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192949051New York: Horace Liveright 1929. Black cloth binding with gilt spine stamping. Yellow decorative eps. Green dust jacket. VG some modest shelfwear/period poi to half-title page/Abt VG backstrip quite sun-tanned/extremity wear with largish piece lacking from rear panel lower left corner. x 4 456 pp. List of Editions pp. 427 - 432. Index at rear. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/>The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione is a lengthy philosophical dialogue on the topic of what constitutes an ideal courtier or in the third chapter court lady worthy to befriend and advise a Prince or political leader. The book quickly became enormously popular and was assimilated by its readers into the genre of prescriptive courtesy books or books of manners dealing with issues of etiquette self-presentation and morals particularly at princely or royal courts books such as Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo 1558 and Stefano Guazzo's The civil conversation 1574. The Book of the Courtier was much more than that however having the character of a drama an open-ended philosophical discussion and an essay. It has also been seen as a veiled political allegory. It offers a poignantly nostalgic evocation of an idealized milieu — that of the small courts of the High Renaissance which were vanishing in the Italian Wars — with a reverent tribute to the friends of Castiglione's youth in particular the chastely married Duchess Elisabetta Gonzaga of Urbino to whom Castiglione had addressed a sequence of Platonic sonnets and who died in 1526. The work was composed over the course of twenty years beginning in 1508 and first published in 1528 by the Aldine Press in Venice just before the author's death." Wiki Horace Liveright hardcover books
1966403348Greensboro NC: University of North Carolina 1966. 4to. 47pp. Original printed wrappers. Slightly curled light soiling. The Randall Jarrell issue of the Alumni News following the poet's death in 1965. <br/><br/> University of North Carolina unknown books
18897064Philadelphia: Lippincott 1889. 1st US. Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. VG cocked. 356 pp adverts sm 8vo. <br/><br/>'Werner' a minor writer of light romances. Lippincott hardcover books
190442628Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1904. 1st Edition printing 2 BAL 22633. INSCRIBED by Wiggin on the ffep in the year of publication. Linen cloth binding with black & orange printing. Dust jacket. Modest shelfwear. A bit of foxing to the top edge. Withal a VG book in an About VG jacket which has some soiling & a few closed tears. 8 220 4 pp. Frontis & 5 inserted plates from drawings by Martin Justice. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/>Wiggin contributed the part of "Virginia Pomeroy." On the ffep she writes "Yours very sincerely / Kate Douglas Wiggin / who is responsible / for the heroine's / part in this collaboration / December 1904" Quite uncommon in jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1971IY915-265Los Angeles:: Bela Blau 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Miniature Book. 1 1/2 x 1 3/16 inches. 22 pp. Hand-colored portrait of Moses ten commandments in Hebrew printed within tablet-shaped rules text of the ten commandments in English; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather decorative end-papers; binding square and tight light shelf wear smudges to covers. Very Good. SECOND EDITION of Blau's masterful edition of the Ten Commandments handset printed and bound by Bela Blau. Bela Blau was a mainstay in the fine press community in Los Angeles for 40 years. Blau had been a printer in Hungary until he was imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp during World War II. He had restarted his business after the war only to lose it again when the Communists took over Hungary. After fleeing to the United States in 1956 Blau went to work for a Los Angeles bookbinding company. Several years later he opened his own custom binding company and named it A-1 Bookbinding to win the lead spot in the telephone directory. An oral history of Blau's experiences during World War II is online at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bela Blau, hardcover books
1965IY915-266aLos Angeles:: Bela Blau 1965. Hardcover. Like New. Miniature Book. 1 x 3/4 inches. 27 pp. Portrait of Moses depictions of stone tablets with Hebrew text the Ten Commandments in English; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped full red leather marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. IY915-266a. Fine. Handset printed and bound by Bela Blau. Blau published several miniature book editions of the Ten Commandments. This was his first with the variant binding in red leather and elaborate gilt decorations on the front cover. REFERENCE: Bradbury 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books No. 408. Bela Blau, hardcover books
193732947Budapest: Preszler Mihály 1937. Folio. Stapled. Original wrappers with decorative title illustrated by E. Cservenka. 3 1 catalog of works pp. Violin part verso of one leaf. Arranged by Imre Bocskai for violin and piano.<br/><br/>With an autograph inscription in ink to title signed and dated Budapest March 9 1940: "Zsidek Béla Barátomnak igaz szeretettel és hálas köszönettel" To my dear fried Béla Zsidek with love and sincere gratitude.<br/><br/>Together with:<br/>TINKOVAI M.G. A Hegedű. Budapest: Cantate C. 9 1939. 4 pp. Lithographed. Decorative color title with reproduction of photograph of Albert holding violin. 1 page. For voice and piano. Text in Hungarian.<br/>Signed and inscribed to Zsidek as above.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly browned and soiled; very minor rust stain from staples. Rare no copies located.<br/><br/>Hungarian composer and violinist Ferenc Albert Franz/Franćois d'Albert was a popular performer and composer during the interwar period in Budapest. He left Hungary following the war taught in Ireland for several years and eventually settled in Chicago where he became a prominent figure. He served as president of the Chicago Conservatory College from 1959 to 1980 and worked to promote the pedagogical methods of Zoltán Kodály. Preszler Mihály unknown books
