Chopin M.Livre Rare Book
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1838R300282611Firmin Didot Frères. 1838. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 384 pages - 5 cartes - 66 planches en noir et blanc hors texte (collationnées). Quelques portraits coloriés au crayon de couleurs. Nombreux passages soulignés et annotés au crayon de papier. Texte sur deux colonnes. Quelques traces de mouillures sans conséquences sur la lecture. Contreplats jaspés. Dos cuir passé, coiffes frottées, mors fendus.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle
183318021Paris: Chez Maurice Schlesinger 1833. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 1er Concerto pour le Piano avec accompagnement d'orchestre dedié à Monsieur F. Kalkbrenner par Fréd. Chopin. Op. 11. Disbound upright folio. 44 pp. PN M. S. 1409. From the collection of Alfred Cortot with his green stamp to the lower right of the title. Occasional fingerings and other annotations in pencil. Notes on the verso of the last page in pencil in French indicate that this copy belonged to pianist Antoine François Marmontel and suggest that the fingerings may be in his hand. Translated from the French: "This copy belonged to Marmontel judging by the dedications of the pieces bound in the same volume. Perhaps the notes in pencil are from Marmontel." Toning and foxing; wear to the spine; overall very good. 10 x 13.25 inches 25.5 x 34 cm. Grabowski & Rink 11-1-Sm. A historic copy having been owned by two of the most important pianists in history. <br style="">Pianist teacher and musicologist Antoine François Marmontel became Professor of Keyboard at the Paris Conservatory in 1848 succeeding Pierre Zimmermann and beating out his former teacher Charles-Valentin Alkan. He achieved renown as a pedagogue; among his many notable students were Georges Bizet Vincent D'Indy and Claude Debussy. Marmontel was the author of a large number of pedagogical works as well as musicological works which are among the best sources for the history of the piano and pianists.<br style="">One of the 20th century's most influential — yet inimitable — classical figures Alfred Cortot was born in 1877 in Switzerland to a French father and a Swiss mother and he based his long career as a pianist conductor and teacher in Paris. Cortot was one of his era's most renowned interpreters of Chopin his best recordings setting an enduring standard for poetry in motion. In 1925 the pianist made the first electrical recording of classical music for the Victor label in New Jersey featuring music by Chopin and Schumann. Among his hundreds of subsequent recordings was the first complete version of Chopin's Preludes Op. 28. In holding up Cortot as a paragon of Chopin playing even decades after his death The New York Times described his method as combining "lucidity with spontaneity. It is almost modern in its lack of sentimentality and attention to structure; yet it is unmistakably Romantic in its insistence on freedom and variety. Each line is suffused with subtle detail with interior contours and dynamic shadings. But these are not indulgent ornaments; they reveal rather than cloud the music's intentions." <br style=""><br style="">The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 was composed in 1830 when Chopin was twenty years old and was first performed on 11 October of that year at the Teatr Narodowy the National Theatre in Warsaw Poland with the composer as soloist during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland. The first of Chopin's two piano concertos to be published it was therefore given the designation of Piano Concerto "No. 1" at the time of publication even though it was actually written immediately after the premiere of what was later published as Piano Concerto No. 2. Chez Maurice Schlesinger unknown books
18971480Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Second Edition. Cloth. Good . Pictorial blue cloth with highlighted with silver gilt on front and back lettering on spine is in silver gilt box top page edges gilt deckled pages wear to extremities. Frontispiece drawing of woman carrying a bucket. A collection of short stories. <br /> 416 pp. Way & Williams unknown
1897157681897. Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Original very dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in green and silver.<br/> <br/> First Edition of the author's third book which like her second book BAYOU FOLK 1894 is a collection of short stories sited in Louisiana bayou country. Katherine O'Flaherty 1850-1904 actually was born and died in St. Louis but she lived in the New Orleans area for the ten or so years she was married to a Louisiana Creole ending with his death in 1882. Her first book the novel AT FAULT St. Louis 1890 went largely unnoticed; her fourth and last book the novel THE AWAKENING 1899 was vilified at the time for its subject matter but has since come to be regarded as a major feminist work. A third collection of stories was cancelled by her publisher perhaps in response to the public outcry over THE AWAKENING and was not published until 1991 as A VOCATION AND A VOICE. Included in this volume is the famous tale "Athénaïse" -- "a short story about a willful young woman who runs away from her husband’s Louisiana plantation and lives secretly in New Orleans" KC Intl Soc -- a topic Chopin would expand upon with THE AWAKENING. This volume is a typically-artistic Way & Williams production with on both covers the same brooding bayou scene the green design is intentionally barely visible against the dark blue background -- only the silver moon and its silver reflection in the water stand out. This copy's condition is very good very minor wear at the corners; the silver pigment is slightly rubbed on the spine but less than is typical. Blanck 3245; Kraus W&W 52. unknown
1898202480Chicago: Way & Williams 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Full blue cloth covers with green and silver decoration binding not signed frontispiece title page in red & black ink top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Free front endpaper removed else a very good copy indeed. Best known for "The Awakening" which followed directly after "A Night in Acadie" Chopin is one of the premier Southern authors as well as early American feminist authors. She was not afraid to write about interracial relationships. This collection of short stories like most of her fiction is centered in Bayou Creole life. Way & Williams hardcover
