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190731098Paris: Paul Ollendorff 1907. Fine. Paul Ollendorff Paris 1907 14 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 10 numbered copies on Hollande the only large paper copies. Cover illustration by Antoon van Welie. Two slight tears to foot of joints near edges occasional small spots essentially to ffep but otherwise a good well-margined copy. Rare. Paul Ollendorff unknown
1977C102433Flammarion. As New. 1977. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Flammarion hardcover
1954116277New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1954. First edition of Roosevelt and Hickok's tribute to women in America. Octavo original cloth. Signed by both Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Uncommon signed. Eleanor Roosevelt was a figure of considerable historical consequence on two grounds. She embodied the aggressive spirit of feminism that began challenging male domination of American business and politics in the 1920s and she became… the champion of the New Deal's liberal impulse" New York Review of Books. Ladies of Courage coauthored by Roosevelt with her close friend journalist Lorena Hickok honors the struggle and political achievements of women. Hickok who "ranks among the most important woman journalists of the 20th century… entered Eleanor Roosevelt's life at a pivotal moment and became her greatest source of emotional sustenance as she began to redefine the role of First Lady" Beasley et al. Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia 236. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1982C91210Arthena. As New. 1982. Paperback. 2903239010 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 152 pages well illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Arthena paperback
190669130Paris: Pierre Douville 1906. Fine. Pierre Douville Paris 1906 13 x 19.50 cm relié First edition one of 10 numbered copies on Hollande the only deluxe paper. Illustrated cover by Antoon Van Welie. Full burgundy morocco spine with five raised bands ruled in black date gilt at foot gilt rolls on the caps moiré-effect endpapers and pastedowns gilt-tooled dentelle borders on pastedowns original covers and spine preserved all edges gilt double gilt fillets on the edges elegant period binding signed Yseux successor to Simier. Our copy is enriched with a two-and-a-half-page autograph letter signed by Jean Lorrain to Laurent Tailhade in which he recounts the vexations he suffers as a journalist regarding an article he wishes to publish reporting on a recent lecture by his correspondent: "". je me suis heurté à un si mauvais vouloir à un tel parti pris d'inertie pour l'aventure que j'avais savamment élaborée autour de votre conférence."" ""les secrétaires de direction sont le désespoir des journalistes."" Finally Jean Lorrain unwell apologises for being unable to attend the lectures given by Laurent Tailhade. A very handsome copy perfectly bound. Provenance: from the library of Henri Thuille with his bookplate pasted on a pastedown. Pierre Douville hardcover
1979C102435Hacker Art Books. As New. 1979. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- VOLUME 1 ONE OF A TWO VOLUME SET. VOLUME 1: Critical Catalogue. I II 2 Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Hacker Art Books hardcover
1979C102436Hacker Art Books. As New. 1979. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- VOLUME 2 TWO OF A TWO VOLUME SET. Volume 2: Illustrations I II 2 Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Hacker Art Books hardcover
1989C102432Yale University Press. As New. 1989. Hardcover. 0300042221 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 310 pages; 281 illustrations in black and white. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Yale University Press hardcover
1977102433Flammarion. As New. 1977. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Flammarion hardcover
198291210Arthena. As New. 1982. Paperback. 2903239010 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 152 pages well illustrated. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Arthena paperback
1979102436Hacker Art Books. New. 1979. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- VOLUME 2 TWO OF A TWO VOLUME SET. Volume 2: Illustrations I II 2 Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Hacker Art Books hardcover
1979102435Hacker Art Books. New. 1979. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- VOLUME 1 ONE OF A TWO VOLUME SET. VOLUME 1: Critical Catalogue. I II 2 Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Hacker Art Books hardcover
1989102432Yale University Press. New. 1989. Hardcover. 0300042221 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 310 pages; 281 illustrations in black and white. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Yale University Press hardcover
1979C102434Hacker Art Books. As New. 1979. Hardcover. 0878172440 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Volume 1: Critical Catalogue; Volume 2: Illustrations One I II Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Hacker Art Books hardcover
1979102434Hacker Art Books. New. 1979. Hardcover. 0878172440 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Volume 1: Critical Catalogue; Volume 2: Illustrations One I II Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Hacker Art Books hardcover
