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The Writing on the Walls [Off the Wall] (Original typescript with profuse holograph corrections) by Charles Willeford

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Title: The Writing on the Walls [Off the Wall] (Original typescript with profuse holograph corrections)
Author: Charles Willeford
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1979. Charles Willeford's original, heavily hand-corrected submission to his one-time publisher, Pegasus Rex, for "The Writing on the Walls," eventually re-titled "Off the Wall." Willeford's name, address, and phone number are in blue manuscript ink at the top of the title page, and each of the eighteen chapters (each grouped with paper clips at the top left) have numerous corrections in the author's hand. Chapters 2, 16, 17, and 18 are the original typescript, the remaining chapters are copies (but with manuscript hand corrections). All told, Willeford's own assemblage of his final manuscript for the book. 8.5 x 11 inch sheets, bound by paper clips separately by chapter, Very Good to Near Fine overall. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box.

AGENDA EBRAICA PER L'ANNO 5703 / 1942-1943 (XX-XXI) by [Tempio Israelitico di Torino]

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Title: AGENDA EBRAICA PER L'ANNO 5703 / 1942-1943 (XX-XXI)
Author: [Tempio Israelitico di Torino]
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Condition: Very good plus.
Description: Turin: Tipografia del Commercio, 1942. First edition. Very good plus.. Calendar of the Jewish year 5703 (1942-43), issued by the Synagogue of Turin for the period in which that synagogue would be destroyed by Allied bombardment. Constructed in 1884 after lengthy disputations with architect Alessandro Antonelli until his replacement by Enrico Petiti, the Synagogue of Turin was partially destroyed by bombardment amidst the Allied attack on Italy in November, 1942; rebuilding and restoration was not completed until the latter half of the 1940s, after the war's end. This ephemeral AGENDA, printed at the direction of the Turin synagogue and including its hours, would have been issued several months before the bombing. Judging from marks of internal use, its owner continued to use the agenda through 1943 - the year Mussolini was first deposed, then reinstated by invading German forces. Prior to this, Italy had been a place of relative physical safety for Jews (though most rights had been stripped by the fascists in 1938). But beginning in that year, as Nazi forces occupied the country, German officials began deportations; nearly one-in-five Italian Jews ultimately perished in the Holocaust. An evocative and moving survival. 4.5'' x 3.5''. Original printed wrappers. 48 pages. Light foxing to covers recto and verso; pencil to rear cover and to final "Note" page. Interior pages lightly toned; a few calendar notes in pen throughout from previous owner.

THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ by Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Neill, John R.; [Baum, L. Frank]

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Title: THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ
Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Neill, John R.; [Baum, L. Frank]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in very good jacket.
Description: Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1938. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of this Oz fantasy adventure featuring characters from THE PURPLE PRINCE OF OZ meeting a new princes and her fire-breathing colt. 9'' x 6.5''. Original orange cloth with pictorial paste on, metallic-silver title, girl's head image to spine (Bienvenue Binding A). In original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket with rear flap title list through this title. Pictorial endpapers. 16-page gatherings. Illustrated by Neill in black and white throughout (as issued). 255, [1] pages. Jacket with a few tiny repairs and a bit of creasing. Book with light bumping to spine ends, else exceptionally bright.

Loza Blanca y Azulejo de Puebla by Enrique A Cervantes (1898-1953)

