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Dahl Roald; Illustrations by Quentin BlakeABAA

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

1995123982London: Viking 1995. First printing of this edition with illustrations by Quentin Blake of Dahl's classic work. Octavo original illustrated cloth illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. "Charlie earned for its author a cult following among child readers Dahl has been called a literary genius; his books have been considered modern fairy tales" Silvey 186. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is already a great classic work and one of the most enduring post-war children's books Dahl is undeniably special" Connolly 102. It was the basis for the 1971 film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and again the 2005 film starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket alongside David Kelly Helena Bonham Carter Noah Taylor Missi Pyle James Fox Deep Roy and Christopher Lee. Viking hardcover books

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Blake William.ABAA

Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims Painted in Fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved & Published October 8 1810.

1881108279Impression measures 93. London: Colnaghi printing after 5 March 1881. Impression measures 93.9 x 30 cm. printed on laid India paper; recently cleaned. Â§ Final state: it is worth noting that the only difference between the so-called fourth and fifth states is the absence of the scratched dry-point inscriptions clearly visible in a few prints and less and less visible until completely absent by the time Sessler was printing the plate. Instead of â€œstatesâ€ the more accurate definitions might be very early to very late 4th state and in that scheme then this print would be well after the early impressions with some or most of the scratched inscriptions visible but before the Sessler printings of the 1940s none of which were on laid India. â€œâ€˜Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrimsâ€™ was one of Blakeâ€™s major attempts at building a reputation as a painter-engraver and achieving the sort of critical and financial success that had escaped him for so many years.â€¦â€ However Blake wasnâ€™t to meet with the critical success he had hoped for and the competition created when Thomas Stothard executed a plate of the same subject caused him to become bitter. â€œMost contemporary connoisseurs probably found the print old-fashioned and â€˜Gothicâ€™ in the pejorative sense.â€¦ The record of prices brought by the print at auction indicates that it has attracted strong interest from collectors only in the last few yearsâ€ Essick pp. 86-88. â€œIt is only in the last two states of the plate that we find Blakeâ€™s mature artistry as an original printmaker bringing to his largest and most ambitious single print the same techniques distinguishing his Job and Dante engravings.â€ Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI and see William Blake Printmaker. Colnaghi printing unknown books

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BLAKE William 1757 1827ABAA

Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims. Painted in Fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved & Published October 8 1810

194135790London 1941. Engraving printed on Rives wove paper watermarked "France". A rich impression in excellent condition. Fifth state of five. Image size: 11 3/4 x 37 inches. Final state of the largest Blake engraving. "Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage" wrote William Blake 1757-1827 poet and probably the most imaginative and original artist in the history of British art. "We all pass on each sustaining one or other of these characters nor can a child be born who is not one or other of these characters of Chaucer." Working in an archaic style intended to evoke the engravings of Chaucer's time Blake presents us with the cast of Chaucer's Tales as they begin their pilgrimage. Since Blake understood his subject so well and wrote with such elegance we can do no better than to use as a guide his own description of the engraving: "The time chosen is the early morning before sunrise when the jolly company are leaving the Tabarde Inn. The Knight and Squire with the Squire's Yeoman lead the Procession; next follow the youthful Abbess her nun and three priests; her greyhounds attend her. Next follow the Friar and Monk and then the Tapiser the Pardoner and the Sompnour and Manciple. After this 'Our Host' who occupies the centre of the cavalcade and directs them to the Knight as the person who would be likely to commence their task of each telling a tale in their order. After the Host follows the Shipman the Haberdasher the Dyer the Franklin the Physician the Ploughman the Lawyer the Poor Parson the Merchant the Wife of Bath the Miller the Cook the Oxford Scholar Chaucer himself; and the Reev comes as Chaucer has described:- And ever he rode hindermost of the rout." The view is eastward from the Tabard in Southwark across the Bridge from London as Blake conceived it to have been in Chaucer's day. He based his costumes on ancient monuments and other records. "As a literary piece" it has been noted Blake's engraving "has hardly an equal in the whole field of art." The engraving was begun late in 1809 and issued by the artist in October the following year. In his Prospectus for the issue Blake declared that the English nation would 'flourish or decay' according to the recognition they gave him for his year's labor. The printing plate survived and passed after Blake's death through the estate of Blake's wife finding its way to the collection of John Giles. Sold at auction with Giles collection in 1881 the printing plate was purchased by Colnaghi who issued restrikes on laid India paper. By 1940 the plate was in the possession of a New York art dealer who sold it to the wife of noted collector A. Edward Newton for her to present to her husband as a fiftieth anniversary present. After Newton's death the plate was sold with his famed library at auction on 16 April 1941 for the princely sum of $2300 to Charles J. Rosenbloom via his agent at the Parke Bernet sale Philadelphia bookseller Charles Sessler. Before delivering the printing plate to Rosenbloom Sessler had a small number of prints pulled on French hand-made paper. Although Rosenbloom only authorized 35 prints Essick and Young identified at least ninety-one impressions. "Whereas most of the identifiable Colnaghi restrikes were flatly printed the Sessler prints were heavily inked and printed. The plate shows minimal wear and the Sessler prints are generally preferable to Colnaghi's earlier printings -- probably because of better cleaning of the copper and superior presswork" Essick and Young. Rosenbloom donated the plate to Yale University in 1973. Robert Essick and Michael Young "Blake's Canterbury Print: The Posthumous Pilgrimage of the Copperplate" in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly Vol. 15 No. 2 Fall 1981 pp. 78-82; Essick Separate Plates of William Blake XVI. unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis17 500,00 $US≈ 14 806,75 €