1949413909Bronx New York / Bethlehem New Hampshire / Arlington Virginia / Miami Florida 1949. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 219 letters 12 postcards and 14 greeting cards between Lorraine Horty Silbiger and Gerry Gersten in 1948 and 1949 during their summers apart from each other along with one 4†x 3†black and white photograph. All items are near fine with light creases from being mailed with clear handwritten and typed text.<br /> <br /> Gersten 1927-2017 grew up in the Bronx not far from Silbiger 1929-2002. While neither of his Polish Jewish immigrant parents supported his desire to be an artist Gersten persisted attending the Cooper Union Art School and Cooper School of Design. He found success starting in the 1960s as a caricaturist drawing for The New York Times New York magazine Sports Illustrated Time Newsweek Harper's Rolling Stone Esquire Playboy and later MAD Magazine from 1986 to 2009. Gersten and Silbiger married in 1951.<br /> <br /> During the summers of 1948 and 1949 Gersten worked in Bethlehem New Hampshire at the Park View Hotel bussing tables. During that time he wrote love letters to Silbiger who spent her summers traveling to Arlington Virginia and Miami Florida with family and friends. The couple wrote to each other nearly every day. Both Gersten and Silbiger were going to school for art and their letters to each other are covered in doodles and cartoons of them kissing chasing after each other with plenty of hearts. One particularly adorable drawing by Gersten features the couple kissing on a park bench holding a large heart with their initials inside. Another is of him being held in her arms in the apartment. In one letter Silbiger writes: “I looked at my face in the mirror. My mouth looks different since you haven’t been kissing me. I guess my mouth misses you also.â€<br /> <br /> Gersten’s letters are usually about lamenting his job at the hotel and the guests not tipping him “I used to light his cigarettes with your lighter. The ingrate never knew how close to heaven he was.†But more so he pines for his faraway girlfriend and later wife “I had planned to wait twelve days before answering your letter. I thought I’d play it hard and take you down a full two pegs but I couldn’t hold out. The longer I take to write means I have to wait that much longer for an answer from you. I’m a shadow of my former self. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep.†During the first summer Gersten counts “pegs†for every couple days he goes without a letter from Silbiger teasing her that she is slacking on writing letters. He affectionately calls her “Horty†“Bigger†and “Tzib†while his nicknames are “Cubbles†and “B.B.†for Beautiful Busboy. While the letters aren’t lewd a few hint at being more adult “Tonight I’m taking a shower to worship my hair – close your eyes and start thinking – dirty boy… Marry me†Included in one letter is a photograph of Silbiger lounging in her bathing suit on a bench by the beach.<br /> <br /> The pair frequently sent each other post cards and clippings of cartoons from newspapers and magazines. Often their initials will be written on the cartoon characters especially if the cartoon depicts a couple. Silbiger sends little cards illustrated with puppies hearts and kiss marks she also kissed a couple of the envelopes and letters that she sent with lipstick. Some of Silbiger’s letters contain various ephemera. One example is an unopened Pixie: X Ray Roundup bubblegum stick with a small collectable card of Guy Madison starring in When a Man’s a Man. Some other items includes a U.S. Navy recruitment letter from 1945 when Gersten was 18 a physical examination sheet with Gersten’s information on it and a typed poem from Jimmie J. Schneider referenced in some letters from Silbiger as one of her other suitors. <br /> <br /> An extensive collection of love letters between two young artists in the days following World War II. unknown
1988022752New York: Rock Foundation 1988. First edition. 12 volumes in 3 parts and 3 slipcases. Large folios gray cloth. Very slight rubbing to spines and slipcases; Near fine or better. No signs of previous ownership. Schuster 1904-1969 a pioneer in the Study of Folk Symbols spent his life traveling the world gathering them and compiled an extensive and organized file of examples. Carpenter compiled and wrote this book from those files. It is also a masterpiece of printing and book design by Meriden/Stinehour Press. Rock Foundation unknown
