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Charles Dickens, on Behalf of One of His Charitable Committees, Asks a Potential Participant for a Financial Contribution

Charles Dickens, on Behalf of One of His Charitable Committees, Asks a Potential Participant for a Financial Contribution by Charles Dickens

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Title
Charles Dickens, on Behalf of One of His Charitable Committees, Asks a Potential Participant for a Financial Contribution
Author
Charles Dickens
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The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
28/07/1843. Dickens actively used his celebrity and cash to aid charitable institutions. In 1843, Charles Dickens was involved in charitable and professional committees, most notably forming a committee to raise funds for orphaned children. Late in the year, he worked on “A Christmas Carol”, which was published in December 1843.Autograph letter signed, from his home at 1 Devonshire Terrace, July 28, 1843, to J.F. Rogers, thanking him for his interest in one of the organizations with which Dickens was working.. The recipient was possibly related to Samuel Rogers, the banker-poet who Charles Dickens held in high regard, dedicating his 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop to him as a ""faithful friend"".“I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and in the name of the committee to thank you for it. We cannot suggest any mode by which you can advance any object we have in view. But should any means of doing so occur to you, I need hardly add that we shall be happy to add the smallest contribution to the common stock.” Clearly, Rogers’ offer to help was not in the form of a financial contribution, but that is what Dickens requests.A fine letter relating to his charitable work, written the year he published “A Christmas Carol.”
Yale Class Book 1863 [cover and spine title]

Yale Class Book 1863 [cover and spine title] by (YALE)

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Title
Yale Class Book 1863 [cover and spine title]
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(YALE)
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Contemporary brown morocco-grained sheep, covers stamped in gilt with "Yale" and school motto, tail of spine with owner's name,
Description
[New Haven, CT], 1863. 36 engraved student portraits by A.H. Ritchie with facsimile signatures and 20 albumen print cartes-de-visite window-mounted 4-to-a-page. 4to. Contemporary brown morocco-grained sheep, covers stamped in gilt with "Yale" and school motto, tail of spine with owner's name, "F.F. Harrat," in gilt. Covers worn, foxing to plates. 36 engraved student portraits by A.H. Ritchie with facsimile signatures and 20 albumen print cartes-de-visite window-mounted 4-to-a-page. 4to.
The Black Swan

The Black Swan by Mann, Thomas; Hejduk, John (Lithographs); Shapiro, David (Afterword)

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Title
The Black Swan
Author
Mann, Thomas; Hejduk, John (Lithographs); Shapiro, David (Afterword)
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Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.), 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk, John. No. 122 of 375 copies, quarto size, 193 pp., signed by John Hejduk, with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles, most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice". He wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954, and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative, "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club, with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk (1929-2000), who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro (b. 1947), a prolific poet and literary critic, whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose, he writes "A master of X-ray, [Mann] leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love." ___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather, title in black on the front board, black endpapers, lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans, mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper, quarto size (12" by 9.25"), pagination: [i-vi] 1-183 [184-186] [1 colophon], one of 375 copies, this number 122, signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter, a thirteen-page softcover booklet, with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; spine is very slightly sunned, else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine, clean overall with a few stray marks, the text block is sturdy, without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine, strong and sturdy, clean, with some minor fraying to the cloth, otherwise free of wear. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy book, and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
CONVERSATIONS OF LORD BYRON: NOTED DURING A RESIDENCE WITH HIS LORDSHIP AT PISA, IN THE YEAR 1821 AND 1822

CONVERSATIONS OF LORD BYRON: NOTED DURING A RESIDENCE WITH HIS LORDSHIP AT PISA, IN THE YEAR 1821 AND 1822 by (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD). MEDWIN, THOMAS