Bailey BlakeABAA

CHEEVER: A LIFE SIGNED

20091341766New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 770 pages; VG/G; spine black and gray with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and scuffing; mild wear to upper edge of dust jacket; mild wear to head and tail of jacket; price uncut '$35.00'; previous owner's name at front free end paper; inscribed by Bailey at title page; pages clean; shelved Lit Crit/Bio. 1341766. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books

Second Story Books · États-Unis40,00 $US≈ 33,84 €

BLAKE JH. edited by J. H.ABAA

Chess Endings for Beginners. Part I. Pawn Endings. Part II. Miscellaneous Endings. Part III. Solutions

268719London: George Routledge & Sons Limited no date. Hardcover. Good. Ninth edition. 16mo. Good only with some pen underlining owner's name inside front cover bubbling to rear board. George Routledge & Sons, Limited hardcover books

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

Blake JohnABAA

Children of the movement; the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X Elijah Muhammad George Wallace Andrew Young Julian Bond Stokely Carmichael Bob Moses James Chaney Elaine Brown and others reveal how the civil rights movement tested and transformed their families

2004132228Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books 2004. Hardcover. xii 260p. first printing dj mildly soiled with closed tear at edge of back board owner's name written on inside front cover spot on leading foredge Lawrence Hill Books hardcover books

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Benford Gregory writing as "Sterling Blake.ABAA

CHILLER by Sterling Blake pseudonym

1993158602New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books 1993. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #158602 Bantam Books unknown books

L. W. Currey, Inc. · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

Benford Gregory writing as "Sterling Blake.ABAA

CHILLER by Sterling Blake pseudonym

1994158594New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books 1994. Octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Signed on the title page by Benford. A very good or better tight square unread copy of this bulky paperback. Copies signed by Benford are uncommon. #158594 Bantam Books unknown books

L. W. Currey, Inc. · États-Unis25,00 $US≈ 21,15 €

Blake Henry Arthur Mortimer MenpesABAA

China

190936143London: Adam and Charles Black 1909. First edition sm 4to pp. vii 137 2; with illustrations by Mortimer Menpes 16 plates including frontispiece numerous illustrations within text some toning rear hinge cracked extremities lightly rubbed at edges else very good in original blue cloth with gilt decorated upper cover and spine. Adam and Charles Black hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis74,75 $US≈ 63,25 €

