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197457044New York: Atheneum 1974. First American edition of this translation which is the first complete edition of Levi-Strauss' landmark work. Octavo original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page "To Patricia Anawalt who is interested in Indians and loves cats with author's regards Claude Levi-Strauss." Levi-Strauss has added a large drawing of a cat below his inscription. The recipient Patricia Anawalt was an anthropologist and authority on Mesoamerican ritual and attire She wrote several books including "The Worldwide History of Dress" which examined the costumes of a wide range of peoples including Neolithic plant-fiber skirts ancient Egyptian linen shifts and Mongolian shamanic robes. Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. A unique example. Tristes Tropiques is a memoir first published in France in 1955. It documents his travels and anthropological work focusing principally on Brazil though it refers to many other places such as the Caribbean and India. Although ostensibly a travelogue the work is infused with philosophical reflections and ideas linking many academic disciplines such as sociology geology music history and literature. "One of the great works of the twentieth century" Susan Sontag. Atheneum hardcover books
19271909Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau 1927. First edition. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original superb color illustrated card wrappers and glassine wrapper. 16 stunning full-page color illustrations by Andree Karpeles 1885-1956 famed French painter and illustrator student of Rene Menard and Lucien Simon. A Jewish painter living in India and France her work is highly regarded for its sensitivity and composition. This title is exceedingly scarce in the first edition and was reprinted in the next year by a German Publisher. A fine copy in the original glassine wrapper. The illustrations are thoroughly enchanting. <br/><br/> Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau unknown books
1925650341925. Richard Strauss signed program. The program was for a concert by the Dusseldorf City Orchestra and Richard Strauss held April 30 1925. The program measures 6.5 inches by 8.75 inches. Double matted and framed opposite a photograph of Strauss. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 17.5 inches. Richard Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas which include Der Rosenkavalier Elektra Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder especially his Four Last Songs; his tone poems including Don Juan Death and Transfiguration Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Also sprach Zarathustra Ein Heldenleben Symphonia Domestica and An Alpine Symphony; and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire. Strauss along with Gustav Mahler represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style unknown books
19216051NP 20.12.21 1921. Photograph by Kossuth matted and framed with image size 9-1/8 x 7" mat showing 10-1/4 x 7-1/2" inscribed by the composer in the mat "To the - fabelhaft - Philadelphia Orchester / with my sincere admiration / Richard Strauss 20.12.21." Gray mat and gold gilt frame. In 1921 Richard Strauss 1864-1949 was co-director of the Vienna State Opera a fabulous orchestra as well and at this time was travelling extensively in the United States. A "fabulous" piece! [NP] 20.12.21 unknown books
19619014189Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1961 - 92. Hardcover. Very good condition. Published by the Law School at the University of Chicago. From the library of noted constitutional scholar Paul L. Murphy with his signature in about half of the volumes. <br/><br/> University of Chicago Press hardcover books
1961802New York: Criterion Books 1961. First American edition of Levi-Strauss' experience among tribes in Brazil. Octavo original brown boards illustrated with 48 pages of photographs and 48 line drawings. Inscribed by Claude Levi-Strauss on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear to the extremities. Translated from the French by John Russell. World of the Wane documents Claude Levi-Strauss' travels to the upland jungle area of Brazil where he found the basic human societies he was seeking. Criterion Books hardcover books
1976140937732New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press 1976. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. 105 pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a little sunning to spine two tiny closed tears light rubbing. Uncommon. The first English language edition of one of the famous German philosopher and jurist's most important works. Via University of Chicago professor Leo Strauss the book would influence George W. Bush-era neoconservative thought specifically by defining the state's role as crusader against the other or enemy. Rutgers University Press unknown books
