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Al Vostro Servizio by KIPPENBERGER, Martin, Jochen Krüger, and Achim Duchow

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Title: Al Vostro Servizio
Author: KIPPENBERGER, Martin, Jochen Krüger, and Achim Duchow
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Very faint fading to spine, else a remarkably fine copy in bold illustrated wrappers. Only two OCLC records located, both of the
Description: [Hamburg: Self-published], 1977. Very faint fading to spine, else a remarkably fine copy in bold illustrated wrappers. Only two OCLC records located, both of them in Switzerland; MoMA also records a copy. A Kippenberger rarity.. First Edition. Octavo. One of only 100 copies of Martin Kippenberger's first artist's book; a collaborative project with Achim Duchow and Jochen Krüger, published on the occasion of a group exhibition staged at Kippenberger's Hamburg apartment (Oct. 28, 1977). Kippenberger's contribution—credited to Kippy Kippensberger (pp. 74-120)—includes dozens of xerographic reproductions of his early cycle of black-and-white Florence paintings (Uno di voi, un tedesco in Firenze), accompanied by a transcript of his conversation with the German actor Balduin Baas from just a few days before the exhibition's opening. Forming the mid-section, Jochen Krüger's chiaroscuro street photography imbues this volume with the feel of a Provoke publication. (Koch 1).

Shinshū sosetsu 慎終疏節 [Simple Ceremonies for the Final Send-off] by NAKAMURA, Tekisai 中村惕斎

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Title: Shinshū sosetsu 慎終疏節 [Simple Ceremonies for the Final Send-off]
Author: NAKAMURA, Tekisai 中村惕斎
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 12 full-page hand-colored woodcut illus. (each with several figures, some with text) & one black & white full-page illus. 61 folding leaves. Four parts in one vol. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. [Japan, probably Kyoto]: Preface dated 1690. First edition, and very rare, of this work on funerary rites by Nakamura (1629-1702/03), written in classical Chinese with Japanese kunten reading marks. The 12 woodcut illustrations have been beautifully colored by hand at an early date. Nakamura, who probably had a merchant background, was a Neo-Confucian scholar in the early Tokugawa period and he and Ito Jinsai (1627-1705) were considered the preeminent scholars of their generation. Nakamura wrote the first illustrated encyclopedia to be published in Japan. His Neo-Confucian learning, influenced by Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and largely focused on ritual, is seen in this work on funerary rites. When it comes to sons’ and daughters’ respectful acts towards their kin, the ceremonies of birthdays and funerals must all be carried out according to ritual in order to be called filially pious. The ritual of carrying out the veneration of a birthday, however, can be slowly discussed in advance. Only the handling of the ceremony of a funeral arrives suddenly, and the texts on the topic are many and complicated. Even though one has once practiced it in the past, when misfortune suddenly strikes, the ritual is confused and panicked and cannot be handled alone. In words reminiscent of the precise Confucian textual scholarship that was on the rise in Japan in this period, Nakamura wrote (in trans.) that the abandonment of the method of ritual in later ages makes the ancient ways particularly difficult to restore, even more so as the customs of our country are shallow, having been separated from the teaching and not knowing that there is such a thing as the rituals of the former kings [of Chinese antiquity]. Nakamura had thus made the present book “in four juan on the basis of Master Zhu [Xi’s] funerary rituals, presenting a summary of what is commonly followed by the learned.” Nakamura’s book explais the process in detail, beginning with the handling of a terminally sick person before death. A commentary expounds on the instructions. The fine hand-colored woodcuts depict coffins, garments and undergarments for the deceased, furniture and decorations for ceremonies, banners, wooden pillows, tombs, ornate palanquins, lanterns, how to lower the coffin into the tomb, a mausoleum, tombstones, and a black & white depiction of the seating plan according to family relationship. Our copy contains a Preface dated late in 1690. We find no copy in WorldCat. Very good copy. Some worming throughout, carefully mended and mostly marginal.

Autograph signature of the noted Austrian contralto and mezzo-soprano by SCHUMANN-HEINK, Ernestine 1861-1936

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Title: Autograph signature of the noted Austrian contralto and mezzo-soprano
Author: SCHUMANN-HEINK, Ernestine 1861-1936
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: On a slip of paper 68 x 109 mm. Dated London, March 27, 1909. In black ink. Slightly creased; right edge slightly frayed, not affecting signature. Together with a three-quarter length vintage photograph of Schumann-Heink by the White Studio in New York, ca. 177 x 126 mm. "Between 1897 and 1901 Schumann-Heink took part in four consecutive Covent Garden seasons, and became a regular member of the Metropolitan company for a similar period (1898-1903), returning subsequently for single seasons only. By then she had begun the series of popular and profitable cross-country American concert tours that occupied much of the rest of her long career. In 1909 she returned to Dresden to sing the part of Clytemnestra in the première of Elektra. Although she could sing (and very well) virtually anything, her English and American stage career centred on Wagner; and it was as Erda that she bade farewell to the Metropolitan in 1932, still captivating the audience, as the American critic Olin Downes wrote, with 'knowledge and imagination embodied in the tone and in every syllable of the text she delivered so memorably'. These words well describe the effect vividly conveyed by her Erda and Waltraute recordings made less than three years before. Although largely unrepresentative of her serious repertory, her many other recordings, made over a period of 25 years, give a splendid impression of her powers: of her opulent and flexible tones from low D to high B, the amazing fullness and evenness of her shake, her artistic conviction, dramatic temperament and vivid enunciation. Among them should be mentioned the brindisi from Lucrezia Borgia (several versions, all good), the prison scene from Le prophète, 'Parto, parto' from La clemenza di Tito, and the duet with Caruso ('Ai nostri monti') from Il trovatore." Desmond Shawe-Taylor in Grove Music Online.

The Big Something by PADGETT, Ron

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Title: The Big Something
Author: PADGETT, Ron
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Description: (Great Barrington, MA): The Figures, (1990). First edition. As new.. 12mo, original wrappers. As new.

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