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The Black Swan by Mann, Thomas; Hejduk, John (Lithographs); Shapiro, David (Afterword)

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Title: The Black Swan
Author: Mann, Thomas; Hejduk, John (Lithographs); Shapiro, David (Afterword)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: [New York]: The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.), 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk, John. No. 122 of 375 copies, quarto size, 193 pp., signed by John Hejduk, with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles, most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice". He wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954, and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative, "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club, with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk (1929-2000), who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro (b. 1947), a prolific poet and literary critic, whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose, he writes "A master of X-ray, [Mann] leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love." ___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather, title in black on the front board, black endpapers, lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans, mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper, quarto size (12" by 9.25"), pagination: [i-vi] 1-183 [184-186] [1 colophon], one of 375 copies, this number 122, signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter, a thirteen-page softcover booklet, with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; spine is very slightly sunned, else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine, clean overall with a few stray marks, the text block is sturdy, without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine, strong and sturdy, clean, with some minor fraying to the cloth, otherwise free of wear. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy book, and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

CONVERSATIONS OF LORD BYRON: NOTED DURING A RESIDENCE WITH HIS LORDSHIP AT PISA, IN THE YEAR 1821 AND 1822 by (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD). MEDWIN, THOMAS

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: CONVERSATIONS OF LORD BYRON: NOTED DURING A RESIDENCE WITH HIS LORDSHIP AT PISA, IN THE YEAR 1821 AND 1822
Author: (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD). MEDWIN, THOMAS
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1824. A New Edition. 235 x 145 mm. (9 1/8 x 5 3/4"). xxiii, [1] 351, [1], ciii, [9] pp. Original brown paper boards, printed label on spine, edges untrimmed. With folding facsimile letter frontispiece. Pastedown with bookplate of Thomas Fothergill Esq. of Kingthorp; front free endpaper with gift inscription to Fothergill from Conyers Hudson dated 1824; occasional marginal pencil markings. Randolph, p. 109. Upper joint with short split at head, tail of spine with tiny tear, light stain on front cover, corners rubbed, light offsetting to title and frontispiece, other trivial defects, but AN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE COPY, with only the most negligible imperfections.In its extremely well-preserved publisher's binding, this edition of the popular though controversial memoir of the author's friendship with Byron contains the first full publication of one of Byron's poems. Thomas Medwin (1788-1869) was a cousin and friend of Percy Shelley, who introduced him to Lord Byron, and in 1820, after Medwin had completed a tour of duty in India with the 25th light dragoons, he accepted an invitation by Shelley to visit him and Byron in Italy. The three spent much of 1821-22 at Pisa writing and conversing. Medwin recorded their discussions in his journal, and in 1824, after Shelley's and Byron's deaths, he published his record of those conversations--despite the objections of Mary Shelley and others (particularly Byron's mistress Lady Caroline Lamb) on the grounds that the information included was too personal. Their publication met with immediate success. Ours, the "new edition," was the third edition, published a few months after the first. Francis Lewis Randolph tells us that this third edition includes the first full publication of Byron's poem "The Irish Avatar." Byron, a supporter of Irish independence, composed these verses in September of 1821 critiquing the warm reception the Irish people and politicians had given King George IV on a state visit to Ireland. He was inspired by his friend Thomas Moore's "Lines on the Entry of the Austrians into Naples, 1821," which angrily condemned the Neapolitans for the failure of the Neapolitan Revolution. The present copy is from the library of Thomas Fothergill of Kingthorpe in the North Riding of Yorkshire. John Conyers Hudson, who gave him this book, had married a relation, possibly Fothergill's sister, in 1817; this relationship is supported by the fact that his papers, held at the Hull History Centre archives, include a series of letters from Fothergill to Conyers Hudson and his wife, detailing his travels and his will. While we have been unable to locate much information about Fothergill, he was evidently an excellent caretaker of his books: this copy in its original boards has come down to us in exceptionally fine condition.

A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876 by Toole Stott, Raymond

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Title: A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876
Author: Toole Stott, Raymond
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Derby, England: Harper & Sons of Derby Limited, [1976] First edition. One of 1,030 copies, signed by the compiler. Blue cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Plates. Fine in fine d.j.

Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children by Parley, Peter (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold)

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Title: Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children
Author: Parley, Peter (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold)
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Huntington and Savage, 1843. Good. Early edition; 5 1/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [6], 9-120; pictorial card stock wraps and 1/4 calf, decorated and ruled in black; illustrated with 9 maps and 75 woodcuts; age-toning and wear along margins; occasional spotting; corners of leaves curling; small manuscript note to ffep; in good condition.Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 - 1860), writing under the pseudonym Peter Parley, would write a series of educational works for children in order "to provide an alternative to the British biases of 19th-century schoolroom texts and the questionable morals of nursery rhymes."

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Rembrandt's Journey; Painter, Deaftsman, Etcher by Ackley, Clifford S.

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Title: Rembrandt's Journey; Painter, Deaftsman, Etcher
Author: Ackley, Clifford S.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780878466771
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: MFA, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt, Profusely illustrated throughout.

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