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Autograph letter signed ("D. Shostakovich") from the young composer to his closest friend at the time, noted Russian musicologist, critic, and composer Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky. With musical content by SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri 1906-1975

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Title: Autograph letter signed ("D. Shostakovich") from the young composer to his closest friend at the time, noted Russian musicologist, critic, and composer Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky. With musical content
Author: SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri 1906-1975
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: 4 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Plus postscript on a small slip of paper ca. 98 x 80 mm laid in. In purple ink. Addressed to "Eldosha" (nickname). Dated Gaspra, Crimea, 29 July 1924. In Cyrillic (with translation). The not quite 18-year-old composer writes from the spa town of Gaspra, where he was sent to recuperate after contracting tuberculosis in 1923. After a somewhat obscene introduction, Shostakovich thanks Bogdanov-Berezovsky for inquiring about his work and states: "I have started a fugue in eight parts and have finished one orchestral scherzo that I wrote for two pianos. It is brilliant!," promising to show it to his correspondent when he sees him and suggesting that they organize a concert with "somebody's symphony" first followed by Bogdanov-Berezovsky's concerto for piano and intermezzo and then three of Shostakovich's scherzos. Shostakovich goes on to pose a playful series of questions and answers about life and love and includes a joke about how "one German used to say how difficult the Russian language is" as a postscript. With several minor autograph corrections. Slightly worn, browned, and creased; small purple ink stain to blank area at head. Shostakovich "is generally regarded as the greatest symphonist of the mid-20th century, and many of his string quartets, concertos, instrumental and vocal works are also firmly established in the repertory. ... He played a decisive role in the musical life of the former Soviet Union, as teacher, writer and administrator. He was also an active pianist, frequently performing his own works until disability prevented him. His last concert appearance was in 1966. ... In March 1924 Shostakovich was excluded from the post graduate piano course [at the Petrograd Conservatory], officially because of 'insufficient maturity'; he came close to transferring to the Moscow Conservatory, where he already had a number of friendly contacts, to study piano with Konstantin Igumnov and composition with Nikolay Myaskovsky. After he had enjoyed a second rest-cure in the Crimea he was reinstated with Nikolayev in Leningrad. He set to work in earnest on his symphony, now a prescribed graduation task." Laurel Fay and David Fanning in Grove Music Online Shostakovich considered Valerian Mikhailovich Bogdanov-Berezovksy (1903-1971) his closest friend during his years at the Conservatory; Bogdanov-Berezovsky went on to become one of the leading Soviet musicologists and critics of his generation. "Shostakovich's friendship with Bodgdanov-Berezovsky coincided with the most eventful years of his personal development, when the teenager displaying signs of outstanding creative talent became a young man with touchingly child-like sides to his nature. His letters to his friend reveal a wide range of emotional responses - tenderness, sensitivity, ardent devotion, irascibility, deep impressionability, morbid vulnerability - such are the 'passions' of teenagers discovering themselves and others through the tangled weave of personal relations. We observe the bitterness of first betrayals and losses, the forging of the shield of psychological defenses, the curiously contradictory combination of pliancy and pig-headedness, caustic ironic criticism of others and of himself, empty chatter about trifles and presentiments of what is truly important. The attentive reader will discern signs of a complex process of maturation as Shostakovich shed one skin after another through experience of life. These letters from the 1920s reveal his inner world with a remarkable immediacy and fullness, as though his soul was laid bare. We can also observe the origins of Shostakovich's epistolary stock phrases and his teenage love of bad language, which he uses to express the chastest of feelings and to formulate what would become enduring convictions. The letters abound in nicknames, which the young Shostakovich adored and which he employed with virtuosic aplomb. ... In former decades, such letters could scarcely have been published, mainly on account of their vocabulary. The 15-year-old Mitya Shostakovich did not give external censorship a thought: it only became a concern later in the 1930s, on account of the mass repressions and the devastating criticism directed at him by the Communist party. But internal censorship is also absent . ... "The correspondence between the two men is of exceptional interest, as it offers a unique insight into Shostakovich's character and artistic outlook at a crucial formative period. Unlike the composer's later correspondence, in which he expressed himself with far greater circumspection, these letters are wholly free from self-censorship and reveal his innermost thoughts about life, love, and art with unusual frankness. The exuberant personality that they reveal stands in marked contrast to the 'official' public persona that Shostakovich adopted subsequently in his dealings with the outside world." Kovnatskaya: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Shostakovich-Bogdanov-Berezovsky Correspondence in Zuk and Frolova-Walker, eds.: Russian Music Since 1917, abstract and pp. 272-3. An early letter with good musical content, written at a highly formative period in the composer's career, offering important insights into the relationship of Shostakovich and his closest friend as young men.

Capital, a Critique of Political Economy:The Process of Capitalist Production; The Process of Circulation of Capital; The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels

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Title: Capital, a Critique of Political Economy:The Process of Capitalist Production; The Process of Circulation of Capital; The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Author: Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1933. Early U. S. Editions. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes, 8vo. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spines. Volume I is the 1909 printing; Volume II is the 1933 printing; and Volume II is the 1909 first printing. Inner hinges of volume I neatly repaired; spine of Volume III is rubbed in places, else this is a very good set. The Kerr edition is the first US edition of Marx's complete three volume work usually known by its German title, Das Kapital. Only the first volume was published in Marx's lifetime; it appeared in the US in 1890. Engels completed the work using Marx's notes and published them in Germany in 1885 and 1894 respectively. This American issue was translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (Vol. I), from the second German edition by Ernest Untermann (Vol II), and from the first German edition by Untermann (Vol III). A PMM selection. .

Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1871 by SCHMOLLER, Hans

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Title: Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1871
Author: SCHMOLLER, Hans
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three folding plates, full-page color reproductions of 20 Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking, facsimiles on Japanese paper of 30 woodcut illus., & a separate suite of color plates in a portfolio. Large 8vo, orig. red morocco-backed boards, gilt, morocco spine label, slipcase. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Limited to 500 numbered copies printed on mouldmade Hahnemühle paper in Van Dijck types. In the late 1860s, at the behest of Prime Minister Gladstone, Sir Harry Parkes traveled to Japan to assemble information on the art of Japanese papermaking. His report, together with a vast collection of handmade Japanese paper, was shipped to England in 1871 and subsequently forgotten until its rediscovery by Hans Schmoller in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The entire text of the Parkes Report is here reproduced in facsimile, supplemented by Schmoller’s account of his discovery, a biographical sketch of Parkes, and a historical survey of the impact of Japanese paper on the West. Fine copy of a fascinating narrative of bibliographical detection.

Ode à Charles Fourier by Breton, André

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Title: Ode à Charles Fourier
Author: Breton, André
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Paris: Fontaine, 1947. First edition. Kiesler,Frederick J.. 41 p. illus. 28 cm. Collection "L'Age d'or." Original wrappers, tanning at the edges, but a fine copy. Copy 223 of 750 numbered copies on vélin paper. Designed and illustrated by Frederick Kiesler, the Romanian emigre, whose architectural projects, including the "Endless House" and the "Shrine of the Book", built in Jerusalem to house the Dead Sea Scrolls, and surrealist works became well-known through major one-artist exhibitions in America at the Guggenheim Museum in 1964 and at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989. "[An] extraordinarily abstruse volume whose idiosyncratic typography and illustrations prefigure later word poetry and the publications of the Fluxus movement," Robert Flynn Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, #126.

JOHN C. CALHOUN [Three volumes] by Wiltse, Charles M. (Charles Maurice), 1907-1990 [author] ; Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 [subject]

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Title: JOHN C. CALHOUN [Three volumes]
Author: Wiltse, Charles M. (Charles Maurice), 1907-1990 [author] ; Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 [subject]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1944-1951. First edition [Volumes 2-3]. Hardcover. Octavo, Three volumes. In Good minus condition with Fair dust jackets. Fist volume is ex-library with library stamp on edges, library pocket on rear flyleaf. Spines are variously colored. Dust jackets in mylar; edge wear, tears at spine ends, mild shelf wear, slight soiling. Prices clipped except for second volume: “$6.00”. Boards in brown cloth, gold print; light wear to spine caps and corners, first volume has tape stains on front and rear panels. Text blocks have brown tinted top edge, maps on endpapers; slight penciled marginal notation in first volume. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portraits and plates. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. Nationalist, 1782-1828 (477 pages) — Vol. 2. Nullifier, 1829-1839 (511 pages) — Vol. 3. Sectionalist, 1840-1850 (592 pages). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-volume Section. 1411258. FP New Rockville Stock.

VICTORY. An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: VICTORY. An Island Tale
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1915. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original blue limp leather decorated in gilt. First Edition, second printing, issued about 30 days after the first. (The first printing was in navy blue cloth, and this much-scarcer second, priced a bit higher, was in this "Deep Sea" format of blue limp leather.) This is a good-to-very good copy (some wear, especially at the edges of the spine). Supino A19.2.0 (this copy); Cagle A19a(2) ("no copy located"). Provenance: small flyleaf blind-stamp of Lindmark's Book Shop of Poughkeepsie NY -- which in 1963 made international news when the State of NY evicted the business (for a highway bypass), and 131,000 books were stacked on the sidewalk (to be taken by people, to be rained on, and ultimately to be incinerated); paste-down bookplate of Dorothy [Neal] and [Luther] Harris Hiscock (1893-1975) of New York State; front free endpaper verso bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino (loosely inserted are his notes regarding collation etc.).

Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II - Selected Letters, 1941-1948 by WILSON, Adrian

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Title: Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II - Selected Letters, 1941-1948
Author: WILSON, Adrian
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 198 pages. "One of only 60 copies printed on Frankfurt cream mouldmade paper and bound in quarter linen with handmade paste-paper sides by BookLab in Austin, Texas." A collection of letters detailing Wilson's time during and after World War II. Includes a number of illustrations. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. A very attractive production.

An Ape of Gods; the Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn by Yu, Beongcheon

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Title: An Ape of Gods; the Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Yu, Beongcheon
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964. xiv, 346p., dj.

A Child's Bible

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Title: A Child's Bible
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: UK: Piccolo, 1973. Softcover. Very Good. Rep. Paperback Very good in wrappers. Hinge cracked. Cover rubbed with som light staining, creased.

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