BLAKE William 1757 1827ABAA

Christ Trampling on Satan

190323193London 1903. Engraving by Thomas Butts after Blake. Laid paper. First and only state. Hand written in ink upper right corner "Cent quatre vingt septieme 187" A determined Christ walks over the vanquished Satan. This fascinating engraving after a Blake drawing depicts a muscular and single-minded Christ with a bow in one hand and arrow in the other walking on the beard and chest of Satan who despite his lifeless eyes reaches for Christ's bow. Blake's Christ is more reminiscent of Hercules or Gilgamesh than the Christ known to us through church iconography and his Satan reminds us more of Zeus than Christianity's Devil. Archibald Russell in The Engravings of William Blake Houghton Mifflin 1912 that this image illustrates a passage in Paradise Lost Bk.VI 763 but was an allegory for the triumph of imagination or creativity over reason. Thomas Butts senior 1757-1845 and junior 1788-1862 were both given drawing and engraving lessons by Blake starting in March 1806. They produced a number of plates from Blake's designs although his level of direct involvement can only be estimated. The present plate was sold by the Butts' descendants at Sotheby's lot 20 24 June 1903. The plate was acquired shortly after the auction by Edward J. Shaw of Walsall. He apparently had printed a number of impressions by December 1903. These are the earliest recorded impressions of this plate other than a single impression sold with the plate at the auction. The plate remained in Shaw's possession until 1925 when it was sold at Sotheby's 29 July lot lot158 to Mansfield. The New York dealers E.Weyhe bought a number of impressions and possibly the plate itself as they still had multiple copies for sale as late as 1965. Essick records 18 copies of this print on various paper types but no order of precedence is given and he had not seen any `proof' impressions. Essick The Separate Plates of William Blake. unknown books

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Blake Gratia Turnbull nee Fuller 1835 1915ABAA

CIVIL WAR YELLOW FEVER AND STEAMBOATS TO NEW ORLEANS

72110An archive of family letters written to Gratia Turnbull Fuller Blake during the mid-19th century covering a wide range of historic topics including the U.S. Civil War slavery yellow fever and a legal dispute over land in New York City. Born in Lawrence Ohio Gratia married Cincinnattus Blake 1830-1918 a farmer Union soldier and Sheriff of Gallipolis Ohio in 1857. Together they raised six sons. This archive contains a six-page letter Gratia received from her sister-in-law Mary B Fuller. Mary's husband Gratia's brother was Captain Emilius Fuller 1815-63 a Confederate Army officer commander of the St. Martin Rangers Company Infantry in Louisiana and captain of a boat called the Queen of the West. He was seriously wounded and taken prisoner when his boat was destroyed in Bayou Teche on April 14 1863. He was transferred to Johnson's Island Ohio where he died on July 25. In her letter dated December 15 1867 Mary's bitter feelings about slavery and the war are still fresh. "I have the most of my work to do myself. I prefer doing it rather than have a free trifling negress around me. Their impudence I cannot ensure" she wrote from her home in St. Martinsville Louisiana. "They are free as they may stave with their freedom for all I care. I can have a woman by feeding her of giving her a cabin or a room to sleep in and that would cost me less than when I owned them for then we had to clothe feed and take care of them when sick. Many of them are getting their eyes opened and say they have had no good times since the Yankees came among them." Along with their personal losses Mary's family is concerned about an outbreak of yellow fever. Her son James wrote to his Aunt Gratia on October 26 1867 about "yellow jack" which caused 1/3 of the St. Martinsville population to flee: "133 names are published of the victims and except for one or two - they all died since September 11 and about 2/3 of the names only are given which would swell the mortuary list to about 200." An undated letter from her sister-in-law Julia Blake Eaton 1836-1927 includes a negative report of her visit to Cincinnati: "I saw too much suffering while there to feel very happy. I saw a great many of the poor fellows that were wounded at Pittsburgh carried off the steamboats. Poor fellows. God help them." This collection contains 15 letters written in 1856-58 by Cincinnatis to Gratia before they were married. In October 1856 he wrote about all he is doing to yield a living from his Ohio farmlands in order tomake a home for his future bride: "If I do not buy a house I shall have to build such as my means will allow. I shall have to earn part of the money if not raise my wagon cover and live under it. If my hut is of cornstalks and brush I shall be happy if Gratia will share it with me." Another group of nine letters was written by Cincinnatis to Gratia in 1877-78 when he was running a steamboat operation taking potatoes from his farm in Ohio to market in New Orleans along with other goods such as coal picked up along the way. "No good news to speak of and a great deal of bad news" he wrote on November 10 1878. "Lost the big boat Trowbridge have only the small boat Blake left us. We can only run a part of a day or night at a time the wind is blowing now . the wind blew so hard that the waves came over the side splashboards . I think this is my last March trip forever and if we get this one down safe I think it a miracle." The collection includes three other letters written to his "boys" and the family during this period. Another group of letters in this archive are related to the ongoing dispute over property in New York with a branch of Cincinnatus Blake's family known as the "Brower heirs". His sister Visalia wrote on March 4 1867 urging him to join other members of the family to cooperatively hire an attorney to pursue their rights: "We will proceed to enter into a contract with the lawyer whom we have selected as our council by which he will be bound to proceed to collect the necessary evidence to prove our heirship and title to the property in question as take such proceedings as may be necessary to enforce that title against the Trinity Church Corporation." Cincinnatus Blake was apparently distantly related to Anneke or Annetje Jans who purchased a 62-acre piece of land in Manhattan which her living children sold upon her death in 1671. A great-grandson of Jans Cornelius Bogardus later claimed his branch of the family had not legally given up its right to the property since his grandfather one of Anneke's six children had been dead at the time of the sale and were owed one-sixth of the sale. After a century of legal dispute the court rejected the claims. This collection includes a dozen other brief notes and letters from friends during the period. The latest letter in this collection is dated 1884 written to Gratia by her son Charles O. Blake 1860-1924 who asks for money as he is stuck in Fairplay Colorado likely trying to cash in on the gold rush: "I am still a prisoner in this dammed town and see no prospect of getting out of it until I borrow money of you." The collection also includes about a dozen mailing envelopes. The materials are housed in mylar sleeves. Most were folded for mailing with some edgewear and occasional soiling. All are legible and in very good condition. A fascinating archive rich in content. unknown books