195447083Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company the Riverside Press 1954. First American Edition first impression. Octavo; Walter Lorraine-illustrated dust jacket with flaps lettered in red; blue cloth stamped in gilt; yellow-orange topstain; 423pp.; fold-out map to rear. Dust jacket chipped along edges and spine; dampstaining along spine principally visible at verso; rubbing. Shelfwear to boards; staining along edges of front board and spine; binding sound; moderate to heavy foxing to endpapers and edges of textblock; interior else unmarked; still a Very Good copy.<br /> <br /> The first volume of Tolkien's epic fantasy was praised by some W.H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison and derided by others Edmund Wilson in his "Oo Those Awful Orcs!" article but nevertheless it remains one of the most popular and beloved works of the twentieth century. Scholar Tom Shippey believes Tolkien's work more than mere escapism observing ".his continuing appeal rests not on mere charm or strangeness. but on a deeply serious response to what will be seen in the end as the major issues of his century: the origin and nature of evil;. human existence in Middle-Earth without the support of divine revelation; cultural relativity; and the corruptions and continuities of language." First printings of either the Mifflin or the Allen & Unwin editions rather scarce in retail. <br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> Hammond A5 b.i<br /> <br /> Tom Shipped "J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century." Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2001. p. IX. Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press unknown
19860036547New York: Rock Foundation 1986-88. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 37cm x 28cm. 1073; 1405; 713 pages 3 volumes in 12 books continuous pagination illustrations some colour. Original grey cloth black lettering cloth slipcases Based on the Researches & Writings of Carl Schuster. Edited & Written by Edmund Carpenter. Assisted by Lorraine Spiess. A cornerstone of comparative anthropology mythology and art history. This monumental work draws on the vast ethnographic record assembled by American art historian Carl Schuster 1904-1969. Schuster died suddenly of cancer leaving the material unpublished. Carpenter spent nearly two decades editing Schuster's archive into this twelve-volume synthesis. The result is an epic survey of visual and mythic patterns: from Paleolithic Europe to the tribal societies of Oceania the Americas and Africa. Issued privately in a very small edition distributed directly to museums and researchers Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism is likely the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of traditional symbolism ever published. Very minor discolouration to spines. Very minor soil to upper board of Vol 3:3 and extremely minor to edges of 2:4 and 2:5. Category: Anthropology; Myths Legends & Folklore; Art & Design. ISBN: 0937691038. ISBN/EAN: 9780937691038. Inventory No: 0036547. BZDB407 Anthropology; Myths Legends & Folklore; Art & Design. Unbranded ISBN: 0937691038 EAN: 9780937691038 Carl Schuster; Edmund Carpenter; Lorraine Spiess. Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity Rock Foundation hardcover
190472398Paris: Librairie universelle 1904. Fine. Librairie universelle Paris 1904 14.50 x 20 cm relié First edition one of 25 copies on handmade laid paper numbered and justified by the publisher the only deluxe issue. Bradel binding in half chocolate-brown morocco with corners smooth spine gilt date at foot marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns illustrated wrappers by Manuel Orazi and backstrip preserved. Work illustrated with 136 black and colour drawings in- and out-of-text by Georges Bottini. Bookplate mounted. Our copy is enriched with a full-page original drawing signed by Georges Bottini and heightened in black ink depicting Jacques Beaudarmon wearing a bowler hat and conversing with the « môme ». This drawing appears as a woodcut illustration on page 133. The drawing is inscribed by Georges Bottini to M. Casanove « en grande sympathie ». Very rare deluxe copy of Jean Lorrains masterpiece. Librairie universelle hardcover
1948140946791Chicago: Engelwood High School 1948. First Edition. Very Good. The high school year book of A Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry pictured on page 36 and inscribed by her "Good Luck & Best Wishes" with an arrow pointing to her printed name. Hansberry also appears on page 105 in a group portrait of the school's debate forum. Another nationally known author appearing in these pages is Sam Greenlee on page 55; he has not signed this yearbook. <p>Bound in publisher's original padded leatherette embossed pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with wear to extremities three vertical lines to the rear cover lightly soiled light foxing to textblock edge. Tear to bottom gutter at rear Autographs page. Additionally signed throughout by many classmates. Owner's name William Sharp to title page and front pastedown. <p>Although she does not appear here in the rolls of the school's drama club Hansberry was just 11 years away from being the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. She died tragically young at age 34 of pancreatic cancer; items signed by her are scarce. Engelwood High School unknown
1959140947613New York NY: Playbill 1959. Near Fine. Signed by Lorraine Hansberry on the front cover. Bound in publisher's stapled pictorial wraps. 48pp. Near Fine with light toning light wear and small spot of staining to front cover. The play had opened in 1958 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger the brother At this point Ossie Davis had replaced Poitier and the play had moved to the Belasco Theatre. Items signed by Hansberry are scarce; the playwright died at age 34 of pancreatic cancer. Playbill unknown
