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606100New York: Royale Theatre. Softcover. Near Fine. Broadside. Measuring 13¾" x 21¾". Screenprinted on stiff cardstock. Near fine with a touch of rubbing and foxing on the rear as well as a touch on the bottom edge. A handsome and vividly colored poster for the 1954 production of The Immoralist which debuted on February 8th 1954 at the Royale Theatre in New York. The play was adapted from the Andre Gide novel by Ruth and Augustus Goetz and starred Tony Award-winner Geraldine Page Louis Jourdan and James Dean at least initially. The production proved especially difficult for Dean who was fired during rehearsals until Page in his defense threatening to leave as well. As fate would have it Dean's performance on the final night of previews so impressed director Elia Kazan that he offered Dean the lead role in his forthcoming film East of Eden. While not signed by Dean the poster is Signed by Page Joudan Charles Dingle Phillip Pine who replaced Dean and several other cast members. While the production was a moderate success running for just under 100 performances it's now most noteworthy for launching the career of Dean an icon of American cinema. Royale Theatre unknown
1964346707New York: Diane Di Prima 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by Jeanne Marlowe. 20pp. Single sheets printed both sides and secured with two staples. Folded once for mailing with post office cancel stamp and mailing label and some wear at the corner near fine. An influential mimeograph created by di Prima and LeRoi Jones featuring some of the most important poets of the 20th Century. Unlike other magazines this so-called "newsletter" was distributed via a mailing list many of which were noted poets journalists critics publishers and artists. For this reason most copies were hand addressed or affixed with a mailing label and stamp and folded for mailing. This copy is addressed to poet Robert Duncan the highly influential Black Mountain teacher contributor to the San Francisco Renaissance and early gay rights pioneer. This issue features contributions from Ruth Krauss Alan Marlowe Ferencz McNaughton Carl Solomon Hubert Selby Jr. Herbert Hucke Gilbert Sorrentino Allan Kaprow James Waring Alex Katz Howard Schulman and Anne Wilson. [Diane Di Prima unknown
1994000878London: Hutchinson. A set of six hardcover First Editions all signed and inscribed by Tony Benn and all with unclipped dustwrappers. All dedicated to Dr Colin Morris late Controller of BBC Northern Ireland written by Benn in red ink on half title or title page. Typical of sentiments is that in "Office Without Power 1968-72" "For Colin who has inspired so many people.including the author" All six volumes are VG except that four of the six vols. have slightly sunned spines on the wrappers: boards beneath close fine in all cases. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1994. Hutchinson hardcover
1991stela487n.p.: Lufthansa Cultural Affairs 1991. 1991. 4to. pp. 279. profusely illus. in colour & b/w. bio. biblio. wrs. scuffed small stain to the back cover. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. Soft cover. Very Good. n.p.: Lufthansa Cultural Affairs, [1991]. Paperback
1976364209Brooklyn: No publisher 1976. Unbound. Very Good. Printed broadside. Approximately 5" x 12.55". Incorporates a photographic image. Several folds from mailing and an old stapled as mailed very good. Addressed to the poet Michael Benedikt. Scarce. [No publisher unknown
1024770931.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1978265529Neue Galerie 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Notes by Becker 4 pages in English German and French. Biography and exhibitions 5 pages in German. Bibliography 3 pages. Flashback 1967-1973 wrapper with 4 pages of illustrations. Anticastrateur 1973-74 wrapper with 4 pages of text in German French and English with 16 plates. Black Bread 1975-76 wrapper with 2 pages of text in German and French with 6 pages of illustrations. Mirrorical Return A 1977-8 wrappers with 4 pages of text in English German and French poem by Michel Butor in French and German and 16 illustrated pages. Geiseln 1978 wrappers with 5 full-page plates printed one side only. Francken was a Czech-American sculptor painter furntiure designer mostly active in Paris. The Tate Modern featured an exhibiion of her work entitled 'The World Goes Pop' in 2015. First edition first printing. Very good in white thick paper folder with interior pocket paperback. Folder has surface scuffing and mild soiling. Contents are near fine.<br> Neue Galerie paperback
1981615494Southern Africa 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photo album consisting of 38 color photos belonging to Charles V. Hamilton. In 1967 with cowriter Stokely Carmichael Hamilton published the groundbreaking book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Part of the book's and Hamilton's legacy is solidifying the term "institutional racism in public discourse. From 1969 until his retirement in 1998 Hamilton was the Wallace S. Sayre professor of government and political science at Columbia University. This photo album documents the three years Hamilton spent working for the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa spanning the years 1979 to 1981. The findings of this study were compiled into a book by Allison Drew titled South Africa: Time is Running Out 1981. A review of the book published in the peer reviewed journal Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies states that the goal of the report was "to create a policy framework based on United States interests in the South African context." However the review's conclusion is rather critical of the commission's results stating:<br /> <br /> "Although taking a firm stance against petty apartheid and effectively challenging South Africa's view of its own strategic importance the commission's economic policy recommendations amount to a carte blanche for continued United States investments. In essence therefore the commission's suggestions support the status quo. Its recommendation of continued United States investment is in fact a vote of confidence for apartheid . Moderation and maximization of interests within a nonviolent framework are the main themes of this book and moderation is what it seeks from the reader.