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189091474London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1890. Hardcover. Good. folding map index xiii 503p. Original red cloth. 21cm. Backstrip faded. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Front endpaper split along hinge. Some foxing on endpapers. Contents sound. Tiny "Times Book Club" sticker at base of rear pastedown. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co hardcover books
71752Album. Very good. An elaborately annotated photo album created by Harold Roberts "Bobs" Quinney 1900-72 chronicling his life between 1919 and 1923 including his move to the United States from Ottawa Ontario Canada travel aboard a merchant ship life in New York and his home in Los Angeles. The album is filled with 192 black and white images measuring 2 x 2 1/2". Each of the images is held in place with black paper inset matting and accompanied by handwritten captions written in white pencil. The photo album opens in 1919 with Quinney's trip to New York. There are four photos showing a large gathering of military on the street labeled "the homecoming 1919" referring to soldiers returning from World War I pictures of the Bronx Zoological Park Grant's Tomb Coney Island and other New York sights. In 1920 it would appear he joined the crew of a Standard Oil tanker and visited Mexico the Brazilian Coast and Argentina. A series of 12 photos show travel through the Panama Canal. The album also contains photographs of family and friends then transitions in 1922 to images of Southern California where he took a job as a drug clerk and officially emigrated to the U.S. According to ancestry records Quinney was one of 11 children. He married in 1926 moved to San Francisco and graduated from dental college. The oblong black buckram album and photographs are in very good condition and provide a pictorial story of one young man's new life in America. 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
1990182424Paris: Galerie 1900-2000 1990. Softcover. VG. Illustrated glossy card wrap. 13 pages : illustrations some color portraits. Text in French. Exposition du 10 au 27 juillet 1990. Galerie 1900-2000 unknown books
198262871Salisbury CT 1982. 8vo and 4to. Six pages for the Borland letters approximately 2500 words in part: "specially glad you agree with me that Ruark's best book was 'The Old Man and the Boy.' Most of the other things were tripe 1965 . that review of yours of 'Hill Country Harvest' made me feel like a million bucks and very proud to have written that book 1967 . our river right in the dooryard is too polluted to swim in almost too polluted for fish to endure 1967." Five of the letters are accompanied by their mailing envelopes. Very good lot in all respects. 9745. <br/><br/> unknown books
195026328Celle. Köln: Hermann Moeck Verlag. Charly Oehl PN M.Ch.Oe.15 1950. Folio. Stapled. Original publisher's ivory and blue illustrated wrappers by Schlipphacke. 3 table of contents 4-22 pp. <br/><br/>Publisher's imprint to verso of upper wrapper. Copyright notice "Copyright by Musikverlag Charly Oehl Köln. " to first page of every number. Without title. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Uniformly browned. First Edition of nine numbers from the operetta. Rare. Worldcat 2 copies only at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich.<br/><br/>Richartz was a German composer and conductor who is remembered principally for operettas such as Die tauzende Helena 1941 film music and popular songs. [Hermann Moeck Verlag... Charly Oehl] [PN M.Ch.Oe.15] unknown books
192936346Wien-Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. PN U.E. 8851 1929. Quarto. Full dark blue cloth with titling gilt to spine original publisher's decorative upper wrapper printed in black white and red bound in. 1f. recto title verso copyright 1f. recto cast list verso contents 5-73 i blank pp. Text in German.<br/><br/>With handstamp of "Carl Kulm Musikalien Wien ." and "Musik Antiquariat Doblinger Wien" to lower portion of title and later signature of Frans Lasson to upper inner corner of free front endpaper. First Edition later issue including numbers 11a and 19a and with the Zuhälterballade Macheath Jenny printed as number 12 with two verses the first issue did not include the Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit. Fuld pp. 343-344. KWE I/5 pp. 53-54. Drew p. 197. <br/><br/>The most successful of Weill's collaborations with playwright Bertolt Brecht Die Dreigroschenoper adapted from Peter Gay's The Beggar's Opera London 1728 was first performed in Berlin on August 31 1928. It was quite successful on Broadway in the 1950s its signature tune being the immensely popular Mack the Knife. Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 8851] unknown books
D17552Autograph diary written in pencil signed by Miss Elizabeth Woods of Bowling Green Kentucky. 135 pp. Well educated wealthy American woman's account of seeing Europe; mostly Paris France. Her Southern sensibilities were shocked at seeing a white woman at the same table with a black man. Turns out he was a minister from Haiti and the lady was his wife. Miss Woods saw the Paris Exposition several times; saw Sarah Bernhardt perform; saw President Kruger of South Africa; saw a street where Jews were not allowed to come out after 6pm; describes fancy balls and dinners; shopping for clothes.much of interest. Worn oil cloth binding. Numerous accounts of "charming" or "lovely" people. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1975M13718Koln-Mulheim:: Tropon-Werken 1975. 1975. 8vo. Series: Medizin von heute 21. 100 pp. 94 illustrations some color. Orange & white printed wrappers. Ownership signature of Ulrich Hacker. Fine. Atlas of photographs showing dermatological manifestations. Tropon-Werken, 1975. unknown books
