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SECRET LIFE OF SALVADOR DALI by DALI, SALVADOR; SALVADOR DALI

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Title: SECRET LIFE OF SALVADOR DALI
Author: DALI, SALVADOR; SALVADOR DALI
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1942. DALI, Salvador. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. 400 pp., illustrated throughout. 4to, 258 x 190 mm., cloth and illustrated dust jacket in a new cloth folding box. New York: Dial, 1942. With an elaborate double page inscription cum drawing by Dali. From the library of the photographer Arnold Crane with his signature on the front endpaper.

[Large Silk Broadside of Crystal Palace Overprinted with a Satirical Scene Around the Outer Margins Involving the Impact of Slavery and British Colonialism] by [Slavery]: [United Kingdom]

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Title: [Large Silk Broadside of Crystal Palace Overprinted with a Satirical Scene Around the Outer Margins Involving the Impact of Slavery and British Colonialism]
Author: [Slavery]: [United Kingdom]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: [N.p., likely London, 1890. Lithograph on silk handkerchief, approximately 24 x 24 inches, with additional lithographed scene printed around the outer margins in brown and blue ink. Previously matted and framed, with resultant edge wear and adhesive staining around margins. Old folds, some foxing and staining in image area. Overall good plus condition. A very rare and impactful 19th-century British lithograph-on-lithograph, the original a view of London's Crystal Palace with the addition of a satirical scene detailing the history of British colonialist activities in Africa. The overall scene is presented in four linear parts, one across each (mostly) blank margin of the Crystal Palace scene; interestingly, the two lithographs overlap each other at a few places along the short edge. The scene seems to begin with the part labeled "African Slave Trade," picturing two slave traders leading a chained procession of African slaves (men, women, and children). The next edge is labeled "The Rescue," and shows three British soldiers (including one bagpiper) freeing the slaves (who are pictured free of their chains and dancing) and now detaining the two slave traders in chains. The third panel pictures two groups of Africans -- one group running to a rum dealer and another group listening to a man holding a book, presumably a missionary preacher. This scene seems to allude to British activities in the West Indies. The final panel, labeled "Civilization," is the most varied. It pictures a couple of British railway agents under the banner "Change for Timbuctoo;" a group of African men in Western garb, one holding a sign reading, "African Times;" an African man riding a bicycle; and a family scene of a man kneeling in front of a seated woman while he kisses her hand and a young man in the background sells matches. How civilized, indeed. Each corner of the work is emblazoned with a British lion and the Union Jack amidst a field of African foliage and West Indian palm trees. The scene seems to celebrate the effects of British colonialism while ignoring the country's own history as slaveholders and traffickers the previous century. "The border panels of this printed cotton handkerchief caricature the impact of British colonial policy on Africa. It was probably produced at the end of the 19th century, at a period when European colonial rule led to increasing social and political intervention in African societies. It illustrates the rescue of a group of slaves by a British military detachment and their subsequent 'westernization' through the introduction of European goods and commodities." This description comes from the online description of the only other example of this scene we can find, which resides at the National Maritime Museum (NMM) at Greenwich, London. The NMM example is printed on a blank cotton handkerchief, in brown and red, and is slightly smaller on one side than our example. Their dating is likely correct, if for nothing else because of the depiction of a chain-driven bicycle, which became popular in the UK in the 1890s.

OXFORD ALMANACK FOR 1800 THE PRINTING HOUSE, THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, AND THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM<br>A View of the Theatre, Printing House, &c. The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCC

OXFORD ALMANACK FOR 1800 THE PRINTING HOUSE, THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, AND THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
A View of the Theatre, Printing House, &c. The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCC by [Etching/Oxford]

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Title: OXFORD ALMANACK FOR 1800 THE PRINTING HOUSE, THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, AND THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
A View of the Theatre, Printing House, &c. The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCC
Author: [Etching/Oxford]
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Description: Drawn by E. Dayes. Engraved by James Basire. J. Cole, Cal. Sc. The sheet measures 57 x 68.5 cm; the plate measures 50 x 56 cm; the image is 45 x 31.5 cm. Edges untrimmed, small tears in the margins. Duty ink stamp in the lower right margin. Generally fresh and excellent.A full-sheet Oxford Almanack for the year 1800 with lists of the kings of England starting from William the Conqueror and of the officers of the university. It is illustrated with an etching designed by Edward Dayes (1763-1804) and executed by James Basire (1730-1802). The text was engraved by James Cole (active from 1764-80). The Oxford sheet almanacks were issued yearly from 1676 until 1946. To quote Petter, "The value of a yearly series of illustrations such as the almanacks provide is that in them a single unbroken thread reveals the trends of development and illustrates with precision the history of art" [Petter, The Oxford Almanack, 1674-1946, p. 14]. The etching depicts the Sheldonian Theatre (in the middle), the Clarendon Building that housed the Oxford printing house until 1830 (to the left), and the Ashmolean Museum, now the Museum of the History of Science (to the right). Dayes may have based his design on one of John Donowell's Oxford views, published in 1755. James Basire, in charge of the almanacks from 1797 to 1814, came from a family of prominent engravers. He is best known for apprenticing the young William Blake. Edward Dayes, a pupil of William Pether, was a painter and engraver, whose influence can be seen in the early drawings of J. M. W. Turner. *Petter, The Oxford Almanack, 1674-1946 (1946), pp. 15, 39, 41. OCLC: 1062032770. "Basire, James" and "Dayes, Edward" in ODNB.

