Chopin, Jean Marie (1796-1870)Biblio.com
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1838167927Paris : Firmin Didot freres 1838. First Edition. Hardback. Minor scattered marginal foxing. Fine copies both bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Series: L'Univers. histoire et description de tous les peuples. Physical desc.: 2 v. : ill maps ; 23cm. Title of t. 2 reads: Russie par M. Chopin . la fin de la Russie d'Europe y compris la Crimee par M. Cesar Famin; et les provinces russes en Asie Circassie et Georgie par M. Cesar Famin. Armenie par M. Bore. Subject: Russia. Armenia. Language: French. Paris : Firmin Didot freres hardcover
1894140948466Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. 313 2; ads pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth beautifully stamped in gilt; designed by famed book cover designer Sarah Wyman Whitman. Near Fine with lean to binding and fading to spine light wear to cloth. Hinge at front endsheet is tender former ownership to top edge of 1pp. A lovely copy. Chopin's collection of short stories about life in late 19th-century rural Louisiana. Houghton Mifflin and Company unknown
1894157381894. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1894. 2 pp undated ads. Original olive green cloth decorated in gilt.<br/> <br/> First Edition of Kate Chopin's second but first obtainable book a collection of 23 stories and anecdotes of Louisiana local color. A native of St. Louis Katherine O'Flaherty 1850-1904 married a successful Louisiana Creole named Oscar Chopin and lived in New Orleans and on a nearby cotton plantation until his death of swamp fever in 1882 when she was 31; after two years of trying to manage the indebted plantation herself she returned with her children to St. Louis where suffering from depression she was encouraged to write as a form of therapy. Her writing career began with the now-exceedingly-rare AT FAULT St. Louis 1890 in wrappers -- and it ended due to the public shock over her fourth book THE AWAKENING 1899. She died at age 54 of a brain hemorrhage suffered at the St. Louis World's Fair. As an example of the BAYOU FOLK tales "Désirée's Baby" just twelve pages long tells of Armand an antebellum Louisiana aristocrat who over the objections of friends and family marries an adopted girl of unknown ancestry. Their newborn baby boy is definitely "dark" -- so Armand turns Désirée and the child out of his house. She did not take the broad beaten road to the far-off plantation of Valmondé. She walked across a deserted field where the stubble bruised her tender feet so delicately shod and tore her thin gown to shreds. She disappeared among the reeds and willows that grow thick along the banks of the deep sluggish bayou; and she did not come back again. Some weeks later burning old letters Armand discovers one from his mother to his father; the story ends with this quote from that letter: "I thank the good God for having arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother who adores him belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery." This copy is very good-plus perhaps near-fine: there is scarcely any wear other than a cracked rear endpaper though as always with this olive-green cloth the spine has aged to a honey-brown. Blanck 3244. unknown
184340969Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN 6925 1843. Octavo. Full 19th century dark green textured cloth with ruled border gilt "C.C.P" gilt to upper decorative device blindstamped to lower. 1f. recto title verso blank 63 "Compositionen ohne Ausgabe einer Opuszahl" i blank 65-83 i "Dedicationen der Werke Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's" pp. Title lithographed catalogue engraved. Small publisher's oval handstamp to foot of title. Occasional annotations in pencil. Scattered staining mostly minor; small tear to upper blank margin of p. 63 repaired with archival tape to verso. OCLC 1477534799. <br /> <br /> Together with:<br /> Zweite Abtheilung. Unbound. 1f recto title verso "Bemerkung." pp. 39 i blank. 41-44. Title worn and slightly foxed and stained with tear repaired with archival tape to verso; small tears to edges. Not in OCLC.<br /> <br /> First Edition.<br /> <br /> Bound with: <br /> CHOPIN<br /> Thematisches Verzeichnis der im Druck erschienen Compositionen von Friedrich Chopin. Leipzig . Paris . London: Breitkopf & Härtel . Brandus & Co. . Wessel & Co. PN 8497 ca. 1853. 1f. recto title verso blank i-iii "Inhalt. I. Werke mit Opuszahl. II. Werke ohne Opuszhal. III. Portraits. IV. Über Chopin" iv "Dedicationen" 31 i blank 33-35 i blank pp. A few "x" marks in contemporary manuscript. Occasional minor staining and foxing. <br /> <br /> First Edition. OCLC 29298462.<br /> <br /> Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; spine lacking with inner edges of boards reinforced with black tape. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 6925] unknown
1856B2302Paris: Firmin Didot Freres c. 1856. A very good copy. Edition: First edition. Binding: Contemporary ¼ morocco with blue cloth boards spine in five compartments of raised bands gilt text on two edges speckled blue. Notes: This book describes the customs and history of the people in the region and the climate and topography of the land. Size: 8vo Illustration: With 35 steel-engraved plates relating to the countries mentioned in the title and 3 folding maps. Volume: Two parts in one. Pages: P. title blank 1-494; 1-226. Category: Book Europe Balkans Firmin Didot Freres hardcover
