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158795438London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Preferred second edition of the greatest Elizabethan repository of English history which served as an important source for Shakespeare's plays. Folios 3 volumes bound into 2 bound in full calf gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands red morocco spine labels gilt ruled woodcut initials and title pages. Separate title pages and pagination for The Description and Historie of England The Description and Historie of Ireland and The Description and Historie of Scotland comprising volume 1. When this expanded second edition of the Chronicles appeared in January 1587 the Privy Council responding to Queen Elizabeth's displeasure at certain passages ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall and censure the work; as a result extensive cancellations 74 pages were made of offending sections in Volumes II and III. The censors removed "all references to English intervention in Scottish politics raised the profile of the Earl of Leicester and distanced England from Elizabeth's one time suitor the Duc d'Alencon. Any accounts of trials and executions were altered to ensure proceedings were unequivocally portrayed as being fair and legal" King's College London. The work of altering the entire edition of the Chronicles was rather haphazardly carried out so that the sections affected vary from copy to copy. In this copy all of the offending sections are cancelled or excised. A nice example scarce and desirable. An immediate success upon publication Holinshed's Chronicles "form a very valuable repertory of historical information. The enormous number of authorities cited attests Holinshed's and his successors' industry. The style is clear although never elevated and the chronicler fully justified his claim 'to have had an especial eye unto the truth of things" DNB. As the foremost British history available at the time the Chronicles did more to shape Elizabethan literature than any English historical work. "The Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots from Holinshed's pages" and this second edition is demonstrably the edition employed by Shakespeare as the principal source of his "history" plays. "Both W. G. Boswell-Stone and H. R. D. Anders have shown that it was this second edition which Shakespeare employed as the source sole or part of ten of his plays" Pforzheimer 494 note. "Nearly all of the historical plays as well as Macbeth King Lear and part of Cymbeline are based on Holinshed" DNB. In fact Shakespeare drew not only his plots from Holinshed but occasionally his phrases. The complete story of the rise and fall of Macbeth can be found in the Scottish history Part III pp. 170-76 and the Chronicles' eloquent descriptions intimate at times the very wording of Shakespeare's drama: Macbeth is described as "a valiant gentleman and one that if he had not beene somewhat cruell of nature might have beene thought most worthie the governement of a realme"; the three "weird sisters. women in straunge and wild apparell resembling creatures of elder world" deliver to Macbeth and Banquo the fateful prophecies; and in the final battle Macduffe reveals that "I am even he that thy wizzards have told thee of who was never borne out of my mother but ripped out of her wombe" Whitaker Shakespeare's Use of Learning. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke hardcover books
15872142London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Second Edition. 18th-century calf rebacked. Very Good. THE SECOND EDITION 1587 OF HOLINSHED'S "CHRONICLES": THE BOOK AND THE EDITION USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SOURCE FOR A DOZEN OF HIS PLAYS. "In 1548 the prominent London printer and bookseller Reyner or Reginald Wolfe ambitiously decided to produce a universal history and cosmography. of the world. After Wolfe's death in 1573 his assistant Raphael Holinshed took over the project hired more writers and restrained its scope to the British Isles. The Chronicles was first published in 1577 in a two-volume folio edition illustrated with numerous woodcuts. After Holinshed's death in 1580 Abraham Fleming published the significantly expanded revised second edition of 1587 in a larger folio format this time without illustrations" British Library. By scholarly consensus it is the second 1587 edition offered here that Shakespeare used as the source of many of plays: "Shakespeare used Holinshed as a source for more than a third of his plays including Macbeth King Lear and the English history plays such as Richard III. He used it in a range of ways sometimes following the text of the Chronicles closely even echoing its words and phrases; sometimes using it as an inspiration for plot details; and at other times deviating from its account altogether either preferring other sources or his own imagination. Comparing Shakespeare's plays to Holinshed and other sources can provide rich insight into his creative intentions and processes as well as giving us an idea of some of the context in which Shakespeare's contemporary audiences would have understood his plays" British Library. The major use that Shakespeare made of Holinshed was certainly in the British history plays: "Queen Elizabeth herself said that Shakespeare's history plays existed 'aswell for the recreacion of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure.' Both sovereign and subject certainly found much comfort and recreation in Shakespeare's histories because they stage a thematic movement that shapes Holinshed's Chronicles 1377-1485; from the death of a frequently chaotic violently chivalric medieval world to the birth of the 'Peaceable and Prosperous' early modern commonwealth of their day. "An astute reader Shakespeare transformed into the medium of drama four major political themes and messages taught by Holinshed and his successors who enlarged the 1587 text: the ideal and decorum of English kingship the role of France in English public discourse the idea of Englishness and the idea of the commonwealth." Igor Dhjordjevic "Shakespeare and Medieval History" Oxford Handbook. On the bibliography of the 1587 edition: In February 1587 the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered by the Privy Council to recall and censor "reform" the book on the grounds