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CAT0169Various Places. Most 1940s-1950s various formats. Very Good. A wide-ranging collection of Toscanini material found amongst his scores in the estate of his grandson Walfredo. The highlight is a late draft of his speech "To The People of America" an important document in Italian-American history that was printed in Life Magazine during the Second World War. <br /> <br /> Full descriptions as follows:<br /> <br /> Typed Draft of Arturo Toscanini's "To The People of America" with Corrections in Toscanini's Hand.<br /> New York September 3 1943. <br /> A late typed draft of Arturo Toscanini's "To The People of America" which appeared ten days later in Life Magazine. Corrections in the hands of Walfredo and Arturo Toscanini. From the Toscanini estate. "On 13 September 1943 the editorial page of Life Magazine was occupied by an article entitled 'To the People of America' and signed by Arturo Toscanini; It was the only extensive declaration he ever wrote - and it was about politics not music. The article had originally been intended as a letter to President Roosevelt and the first drafts had been prepared for Arturo Toscanini by the Italian historians in exile Gaetano Salvemini and Giorgio La Plana who were both teaching at Harvard University at the time. They knew that their beliefs and Arturo Toscanini's coincided perfectly and they wanted the letter to appear over his signature because his fame was much greater than theirs. In their letter to President Roosevelt the exiles stated their hopes and fears for Italy's immediate future and they tried - as the text illustrates - to influence allied policy toward their native country." Harvey Sachs The Letters of Arturo Toscanini page 389. Sachs wrote in his 1978 biography of Toscanini that Toscanini wrote the article on his own but then found evidence to the contrary. Regardless of its hidden origins this letter was a defining moment in Toscanini's career in the United States. This copy from September 3 would have been one of the final drafts. The text is nearly identical to the published version with a few small changes - "defying everything" is added in the fourth paragraph of the published version the "." marks are replaced by simple periods in a few instances and "just" has been replaced by "righteous" in the published version. Strangely the one error in AT's hand - moving the word "either" in the sixth paragraph - did not make it into the printed version. A remarkable piece of Toscanini ephemera. Four pages carbon paper with text on rectos only. Excellent condition overall with some normal tanning. A few stray corrections in pencil which an accompanying folder from the estate states are in Walfredo's hand. <br /> <br /> A Collection of Nine Letters to Arturo Toscanini from his Colleagues.<br /> <br /> These letters were found inside various scores and sheet music in the Toscanini estate. A wonderful collection quite effusive in nature most containing high praise for the maestro discussing the works of various composers and lamenting the passage of time. Contains the following items: 1 Typed Letter Signed from Harold Byrns to Arturo Toscanini. New York 1942. 2 Typed Letter from Associated Music Publishers to Arturo Toscanini. New York 1949. 3 Manuscript Letter from Max Reiter to Arturo Toscanini. San Antonio 1948. 4 Typed Letter from Domenico Savino to Arturo Toscanini. New York 1945. In Italian. 5 Manuscript Letter from Adolf Busch to Arturo Toscanini. S.p. s.d. 6 Manuscript Letter from Carlton Cooley to Arturo Toscanini. Stockton New Jersey 1956. 7 Autograph Letter from Robert Casadesus to Arturo Toscani. Princeton 1940. 8 Autograph Letter Signed from Pina Carmirelli to Arturo Toscanini. Rome 1951. In Italian. 9 Typed Letter from Foetisch Freres to Arturo Toscanini. Lausanne 1948. scanini. Lausanne 1948. <br /> <br /> Four Original Photographs of Arturo Toscanini in Rehearsal March 1954 with Negatives.<br /> New York 1954. <br /> <br /> A collection of four 9 x 7 photographs of the great Toscanini in rehearsal with their original negatives. From the estate of Arturo Toscanini. The images show Toscanini casually dressed in a white short-sleeved shirt conducting his orchestra. All photos are stamped "File Copy / Do Not Remove" and have holes in upper left corners from thumbtacks and have inventory numbers written in ink. The inventory numbers - which all contain the prefix "33107" suggest that they could be for the rehearsals from his final performance on April 4. <br /> <br /> Typed Letter from Arturo Toscanini to his Orchestra 1940.