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WRCLIT70195Washington DC War Production Board / GPO. 1942. Folio color photolithographic broadside 40 x 28" 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. Faint tanning to folds on blank verso otherwise a lovely fresh unused copy. A striking contribution to the war production effort by the San Francisco artist and illustrator produced during his brief tenure on the east coast 1939-1945. The image is printed in black and shades of blue and gray and depicts a helmeted soldier manning an anti-aircraft gun focusing on the sky. Three planes recede into the upper background below the blue letterpress. Washington, DC 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
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
003518West Germany. NA. Very Good. N.d. late 1940s to early 1950s. The largest block measures 22 cm or 8.5 inches square and the smallest 6 cm or 2.5 inches with each successive block about 1.5 cm or .5 inches larger than the preceding one. The illustrations applied to a particular block tend to have some element in common -- fruits on one or farm animals teddy bears or some other cohesive element with the largest and most prominent block being the one that is always exposed showing scenes from fairy tales. Ilse Lungershausen was a prolific illustrator of children's books and toys. The fairy tale scenes in particular will bring to mind Disney style and some of the other illustrations have a kinship to other mid-20th century juvenile illustration such as the Sally Dick and Jane primers used in the English-speaking world. The Snow White litho on the largest block has loss on the bottom running between one and two inches tall and representing perhaps 15 percent of the image and the wood behind this paper loss is also a little chewed up. Otherwise some wear along the edges both of the paper and the wood but all the other images barring a few trivial losses are virtually entirely intact. <br/><br/> unknown books
300751New York: Charles Magnus 61 Bowery. Most bifoliums. 4to Largest 21" x 9-1/2" unfolded. Mostly fine. Provenance: Estate of James and Katherine Abbe Long Island New York. Most bifoliums. 4to Largest 21" x 9-1/2" unfolded. A lovely group of lettersheets by Charles Magnus entirely typical of his output. Lettersheets were a convenient and thrifty form of stationery in an era which postage was calculated on the number of sheets used. Folded in half these four pages were charged as a single page.<br/><br/>Charles Magnus emigrated to New York with his family in the late 1840s. His older brother published the weekly German language newspaper Deutsche Schnellpost and it was there that Charles learned the trade eventually going out on his own. In the guises of a publisher map dealer bookseller and stationer he issued more than a thousand pieces of illustrated stationery - lettersheets envelopes song sheets as well as prints - usually copying the work from other sources without attribution sometimes altering the images slightly. He continued to use lithography and hand-coloring long after other publishers turned to photomechanical reproduction processes. Charles Magnus, 61 Bowery unknown books
186762744New York NY: Charles Magnus 12 Frankfort St 1867. A collection of 360 images including several numbered sets. The majority approx. 280 are printed in bronze or sepia ink plus approx. 73 hand or stencil colored and 7 in green ink. All are printed on individual envelope-sized sheets most 3 x 5 1/2 in. but none are full envelopes. The majority are blank on verso and show no signs of mounting some few are backed with blue yellow or pink paper sheets trimmed to fit. All but a dozen or so bear the imprint of "Chas. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. NY." At least one has a Sachse imprint the other handful without imprint are all in the style of Magnus. All are in very good condition. <br/>The several sets include: 1 36 images in bronze ink not consecutively numbered of military hospitals encampments and batteries; 2 12 numbered images in bronze ink of various Civil War battles; 3 12 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Movement of the Army from Washington to Richmond" caption title; 4 11 of 12 numbered images in bronze ink lacking #9 of the "Battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 3 1863" caption title; 5 3 numbered images in bronze ink "Long Bridge Washington By Moonlight" caption title plus copies of two hand or stencil colored; 6 5 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Battle of Winchester under Gen. Shields" cation title; 7 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Siege and Capture of Fort Donelson" caption title plus copies of 8 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 8 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Camp Scene from Photograph" caption title plus copies of 7 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 9 12 unnumbered images of Maj. Gen. McClellan and his Generals in bronze ink; 10 two unnumbered sets of 12 each in bronze ink of various Generals portraits over a banner "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved" and accompanied by a full battle map of the U.S.; 11 10 unnumbered images in bronze ink of various Generals portraits each inset on a battle map plus copies of all 10 hand or stencil colored; 12 4 numbered images in bronze ink "Battle of New Bern NC" caption title.<br/>Additional images depict various Union Generals singly or in groups; the Battle of Bull Run; McClellan's Advance on Richmond; the Engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac; etc. many with caption titles. Charles Magnus a German immigrant was a prolific publisher of lithographed material in New York City including maps and city views and during the Civil War pro- Union patriotic covers stationery and songsheets. He experimented with various colors of ink including the bronze and sepia colors represented in this group and was known for the quality of his printing techniques. <br/><br/> Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St 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
