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Alphabet pour Adultes (1970)

Alphabet pour Adultes (1970) by RAY, MAN [MAN RAY]

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Alphabet pour Adultes (1970)
Author
RAY, MAN [MAN RAY]
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: Éditions Pierre Belfond, 1970. First edition. Original wrappers and box. Very Good. SIGNED FIRST EDITION MAN RAY ART-BOOK INCLUDING ORIGINAL RAYOGRAPH. Following his English-language Alphabet for Adults, Man Ray in the lead up to 1970 decided to produce a French edition of his concept for a mature ABCs art-book. Rather than translating the existing words or retrofitting translations onto existing drawings, Man Ray produced a new set of illustrations based on a new set of words for his limited-edition, signed collection-including a signed original rayograph serving as a frontispiece. A number of entries are seemingly innocuous and feature literal pictorial representations, such as "elephant" written over a drawing of an elephant or "barbe" [beard] labelling what is clearly a beard. But many of the lemmas are abstract in nature and require more involved figural interpretation: "beaucoup" [very much; many] clouded by several arrows directed to the upper-right corner of the page; "jalousie" [jealousy] reflected in an ocean; "réalité" [reality] printed against a single leaf. Mixing common nouns with other parts of speech, such as prepositions, pronouns and adjectives, juxtaposes the simplistic nature of the genre of children's alphabet books with the "pour adultes" [for adults] designation. In addition, a number of thematic strands that run though Man Ray's selection of words and images convey a mood more at home in the context of adult life-from mature vocabulary like "xérès" [sherry], "quarrelle" [row; dispute] and "fidèle" [faithful] to overtly intimate associations like "souple" [supple] which is placed in-between the tails of a whip. Moreover, words like "exact" [exact; true, correct], stretched across a chessboard above a smoking cigarette, exact less literal thinking all together. Overall, the selection of words, in a characteristically Surrealist style, seem at once random or irrational, yet are anchored by themes of desire, love and human relationships. The rayograph, with coloured stencilling inked over the image of the feather, was issued loose as with the entirely of the publication and it is mounted on board wrapped in wood veneer. Rayographs, a self-stylised medium of camera-less photography akin to photograms, were produced by laying objects onto photo-sensitive paper before exposing it to light. The paper of the rayograph itself is very prone to marking and the one accompanying Alphabet pour Adultes is often found with visible scratches and scuffs. Additionally, the veneer mounting is prone to cracking due to stress around its contours. The present copy does not show such signs of wear, nor do any of the alphabetical lithographs, and is a fine copy of this rare Man Ray original. RAY, MAN [MAN RAY]. Alphabet pour Adultes. Paris: Éditions Pierre Belfond, 1970. First edition, limited to 180 copies. Folio (330 x 280 mm), number 66 of 150 copies printed on large vélin d'Arches. Signed in pencil by Man Ray on limitation page. Complete copy, including all 38 original lithographs (including one used twice for the cover and title), plus the signed rayograph mounted on plywood on paper. Original wrappers, loose as issued; housed in publisher's original orange cloth portfolio, with author' name on spine. Slight bubbling to plywood mounting, otherwise fine. RARE, particularly in such fine condition.
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Naively Dressed Print from Women's Fashion Magazine - High Fashion of the Day by S.O. Beeton, Publisher

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Seller: Eclectibles
Title
Naively Dressed Print from Women's Fashion Magazine - High Fashion of the Day
Author
S.O. Beeton, Publisher
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (EDM) was a magazine published by Samuel Orchart Beeton from 1852 to 1879, with a suppl
Description
London : Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine, 1864. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (EDM) was a magazine published by Samuel Orchart Beeton from 1852 to 1879, with a supplement written by his wife, Mrs. Beeton, between 1859 and 1861: these supplements were later collected as her Book of Household Management. His intention was that it should "tend to the improvement of the intellect". The magazine published articles on middle-class domestic issues, fashion and fiction. . A fashion plate from the January 1864 edition of the publication. A child has created costumes for the print with the inclusion of paper hands, lace and braided trim. Voluminous gowns for both. A little girl in the background playing with a parrot. Housed in an oval 12" x 9 3/4" gold painted wooden frame.
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The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California. Introduction and Bibliographical Note by John Seelye by Alger, Horatio, Jr

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Title
The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California. Introduction and Bibliographical Note by John Seelye
Author
Alger, Horatio, Jr
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1965 One of 450 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley. Clothbacked pictorial boards. Octavo. Illustrations after woodcuts in French periodicals. A fine copy.
Grand Street. Vol. 5, No. 4. Summer 1986

Grand Street. Vol. 5, No. 4. Summer 1986 by (Adams, Alice). Sonnenberg, Ben, ed. Minot, Susan, ass't. ed

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Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
Title
Grand Street. Vol. 5, No. 4. Summer 1986
Author
(Adams, Alice). Sonnenberg, Ben, ed. Minot, Susan, ass't. ed
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A very near fine copy.
Description
New York: Grand Street Publications, 1986. First printing. Paper wrappers. A very near fine copy.. Illus. with b/w photos. Trade format. Work by Alice Adams, Santha Rama Rau, Mark Strand, Amy Clampitt, W. S. Merwin, Daniel Hoffman, Robert Fagles, and others.
Introduction to astronomy.

Introduction to astronomy. by BAKER, Robert H. [Horace] (1883-1964).

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Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
Title
Introduction to astronomy.
Author
BAKER, Robert H. [Horace] (1883-1964).
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
New York:: D. Van Nostrand, 1947., 1947. THIRD EDITION. 235 x 160 mm. 8vo. [x], 292 pp. Frontis., figs., tables, index. Blue cloth; lightly rubbed. Bookplate of William Guy. Very good. 13 editions of this book were issued. " Reviewers invariably refer to them as "classics" and as the "standard by which other texts in astronomy are measured". Otto Struve called An Introduction to Astronomy an excellent textbook that set a high standard. Baker took special pride in these books as indicated by the fact that he kept them up to date with periodic revisions even after retirement."

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