<br /> N.p. July 22 1940. Typed letter text on recto only.<br /> Arturo Toscanini wrote this letter to his orchestra upon the completion of a successful South American tour in 1940. He writes: "My dear friends sic Tomorrow our trip will be over. To-morrow we will be separated after two months we lived day by day the same life. It is very sad indeed but that is life. We have never been so linked all as one as in these 16 concerts. We must be proud of what we have done. God bless you all." The full text of the letter appears on page 374 of Harvey Sach's The Letters of Arturo Toscanini. Some indecipherable notes on margins in an unknown hand a few small various stains good condition overall. <br /> <br /> Christmas Card to Arturo Toscanini from the Embassy of the USSR 1943.<br /> Washington 1943. Card with stamped envelope 6 x 5 inches. <br /> A Christmas card to Arturo Toscanini from Fedor Orekhov First Secretary and Press Representative of the USSR Embassy in Washington. Addressed to Toscanini at his Sycamore Street residence in Riverdale New York.<br /> An interesting group all quite well preserved in excellent condition. unknown books
1940001858Various 1940. Softcover. Various places various dates 1930s to 1960s. Forty two original photographs various sizes and mediums many of them with manuscript notes captions and inscriptions; eight photo-cards brochures etc.; three letters and documents; condition varies from very good - several photos with glue and paper remnants from being pasted to albums a few creases and chips - to near fine or better with very minor wear. - An interesting archive of photos and papers documenting events and people of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the life of Mikhail Polskii 1891 - 1960 presumably from his personal collection of material. Archpriest theologian and author Polskii entered the Moscow Theological Academy in 1921 which was closed down by the authorities a short time later. He was arrested in 1923 during the 1921 - 1928 Anti-religious Campaign and sentenced to hard labor at the Solovki Prison Camp and later in 1929 he was sent into a 3-year exile in Syktykvar. He escaped in 1930 first to Palestine and in 1934 to Beirut where he was a Rector of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad ROCA in Beirut. He lived in London from 1938 to 1948 when he came to California. He was the Archpriest of the Cathedral of Joy of All who Sorrow in San Francisco from 1952 until 1959. Many of the photographs are of Polskii himself alone and with people from his flock and images of other dignitaries and religious leaders of ROCA. The more memorable ones include portraits of Archbishop Leontii and Arkhimandrit Antonii iof Jerusalem inscribed. Others depict religious ceremonies and a group photo in front of the Cathedral of Joy of All who Sorrow. The last two images are different - the first that of Nikolai Feodorovich Printsev of the Special Corps of Gendarmes 1911 and the second of the Representatives of the Russian Imperial Family in Bulgaria. - The photo-cards and leaflets contain photos of representatives of ROCA including Archpriest Vasilii Musin-Pushkin Bishop Iosif Taganrogskii and others. - Typed letter signed by the Russian Technical Association - an emigre organization in Beirut - thanking Mikhail Polskii for the series of religious lectures he has delivered to members of the organization and to Russian community in Lebanon. - Manuscript letter with the signatures of emigres in London expressing gratitude for his lectures and explaining that the money enclosed not present are to be used to ensure the future of the journal "Na strazh pravoslaviia." -Large certificate of merit printed illustrated and hand-filled by Feofil Pashkovskii Archbishop of San Francisco and Bishop of All America and Canada. Various paperback books
