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The Soul and Body of John Brown: a poem by Muriel Rukeyser, and an old song on etchings by Rudolf C. von Ripper

The Soul and Body of John Brown: a poem by Muriel Rukeyser, and an old song on etchings by Rudolf C. von Ripper by Rukeyser, Muriel and Rudolph C. von Ripper (engravings)

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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
Title
The Soul and Body of John Brown: a poem by Muriel Rukeyser, and an old song on etchings by Rudolf C. von Ripper
Author
Rukeyser, Muriel and Rudolph C. von Ripper (engravings)
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1940. New York: [Lee A. Ault & R. C. von Ripper], 1940. Huge folio, [50] pp. text and illustration engraved throughout on folded leaves, separated with tissue guards, in stiffened wrappers with an additional suite of 22 plates (lacking some?), together in the original cloth portfolio and card slipcase. Together with seven sheets of proof plates and a folder of five related press clippings bearing the printed label of Monica McCall, Inc. Wrappers lightly toned, portfolio worn and splitting, slipcase considerably worn and stained and lacking spine panel, plates themselves are very good throughout with only a hint of age-toning to the outer margins. ß Copy V, signed by Von Ripper and Muriel Rukeyser, one of three Rives paper with a suite of etchings on Velin de Normandie, from a total edition of 67 copies. This copy belonged to Muriel Rukeyser, who has extracted some of the suite of prints (they now number 22) and added seven proof sheets (some showing and annotating alternate inking options) as well as a small collection of related press clippings gathered for her by Monica McCall, her literary representative and sometime lover. An important collaboration between Rukeyser and the Austrian-born surrealist etcher, Rudolph von Ripper (1905-1960), on the eve of America's entry into the Second World War. Rukeyser's poem looks to the legacy of John Brown, the militant abolitionist of the 1850s, and celebrates the possibility of spiritual renewal through resistance to injustice. It first appeared in the June 1940 edition of Poetry Magazine. Here, the poem is fully engraved and illustrated with original etchings by von Ripper and interleaved with the etched verses of the old Civil War marching song. By the time Von Ripper was engaged on this project he was only 35 but had already fought for the French Foreign Legion, been imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo, and been wounded while fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. His direct, physical experience of the rise of fascism is evident in his visceral, Goya-like etchings. The series was exhibited in the Bignou Gallery in New York in 1941. A contemporary review described it is "an unusal undertaking, brilliantly executed, the drawings forming not so much illustrations or decorations as actual parts of the poem. Realism, symbolism, powerful design, and dramatic presentment mark these plates which form a distinguished piece of bookmaking.
A Drawing Book of Landscapes

A Drawing Book of Landscapes

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Title
A Drawing Book of Landscapes
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1810. Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1810. 4 b/w plates on one sheet, folded, 2 copies in a green cloth folder. ß AAS records 2 vols., (i.e. 2 parts?). We have two copies of one part. Extremely rare -- only two copies of this one part recorded as sold by RBH which cites Shaw & Shoemaker 19994.
On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America, with Particular reference to New Albion & New California by an Englishman

On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America, with Particular reference to New Albion & New California by an Englishman by Allen Press. Hammond, George P. introd

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On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America, with Particular reference to New Albion & New California by an Englishman
Author
Allen Press. Hammond, George P. introd
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1955. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955. 8vo, 79 pp. Frontispiece map, running decorative border in red Cyrillic characters. Original gray-blue boards with white parchment back, lettered in red, in clear acetate jacket as issued. Bookplate. Spine lightly age-toned, a small split in the acetate. A very good copy with the prospectus laid in. ß Limited to 350 copies printed by the Allen Press. Magee: "Reprinted from the only recorded copy in the Bancroft Library. The author is unknown. The book is an appeal to the British Government to extend her settlements in the Pacific Northwest to forestall the Russians. Aside from this, the author gives an interesting picture of the San Francisco Bay area in the early eighteen-hundreds.
The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed]

The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed] by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ARMSTRONG, Gregory

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Title
The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed]
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ARMSTRONG, Gregory
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, titled in black and yellow on spine; dustjacket; xiv,238,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For Harriet / Who lives in me almost as if she were a part of myself / Love always / Gregory." A bit of softening to spine ends, corners gently bumped (though still sharp), with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), shelfworn and dust-soiled, with a few small tears and attendant creases, and a faint, shallow dampstain along the upper edge of the front panel; Very Good. Biography of revolutionary black activist George Jackson, by his close friend and the editor of Jackson's prison memoir Soledad Brother (1970). Armstrong describes himself as the "guy...[that] gave [Jackson] something he wanted more than anything else, an existence outside of prison. His book was the closest he ever got to escape...there was something we shared which overrode all our differences. Our mutual desperation made us brothers..." Jackson was murdered by prison guards at San Quentin in 1971. BLOCKSON 2742. 82490.
The Bounty [Inscribed to Quincy Troupe]

The Bounty [Inscribed to Quincy Troupe] by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] WALCOTT, Derek

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The Bounty [Inscribed to Quincy Troupe]
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] WALCOTT, Derek
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Dark blue paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 78 pp. Inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet to Quincy [Troupe] and his wife Margaret in San Diego where Troupe taught at the time, dated and signed "Derek". The title poem a long elegy for his mother, most are about St. Lucia his birthplace. With blurbs by fellow Nobel Prize-winners Brodsky and Heaney. Light bumping to head and tail of the spine, else fine in like dust jacket.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by ADAMS, Douglas

