg by Paul, Jean (Johann Paul Friederich Richter)

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Palingenesien: Jean Paul's Fata und Wercke vor und in Nurnberg
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Paul, Jean (Johann Paul Friederich Richter)
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Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Leipzig & Gera: Wilhelm Heinsius, 1798. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. lxviii,271(i); viii,342,(ii)pp. Early, probably original, speckled paper over boards, small lettering label, gilt. Light wear to the edges and hinges, else a very good copy. Text in German.
The Israelite Conquest of Canaan

The Israelite Conquest of Canaan by Yeivin, Sh

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Title
The Israelite Conquest of Canaan
Author
Yeivin, Sh
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, 1971. Softcover. vg. 4to. xvi,301pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by previous owner on half-title. In the midfifties the author was asked to contribute an article on the Israelite Conquest of Canaan for the fourth volume of the Encyclopedia Biblica of Jerusalem. This hypothesis is the result. Part I: Analysis (The Evidence). Part II: Synthesis (A Working Hypothesis). Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs, full-page b/w maps as well as a 13 maps resting in rear of book. Some creasing to wrappers. One-inch closed tear along tail of spine on rear wrapper. Very good condition.
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The art of bookbinding. A practical treatise by Zaehnsdorf, Joseph W.

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The art of bookbinding. A practical treatise
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Zaehnsdorf, Joseph W.
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
London: George Bell and Sons, 1900. Second edition, 12mo, pp. xix, [1], 190, [4], 29 (ads), [3]; frontispiece and 7 monochrome plates, text illustrations; original green cloth stamped in gilt and black; light spotting to top edge, tidelines on frontispiece and title page, else very good and sound.
THE MYRIAD FACES OF WAR : BRITAIN AND THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
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THE MYRIAD FACES OF WAR : BRITAIN AND THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918 by Wilson, Trevor, 1928-

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THE MYRIAD FACES OF WAR : BRITAIN AND THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
Author
Wilson, Trevor, 1928-
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780745600932
Description
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986. Hardcover. Octavo, xvi, 864 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is black with blue and red print. Dust jacket has light edge wear, light shelf wear. Price unclipped: “$24.00”. Boards in black cloth. Slight wear to spine caps and corners. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece, photographs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1389950. FP New Rockville Stock.

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