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Cubism and Abstract Art

Cubism and Abstract Art by Barr, Alfred H., Jr.

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Title
Cubism and Abstract Art
Author
Barr, Alfred H., Jr.
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1936. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, in a second state dust jacket with printed arrow from "Machine Esthetic" to "Futurism". 249, [1] pp with 223 monochrome reproductions and errata slip at copyright. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black and red. Near Fine with slight tanning to cloth, light wear at spine ends, foxing to fore-edge, former owner's name on front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with fading and tanning to spine, shallow chips to crown and upper corner of front panel, former owner's name mostly erased on front panel, splitting to front flap joint and rear joint, and closed tearing at edges. The art historian and first appointed MoMA director's collection of essays on the history and development of Cubism and Abstractionism in the early 20th century published in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition of the same name held from March 2nd-April 19th, 1936. The acclaimed exhibition of nearly 400 works displayed works ranging from African sculpture, Neo-Impressionists paintings from Seurat, paintings from the dawn of Cubism by Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, works of Fauvism, Dadaist objects, Bauhaus sculptures and early works of Surrealism. Barr believed that abstraction was an inherent element in the development of modern art and created his now iconic diagram featured on the front cover of the dust jacket. Provenance of Michael Goodman, professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley from 1927 until 1971.
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Address to the People of Rhode-Island by CONSTITUTION DORR Thomas Wilson

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Address to the People of Rhode-Island
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CONSTITUTION DORR Thomas Wilson
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1834. First Edition. (DORR, Thomas Wilson). An Address to the People of Rhode-Island, From the Convention Assembled at Providence, on the 22nd Day of February, and Again on the 12th Day of March, 1834, to Promote the Establishment of a State Constitution. Providence: Cranston & Hammond, 1834. Octavo, period-style half diced calf gilt, marbled boards, pp. (i-v), 6-60. $2400.First edition of Dorr's foundational Address, prompting his role as instigator and leader of the Dorr Rebellion, placing him ""in the front rank of the political reformers of Jacksonian America.”Born into privilege, Rhode Island's Thomas Dorr became ""a political insurrectionary… [who] hastened the demise of the royal charter of 1663 and the adoption of a written constitution"" (Wiecek, Peculiar Conservatism, 242). Following the American Revolution, by the 1820s Rhode Island remained the only state that clung to its colonial charter, which ""restricted suffrage to white men who possessed real estate valued at a minimum of $134"" (Chaput, Proslavery and Antislavey Politics, 662-63). It had ""evolved from the most to the least democratic state"" (Lemons, Rhode Island's Ten Turning Points, 62). ""Dorr's political goals—'free suffrage' with no discrimination against the foreign-born, 'one-man, one-vote,' an independent judiciary, a more powerful and dynamic executive, the secret ballot—though not permanently achieved in Rhode Island during his lifetime, placed him in the front rank of the political reformers of Jacksonian America"" (ANB).In 1834 Dorr ""asked the General Assembly to call a convention to revise the state constitution in favor of taxpayer-militia suffrage and to adopt… 'equal representation'"" (Wiecek, 242). In this major Address, delivered at that convention and ""composed primarily by Dorr"" (Conley, Democracy in Decline, 255), he states: ""No form of a Constitution can be worth much if… in this State the Legislative power is… in the hands of less than one third part of the qualified voters. A few political managers… [rule] the whole State as they please, against the will of two thirds of the freeman and three fourths of the people"" (emphasis in original)."" To Dorr, the state's ""strange adherence to the charter"" left Rhode Island with an ""inequality of representation… too unjust to be much longer tolerated."" In 1841, after Dorr was elected ""the People's governor"" under the state's ""People's Constitution,"" he became the leader of the 1842 Dorr rebellion, which historian Sean Wilentz calls ""'a striking [and] exceptional case in the history of American democratization before the Civil War,' calling it no less than 'a deadly serious test of democracy's meaning and democracy's future.'"" The Dorr Rebellion, increasingly viewed as the ""most significant political and constitutional event between the Age of Jackson and the election of Lincoln…Dorr's constitutional understanding had roots not only in the Revolution and the post-Revolutionary era; it remained a vibrant part of American constitutionalism"" (Chaput, Rhode Island Question, 55-56). Sabin 70537. American Imprints 26527. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing.
An Enquiry into the Principal Phaenomena of Sounds and Musical Strings

An Enquiry into the Principal Phaenomena of Sounds and Musical Strings by Young, M - NEWTON

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An Enquiry into the Principal Phaenomena of Sounds and Musical Strings
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Young, M - NEWTON
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Near fine with some abrasions or shallow gouge to the front cover; front joint partially cracked near the head.
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Dublin: Joseph Hill, 1784. First Edition?. Full contemporary calf.. Near fine with some abrasions or shallow gouge to the front cover; front joint partially cracked near the head.. 8vo, [6], [1] - 203, [1 - blank] pp. + 2 engraved plates. Young was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he taught natural philosophy. he spent years working on a commentary to Newton's Principia. The book offered here is his work elucidating only one of the propositions, i.e., the nature and propagation of sound. He also examined the nature of the vibration in elastic fibers and accounts for some of the observed phenomena of musical strings. The result is a book that is perhaps the best non-mathematical account of the physics of a vibrating body and elasticity in general. An important book. Kassler 1085 - `87; absent from Babson and Wallis.
Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygua Hunting-Grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico

Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygua Hunting-Grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico by Kendall, Geo[rge] Wilkins

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Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygua Hunting-Grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico
Author
Kendall, Geo[rge] Wilkins
Seller
Walkabout Books (United States)
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Good+
Description
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844. Hardcover. Good+. First edition in first state binding, with 1844 date at base of spine. Vol. I: 405 pp, with 2 lithograph plates and folding map (Texas and Part of Mexico and the United States showing the Route of the First Santa Fe Expedition); Vol. 2: 406 pp, with three lithograph plates. Chipping to head of spine on Volume I, both volumes with light foxing, mild spine lean, a few signatures spring, early ownership markings of W.C. and C.C. Bulkley; good or better. The Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a commercial and military expedition to secure the Republic of Texas's claims to parts of Northern New Mexico for Texas in 1841. According to Jenkins (Basic Texas Books, 116), "not only is this the best account of the Santa Fe Expedition, it is one of the best campaign narratives ever written. Rupert Richardson said Kendell's experiences 'represent practically every element of adventure and peril that could have befallen men on the southwestern frontier.'...George W. Kendall founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837 and became one of the leading trumpeters for Texas. In 1841, learning of Texan plans to conquer Santa Fe, he set out for Texas and joined the expedition. Travelling through a new and hostile environment, and improperly equipped, the expedition nearly starved, surviving on hippophagy. The members straggled almost to Santa Fe and were gulled into surrendering without a fight. The captives were taken to Mexico and imprisoned for nearly two years." Howes K-75; Field 818; Wagner-Camp 110, Rader 2157.
Hesperos: Or, Travels in the West

Hesperos: Or, Travels in the West by Houstoun, Mrs. [Matilda Charlotte]

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Hesperos: Or, Travels in the West
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Houstoun, Mrs. [Matilda Charlotte]
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Walkabout Books (United States)
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Near fine
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London: John W. Parker, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes, viii, 293; viii, 279, in contemporary three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with gilt spine, red and black spine labels. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Leather scuffed, otherwise a very nice set, clean and sound. Bookplate of Arthur Dean on the front pastedown of each volume. Houstoun (1811-1892) was a successful British novelist as well as the author of several travel books and other works of nonfiction. Written as a series of letters, Hesperos recounts her journey from Liverpool to Halifax and from there through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington, DC, westward to Pittsburgh and then to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Texas. "Always opinionated, Houstoun describes American women as ‘free' in their public behaviour, and is particularly interested in the lives of the Irish in America and in the condition of enslaved blacks on the plantations which she visited in Louisiana and Mississippi" (DNB). Her account also offers vivid descriptions of local manners and customs, life of the steamboats, lodging conditions, etc. Eberstadt: "Contains much on Texas, including a residence in Galveston, trip to New Washington, Texas, visit to the prairies, etc." Howes H-692; Sabin 33200; Graff 1976; Hubach p. 111; Clark III: 329; Rader 1950.
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Derriére le Miroir no. 188. Adami by Adami,Valerio

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Derriére le Miroir no. 188. Adami
Author
Adami,Valerio
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris: Maeght, 1970. First edition. Adami,Valerio. Folio, wrappers, fine condition, in publisher's chemise and slipcase (slightly faded). Deluxe issue. One of 150 copies on vélin d'Arches, numbered and signed. With nine original color lithographs. "DLM édité en novembre 1970 pour la 1ère exposition ADAMI à la Galerie Maeght. Texte de Valerio Adami. 32 pages non reliées. 9 lithographies originales en couleurs dont 3 double page, 4 fac-similé de dessins et 15 reproductions en noir. Tirage original.
CARRYING A TORCH

CARRYING A TORCH by BERRIGAN, Ted

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CARRYING A TORCH
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BERRIGAN, Ted
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Fine.
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Brooklyn, New York: Clown War, 1980. First Edition. Fine.. Chapbook (issued as Clown War 22) from the New York School poet, one of his last before his untimely death. Cover by Jan Vredeman De Vries. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Beige stapled wraps. Fine. Limited edition, one of 26 copies SIGNED by Berrigan, this the "I" copy.
WHIPPLE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS | GEORGE H. AND ALLEN O.

WHIPPLE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS | GEORGE H. AND ALLEN O. by Whipple, George H; Whipple, Allen O.