that the new material in the second edition included "sundry things which we wish had bene better considered; forasmuch as the same booke doth also conteyne reporte of matters of later yeeres i.e. the reign of Elizabeth I that concern the State and that "ther is inserted such mention of matter touching the King of Scottes as may give him cause of offence." As a result some 16 pages in volume II and almost 150 pages in volume III were excised "castrated" and replaced by a much smaller number of pages only seven leaves in volume III to paper over the gaps. The censors however neglected the index which continued to contain references to the excised pages. In the early eighteenth century three separate publishers issued sets of replacement leaves that collectors could use to complete their castrated sets of the 1587 edition. Cyndia Susan Clegg "Censorship" in Oxford Handbook; Keith L. Maslen "Three Eighteenth Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles" The Library 5th Series. There is wide variation among the surviving sets of the second edition partly because of the presence of three different eighteenth century sets of replacement leaves and partly because the original sixteenth century castrations and replacements were apparently not applied consistently to all of the then-existing sets. Some sets now have one or more of the castrated pages; some have the sixteenth century replacement pages; some have the eighteenth century replacement pages; and some are mixed-and-matched. Thus "no two copies of Holinshed's Chronicles. are likely to have identical text" Randall McLeod "Cronicling Holinshed's Chronicles: Textual Commentary" in "The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles" 2005. In the copy offered here the replacement leaves in volume III appear to conform to the set issued in 1722/1723 by William Mears Fletcher Gyles and James Woodman "The castrations of the last edition of Holinshed's Chronicle: both in the Scotch and English parts containing forty four sheets; printed with the old types and ligatures and compared literatim by the original". However volume II of the offered copy does not include a complete set of the 18th-centurty replacement leaves and the replacement pages that are present do not conform to the Mears/Gyles/Woodman set. Thus this volume most likely contains the publisher's original sixteenth-century replacement leaves. Castrated pages 421-24 are here replaced by a single leaf with the recto numbered 421 and the verso numbered 424; 432-38 are replaced by a single page 433 and 443-50 are replaced by two leaves numbered 443/444 and 445/450. Provenance: With stamps on titles and privilege leaves from "Bibliotheca Regia" an unidentified Royal library including the de-accession stamps "Double Vendu". London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Folio 234x363mm eighteenth-century calf rebacked. Some wear to boards. Text extraordinarily clean with wide margins. A beautiful and important set. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke unknown books
2723Paris: Librairie Des Editions Modernes. Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. First Thus. Elegant French erotica translated into English "the suppressed English edition" circa 1920. Special issue with 2 original signed-- by the artist Malay-- erotic watercolors bound-in. Octavo 126 pgs. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 calf over green linen. 5 raised bands bright gilt-decorated compartments and bright gilt-letttering along spine. Original pictorial wrapper very saucy bound-in as well. New marbled endpapers top-edge gilt. A solid VG copy with light fraying along spine creases and light scuffing along front panel. Internally very clean. Wonderfully-illustrated early 20th century French erotica. Signed by Illustrator. <br/><br/> Librairie Des Editions Modernes hardcover books
19852635New York: Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press 1985. First Edition Thus. Loose Signatures. Fine. Bright and unmarred. fo. 32pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed by Neel and Soyer. Unnumbered. <br/><br/>This is a set of loose signatures of Poe's classic tale printed by the Anthoensen Press on mould-made paper designed by Ben Shiff and hand-set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The bound copies were bound by John Isakovics in hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison. Alice Neel died shortly before the publication of this volume and the images are dark and exceptional and include her stunning skull "self-portrait" the last not present in the loose signatures. The printer brought blank pages to Neel to sign and she signed approximately 400 of them before she passed away. This copy is additionally interesting as it was a printer's proof from Anthoensen Press and is unnumbered. Signed by Neel and Soyer. Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press unknown books
2007240740Durham: Duke University Press 2007. Paperback. 99p. personal isncription signed by the poet very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Cuban American physician harvard professor and poet. His fifth collection. Duke University Press paperback books
1991264750New York: St. Martin's Press 1991. Hardcover. xiii 351p. preface introduction appendix notes selected secondary bibliography index fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Critical study. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
2000163954New York: Walker & Co 2000. Hardcover. 227p. fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Second novel in the series. Mystery featuring gay sleuth Nick Hoffman. Gunn page 210. Walker & Co hardcover books
199470647Albuquerque: Zerx Press 1994. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Albuquerque: Zerx Press unknown books
1999163857New York: Walker and Company 1999. Hardcover. 276p. very good first edition first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Gunn p. 210-211. Walker and Company hardcover books
1995158961New York: Vantage Press 1995. 90p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Self-published vanity press erotic thriller set in San Francisco. Personal inscription signed by the author. Vantage Press unknown books
