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191267573New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 31 West Twenty-Third Street 1912. First edition in English American issue English sheets with a new title page; 4to pp. xvii 1 469 1; 24 mounted photogravures after Vittorio Sella 5 photographic panoramas on 4 plates 2 colored plates of minerals; original green cloth gilt-stamped spine; covers with a few smudges but overall very good sound and clean. Accompanied by the supplemental atlas volume containing 18 plates on 17 sheets all folding plus three maps and the plate list and index. A detailed and profusely illustrated account of the explorations of the Baltoro region by the Duke of the Abruzzi during which he made multiple attempts on K2. The Abruzzi Spur on that peak is named for him and is the standard route today. He ascended that to about 6250 meters. He also climbed Chogolisa but was driven back by bad weather about 150 meters from the summit. Vittorio Sella's photographs of the region from the expedition are among the finest of the period. Neate 266 for the London edition; Yakushi F71b. E. P. Dutton and Company, 31 West Twenty-Third Street unknown
1941171093New York: Savoy Ballroom 1941 & 1942. The Goose Hangs High Over Harlem From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts: a conspicuously uncommon pair of handbills for the celebrated Savoy Ballroom both advertising Labor Day celebrations that for the 1942 party featuring Cootie Williams and His Orchestra and the Savoy Sultans. The jive talk strapline of the day requires attendees to "Relax in Slacks Jump in Jumpers Swing in Ginghams Bounce in Pajamas". The sub-title of "The Goose Hangs High Over Harlem" derives from an old expression whose rather obscure meaning may have origins in the superstition that if geese were seen flying high then evil spirits were gone and good times were at hand. What may have been uppermost in the mind of the Savoy organisers however was Woody Herman's 1936 vocal version of the song of the same name also recorded by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis in 1958 as a "honker" with a tight bouncing groove. "Special events by Afro-American community associations and the booking of Latin bands sustained the variety of the Savoy ballroom's dances. Fancy-dress events were the one enduring feature of the original cabaret-style entertainment that remained popular enough to survive Perhaps the reason for this popularity was the opportunity that fancy dress provided Harlemites to indulge a sense of what seemed to be the 'exotic' such as Arabian Russian and Chinese nights or the annual Barn Dance on Labor Day Authenticity was not a great concern when attempting square dancing but complaints were voiced on occasions if real bales of straw were not used to decorate the ballroom!" Malnig p. 137. From the celebrated jazz ephemera collection of Norman R. Saks. Two handbills 190 x 135 mm; 240 x 148 mm. Printed on recto only both featuring the image of a rustic skyline harvest moon and barn labelled "Savoy Hay Station". Some creasing and light signs of handling but in very good condition. Julie Malnig ed. Ballroom Boogie Shimmy Sham Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader 2009. unknown
1930SAVOYCOC013282Constable London. 1930. First edition first issue with the half-title and title-page paginated and with the errata slip at page 25. Octavo. 287 pages. Colour illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. Art deco cloth-backed boards decorated in green grey and black as well as gilt foil. The design of this classic work was intended to complement the art deco of the American Bar at the Savoy. The author the most famous cocktail barman of the twenties and thirties was an American who had come to London in 1920 to escape from Prohibition.Spotting to edges and prelims. Much less rubbing to the boards than is usually seen. Very good indeed. Constable, London. hardcover
1935190330New York: Savoy Ballroom 1935. Four Big Guns of Dance Music in a Dynamic Battle of Music From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts: impossible to ignore handbill for a sensational "battle of the bands" at the celebrated Savoy Ballroom the scene of many such encounters but in this instance boasting a particularly stellar line up: Chick Webb "I'll Kill 'Em" Fletcher Henderson "I'll Murder 'Em" Fess Williams "I'll Slay 'Em" Teddy Hill "I'll Slaughter 'Em". The artwork certainly buttonholes the eyeballs: on the left four "big guns" blast out the names of the participants and on the right a mock-up of a newsstand headline declaims "EXTRA - 4 Blazing Bands Declare - JAZZ WAR - Breakfast Dance - All Night Sat. April 13th. 5 pm to 8am - 50¢ Admits You to the Musical Battle Sector". A flavour of the atmosphere of these famous sessions is captured by jazz historian Lewis A. Erenberg: "When the curtain came down on Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert of 1938 the Count Basie band and many of the other musicians present raced uptown to the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem for the momentous battle of the bands with the Chick Webb Orchestra. 