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Essays Ancient and Modern

Essays Ancient and Modern by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
Essays Ancient and Modern
Author
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936 First American edition, first printing, with first edition statement to copyright page. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Eliot to his close friend, English priest Vigo Auguste Demant: "To V. A. Demant / with the author's / homage / T. S. Eliot / 10. i. 38. [underlined]." Publisher's blue cloth, with spine lettered in gilt; in its original gray dust jacket, with front panel and spine lettered in red. Near fine book, with some toning to spine, bright gilt, spine ends lightly rubbed, a few light marks to spine, and some offsetting to endpapers; very good unclipped dust jacket, with heavy toning to spine, shallow chipping to spine ends (publisher's name at foot of spine partially affected), a small hole to rear panel, a chip to bottom edge of rear panel, a touch of blue soiling to top of rear panel, and slightly nicked corners. Overall, a wonderful association between two important and influential 20th century intellectuals. Gallup A31b. Essays Ancient and Modern features the following Eliot essays: "Lancelot Andrewes," "John Bramhall," "Francis Herbert Bradley," "Baudelaire in Our Time," "The Humanism of Irving Babbitt," "Religion and Literature," "Catholicism and International Order," "The 'Pensées' of Pascal," "Modern Education and the Classics," and "In Memoriam." In the Preface, Eliot explains how the book was released as a new edition of the essay collection For Lancelot Andrewes, with changes being the omission of three essays (on Middleton, Crashaw, and Machiavelli) and the addition of five that were previously uncollected. Eliot writes, "I offer this book, as the title implies, only as a miscellaneous collection, having no greater unity than that of having been written by the same person." Vigo Auguste Demant (1893- 1983) was a British Anglican priest who is noted in the ODNB as "the major theoretician in the Christendom Group of Anglican Catholic thinkers, whose concern was to establish the centrality of what they termed 'Christian Sociology,' an analysis of society fundamentally rooted in a Catholic and incarnational theology." T. S. Eliot and Demant were friends and fellow members of the Moot, a Christian intellectual group that sought to clarify and revitalize religion in modern society. On August 8, 1940, T. S. Eliot wrote an unsolicited recommendation of Demant for a canonry at Westminster, which included the lines: "My friend the Reverend V. A. Demant, whom I have been associated with intellectually for some years… is, in my opinion, one of the most brilliant or perhaps the most brilliant, of the younger theologians in England, and I also consider him thoroughly sound both in theology and politics." In the Preface to Essays Ancient and Modern, Eliot notes that the essay "Religion and Literature" was "originally given as one in a series of addresses arranged in 1934 by the Rev. V. A. Demant…". Demant spoke at Eliot's funeral Mass at St. Stephen's Church on February 17, 1965. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) is recognized as perhaps the greatest of all the modernist poets, whose groundbreaking works "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land (1922), and Four Quartets (1936 - 1942) had a seismic impact on the literary landscape. The absence of religious belief in modern society is a recurring theme in his work. Eliot was also extremely influential as a literary critic and changed the lens through which poetry was viewed and understood, with essays including "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919). In 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.. Inscribed by Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
Wendingen: Special Number of the English Edition: Volume IV, No, 11 with color lithograph covers by El Lissitsky; Introduction by H.P. Berlage

Wendingen: Special Number of the English Edition: Volume IV, No, 11 with color lithograph covers by El Lissitsky; Introduction by H.P. Berlage by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Title
Wendingen: Special Number of the English Edition: Volume IV, No, 11 with color lithograph covers by El Lissitsky; Introduction by H.P. Berlage
Author
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. illustrated boards. Good
Description
Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Good. El Lissitsky. 38 pages. 33 x 33 cm. A notable review of the early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. As Berlage notes the Wright "after Sullivan, his master, has entirely freed himself from European architecture." Bound as a blockbook, LE COULTRE 4-11d; LISSITSKY-KUPPERS 70; PURVIS 3-6. RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE BOOK P.196. String tied covers, one margin repaired, covers stains, and a few narrow margin staining.
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WAR IS KIND by Crane, Stephen