190824699Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PN A.5654F 1908. Folio. Quarter dark red cloth with decorative paper boards. i title i blank i "Dramatis Personae" i blank 5-250 pp. Photographic transfer from engraved plates. Printer's mark to lower right corner of p. 250: "Stich und Druck von C. G. Röder G.m.b.H. Leipzig." Text in German. With illustration by Lovis Corinth to upper half of page 5. <br/><br/>Annotations instrumental cues vertical lines clarifying rhythm notational corrections indications of cuts etc. in pencil in German. The second digit of the printed price "M 20.-" erased and corrected in pencil. Handstamp of the Munich antiquarian Carl Lischer to foot of title.<br/><br/>Original wrappers with full-page illustration by Lovis Corinth to upper lacking; preliminary leaves frayed at upper edge; Lischer handstamp trimmed. First Edition probable first issue without the additional plate numbers to foot of page 3 and also without the statement "Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten" to foot of page 5. Trenner 223. Mueller von Asow p. 409. <br/><br/>The present copy was apparently used by a rehearsal accompanist.<br/><br/>First performed on January 25 1909 at the Königlichen Opernhaus in Dresden under Ernst von Schuch. <br/><br/>"Elektra. marked the beginning of Strauss's artistic association with Hugo von Hofmannsthal whom he had first met in Berlin in 1899. Having seen Reinhardt's riveting production of Hofmannsthal's Elektra in the autumn of 1905 Strauss was convinced the play would make a compelling opera. Not entirely sure he should compose consecutive tragedies he nonetheless gave in to Hofmannsthal's pleading and vigorously began composing Elektra in the summer of 1906. As he had with Oscar Wilde's Salome he set the play to music which was finished in 1908 and given its première in 1909 as part of a Strauss opera festival in Dresden. Elektra failed to outshine her flashier sister but confirmed Strauss's pre-eminence among German opera composers." Bryan Gilliam in Grove Music Online. Adolph Fürstner [PN A.5654F] unknown books
19703160San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District 1970 Second enlarged and best edition to which has been added a 48-page supplement by Clifford E. Paine and three more folding plans. 4to. 246 48pp. Folding color frontispiece many illustrations from photographs text maps and diagrams 12 large tipped-in folding plans in the back 3 further folding plans in the Supplement pictorial endpapers. Orange cloth stamped in white. A very fine and bright copy in printed and pictorial dust jacket lightly chipped. The final report of Joseph B. Strauss the Chief Engineer on the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. It includes information on all aspects of the bridge from building materials to different stages of construction. The folding plans show the main bridge plan and elevation cross-sections and diagrams of the towers the road and piers plans of the cable anchorage details of the tower bases etc. etc. Extensively illustrated throughout. The Supplement expands the information to include major structural modifications made since opening day. The supplemental illustrations include many extra photographs and plates and 3 new large folding plans showing cross-sections and diagrams of the towers the road and piers. Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District hardcover books
190124697Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PN A.5206F. 1901. Folio. Quarter dark brown leather with dark brown textured cloth boards original publisher's upper wrapper illustrated by Max Tilke printed in blue red and black laid down to upper. 1f. recto title verso blank i cast list i blank 3-201 i blank. Text in German. Printer's mark to lower right corner of p. 201: "Stich und Druck von C.G. Röder Leipzig." With plate numbers "A.5202.5206 F." to cast list. <br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; head of spine slightly defective. Minimally foxed; occasional browning and thumbing; publisher's handstamp to foot of title. First Edition first issue. Trenner 203. Mueller von Asow p. 307.<br/><br/>First performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on November 21 1901 with Ernst von Schuch conducting. <br/><br/>"Despite its risqué text Feuersnot boasted distinguished interpreters from the start: in Dresden the cross-grained lovers were Annie Krull and Karl Scheidemantel destined respectively to be Strauss's original Electra and the first Rosenkavalier Faninal in Vienna Leopold Demuth sang the hero while Mahler conducted and Berlin fielded Emmy Destinn as the anti-heroine. Since then at least in Bavaria and adjacent regions the opera has kept a toehold in the repertory." Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans in Grove Music Online<br/><br/>Tilke 1869-1942 was a noted German artist and illustrator. Adolph Fürstner [PN A.5206F.] unknown books
192821140Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PN A. 7903 F. 1928. Folio. Quarter vellum with dark gray paper boards titling gilt to upper original illustrated upper wrapper bound in. 336 pp.<br/><br/>Binding somewhat worn rubbed and bumped. Occasional spotting. First Edition variant issue. Trenner TrV. 255. Mueller von Asow p. 821. Without dedication leaf. <br/><br/>Die Ägyptische Helena an opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal was first performed at the Dresden Staatsoper 6 June 1928 with Fritz Busch conducting.<br/><br/>"Strauss's score is loyally inventive. The 'thematic transformations' are endless the orchestral pictures fresh the pace well varied. If the musical tagging of every dramatic element sounds like period routine the opera has a saving lyrical grace: more relaxed and fluid than either his preceding Hofmannsthal opera Die Frau ohne Schatten or the more recent Intermezzo to his own text." David Murray in Grove Music Online. Adolph Fürstner [PN A. 7903 F.] unknown books
