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1928290143New York 1928. unbound. very good. A.L.S. 8vo. 3 pages New York City September 20th 1928 planning a dinner outing with a friend in part: ".I promised to tell you when I was well again and when Tom was through traveling . But though Tom finished his travels. I didn't finish my illness reasonably at all but had stupid recurrences of it up to and including vacation at Big Moose Lake. But now all that is over --- and by this time it's our turn to have you. So won't you consult with Jerry and then tell me when you could come down and have some dinner and good talk" This letter is accompanied by its original holograph mailing envelope postmarked September 20th 1928.<br/><br/> American writer best remembered for her novels 'Gentleman's Agreement' and 'Consenting Adults'.<br/><br/> unknown books
1909135275Paris: Heugel 1909. Hardbound. VG exlibrary with minimal to moderate markings. Wholly usable. Red library buckram. 355 pp. Reprinted chiefly from the plates of G. Hartmann 1881. Text in English and French. Heugel hardcover books
5937410 July 1970 from his estate in Hampshire to Craig Schermer in Cleveland Ohio. Romsey Hampshire 1970. 8vo. Two pages approximately 125 words in part: "To our surprise and disappointment the only letter we can trace from the Empress Alexandra to my mother is one written in 1884 as a schoolgirl and one or two written to me when I was a young child. These contain nothing of any interest . Some of our papers are still in the Hessian Grand Ducal Archives"; accompanied by the original envelope stamp scavenged. Mountbatten served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia during the last years of World War II and oversaw the independence and partitioning of India and Pakistan. Very good. Folded. #6400. <br/><br/> unknown books
19006181NY: American Art Galleries 1900. deluxe. Softcover. VG. Stiff wraps. 36 two tone plates. Catalogue lists 165 works. Limited to 300 copies. Artist index at front includes names like Allori Bronzino Bassano Both Brozik Copley R. Cosway F. Cotes 6 Couture 4 Cuyp both G. Dupont Elias Etty Fyt Gainsborough 5 Gordon Greuze Hanneman 3 Hals Hogarth Hone Honthorst 2 Isabey 2 Jettel 2 Koninck 2 Sir T. Lawrence 2 Sir Peter Lley 6 Mierevelt 4 Morland Opie 2 Sir Henry Raeburn 3 Raestein 5 Rubens 2 Ruisdael Steen Stry Tintoretto 2 Van Dyck 4 Vos 2 many others. These pictures came from the collections of Eugene Fischof of Paris and T.J. Blakeslee of New York. A lovely copy of an auction catalogue containing many noteworthy pictures. All are described in detail. American Art Galleries paperback books
13035Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Interesting press photograph of the marathon pianist Heinz Arntz being shaved by a barber while attempting to set a world record by playing for 43 days straight. Â Arntz set previous records in 1931 and 1950. Original press captions on the verso in French and English dated October 20 1965. Wide white margin at foot; otherwise in fine condition. 15.2 x 20 cm. unknown books
194847717Pawlet Vermont: The Banyan Press 1948. 1st Edition. cf. Edelstein A13. Limited to 500 copies. Olive green semi-stiff wove paper wrappers printed in brown lettering sewn with brown thread. Printed in black lettering on Etruria paper. Leaves untrimmed. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning to edges of wrappers. Some very soiling to wrappers. Internally clean and bright. Unpaginated though 16 pages. Two full page illustrations by Kurt Seligmann printed on Zebu paper. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>This pamphlet was printed with either Orange Bright Green or Olive Green wrappers - "though no priority in the use of these colors" cf. Edelstein A13. We believe this to be Olive Green. The Banyan Press unknown books
19488007baJNew York NY: Harper & Brothers 1948. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. American drama; 183 pages; 22.3cm; black hardcover cloth very good; frontis. photo portrait of author; #338 of 500; 12 page facsimile holograph letter specially bound in; Dustjacket price clipped spine darkened; slip-case very rubbed broken; script. Harper & Brothers Paperback books
189728897Praze Prague: Fr. A. Urbáneck PN U.998. 1897. Small folio. Black-cloth backed black textured paper boards. 1f. recto fine decorative polychrome lithographic title verso blank 3 cast list 4-179 pp.<br/><br/>Binding quite worn; tears to spine. Lower outer corners soiled; signatures split; previous owner's signature to upper outer margin of title. First Edition. <br/><br/>"After Smetana and Dvořák Fibich was the most prominent Czech composer of the second half of the 19th century notably of operas and orchestral and piano music. His concert and stage melodramas were some of the most ambitious and effective ever written and prompted other Czech composers to write in the same genre thus creating a sizable and unique repertory for Czech music." John Tyrrell and Judith A. Mabary in Grove Music Online. Fr. A. Urbáneck [PN U.998.] unknown books