johnson rare books & archives · États-Unis3 000,00 $US≈ 2 538,30 €

Blake Janet and Susan M. AndersonABAA

Clarence Hinkle

2012137412Laguna Beach Calif: Laguna Art Museum 2012. Hardcover. VG Label remnant & few marks from previous gallery owner otherwise Like New and Smells New. Orange-red cloth orange-red & color illus. dust jacket 175 pp. 200 color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition featuring a variety of pieces by American artist Clarence Keiser Hinkle 1880-1960. "Illustrates the rich variety of his work and the range of his subject matter as displayed in his landscapes portraits figure works and still lifes." dj Colorful and vibrant. Laguna Art Museum hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis45,00 $US≈ 38,07 €

BLAKE Quentin.ABAA

Cockatoos.

199257540Boston:: Little Brown. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0316099511 . Illustrated by the author. First American printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Little, Brown, hardcover books

Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis35,00 $US≈ 29,61 €

Blake William. Auction Catalogue.ABAA

Collection of Paul Hyde Bonner. First Editions and Manuscripts of Outstanding Importance.

100673New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries Inc. 1934. 8vo 67pp. Frontispiece William Blakeâ€™s Visions of the Daughters of Albion lot 11. Lightly soiled wrappers with some edgewear and chipping. Water damage to spine visible on frontispiece and titlepage. Pages browned. Good. Â§ An important catalogue apparently overlooked by Bentley. American Art Association Anderson Galleries unknown books

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Tolbert Blake edited by Abdul KabirABAA

Come up here; poems

1996104137Oakland: Marcus Books 1996. Paperback. 40p. personal inscription and signed by the poet at rear very good paperback chapbook in matte-black wraps. Mixed-race African American poet born in Berkeley and living in Oakland. Marcus Books paperback books

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Blake GeorgeABAA

Commercial Card Magic

197215441Calgary AB: Micky Hades Enterprises 1972. Softcover. Good. 8.5 x 11 inches 47 pp. Moderate cover wear annotations on table of contents and margins of two pages. Text otherwise clean binding sound. Effects and routines "that can be presented from a stage or platform card effects that will hold and audience card effects wherein the entire audience can be aware of what is happening" as well as four close-up routines and "Rusduck's problem solved and simplified in two further methods." Micky Hades Enterprises paperback books

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BLAKE WendonABAA

Complete Painting Course

198457098NY:: Bonanza Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0517456923 . With over 700 color and black and white illustrations. Fifth printing thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket.; 400 pages . Bonanza Books, hardcover books

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Blake William. Flaxman John.ABAA

Compositions from The Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod. Designed by John Flaxman engraved by William Blake. with Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus Designed by John Flaxman Engraved by Thomas Piroli and Frank Howard.

