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19319281Paris: Black Sun 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Translated from the French by Kay Boyle. Illustrated by Max Ernst. One of 200 copies on Bristol paper this being copy number 52. Although not called for this copy is signed by Max Ernst on the frontispiece illustration. Furthermore it is in the deluxe 50-copy black binding with black endpapers. Finally the book is housed in the publisher's slipcase which was intended only for the deluxe edition. Such discrepancies were not uncommon for this aristocratic press whose attention to bibliographical accuracy can generously be described as casual. The 19 photograms that illustrate the book constituted a pioneering artist's technique by Ernst who was assisted in the endeavor by fellow Surrealist Man Ray. Carefully pencil-rubbed what the French call "frottage" translucent papers were employed as negatives to create the photograms. In essence then a photogram is a photograph made without the use of a camera. The three principals of this _Livre de Artiste were unlikely collaborators. Crevel whose 1927 novel "Babylone" was the source for "Mr Knife Miss Fork" which is the novel's first chapter committed suicide at the age of 35 after an unhappy existence as a radical political activist and closeted homosexual; Boyle an American author at the epicenter of the expatriate colony in Paris was gamely trying to deal with her financial short-fallings; while Ernst an acknowledged pioneer of the burgeoning Dada and Surrealist movements in art was likewise motivated by the opportunity to earn a few francs. All in all an anomalously desirable volume. <br /><br /> Black Sun hardcover
1910149882London: Luzac & Co 1910. First complete English translation of arguably the best twentieth-century translation of Sun Tzu's seminal work on military strategy preceded only by the first translation into French of 1772 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot and partial translation into English by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop of 1905. Royal octavo original printed yellow wrappers bound into full contemporary cloth-covered boards gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Provenance: William George's Sons bookseller's label affixed to front wrapper. Lionel Giles the leading Sinologue of his day was not fond of either of his predecessor's translations of the work declaring Amiot's translation an "imposture" of the original and Calthrop's knowledge of Chinese "far too scanty." It was not until the publication in 1963 of Samuel Griffith's translation that Giles met any sort of challenge at all. In very good condition. A very rare and desirable example of this definitive cornerstone of military strategy. The Art of War attributed to Sun Tzu is a foundational text of Chinese strategic thought composed in the late Spring and Autumn period c. 5th century BCE. Structured into thirteen succinct chapters each addressing a discrete principle of warfare the treatise synthesizes tactical philosophical and psychological insights into a coherent and enduring strategic doctrine. Firmly established as the preeminent work among the Seven Military Classics of imperial China—officially codified in 1080 CE during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song—The Art of War has exerted a sustained influence on the development of military theory throughout East Asia for over two millennia. Its emphasis on indirect strategy deception and the integration of political economic and moral dimensions of conflict has rendered it indispensable not only to military commanders but also to scholars and statesmen. The treatise's strategic paradigms have long transcended their original martial context. In modern times The Art of War has been appropriated across disciplines informing Western and Eastern approaches to diplomacy corporate strategy legal theory competitive sports and organizational leadership. Its adaptability and intellectual rigor continue to make it a critical reference point in discussions of power conflict and human behavior. Luzac & Co hardcover
1930WRCLIT64620Paris: The Black Sun Press 1930. Oblong small quarto. Printed wrappers. A fine nearly untouched copy without foxing in glassine wrapper and somewhat worn and soiled publisher's slipcase and chemise with split at one joint. First edition in this format American deluxe issue. Illustrated with six original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. From a total edition of 790 copies this is one of twenty copies of the American issue specially printed on Hollande Van Gelder with a duplicate suite of the six lithographs in sanguine bound at the end. Five of the six lithographs in the suite are signed by the artist with the sixth signed in the plate. Laurencin has also signed the limitation page. Neither the copies on Rives nor the special copies on Japon were issued signed either on the colophon or on the lithographs. MINKOFF A39. MONOD 2304. The Black Sun Press unknown books