1958138250Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Original three-sheet poster for the 1958 US film. Based on the 1951 novel by Joseph Hilton Smyth. <br/><br/>Mobster Joe Sante played by Steve Cochran finds himself in front of a US Senate subcommittee on racketeering and recalls his rise to power via a series of flashbacks. One of Cochran's better roles in which he navigates the nuanced character's strict moral compass as well as his ruthless gangster tendencies. A notable film also for its inclusion of Lili St. Cyr's famed "bubble bath" burlesque act. <br/><br/>41 x 80 inches folded in two sections as issued. Very Good plus with a handful of closed tears at the folds. A bright attractive copy. <br/><br/>Royal Books can arrange for archival linen backing of posters. Please inquire. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1977163158New York: Abaris Books 1977. Original Edition. Hardcover. Both VG clean tight copies with an inoffensive light mark to head of Vol. 2 spine. Former owner a renowned art conservator has put his address label on the ffep of both volumes. Both volumes: Evergreen cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spines/covers. Numbered consecutively with 792 total pages 408 in Vol. I; 425 bw plates between the two volumes 239 in Vol. I; with a small section of watermarks and additional bw illustrations at the back of Vol. 2. Errata sheet laid into Vol. 2. No dust jackets likely as issued. Heavy at 8 pounds and may require extra postage. Volume I years 1576-1586 contains repositories acknowledgments abbreviations and engravings 1-239; Volume 2 years 1586-1600 contains abbreviations engravings 240-364 woodcuts 401-425 not sure where Nos. 365-400 are watermarks bibliography appendix concordance and index. Each work is thoroughly annotated on the facing page. A lovely set about this German-born Dutch printmaker. Abaris Books hardcover books
193526092Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PN A. 8303 F.; A. 8303.8308 F. 1935. Large folio. Modern blue cloth with original wrappers printed in dark red and olive green bound in. i title i copyright notice 1f. cast list 460 pp. <br/><br/>The plate number "A. 8303.8308 F." is found on the pages corresponding to the orchestral prelude entitled "Potpourri" pp. 5-16. Printer's note "Stich u. Druck v. Oscar Brandstetter Leipzig-Berlin" to lower margin of final page.<br/><br/>Binding very slightly bumped; wrappers browned. Slightly foxed. First Edition. Trenner no. 265 p. 307. Mueller von Asow IIk p. 922. OCLC no. 5186816.<br/><br/>Die Schweigsame Frau to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's play Epicoene was first performed at the Staatsoper in Dresden on June 24 1935. "Despite a notable cast Karl Böhm conducted Cebotari's Aminta the 61-year-old Plaschke's Morosus Martin Kremer's Henry and Matthieu Ahlersmeyer's Barber the opera had a fraught première. Even in 1935 Strauss had to battle with Nazi officialdom to get his Jewish librettist acknowledged on the Dresden Opera handbills whereupon Hitler and Goebbels decided not to attend." The opera was banned after only four performances. David Murray and Bryan Gilliam in Grove Music Online. Adolph Fürstner [PN A. 8303 F.; A. 8303.8308 F.] unknown books
1985157990New York: Abaris Books 1985. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 359 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of a number of anonymous artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Illustrations are arranged bty subject matter or use such as playing cards. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
1973404265Paris: Pierre Horay 1973. A near fine copy with some wear to the front panel of jacket. Oblong 8vo. Text in French. 75pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Original beige cloth; dust jacket; with original woven tassel. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. <br/><br/> Pierre Horay hardcover books
1982157377New York: Abaris Books 1982. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on outer spine and mark from past label; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 408 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of German-born Dutch printmaker Hendrik Goltzius 1558-1617. Includes a bibliography chronology and many examples of his work. Also considers "doubtful attributions." Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
1980158015New York: Abaris Books 1980. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with faint label mark on spine; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 424 pp. 350 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of six Italian engravers: Bartolomeo Passarotti Domenico Pellegrino called Tibaldi Camillo Procaccini Lodovico Carracci Agostino Carracci Annibale Carracci. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
1979157381New York: Abaris Books 1979. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine mark from past label; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 520 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of 29 Dutch and Flemish printmakers: Jan Miense Molenaer Pieter de Molijn Roeland Roghman Jan Martszen the Younger Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst Adriaen Hendricksz Verboom Herman Naiqjncx Dirck van der Stoop Gerrit Chase Bleker Frans de Neve Leendert van der Cooghan Thomas Wyck Bartholomaeus Breenbergh Jan den Uyl Jacob van der Does the Elder Pieter Boel Jan Fyt Anthonie van Borssom Adriaen van der Kabel Ludolf Backhuijsen Jan Hackaert Theodor Roos Gillis Neyts Abraham Genoels Jan Smees Abraham Storck Johannes Melchior Roos Pieter Bout and Michiel Sweerts. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
