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Blues. A Magazine of New Rhythms. Vol. I, no. 1., February 1929

Blues. A Magazine of New Rhythms. Vol. I, no. 1., February 1929 by Ford, Charles Henri, ed

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Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Title
Blues. A Magazine of New Rhythms. Vol. I, no. 1., February 1929
Author
Ford, Charles Henri, ed
Seller
Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Columbus, MS, 1929. First edition. 28 pp. Stapled wrappers. Light wear to the spine and extremities, near fine. Partially unopened. The first issue of Ford's legendary little magazine, published while Ford was working in the café at the Gilmer Hotel in Columbus, Mississippi, which his father was managing. Charles had dropped out of high school and had had a poem published in The New Yorker, and was eager to lead a literary life. Although the magazine lasted only nine issues over two years, the twenty-one year old Ford was the first to publish Paul Bowles, Edouard Roditi, Harold Rosenberg, Kenneth Rexroth, and James T. Farrell. Ford and co-editor Parker Tyler later said, "No doubt, some perfectly worthless stuff got in: it was not, at first, our intention to publish blueribbon literature. The general tendency in taste was certainly toward the significant in legitimate new literary modes. But the important thing to be considered is the fate which must befall any attempt at cultural renovation (we prefer the word to revolution), for each attempt has the partially secret but wholly venomous antipathy of the lords of cultural destiny." Ford subsequently moved to Paris and was a key figure bridging European surrealism and American modernism. Although his later journal View has overshadowed Blues, Gertrude Stein wrote of it, "Of all the little magazines which as Gertrude Stein loves to quote, have died to make verse free, perhaps the youngest and freshest was the Blues. Its editor Charles Henri Ford has come to Paris and he is young and fresh as his Blues and also honest which also is a pleasure. Gertrude Stein thinks that he and Robert Coates alone among the young men have an individual sense of words." Reference: Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, p.296. Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, "What Happens to a Radical Literary Magazine." The Sewanee Review (January 1931), p.64.
Early-20th Century Photo Album of India, Egypt, Japan & China

Early-20th Century Photo Album of India, Egypt, Japan & China by [photo album]

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Early-20th Century Photo Album of India, Egypt, Japan & China
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[photo album]
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
1920s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Grey cloth over flexible boards; oblong (14x10.75 inches); contains more than 210 views by an accomplished amateur photographer, many of them hand-colored; silver prints (ranging in size from 3.5x3.5 to 3x5.25 inches), mounted 5 or 6 to the recto and verso of every page. Comprised of approximately 140 snapshots of India (native people, architectural details, religious statuary, street scenes, funerary pyres, studio portraits); 11 prints of Japan (landscapes and landmarks); 18 of Egypt (pre-historic sites and monuments); 35 of China (waterfront and street views). The images of Egypt and China are not hand-colored. Cloth a bit worn, with chipping along edges of boards; a few images silvered, but overall nicely preserved. A vibrant album.
World's best Tailors Trimmings.

World's best Tailors Trimmings. by DETMER, BRUNER & MASON, Inc.; Tailor Trimmings

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World's best Tailors Trimmings.
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DETMER, BRUNER & MASON, Inc.; Tailor Trimmings
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Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1925. DETMER, BRUNER & MASON, Inc. World's best Tailors Trimmings. Book No. 100 A. Complete assortment -- superior qualities -- lowest prices. [6], 28 pp., 30-62 leaves, 63-65 pp. containing 299 mounted silk, wool-blend, linen, muslin, felt, jacquard silk, and other fabrics, and advertisements printed in red. Oblong folio, 185 x 350 mm, bound in simulated black leather post binder. New York: Detmer, Bruner & Mason, Inc. ND [ca.1925]. A scarce and complete tailors trimmings catalogue. This catalogue offers an indispensable guide to the tailoring supplies, and linings for men's suits, men's overcoats, shirts, trousers, as well as women's coats and hats during the Jazz Age. Detmer, Burner & Mason include illustrated advertisements and price quotes for braids for military uniforms, World's Best sewing silk thread, Goertz Seam Rippers, Heinisch's tailor's shears and buttonhole cutters, hangers, shoulder pads, silk coat labels, electric irons, custom made coat fronts, velvet collars, suit boxes, and much more. Detmer, Bruner & Mason had been formed from four large suppliers of wool fabrics, tailor's trimmings, and tailoring supplies in 1922, and immediately began issuing the lavish catalogues claiming to be the world's best supply house for the tailoring operations in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other major fashion companies A very nice copy. OCLC locates only 1 copy of later catalogue (No. 108 -- American Textile History Museum Library.

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