1915002504Various: Various 1915. First Edition. Very good. A hundred and five real photo poscards two original photographs mounted in an album with small paper corner slips covering the years 1915 - ca1930; images aprox. 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 and 10 x 8; album 13 1/4 x 10 1/4; most pictures subtitled in the margins of the photos themselves; some also identified in manuscript to verso; overall in very good to near fine and better condition with occasional wear to corners; album - leather over boards embossed to imitate aligator skin tied with a decorative string; wear and chipping to edges in about good condition. An astonishing and meticulously collected and assembled archive of photographs it represented the most important figures of the Russsian cinema ballet and theater at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the photos were portraits while in others the artists were in costumes performing in various productions. A number of them were signed and/or inscribed in Russian and English. Two of the images were taken by renowned German-Russian photographer Karl Andreevich Fisher 1859 - . A few of the names included: Vera Karalli 1889 - 1972 - ballet dancer choreographer silent film actress and allegedly a co-conspirator in the murder of Grigorii Rasputin; actor Viktor Petipa 1878 - 1933 signed; Elza Elizaveta Kruger ca1893 - 1941 - dancer actress and later founder of the Russian Romantic Ballet Theater in Berlin; Mikhail Mordkin 1880 - 1944 - ballet master at Sergei Diagilev's Ballets Russes later founder of Mordkin Ballet in the US; Aleksandr Vertinskii 1889 - 1957 - artist composer poet and actor; Vera Kholodnaia 1893 - 1919 - the first star of Russian silent cinema most of whose films have been lost as many of her features had been destroyed by the Soviet Government after the Revolution; actress Vera Baranovskaia 1885 - 1935 signed; Vsevolod Bliumental-Tamarin 1881 - 1945 - actor director and author who officially died of a suicide in Switzerland but was allegedly murdered by Russian Counter-intelligence agents SMERSH signed; Andrei Petrovskii 1869 - 1933 - actor director and educator signed; and others. Various hardcover books
1930001825Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe tekhnicheskoe izdatel'stvo 1930. Softcover. Twenty three booklets various publication dates 1928 - 1932; 10 1/2 x 7; condition varies from near fine with minor wear to good with a few chips and cuts along edges and general age-toning and spotting; illustrated with photographs drawings graphs and large gold-out tables. In Russian some of the booklets with a summary in English. The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute TsAGI an abbreviation of the transliteration of the Russian name of the institute was founded in 1918 by the father of Russian aviation Nikolai Zhukovskii 1847 - 1921. It would be the first institution to combine basic education applied research structural design pilot training and testing. Today TsAGI is one of the largest research and production institutions in the world and throughout its existence it has pioneered various aviation technologies applications and studies. The current publications include "Thermo-barochamber" "A Study of the Kiln-drying of Pine for Aircraft Applications" " The Effects of Tip-shields on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Airfoil" and others. Please inquire for a complete list of titles. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe tekhnicheskoe izdatel'stvo paperback books
1980151768London: Waddington Galleries 1980. Softcover. VG- clean and tight but with light shelf wear to covers fine arts ex-lib. stamp inside front cover and sticker on back cover. Manila-colored wraps with black line drawing and lettering; bw image on back cover. 16 with 7 color and 5 bw images. Catalogue from the exhibition of works inspired by D.R. Hay's "The Law of Harmonious Colouring" and "Notes et Cadrans de Musique" by Charles Ducup de Saint Paul. With a quote from Poe and a list of exhibitions/works in collections. Waddington Galleries unknown books
1933197272Mt. Vernon Sign of the Blue-Behinded Ape 1933. 1933. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with charming erotic line drawings by Andre Durenceau. Large gilt staped initial letters cream linen over pink boards paper label. Publisher's board slipcase. Very good. Bookplate of M. Weiss on the front pastedown. One of 290 copies printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walple Printing Office. F. Hardcover. [Mt. Vernon] Sign of the Blue-Behinded Ape, 1933. hardcover books