1924180007China: Zhongguo guomindang nanyang zongzhibu c.1924. A fundamental text of modern Chinese political thought A rare early edition of the official Kuomintang anthology of Sun Yat-Sen's 1924 lectures on the 'Three Principles of the People' which became the defining exposition of his famous political theory following his death the following year. This example was issued by the party's Nanyang headquarters the branch covering the Chinese south coast and south-east Asia the sheets likely printed in China. The lectures delivered between January and August at Guangdong Higher Teacher's College "were given on Sunday mornings to audiences of two thousand to three thousand people. The audience packed into the hall consisted of government and party officials students and 'people from all walks of life.' Sun's listeners were generally attentive though sometimes distracted by fatigue or hunger one attendee recalled rushing to the dining hall once Sun concluded his remarks for the day" Strand pp. 255-6. Of the 16 talks 6 each were devoted to the principles of "nationalism" and "democracy" and 4 expounded on "the people's livelihood." They crystallized his three decades of political theorizing and activism serving as a last testament that could be readily used and abused by the different political factions that claimed throughout the 20th century to be the true custodians of his legacy. As Sun spoke without a prepared text his talks were transcribed by Zou Lu a Kuomintang official. After Sun had made edits and corrections the transcripts were issued separately one booklet per principle and then as one volume at the end of 1924. Institutional holdings of early Kuomintang printings of the lectures are low. For the booklets the National Library of China holds a copy of each with different paginations to the relevant sections here. The present edition was reproduced in Volume 45 of the 2023 Taibei 268-volume edition of Sun's writings suggesting copies are held in the depositories of Sun's writings and manuscripts in Taiwan and Guangzhou but otherwise it is entirely untraced. Around the time of Sun's death Shanghai's Minzhi Shuju published a trade edition of the lectures. This is a little more common institutionally. Octavo 245 x 170 mm. Vignettes and diagrams in text; text in Chinese. Original buff wrappers later brown paper backstrip and reinforcement to front cover front wrapper lettered in black. Contemporary red ink stamp on front cover; mid-century purple ink annotations on rear wrapper and internally. Wear and soiling contents browned as usual for paper of this period: a very good copy showing heavy signs of use. Marie-Claire Bergère Sun Yat-sen 1998; David Strand An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China 2011. unknown
19622409180259xbvkJamaica, Island Worcester [and Things] - Ceramics, 1962. Material: Ceramic / Total height (Pot with lid): ca. 39 cm; diameter at foot: ca. 15 cm, largest diameter (open top of 'pot'): ca. 24 cm. / Colour: lightbrown-rosé with white partly gilt-lined embossments and partly gilt inscriptions; foot and pineapple-top: white. / Weight: ca. 3 kg.
1929172181Nanjing: Zongli fengan huakan bianzuan weiyuanhui 1929. Bidding China's "National Father" farewell First and only edition and printing of the official commemorative publication for Sun Yat-Sen's state burial distributed as a gift by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over one hundred photographic illustrations record the elaborate multi-day ceremony and the appearance of Sun's mausoleum; these are accompanied by several folding architectural plans. Loosely inserted is the ministry's printed presentation card. Following Sun's death on 12 March 1925 the Kuomintang formed a 12-man committee tasked with overseeing the construction of a massive mausoleum on Mount Zijin in Nanjing. The stakes were high: amidst the breakdown of the Kuomintang's relations with the Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kai-Shek's tightening grip on the party-state exerting control over Sun's legacy and image was paramount. The design of the site was opened to public tender the committee requiring the winning design to combine traditional Chinese styles with modern concepts of adaptive architecture. The winning architect Lu Yanzhi 1894-1929 died before construction finished and his vision was seen through to