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De la démocratie en Amerique by TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de

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Title: De la démocratie en Amerique
Author: TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835. De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville, avocat à la cour royale de Paris, l'un des auteurs du livre intitulé: Du système penitentiaire aux États-Unis. Orné d'une carte d'Amérique. Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840. First edition of Volumes I and II, second edition of Volumes III and IV of "one of the most important texts in political literature" (Printing and the Mind of Man 358 note). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author at head of half-title in Volume I: "à Monsieur Berrger/hommage de l'auteur/A d T." Four small octavo volumes. [4], xxiv, 367, [1, blank]; [4], 459, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 333, [1, blank]; [4], 363, [1, blank] pp. Hand-colored folding lithographed map by Benard after Tocqueville in Volume I. Bound at the end of Volume II is "Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner la Proposition de M. de Tracy, relative aux Esclaves des colonies, par M.A. de Tocqueville, Député da la Manche" in no 201, Chambre des Députés, 2e Session 1839 (98 pp.). Uniformly bound in contemporary quarter dark blue calf over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities. Some occasional foxing and browning. Bookplate removed from front pastedown in Volume II. Parisian bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of Volumes III and IV. A wonderful set, extremely rare with a presentation inscription by Tocqueville. Individually chemised and housed together in a cardboard slipcase with red morocco tips. One of the most penetrating political and social analyses of the United States ever written, De la démocratie en Amérique is based on Tocqueville's travels through America in 1831 and 1832 in company with Gustave Auguste de Beaumont. Charged by the French government to study the prison system of the United States, the two officials made a sweeping tour of the west and south after completing their penal studies in the east, visiting Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. En Français dans le texte 253. Howes T278. Sabin 96060 and 96061. No inscribed copies of this have come up at auction in the last thirty years. HBS 65329. $65,000.

The English Fleet in 1342. A Celebrated Historical Comic Opera as performed with Unprecedented applause at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden ... Arranged for the Piano Forte by D. Corri, The Words by T. Dibdin ... Price 12s/d. [Piano-vocal score] by BRAHAM, John 1774-1856

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Title: The English Fleet in 1342. A Celebrated Historical Comic Opera as performed with Unprecedented applause at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden ... Arranged for the Piano Forte by D. Corri, The Words by T. Dibdin ... Price 12s/d. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: BRAHAM, John 1774-1856
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: [London]: M.P. Corri & Co. [without PN], 1805. Folio. Dark ivory paper-backed tan paper boards, printed title label to spine. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-110 pp. Engraved. Watermarked 1805. Early signature ("Maria Williams Penpont") in black ink to upper margin of title. Minor browning to title and final leaves; binder's holes to blank inner margins, not affecting music or text; minor offsetting. An attractive copy. First Edition. OCLC no. 19728343. The English Fleet was first performed at Covent Garden in London on December 13, 1803, with Braham singing. "Sir Walter Scott described Braham as 'a beast of an actor, though an angel of a singer.' He composed songs and operas, including The English Fleet in 1342 (1803), and also wrote arias for interpolation in the operas of other composers, particularly for his own roles. 'All's Well' from The English Fleet was the most popular duet in the United States during the first half of the 19th century; other favorite songs were 'Tho' love is warm awhile,' 'Is there a heart that never lov'd?,' and 'No more sorrow.' " Charles Hamm and Kimberly Greene in Grove Music Online.

The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union, 1923-1943 by Albrecht Buschke (1904-1986) etal (editors)

