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Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches by BROWN, William Henry (1808-1883)

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Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books

Title: Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches
Author: BROWN, William Henry (1808-1883)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1846. Folio. (15 7/8 x 12 inches). 27 tinted lithographed silhouette portraits, 27 tinted lithographed plates of facsimiles of handwriting. Publisher's half brown morocco, cloth boards with gilt device First edition of this impressive work, notable for its effective and evocative lithographed portraits of renowned Americans of the antebellum period, each depicted in full-length silhouette profile: "Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare" (Harry Peters). All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from life by Brown, who was widely celebrated for his scissor-cut silhouettes. Brown was born and died in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the interim traveled widely throughout the United States, his fame as a silhouettist gaining him access to many of the country's leading citizens whose profiles Brown took with amazing speed and accuracy. Alice Van Leer Carrick, an authority on silhouettes, notes that, rather than any existing original portraits, the present work is "the real memorial to Brown's genius, [and it is] now almost rarer than any of the silhouettes themselves." Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes (with appropriate tinted backgrounds) were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best known lithographic firms of the period: Kelloggs of Hartford, CT. The result is a valuable historical and visual record, with subjects including John Marshall, John Q. Adams, Richard C. Moore, Andrew Jackson, John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard M. Johnson, Joel Poinsett, Alexander Macomb, Martin Van Buren, Samuel Southard, Henry Clay, Henry Wise, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White, Silas Wright, Nathaniel Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon Lewis, and John Randolph. Each portrait is accompanied by another plate displaying a facsimile of the subject's handwriting. According to Peters, "almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare." Furthermore, the book is often found incomplete with plates lacking; the present example complete with all portraits and plates of handwriting. Cf. Groce-Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860, p. 90; Howes B871 ("b"); cf. Peters, America on Stone, pp., 116-117; Sabin 8578.

The Devil and Daniel Webster by BENÉT, Stephen Vincent; Harold Denisen, illus

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Title: The Devil and Daniel Webster
Author: BENÉT, Stephen Vincent; Harold Denisen, illus
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]. Reprint. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in blue and white pictorial dust jacket; 61pp.; illus. Jacket uniformly toned and a bit worn along extremities, some tiny chips and closed tears, spine sunned, price neatly torn away; boards lightly rubbed, some offsetting to endpapers else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Faustian novella set in New Hampshire and adapted into film twice, first in 1941 as "All That Money Can Buy," (starring Edward Arnold) and again in 2003 as "Shortcut to Happiness" (starring Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Alec Baldwin).

Robert Cottingham: Recent Works on Paper

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Title: Robert Cottingham: Recent Works on Paper
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: G+ (Sligtht soiling or age to white cover; corners slightly bumped.)
Description: New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1984. Softcover. G+ (Sligtht soiling or age to white cover; corners slightly bumped.). White & BW illus. stapled wraps, [8 pp.], 6 BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of work by American photorealist Robert Cottingham (b. 1935). No text; 6 examples of his street sign cityscapes.

1+1 EQUALS 1 (An ESP Experience). by ALDEN, Daisy.

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Title: 1+1 EQUALS 1 (An ESP Experience).
Author: ALDEN, Daisy.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: NY: Folder Editions, [n.d.].. First edition. . 8vo. Plain wrappers with an illustration pasted on. Unpaginated. 1/200 copies. Very good with some fading and edgewear.

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