â€<br /> <br /> This apparently unsuccessful attempt to bridge the gap between public interests and business interests is partially illustrated in the mix of individuals who were involved. Hamilton was appointed as one of 11 commissioners on the study along with other academics and activists such as Ruth Simms Hamilton no relation Aileen C Hernandez and Constance Hilliard. Other members included businessmen such as Alan Pifer the acting president of the Carnegie Corporation at the time; C. Peter McColough the CEO of Xerox; businessman and philanthropist Frank A. Thomas; and J. Irwin Miller a businessman known for his civic activism. We have confirmed photographs featuring both Charles V. Hamilton and Frank A. Thomas and we believe that there are also photos of Ruth Simms Hamilton Aileen C. Hernandez J. Irwin Miller C. Peter McColough and Howard D. Samuel. The photos show them having talks and meeting locals. One shows Hamilton and we believe McColough at a talk on DWEP The Domestic Workers and Employers Project; one shows Thomas with four locals one of them holding an umbrella over Thomas' head; one shows Thomas outside of what appears to be a church speaking to a man with a crowd of children surrounding them; and one shows a large gathering of people Hamilton included in hardhats and jumpsuits. There are also six photos taken at what we believe to be a mansion known as "Graceland" located in Muizenberg Cape Town South Africa. One is a view of what looks to be the back of the house taken from afar then we see exterior shots of commissioners and others drinking coffee and chatting and interior shots of them working. Later in the album perhaps at Graceland a curious photo shows three people looking from a second story railing and displaying a large cartoon. It’s very hard to make out the caption in full but it mentions “the press.â€<br /> <br /> Also included is a bag of personal mementos: four home photographs of a child two including a man and one including a woman a copy of Pages of Time: 1929 the year Hamilton was born given to him for his 74th birthday a card with a newspaper clipping announcing him being appointed professor of government at Columbia University his daughter's Carol ID card from when she worked in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Commerce as well as her business card from when she was the president of Cooper Hamilton Associates; and three other business cards perhaps of associates.<br /> <br /> Based on the presentation we suspect that this album was a gift given to each of the eleven commissioners though we cannot find another example of it. The album consists of 38 color photographs affixed to thick cardstock pages bound within an album of blue leather boards stamped in silver print on the front board with two lines of silver tooling on the spine. Boards worn but overall a near fine album with the photos clean and bright.<br /> <br /> A behind the scenes look at the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa in the time of Apartheid. hardcover
1978589430London: Straight Lines 1978. Softcover. Near Fine. Inaugural issue. One illustration each by Richard Adams and Heathcote Williams. Light scuffing and wear just about near fine. Straight Lines unknown
1978621649London: Straight Lines 1978. Softcover. Near Fine. Inaugural issue. One illustration each by Richard Adams and Heathcote Williams. Light edgewear near fine. Straight Lines unknown
1976541716Oxford: Ziprint Parchment 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Cover by Jon Piper. Octavo. 43pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine with some rubbing to the rear wrap. A short-lived poetry anthology edited by James Lindesay and Bruno Tolentino with a name inspired by W.H. Auden's early 1920s magazine Oxford Poetry. Contributors to this issue Lindesay Tolentino Elizabeth Jennings Sally Purcell Ruth Padel Francis Warner John Wain and many others. Both runs of this magazine and individual issue appear scarce. OCLC locate 10 assorted copies over two records. Ziprint Parchment unknown
198633247New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. 1986. 1986. Very good. SIGNED BY RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA AND C. S. H. JHABVALA - Octavo light gray boards backed with blue cloth & titled in silver on the spine in a dust wrapper. The cloth is very lightly rubbed with the head & tail of the spine slightly faded. The top edges of the dust jacket's panels and the top & bottom edges of its flaps are darkened with some minor foxing to the top edge of the rear flap. 288 pages. Near fine. <p>Second printing.<p>Signed on the title page by both Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and her husband Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala to whom the book is dedicated.<p>Cyrus S. H. Jhabvala d. 2014 was a renowned Indian architect. He designed some large university campuses in North India and various exhibition pavilions at the Trade Fair Grounds Delhi. A legendary teacher he taught generations of architects for almost three decades at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1986). hardcover