189771070Chicago: Way and Williams 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Contemporary and attractive bookplate of Robert Markham on the front pastedown titles on the spine a bit rubbed extremities a little rubbed and worn a nice very good or a bit better copy. The author's second book like her first Bayou Folk a collection of short stories. Very scarce. Way and Williams hardcover
1897016929Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12mo. A decent copy of this attractive edition in blue illustrated covers gilt head and deckled edges. Evidence of dampstain and water-damage to rear cover with some mild foxing affecting final few pages. Owner's lengthy note remarking on an association with the author tipped-in on front pastedown and further inscription of ffep. Rear hinge starting. Third blank from front missing; otherwise all pages present and accounted for. Text clean and legible. Binding solid. As is. Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair . Way & Williams Hardcover
1897019222Chicago: Way and Williams 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The author's second book very good in original dark blue cloth with green and silver decorations and lettering on front and rear boards a bayou scene and silver stamping on spine showing title author and publisher. Corners are bumped or turned slightly inward and cloth is rubbed through in small area at top of spine/front gutter. The silver stamping on spine is slightly worn but letters are very legible. A few interior pages have small smudges but for the most part tight and clean with no names or other markings in the book. Top edge of page block is gilt foredges of pages are uncut. A solid square tight copy of this scarce book. <br/> <br/> Way and Williams hardcover
1897150428004Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. In Very Good condition. Lacking front free end paper. Light wear at corners and spine ends light rubbing to stamping on spine. A lovely copy. Way & Williams hardcover books
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
1895140940284Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1895. Early Reprint. Good. Early reprint of the first edition with copyright page dates 1894 but title page dated 1895. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in gilt. Good. Cloth grubby spine-toned and worn. Former owner ex-libris bookplate to front paste down. Fraying to fore edge of first blank sheet rear inner hinge exposed. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
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
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
189563510<p>Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and sunned front free endpaper removed front flyleaf loose rear hinge cracked. 1895. early printing. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt with oak leaf border on front boards. 313pp 2pp of publisher advertisements at rear. A collection of twenty-three short stories set in rural Louisiana by Chopin 1850-1904 best known for her early feminist novel The Awakening. BAL 3244. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
1894019975Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight cracking to hinges; spine a bit sunned with some staining. Very Good. Decorated green cloth. BAL 3244. Short story collection of Louisiana life. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin and Company hardcover
189411451BAYOU FOLK Houghton Mifflin 1894 first edition slight wear to the base of the tanned spine small brown spot to b.p.e.'s never entering the margins of any pages else a tight vg copy with unbroken inner hinges. The authors first book. Houghton Mifflin unknown
1894005835Houghton Mifflin Company 1894. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin. Hardcover first edition published in 1894 by Houghton Mifflin. Slight spine lean with sunning. Repair work to hinges front and pack. Partial remains of previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Front endpaper partially torn. <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1897RO50033272Non Renseigné. 1897. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 8 pages dont 4 de partitions paroles et musique et 4 de partitions musique. . . . Classification Dewey : 780.26-Partitions
190088974Couverture souple. Broché. 105 pages. 23 x 30 cm. Rousseurs à la couverture.
184627501846 demi-rel. verte époque,dos lisse (mq. coiffe). in-8, (2ff.), 415pp., 24 pl., Paris Didot 1846,
1846RO80262439Firmin Didot Frères. 1846. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 415 pages - quelques gravures en noir et blanc hors texte - texte sur deux colonnes - plats, contre plats et gardes jaspés - titre et ornement doré sur le dos - papier jauni.. . . . Classification Dewey : 948-Scandinavie
1849R130009771STEREO. 1810-1849. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en couleurs, au piano: MURRAY PERAHIA. Biographie de ROBERT WALKER dérrière la pochette. Et biographie de MARCEL MARNAT et de KNUT FRANKE à l'intèrieur de la pochette.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours
190088977Couverture souple. Broché. 55 pages. 24 x 31 cm. Couverture légèrement défraîchie.
1891RO80006969MAME & Fils. 1891. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 368 pages. FRontispice en noir et blanc hors-texte. Nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc hors-texte. Tranches dorées. Coiffes abîmées. Mors usés et fendus. Coins frottés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 956-Moyen et Proche Orient
1890R300280523Alfred Mame et Fils. 1890. In-4. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos abîmé, Rousseurs. 368 pages - nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte et en frontispice. Coins et tranches des plats frottés. Mors fendus, plats quasiment désolidarisés. Dos cassé, avec manques.. . . . Classification Dewey : 956-Moyen et Proche Orient