194847717.1Pawlet Vermont: The Banyan Press 1948. 1st Edition. cf. Edelstein A13. Limited to 500 copies. Variant olive green semi-stiff wove paper wrappers without the watermark as noted in Edelstein A13. Printed in brown lettering sewn with brown thread. Text printed in black lettering on Etruria paper. Leaves untrimmed. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning to back strip and top-edge. Internally clean and bright. Unpaginated though 16 pages. Two full page illustrations by Kurt Seligmann printed on Zebu paper. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>This pamphlet was printed with either Orange Bright Green or Olive Green wrappers - "though no priority in the use of these colors" cf. Edelstein A13. We believe this to be Olive Green. The Banyan Press unknown books
295743 ff. two quarto and one folio on page blank. Folio and quarto. With 19-line typed addendum stapled to page 1 acknowledging Luening's membership in the American Composers Alliance and regarding performing rights payments etc. 88 x 216 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn; creased at folds; two file holes to upper margin. Best known as a pioneer of electronic music Otto Luening was an American composer conductor flutist and teacher as well as an ardent supporter of contemporary music. During his lengthy and prolific career Luening produced more than 350 compositions in a variety of styles mostly chamber music. Yet his experimental and electronic arrangements - comprising only a small fraction of his life's work - marked him as an innovator in the field. Although he never attained the fame of such composers as Aaron Copland George Antheil or Henry Cowell music historians acknowledge Luening's substantial contribution to an American style of music unbound by European traditions. With the Russian-born composer Vladimir Ussachevsky Luening presented the first American electronics concert at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on October 28 1952. Also with Ussachevsky Luening established the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center - the first workshop of its kind in the United States - in Manhattan in 1960." Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music<br/><br/>The present work scored for soprano chorus and piano or organ was composed in "about 1933" according to a manuscript note made by Luening on the contract although the Pytheas Center dates it at 1931. unknown books
19136729.1Newark: The Carteret Book Club 1913. 1st edition BAL 21226. #97/100cc. Off-white paper-wrapped boards. Paper label on cover. Slipcase. Nr Fine minor soiling/bpt on front pastedown. Slipcase - VG avg wear & soiling. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/> The Carteret Book Club hardcover books
186233542New York: Putnam 532 Broadway 1862. 1st edition Harris Collection p. 116. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stampd title lettering to spine. Dull pale yellow eps. General extremity wear with rear joint cloth starting at bottom 2". Period poi to ffep. A VG copy. 251 1 blank pp. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Putnam, 532 Broadway hardcover books
188027918London: Chappell PN 16997 1880. Quarto. Original publisher's textured brown cloth boards stamped in black titling gilt to upper. i title ii blank iii dedication iv blank v index vi blank vii-x 215 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Small composer's facsimile signature handstamp to title.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed bumped and shaken; previous owner's signature "WSA Griffith" to front free endpaper. Some internal wear; annotations to title. First Edition.<br/><br/>Composed for and first performed at the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival October 15 1880.<br/><br/>"A mark of esteem was Sullivan's appointment as conductor of the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival from 1880: he launched there his new oratorio 'sacred music drama' The Martyr of Antioch in that year." Arthur Jacobs in Grove Music Online. Chappell [PN 16997] unknown books