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Title
CONVERSATIONS OF LORD BYRON: NOTED DURING A RESIDENCE WITH HIS LORDSHIP AT PISA, IN THE YEAR 1821 AND 1822
Author
(BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD). MEDWIN, THOMAS
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1824. A New Edition. 235 x 145 mm. (9 1/8 x 5 3/4"). xxiii, [1] 351, [1], ciii, [9] pp. Original brown paper boards, printed label on spine, edges untrimmed. With folding facsimile letter frontispiece. Pastedown with bookplate of Thomas Fothergill Esq. of Kingthorp; front free endpaper with gift inscription to Fothergill from Conyers Hudson dated 1824; occasional marginal pencil markings. Randolph, p. 109. Upper joint with short split at head, tail of spine with tiny tear, light stain on front cover, corners rubbed, light offsetting to title and frontispiece, other trivial defects, but AN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE COPY, with only the most negligible imperfections.In its extremely well-preserved publisher's binding, this edition of the popular though controversial memoir of the author's friendship with Byron contains the first full publication of one of Byron's poems. Thomas Medwin (1788-1869) was a cousin and friend of Percy Shelley, who introduced him to Lord Byron, and in 1820, after Medwin had completed a tour of duty in India with the 25th light dragoons, he accepted an invitation by Shelley to visit him and Byron in Italy. The three spent much of 1821-22 at Pisa writing and conversing. Medwin recorded their discussions in his journal, and in 1824, after Shelley's and Byron's deaths, he published his record of those conversations--despite the objections of Mary Shelley and others (particularly Byron's mistress Lady Caroline Lamb) on the grounds that the information included was too personal. Their publication met with immediate success. Ours, the "new edition," was the third edition, published a few months after the first. Francis Lewis Randolph tells us that this third edition includes the first full publication of Byron's poem "The Irish Avatar." Byron, a supporter of Irish independence, composed these verses in September of 1821 critiquing the warm reception the Irish people and politicians had given King George IV on a state visit to Ireland. He was inspired by his friend Thomas Moore's "Lines on the Entry of the Austrians into Naples, 1821," which angrily condemned the Neapolitans for the failure of the Neapolitan Revolution. The present copy is from the library of Thomas Fothergill of Kingthorpe in the North Riding of Yorkshire. John Conyers Hudson, who gave him this book, had married a relation, possibly Fothergill's sister, in 1817; this relationship is supported by the fact that his papers, held at the Hull History Centre archives, include a series of letters from Fothergill to Conyers Hudson and his wife, detailing his travels and his will. While we have been unable to locate much information about Fothergill, he was evidently an excellent caretaker of his books: this copy in its original boards has come down to us in exceptionally fine condition.
The Bridge ... influenced by the past .... and a bridge to the future. Nos. 1-33 [complete]

The Bridge ... influenced by the past .... and a bridge to the future. Nos. 1-33 [complete] by Wyvill, Mike, & John Wraith

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The Bridge ... influenced by the past .... and a bridge to the future. Nos. 1-33 [complete]
Author
Wyvill, Mike, & John Wraith
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, U.K.: Mike Wyvill and John Wraith, 2009. 33 issues in all, 8" x 5¾", each issue generally over 100 pages, illustrated throughout, much in color; original color pictorial wrappers; generally fine. The Bridge took over in summer 1998 after The Telegraph stopped its publication in winter 1997 and is still alive after all these years. The most recent issue as of this cataloguing is no. 72, Summer, 2022. The editors are Mike Wyvill and John Wraith.
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A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876 by Toole Stott, Raymond

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Title
A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876
Author
Toole Stott, Raymond
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Derby, England: Harper & Sons of Derby Limited, [1976] First edition. One of 1,030 copies, signed by the compiler. Blue cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Plates. Fine in fine d.j.
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Obshchekazachii Zhurnal. Organ Nezavisimoi Kazach'ei Mysli (Vol. 6, No. 12 and Vol. 7, No. 14) [The All Cossacks Journal] by [Edited by] Elatontsev (Elff), S. G.

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Obshchekazachii Zhurnal. Organ Nezavisimoi Kazach'ei Mysli (Vol. 6, No. 12 and Vol. 7, No. 14) [The All Cossacks Journal]
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[Edited by] Elatontsev (Elff), S. G.
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Farmingdale, NJ: The World Cossacks Association, Inc., 1951. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 68, [12] and pp. 108 respectively; illustrated blue and yellow wraps; a few rubbed spots to spine; minor nicks to corners; penciled-in notes on some pages of No. 12; a few smudged fingerprints to edges, else text clean; illustrated with political cartoons and drawings; very good. In Russian with preface in English. The World Cossack Association was established in late 1946 in New Jersey by Cossacks who had fled Russia after Czar Nicholas II’s abdication in 1917. By the early 1950s the community in Lakewood had considerably grown and was actively assisting displaced persons entering the United States from DP camps in Austria and Germany and purchasing hundreds of acres of remote forest land in order to resettle the wave of compatriots. The community was formally recognized in 1953 and named New Kuban after the Kuban region in the North Caucasus, where many of the families had lived. The first issue of 'The All Cossacks Journal' was published in 1946 and ran until 1954. It contained news from the motherland, original poems and short stories, political and cultural discussions and articles, and cartoons mocking the Russian Government, the Iron Curtain, etc.
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Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children by Parley, Peter (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold)

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Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children
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Parley, Peter (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold)
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Huntington and Savage, 1843. Good. Early edition; 5 1/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [6], 9-120; pictorial card stock wraps and 1/4 calf, decorated and ruled in black; illustrated with 9 maps and 75 woodcuts; age-toning and wear along margins; occasional spotting; corners of leaves curling; small manuscript note to ffep; in good condition. Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 - 1860), writing under the pseudonym Peter Parley, would write a series of educational works for children in order "to provide an alternative to the British biases of 19th-century schoolroom texts and the questionable morals of nursery rhymes."
1938 Press Photo of San Quentin’s Gas Chamber Following the First Two Executions Using It