193026824Wien: Universal-Edition A.G. PN U.E. 8206 1930. Folio. Original publisher's wrappers with a catalog of Weill's works to lower. i title i cast list instrumentation and copyright notice 3-51 i blank pp. Facsimile of copyist's manuscript.<br/><br/>Lower wrapper with printed note to foot: "No. 131/XII 1930."<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat soiled; spine slightly frayed. Somewhat browned. First Edition. OCLC no. 165418677.<br/><br/>"Weill was one of the outstanding composers in the generation that came to maturity after World War I and a key figure in the development of modern forms of musical theatre. His successful and innovatory work for Broadway during the 1940s was a development in more popular terms of the exploratory stage works that had made him the foremost avant-garde theatre composer of the Weimar Republic." David Drew and J. Bradford Robinson in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Der Jasager to a libretto by Bertolt Brecht after the Japanese noh play Taniko was first performed at the Zentralinstitut für Erziehung und Unterricht in Berlin on June 23 1930. "In its original form Der Jasager was one of Weill's most successful compositions in Germany receiving more than 300 performances before 1933." Stephen Hinton in Grove Music Online. Universal-Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 8206] unknown books
196132656London: Andre Deutsch 1961. Andre Deutsch 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
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
188413856.2New York: John B. Alden Publisher 1884. 1st US edition thus i.e. by this publisher. Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering/cover device. Square & tight with bright gilt to front cover. Spine ever so slightly darkened. Institutional bookplate on front paste-down & prior owner signature to ffep. Withal a pleasing VG copy. 215 1 blank pp. Frontis. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>"Major General Charles George Gordon CB 28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885 also known as Chinese Gordon Gordon Pasha and Gordon of Khartoum was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. But he made his military reputation in China where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army" a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers. In the early 1860s Gordon and his men were instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion regularly defeating much larger forces. For these accomplishments he was given the nickname "Chinese Gordon" and honours from both the Emperor of China and the British." Wiki. John B. Alden, Publisher hardcover books
19136729Newark: The Carteret Book Club 1913. 1st edition BAL 21226. #41/100cc. Off-white paper-wrapped boards. Paper label on cover. Abt VG sp darkened/some soiling to boards/bpt of James Valentine. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/> The Carteret Book Club hardcover 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
19501529.1London: Andrew Dakers Ltd 1950. 1st edition NCBEL III 830. Orange cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Dust jacket. Printed dark yellow belly band with blurb by "Dr. Edith Sitwell". VG square & tight/spine slightly sun-darkened/VG spine panel a bit sun-tanned. 459 1 blank pp including Index. Publisher info card laid-in. 8vo. <br/><br/>Somewhat uncommon biography of the Inimitable especially so in jacket & with the belly band on which Dame Sitwell states "Mr. Lindsay's study seems to me infinitely the most important long book on Dickens that has appeared." Andrew Dakers Ltd hardcover books
19004801900. Softcover. Good covers soiled and chipped. Green wraps. 200 pp. No illus. 103 artists represented by 270 listed paintings. 17 works by Inness and F.S. Church 14 by Homer Dodge Martin. A famous collection based on the strength of the representation and a valuable reference because of the individual artist biographies provided. Extremely scarce. Each works is described in detail. Prices and buyer names realized are inked in. This copy from the library of Samuel T. Shaw the famous American Art collector with his signature. paperback 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
25478Ca. 140 x 90 mm. <br/><br/>Verso with minor annotations in pencil and printed biographical notes laid down. Bochmann composed music for over 120 German and international films as well as dance stage and popular music. Among his best-known works are Heimat deine Sterne from the film Quax Der Bruchpilot 1941 and Gute Nacht Mutter. German Wikipedia. unknown books
193735118Washington: United States Government Printing Office 1937. Green paper wrappers with black title lettering printed to front wrapper and spine. Lean sunning to extremities ex-library markings with previous inventory number written to title page bookplate to inner front wrapper and card pocket to rear fore-edge of rear wrapper is yapped. Withal a VG copy. xii 506 pp including index. Untrimmed. Profusley illustrated with b/w photographic images and a few maps. Frontis is a color illustration. 9-1/2" x 6" <br/><br/> United States Government Printing Office unknown books
190333523's-Gravenhage: G.H. van Eck 1903. Octavo. Original publisher's full dark brown cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 404 pp. With musical examples. Binding slightly worn. Uniformly browned. G.H. van Eck unknown books
33524London: Novello. Thick octavo. Original publisher's full dark brown cloth with titling gilt to spine. 407 i blank pp. Binding slightly worn; front hinge cracked. Browned. Novello unknown books
1870138661870. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine condition. Vient Gustave. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine Original Franco-Prussian War Battle Scene by Vient. On the nearly barren landscape row after row of foot-soldiers march along the horizon at left. The focal point of the drawing is the artillery a few soldiers on horseback and several horses pulling and three soldiers pushing a cannon. Another group of soldiers on horseback appear at right. They all appear to be rushing towards the battlefield which is visible in the distance with clouds of smoke from fired weapons.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A dashing depiction by the French painter who specialized in landscapes and fans. Vient exhibited at the Salon of 1878-1881. unknown books
19242477Prague. Aventina. 1924. 8vo. Rose colored decorative wrappers. In good condition. A study of the writer journalist Frantisek Kupka Prague1894-1969 on soviet poetry . Type and cover design by Teige and Otakar Mrkvicka 1899-1957. Small repairs at the top and bottom of the spine slight fading on spine. Some annotations on separate inserted pages. Aventina books