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Title: The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union, 1923-1943
Author: Albrecht Buschke (1904-1986) etal (editors)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [9]+71 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt stripe to front cover in original lain shipping wrapper. Edited by Albrecht Buschke, Richard Cheney and Alain White. Introduction by Alain White. Title page decoration by Vera Bock. Limited to 300 copies. Title page decoration by Vera Back. Errata tipped in. (Betts: 36-7). First edition.A Collection of 120 problems by Russian composers, with notes on the themes, constructions and composers. The problems are arranged in four groups and further sub-divided by theme. Includes an index of composers, sources and keys. The Overbrook Press was founded in 1934 in Stamford, Connecticut, by Frank Altschul, an investment banker and civic leader with a lifelong interest in book arts and printing. Altschul initially pursued printing as a hobby, experimenting with a small press in his New York apartment. In 1934, he was approached by designer Margaret B. Evans, who had been working for Ashlar Press. Ashlar was closing, and Evans hoped Altschul would continue its work. Altschul set up the press in converted outbuildings on his Stamford farm and hired Evans as designer and compositor and John MacNamara as pressman. The Overbrook Press went on to print an eclectic variety of books and pamphlets, as well as ephemera such as awards and certificates. Evens placed great emphasis on technical expertise and craftsmanship, and even smaller pieces - political pamphlets such as Towards a More Creative Policy and short books on chess problems - were handled with surprising care. There were eight books published by Overbrook in the series. A Century of Two-Movers, An Artist in Chess Problems, A Chess Silhouette. One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs, A Sketchbook of American Chess Problematists, The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union 1923-1943, Variation Play. A Study in the Mechanisms and Relationships of Black Moves in the Two-Move Chess Problems, The Art of The Two-Move Chess Problem, To Alain White. A Tribute from his friends on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday March the third, 1945. All with very small runs.Condition:A near fine copy with scarce lain shipping wrapper.

"Science Fiction: Before Christ and after 2001" (in the 1975 Filmex catalogue) by Bradbury, Ray

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Title: "Science Fiction: Before Christ and after 2001" (in the 1975 Filmex catalogue)
Author: Bradbury, Ray
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Description: Los Angeles: Los Angeles International Film Exposition. Near Fine. 1975. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice clean copy, faint external handling wear only]. (B&W photographs, ads, graphics) An original essay by Bradbury, contained in the official catalogue/program book for the fourth (1975) iteration of the once-beloved and still-lamented Filmex (the Los Angeles International Film Exposition), which was a major presence on the L.A. film-cultural scene from 1981 until its demise in 1985. This was also the festival's first year in its best venue, the Plitt Century Plaza Theatres, a two-screen facility which made possible one of its most anticipated and treasured events, the 50-Hour Movie Marathon. This year's inaugural Marathon was devoted to science fiction films: 25 full-length features were screened, along with excerpts from twenty more, plus several dozen trailers and all 13 chapters of the original 1936 FLASH GORDON serial. Bradbury was credited as "Special Advisor" to the Marathon, and contributed the original four-page essay that appears on pages 50-53 of this catalogue. (To those in the know, it's notable that two of the guiding intelligences behind the program -- credited with "assistance" -- were then-future-director Joe Dante and then-future-producer Jon Davison, who had more or less pioneered the cobbled-together "movie marathon" concept with their now-famous THE MOVIE ORGY, which took college campuses by storm in the late 1960s and early 1970s.) In his essay, Bradbury provides a very personal look at the history of science fiction as a genre (including some commentary on his own early writings), and its relationship to (especially) American society and history during its formative years. He writes: "Science fiction is insidious. It is secretly subversive of all that you have believed in the past. It is revolutionary in that it may well make you want to go out and invent better empathy-machines, which repeat truths and amiably shape dreams, such as those strange robots, the motion-picture projector or the record player." As far as I know, this essay has not been reprinted in any Bradbury collection. .

Brcitha D'Mlecheth Hamishkon by Ayin, Meir

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Title: Brcitha D'Mlecheth Hamishkon
Author: Ayin, Meir
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Description: Vienna: NP, n/d. Hardcover. g. Small quarto. 98pp. Original gold stamped black cloth. Exlibris Rabbi Philip Kleinmann. Fascinating work discussing the conversation between G-d and Moses regarding the service in the sanctuary. Slightly bumped at head and tail. Very slight bumping to edges. Agetoning throughout, otherwise good+.

KYDD by Stockwin, Julian

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Title: KYDD
Author: Stockwin, Julian
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ISBN: 9780340794739
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Stockwin on the title page. Small smudge on front free endpage from pencilled price erasure; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.First volume in Stockwin's Thomas Paine Kydd naval series and his first novel. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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