1938 Press Photo of San Quentin’s Gas Chamber Following the First Two Executions Using It by [Northern California – Prison History – Capital Punishment] International News Photos

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1938 Press Photo of San Quentin’s Gas Chamber Following the First Two Executions Using It
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[Northern California – Prison History – Capital Punishment] International News Photos
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Folded at middle, marginal wrinkling and small tears; fine contrast, very good to excellent.
Description
San Quentin, California, 1938. Single 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch photograph, caption affixed verso and marked verso “CALIF - STATE - PRISON SAN QUENTIN, CALIF”. Folded at middle, marginal wrinkling and small tears; fine contrast, very good to excellent.. A press photograph looking into the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison, taken following the execution of Albert Kessel (1909–1938) and Robert Lee Cannon (1908–1938). The pair were the first to be executed at San Quentin using that method; they were two of five men executed for their role in an attempted escape from Folsom Prison that caused the death of warden Clarence Larkin and a guard. The photo’s caption reads in part: “Into these two black chairs, Albert Kessel and Robert Lee Cannon were strapped today in the state’s first execution with use of lethal gas. A few seconds later the door was shut and made airtight; witnesses lined around the window and then the deadly cyanide eggs released.” In 1994, the use of cyanide gas was ruled cruel and unusual and banned in California, to be replaced by lethal injection; in 2006, a court order halted capital punishment in the state altogether, though it is still legal.
[SPECIAL PRESS] DEMON LETTING. A SELECTION FROM A NOVEL BY GAYLE REYRER WITH AN ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH BY CATHIE RUGGIE

[SPECIAL PRESS] DEMON LETTING. A SELECTION FROM A NOVEL BY GAYLE REYRER WITH AN ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH BY CATHIE RUGGIE by Gayle Reyrer | Illustrated by Cathie Ruggie

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[SPECIAL PRESS] DEMON LETTING. A SELECTION FROM A NOVEL BY GAYLE REYRER WITH AN ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH BY CATHIE RUGGIE
Author
Gayle Reyrer | Illustrated by Cathie Ruggie
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine binding
Description
[Poynette, Wisconsin]: Bieler Press, 1976. Fine binding. Number 79 of 100 press-numbered copies in handmade blue and pink wrappers. Signed by the author; with a brightly colored serigraph signed by the artist Cathie Ruggie. “Demon Letting & Night Blooming were taken from Cayle Feyrer’s novel A Room in the Twelfth House”. Chapbook edition. Fine binding.
SUBSTANCE FORM & COLOR THROUGH CONCRETE

SUBSTANCE FORM & COLOR THROUGH CONCRETE

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SUBSTANCE FORM & COLOR THROUGH CONCRETE
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York: The Atlas Portland Cement Co, 1924. green paperboards with gold embossing, dust jacket. large 4to. green paperboards with gold embossing, dust jacket. 22 pages, plates. Text on a rag type paper with uncut edges. Features lovely illustrations in color. Dust jacket with small tears, else a very good copy.
Ambassador From Venice. Pietro Pasqualigo in Lisbon, 1501

Ambassador From Venice. Pietro Pasqualigo in Lisbon, 1501 by Weinstein, Donald. Pasqualigo, Pietro

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Ambassador From Venice. Pietro Pasqualigo in Lisbon, 1501
Author
Weinstein, Donald. Pasqualigo, Pietro
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A near fine copy with some slight bumping to the spine ends in a clear plastic dust jacket.
Description
Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press, 1960. First edition. Embossed paper covered boards. A near fine copy with some slight bumping to the spine ends in a clear plastic dust jacket.. 112 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Number 18 of 750 copies. Contains a facsimile of Pasqualigo's oration (Latin) in which he attempted to gain support from the Portuguese to help the Venetians in their struggles against the Turks. He did not succeed. A well researched and well written account of this important document with background, translation, notes, bibliography, index. An example of the best in scholarship.
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Wildfowling by ANDREWS, James et al.

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Wildfowling
Author
ANDREWS, James et al.
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1950. hardcover. near fine. With contributions by James Andrews, M.C., M.B., T. Clifford Bland, Robert Blockey, Robin Farmiloe, Robin Harrison, John Inge, Christopher Lee-Elliott, Alastair McArthur, Douglas Service, and Michael Shephard. 63 illustrations. 352pp. 8vo, two-toned cloth. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, (1950). Bumped corner, but still a near fine copy. Volume 29 of The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastime. Founded by The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L..
Crooks and Coronets [Sophie's Place] (Two original photographs of Warren Oates from the 1969 film)

Crooks and Coronets [Sophie's Place] (Two original photographs of Warren Oates from the 1969 film) by Warren Oates, Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Cesar Romero (starring); Jim O'Connolly (director, screenwriter)