completion by his colleague Poy Gum Lee 1900-1968. Lu and Poy's American training is reflected in such design elements as the layout of the site which draws on the Mall in Washington and the Liberty Bell and the design of a statue of Sun seated in Lincoln-esque fashion. In spring 1929 the internment ceremony began with the transfer of Sun's body from Beiping to Nanjing on a special train named the "Soul Train" in Chinese. "The transfer was designed as a long drawn-out mobile media event that was to spiritually mobilize modernize and unify the population around the spirit and body of Sun Yat-sen". The internment ceremony held on 1 June 1929 after the body had lain in state for three days was a lavish and highly regulated spectacle. The body was escorted by a 3-mile-long procession to the echoes of a 101-gun salute from a gunboat moored on the Yangtze River. At midday as Song Qingling and Sun Ke Sun's wife and son closed the metal door on the tomb the ceremony closed with a national three-minutes silence. This is the most important printed record of one of 20th-century China's defining political events. The majority of copies are now housed in institutional collections and we have traced no others in commerce. Accompanying this copy are two contemporary typescript translations into English of the book's captions. Large octavo. With 73 plates 4 collotype and 35 half-tone plates 7 maps and plans 6 folding ornate title page after calligraphy by Han Minjing. Original lavish silk brocade lettered in gold orange thread xianzhuang stitching spine and covers lined with tan silk. With original blue cloth folding case xylographic label on front panel reproducing calligraphy by Chiang Kai-Shek lined with decorative blue paper bone toggles. Brocade bright some losses to silk on spine rear cover silk lining worn and feathering where sometime damp text and illustrations very well preserved one folding plan with small hole not affecting printed area: a very good copy the binding having lost none of its lustre in very good case with rubbing a little soiling and cockling to lining. Rudolph G. Wagner "1925-1928: Enshrining the Father of the Republic" China Heritage Annual available online. hardcover
1928228991Paris The Black Sun Press 1928. 1928. 4to. Illustrated with one double-page facsimile. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black. Original glassine dust jacket slight wear. Fine. Enclosed in a later 1/2 black morocco over black cloth slipcase with folding chemise. Number 13 of 16 copies on Japan paper with an original Typed Letter Boldly Signed "Henry James" Sussex Lamb House Rye October 18 1912. 8 1/8" x 10 1/8"; 3 pages 2 separate leaves. With two small ink corrections by James. To Walter Berry: Letter written in anticipation of Berry's upcoming visit to James. In part: "I welcome your generous compassion and am really not far from thinking that I rather deserve it. I have had a weary dreary sordid squalid time and don't even yet feel the tide to have very decidedly turned. Still I do get up - though I don't get further and I am at this moment in the depths of a demoralized loll the armchair most intimately acquainted with the imprint of my figure aiding whence I weave and try to waft to you these vague symbols of hope and trust." Walter Van Renssalaer Berry was the scion of an old New York family and close friend of both James and Edith Wharton. Minkoff A 16. Edel and Laurence C 8 - This letter was previously unpublished. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Paris, The Black Sun Press, 1928. hardcover books
19081191031908. First Edition . SUN TZU. The Book of War. The Military Classic of the Far East. London: John Murray 1908. Octavo original gilt- and red-stamped green cloth. $8500.Rare first British edition of this essential military treatise""a text of matchless wisdom""dating back to the 5th century BCE featuring the translation into English by Calthrop a lovely copy in original cloth.Better known by the more popular translation of the title Art of War this seminal book of military strategy was written in the 5th or 6th century BCE and is attributed to Sun Tzu who ""is regarded as the first Chinese to have written about military affairs and as the founder of strategy"" Cornelli Sun Tzu and the Indirect Strategy. While there remains dispute over his life the work's profound influence is uncontested. ""It has been consulted by military figures and business strategists"" from Napoleon to Mao Zedong. General Douglas MacArthur stated ""I always kept a copy of Art of War on my desk"" and West Point uses it in a seminar on military strategy. To Sun-Tzu ""war was an extension of politics and required a coherent strategic and