1892432439Boston: Two Tales Publishing Company 1892. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 20pp. paginated 145-164. Stapled wrappers printed in red and black. Wrappers repaired with rice paper especially on the rear wrap which has a few words lacking and a little overall soiling else very good. One of the earliest appearances in print by Kate Chopin "At the 'Cadian Ball" was one of her famous Bayou stories which later appeared in her collection Bayou Folks. It appears here in the magazine Two Tales which began publishing in 1891 and which not surprisingly published two stories in each issue the other story here is by Ella Sterling Cummins. Fragile and rare. OCLC locates four copies with BAL referencing two additional copies. Two Tales Publishing Company unknown
18412301Leipzig: Kistner / Paris: Schlesinger PN 996 1841. Possessor’s inscription on title page Anton Khayll. Title page dusted tanned. Chipped edges and light foxing throughout. Spine artistically restored. Otherwise in very good condition. Folio. 5 leaves: p. 1 lith ITP pp. 2–9 engr text p. 10 blank. Title lithographed music engraved. <p>Reprint of the second German edition only difference is the title page price in gGr added. <br /> <p><br /> An early edition of Chopin’s Opus 6.<br /> <p><br /> Provenance: Anton Khayll’s 1819 – after 1841; Viennese pianist possessor’s inscription on the title page. <br /> Grabowski-Rink 6–2a-KI. unknown
1899364153Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The uncommon first edition of this enduring Southern novel about a woman who is awakened to the possibilities of life when she falls in love for the first time with a man who is not her husband. Chopin was born in St. Louis but spent many years in Louisiana where most of her writing was set including this novel which was written after she and her family returned to Missouri.<br /> <br /> While the book generated controversy for its "immoral" premise the Mercantile Library of St. Louis initially purchased a copy and then removed it from circulation a number of early readers recognized it for its groundbreaking portrayal of a woman unwilling to be hemmed in by traditional expectations. The unnamed writer of the "Book Ways and Worldly Ways" column in the Delaware Gazette and State Journal July 13 1899 for example wrote "The topmost book on the table today recommended for summer reading is Kate Chopin's The Awakening.She writes things we women used only whisper in our boudoirs. But we women are getting on aren't we"<br /> <br /> The Newest Books column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch quoted appreciative letters from readers in England and then concluded "Perhaps when the London critics have thoroughly explained the merits of The Awakening American critics who have shown a disposition to look askance at its frank treatment of the commonest of human experiences will discover its value as a work of art."<br /> <br /> Chopin 1850–1904 bore six children between 1871 and 1879. Her husband died in 1882 leaving her in considerable debt. As a widow she had an affair with a married man which may have inspired The Awakening. Chopin and her children soon moved back to Saint Louis where Chopin took up writing. She died in 1904 from a brain hemorrhage following a visit to the World's Fair although the two events may have been entirely coincidental. <br /> <br /> See the Salem Weekly Oregon Statesman September 16 1902. First edition first and only printing. A very good copy and far superior to most copies at auction or in the trade. This copy has a narrow tide mark on the outer page edges particularly in the first half of the book. The back cover has some ink loss probably due to an old encounter with water. However the spine retains most of its green color; the hinges are tight; and the pages have very little foxing. According to the book auction records a lesser copy made $10000 at auction in 2021.<br /> <br /> This copy has the ownership signature of Cara L. Broughton dated August 1899 about a month after the book was published. This Cara Broughton was likely the daughter of Henry Huttleston Rogers who married a British civil engineer Urban Broughton and was made Lady Fairhaven by King George. There is a label of the bookstore W. B. Clarke Co. in Boston which is probably where Broughton purchased it. It also has a penciled price of 40 pence suggesting she took the book with her to England. <br /> <br /> This copy came from the library of one-time New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb. In addition to the better-than-usual condition this copy is attractive for its history from the bookstore to the original woman who owned it to one of the best-known literary editors of the late 20th century. Herbert S. Stone & Co hardcover
1899131587Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1899. First edition of this landmark work. Octavo original green cloth stamped in dark green and red. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare especially in this condition. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. The novel's blend of realistic narrative incisive social commentary and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern works of Faulkner Flannery O'Connor Eudora Welty Katherine Anne Porter and Tennessee Williams. Stone & Kimball hardcover