1962146956Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1962. Octavo 464 pp. illustrations cloth. First edition. Comprises selected chapters from Semmes' MEMOIRS OF SERVICE AFLOAT DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 1869. Some tanning to spine panel and along inner hinges a very good copy in very good dust jacket with some wear and shallow fraying at edges. #146956 Indiana University Press unknown books
179242hardcover. thick 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Knopf 1926. With the bookplate of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> unknown books
1925312466Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1925. First U.S. edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth fine. Dust jacket near fine slightly bumped corners minor chipping at head and foot of spine. First U.S. edition. 1 vols. 8vo. American Revolutionary intrigue: a rare Sabatini setting. First American edition. Precedence is unclear between this edition and the London edition published by Hutchinson which is undated. <br/><br/>Rafael Sabatini 1875-1950 is today best known for his novel Captain Blood. His Italian father and English mother were both well-known opera singers and Sabatini took up writing after a brief stint in the business world. <br/><br/>The Carolinian shares many aspects of Sabatini's other novels: an action-packed plot adventure romance and acts of grand heroism. It is unusual in that it is set in the Americas specifically in South Carolina at the time of the American Revolutionary War. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1925135101925. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1925. Original black cloth lettered in red with dust jacket. First American Edition -- precedence uncertain between this edition and Hutchinson's undated one published in London. This tale has action and romance like all of Sabatini's yarns but it is unusual in that it takes place in the New World -- specifically in South Carolina during the American War of Independence. This volume is in fine condition; the color pictorial dust jacket with dramatic illustration by Frank Schoonover and bearing the proper price of $2.00 is in near-fine condition with just a trace of wear at a couple of corners. unknown books
1977UARABUI00TMEastern National Park and Monuments Association 1977. Fine. Arana Luis Rafael. The Building of Castillo de San Marcos. Manucy Albert. NP: Eastern National Park and Monuments Association 1977. 64pp. Small 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine with light rubbing. Eastern National Park and Monuments Association paperback books
2006161456Scott Depot WV: The Refined Savage Editions 2006. Paperback. 67p. signed and inscribed by the radical Puerto Rican poet and with a prior owner's gift inscription very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Refined Savage Editions paperback books
193226821Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. c.1932. Later Printing. Hardcover. no dust jacket a good solid copy spine very slightly turned lightly shelfworn with a teensy-tiny tear in the cloth at the top of the spine; ex-Twentieth Century-Fox Research Library copy with related rubber-stamps on title page both endpapers and pastedowns. Pirate adventure yarn adapted into a swashbuckling 1942 movie starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. Although this copy was once part of the research library at Twentieth Century-Fox the studio that made the film there's no evidence to indicate that this particular book played any active role in its creation it was after all only "copy 3" -- but on the other hand I don't think it's at all unlikely that the book was at one time mere hundreds maybe only dozens of yards away from Tyrone Power and/or Maureen O'Hara. Or both! . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
197646856Detroit: Harlo Press 1976. Second printing 8vo pp. 199; illustrated throughout with portraits landscapes and maps; signed by the author on half title red cloth with gilt lettering on spine in pictorial dust jacket. Slight toning to dust jacket else near fine. An account of the civil war as experienced in Louisiana. <br/><br/> Harlo Press hardcover books
2005119425Nashville: Nelson Books 2005. Hardcover. 148p. illus signed by the African American evangelist first printing very good in unclipped dj Publisher's "Guarantedd Read!" sticker to front panel. Call for Christians to find that "raw and untamed" spirit of those closest to God. "Christianity has become docile domesticated civilized. We have forgotten that there is a kingdom of darkness stealing the hopes and dreams and souls of a humanity without God. It is time to hear the barbarian call to form a barbarian tribe and to unleash the barbarian revolt Nelson Books hardcover books
1987024098University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press 1987. x 182p. dj author's SIGNED presentation copy to Gregory Vlastos. Pennsylvania State University Press unknown books
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1972015817Boston: Beacon Press 1972. Revised Edition. xxi 289p. original stiff wrappers quarto format. Beacon Press unknown books
19721335224Boston: Beacon Press 1972. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; G Hardcover; Red & Black spine with Black text; Boards shaken some edgewear some shelfwear bumping and rubbing to corners rubbing along spine edges; Textblock has some minor warping stickers on front pastedown brown marks along textblock edges;. 1335224. FP New Rockville Stock. Beacon Press hardcover books
2004158225Lawrenceville N. J.: The Abud Family Foundation for the Arts 2004. Softcover. VG- clean and tight with a hint of shelf wear. Glossy color-illus. staped wraps with b/w lettering. 24 pp. with color illus. throughout and 1 sepia photograph of the artist. Catalogue from the exhibition held April to May 2004. Sigueiros 1897-1974 was a Mexican artist known for his mural painting. Vivid color illustrations! The Abud Family Foundation for the Arts unknown books
1997132804Boston MA: Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery School of The Museum of Fine Arts 1997. First edition. Softcover. 33 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 14 through March 9 1997. Essay by Raphael Rubinstein and with an additional text by Leila Amalfitano. Includes 11 black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery, School of The Museum of Fine Arts unknown books