tactical theory and a practical doctrine governing intelligence planning command operational and administrative procedures To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting"" Ancient History Encyclopedia.The work remains pivotal to leaders in business the law professional sports and diplomacy. Its essential message is: ""Ripeness is all. That is he or she who takes a strategic approach to business lifewho is fit in mind body and spirit who is always ready for just about anythingis the player most likely to win the ongoing war that is life."" In effect the goal is to be ""so prepared for battle that battle has been rendered unnecessary"" Wall Street Journal. It is ""a text of matchless wisdom"" New Statesmen. Sun Tzu's work is a ""classic not just a military classic in the same sense that Thucydides' Peloponnesian War is a classic rather than a military classic like Thucydides it conjures the entire spectrum of human motivations that lead the already ultra-powerful to seek more power through violence. this classic returns us time and time again to the human scale and the extraordinary deeds that men and women find themselves capable of given the right situation"" Literary Hub. Each chapter is devoted to a unique aspect of warfare and treats it comprehensively. First translated into European languages about 200 years ago; this translation by Captain E.F. Calthrop was completed in the aftermath of the Anglo-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. His translation served as the only one available until it was supplanted by that of Giles a British scholar. While Calthrop was treated as an interloper into the field of translation the importance of his endeavor should not be underestimated. Indeed Calthrop's achievement was made even more impressive by a later discovery that his mistakes were due in part to the source of his translationa Japanese version of Sun Tzu which was apparently corrupt. The first edition in English was published as Sonshi in Tokyo in 1905 Samuel Sunzi Art of War. Initially issued in 1905 this revised edition is the first British edition. Minor toning to spine. A very nearly fine copy. hardcover books
192922389Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. One of 150 copies printed. Minkoff A25. Presentation copy inscribed by the publisher Harry Crosby to his father: "SVRC Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby from Harry" with an accompanying sketch of his personalized sun symbol and the Black Sun Press's emblem. "In August Harry Crosby delivered one hundred and fifty copies of 1450-1950 to Brown who quickly sent most of them on to publishers and friends sixty of whom he listed opposite the title page under the heading "Free Copies." In return Brown hoped for a few kind words that might be useful in reviving a writing career that had been quiescent for close to fifteen years. 1450-1950 is an amusing mixture of ideography and calligraphy examples of which Brown had been amassing - with obvious pleasure - for many years. "I like looking back / at the / Illuminated manuscripts of / 1450 / And forward / to the / more Illuminations / Movie Scripts of / 1950 I like to see / Fly Specks / on yellowed pages / I like too / Leaving my own on / New ones / My Fly Speck." In his dedication to "all monks all early oriental artists . . . " Brown playfully attempted to locate his work in the history of innovative printing and himself among those authors celebrated as much for their matter as for their manner of expression. By early fall he had gathered a garland of testimonials from among others Gertrude Stein H. L. Mencken and William Carlos Williams." Harry Crosby was found dead in his New York studio on December 10th 1929 evidently a casualty of a suicide pact: in one hand he held a pistol and in his other arm his twenty year old lover Josephine Noyes Rotch Bigelow also dead of a bullet to the temple. - Hugh Ford Published In Paris N. Y.: Macmillan 1975 p. 200- 210. On the same day Crosby had made his last entry in his diary: "One is not in love unless one desires to die with one's beloved. There is only one happiness it is to love and to be loved." When Jonathan Williams reissued 1450-1950 as Jargon 29 in 1959 the publisher observed: "That it should take him JW thirty years to locate a copy of Bob Brown's utterly charming and singular book is a measure of the almost cultish regard 1450-1950 has commanded from its contemporaries. If you didn't own a copy you were automatically cast into either of the modern outer darknesses then beginning to pullulate: Squaresville or Beat City. The virtues of 1450-1950 are publicly attested by many luminaries on the back cover blurb - among them Geltte