1888253042Farmington Ct. 1888. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Old fold lines. Near fine. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Letter written by Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's School for Girls to a friend and possibly former student regretfully declining an invitation to her wedding. Miss Porter studied privately with Yale Professors. and her brother Noah later became President of Yale. She was an opponent of women's suffrage. <br/>She notes in this letter that affairs at the school will keep her far too busy to make the journey. Sarah Porter 1813-1900 founded her school in Farmington in 1843 setting it up as an institution at which girls could receive a well-rounded academic education. She writes in part:<br/> <br/>"My dear Mary I thank you heartily that you have desired me as one of your wedding guests and I should be very happy in being with you at this so happy moment of your life. I could not easily under any circumstances easily leave school for so long a time as a journey to Newton would require - but now Mr. Brandt's wretched health renders him unable to teach and his classes fall daily into my care so that my place is daily here. Your own and your brother's wedding at once will not only doubly crown the day but give promise to multiplied successive anniversaries. unknown books
1937122606Atlanta 1937. unbound. 1 page 11 x 7.25 inches Atlanta June 29 1937. Rare letter signed "Margaret Mitchell Marsh" declining an invitation to a party because it conflicts with her wedding anniversary in full: "Dear Miss Hall: Sue Myrick forwarded to me your invitation and John and I appreciate it so very much. I know the party will be lots of fun and I only wish we could come but Sunday is our wedding anniversary and we have already made plans to spend it with friends. I admit that the temptation to break this engagement is strong because I liked Milledgeville so much when I was there at the Press meeting. And also I would love to attend your party as Prissy. That is the only role my size would warrant. The costume would be cheap too --just a croker sack and ten cents' worth of shoe polish. We do appreciate your invitation so much and I shall look forward to Sue's description of the party." Two horizontal folds and slight foxing; very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown 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
18971318649London: Longmans Green And Co 1897. Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; G- condition hardcovers; Spine brown leather with gold print raised bands; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners marbled paper to boards worn exposed corners hinges and spine caps narrow tear to top edge of vol. 1 paper worn off some edges some separation at top joint of volume 1 front board of volume 2 detached but present; Text blocks have gilt edges cracked hinges bookplate on front pastedown of vol. 1 top corners clipped on pages 599-612 vol. 2 mild age-toning to paper; 2 volumes xxxvi 864 pages. See all three photos for details.<br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p> This book is part of the overstocked 15's kept in Room X atop one of the bookcases. 1318649. FP New Rockville Stock. Longmans, Green, And Co hardcover books
P004216St. Petersburg: V drukarniakh Tiblena i komp. i Kulisha 1864. Large octavo 26 Ã 17 cm. Recent half-calf binding over five raised bands with gilt title to spine and marbled edges; VII 1 2-304 1 II-XVII pp. Owner signature to title page Zinovii Bilenko. Occasional markings in pen in the margins else very good. First edition. Considered the finest achievement in Slavic paroemiology of its time this collection of Ukrainian riddles and proverbs was assembled by the Ukrainian ethnographer folklorist writer and educator Matvii Nomys pseudonym of Matvii Symonov; 1823-1900. The proverbs cover the most diverse spheres of life customs and beliefs of the Ukrainian people and contributed to the development of national consciousness in Ukraine then a part of the Russian Empire. The book is divided into two parts: the first part in 20 chapters contains 14339 proverbs and sayings the smaller second part offers 505 riddles. <br/><br/>The collection includes proverbs collected not only by Nomys but also by other prominent Ukrainian writers and ethnographers such as the brothers Mykola and Vasyl Bilozerski Panteleimon Kulish Vasyl Lazarevsky Stepan Rudansky and the husband and wife folklorists Opanas Markovych and Marko Vovchok. In the 1840s many of these writers belonged to the secret political society called Cyril and Mythodius Brotherhood with Ukrainian national rebirth as its focus. The Brotherhood advocated the abolition of serfdom literacy and education for the broad masses the possibility for all Slavic nations to develop their language and culture and the unification of all Slavic nations with their center in Kiev. The society was quickly apprehended and its members which numbered at about 100 variously arrested and temporarily exiled in 1847. The brief existence of the society 1846-1847 left a mark on the Ukrainian intellectual milieu and many of the participants continued the project of building national consciousness by other means such as through collecting folklore. The publication of this collection gave a powerful impetus to the further development of Ukrainian paremiography with the second edition published in 1885 and a manuscript facsimile released in 1928. The edition was also confiscated following Alexander II's 1876 Ems Ukase which prohibited the use and dissemination of Ukrainian-language documents. This copy from the library of Ukrainian writer Zinovii Bilenko 1909-1979. KVK OCLC show this edition at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek IISG Monash Ottawa Princeton Toronto UCL and Urbana Champaign. hardcover 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
