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Zuleika Dobson by BEERBOHM Max

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Zuleika Dobson
Author
BEERBOHM Max
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1911. First Edition. BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. London: William Heinemann, 1911. Octavo, original russet cloth, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $1250.First edition of the caricaturist and essayist's only novel and his most enduring prose work, an ""Oxford love story"" about a ""beautiful young woman whose visit to Oxford occasions the suicide of all the undergraduates.""""By the time Max had married, retired from London, and settled in Italy, his position as one of England's foremost essayists was firmly in place. As early as 1898 Shaw had, famously, pronounced Max 'incomparable.' As a writer he had progressed towards a relaxed natural style… Max's writing attained even greater success with his next four books: in 1911 he published to great critical acclaim his only novel, Zuleika Dobson. This fantasy about the beautiful young woman whose visit to Oxford occasions the suicide of all the undergraduates has proved his most popular prose work; it has been the most continuously in print of all his books… Zuleika Dobson was included in the 1998 controversial Modern Library list of '100 best novels' of the 20th century, ranking 59th (New York Times, 20 July 1998)"" (ODNB). ""Although purportedly set in the Edwardian era, Beerbohm's only novel owes much to the author's memories of Oxford in the 1890s, where he was an undergraduate at Merton College. Indeed, he began to draft this 'Oxford Love Story' shortly after he had gone down… In a note for the 1946 reissue of the book the elderly Beerbohm denied that it was 'intended as a satire on such things as the herd instinct, as feminine coquetry, as snobbishness, even as legerdemain.' It was, he claimed, 'just a fantasy,' and its dandified style, its air of elaborate, frothy artifice, and its apostrophes to classical gods and muses reinforce the author's definition"" (Parker & Kermode, Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel, 44-45). Without scarce original dust jacket. Light foxing, chiefly to text block edges; rear inner paper hinge cracked but quite sound. Light dust soiling to cloth. Still a lovely, near-fine copy.
ROOTS (1977) Photo archive

ROOTS (1977) Photo archive by Np

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.
Title
ROOTS (1977) Photo archive
Author
Np
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Np. No binding. Near Fine. Collection of sixty mostly 5 x 7" (17 x 22 cm) black-and-white and color photos and twenty-four 35mm negatives. Near fine. Depicted are scenes of actors portraying the Africans captured and brought overseas, and the townspeople extras for the scenes in the early settlement of America. The actors are assigned alphabetical letters in the photos, used during production. Ed Asner is featured in some images.
Cocktail-Themed Toile Fabric

Cocktail-Themed Toile Fabric

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Cocktail-Themed Toile Fabric
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White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
1930. Very Good. An Art Deco toile fabric that captures the glamour of alcohol during Prohibition -- cocktail shaker, martini glasses, snazzily and elegantly dressed people, a door with a sign saying "Private House" -- this an explicit nod to Prohibition, we believe -- a background repeat of stars, this evoking the night and all its frolic and forbidden pleasures, a flying stairway -- is that a reference to a speakeasy, or a "stairway to Heaven", or both? -- and not least,the bottles of gin. We don't know the make of this fabric, and our dating, which is really circa 1930, has to be on the mark. It is possible that it was made in England, where one could drink freely, but there was plenty of awareness of Prohibition, and the effect on culture of Prohibition had freshet of spillover on culture outside the US. We have two pieces of the fabric. The larger piece, 152 by 43 cm, has two columns, and we are of the thinking this captures the entirety of the toile design -- or put another way, represented are all the motifs, which are then just repeated. But we can't guarantee this. One column shows people drinking and some of the settings where they do it suggested. The parallel column is entirely of the objects associated with drink -- bottles, glasses, cocktail shakers. The second piece is just of the column with drinkers. It is 99 by 20 cm. We can't imagine an aesthetic more appropriate for the subject than Art Deco, which was then the prevailing Modernist style, but also, the most immediate imagery of the era for many of us is from innumerable Hollywood films depicting sophisticates, Art Deco is everywhere, from the lettering and decoration of the film credits to the decor of the apartments, the clubs and other settings. The fabric design also has a levity as well, such as the branding of the gin as "High & Dry" Gin. These light touches go along with the sophisticated aura that drinking had inspired, as epitomized by Nick and Nora Charles. (The novel was first published shortly after the repeal of Prohibition but the glamour of drinking and all its associations lingered long after.) The Art Deco style manifests itself in many ways, among them, the streamlined illustration, not abstract, but economical and minimal in its depiction of people and objects. Also the simplicity of ornamentation -- ruled lines, stars -- not to mention the color choices. The smaller piece has a number of small holes, and spots where the fabric has worn thin. The larger has considerably less deterioration, butit too has a hole, a tear, etc. That said, these flaws really don't affect how one might display the pieces, we believe.
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Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio XVIII. Cui praeter dissertationes, aliosque tractatus anteactis editionibus adjunctos, item ejusdem Georgii Baglivi canones de medicina solidorum, dissertatio de progressione romani terraemotus, de systemate et usu motus solidorum in corpore animato, de vegetatione lapidum, & analogismo circulationis maris ad circulationem sanguinis accesserunt . Una cum indicibus aerisque tabulis. Nec non Joannis Dominici Santorini Opuscula 4. De structura, & motu fibrae, De nutritione animali, De haemorrhoidibus, & De catameniis by Baglivi, Georgii

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Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio XVIII. Cui praeter dissertationes, aliosque tractatus anteactis editionibus adjunctos, item ejusdem Georgii Baglivi canones de medicina solidorum, dissertatio de progressione romani terraemotus, de systemate et usu motus solidorum in corpore animato, de vegetatione lapidum, & analogismo circulationis maris ad circulationem sanguinis accesserunt . Una cum indicibus aerisque tabulis. Nec non Joannis Dominici Santorini Opuscula 4. De structura, & motu fibrae, De nutritione animali, De haemorrhoidibus, & De catameniis
Author
Baglivi, Georgii
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Bassani: Bassani, 1737. Hardcover. Good. Tjhick quarto. Contemporary vellum, worn with repain at top. (4), 635, (9). Engraved portrait, frontis, 7 plates. Complete. Stains and spotting. A serviceable copy.
The Stuff of Legend No.1

The Stuff of Legend No.1 by Wilson III, Charles Paul

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Title
The Stuff of Legend No.1
Author
Wilson III, Charles Paul
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Th3rd World Studios, 2009. The Boogeyman Edition" limited second printing. Saddle-stitched. NM. 1351040. Special Collections.
MICHIGAN SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE: Summer, 1980

MICHIGAN SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE: Summer, 1980 by Lachman, Sol; Leonard Kniffel

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Title
MICHIGAN SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE: Summer, 1980
Author
Lachman, Sol; Leonard Kniffel
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
Southfield, MI: Poetry Resource Center of Michigan, 1980. Very good plus.. Compilation of Michigan small presses and periodicals, including "all presses currently known to" the editors. Collated under the sponsorship of the Poetry Resource Center of Michigan at the Fourth Annual Michigan Poetry Festival in Lansing. 11'' x 8.5''. Side-stapled stiff paper wrappers. Staples beginning to rust. Very mild edgewear and toning. [42] pages.
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Collana di studi su medicina e morale. VII. by ANGELINI, Fiorenzo.

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Title
Collana di studi su medicina e morale. VII.
Author
ANGELINI, Fiorenzo.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
n. p.:: Orizzonte Medico, 1974., 1974. 210 x 145 mm. 8vo. 199 pp. 15 figs. Pictorial wrappers. Very good.