1914586176Wellesley Massachusetts 1914. Softcover. Very Good. Photo album measuring 15¼" x 11¼". Leather covered stiff card boards screw bound containing contemporary pages with corner-mounted photographs. Contains 104 silver gelatin photographs measuring between 1" x 1¾" and 9" x 5". Covers lightly rubbed several photos with creases or tiny tears many having been cut down to varying extent from larger photos very good overall. <br /> <br /> A photo album compiled by Sophie Ruth Knowles 1892-1968 during her time at Wellesley College from about 1912 to 1914. Sophie attended Wellesley for three years before graduating from Adelphi College in New York. The first page includes a mounted leaf with Sophie’s Signature in ink presumably taken from the original album. Wellesley College is a private women’s liberal arts college in Wellesley Massachusetts. Several photos depict one of Wellesley’s traditions hoop rolling as well as several theatrical productions including Gilbert and Sullivans “The Mikadoâ€. Other activities include a Maypole rowing volleyball and dancing. One page includes a few photos from the girls dorm rooms. The album concludes with several photographs showing the grounds and architecture around the campus. <br /> <br /> A lovely album showing the camaraderie amongst the young women attending an all girls college in the early part of the 20th century at the dawn of WWI. unknown
1948222402New York 1948. Half length frontal portrait of the ballerina in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 24.2 cm x 17.5 cm. approximately 9-1/2 x 7 inches. Atelier stamp on rear and docketed in nk wth the subject of the photograph date and the number of the print/negative "vii ee 0". Half length frontal portrait of the ballerina in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 24.2 cm x 17.5 cm. approximately 9-1/2 x 7 inches. A very scarce image of Koesun one of the stars of the American Ballet Theater in the 40s and 50s. There are no images of Koesun in the Van Vechten collection of the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 unknown
192993353Chicago:: Reilly & Lee. Good. 1929. Hardcover. Founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. Black and white illustrations throughout. An early printing. Moderate shelf wear and aging age darkened along the spine starting to show separation at the hinges number stamped on rear paste-down else good in dark green cloth with color paste-on illustration on front board. No dust jacket. ; 252 pages . Reilly & Lee, hardcover
192260382Chicago:: Reilly & Lee. Good in Good dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. Black and white illustrations throughout. A later printing. Cloth covered boards are worn along the top edges foxing to endpapers thus only good in a good edge worn with several small chips faded along the spine foxing to flaps dust jacket. . Reilly & Lee, hardcover
191274106Sea Breezee FL: N.p 1912. Original silver gelatin photograph measuring 9 1/4 x 3 inches. Caption within the plate reads "Hotel Clarendon Clarendon Airship Photo by LeSesne." In it we can see the hotel with the pusher biplane in front of it on the sand with people and cars surrounding it. Ruth Law was the pilot. Old crease hard to see. Framed and glazed. Very good.Ruth Law enrolled in Burgess Flying School in Boston in late June of 1912 and made her first solo flight on August 1st. After receiving her pilot's license she took a job with the Clarendon Hotel for the Winter of 1912. There she made daily exhibition flights and carried tourists for brief flights. By the summer of 1913 she had her own plane and signed up for the same kind of employment at a Newport Rhode Island resort. The photographer Richard LeSesne was mainly noted for his photography of land speed record attempts on Daytona Beach Florida in the 1920s and 1930s although he was active as early as 1897. N.p unknown
1980ST20505-15Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop 1980. EACH ONE OF 125 COPIES. 47 x 38 mm. 2 x 1 1/2". 18 pp. 1 leaf. Two copies of the same work sold separately. <br/> Deep brown half morocco over marbled paper boards flat spine lettered in gilt. WITH A LEAF FROM the Newberry Bible. De Hamel and Silver "Disbound and Dispersed" 168.5. As new; one copy with the inserted leaf a bit browned with a small open tear to the margin not affecting the text but still excellent; the other with a very fine leaf just a bit browned at the edges.<br/> <br/> These two copies of this delightful publication feature a leaf of the famed 1780 Newberry "Thumb Bible" accompanied by an essay written by one of the 20th century's most noted collectors of miniature books. It is a charming tribute on the bicentennial of the publication of one of the world's smallest Bibles. The Newberry Bible fully titled "The Bible in Miniature or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments" was produced by Elizabeth Newberry the niece of John Newbery pioneering children's book publisher and the namesake of the Newberry Medal. Ruth E. Adomeit 1912-96 was a lifelong miniature book enthusiast: along with being known for her personal library she wrote the leading bibliography of thumb bibles was editor of "The Miniature Book Collector" from 1960-62 and was active in the Miniature Book Society. This publication is made especially charming by its size which perfectly fits the tiny leaf it contains. Dawson's Book Shop unknown
