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Shapes of Clay by BIERCE, Ambrose

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Shapes of Clay
Author: BIERCE, Ambrose
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Stains on seven pages from clippings once laid in, a marginal tear on a leaf from rough opening, slightly soiled on rear cover,
Description: San Francisco: W. E. Wood, 1903. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Stains on seven pages from clippings once laid in, a marginal tear on a leaf from rough opening, slightly soiled on rear cover, front inner hinge tender. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Bierce. Original dark green cloth, gilt pictorial stamping and lettering, top edges gilt, others uncut; black cloth folding case. First edition, state 1 (BAL). This is the dedication copy to the designer of the binding, inscribed by Bierce in pencil on the front free endpaper: "To Herman Scheffauer. Bierce within and Scheff without, / This book is foreordained, no doubt, / To fame whene'er (all other books / Being lost) the last man living looks / For something great in art and rhyme / To help him pass away the time. / Ambrose Bierce / Oct. 30, 1903." The printed dedication reads: "With pride in their work, faith in their future and affection for themselves, an old writer dedicates this book to his young friends and pupils, George Sterling and Herman Scheffauer." In the spring of 1903 the two protégés induced Wood to publish a collection of Bierce's poetry, which had appeared in his columns over the previous twenty years. Sterling raised the money for the publication and Scheffauer, an architect by profession and a poet by avocation, designed the striking pictorial binding. In 1927 Scheffauer "joined a long list of Bierce associates who met macabre ends – in his instance, by fatally stabbing his wife and leaping to his death from a hotel window" (Roy Morris, Jr., 'Ambrose Bierce,' 1996, p. 229). Laid in is a four-page promotional leaflet for the book. Starrett A17: "A large part of the first edition... was destroyed, it is said, in the San Francisco fire." BALL 1122. (BA).

Autograph letter signed to Mr. Lepard by Charnock, John

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Title: Autograph letter signed to Mr. Lepard
Author: Charnock, John
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Charnock, John (1756-1807). Autograph letter signed to Mr. [J. P.] Lepard. N.p., 27 May 1802. 1 page. 150 x 152 mm. Offered with an engraved portrait of Charnock measuring 162 x 128 mm. From the author of A History of Marine Architecture (1801-1802) to the publisher J. P Lepard, regarding payment for printing costs of the History: "The Stationers Printers and other persons employd in manufacturing the History of Marine Architecture having according to the arrangement made originally by me with them for the liquidation of their accounts agreed to receive in payment the bills of the different booksellers. I have taken the liberty of enclosing your account and will in a few days transmit to you a bill for the amount of the same agreeable to proposals which if you will be pleased to accept will much oblige Sirs your very hum. srvt. John Charnock. Charnock's History of Marine Architecture was the first serious study of British naval architecture. Written at the start of the Napoleonic Wars, Charnock's work "followed the opinions of sea officers in over-praising French ships and designs at the expense of their British equivalents establishing a tradition that has only recently been reassessed" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Lepard is not listed in the imprint of Charnock's work, but was evidently involved in some aspect of its production. .

Livre d'or du High Life by (PERIODICAL)

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Title: Livre d'or du High Life
Author: (PERIODICAL)
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: 1903. Tall 4to. Tailor advertising magazine for both men and women for High Life Tailor in Paris. Illustrated by SEM, WILLETTE, CAPPIELLO, etc. 12pp plus the covers in gold.

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James Purdy - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Adams, Stephen D.

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Title: James Purdy - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Adams, Stephen D.
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780854784738
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: London: Vision. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 085478473x . A handsome first Edition/First Printing housed in an equally unblemished dust-jacket; James Purdy is a novel set in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in 1922. The novel's narrator, an unnamed young man, tells the story of Purdy, an enigmatic and tormented artist who is struggling to find his place in the world. The novel explores Purdy's relationships with the people around him, and the ways in which they affect his creative process.; 8vo; 166 pages; Price? ? ? .

Form and Function. Some Principles as First Enunciated by... by Greenough, Horatio

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Title: Form and Function. Some Principles as First Enunciated by...
Author: Greenough, Horatio
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 75 copies designed by Samuel T. Farquhar and A. R. Tommasini. 12mo. [6], 10pp. Printed throughout in red and black. Half gilt-lettered vellum, marbled boards. Slight wear to corners, but a fine copy. The author was an American sculptor who lectured extensively, mainly on architecture. However, much that he said applied to any other art. The text presented here is from "Selections from His Writings" in Henry T. Tuckerman's "Memorial of Horatio Greenough," published in 1853 and never reprinted..

Eduard Angeli by [ANGELI, Eduard] Hans Dichand and Joe Berger, introduction;

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Title: Eduard Angeli
Author: [ANGELI, Eduard] Hans Dichand and Joe Berger, introduction;
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Wien: Galerie Phoenix, [1979]. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto (27.5 x 31cm.); printed flexible boards, natural tan color; [46pp]. A gallery book for Austrain painter Eduard Angeli; contains introductory text and biographical information (in German), and 17 color illustrated plates (unpaginated). Institutional stickers remain on first and final pages. Text block has some edge wear and yellowing at the margins. Front and rear boards bear minor scratches, abrasions, and soiling; front panel has stray paint and spots of damp along outer margin. Spine is lightly scuffed and toned with some wear to the ends, but overall sound with intact bindings. Very Good.

Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston by Cohen, Matt

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Title: Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston
Author: Cohen, Matt
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780822335290
Condition: Fine
Description: Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Edited and with an Introduction by Matt Cohen. Fine. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of correspondence between the two men who first knew each other in military school. An interesting correspondence that "offer a fascinating, detailed look at masculine self-generation." From the collection of Joan Bledig.

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