1960000441Gorlovka: Secretary of the Party 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. On the front cover in Bulgarian: "Brotherly Friendship Unbreakable/ Album of the Bulgarian Youth Brigade 'VII Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party' Shafts '19-20' 11 'Bis' and 'Komsomolets'/ Town of Gorlovka-Donbass USSR 1957-1960/ Dimitrov D. P. Oblong 10" x 13"; pp. 20 5 empty at the end; red embossed covers; heavy textured pages; each page contains an original photographic collage of smaller photos; several rubbed spots to spine; slight age-darkening and warping to margins of some of the pages; very good. Russian-Bulgarian youth brigades working together were common during Communism. The current album was presented to a member of the Bulgarian group as a memento and a token of the undying friendship between the two countries. All the photos measure approximately 7" x 9" with the first being a personal picture of the man Dimitrov D. P. presented with the album the second - a collage of photos of Lenin and Georgi Dimitrov and the rest - the Party leaders the people in the brigade and views of the town of Gorlovka and the coal mines in the Donetsk Province of Eastern Ukraine. Gorlovka: Secretary of the Party hardcover books
1885001827By the authors 1885. Softcover. Ten letters four manuscripts and six typed copies transcriptions one photograph 1884 - 1904; pp. 36 altogether in various formats; several small rust spots from paper clips; fold lines; one of them with a small red stamped number filing ; very good or better condition. An interesting and quite amusing collection of letters from all over the country spanning 20 years and mostly addressed to Frederick Lucas or to Smithsonian officials about Lucas it presumably belonged to Frederick himself. Frederick Augustus Lucas 1852 - 1929 was a prominent naturalist a major figure in the Great American Museum Movement Curator in Chief of the Brooklyn Museum and Director of the Museum of Natural History. Some of the letters addressed the Secretary and the Curator of the Smithsonian Institute in an angry indignant and incredulous tone complaining about Lucas' disregard of their fantastic discoveries of the natural world which had been previously brought to his attention. One memorable rant accompanied by an original photograph of the bone in question stated: "Dear Sir I acknowledge the return of skeleton but cannot sign receipt sent "as the breast-bone of a horse" The reason I sent the skeleton to you was that I believed that employers were fully competent to discharge their duties. I would suggest that you pump the whisky out of Lucas and send him to the lunatic asylum or Keely Institute." Another one addressed "Pro. Lucas" described in great detail with manuscript drawings a strange skull which Lucas had suggested belonged to a sheep refuting his opinion and asking for a closer examination. A third letter long and winded read: "Dear Sir Lucas.Sometime ago I read about you having an article in a paper about a large animal known by the name of Dinosaur. Your article was the first thing that I ever read about this monster." Other letters speculate about minerals fossils an "incredible petrified tree" etc. and the last one is a request for information about a Taxidermy examination and possible employment. By the authors paperback books
200129465London: Courtauld Institute of Art 2001. Softcover. VG appendix laid-in slight wear to cover edges. Stiff pictorial wraps. 70 pp. Numerous bw and color plates. Exhaustive study of Del Sarto's "Madonna and Child". Includes a separately printed Appendix that adds further research to the picture and it's history. Contents as follows: Introduction to Andra del Sarto's rediscovered Botti Madonna / John Shearman -- The physical history and conservation of the Botti Madonna interrelated paintings construction and technique / Stephen Gritt -- The collection-history of the Botti Madonna / Arthur MacGregor -- The frame of the Botti Madonna / Adriana Turpin. Courtauld Institute of Art unknown books
1937001383San Francisco: The Emporium Book Department 1937. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 6 3/4; pp. 6 tri-folded; beige stock printed in blue and red; illustrated; few very mild spots; very good to near fine. An announcement for a book show at the Emporium's Book Department and a short preview of some of the books published by the Macmillan Company which would be offered at the show. The Emporium was a department store chain headquartered in San Francisco which stayed in operation for 99 years - from 1896 to 1995. The store had a thriving book department which would periodically announce contests for illustrations for poetry etc. or in this case - a show where newly-published books for various age groups could be revealed to children. Some of the books included âBlaze and the Gypsiesâ âThe Magic Show Bookâ and âTales from Dickens.â San Francisco: The Emporium (Book Department) paperback books