108761London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1817-1831. Oblong folio 2 34 plates 30 from Piroli's original set plus 4 by Howard; Hesiod title page 37 Blake plates the first a second title page. Bound in original half brown morocco and cloth gilt title to front cover wear to spine edges and corners binding strained due to weight of pages and apparently with an earlier repair holding reasonably firm. Â§ Bound with Flaxman's Aeschylus here the 1831 issue published by Miss Flaxman and Maria Denman. The Aeschylus is rather dusty and with occasional mild foxing marks and an old triangular dampstain at the upper right corner affecting the first 20 plates to a decreasing extent not touching the designs. Bentley believes 50 copies of this issue were printed on publication in 1831. The Hesiod plates are dated 1816 or 1817 consistent with Bentley's note that 200 sets were printed in 1817 but sold slowly such that 18 sets were still unsold in 1838 and dealers made up combined copies of the Flaxman titles in various combinations. This set appears to be one such set. The Hesiod plates are generally clean with light dusting to margins a few margins slightly mottled and also occasional light foxing to a few but mainly to outer margins. Bentley BB 456 A; Bentley The early Engravings of Flaxman's Classical Designs p 53-58; Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Iillustrations LI p 100. Longman hardcover books

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Blake William. Milton John.ABAA

Comus: A Mask. With Eight Illustrations by William Blake. Edited from the Edition of 1645 and the Autograph Manuscript. With a Preface by Darrell Figgis.

19261107094to. London: Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn Limited 1926. 4to xxiii 1 35 1. With 8 b/w plates by William Blake.Original black cloth dust-jacket slipcase. Jacket torn and browned book fine. Â§ Limited to 300 copies beautifully printed by the CUP on hand-made paper. Bentley Blake Books 388. Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn Limited hardcover books

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HOONE Jeffrey editor Blake Fitch Barry Anderson KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Philip Zimmermann Kerry Skarbakka BinhABAA

Contact Sheet 142

1995120996Syracuse NY: Light Work 1995. First edition. Softcover. Text by Jeffrey Hoone and numerous others. Includes color and black and white images by Blake Fitch Barry Anderson KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Philip Zimmermann Kerry Skarbakka Binh Danh Beatrix Reinhardt Don Gregorio Anton Yee Ling Tang Abigail Hadeed Laura Heyman Thilde Jensen and Rishi Singhal. A fine copy in wrappers. Light Work unknown books

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Fitch Blake essay by Andy Grundberg curator's commentary by Hannah FrieserABAA

Contact Sheet: Blake Fitch; Expectations of adolescence; April 1 - July 18 2008

2008127898Syracuse: Light Work Robert B. Menschel Media Center 2008. 48p. 9x10 inches essay bio-CV color plates very good in original pictorial wraps. Woman photographer's photos of adolescent girls. Catalogue of an exhibition. Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center unknown books

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Blake Rev. JL. J. L.ABAA

Conversations on Natural Philosophy in Which the Elements of That Science are Familiarly Explained and Adapted to Ther Comprehension of Young Pupils

1842022317Boston: Gould Kendall Ad Lincoln 1842. Octavo. 12pp. publisher's ads at front frontispiece viii 910-276pp. 27 full page illustrations at rear. Improved by appropriate questions for the examination of scholars; also by illustrative notes and a dictionary of philosophical terms. This work is for the student and this edition has been introduced into the female department of the publicksic schools in Boston. A very good copy bound in full calf flat spine ruled in gilt black morocco spine label gilt previous owner's name on front endpapers dated 1845 and name stamped on covers some off-setting to title page some occasional toning to leaves but mostly clean. Gould, Kendall Ad Lincoln unknown books

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Blake JL.: Marcet Jane J. L.ABAA

CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENDING THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY WITH THEIR APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURE

1830WRCAM26386Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster 1830. 372pp. plus five color plates of flowers of six lacking the frontispiece and four uncolored plates. Contemporary calf black morocco label gilt. Worn along hinges at spine ends and extremities. Light foxing light dampstain in upper portion of first one hundred pages and lower portion of final few pages. Good only. Designed for educational purposes this beginner's guide to botany is actually written in the form of a conversation between "Mrs. B." and various young ladies. The Rev. J.L. Blake who was a prolific generator of school texts adapted the book "to the use of schools." The actual author Jane Marcet is identified on the titlepage only as the author of CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. McGRATH p.206. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2390. Published by Crocker & Brewster unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

Nevius BlakeABAA