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ELEKTRISCHE ERUPTION [Original Kluster Poster]

ELEKTRISCHE ERUPTION [Original Kluster Poster]

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Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Title
ELEKTRISCHE ERUPTION [Original Kluster Poster]
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine.
Description
n.p.: n.p., 1971. Near fine.. Rare original poster by the German electronic Krautrock project started by Dieter Moebius, Conrad Schnitzler, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Striking minimalist poster, likely produced for Kluster's final album ERUPTION (a live recording released in a pressing of just 100 or so copies in 1971), but possibly issued in conjunction with an infamous hours-long concert from January 1970 (one of only a handful the band performed in their brief life) that utilized the same title. In either case, an exceptionally ephemeral item from a band whose blink-and-you-miss-it existence has nevertheless gone on to nearly legendary status and enormous influence. Both Moebius and Schnitzler (who was also an early member of Tangerine Dream) had been students of Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf and later were active in Berlin's incarnation of the Arts Lab movement, but the music they produced with Roedelius - "disorienting urban-industrial and proto-ambient" - was in many ways a reaction against "the utopianism of [...] countercultural idealism." Indeed, Kluster "seemed to be performing the paranoia and violence of the repressive West German political landscape of the early 1970s" (Albiez all). Their only two studio albums (KLOPFZEICHEN, 1970 and ZWEI-OSTEREI, 1971) were issued on Schwann, a small religious label, in tiny pressings. But despite this, they have exerted an outsized impact on not only Krautrock, but just about any industrial, ambient, or electronic music that has followed, and this poster (almost certainly hand-produced by the band itself) - featuring a silkscreened field of solid yet somehow still-evocative color - echoes both the rigor and abstraction of the group's recordings. Moebius and Roedelius carried on after Schnitzler's departure as Cluster, to arguably even greater heights (including a seminal collaboration with Brian Eno), but this document is an elegant and stark remnant of its brief-lived but hugely important predecessor. 24'' x 17''. Original silkscreened poster on yellow paper. Small chip missing from the top edge, else a clean example. Professionally framed.
Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]

Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]

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Seller: Boston Book Company
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Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum] Kyoto 1710　A single volume 28. 1 x 19. 4cm string-bound, Japanese style fukuro-toji with the original dark blue-green wrappers and the original printed paper title label. [52] cho of preliminary text followed by original, black and white woodblock prints of the 4 types of botanicals in the title, with Japanese text within the woodcuts. Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum] is one volume of an 8 volume set entitled Hasshu Gafu 八種画譜, originally published in Ming-era China. The Ming edition is unobtainable and the first Japanese edition of 1672 virtually so. This is almost certainly one of the volumes of the 1710 Kyoto edition, printed by Nakagawa Mohei. "Hasshu Gafu" literally translates as "A Collection of Eight Illustrated Sketchbooks." The books in the collection had no intrinsic connection with each other, save that they were heavily illustrated in woodcut. Some, like this one, are done on a botanical theme, others are illustrated poetry collections. In any event, the Hasshu Gafu had a great deal of influence on the Chinese style painters of the early Edo period once it was published there, an influence that only started to fade upon the import from China of the color printed "Mustard Seed Garden" and Ten Bamboo Hall." Wear to wrappers with rips and chipping at spine and edges. Wear and rip to title slip. Bottom section of binding is unstitched and some pages are split. Artwork is in overall good condition, good impressions. A remarkably lovely sumi-e botanical.
Manual del Baratero, ó Arte de Manejar la Navaja . .

Manual del Baratero, ó Arte de Manejar la Navaja . .

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$750.00
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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC
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Manual del Baratero, ó Arte de Manejar la Navaja . .
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Madrid: Imprenta de D. Alberto Goya, 1849. Very good. 6½" x 4½". Stitched wrappers in contemporary full leather, gilt banded spine. Pp. 54. Very good: minor wear to edges and spine tips; stamp of former ownership to one page, worn to illegibility, and tiny tear to top of one leaf, neither approaching text; lightly foxed. This is the uncommon first edition of a book considered to be the oldest manual ever published on the art of Spanish knife fighting. The work was first published anonymously in 1849, with "el prologo" citing only the author's initials, "MdR." He has since been identified as Mariano de Rementeria, a teacher at Madrid's Normal School of Primary Instruction and author of manuals in several other fields. One source noted that this was the only work he kept anonymous, likely to not have his name "associated with street and criminal disciplines." The full title translates to "the Art of Handling the Razor, the Knife and the Scissors of the Gypsies." A "Baratero" was one associated with gambling, typically extorting from the winners. The book focused on the use of "la navaja," the infamous folding knife favored by the underbelly of society in 19th century Spain. Rich with illustrations, it instructs on the handling of this and other edged weapons, and is divided into four parts. The first covered "the mechanism of the weapon and the different positions," while the second centered on "the method of attacking the opponent," including "various moves executed and the tricks." Section three taught proper knife handling, and the fourth focused on using arms "among the gypsies." Within each lesson are detailed explanations and sketches of techniques, stances, strikes and defenses - as the author claimed, "to teach those honest and peaceful men who may find themselves unjustly attacked." A fantastic illustrated manual, evoking the intrigue of 19th century Spain. The book has often been reprinted, including a version with art by Gustave Doré. OCLC shows five holdings of this first edition in the United States, and seven internationally.
The Conqueror

The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books
Title
The Conqueror
Author
Atherton, Gertrude
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Macmillan, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Macmillan, New York, 1902. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. First edition. INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "To _____________/ With great pleasure in his admiration/ Gertrude Atherton/ New York, November 8th, 1902". Maroon cloth ornately lettered in white and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. A fine, bright, tight example. In custom red cloth chemise and slipcase, lightly sunned at spine.
Night Voices: Strange Stories (Scarce Uncorrected Proof)

Night Voices: Strange Stories (Scarce Uncorrected Proof) by Aickman, Robert

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books
Title
Night Voices: Strange Stories (Scarce Uncorrected Proof)
Author
Aickman, Robert
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780575036482
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., Wraps with dust-jacket. 185p. Beautiful First Edition, Advanced Uncorrected Proof of this posthumously published anthology. Bound in full black cloth with spine titles in gilt. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£8.95), has a touch of wear at the top edge but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy and quite scarce.
Ade's Fables

Ade's Fables by ADE, George

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
Ade's Fables
Author
ADE, George
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1914. First edition. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. A very good plus copy with a slight lean and some minor wear to the spine ends and an attractive small bookplate to the front pastedown and a small owner signature to the frone free endpaper. A solid copy.

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