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Title: Loza Blanca y Azulejo de Puebla
Author: Enrique A Cervantes (1898-1953)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good to Fine
Description: 2 volumes: xi+305 pages with tipped in colored and monochrome plates; 333 pages with tipped in colored and monochrome plates and reproduced signatures. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of George M Foster. Copy 992 of 2000. Fist edition.For over four centuries,the city of Puebla has been praised for its production of quality tin-glazed earthenware. The use of ceramic as a utilitarian and artistic medium in the Americas (the region of eastern and central Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras) has a long history of quality work dating back millenia before the arrival of the Spanish in 1519. But it was, in fact, the Spanish who first introduced to area potters tin- and lead-based glaze, the potter's wheel, and the kiln. Production of tin-glazed earthenware in the New World first began in Mexico City, the viceregal capital of New Spain, in the second half of the sixteenth century. By the seventeenth century, however, the nearby city of Puebla, founded in 1531 as the second city of New Spain, had become the more important center of production, enjoying the widest distribution of any ceramic ware in the New World at the height of the Spanish Empire. For ceramists, Puebla was an ideal location: The climate is mild, the soil is fertile, and most importantly, there are extensive clay beds and sufficient deposits of raw sodium essential for glaze preparation. That the same area had captured the market for quality ceramics before the Spanish arrived is not a coincidence. Native potters must have played an important role in supporting the developing colonial industry. The early production of talavera poblana was primarily influenced by old-world traditions. Various European ceramic wares (from Spain, Holland, and Italy) were imported, serving as important sources of inspiration for resident ceramists. Potters themselves no doubt also influenced form and design. According to the potters' ordinances established in 1653, master potters were to be only of Spanish descent. Contrary to the ordinances, however, some masters were Italian-born and probably arrived in Mexico via Spain; there were also a few mestizo (of mixed native and Spanish parentage) ceramists who rose to become "masters." The polychrome elements typify the Italian palette that was particularly influential in southern and central Spain beginning in the sixteenth century, and the motifs reflect those popularized at the Spanish ceramic center of Talavera de la Reina in central Spain, where Italian potters are known to have worked. Yet the careful rendering on the top left side of a turkey, which is native to the Americas, marks the piece as distinctly colonial. Among the most important cultural traditions that early Puebla potters integrated into their designs were those of Islamic origin. The horror vacui (fear of empty decorative spaces) is one Islamic convention that proved to impact a variety of styles. In fact, one clause of the potters' ordinance stipulates the use of a dotting technique referred to as aborronado. The large, deep, and flat-bottom basin with steep, slightly flared walls is an Islamic form that became particularly important in Puebla, where the form was commissioned as baptismal fonts and wash receptacles. While a variety of techniques and decorative motifs traveled across the Atlantic from Europe, another conduit of influences opened from the Pacific. With the settlement of the Philippines as a Spanish colony in 1559, the Spanish Empire established a trade route that connected its territories across three continents. From 1565 to 1815, the ships commonly known as the Manila galleons, or Naos de la China, transported luxury goods including highly prized Chinese porcelain to the Mexican port of Acapulco for further shipment to other colonies. Some pieces are known to have been kept in Mexico, while others were transported across land to the port of Vera Cruz for shipment to Europe; on this route northward from the Pacific to the Gulf, transporters undoubtedly passed through Puebla. Ming dynasty porcelain proved to be a particularly important source for a variety of patterns and motifs featured on Puebla ware. By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Puebla ceramists were using polychrome decoration with more frequency, marking a sharp departure from the blue-and-white decoration of fine-grade ware that predominated for over 150 years. Of the pastel grounds employed, perhaps the most popular was the pale-blue type known as azul punche after the candy of the same color made in Puebla for the day of the El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. Although the Chinese style still lingered, potters were by now also turning to French Rococo decoration and, in particular, the ceramic ware of Alcora, near the Mediterranean coast of Spain, where the French styles had a profound impact.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.Condition:Foster stamp on front end paper of both volumes else very good.

JEANETTE MACDONALD FASHION FOR SWEETHEARTS (1938) Oversized photo by Clarence Bull by Clarence Sinclair Bull

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Title: JEANETTE MACDONALD FASHION FOR SWEETHEARTS (1938) Oversized photo by Clarence Bull
Author: Clarence Sinclair Bull
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1938]. Vintage original 10 x 13" (25 x 32 cm.) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Clarence Bull photographer's ink stamp on verso. Soil at bottom of verso only, near fine. Jeanette MacDonald poses wearing an Adrian creation which was made for her for MGM's first Technicolor feature film, Sweethearts. Printed blurb on verso describes the costume in detail.

