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The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan by Rolleston, T. W. (Richard Wagner)

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Title: The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan
Author: Rolleston, T. W. (Richard Wagner)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1913. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Williy Pogany. 4to. Illustrated throughout in both black and white and color by Pogany. This copy bound in the somewhat scarce publisher's brown leather, spine intricately gilt and with the title and illustration on the upper board, as in the more common vellum and morocco bindings. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Light wear to the inner hinges else this is a fine copy with only a trace of sunning to the spine. One of 525 copies signed by Pogany, of which this is number 272. Lohengrin comes to us courtesy of Wolfram von Eschenbach, where is is described as the son of Sir Perceval (Parzifal). When Parzifal becomes the Grail King, Lohengrin becomes the Grail Knight, and his twin inherits Parzifal's secular lands. .

The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems by Alexie, Sherman

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Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Title: The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems
Author: Alexie, Sherman
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. SIGNED. 84pp. Slim octavo [23.5 cm] Dark green cloth with silver lettering on the backstrip and front board. Inscribed by Alexie on the title page" "for____- / We have to believe in the power / of our imagination because it's all / we have as defense against pain / and changes. / Best- / Sherman / 2/12/92." The author's first published poetry and short story collection, containing 40 poems and 5 stories, published when Alexie was merely 23, newly sober, and before he was to go on to become the internationally well-known screenwriter for the 1998 film "Smoke Signals," and in 2002, the screenwriter and director of "The Business of Fancy Dancing," based loosely on this book. The author has won numerous awards for his depictions of contemporary Indian reservation life. His story collection, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first book of fiction, and his young-adult novel, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" (2007) won him a National Book Award for Young People's Literature. An introductory work by Alexie, produced in limited quantity, with a very inspirational inscription, inscribed long before Alexie's reputation had fully blossomed.

Lustige Post. Neu Ein Nachschlagewerk. Neu für angehende Postpensionisten

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Lustige Post. Neu Ein Nachschlagewerk. Neu für angehende Postpensionisten
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Munich, 1948. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on cover. Very Good. The inefficient efficiency of Deutsche Post -- a whimsical and fun take on postal services and innovations! 4to. 24.5 by 21.5 cm. Unpaginated, 29 leaves, each with original illustrations done with pen and ink and watercolors. The manuscript was created as a tribute or gift for a retiring postal official (the Oberpostinspektor) in Munich, whose name was Karl Scherner. The illustrations are absurdist cartoons that don't require an understanding of the text. Along with the title and caption of each illustration, there is usually a small clipping pasted in that represents the actual postal notice or schedule relating to the service. Moderate wear.

Exhibition postcard: Edward Ruscha: Books (opens 16 March 1978) by (RUSCHA, Edward)

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Title: Exhibition postcard: Edward Ruscha: Books (opens 16 March 1978)
Author: (RUSCHA, Edward)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white portrait on recto, details on reverse. Photographic postcard. Munich: Rüdiger Schöttle, 1978. A famous and rare postcard invitation bearing Ruscha’s portrait, published on the occasion of a presentation of his artist’s books at Schöttle’s gallery in Munich. In fine condition. ❧ Michael Lailach, ed., Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek (2005), p. 159. Jeremy Cooper, The World Exists to be Put on a Postcard: Artists’ Postcards from 1960 to Now (2019), p. 112 (pictured).

Ici by Sarraute, Nathalie

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: Ici
Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition, on ordinary paper. Wrappers, 181 pp. 21 X 14 cm. Very fine. Inscribed and signed by author.

ENGLISH TOWN CRAFTS: A SURVEY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY by Wymer, Norman

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Title: ENGLISH TOWN CRAFTS: A SURVEY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Author: Wymer, Norman
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: London, England: B.T. Batsford, 1949. cloth. 8vo. cloth. viii, 128 pages. Preface, table of contents, acknowledgments, select bibliography, index. Color frontispiece, 131 black and plates throughout text.

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