189113733.1San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele 208 California Street 1891. 1st edition BAL 1109; Baird & Greenwood 252; Wright III 525. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board variant with leaf 19-8 excised. Modest wear & soiling. Glit a bit dull. Unobtrusive bit of bubbling to rear board. Withal Very Good. 300 2 blank pp. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-13/16" <br/><br/> E. L. G. Steele, 208 California Street hardcover books
1911M2147New York and London:: D. Appleton 1911. 1911. Three volumes. Tall 8vo. About 750 illus. a few in color index. Cloth. Fine. D. Appleton, 1911. hardcover books
1963S4235In:: Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 35 No. 1 January 1963. 1963. 272 x 202 mm. 4to. Pages 1-22. Entire volume: vi 1032 pp. 3 figs. 32 tables. Full orange buckram gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamps those on edges obscured. Ownership name in gilt on top cover. Very good. FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest papers to present conclusions based on the occurrence of superconductivity and as a result of recent experiments on the isotope effect in transition metals and compounds. Bernd Matthias discovered the critical conditions for occurrence of ferroelectricity and superconductivity; and established that ferroelectricity in dielectric transitions and superconductivity in metals at low temperatures are general phenomena. Matthias and his colleagues worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories Murray Hill New Jersey. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 35, No. 1, January, 1963. hardcover books
195035934Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne PN PWM 447 1950. Folio. Wrappers. 17 pp. Notes in Polish French and English. Soprano part with vocalized syllables only.<br/><br/>Inscribed by the composer in ink to head of title signed in full and dated 13 March 1950.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman his signature in ink to upper wrapper.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn and browned at edges; Music loose. Small staple rust stains to inner margins. First Edition first issue. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne [PN PWM 447] unknown books
193640149n. p.: A. G. Spalding & Bros 1936. Original publisher's pebbled blue cloth binding with gilt title stamping to front board. Gilt lettering a bit dull. Age-toning to paper. Overall a VG or better item. Unpaginated though 48 pp. "How to Score a Base Ball Game" p. 48. Paste-downs Spalding adverts. Oblong format: 5-1/2" x 7-3/8" <br/><br/>This scorebook from the mid-30s and was used to record primarily games from the Pacific Coast League. the first scores a game between Sacramento & Hollywood played in Los Angeles July 8 1934. Next comes Sacramento vs Oakland played in Oakland July 15 1934. A total of 23 games are scored including the October 3rd & 4th 1936 World Series games between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. Gerhig hit a home run in each of these two games and such is herein recorded. Further this the first World Series played by the young phenom Joe DiMaggio. All-in-all a desirable piece of baseball history. A. G. Spalding & Bros hardcover books
196561111Dallas TX: Dallas Theater Center 1965. Ten color plates of costume designs each 11 x 8 1/2 in. plus a single cover sheet 2 pp. on glossy paper listing the plates and accompanied by a brief biography of the artist and history of the Dallas Theater Center. The group is housed in its original cardboard portfolio with a glossy illustrated paper label laid down. Some scattered foxing to the introductory page and soiling to the box but plates clean and bright. These set and costume designs for the Dallas Theater Center were the Danish artist and designer Wiinblad's first theatrical designs for an American theater. He notes "For me 'The Tempest' is a wonderful story a fairy tale. in my sets and costumes I am inspired equally by the play and by the stage and room where the performance has to take place. to transfer the audience into another world." Three listings found on OCLC: Arizona State Univ. of Florida Art Inst. of Chicago. <br/><br/> Dallas Theater Center?] unknown books
198232854London: Stainer & Bell 1982. BUSH Geoffrey ed. Stainer & Bell unknown books
195942311Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club 1959. 1st Edition Rocq 6771. Limited to 310 cc. Burlap cloth spine over red patterned cloth boards. Printed paper title label to spine. Plain brown paper dust wrapper. A Fine copy in a VG wrapper. xiii 1 77 3 pp including Index. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Color frontispiece. 9-1/2" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>Includes Prospectus. Sacramento Book Collectors Club hardcover books