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WHIPPLE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS | GEORGE H. AND ALLEN O.
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Whipple, George H; Whipple, Allen O.
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
While George Whipple and Allen Whipple were not related, the two men were contemporaries whose lives intersected in an unlikely way. George Hoyt Whipple contracted severe malaria while working in Panama and was admitted to Presbyterian Hospital in New York. There, a young intern named Allen Whipple helped care for him. This encounter sparked a lifelong friendship between the two doctors. Photograph of Allen Whipple measures 8 in. x 10 in.; signature is faded but legible. Photograph of George measures 5.3 in. x 8.5 in. and signature is clear and strong. Shelved at Rockville Room E (MW Box). 1412444. Special Collections - Upstairs.
THE LAW BOOK PRICE GUIDE: A Market Value Reference for Antiquarian, Out-of-Print and Rare Law Boks and Documents and Other Law-Related Materials

THE LAW BOOK PRICE GUIDE: A Market Value Reference for Antiquarian, Out-of-Print and Rare Law Boks and Documents and Other Law-Related Materials by ADAMIAK, Richard

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THE LAW BOOK PRICE GUIDE: A Market Value Reference for Antiquarian, Out-of-Print and Rare Law Boks and Documents and Other Law-Related Materials
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ADAMIAK, Richard
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
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Fine, issued without dustwrapper
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Chicago: Richard Adamiak, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Cloth. Quarto; xvi, 376 pages with index and bibliography. Page-by-page reproductions of various catalogs dated 1975 - 1982 from leading antiquarian booksellers specializing in the legal field. While the prices, of course, are dated, the detailed descriptions are quite valuable. The type is often very small but readable.
The Man from Planet X [*SIGNED* by the film's star]

The Man from Planet X [*SIGNED* by the film's star] by (no author)

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The Man from Planet X [*SIGNED* by the film's star]
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(no author)
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ReadInk (United States)
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[Canada]: Planet X Productions. Near Fine. (c.1987). First Edition. Softcover. [faint wear to lower extremities]. (Planet X Productions Reprint Movie Comic No. 1) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front cover by actor Robert Clarke, star of the original film. Reprint (in appropriate size/format, approx. 7"x10") of a 1951 comic book (Fawcett Movie Comic, No. 15, if you must know) that, per the publishers' introductory note, is "impossible to locate in Mint condition." The original movie was directed by the great master of low-budget cinema, Edgar G. Ulmer, who shot it in six days at the Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, utilizing sets from the 1948 Ingrid Bergman biopic JOAN OF ARC Signed by Associated .
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The Legislative History of the International Criminal Court Volume 1 by Bassiouni, M. Cherif and William A. Schabas (eds.)

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The Legislative History of the International Criminal Court Volume 1
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Bassiouni, M. Cherif and William A. Schabas (eds.)
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9789004321946
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LikeNew
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Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff [2016]. Hardcover. Second Revised and Expanded Edition. 9" x 6".XXXVI, 616 pp. Publisher's brown boards. No DJ, as issued. Some bumping and rubbing to edges and corners. Near Fine. ISBN 9789004321946. . LikeNew. Hardcover .
Constitution, By-Laws, Sailing Rules, etc. of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. (Formerly the Quaker City Yacht Club.) 1891

Constitution, By-Laws, Sailing Rules, etc. of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. (Formerly the Quaker City Yacht Club.) 1891 by Anon

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Constitution, By-Laws, Sailing Rules, etc. of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. (Formerly the Quaker City Yacht Club.) 1891
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Anon
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Philadelphia, 1891. Color plates. 12mo. 127 pp. plus plates. First year under this name. Seven color plates of private signals of the club and of member yachts. Not in Morris & Howland. Worldcat shows no libraries holding copies of this year. Hinges cracked, sewing weak. Bound in original printed cloth.
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Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England by Weber, Donald

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Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England
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Weber, Donald
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1988 First printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in spine-faded d.j.
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THE BROTHERS' HOUSE by Algren, Nelson

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THE BROTHERS' HOUSE
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Algren, Nelson
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THE BROTHERS' HOUSE" in Story Magazine for October, 1934, first edition, vg in wraps. The verso of the front cover is taken up by photos of Faulkner & Saroyan.
My Beautiful Disaster: My Brain Injury, My Gift, My Life

My Beautiful Disaster: My Brain Injury, My Gift, My Life by Amato, Derek

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My Beautiful Disaster: My Brain Injury, My Gift, My Life
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Amato, Derek
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781304323316
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Very good
Description
Self Published, 2013. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". iv, 247pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Derek Amato's reflections in My Beautiful Disaster provide rare insight into what people with extraordinary gifts see, think, feel and do; pose questions about the potential to tap into previously undetected abilities and spotlight the 'silent epidemic' of head trauma. His experiences also make vivid some the challenges faced by those living with autism and other neurological disorders and hint at the possibility we all have more in common than we think. Readers enchanted by autistic savant, Daniel Tammet's eloquent Born On A Blue Day, will welcome another multi-layered, first person account of what is to live with a remarkable condition. Uniquely, having spent his life as a "neurotypical" Amato's tale relates the before and after of 'the gift'; his voice at times resonating with incredulity at what has happened and what the eventual cost may be.(Publisher).
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BEST PARTIES EVER AND MORE

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BEST PARTIES EVER AND MORE
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
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Oakland, Calif: Junior Alliance of Lincoln Child Center, 1977. recipes, ind., spiral wrps.

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