'That was one hell of a battle' recalled Buck Clayton Basie's trumpeter. 'All concerned were putting down some heavy swing' Webb's orchestra the house band at the Savoy all through the late 1930s and the winner of numerous battles against visiting hopefuls aimed its 'sensational whirlwind barrage chiefly at the ears and head with resounding arrangements'". A genuinely remarkable survival from the heyday of Swing advertising "Four Big Guns of Dance Music in a Dynamic Battle of Music" when "Hot Licks" were pitched against "Hot Piano" and "High Notes" went toe-to-toe with "Low Notes" - as the strapline says: "What A Fight!" From the celebrated jazz ephemera collection of Norman R. Saks. Handbill 210 x 280 mm. Printed on recto only in red and black. Neat ownership inscription in green ink of one "Chas Roy" straddling the printed name of Teddy Hill; remains of paper on verso where once pasted into an album short closed tear into lower edge general creasing and signs of handling overall light toning yet remarkably well preserved. Lewis A. Erenberg Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture 1998. unknown
1930190332New York: The Savoy Ballroom 1930s. Chic memento of Harlem's greatest nightspot From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts with his posthumous bookplate: a striking souvenir of the fabled Savoy "the World's Greatest Ballroom" situated on Lenox Avenue. Langston Hughes surely had it in mind when in "Juke Box Love Song" he referred to "Harlem's heartbeat". Entirely unsegregated from the beginning this was a ballroom not a night club - they came to dance. The long narrow dance floor known to the regulars as the "Track" was not a place for the faint-hearted it was every bit as competitive as the Savoy's dual bandstands where the Battles of the Bands or Cutting Contests took place and for which the venue became famous. Through the 1930s until his unfortunately premature demise in 1939 the great Chick Webb the original King of Swing held sway with his hard-driving band defeating all comers of the stature of Benny Goodman and Count Basie the winners chosen by the dancers of course. The folder contains the original table photograph which shows a booth with four African-American couples in their thirties and a couple of hangers-on outside the booth all of them sharply turned out and ready for a good time. And - if the debris on the table is anything to go by with at least one champagne bottle in evidence - on their way to having one. This is a wonderfully evocative piece of jazz ephemera from the Charlie Parker and Night Club Memorabilia collection of Norman R. Saks. Pink card photo-folder 238 x 278 mm superb graphic of a dancing couple to front panel. Original silver gelatin table photograph in the window mount. A little rubbed and soiled some minor stripping at the spine and lower edge of the front panel short split to the window-mount the photograph slightly mottled. Ken Vail The Norman R. Saks Collection 292 unknown
192289837Nouméa: Imprimerie Nationale 1922. Fine. Imprimerie Nationale Nouméa 1922 15 x 23.5 cm Relié First edition cf. O'Reilly 2192. Modern Bradel binding in brown half-cloth forest-green morocco lettering-piece marbled paper boards beige endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers retained albeit lightly soiled; binding signed by Boichot. Illustrated with 49 photographic plates hors texte. ""Minutieuse histoire analytico-chronologique des trente premières années de la Calédonie européenne. Il annonçait une suite qui n'a jamais vu le jour"" O'Reilly. Imprimerie Nationale hardcover
190321201491903. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1903. Two volumes 4to. Original green cloth image of Polar Star blocked in gilt to upper cover gilt lettering to spine; pp. xvi 346 xvii-xxii; viii 347-702 ix-xii 212 photographic illustrations in the text 16 full-page photogravures 2 panoramas 5 maps including 2 folding maps at rear of volume I; very light marking to cloth minimal offsetting from endpapers otherwise a very good set with mid-20th century bookplates.First edition. The Polar Star expedition comprising a crew from Italy and Norway aimed to reach the North Polar by sailing as far north as possible and then continuing by sledge. The Pole was not actually attained but the sledge expedition pushed on to a new highest latitude and indeed the Polar Star reached the highest latitude ever achieved by a ship following the coast-line. Three of the crew perished during the sledge journey.Prince Luigi Amedeo Duke of the Abruzzi 1873-1933 was an Italian mountaineer and explorer. A member of the royal House of Savoy he was briefly an Infante of Spain as the son of Amadeo I of Spain and a cousin to King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.Arctic Bibliography 10423. hardcover