Burgess who invented the word blurb." Among those quoted on the back cover are Gertrude Stein Marcel Duchamp Carl Van Vechten William Carlos Williams Carl Sandburg Walter Lowenfels James Johnson Sweeney Gelett Burgess Stuart Davis and Caresse Crosby who wrote to Brown: "We show your book to everyone who comes to the house and they always find some page that so especially delights them that soon we will have to chain it down like an ancient missal. A fine copy of a rare book with the "Crosby Cross" bookplate and the Black Sun Press blindstamp on the endpaper in the publisher's gold foil folder which is somewhat worn. 8vo original printed wrappers publisher's glassine dust jacket publisher's foil folder. A fine copy of a rare book with the "Crosby Cross" bookplate and the Black Sun Press blindstamp on the endpaper in the publisher's gold foil folder which is somewhat worn. Black Sun Press unknown
1908140941539London: John Murray 1908. First English-language edition. Very Good. First British edition. First in the English language as well. Never reprinted and there was no American edition of Sun Tzu until World War II. 132 pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in red and lettered in gilt. Very Good with a little staining to cloth light wear two former owners' names on paste down pages toned with age offsetting to a few preliminary pages' text with a little discoloration a few easily erasable penciled tic marks to margins. Scarce.<br /> <br /> <p>A foundational text of military strategy written in the 5th or 4th centuries BC attributed to Chinese military general Sun Tzu. Its focus is on outsmarting opponents without resorting to physical conflict which has inspired countless works on strategy business and game theory. John Murray unknown books
1963013800Paris Jean-Janques Pauvert 1963 In-4 Cartonnage illustré éditeur Edition originale Dédicacé par l'illustrateur
192921637Paris, Editions du Bois Sacré, 1929 ; grand in-4°, maroquin bordeaux, dos à nerfs soulignés d’un filet doré, auteur et titre en majuscules dorées, caisson décorés, date en queue ; plats décorés d’un grand filet ondulé d’encadrement, entouré d’un double filet maigre et gras, le tout encadré d’un quadruple filet doré fin, filet doré sur les coupes, tête dorée, bordure intérieure avec cinq filets dorés et un filet gras à froid encadrant une pièce de soie moire grenat, gardes de même, doubles gardes marbrées et dorées, couverture et dos conservés, étui bordé (Adrien Lavaux)
1955008624Paris Tériade 1955 in folio En feuilles, couverture rempliée, chemise et étui éditeur
1968100144New York The Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968. 1968 6 17.8 x 27.9 cm. New York, The Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968. Six portefeuilles 178 x 279 mm, présentés dans leurs emballages postaux d’origine, contenant chacun un sommaire, pour un total de 73 multiples originaux.
198484246Anthoensen Press the Limited Editions Club. As New. 1984. Hardcover. 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 - -- - Corresponds to ASIN: B001F3I68Y. SIGNED by the ARTIST LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES. Xxxii 306 4 pages; 22 silkscreens by Sol Lewitt. -- with a bonus offer-- . Anthoensen Press, the Limited Editions Club hardcover
196830276New York: Seth Sieglaub and John W. Wendler 1968. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperbound quarto in clear acetate wrapper. First edition. Published December 1968 in an edition of one thousand copies. Legendary conceptual artist book. As part of this project each of the seven artists were asked to contribute 25 pages of artwork produced with the assistance of a xerox machine. A gorgeous near fine copy in bound white wrappers printed only minimally at spine. The original sheer acetate wrapper is present and has a few expected small tears at the spine tips. Minor tape shadows to endpapers where the acetate wrapper was originally taped to the endpapers. Unpaginated and printed on rectos only. A seminal work cited in virtually every artist book reference work on the 1960's including Lippard Lewitt Castleman and Maffei & De Donno. Collector's copy. Seth Sieglaub and John W. Wendler paperback books