23956Signed by the photographer Herbert Mitchell in white ink at lower left. Ca. 251 x 202 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled. American contralto Gladys Swarthout "studied singing in Chicago making her operatic début there in 1924 as the Shepherd-boy in Tosca; the following year she sang Carmen at Ravinia. Her début role at the Metropolitan was La Cieca La Gioconda 1929; she performed there regularly until 1945 as Siébel Preziosilla Adalgisa and - her most famous roles - Mignon and Carmen. She also sang in the première of Hanson's Merry Mount 1934. After 1954 she retired to Florence." Swarthout had a "fine well-placed voice" and a beautiful but placid stage presence. She starred in five films for Paramount Pictures. Max de Schauensee in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Mitchell 1898-1980 was a noted photographer of theatrical celebrities in the 1930s with a studio on Broadway in New York City. unknown books
1979GG01428Toronto:: The Pendomer Press 1979. 1979. 4to. 200 pp. Numerous illus. 11 in color. Cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. Printed by The Scolar Press Ilkley. "While at the RCA Bliss became a close friend of Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. Encouraged and inspired by Paul Nash who was then teaching design at the Royal College of Art he and Ravilious taught themselves wood engraving. Bliss was well known as a wood engraver and as a historian of wood engraving although he was also known as a painter of watercolour landscapes. He selected and engraved Border Ballads for Oxford University Press in 1925 and wrote his History of Wood Engraving in 1928. He also illustrated many books throughout his lifetime before returning to painting watercolours in the 1980s. He was elected a member of the SWE 1934 and RBA 1939. He retired to Windley Cottage near Derby and was soon invited to become a Governor of the local art college Derby School of Art. Bliss died on 11 March 1984". Locations: National Library of Australia UCD UCLA UCR UCSB The Pendomer Press, [1979]. hardcover books
194058501940. unbound. Vintage 10 x 8-inch black-and-white photograph of the singer and radio star inscribed to John Corigliano. This photo shows Dragonette seated at an open grand piano wearing a white blouse and pearls looking through a book of sheet music. Includes a CBS Photo seal on the bottom right corner. No place no date circa 1940. Tiny creases at the corners; very good- condition.<br/><br/> Inscription: "For John Corigliano Souvenir of our music-making together. Cordially yours Jessica Dragonette."<br/><br/> unknown books
291458Jonesville VA. unbound. very good. Exceptional signature: "A. L. Pridemore - Jonesville - VA" executed on a 5.5" x 1.5" slip of paper. Fine condition.<br/><br/> American politician from Virginia who also served as an officer fighting for the Confederate States of America. During the Civil War Pridemore raised a company of Volunteer Infantry for the Pound Gap Battalion of the Confederate Army and was commissioned as its Captain on October 17th 1861. In June 1862 he received a promotion of Major. Following reorganization after the Battle of Cumberland Gap his unit was reconstituted as Company S of the 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry under Colonel Campbell Slemp and Pridemore became a Lieutenant Colonel on December 14th 1862. He was promoted to full Colonel in 1864 and commanded the 64th Virginia Cavalry until the end of the war.<br/><br/> unknown books
185444142New York: John Wiley 1854. 1st US Edition NCBEL III 1344. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Pale yellow eps. Slight lean. Spine sunned. Bookseller ticket Whipple & Son Salem & presentation bookplate to California School for the Deaf to front paste-down. Period prior owner signature to ffep. Withal a VG copy. vi 7 - 189 3 blanks pp. Tipped-in advert leaf before frontispiece. Illustrated with 15 lithographed plates "Sarony & Co. Lith N. Y.". 12mo. <br/><br/> John Wiley hardcover books
185429047Paris: Alex. Grus ainé PN A.G. 1548 1854. Large octavo. Disbound. 1f. recto title within double-ruled border verso blank i named cast list and contents 2-136 pp. Engraved. <br/><br/>Named cast includes Bussine Ste. Foy Pallanti Melles. Boulart and Lemercier.<br/><br/>Minor soiling to title with small publisher's oval handstamps to lower margin. First Edition. <br/><br/>Boulanger father of French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger 1887-1979 was a singing treacher at the Conservatoire. Best known for his comic operas he won the Prix de Rome in 1836. First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1854 Les Sabots was his most popular work. Alex. Grus ainé [PN A.G. 1548] unknown books