1901285269Washington DC. : Government Printing Office. 1901. Green cloth library binding gilt spine title. . Good plus ex-library with perforated stamps to illustrations. Post it notes marking Langley Aerodrome plates. Heavy book may require extra shipping. 23x15 cm. . Numerous illustrations including the Langley Aerodrome and Zeppelins. Government Printing Office. hardcover books
1901281082Boston. : Appalachian Mountain Club. 1901-1960. . Printed wraps. . All issues are complete with very good contents. Older issues have covers covered with clear plastic some covers have tattered edges and chipped spine ends. . 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Appalachian Mountain Club. paperback books
1870287908New York.: Appleton. 1870. . Hardcover contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine title marbled endpapers. . Folding frontis of number 64 repaired with archival tape moderate wear to cover extremities still a near very good copy in a nice binding. . 4to. Numerous engraved illustrations. Appleton. hardcover books
197024038various: various 1970. Three Ring Binder. Good. We offer a large archive of fireworks labels dating to the 1970s including 175 labels collected from various manufacturers and countries mostly India and China but with a few from Japan and even America. The archive is contained in two binders labeled "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO. 3" containing 82 labels mostly of Indian origin and "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO 4." 99 labels mostly of Chinese/Macau origin with a few from Japan and America.<br/><br/>The archive was collected in the 1970s presumably by someone in the fireworks business and placed in old photograph albums with the "magnetic glue" format which has unfortunately transferred to the backs of many of the labels and in some cases is visible on the front of the labels. We've left the labels in the albums as is partly because there are some penciled notes on some pages indicating a date or in album 4 "PGII CONV" presumably for the Pyrotechnics Guide annual conventions. They are easily removable but we feel the choice of what storage to transfer them to was best left to the next owner.<br/><br/>Label artwork ranges from very ornate to very plain. Names are as varied as the marketers could make them - and the graphics vary from beautiful girls as often on the Indian labels to "American themes" reflecting the marketing target. The names are as creative as the images and evoke their use: "Mines" "Aerial Colored Flares" "Flower pots" "Flash Ray Gun" "Crackers" "Square Bombs" "V-2 Rocket "Neptune Rocket" "Cable Car" "Electric Sparklers" "Flaming Torches" etc. Three Ring Binder. These labels represent a wonderful piece of American Cultural History and conjure images of kids with family bright smiles and loud booms on the 4th of July a uniquely American phenomena. The fact that someone collected these is a boon. By definition after the BOOM the rest of the packaging isn't very useful to most. And some of the labels in Album #4 show the results of use with occasional charring. Checking various online auction sites we find labels selling from a few dollars for modern labels to many hundreds for earlier ones. A more detailed listing is available upon request to interested purchasers. <br/><br/>A highly visual collection this archive would provide a nice basis for a larger collection in the area. various unknown books
1973285299Los Angeles. : Wallace Benfield. 1973- 1974. . Brown cloth gilt titles. . A near fine copy no dust jacket as issued. . 4to. 12 issues hardbound in one volume. Wallace Benfield. hardcover books
003054Special Services Division United States Army 1944. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Original Wraps. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 16 pp. Chester Gould drawing of Dick Tracy with bombs exploding on Hitler's rear as well as Tojo. Special Services Division United States Army, 1944 unknown books
1787289864No place but Paris. : No publisher. 1787-1788 . Old plain yellow wraps. . Good wrappers tattered with some loss contents very good and untrimmed. 8vo. 21.5x13.5 cm. . French text. A bound collection of eight pamphlets regarding French pre-revolutionary government affairs. weight: 0.6 lb. No publisher. paperback books
2014166384Valencia: Departament d'Historia de l'Art Universitat de Valencia 2014. Softcover. VG. Some small creases on covers otherwise clean and tight. Glossy white and gray-brown wraps with color illustration; French flaps. 338 pp. Filled with illustrations the majority in BW. Text in Catalan Spanish and English. Departament d'Historia de l'Art, Universitat de Valencia paperback books