19034328Hutchinson and Co London 1903. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition; 2 volumes; Vol I xvi 1-346 pages xvii-xxii; Vol II viii 347-702 pages ix-xii. Original covers. In two volumes with 212 illustrations in text 16 full-page photogravure plates 2 panoramas and 5 coloured maps. Complete all plates maps and panoramas as called for. Shelf wear front inner hinges splitting both volumes minor spotting to page edges. Neat presentation inscription dated Christmas 1903 otherwise contents clean. A lovely set. In 1899 the author organized an expedition towards the North Pole. In spring he arrived in the Norwegian capital Christiania the present day Oslo with 10 companions. The duke acquired the Jason a steam whaler of 570 tons renamed it Stella Polare "Pole Star" & took the ship on the expedition through the frozen Artic Sea. The members of the expedition sought to reach the North Pole by way of Novaya Zemyla and the Franz Joseph Archipelago. They sailed as far north as possible and then continued their trek by sledge. While they did not reach the North Pole they did reach the highest latitude ever attained by sledge at that time. Originally published in Italian this first edition in English contains 2 folding color maps in the back pocket of the second volume. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4328. . Hutchinson and Co hardcover
1903003833London: Hutchinson & Co. 1903 2 vols. 4to. original green buckram gilt with gilt stamp of the "Polar Star" on upper boards upper hinge vol 1. a little tender both hinges vol. 2 neatly repaired inscrips. to FFE both vols. a little offsetting occ. mark to leaves & boards gilt titling to vol. 2 a trifle flecked; pp. i-xvvi 1-346 xvii-xxii Index with 11 plates 162 illustrations in the text and a colour map; viii 347-702 ix-xii Index with 5 plates 2 folding panoramas 50 illustrations in the text and 4 colour maps 2 folding in rear pocket small area of silverfish damage along one fold with minor loss else fine. Very heavy item 4.5 kg additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A very good set. First English. Hard Cover. VG. Hutchinson & Co. hardcover
1996DADAX1858982391Brand: Edward Elgar Pub 1996-06-01. hardcover. New. 7.00x1.50x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
19031992230Dodd Mead & Hutchinson 1903. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. First Edition American Issue with Dodd Mead imprint on spine. Published simultaneously in New York and London. Arctic Bibliography #10423. Two volumes navy cloth with gilt decorations 702 pp. in all profusely ilus. including plates portraits and five maps two of which are housed in a pocket at the rear of vol. 2. Some spotting to covers; binding somewhat shaken but secure. Quite sound overall. Dodd, Mead & Hutchinson hardcover
1996SONG1858982391Brand: Edward Elgar Pub 1996-06-01. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.00x1.50x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
194895145Washington D.C. 1948. Paperback. Very Good. photos 72p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Covers has a couple of small black spots. paperback
1976149916N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 Italian film.<br /> <br /> Based on the real Salon Kitty a cabaret and brothel used by Nazi secret intelligence to collect information on high-ranking SS commandants and foreign dignitaries during World War II. Heavily edited for its US release with many political elements purged in order to market the film as a sexploitation production. Considered one of the progenitors of the Nazi exploitation genre. <br /> <br /> Set in Berlin. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> <br /> Blue Underground. N.p. unknown
1996__1858982391Edward Elgar Pub 1996. Hardcover. New. 387 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.50 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
1903237666New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1903. hardcover. good. Translated by William Le Queux. 16 plates 2 folding panoramas 5 color maps including 2 large folding maps in back pocket and 212 text Illus. 2 Vols. 4to original blue cloth. New York: Dodd Mead 1903. First American Edition<br/> <br/> Exploration of the Arctic Ocean and Polar Ice-Cap. One of the panoramas has been repaired at the folds with no loss of text and has a small tear on the margin. two pages chipped on right margin. Inner hinges strengthened on both volumes. Ex libris with rubber stamps on the front flyleaf and endpaper of both volumes. Head of spine and edges of corners lightly worn on both volumes. Small amounts of light soiling to cloth of both volumes.<br/> <br/> Dodd, Mead & Co unknown
1976156360Paris: Les Films Jacques Leitienne 1976. Two vintage oversize borderless matte-finish color photographs from the 1976 Italian-Yugoslavian film. Stamps of Les Films Jacques Leitienne on the versos. <br /> <br /> A young wealthy and bored prince flits from affair to affair at his family's sprawling country estate culminating in a wild orgy that ends in death. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Croatia. <br /> <br /> 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners. Les Films Jacques Leitienne unknown