190313000Boston: Published by Charles H. Pope 1903. 1st edition. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. VG some wear & spotting to binding/plate 'Pasadena Pumping-Engine' has verso tape reinforcement/pos on front pastedown. 160 pp 3 pp of adverts at rear. Illustrated facing page map as frontis. 8vo. 5" x 6 7/8" <br/><br/>Author claims this the first English-language book on the subject. Tipped-in is a plea to Southern Pacific railwaymen asking them to consider the precepts of this work in the context of railway use. Published by Charles H. Pope hardcover books
191533661Paris: A. Durand & Cie. PN D. & F. 9427 1915. Folio. Original publisher's ivory printed wrappers. Unbound as issued. 36 pp. With "Ch. Douin gr. ." and "Imp. Mounot Nicolas Paris" printed at foot of final page of music. <br/><br/>Occasional performance markings in pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Slightly browned and creased. Lacking separate flute and viola parts. First Edition. Lesure 137.<br/><br/>The present sonata premiered in Paris on 10 December 1916 at Chez Durand.<br/><br/>"One of the most important musicians of his time Debussy's harmonic innovations had a profound influence on generations of composers. He made a decisive move away from Wagnerism in his only complete opera Pelléas et Mélisande and in his works for piano and for orchestra he created new genres and revealed a range of timbre and colour which indicated a highly original musical aesthetic.<br/><br/>"At first the war depressed Debussy into a state of creative sterility from which he produced only the Berceuse héroïque for piano later orchestrated commissioned by the Daily Telegraph for King Albert's Book. The summer of 1915 spent in a villa on the channel coast at Pourville was a productive one: in quick succession he composed the Cello Sonata En blanc et noir the Etudes and the Sonata for flute viola and harp but at the end of the year he underwent a debilitating colostomy for rectal cancer . His last concert appearance was to play the Violin Sonata with Gaston Poulet at St Jean-de-Luz in September 1917." François Lesure and Roy Howat in Grove Music Online. A. Durand & Cie. [PN D. & F. 9427] unknown books
1946102874New York 1946. unbound. 4 pages front and back 11 x 8.5 inches New York September 25 1946. Contract with George Simon Inc. for the song "I Heard Some Good Talk About You" signed by Hawkins and his collaborator Sid Prosen. Natural folds; near fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
24487Octavo. 4 pp. <br/><br/>With autograph signature in pencil.<br/><br/>Somewhat worn soiled and creased. Malcuzyński was a prominent Argentinian pianist of Polish birth. "Effective and stylish in Chopin - he conveyed both the patriotic fervour and the tender poetry of the music - he could be equally convincing in the large-scale works of Liszt notably the Sonata in B minor and Vallée d'Obermann." James Methuen-Campbell in Grove Music Online. unknown books
19852565631985. unbound. 8 x 10-inch black-and-white photo of Vander Meer being mobbed after pitching his second consecutive no-hitter -- a feat never accomplished by any other player in the history of Major League Baseball. No place signed at a much later date circa 1985. Handsomely mounted to a sturdy 12 x 15-inch plaque captioned below the photo with the dates of his historic performances -- 6/11/38 and 6/15/38. Fine condition.<br/><br/> Professional baseball player who spent most of his 13-year career with the Cincinnati Reds.<br/><br/> unknown books
13851Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Striking signed portrait photograph from the American soprano a popular star at the Metropolitan who also sang the world premiere in 1948 of Samuel Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 a work which she commissioned. She is shown in costume as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro posing in a garden. Photographed for the William Morris Agency and boldly signed and inscribed across the image. In fine condition. 8 x 10 inches 20.6 x 25.5 cm. unknown books
9717Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An ebullient 8 x 10 inch photograph of the flamenco dancer and choreographer in a mid-air flamenco pose together with Nila Amparo. Both have signed in blue ink a couple shades on the light side but fully visible and otherwise in In very fine condition. unknown books
1981179272Lesotho 1981. unbound. This 5.75 x 4.25-inch photo is signed by the former Prime Minister of Lesotho and is accompanied by a letter of transmittal on official Kingdom of Lesotho letterhead measuring 11 x 7.25 inches and dated August 12 1981. Fine.<br/><br/> Leabua worked in the mines of South Africa in the 1930s later returned to Basutoland Lesotho and entered politics in 1952. In 1959 he founded the Basutoland National Party and became Prime Minister in 1966.<br/><br/> unknown books
13654Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A rare original photograph signed by the complete members of the great Hungarian quartet the first to record the complete Beethoven Quartets. Jenö Léner first violin Joszef Smilovits second violin Sándor Roth viola and Imre Hartmann cello have signed next to each of their images; the photograph has been slightly trimmed with some loss to Hartmann's and Smilovits' signatures. Slightly wrinkled but otherwise in fine condition. 3 x 5 inches 7.4 x 12.5 cm. unknown books
283174unbound. fine. Signed 20th Century Fox studio promotional photograph black & white 6.5" X 8.5" depicting the actor sitting in a chair smiling ca. 1937. Boldly signed with excellent contrast: "With best wishes Tyrone Power."<br/><br/> American film stage and radio actor who died at age 44 from a massive heart attack while filming a dueling scene for the epic film Solomon & Sheba.<br/><br/> unknown books
