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364p. Uncut and unopened. Foxed. 4to. [304 x 235 mm.] Contemporary binding of paper boards backed in morocco tooled in gold gilt. John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the greatest printer of his era. Born in Wolverley, Hereford - Worcester, England, he became a writing master in Birmingham. He also carried on a successful japanning (varnishing) business there. In about 1750 he began to make experiments in letter founding, and produced the wonderful series of types now named after him. His first book, the Virgil of 1757, was also the first to be printed upon wove paper (manufactured by a process that he invented). In 1758 he became printer to Cambridge University. All of his books show fine craftsmanship and a refined sense of design. In the last few years before his death, Baskerville published a few Latin classics in quarto and duodecimo. "All these bear the marks of unabated genius even in his declining days: and suffice, had he printed nothing else, to distinguish him as the first typographer of his time" - T. B. Reed, in 'Old English Letter Foundries' It is worth emphasising how remarkable it is to find an uncut and unopened Baskerville quarto. Gaskell 46; Brunet V:718. EXTREMELY RARE AND UNUSUAL. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W113
364p. Slight foxing. 4to. [304 x 235 mm.] Contemporary straight grained plum morocco leather binding. Boards tooled in gold with a wide Greek key design, and in blind with an archway roll. Engraved bookplate showing a shield (Arms Barry of six Supporters); two unicorns; ermine Coronet of an Earl ; and the Motto A MA PUISSANCE. This is likely the plate of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845) Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain (1830-1834). There is also a manuscript inscription: "With B. Drury's Best Wishes, Eton, March 20 , 1820." John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the greatest printer of his era. Born in Wolverley, Hereford - Worcester, England, he became a writing master in Birmingham. He also carried on a successful japanning (varnishing) business there. In about 1750 he began to make experiments in letter founding, and produced the wonderful series of types now named after him. His first book, the Virgil of 1757, was also the first to be printed upon wove paper (manufactured by a process that he invented). In 1758 he be came printer to Cambridge University. All of his books bear show fine craftsmanship and a refined sense of design. In the last few years before his death, Baskerville published a few Latin classics in quarto and duodecimo. "All these bear the marks of unabated genius even in his declining days: and suffice, had he printed nothing else, to distinguish him as the first typographer of his time" - T. B. Reed, in 'Old English Letter Foundries'. Gaskell 46; Brunet V:71 8. A really handsomely bound copy of a beautifully printed book. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W113
Well preserved in the original publisher's cloth. Virtually uncut. Curiously, this copy was apparently issued without the engraved title an d frontis. Pickering was the first in England to use cloth in publisher's bindings. SMALL BOX 2
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(Oxford India Paperbacks)"This collection brings together for the first time, award-winning playwright Vijay Tendulkar's best-known plays, translated from Marathi. It includes a preface by Tendulkar on his induction into the art of writing plays, and a piece on what he considers to be the essential skills of a playwright. The introduction by Samik Bandyopadhyay discusses the role of power in Tendulkar's plays." 598p. Fine except for remainder marks. Book