19093254946Madrid.: Librería Gutenberg de José Ruiz. 1909. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 23 cm. 362 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal. Cubierta deslucida. Librería Gutenberg de José Ruiz. hardcover
190963738Paris : Plon 1909. 250x170mm. reliÂŽ percaline brune piÂce de titre au dos en cuir rouge couverture dÕorigine conservÂŽe reliure moderne. 1680 Plon unknown
19013167431901. Rome: G. Civelli for Societa Geografica Italiana. 1901. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. 76 4 index verso blank blank leaf; seven photographic plates three in pagination one folding two folding lithographic maps by Danesi after A. Dardano; wrappers slightly marked and spotted expertly rebacked lightly spotted one map with skilfully repaired tear otherwise a very good copy.Second edition published in the same year as the first. This is a record of the lectures given by the Duke of the Abruzzi and Umberto Cagni about their North Polar Expedition in 1899 and 1900. The expedition on the Stella Polare reached 86deg 34'N and thereby surpassed the highest northern latitude previously attained by Nansen in 1895. This text is reprinted from the Bollettino della Societa Geographica Italiana and appeared some two years before the official expedition account La ""Stella Polare"" nel mare artico 1899-1900 Milan 1903.Prince Luigi Amedeo Duke of the Abruzzi 1873-1933 was an Italian mountaineer and explorer. A member of the royal House of Savoy he was briefly an Infante of Spain as the son of Amadeo I of Spain and a cousin to King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.Cf. Arctic Bibliography 10424 journal issue. unknown
1903038103London: Hutchinson & Co. 1903. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Royal 8vo. Complete and collated in two volumes with folding maps in rear pocket of Volume II. Deep blue cloth covers are scuffed and rubbed a little though remain attractive with bright gilt cover image and lettering. The top hinge internal of Volume I is slightly cracked and both hinges of Volume two are broke. Volume I remains tight. Volume II is a little shaken though webbing remains intact and volume is reasonably solid. Light foxing on end leaves. A few slight handling smudges though overall both volumes remain clean. Due to weight additional charges will apply for Priority and/or International shipping. <br/> <br/> Hutchinson & Co. hardcover
1950191321950. Savoy Willard. Alien Land. New York: Signet Books 1950. Contains 192 pages. Classic pulp cover art of a young Black woman wearing a canary-yellow dress inside a sheriff's office. Behind her stands two white men. Text above title reads "Between two worlds--an unforgettable novel of love and fear." Alien Land follows a white-passing Black man as he experiences racism from both sides and navigates the Jim Crow South. At the end of the novel he reconciles with his mixed heritage and finds peace in an interracial marriage. The book received great acclaim; it is a powerful nuanced account of race in America. Book sustains stress crease from when it was read. Some rubbing to spine panel. Consistent toning throughout. Gutter is beginning to crack but still holding well. Otherwise very good condition. unknown
1973004279New York: Marcel Dekker Inc. 1973. Very Good EX-LIBRARY copy with "withdrawn" stamp on the endpapers. Clean square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original gray cloth lettered in metallic blue on the spine. This is volume 2 only of 2. It contains 5 studies on the theoretical and experimental principles of Raman spectroscopy and discussions of some of its important applications in physics and chemistry. The 5 studies look at the application of the Raman phenomenon to inorganic chemistry by R. Stuart Tobias; to molecular crystals by Rodrigue Savoie; to ionic covalent and metallic crystals by G.R. Wilkinson; to electronic transitions by J.A. Koningstein and O.S. Mortensen; and to high-resolution studies of gases by Alfons Weber. Illustrated with 64 tables and a frontispiece portrait of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1888-1970 winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. Well supported by references. Index. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xi pp.405 - 1033. Marcel Dekker, Inc. Hardcover
190946555Paris Plon-Nourrit 1909. Small 4to. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip partly gone Sewing loose. A bit of lower right corner of frontwrapper gone. 6356 pp. 5 large folded panopramas plates textillustr. maps. Internally clean. unknown
1971TA-6London U.K.: Robert Hale 1971. Classic text presents the full account of the author's daring expeditions beyond one of the few uncharted frontiers and of his remarkable discovery of the fabled cities of Vilcabamba and Muyok Viejo. Includes the author's journeys through the dense Peruvian jungles and high mountain terrain in order to prove his unique theory that the origins of Inca culture evolved from the jungles and not from foreign migrations as archaeologists previously thought. 239 pgs. Illustrated. Minor rubbing to edges of dustjacket; in mylar. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Robert Hale Hardcover
