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Captivating pen and ink line drawing of Orpheus within an Autograph Letter SIGNED, undated by COCTEAU, JEAN

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Seller: Schulson Autographs

Title: Captivating pen and ink line drawing of Orpheus within an Autograph Letter SIGNED, undated
Author: COCTEAU, JEAN
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: As a filmmaker, Cocteau is most often associated with his three films based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, a poet and musician often shown with his lyre. Cocteau depicts Orpheus with a lyre on his head or as part of his head in our letter to French author and playwright Jacques Audiberti (1899 -1965). Audiberti was associated with the theater of the absurd. Cocteau writes in full: " Dear Audiberti, What joy to have poems, letters, and drawings of yours! Art attaches itself to cork and rises to the surface. I am very fond of you and will stay close to you, Yours, Jean." The letter measures 8.5 x 10.5 inches land floats on a dark gray mat overlaid with a white mat and framed in black satin finished wood, matted and framed in museum quality materials, framed in 5/8/ inch black satin wood. Frame measures 15.75 x 18.4. Condition: Visible margin folds, some wrinkling as paper is attached to a lined sheet which shows at top margin, very slight foxing and sunned margins.

Eighteenth century French straw-work box by Anon. - DECORATIVE ARTS

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books

Title: Eighteenth century French straw-work box
Author: Anon. - DECORATIVE ARTS
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Overall in very good condition with some small spots of surface wear.
Description: [France-Paris], ca1750. Overall in very good condition with some small spots of surface wear.. Oak box meas. appx. 85 x 195 x 140 mm.. The box has been covered in dyed straw marquetry. Here the application mimics the 17th century "Hungarian stitch" (a type of needlework with a colored flame-shaped pattern). The box is lined in paper, daub blotted with a blue color. Hook and eye clasp. Commencing in the late 17th century straw marquetry was manufactured in many large cities throughout Europe. The first mention of such decorative objects and furniture is in Paris in 1652. General commerce in such goods was established by the 1750s when both Chervain and Delasson had workshops in Paris producing decorative objects with straw marquetry. The straw was first dyed then split length-wise and flattened with hammer blows. The marquetry pattern was then laid out and glued to paper that was mounted directly on to the object to be covered. Color dyes were fugitive (a result of lack of penetration into the cellulose wall structure of the straw) and rapidly faded in direct sunlight. The same process was also used as a book binding decoration. See Michael Peppiatt, Architectural Digest, August, 1994; Barbara Scott, Country Life, January, 1992; see "La Marqueterie de Paille", Hôtel de Sens, Bibliotheque Forney, winter 1992.

Revolutionary Road by Yates, Richard

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Revolutionary Road
Author: Yates, Richard
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, clean and appearing unread. In a Near Fine dust jacket that is a bit faded on the spine and with one tape repair to the verso of the jacket. Despite their youthful fantasies that they are different and more original than the other couples who surround them, Frank and April Wheeler succumb to the banalities of suburban middle class life. Climbing the corporate ladder, Frank becomes increasingly detached from his wife's domestic dissatisfaction; pay raises, praise at work, and tawdry affairs with secretaries numb his pain temporarily. Meanwhile, April despairs about being trapped at home as a wife and mother; she dreams of her more creative single life and her goals of living abroad. Pushed to the brink, she and Frank make a pact to abandon the normalcy expected of their generation and run away to Paris; but an unplanned pregnancy derails them and leads their marriage to a heartbreaking end. An astounding fictional debut by Richard Yates, and a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

De partus causus. Dissertatio inauguralis quam consensus gratiosi medicorum ordinis in Universitate Heidelbergensi by REUTER, C. F. R.

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: De partus causus. Dissertatio inauguralis quam consensus gratiosi medicorum ordinis in Universitate Heidelbergensi
Author: REUTER, C. F. R.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Mannhemii: Kaufman, 1827. ONLY EDITION. Small folio. 57 pp. Large folding typographical table. Stabbed and glued in contemporary green paper wrappers (faded, a little frayed at the edges), old pen inscription on the front wrapper. Very light foxing, but overall a fine copy. Only edition of this dissertation on obstetrics and zoology. Divided into three parts, the first covers human menstruation, conception, pregnancy, and delivery; the second treats the immediate time of childbirth, and the third compares pregnancy in humans to that in animals. The folding table lists different species of mammals within eight orders and corresponding genus and their lengths of gestation, number of fetuses possible (it is worth note that our author apparently never considered human twins), number of mammary glands, size at birth, life span, and length of time breastfeeding. Of the 98 species considered, some include types of lemurs, bears, dogs, marsupials, zebra, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and deer. This is Reuter’s only known surviving work, for which he received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Heidelberg. I have located only 2 copies in the U.S. (CRL and NLM). NLM, Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office II: 416.

Tadanori Yokoo: All Things in the Universe (Inscribed) by YOKOO, Tadanori

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Seller: Harper's Books

Title: Tadanori Yokoo: All Things in the Universe (Inscribed)
Author: YOKOO, Tadanori
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Minor rubbing to illustrated boards; near fine.
Description: Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. Minor rubbing to illustrated boards; near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Impressive survey of Tadanori Yokoo's wide body of work since 1965, published on the occasion of an exhibition which traveled from Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art (Aug. 10 - Oct. 27, 2002) to the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Nov. 3, 2002 - Jan. 26, 2003). This copy INSCRIBED by Yokoo to front endpaper, with warm dedication. Contents: 318 pages, with Yokoo's works reproduced in vibrant colors, and a biographical section illustrated after b&w photographs. Text in both Japanese and English.

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