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Tempest by SHAKESPEARE, William

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC

Title: Tempest
Author: SHAKESPEARE, William
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1926. RACKHAM, Arthur. . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1926. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original tan dust jacket printed in red, endpapers a bit foxed, (jacket a little browned), original glassine, very chipped. A fine copy. "There is an extra coloured plate in this edition that is not in the trade edition, this is the frontispiece titled 'Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:'" (Riall). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 61-62. Riall, p. 161. HBS 67589. $3,000.

Fifty Wonderful Portraits by Cooper, R., & R. Page, engravers

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Title: Fifty Wonderful Portraits
Author: Cooper, R., & R. Page, engravers
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Original printed boards, spine rebacked; plates and text quite clean
Description: London: J. Robins and Co, 1824. First edition. [Title page lacking], 8pp. letterpress, and 50 engraved plates by Cooper and Page. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed boards, spine rebacked; plates and text quite clean. First edition. [Title page lacking], 8pp. letterpress, and 50 engraved plates by Cooper and Page. 1 vols. 4to. A wonderful compilation indeed, with fine engraved portraits of early 19th-century characters. Among the attractions, who are described in short paragraphs preceding the engravings that make up the bulk of the book, are the French cross-dresser the Chevalier d'Eon, who, for forty years, passed as a woman before it was discovered at his death that 'he had no right to have thrown off the male attire'; 'Dirty Dick', who didn't bathe for 40 years; Signora Girardelli, the extraordinary fire-eater who could pour molten lead into her mouth and spit it out indented with her tooth-mark; the redoubtable Daniel Lambert, whose girth was nine feet four inches; the eccentric pedestrian bookseller and scholar, Henry Lemoine; 'Peter the Wild Boy'; Joanna Southcott, the extraordinary fanatic who declared herself the one spoken of in Revelations, 'the bride, the lamb's wife, and woman clothed with the sun'; Renwick Williams, the monstrous artificial flower-maker and serial killer of women; and many others. Probably the most famous person depicted in this book is Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont, called the "Chevalier d'Éon" (1728-1810), who was a diplomat, spy, and man of letters who fought as a soldier in the Seven Year's War. The Chevalier d'Éon is best known today for the ease with which he passed for a woman, including a period of time during which he infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia. D'Éon appeared publicly as a man for 49 years of his life, but even when he was a dragoon in uniform, d'Éon was dogged with rumors that he was a woman in male dress. D'Éon joined a spy organization, the Secret du Roi, in 1756, working directly for King Louis XV. It was as part of this organization that d'Éon was disguised as Lea de Beaumont and served as maid of honor to the Empress. For 33 years, from 1777, d'Éon dressed as a woman and appears to have identified as female. The Chevalier claimed, in the late 1770s, to have been raised as a boy because Louis d'Éon de Beaumont, the Chevalier's father, could only inherit from his in-laws if he had a son. D'Éon was permitted to return to France in women's dress, and to wear the insignia of the Order of Saint-Louis, which had been earned in battle. D'Éon published a book of memoirs in 1779: La Vie Militaire, politique, et prove de Mademoiselle d'Éon, which were ghostwritten and are considered to have been embellished. Medical examination after his death discovered "male organs in every respect perfectly formed," but also feminine characteristics, rendering his gender and sex a question of some debate. The Chevalier d'Éon is probably the inspiration for the character of Oscar in the anime Rose of Versailles, which features a young woman raised as a man to sooth her aristocratic father's desire for a son. Other representations of the Chevalier in popular culture include several plays, two films, a novel by Vlaentin Pikul, and a supernatural horror manga & anime titled Le Chevalier d'Eon, in which a man is possessed by the ghost of his murdered sister. Most of these portray d'Éon as a woman who has been forced to masquerade as a man, which turns the historical reality on its head. Overall this book presents a veritable encyclopedia of the curious and of those foibles that were of interest to the 19th-century public.

Leatherneck Square. A professional marine's personal perspective of the Vietnam era by Schulze, Richard C., Major General, USMC

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Title: Leatherneck Square. A professional marine's personal perspective of the Vietnam era
Author: Schulze, Richard C., Major General, USMC
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [Incline Village, Nevada]: The Huckleberry Press, 1989. Edition limited to 125 copies (this, no. 8); folio, pp. 89, [3]; color frontispiece map of Leatherneck Square, Quang Tri Province, just south of the DMZ in Vietnam; title page printed in red, yellow, and black, ornaments printed in blue, red, and yellow; fine copy in original linen-backed marbled boards, paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase. From the library of Kim Merker. "Printed ... by Greg Peterson and John Balkwill. Handset in Dante types and printed letterpress on Rives Heavyweight White using a Vandercook 4 press. The frontispiece map and the design elements opening each section were designed by John Balkwill and printed from linecuts.

Exhibition card: “Moderne Kunst”: Bilder von Sigmar Polke (14 December 1968-16 January 1969) by (POLKE, Sigmar)

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Title: Exhibition card: “Moderne Kunst”: Bilder von Sigmar Polke (14 December 1968-16 January 1969)
Author: (POLKE, Sigmar)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Card, printed on one side. Berlin: Galerie René Block, 1968. Scarce announcement card for Polke’s 1968-9 show at Block’s gallery. René Block had given the artist his solo debut in May-June 1966. In fine condition. ❧ M. Babias, B. Eusterschulte, & S. Rollig, eds., René Block, Ich kenne kein Weekend. Ausstellungsprojekte, Texte und Dokumente seit 1964 (2015), p. 463.

Moonlight by Pinter, Harold

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Title: Moonlight
Author: Pinter, Harold
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Faber and Faber, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped (£12.99 net), faintly bumped and soiled. Black cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, erratum label on the half-title, clean internally. A play about family and death from the Nobel Prize-winning playwright.

Such Good Friends by Gould, Lois

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Title: Such Good Friends
Author: Gould, Lois
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 277pp. Sharp Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence to "2" as called for by Random house. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Board edges toning. Equally attractive clipped dust-jacket has some light edge-wear and a touch of soiling to front fold but is fresh and bright with no creasing, chipping or tears. Laid in is the business card for the then Publicity Manager at Random House. A very pretty collectable copy of the author's first novel.

CLUB HOUSE COOK BOOK OF FAVORITE RECIPES

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Title: CLUB HOUSE COOK BOOK OF FAVORITE RECIPES
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: San Diego, CA: American Assoc. of University Women, San Diego Branch, 1946. recipes, advts., spiral, illus. wrps. FIRST EDITION. Lists contributors by name. Interesting advertisements, mainly of food related businesses.

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