The Sportsman in Ireland, with his Summer Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, By A Cosmopolite by ALLAN, Robert)

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Title: The Sportsman in Ireland, with his Summer Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, By A Cosmopolite
Author: ALLAN, Robert)
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: London: Colburn, 1840. First. hardcover. very good(+). 2 Frontispieces + 18 vignette illustrations. 2 vols., 8vo, 20th century 3/4 leather over marbled boards; no spine titles. London: Henry Colburn, 1840. First Edition.

Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO by [DESIGN] Azuma Do^jin

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Title: Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO
Author: [DESIGN] Azuma Do^jin
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1937. [DESIGN] Azuma Do^jin. Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO. Unso^do^, Kyo^to & To^kyo^, Sho^wa 12 [1937]. A large folding album (34.0 x 24.8 cm), 10 pages (15 designs) of superbly printed color woodblock images by the "Companions from the East" The margins and facing pages have browning and foxing. This, the "spring" volume, appears to be one of two volumes published. The covers are detached. Sold with all faults.

Autograph Letter Signed, Parkville, Missouri, March 1, 1849 to Rev. C. D. Herbert, Ellsworth, Maine by Park, George S.

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, Parkville, Missouri, March 1, 1849 to Rev. C. D. Herbert, Ellsworth, Maine
Author: Park, George S.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: George Shepherd Park had an amazing life, first as a hero of the Texas War of Independence and then as a Missouri and Kansas pioneer who founded two cities and two colleges. Born in Grafton, Vermont, lived for a time in Maine, then taught school in Ohio and Illinois. In 1835, at age 24, he went to Texas, serving under James Fannin in the Texas War of Independence. Park joined Fannin's men at Refugio, Texas. More than 400 of Fannin's troops were killed by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna in the Goliad Massacre and Park was one of the few survivors. He then moved to Jackson County, Missouri to teach school. Following the Platte Purchase, in which Native Americans sold what became northwest Missouri in 1838, Park took on a 99-year lease on a steamboat landing site, English Landing. Therese built a home on the bluffs above the Missouri River and platted the town of Parkville in 1844. In this new city of Parkville, which bore his name, he started a Presbyterian Church in 1845. In 1853 he started the Industrial Luminary, a newspaper some believed to be abolitionist. He owned slaves and termed the newspaper pro-commerce. He generally believed that slavery in Kansas would be bad for business there. In 1854, while leading a trip up the Kansas River, Park established the town of Polistra near the mouth of the Big Blue River. On April 14, 1855, Park's newspaper was raided by a pro-slavery mob, its printing press thrown in the Missouri river. Park was in Polistra at the time closing a deal to turn over the town into a newly named Boston, Kansas. Boston was to be run by members of the abolitionist New England Emigrant Aid Company, who renamed it Manhattan. Immediately after the mob raid, Park moved to Magnolia, Illinois, where he made a fortune in real estate, and he returned to Parkville in late 1855. In 1858, Park pledged $ 500.00 toward establishing Bluemont Central College in the newly named Manhattan. This would become present day Kansas State University. In 1859, Park promoted a proposed railroad route from Cameron, Missouri to Parkville, to be called the Parkville and Grand River Railroad. It was planned to cross the Missouri River at Parkville. However, in 1869, Kansas City won the race for the first bridge to cross the river at the Hannibal Bridge which transformed it into the dominant city in the region. Park was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 1866, where he introduced a bill to establish an industrial college, however, the bill failed. Park formally moved back to Magnolia, Illinois in 1874. He donated part of his land on the bluffs for a college to be headed by John A. McAfee, then president of Highland College, in Highland, Kansas. The school was founded in 1875, which became Park College, was initially aimed at preparing students for missionary life for the Presbyterian Church. This letter, written in his early Missouri pioneer days to a friend in Maine, show's Park's religiosity – and that of his wife, who may have been a Quaker. At the start of the Gold Rush, Park declares his conviction that the country was headed down a dangerous path of immorality and disunion. "Dear Friend, … do the old Hills look natural? Do you love those cold bleak hills, those clear, gushing streams, those green pastures, lovely cottages and tall church spires better than our mighty Western rivers, our vast prairies and fertile plains? But you will say home sweet home. Ah yes, what a circle of endearments! There can be no dearer spot than the one that gave us birth. … I will give you a slight sketch of times and things in this far off land. We have made a great many improvements the last year and several brick buildings will go up this year. But a great many has caught the Gold fever and two companies of 24 each will start for California on the first of May … The excitement is great. The companies meet every week and discuss matters, an animated discussion took place the other day on the size of the Kegs each one should have made to bring home their gold in. Whether they should hold 50,000 or 100,000 Dollars worth, the 100,000 carried. I have not caught the fever and Eliza [his wife] says she does not want so much gold. It was quite healthy here last summer but we expect the Cholera soon on the boats. It has been a dry cold winter. The rive has been froze and the snow has laid on the ground all winter. The river has risen now 5 ft but the ice still holds. Some talk of a dissolution of the Union but I hope there is moderate men enough North and South to save the Union … The Methodist have preaching twice a month. The old Methodist church have established a circuit and preach once in two months some places. They suffer much persecution & are driven off. The people call them abolitionists… We have got a brick schoolhouse built 20 by 30 on top of the hill in front of the graveyard and last though not least a division of the sons of temperance with 40 members and prospering. We are getting up a library for the Sons. We have foes on every hand but our division stand up manfully. We are going to petition the county court to grant no more [liquor] licences so you see the war has fairly begun. And the Gamblers collect in the grocery to organize and the sons in the division room. But sir I tremble at the prospect of our country. Every thing seems unsettled – people moving to and for, Gambling, drinking, Idleness, Ignorance, the evils of Slavery, negroes prowling about to pillage & burn, no Sunday schools, a want of moral & religious. If the sons of temperance fail I shall be discouraged, and try and sell out and go over and live among the peaceful Quakers over in Illinois. Eliza says she would like to have our little Quaker brought up over there. But before we give up the foes of temperance will have a hard struggle. I hope you will sympathize with us and pray for us. If you can send us once in a while a paper to cheer us on we shall be thankful… may God richly reward you in all your Pious labors and when you have finished your labors in this world receive you to the other mansions of Eternal rest …'