Original Wraps. 8vo. 15 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Orah! : A Call to the American Orthodox, by Rabbi Pinchas Teitz (1908-1995) , an influential orthodox American rabbi, who came to America in 1933, and was instrumental in founding the modern Torah community in Elizabeth, NJ, where two mikvaos, three schools, and five shuls form a united JEC, Jewish Educational Center. Seeing a need for a national awakening of Orthodox Jewry in America, he published in Elul 5696 (1936) the first of a series of booklets entitled Urah Awaken as a call to teshuva. (Jewish Observer, June 1996, An Appreciation of Rabbi Mordechai Pinchas Teitz zt"l by Rabbi Yaakov M. Dombroff) Rabbi Teitz was famous for his Yiddish radio broadcasts, and for his 22 visits to the Soviet Union to help preserve and renew the religious jewish communities there. Subjects: Orthodox Judaism - United States. OCLC lists two copies (Yeshiva, NYPL) . Pencilled writing in English and Yiddish on back cover, endpages, and first and last page, not affecting text. Wraps lightly soiled, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (YID-16-46)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 372, [2] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Bibliotek fun YIVO. English title page: The Pogroms in the Ukraine in 1919. Continuation of the work Antisemitizm un pogromen in Ukraine, 1917-1918 published 1923. A detailed scholarly study of the terrible Ukrainian pogroms in 1919 written by Elias Tcherikower (18811943) , historian of Russian Jewish life and anti-Jewish violence. The 1919 Bolshevik suppression of Jewish autonomy and the simultaneous wave of violence and mass murder against Ukrainian Jewish communities by nationalist, White, and other forces (the Ukrainian pogroms) strongly shaped Tsherikovers subsequent scholarly career. He helped compile an essential collection of documents and testimonies on Jewish autonomy and its dissolution (Di idishe oytonomie un der natsyonaler secretariat in Ukraine; 1920) and later edited a related volume of documents and memoirs on revolutionary-era Jewish life, In der tkufe fun revolutsye (Berlin, 1924) . From 1919, Tsherikover devoted himself especially to gathering evidence about pogroms. By the time he left Russia for Berlin via Kovne/Kaunas in 1921, he had compiled a massive archive (now housed at YIVO) . Settling in Berlin, he began a massive scholarly project on pogroms with other Jewish scholars and activists, including Simon Dubnow, Yosef Schechtman, Nokhem Shtif, Jakob Lestschinsky, and N. Gergel. Tsherikover himself wrote two historical studies on pogroms: Antisemitizm un pogromen in Ukraine, 19171918 (published in Yiddish and Russian, 1923) and Di Ukrainer pogromen in 1919, published posthumously (1965) . Tsherikover and his archive also played an important role in the 19261927 Paris trial of Shalom Schwarzbard. (YIVO Encyclopedia; Tsherikover, Elye) . Subjects: Jews Ukraine - History - 20th century. Jews - Persecutions - Ukraine - History - 20th century. Ukraine - History - Revolution, 1917-1921.Pogroms - Ukraine - History - 20th century. Ukraine - Ethnic relations - History - 20th century. Very light wear to outer edges, near fine. Great condition. (YID-16-20A)
Some pencil notes. Inscribed by author. 326 pages.
405p. Full page color illustrations by Lucille Corcos. Text drawings. Inked ownership of Elizabeth W. Ellis (wife of Calvert Ellis, the Preseident of Juniate College in the World War Two era) on title page. 4to. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Spine sun faded. Original slip case, slightly worn. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. JUN5 BOX 5
Former owner's name on ffep. Small chip to spine ends. Light edgewear to corners. ; Brings the ancient theatre to life by skilfully evoking the atmosphere of the festivals where it all began. ; Greek & Roman Topics, 6; 80 pages
Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances. Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' Agamemnon 'and Sophocles'Oedipus the King' The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated. Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world. Book
Foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Else very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has minor edgewear and light discoloration to spine. ; 518 pages; In this book, Taplin looks for clues to Aeschylus's stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves, analyzing the exits and entrances that occur throughout his works.