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WAR IS KIND
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Crane, Stephen
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Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (United States)
Description
1899. Bradley, Will. (Bradley, Will)illus. WAR IS KIND by Stephen Crane. (Artists of the Book in Boston 1890-1910, #54). Frederick Stokes, NY 1899 (1st Ed). Paper covered boards, 96pp., cover, title page, six full page illustrations and numerous vignettes by Bradley, who also printed the book. Although criticised as "weird" at the time of its publication, War Is Kind is now recognized as a Bradley masterpiece, and one of the most beautiful books of the Art Nouveau movement in America. Very Good, with a Reference Library stamp on the front pastedown, and its blidstamp on a few of the pages; the spine showing light wear, including a small chip at its top. With a pencilled inventory number from Heritage Book Shop, LA, on the rear free endpaper.
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
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CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Chaubin, Frederic

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Title
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
Author
Chaubin, Frederic
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9783836525190
Condition
VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on the front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on the back end page. Stamp on the top t
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Koln: Taschen, 2011. Hardcover. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on the front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on the back end page. Stamp on the top text block.. Color-illustrated boards with the title in white lettering down a red spine. The free and pasted end pages are illustrated with a red design. Pages: (6), 7-312. Profusely illustrated with color images. Contents are as follows: Foreword / Paul Smith -- Introduction : Cosmic communist constructions photographed / Frédéric Chaubin -- Entertainment and culture: variations on a monumental lyricism : Concert palace, Dushanbe ; River restaurant, Dnepropetrovsk ; Dostoevsky Theater, Veliky Novgorod ; Lenin Palace, Almaty ; Drama theater, Grodno ; Puppet theater, Moscow ; Panorama cinema, Tashkent ; Linnahall; Song festival stage, Tallinn ; Music stage, Dnepropetrovsk, Lenin Memorial, Kazan ; Lenin Memorial; Art museum, Tashkent ; Concert palace, Kazan ; Archaeological museum, Tbilisi ; Rossiya two hall cinema, Yerevan -- Science and technology: power and the dramatization of the future : Academy of Science, Moscow ; Solntse solar furnace, Parkent ; October bazaar, Tashkent ; Armenia reflecting telescope, Byurakan ; TV tower, Riga ; TV tower, Tashkent ; Ministry of highways, Tbilisi ; Cybernetics study center, Saint Petersburg ; Danilovsky Market, Moscow ; Institute of scientific research, Kiev ; Polytechnic Institute; Exhibition center, Minsk ; Air terminal, Zvartnots ; Air terminal, Minsk ; Kek state farm, Rapla ; Leningrad sea terminal, Saint Petersburg ; Administrative building, Chisinau ; Dwelling, Dushanbe ; Dwelling, Dombai ; Dwelling, Dnepropetrovsk ; Air terminal, Riga ; Corn tower, Chisinau -- Sports and youth: the architects cosmic dream : Olympic regatta center, Pirita ; Yacht club; Jubileiny palace of sports, Saint Petersburg ; Swimming pool, Sventoji ; Druzhba sporting hall; Cycling race track, Moscow ; Pioneers' palace, Dnepropetrovsk ; Pioneers' palace, Almaty ; Pioneers' palace, Moscow ; Prototype state farm, Juknaiciai ; Cross-country skiing resort / Otepaa ; Circus, Bishkek ; Prometheus youth camp, Bogatiria ; Bobsleigh stand, Sigulda ; Circus, Kazan ; Circus, Dnepropetrovsk ; Circus, Dushanbe ; Circus, Moscow ; Circus, Tashkent ; Public garden, Dushanbe ; Circus Chisinau. Health and resorts: from seaside phalansteries to hidden villas : Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta ; Uzbekistan Hotel, Tashkent ; Rest house, Sevan ; Arasan public bath; Kazakhstan Hotel; Sanatorium, Almaty ; Hydrotherapic sanatorium, Druskininkai ; Children's health resort basin, Alder ; Andropov Villa, Valgeranna ; Academy of science cottage, Palanga ; Lipki summer camp, Tula ; Neringa rest house; Zilvinas rest house, Palanga ; Rest house, Gudauri ; Saliyut, Kiev ; Druzhba Hotel, Viborg ; Rigas Hotel, Jurmala ; Villa Auska, Palanga ; Auksines Kopos rest house, Sventoji -- Rites and symbols: theatricality as a vector of emotion : Palace of weddings, Almaty ; Palace of weddings, Bishkek ; Palace of weddings, Kiev ; Church, Klaipeda ; Palace of weddings, Tbilisi ; Palace of weddings, Vilnius ; Park of memory, Kiev ; Batman cornice, Tbilisi ; Ceramic, Tashkent ; Genocide memorial, Yerevan ; Funerarium, Kaunas ; Funerarium, Nida ; Panoramic view-point, Krestovsky ; IX Fort memorial, Kaunas ; House of Soviets, Jaroslavl ; House of Soviets, Kaliningrad ; Fraternity arch, Kiev ; Revival monument, Aparan ; Russian Embassy, Habana ; Grand stand, Tbilisi.
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Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum: Electrotechnic Gallery by Zaheer, S. Husain