194534085New York: Composer's Facsimile Edition 1945. Folio. Gray cardstock wrappers with titling in manuscript to uppers and typeset titling on tape to spines. 1f. title 34 pp. 4 parts: Violin 1: 11 pp.; Violin 2: 10 pp.; Viola: 9 pp.; Cello: 11 pp. <br/>Reproduction of composer's manuscript.<br/><br/>Very lightly browned; minor creases to some corners. Overall good condition. First Edition. Rare 4 copies only located in OCLC.<br/><br/>Composed 1928; premiered in Saratoga Springs NY at the Yaddo Festival in 1935 by Walden String Quartet.<br/><br/>"Although he is probably best known for his tape and electronic music much of Otto Luening's output consists of solo and chamber music for traditional instrumental combinations. There are more than 40 orchestral works 50 songs the opera Evangeline the oratorio No Jerusalem But This and music for plays. The threads that run through the almost mind-boggling diversity of Luening's work are the solidity of his knowledge and technique his use of a harmonic practice derived from the overtones of the harmonic series and above all the strength of his wit. A dry and sophisticated humor is an important part of Luening's personality and a strong component of his teaching technique; it is also a major and often overlooked quality of his music. <br/><br/>"The string quartet no. 3 was composed in 1928 and is dedicated to the arts administrator Oliver Daniel who with Luening and Douglas Moore co-founded CRI in 1954. It is a more original and exuberant work with strong tonal elements and a clear elegant form. There are three movements: a "sonata" with themes and development that is followed without pause by a charming and surprising pastorale in F and a finale which is typically for a composer who can never sit still made up of 21 suave and witty variations on a twelve-tone theme." Liner notes: "Otto Luening: Chamber Works"; CR716. Composer's Facsimile Edition unknown books
189922474.11899. Hardcover. VG inside new cloth spine with original boards retained. Boards. 32 bw plates. Lists 271 works by American and European artists. Quite a nice copy overall but outer hinges are split. Includes a selected bibliography for many of the included artists at the rear. hardcover books
1973M6530Springfield IL:: Charles C. Thomas 1973. 1973. 235 x 158 mm. 8vo. vii 139 pp. 56 figs. 4 tables bibliog. index. Brown cloth gilt spine dust-jacket. Ownership signature of Edwin M. Todd. Fine. Charles C. Thomas, (1973). hardcover books
1961265633New York 1961. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 5.5 inches Columbia University New York Department of Greek and Latin September 30 1961. Written to Professor Aaron Noland The City College New York possibly planning a curriculum in large part: "In regard to topics for future meetings my personal preference would be No. 10 - Humanism. I have no comments on other matters." Horizontal folds; near fine condition.<br/><br/> American educator and classical scholar best known for his long-time affiliation with Columbia University.<br/><br/> unknown books
1964285139New York 1964. unbound. very good. A.L.S. 4to. 2 full pages personal letterhead New York City July 16 1964 sending the recipient Ex-Libris plate designs in part: ".Dr. Paul de Zarn was the physician to President Kennedy and is our doctor and is one of the best specialists for allergies. All I have at this point is this print made by hand on Chinese paper. I hope you do not mind. William G. Donovan was a General. He died a few years ago. The center of his design was supposed to be used without lettering. as a kind of Coat of Arms." Boldly signed and in very good condition.<br/><br/> German-born American artist and graphic designer who studied under Rudolph Kock. Donovan was the founder of the OSS- the precursor of the CIA.<br/><br/> unknown books
1882S4219Offprint from:: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Part IV 1882. 1882. 299 x 239 mm. 4to. ii 1181-1413 1 blank pp. Numerous tables including 3 folding. Original printed wrappers; top cover LACKING. Ex library rubber stamps. Very good. John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert collaborated for more than fifty years as they built the Lawes's estate of Rothamsted into a world-famous institution of agricultural chemistry. In 1834 Lawes inherited the manor and estate of Rothamsted after studying at Eton and Oxford without taking a degree. Lawes used what he learned from agricultural experiments to produce "super-phosphate" and other products by which he became quite rich. In 1889 Lawes put Rothamsted under the control of the Lawes Agricultural Trust with an endowment of £100000 so that its work would not cease with his death. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Part IV, 1882. unknown books