56 pages. Features: Tormented Officer in a 'Dirty War' - photos and article of French officer Captain de V. - torn between his soldier's conscience and practical demands in the Algerian fighting; Our Bases - Targets of Khrushchev - interesting photos; 'In-de-pen-Dance' Comes to the Congo - photo and article; Needed - A Credo for Foreign Aid - article discusses the need to re-examine our basic motives; Playing Politician Possum Isn't Easy - lie low while waiting to be drafted for a Presidential nomination; State of the Drama - Debate Continued - is our theatre too ful of violence, gloom and corruption?; At 80 - The Miracle of Helen Keller - article with photo; Double-Duty for a Noble Bridge - photo feature with explanation of how second (lower) deck is being added to the George Washington bridge due, in large part, to the original designers whose original design foresaw such a need; Color ad for Polish ham; Rhubard recipes; Nice one-page color ad for Yuban coffee; Attuning the Young to Music; Architectural photos of a fashionable dune home; Wonderful black and white 'Under the Sun' ladies' fashion photos by Hiro; Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray - article with photos; Numerous gorgeous color-photo fashion ads. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Pages tender and partially yellowed. A worthy vintage copy. Book
In 16° leg. edit. pp. 83, ben tenuto
In 16° leg. edit. pp. 158, ben tenuto
Pages 229-274. Features: Literary Gents - G.B. Shaw; Kenneth Grahame; Travellers and their tales; George Bernard Shaw as Music Critic; Books we have never read; Contemporary Foreign Writers - Grazia Deledda; E.M. Delafield as a Novelist; Aphra Behn; Commentary on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; New light on Coleridge; Mary Woolstonecraft; The Transports of Thomas Traherne; The Benighted States; A Tractarian of Economics; Romantic Paris; Drama on Dartmoor; Early Translations from the Russian (part II); and more. Bit of writing and faint ink stamp upon front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Small stamp to front wrap and titlepage. Book has been rebound in black boards with hand-written label to spine and with original wraps bound in. Minor edgewear to boards. ; 1. Und 2. Aufl. ; Das Erbe Der Alten, Heft II/III; 226 pages
Corner creasing to lower corner of front wrap and first few pages. Title and author has been written in black ink to spine. Else VG. ; Contents: Captives; Greeks and Barbarians; Relationship between Master and Slave; Slaves as Viewed by their Masters; Slaves as Viewed by Themselves. ; Epistemonike Epeterida Philosophikes Scholes, Dodone Parartema Arith. 17; 231 pages
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, cream vellum spine and surrounds, gilt top of page edges and lettering, sunning to spine, foxing to end papers and minor bumping to upper corners. Fore page edges and lower page edges untrimmed. 112pp. Three plays by Irish writer John M Synge.
93p. Inked ownership of Emily F. Latimer, 1915. The Latimers were from York, PA. Boston Bookseller's label. 12mo. Original vellum like spine over paper cover boards. Front board heavily embossed and decorated in gold. Spine very worn with loss. Hardbound. First produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on Thursday, January 13th, 1910. John Millington Synge (1871-1909), Irish poet and dramatist, was born near Dublin, of Protestant parents. He was an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance. All of Synge's plays reflect his experiences in the Aran Islands. Intense and poetic in style, his works depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk. First American Edition? LITERATURE BOX 1
52p. Inked ownership of Robert C. Latimer, 1911. The Latimers were from York, PA. 12mo. Original vellum like spine over paper cover boards. Front board heavily embossed and decorated in gold. Hardbound. John Millington Synge (1871-1909), Irish poet and dramatist, was born near Dublin, of Protestant parents. He was an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance. All of Synge's plays reflect his experiences in the Aran Islands. Intense and poetic in style, his works depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk. Very good. LITERATURE BOX 1
322p. Manuscript poem by Shaemas O'Sheel on front free endpaper. Ex libris: Edward H. Pfieffer. Hardcover Good condition
Book has very light shelfwear. Minor foxing to top of textblock. DJ spine browned with light edgewear (a couple of tiny chips). ; Sir Ronald Syme gives us a highly entertaining characterization of the author and his work, together with a sketch of the literary, social and religious context. By comparing it with the Historiae of Ammianus Marcellinus he puts the probable publication date between 392 and 395. For Sir Ronald Syme, it is a historical fiction about gods and bad emperors. The author chose to pass himself off as six biographers. He invented a whole school of precursors as rivals to cite, to confute, to mock and to expose. ; 313 pages
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine browned. Minor shelfwear. ; Sir Ronald Syme gives us a highly entertaining characterization of the author and his work, together with a sketch of the literary, social and religious context. By comparing it with the Historiae of Ammianus Marcellinus he puts the probable publication date between 392 and 395. For Sir Ronald Syme, it is a historical fiction about gods and bad emperors. The author chose to pass himself off as six biographers. He invented a whole school of precursors as rivals to cite, to confute, to mock and to expose. ; 313 pages
58 p. Hardcover Good condition. blue cloth cover