19632832401963. unbound. fine. Signed photograph "Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit" 4 ½ X 6 ½ black & white matte-finish. An original J. Allen Cash photograph with back stamp depicting the Stateswoman wearing traditional garb while seated. This photograph was most likely taken while she was serving as Nehru%u2019s "special" envoy to Great Britain. Fine.<br/><br/> Indian diplomat and politician. She was the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru the Aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi each of whom served as Prime Minister of India.<br/><br/> unknown books
19771331995Firenze: Presso l'Accademia della Crusca 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth mild bump to spine head light shelfwear; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf library stamp on title page verso and on rear flyleaf else clean and tight light age-toning to paper; Text in Italian; 163 pages. 1331995. FP New Rockville Stock. Presso l'Accademia della Crusca hardcover books
19005747Boston: Noyes Platt & Company 1900. Hardcover. VG. Red cloth. 110 48 pp. 48 bw plates. Includes biographical paragraphs on every American artist who was represented at the 1900 Exposition. Lists 255 paintings 160 drawings and illustrations 41 miniatures 69 works of sculpture 56 architecture entries and 3 mural decorations. Quite rare. Noyes, Platt & Company hardcover books
1927S0464In:: Zeitschrift fur physik 41 1927. 1927. pp. 81-103. 8vo. Navy cloth gilt stamped spine. Ex library Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory with call number gilt stamped on spine and library blind-stamp on front free end paper. Clean copy handsomely bound; covers lightly freckled else fine. RARE. FIRST EDITION. PROBABILITY OF A MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEM INTRODUCED. This paper deals with gas degeneracy and paramagnetism. In a footnote note 1 p. 83 Pauli introduced for the first time the probability for a many-particle system with coordinates q1. . .qf: "q1. . .qf .dq1. . .dqf is the probability that in the relevant quantum state of the system the coordinates simultaneously lie in the relevant volume element of configuration space." Thus Pauli's paper is a contribution to the ongoing problem of the appropriate application of Bose-Einstein statistics or Fermi-Dirac statistics. In this paper Pauli wrote "We shall take the point of view also advocated by Dirac that the Fermi and not the Einstein-Bose statistics applies to the material gas" thus clearing up the matter. See Pais Inward bound p. 258; Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 432 and 285. The following articles by important contributors are included in volume 41: with: LAUE Max von 1879-1960 & Lise MEITNER 1878-1968. "Die berechnung der reichweitestreuung aus Wilson-Aufnahmen." In: Zeitschrift fur physik 41 1927 pp. 397-406. In this paper Meitner and von Laue report their inconclusive efforts to test a theoretical formula of Bohr's that related statistical variations in range to the mechanism by which alpha particles lost energy to the atoms they encountered. Sime Meitner p. 113-114. Zeitschrift fur physik, 41 (1927). hardcover books
1933S6819In: Annalen der Physik 5th Series Vol. 18 1933. Leipzig:: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1933. 1933. 8vo. 305-336; 337-372 pp. Minor ink scribbling in margin at page 335. Quarter black cloth paste-paper over boards gilt spine. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "In the first part of his paper Pauli gave a beautiful account of this projective geometry and its tensor analysis which were developed from first principles and he formulated the Einstein-Maxwell equations in projective coordinates. The second part dealt with the incorporation of spinors and of Dirac's equation into this geometrical structure. In my opinion this is by far the most satisfactory exposition of spinors in general relativity – quite independent of the problems of a unified field theory." Bargmann. Wolfgang Pauli's work on relativity which began with his article on the theory of relativity for the Encyklopadie der mathematischen Wissenschaften in 1921 ed. Felix Klein when Pauli was twenty years old established Pauli as a scientist of rare depth and of an unsurpassed power of both synthesis and critical analysis. Bargmann "Relativity" in Fierz & Weisskopf eds. Theoretical physics in the twentieth century pp. 196-197; DSB X pp. 422-425; Enz No time to be brief pp. 263-270; Pais The genius of science pp. 141-142. Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1933. hardcover books
1871S13836Boston:: Noyes Holmes and Company 1871. 1871. 195 x 125 mm. Small 8vo. vi 292 pp. Figs. illus. plates. Title printed in chromolithography; pp.74-5 with off-setting. Original green cloth stamped in black- and gilt; corners worn spine extremities worn some signatures springing from gutter. Bookplate. Good. First edition. This work went through at least three editions and the bindings differ this one is green cloth with black & gilt stamping. The text tells a melodramatic story of Gutenberg's life and a history of printing and its processes how books are made etc. including the beginning of printing in China stencils waxen tablets engraving etc. Full of anecdotes. Also talks of the differences in the variety of type type-setting machinery stereotyping the hand-press books for the blind etc. Emily Clemens Pearson was a writer from New England residing variously in Granby Connecticut Portland Maine Warsaw Virginia and Andover Mass. She died in Winchester Massachusetts. Her books were meant for children and she is known to have written accounts of slavery. Noyes, Holmes and Company, 1871. hardcover books
190018151900. Softbound. VG. Wraps. 90 plates pp. 24 bw plates. Catalogue lists works in sections of Oil Watercolors and Others and Sculpture. Numbering is not consecutive. Small tape on spine. 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
1899224741899. Hardcover. VG inside but front inner hinge cracked fron cover off. 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
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
18991559941899. Hardcover. Covers loose spine missing contents VG. Boards. 31 bw plates. Lists 258 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
189957291899. Hardcover. VG- some chipping to spine small label at top of cover. Boards. 31 bw plates. Lists 258 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
