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[Idyllia] [and other texts] by Theocritus; Hesiod

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller

Title: [Idyllia] [and other texts]
Author: Theocritus; Hesiod
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tool
Description: [Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1495. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated below); and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G.. Title in Greek and Roman, introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces, ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. [140] leaves. 1 vols. Folio, (315 x 210 mm.). Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge, extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin, in two different hands; gilt edges, gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated below); and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman, introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces, ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. [140] leaves. 1 vols. Folio, (315 x 210 mm.). First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus, of which 12 appear here for the first time, also including the first edition in the original Greek of Hesiod's Theogony and Shield of Hercules and the elegies of Theognis, as well as the second edition of Hesiod's Works and Days, which were first printed in Milan circa 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings [zeta].F and [theta].G, with the text uncorrected. Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand (none such appear in ABPC for the last 35 years, and we are unable to find any institutional copies with coloring), but the copy is notable as well for profuse, neat contemporary marginalia, mostly in Latin, but often in Greek, which fill the book. The marginal annotations are particularly extensive in the first two Idylls, where, typically, underscored words are explained in the margins; occasionally, an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller, but always clear, hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope, with notations on unusual Doric (Theocritus's dialect) forms (e.g., the Doric form for the preposition 'πpòs' being 'πotì', the identification of parts of speech, and grammatical forms, poetic usage, etc.) Especially notable, too, are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil's Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 ("Pharmaceutria"), where a spurned maiden utters incantations to bring her man back home, there now seem to be two distinct hands, and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note reads: "Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria" [whence Vergil got his Pharmaceutria]. A beautiful copy of a rare and important book, with fascinating early annotations. Renouard, page 5(3); New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III, 473-74; HC 15477*; BMC V, 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000

Crichton by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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Title: Crichton
Author: Ainsworth, William Harrison
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: Crichton, Harper & Brothers, 1837, first American edition, 2 volumes, volume one missing a bit of cloth at the upper outer hinge, both volumes with modest staining and lightened spines as well as some likewise modest foxing, else tight near vg copies.

The Negro Protest: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King talk with Kenneth B. Clark [Review Copy] by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CLARK, Kenneth B. (editor); BALDWIN, James, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (contributors)

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Title: The Negro Protest: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King talk with Kenneth B. Clark [Review Copy]
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CLARK, Kenneth B. (editor); BALDWIN, James, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. (contributors)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21cm); blue paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [vi],56,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned with some edgewear and creasing to spine ends; Very Good+. Transcripts of interviews by Clark, an African American psychologist, originally produced for Public Television Station WGBH, Boston, in 1963. With an added Afterword by Henry Morgenthau III. BLOCKSON 3571. 89317.

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen; Introduction by Struthers Burt

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Title: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
Author: Wister, Owen; Introduction by Struthers Burt
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1951. Heritage Press reprint. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED by illustrator. 437pp. Small quarto [25.5 cm] Beige cloth over boards The title on the backstrip is a bit rubbed and the backstrip is moderately darkened. In the publisher's brown paper covered slipcase, with wear to the extremities, including several splits along the edges. The longest split measures 7 inches. A novel whose popularity helped to enshrine the American cowboy as an icon of American popular culture and a folk hero. This handsome Heritage Press edition is illustrated by William Moyers. Moyers was skilled at working with a variety of media from watercolor to bronze, winning gold and silver Cowboy Artists of America medals for painting and sculpting. Characteristically, his work blended the historic with the contemporary West (Cowboy Artists of America). This copy is inscribed by the illustrator, with a sketch, to Ernie Bulow, bookman, publisher, and friend of the American author and environmentalist Edward Abbey, on the half title. After receiving an English degree in the sixties, Bulow worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, resided in Gallup, N.M., and taught English at Fort Wingate on the Navajo Reservation. Subsequently, he received a doctorate from the University of Utah, and he returned to Gallup, where he traded in Indian jewelry and kachinas and opened his bookstore. Edward Abbey and Bulow began their friendship in 1970 at the University of Utah, where Bulow was a graduate student, and Abbey was a visiting professor. It was Bulow that managed to publish Ed's essay "Science with a Human Face" in the University of Utah literary magazine "Wasatch Front." This essay was later included in "The Journey Home." It is also significant to note that Bulow was a featured character in Edward Abbey's novel "The Fool's Progress.

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