19681177546Washington DC: The Smithsonian Insitution 1968. Assumed First Edition - A periodic publication. Large quarto in tan cloth no dust jacket VG title in dark brown on tan spine. Light shelf wear age toning to text block text clean. Sticker residue on back cover. Thoroughly illustrated with black and white photos drawings charts and diagrams. Of considerable interest to the serious scholar. 179 pages. Shelve China. 1177546. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Smithsonian Insitution unknown books
18881327497London / New York: Boussod Valadon & Co / Charles Scribner's Sons 1888 - 1889. Softcover. This lot includes the January March April May August September and December issues from 1888 and the May and November issues from 1889 for a total of nine issues. First editions thus. Original paper covers with each volume in its own protective cardboard case. All volumes are generously illustrated both with illustrations embedded in the text and with plates some of which have tissue guards. Condition: Good to Very Good. All issues show general wear consistent with age including age-toning chipping or small closed tears to covers and edges of pages and small stains which only impact individual pages. Specific volumes also show more notable damage including splits to spines in two cases resulting the volume being completely separated into two sections covers detached but present individual pages detached but present and water-staining affecting multiple consecutive pages. Text is still legible throughout and there is generally minimal to no damage to plates and illustrations. 1327497. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Boussod, Valadon & Co / Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
198117435NY: RR Bowker Company 1981. Hardcover. VG Ex art library copies hardly used stamps on tp and text block edges small labels otherwise clean and tight. Black cloth. Vol. 1: xviii780 pp; Vol. 2: lii1500 pp.; Vol. 3: xx 571 pp. As per Oak Knoll Books' wonderful description: Art Books 1950-1979 is the first volume published in this series which is a bibliography with some 370000 books on the visual arts which are indexed under approximately 14000 subject headings with full searching information for each title listed. There are separate author and title indexes each of which refers to the complete entries in the subject index. Art Books 1876-1949 is an even more comprehensive work which contains over one hundred years of Library of Congress Catalogueing and list over 21000 books by subject with additional indexes by author and title. The second volume also includes an international index to 2600 serial publications. The third volume contains about 9600 titles. All volumes are a valuable cumulation of retrospective material based on the American Book Publishing Record data base. RR Bowker Company hardcover books
1988217771Geneva.: Rotovision. 1988. Black cloth. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket. 4to. Heavy book requires extra postage. Color photo illustrations. Rotovision. hardcover books
1989183844Jacksonville Art Museum 1989-01-01. Paperback. Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Jacksonville Art Museum paperback books
1924175512Washington DC: Phillips Memorial Gallery 1924. VG in VG blue cloth slipcase slightest of wear to lower front outer hinge and one small abrasion at top of spine faint odor from being in storage will dispate over time. Blue levant leather.with triple gilt border on covers 5 raised-bands with gilt title. T.e.g. ages untrimmed viii 98 48 pp. 5 color 53 bw plates and one color drawing tucked in at rear. This subscriber's edition is 43 out of 50 numbered copies and is signed by the artist. Contains an original color drawing by the artist specially mounted with tissue guard located in a special pocket on inside back cover. Includes preface foreword 7 essays and a biographical sketch. The text is followed by a section of illustrations one to a page with tissue guards. A lovely copy with a lovely drawing. Phillips Memorial Gallery hardcover books
1992130711Washington DC: People for the American Way 1992. Softcover. VG-. Ex-lib. with usual marks including stickers on covers. General shelf wear otherwise clean and tight. Color-illustrated wraps pink spine with yellow lettering. 90 pp. No illustrations. Annual compendium of artistic censorship attempts across the country. People for the American Way unknown books