Der Pretakalpa des Garuda-Purana: Eine Darstellung des hinduistischen Totenkultes und Jenseitsglaubens by Abegg, Emil

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Title: Der Pretakalpa des Garuda-Purana: Eine Darstellung des hinduistischen Totenkultes und Jenseitsglaubens
Author: Abegg, Emil
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Description: Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co, 1956. Second edition. Softcover. g. 8vo. x,272pp. Original wrappers. Minor discoloration and creasing to wraps. Slight browning to outer edges of pages. Translated from Sanskrit into German by Emil Abegg. Good condition.

GIAN LORENZO BERNINI by WITTKOWER, Rudolf

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Title: GIAN LORENZO BERNINI
Author: WITTKOWER, Rudolf
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Description: (BERNINI) WITTKOWER, Rudolf. GIAN LORENZO BERNINI. New York: Phaidon, (1955). 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, x, 255 pages. First edition. [Freitag, 667.] A catalogue raisonnee of his sculpture, with illustrations and a bibliography Very good.

Baseball's golden Greeks The first forty years, 1934-1974 by Zervos, Diamantis

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Title: Baseball's golden Greeks The first forty years, 1934-1974
Author: Zervos, Diamantis
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ISBN: 9780966423600
Condition: Very Good
Description: Canton, Massachusetts: Aegean Books International. Very Good. 1998. Hardcover. 0966423607 . Navy boards with gilt printing to the spine. Former owner inscription on the front free endpaper and name on the title page. Otherwise, bright, clean and nice. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. ; 303 pages .

SIGNS OF PROMISE. SERMONS PREACHED IN PLYMOUTH PULPIT, BROOKLYN, 1887-9. by Abbott, Lyman

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Title: SIGNS OF PROMISE. SERMONS PREACHED IN PLYMOUTH PULPIT, BROOKLYN, 1887-9.
Author: Abbott, Lyman
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Description: Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1889. 301 pages plus ads, hardbound. Ex-library with usual markings, o/w good and clean in a tight blue cloth binding. .

All That Fall by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: All That Fall
Author: Beckett, Samuel
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Description: New York: Grove Press, 1957. First American edition. Grey cloth, fine, in lightly worn dust jacket. Davis 57A4.

Disputatio de Paullo Gentium Apostolo Contra Thomam Morganum. by BAUMGARTEN, Siegmund Jakob (1706-1757) & Christian Ernst von WINDHEIM (1722-1766).

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Title: Disputatio de Paullo Gentium Apostolo Contra Thomam Morganum.
Author: BAUMGARTEN, Siegmund Jakob (1706-1757) & Christian Ernst von WINDHEIM (1722-1766).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Halae Magdeburgicae (now Halle an der Saale, Germany):: Emanuelis Schneideri, 1745., 1745. 8vo. [4], LXXVI pp. Bound into modern library paper-backed boards with cloth tape; worn, original text-block clean with slightly soiled first and last pages, some edge wear, gutter of title torn. RARE. Very good (text). Baumgarten was a German protestant theologian and brother of the philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762). He "was a follower of the philosophical teachings of Christian Wolff (1679-1754), and is regarded as a transitional theologian from the Pietism of Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705) and August Hermann Francke (1663-1727) to that of modern rationalism. He was a prodigious writer and published works on exegesis, hermeneutics, dogmatics and history. He was author of the first sixteen volumes of the Allgemeine Welthistorie (General World History), which after his death, was continued by his assistant Johann Salomo Semler (1725-1791)" (Wikip.). Von Windheim was of noble birth, and studied philosophy, theology, and law at the University of Halle. He taught at the Universities of Helmstedt and Gottingen before becoming a professor of philosophy and oriental languages at the University of Erlangen. According to WorldCat, this piece is held by just 8 libraries, all in Germany. See: Martin Schloemann, Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten: System und Geschichte in der Theologie des Uberganges zum Neuprotestantismus (Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte), Gottingen, 1974.

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