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Author
ADAMS, Douglas
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Harmony Books, 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black paper-covered boards and teal cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in metallic pink on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],250pp. Slight forward lean, faint foxing to text edges, with some gentle sunning to upper and lower backstrip; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), lightly edgeworn, with some surface wear to panels, a few small closed tears, subtle toning along the upper edge, and a tiny splash mark at base of spine; Very Good. Second book in the author's Hitchhiker's series. 84260.
The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography

The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography by ADAMS, Henry; Samuel Chamberlain, illus; Henry Seidel Canby, introd

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Title
The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
Author
ADAMS, Henry; Samuel Chamberlain, illus; Henry Seidel Canby, introd
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, (1970). Limited Edition. Tall octavo (27cm). Full black leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; 483pp; with illustrations throughout by Samuel Chamberlain. Introduced by Henry Seidel Canby. A fine, unread copy. "Notes From the Archives" not present.
Thy lip far sweeter than the rose" -- Finely produced Valentine with pith paper, water color, scraps, printed poem mimicking ink manuscript

Thy lip far sweeter than the rose" -- Finely produced Valentine with pith paper, water color, scraps, printed poem mimicking ink manuscript

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Thy lip far sweeter than the rose" -- Finely produced Valentine with pith paper, water color, scraps, printed poem mimicking ink manuscript
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Light toning, scraps beginning to loosen. Toning and a couple tiny nicks to pith paper. Large short tear to fold.
Description
England, 1860. Very good. Light toning, scraps beginning to loosen. Toning and a couple tiny nicks to pith paper. Large short tear to fold.. A finely produced valentine, made from a wove paper bifolium (9" by 7.5") embossed with a leafy garland and lyre motif. Inside the center cut-out is a scrap of pith paper which has been painted with delicate watercolor leaves surrounding a rose scrap with a couple of extra leaf scraps. Around the center are four silver embossed Victorian scraps with a poem printed in blue ink to mimic ink manuscript, with blue flourishes around the scraps. The poem reads, "Thy lip far sweeter than the rose Thy neck than Lilies oh! more fair How faithful I would be to thee my dearest Valentine. The butterfly might well suppose The treasured honey there Oh would it were my lot to be A favourite of thine." Includes blind stamp of previous owner to second leaf.
A Trio of Printers' Billheads from Springfield, Massachusetts

A Trio of Printers' Billheads from Springfield, Massachusetts

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A Trio of Printers' Billheads from Springfield, Massachusetts
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Light toning. a spot or two, letter folds.
Description
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1889. Very good. Light toning. a spot or two, letter folds.. A trio of billheads for printers based in Springfield, Massachusetts, ranging in date from 1867 to 1889. The billheads are each finished in manuscript and record payments received for "Ballots", "Circulars", and "Pedigrees". The companies represented include: Joseph Miller, Book, Job and Card Printer; Barrett and Leonard Printers; and Springfield Printing and Binding Company. Each uses creative typography with a couple illustrations. One includes an interesting red stamp that depicts a smoking pipe on top of a pile of books; the smoke coming out of it reads "Printers". Largest measures approx. 7" by 8.5
Boston Museum Performance Program

Boston Museum Performance Program

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Boston Museum Performance Program
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Eclectibles (United States)
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Very good. Toned.
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Boston, MA: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1877. Very good. Toned.. Printed program for the Boston Museum for the week beginning August 27th, 1877. 16mo (5.75" by 4.75"), pp. [16], original illus. self wrappers.
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Plain Wrapper Press 1966-1988: An Illuastrated Bibliography of the Work of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds by -

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Plain Wrapper Press 1966-1988: An Illuastrated Bibliography of the Work of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds
Author
-
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Fine
Description
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY RICHARD-GABRIEL RUMMONDS at the colophon. An immaculate copy to boot of the 1993 1st edition, limited to 300 copies. Bright and Fine in its printed card wrappers. Quarto, 74 pgs., also includes publisher's original prospectus.
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Joan Almond: The Past in the Present

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Joan Almond: The Past in the Present
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
[West Hollywood:] St. Ann's Press, [2002] First edition (limited to 1,500 case-bound copies). Cloth. Quarto. With 59 black and white photographic reproductions. Fine. Inscribed by the photographer on the half-title.
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Renaissance Engravers: 15th-16th century

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Renaissance Engravers: 15th-16th century
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
[London: Sirrocco, 2003] Boards. Quarto. A catalogue of 125 masterpieces, with full-page illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
Voyages round the world, from the death of Captain Cook to the present time; including remarks on the social condition of the inhabitants in the recently-discovered countries: their progress in the arts; and more especially their advancement in religious knowledge

Voyages round the world, from the death of Captain Cook to the present time; including remarks on the social condition of the inhabitants in the recently-discovered countries: their progress in the arts; and more especially their advancement in religious knowledge

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Voyages round the world, from the death of Captain Cook to the present time; including remarks on the social condition of the inhabitants in the recently-discovered countries: their progress in the arts; and more especially their advancement in religious knowledge
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. 12mo, pp. xvi, 17-401, [1]; original patterned brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine chipped level with textblock; upper joints slightly cracked at top; corners rubbed; minor foxing; otherwise very good. Issued as no. 172 in Harper's Family Library series.
The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho

The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho by ABERLE, David F.; MOORE, Harvey C.; JOHNSTON, Denis F.

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The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho
Author
ABERLE, David F.; MOORE, Harvey C.; JOHNSTON, Denis F.
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(+)
Description
New York: Wenner-Gren, 1966. paperback. very good(+). Some black & white illustrations. 454 pages. Small 4to, printed wrappers (sunned, dust-soiled). New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1966. Subscriber's edition. A very good(+) copy. Published as part of the "Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology" series.

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