193543111New York: New York Theatre Program Corporation 1935. 1 vols. 8vo. Full blue morocco red device and lettering on front cover by Jas. McDonald. Fine. 1 vols. 8vo. To "Sir Boss" J.K.Hyatt Signed by the Members of the Cast. Inscribed to J.K. Hyatt the owner of "The Center" by 28 people associated with the show including: Guy Robertson; Lee Whitney; Ralph Magelssen; Charles Romano; Solly Ward; Marie Burke; Mary Carney; Ernest Richard Lambart; Connie Maedonale; Vivien Fay; Stanley Harrison; Frank Kingdon; Michael J. Forbes; Herbert Goff; Harold Voetho; Ward Tallmon; Robert Milford; Dennis Noble; the PRODUCER Max Gordon; Harry Ediller; Clair Manners; Jane Overton; Thalia Mara; Nona Otero; Marian Bancroft; Jennie Kroll; Eddie McDonald; Joe Elsner; Henry L Gerhardt Jr.; and Steve Edwards. New York Theatre Program Corporation unknown books
192331704Wein: Universal 1923. Folio. Original publisher's textured purple boards with printed label to upper. 38 pp. facsimile of the autograph full score 1f. colophon. <br/><br/>Binding slightly worn and browned; head of spine torn; previous owner's name to upper outer corner of front pastedown. Trenner p. 128.<br/><br/>In the series Philharmonia-Facsimiliedrucke number 3.<br/><br/>"The most metaphysical of his tone poems Tod und Verklärung 1888-9 is based not on a literary text but on a narrative of the composer's own conception: a dying artist obsessed by an artistic Ideal is transfigured at death to recognize his Ideal in eternity. A poem by Ritter published in the score postdates the composition though the musical theme for the Ideal may have been inspired by one from Ritter's symphonic waltz Olafs Hochzeitsreigen. In Tod und Verklärung death is less the issue than transfiguration a lifelong fascination for Strauss with its abundant musical possibilities one that manifests itself from Rosenkavalier through to Metamorphosen." Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans in Grove Music Online. [Universal] unknown books
1980157389New York: Abaris Books 1980. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine mark from past label; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 328 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of German printmaker and artist Albrecht Durer 1471-1528. Consists of examples of engravings etchings drypoints and woodcuts. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
190821175Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PN A.5654F. 1908. Folio. Original publisher's full gray cloth. i title ii blank iii "Dramatis Personae" iv blank 5-250 pp. Text in German. With illustration by Lovis Corinth to page 5. <br/><br/>Binding worn rubbed and shaken. First Edition early issue without the additional plate numbers to foot of page 3 and also without the statement "Auffügrungsrecht vorbehalten" to foot of page 5. Trenner 223. Mueller von Asow p. 409. <br/><br/>First performed on January 25 1909 at the Königlichen Opernhaus in Dresden under Ernst von Schuch. <br/><br/>"Elektra. marked the beginning of Strauss's artistic association with Hugo von Hofmannsthal whom he had first met in Berlin in 1899. Having seen Reinhardt's riveting production of Hofmannsthal's Elektra in the autumn of 1905 Strauss was convinced the play would make a compelling opera. Not entirely sure he should compose consecutive tragedies he nonetheless gave in to Hofmannsthal's pleading and vigorously began composing Elektra in the summer of 1906. As he had with Oscar Wilde's Salome he set the play to music which was finished in 1908 and given its première in 1909 as part of a Strauss opera festival in Dresden. Elektra failed to outshine her flashier sister but confirmed Strauss's pre-eminence among German opera composers." Bryan Gilliam in Grove Music Online. Adolph Fürstner [PN A.5654F.] unknown books
193129543Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PN A. 7903 F. 1931. Folio. Original publisher's decorative ivory wrappers with titling in ivory on a black ground. i title ii statement regarding performance rights iii dedication iv blank v "Personen" vi blank pp. 5-336. Text in German. <br/><br/>Wrappers very slightly worn. Lower outer corners slightly bumped. A very good copy overall. First Edition second issue. Trenner 255. Mueller von Asow p. 821. Crawford p. 485. With additional plate numbers to foot of pp. ii and v. The dedication leaf not present in the first issue was added to this issue.<br/><br/>First performed at the Staatsoper in Dresden on June 6 1928 with Fritz Busch conducting and in a revised version at the Festspielhaus in Salzburg on August 14 1933.<br/><br/>"Strauss's score is loyally inventive. The 'thematic transformations' are endless the orchestral pictures fresh the pace well varied. If the musical tagging of every dramatic element sounds like period routine the opera has a saving lyrical grace: more relaxed and fluid than either his preceding Hofmannsthal opera Die Frau ohne Schatten or the more recent Intermezzo to his own text." David Murray in Grove Music Online. Adolph Fürstner [PN A. 7903 F.] unknown books
1979158003New York: Abaris Books 1979. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with faint label mark on spine; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 383 pp. 350 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of 15 Italian engravers. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