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Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum: Electrotechnic Gallery
Author
Zaheer, S. Husain
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG- (Minor wear to extremities)
Description
Bangalore, India: Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, 1970. Softcover. VG- (Minor wear to extremities). Color illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 20 pp.; 14 bw figures. An overview of the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum in Bangalore, India.
MOUSE WORKS

MOUSE WORKS by BROWN, Rebecca

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MOUSE WORKS
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BROWN, Rebecca
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
(New York): (Siamese Banana Press), 1971. First Edition. Very good.. First edition of this slim collection of mouse- and rat-themed poems by Brown from Johnny Stanton's Siamese Banana Press, cover and illustrations by Martha Diamond. 4to. Side-stapled self wraps. Light touches of staple rust to wraps. Interior bright and clean. Good and sound. Unpaginated. [Clay and Phillips 220].
Little Women (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Little Women (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Alcott, Louisa May; Showalter, Elaine; Kilfeather, Siobhan; Showalter, Vinca

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Little Women (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Author
Alcott, Louisa May; Showalter, Elaine; Kilfeather, Siobhan; Showalter, Vinca
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780147514011
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2009 Hard Cover. xxx, [6], 504 pp. Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story, its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope, of the joys of companionship, domestic harmony and infinite mother love, all seen through the life of the March family. But which of the four March sisters to love best' For every reader must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg, or precocious and beautiful Amy, the baby of the family' Little Women was an instant success when first published in 1868, and followed only a year later by the sequel, Little Wives.
Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review. 4 issues from 1992: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter

Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review. 4 issues from 1992: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by Adler, Betty [founding editor]; Charles A. Fecher

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Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review. 4 issues from 1992: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
Author
Adler, Betty [founding editor]; Charles A. Fecher
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1992, numbers 121 - 124. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.
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Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island. by Betz, Myrtle Scharrer.

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Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island.
Author
Betz, Myrtle Scharrer.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Tampa: University of Tampa Press, (2007). New and enlarged edition. This copy is inscribed and signed by Terry Fortner, who has added a Timeline, photos, and additional information to the earlier edition. Octavo, softbound, xv, 191 pp. Photos, maps. Fine.
Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide: 1966-1967, Anniversary Edition

Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide: 1966-1967, Anniversary Edition

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Title
Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide: 1966-1967, Anniversary Edition
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
(Dallas, Texas): A. H. Belo Corporation, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. 110th Anniversary edition. 736pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Color fold-out map. Illustrated wrappers. A few dog-eared page corners, tear on inner edge of map which is otherwise near fine, covers lightly worn, small sticker on bottom of spine, very good in illustrated wrappers.

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