1991ST20505-14Los Angeles: Printed and bound by Pall Bohne for Dawson's Book Shop 1991. ONE OF 60 COPIES. 65 x 45 mm. 2 1/2 x 1 3/4". 20 pp. 1 leaf. <br/> Quarter red leather over patterned paper boards flat spine lettered in gilt Dutch gilt endpapers.<br /> With a leaf from the Kleine Print miniature bible containing an excellent engraving of Jezebel and Jehu from 2 Kings 9. DeHamel and Silver "Disbound and Dispersed" 196.5. See also: Welsh 938; Spielmann 280. The book in mint condition the inserted leaf just slightly browned at edges but fine and fresh.<br/> <br/> This charming little leaf book pays tribute to a very rare miniature Bible published around 1750 in The Hague. Composed entirely of engravings printed on one side only the work is a masterpiece of small-scale printing. In the words of the Spielmann Catalogue "Many of the scenes depicted in the original Bible are of astounding beauty considering the tiny scale upon which the artist had to work." The genesis of the present leaf book was the acquisition by the noted miniature book collector Ruth E. Adomeit 1910-96 of a fragment of 61 leaves from this Bible which she obtained during a European trip in 1953. Our copy contains an engraving showing the meeting between the military commander Jehu and the wicked Queen Jezabel which ends with Jezebel's being thrown from a window by her eunuchs. We see her mid-fall and upside down in the present image while Jehu watches triumphantly from his chariot. Not surprisingly given its small print run this item is not commonly seen for sale. Printed and bound by Pall Bohne for Dawson's Book Shop unknown
1928204736Washington DC: The Washington Bureau 1928. Folded vertically; inked check mark; touch of wear to extremities and general softening. Four-page pamphlet printed on a single bifolium approx. 7 X 8-1/2 inches with printed marginal holes indicating where it might be punched through for ring-binding. Delicate pamphlet recounting the story of Lindbergh's heroic transatlantic flight along with other elements of his life though predating the kidnapping and his political activities. The Washington Bureau unknown
1967343126Boston: Impressions Workshop of Boston 1967. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Measuring 7" x 10". Single sheet with one deckle edge. Fine. Promotional broadside for a series of broadside by Robert Lowell John Malcolm Brinnin and Ruth Whitman with art by Denji Noma Sante Graziani and George Lockwood. Impressions Workshop of Boston unknown
193119623London: Constable & Co Ltd 1931. 1931. Good. - Tall octavo gray cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The binding is lightly bumped with some very light staining to the front cover. The spine is somewhat darkened and its upper half including the titling is heavily rubbed. The tail of the spine is chipped & frayed. xx & 204 pages plus 4-page publisher's catalog. There is an owner's book label on the front pastedown else the contents are very good. <p>Limited edition of 1000 copies. London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1931. hardcover
192074666Los Angeles: Privately Printed 1920. Limited Author's Edition copy 414. Thick octavo. 529 7 index pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering front cover with a gilt device of a snake encircling an egg. Minor Extremity wear. A very good copy.Inscribed by the author as no doubt all copies were. A very early prophecy of the coming to power of a worldwide matriarchy. From the anonymous introduction - Never before-as far as I know-has Woman's exalted place in God's creation so graphically and powerfully been portrayed; her potentialities for the re-generation of the race set forth. After showing the importance of woman's place in the processes of natural generation the writer proceeds with inexorable logic to demonstrate that man's re-generation is is in Woman's power that Re=Generated Woman is the manifestation of the Great-Ovum of the Virgin Mother and that Woman holds the Spiritual-unfoldment of the race in her hands.Or as Ruth Van Saun puts it: What a joy to dream of and a greater joy to be privileged to live in the coming Woman-Rule Age. The Wise Ones teach; We are now outgrowing the fifth-root race of the Patriarchate -Age which unmasked means the Man-Rule Age or "The Iron Age" - the age of the so-called Hierarchy the Savants the Lords and Rulers who have suppressed the mass-people and kept them in ignorance; the age that established a false standard of the inferiority of woman which has robbed woman of her God-given rights. We are now evolving into the sixth-root race or the Matriarchate-Age which unmasked means the Woman-Rule Age. or The Golden Age. Wise ones teach that the golden or woman-rule age will last for over 2000 years until the year $041. Privately Printed hardcover
195294889NY:: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. B000CQ3356 . Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Stated first edition. Previous owner's Cecelia Eareckson book-plate on front paste-down else very good in a very good faded along the spine tiny chip at the base of the spine dust jacket. ; 151 pages . Harper & Brothers, hardcover
1997609207Santa Fe / New York: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / The Grolier Club 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Exhibition catalog. Prints a foreword by Elizabeth Glassman and "Books as Bones" by Ruth E. Fine. Catalog entries by Sarah L. Burth. 71pp. Cloth and pictorial paper over boards. Fine. Invitation to the exhibit laid in. The exhibition was held at the Grolier Club December 1997 - February 1998. The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / The Grolier Club hardcover