Elite Syncopations by [Music – Ragtime] Joplin, Scott

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Title: Elite Syncopations
Author: [Music – Ragtime] Joplin, Scott
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: St. Louis: John Stark & Son, 1902. Large-format folio sheet music for piano solo. Trimmed to 9¼ x 12 inches. Light edge wear with small chips to lower corner (approx. ¼ inch), else very good; a bright and attractive example. Very good.. First edition of one of Scott Joplin’s classic ragtime compositions, issued during his most productive period with the St. Louis publisher John Stark. Joplin (1868–1917), widely known as the “King of Ragtime,” helped establish ragtime as a sophisticated form of American popular music through works such as “Maple Leaf Rag,” “The Entertainer,” and “Elite Syncopations.” As Joplin himself insisted when defending the genre from critics, “Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music,” a remark reflecting his ambition to elevate ragtime compositions such as this into carefully structured piano works. The pictorial cover, engraved by Fred Graf of St. Louis, shows a fashionable couple seated upon a musical staff while a cherub below plays the cymbals.

BILLY TAYLOR (ca. 1960s) Photo by Np

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Title: BILLY TAYLOR (ca. 1960s) Photo
Author: Np
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Np. No binding. Near Fine. Np, [ca. 1960s]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) double weight borderless black-and-white photo. Photo agency sticker on verso, near fine. Billy Taylor was an indefatigable educator and promoter of jazz, but also a distinguished pianist who emerged during the bop era and played with everyone from Stuff Smith to Charlie Parker.

SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT: A NOVEL OF SOME PROBABILITY [Signed] by Williams, John A.

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Title: SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT: A NOVEL OF SOME PROBABILITY [Signed]
Author: Williams, John A.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 279 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$5.95", has light chipping along the spine and fore edges, a tear along the spine head edge, and light stains. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has light soiling 279, and mild to moderate foxing along the fore and head edges. Signed flat by John A. Williams on the title page. Shelved in Room C. 1394203. Special Collections.

Columbian Centinel. No. 39, of vol. XIX

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Title: Columbian Centinel. No. 39, of vol. XIX
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Benjamin Russell, Wednesday, July 24, 1793. 19 " x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name at top. Politcal miscellany from the Gazette of the United States Pacificus no. II concerning treaties between the United States and France, domestic miscellany, values of merchandise exported from each state of the United States, important proceedings, marriages & deaths, port of Boston list of ships entered and cleared, auction announcements, ships for sale (with cuts), and usual ads.

Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century and Modern First Editions, Presentation Copies, Autograph Letters and Literary Manuscripts: March, 1968

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Title: Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century and Modern First Editions, Presentation Copies, Autograph Letters and Literary Manuscripts: March, 1968
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Sotheby & Co, 1968. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Printed wrappers. Very good with sticker offsetting on front cover.

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Charles d'Orléans; a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources by Yenal,Edith

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Title: Charles d'Orléans; a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
Author: Yenal,Edith
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780404614362
Description: New York: AMS Press, 1984. viii, 103p., original blue cloth, slight paper foxing on the edges(AMS studies in the Middle Ages, 6).

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