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Crooks and Coronets [Sophie's Place] (Two original photographs of Warren Oates from the 1969 film)
Author
Warren Oates, Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Cesar Romero (starring); Jim O'Connolly (director, screenwriter)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
London: Warner-Pathe, 1969. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs of Warren Oates from the 1969 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso of 1 still. Both stills feature the great Warren Oates. A comedy about two crooks hired to rob an old lady, but she proves to be too charming, and the robbers can't muster the guts to steal from her. 8 x 10 inches, and 7.25 x 9.25 inches (no borders, as issued). Smaller still with a tiny closed tear, else Near Fine.
Rembrandt's Journey; Painter, Deaftsman, Etcher
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Rembrandt's Journey; Painter, Deaftsman, Etcher by Ackley, Clifford S.

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Rembrandt's Journey; Painter, Deaftsman, Etcher
Author
Ackley, Clifford S.
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780878466771
Condition
Fine
Description
Boston: MFA, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt, Profusely illustrated throughout.
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An Inaugural Dissertation on the Sanguinaria Canadensis of Linnaeus by Bird, Fitzgerald

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An Inaugural Dissertation on the Sanguinaria Canadensis of Linnaeus
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Bird, Fitzgerald
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Very Good+
Description
New York: H. Sage, 1822. Paperback. Very Good+. Fragment neatly excised from a larger volume, with portion of the original backstrip remaining. 74 pages. Foxed.
Buddy at Rainbow Lake, or A Boy and His Boat; Dust jacket title: Buddy at Rainbow Lake. The Buddy Series

Buddy at Rainbow Lake, or A Boy and His Boat; Dust jacket title: Buddy at Rainbow Lake. The Buddy Series by GARIS, Howard R.

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Buddy at Rainbow Lake, or A Boy and His Boat; Dust jacket title: Buddy at Rainbow Lake. The Buddy Series
Author
GARIS, Howard R.
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1930. Later printing. Boards. Near fine/Good. [Russell TANDY, dust jacket illustrator]. [JUVENILE] [JUVENILE SERIES BOOK]. Later printing. Number 4 in The Buddy Series. 12mo; 210pp; black-stamped red pebbled boards, vignette pictorial to front; patterned endpapers with a printed bookplate (not used); b&w frontispiece; paper age-toned; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, front flap lists books through number 20. Buddy and the G-Man Mystery; two large old tears to rear panel with old tape, chipping to head of spine, light soiling; near fine in good dj. Jones 47. Not to be confused with the Buddy Books for Boys published by Grosset & Dunlap, The Buddy Series was a 1930s series of 21 books for young boy readers, from 6-10 years of age. The front flap states, "You will more than like BUDDY with his carefree ways, his cheerful smile, his boundless enthusiasm and his overflowing youth. BUDDY is certain to linger in your memory long after you have finished these stories.".
"Theoretical interpretation of upper atmosphere emissions."

"Theoretical interpretation of upper atmosphere emissions." by BATES, D. R., editor.

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"Theoretical interpretation of upper atmosphere emissions."
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BATES, D. R., editor.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Offprint from: Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 10, 1963. New York, etc.:: Pergamon Press, 1963. At head of title: International Astronomical Union, Symposium No. 18, held in Paris, 25th-29th June 1962, jointly with the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics., 1963. 248 x 187 mm. 8vo. [iv], 264 pp. Figs., tables, plates, indexes. Printed wrappers. Very good.
The Passion According to St. John: Vocal Score

The Passion According to St. John: Vocal Score by Bach, J.S. [Johann Sebastian]; Mendel, Arthur

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The Passion According to St. John: Vocal Score
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Bach, J.S. [Johann Sebastian]; Mendel, Arthur
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Very Good
Description
New York: G. Schirmer, 1967. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wrappers, top edge, and a few pages lightly foxed. 1967 Soft Cover. xlv, 241 pp. Edited and with an introduction by Arthur Mendel. "The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the older of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during Bach's first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on April 7, 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church. The structure of the work falls in two halves, intended to flank a sermon. The anonymous libretto draws on existing works (notably Brockes') and is compiled from recitatives and choruses narrating the Passion of Christ as told in the Gospel of John, ariosos and arias reflecting on the action, and chorales using hymn tunes and texts familiar to a congregation of Bach's contemporaries. Compared with the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion has been described as more extravagant, with an expressive immediacy, at times more unbridled and less "finished". The work is most often heard today in the 1739 - 1749 version (never performed during Bach's lifetime). Bach first performed it in 1724 and revised it in 1725, 1732, and 1749, adding several numbers. "O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde groß", a 1725 replacement for the opening chorus, found a new home in the 1736 St Matthew Passion but several arias from the revisions are found only in the appendices to modern editions.

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