1987321661987. Faint foldlines and minor soiling to left margin; else near fine. With a manuscript note from Higginbotham to verso "Black 1 bottle / white paper tape / 430". A rare behind-the-scenes artifact from LeWitt's conceptual apparatus. Ballpoint pen drawing on sheet of watercolor paper 5.75 x 9.5 inches. A manuscript plan from Sol LeWitt complete with color codes and measurements for what would soon become Wall Drawing #517: Symmetrical Flat-Topped Pyramid with Color Ink Washes Superimposed with a 15-inch 37.5 cm Black Band on Each Side—first installed at Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University by David Higginbotham and Anthony Sansotta February 1987. This very drawing is reproduced in the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné where the editors distinguish plans from instructions and preparatory drawings as "the final drawn or written representations followed by LeWitt's assistants. Plans are considered artworks in their own rights. unknown
1930WRCLIT57739Paris: The Black Sun Press 1930. Oblong small quarto. Half dark blue morocco and decorated boards gilt extra with geometric rules and angular diagonal panels reaching from the foretips into the approximate center of the boards and with a small white morocco rabbit inlaid into the upper side-panel of the spine t.e.g. While the binding is unsigned it is characteristic of Bennett Studios. Light rubbing at tips else a fine copy enclosed in a matching morocco faced board slipcase with repaired splits at joints and some chipping to the extremities. First edition in this format. Illustrated with six original color lithographs signed in the plate by Marie Laurencin printed by Desjobert of Paris. From a total edition of 790 copies this is one of fifty copies on Japan vellum of 420 for distribution in the United States. The famous Laurencin lithographs benefit significantly from their appearance on Japan vellum in this uncommon issue which does not suffer from the foxing that frequently defaces the copies on paper. The binding is similar to that appearing on a small but observable number of copies of the US issue executed by Bennett perhaps at the instigation of the US distributor. MINKOFF A39. MONOD 2304. The Black Sun Press hardcover books
19721334010Chicago: Ihnfinity Inc/Saturn Research 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Staplebound quarto; G; 134 pages; Single sided pages with cardstock front cover; SIGNED by Sun Ra on half-title page To RONALD from Sun Ra; Some wear bumping to the corners; Toning to the front cover and exterior of the text block; Slight bending at the corners at the cover; Interior clean. shelved case 0. Extremely scarce volume of Sun Ra's poetry and philosophy. 1334010. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Ihnfinity Inc/Saturn Research unknown books
1930D19319Paris: The Black Sun Press 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Number 63 from the total edition of 284 copies. Modern red calf gilt the original wrappers bound in cloth slipcase. 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches 27.5 x 22 cm; printed in red and black with 3 fine photogravures by Walker Evans. Light thumbsoiling to wrappers and few spots within but generally clean the final plate and tissue guard detached. First edition of this collection of Crane's seminal modernist poems The Bridge. Crane met photographer Walker Evans by chance in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge and this work constitutes one of Evans' earliest publications. Connolly 100 64; Minkoff A32 <br/><br/> The Black Sun Press hardcover
1942287481942. Photography. Very good condition. A collection of black & white photographs in and around Pekin Beijing taken in about 1925. While the photographer is unidentified the photos are clear and well framed. These are unusual images as they seem to have been taken by an American but no American is ever shown in the photographs. The photos illustrate the sites and trades of China and there are also images that refer to Sun Yat Sen including a photo captioned with his name possibly him with a group of others walking in a square. Shot number 76 is of 'Sun Yat Sen Funeral rehersal' sic at the Temple of Azure Clouds" which took place in 1925. <br /> <br /> Famous buildings include the Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Great Wall Altar of Heaven Forbidden City Sleeping Buddha Temple Cloud Tower Taoist Shrine Temple of Universe Summer Palace Marble Boat Pagoda Tientsin Dock the Great Wall etc. There are many street scenes with local people and merchants Tibetans at Lama Temple Pekin Donkey ready for shoeing Toy Peddlar sic with Gong Pekin old man and 2 bird cages Paint Shop Pekin camels Iceman Pekin Coal Carrier Defile near Wall Pekin Beggar Pekin Barber. <br /> <br /> "Unique among 20th-century Chinese leaders Sun is revered by both the Republic of China on Taiwan where he is officially the "Father of the Nation" as well as the People's Republic of China where he is officially the "Forerunner of the Revolution" for his instrumental role in the 1911 Revolution that successfully overthrew the Qing dynasty." wikipedia.<br /> <br /> One additional snapshot of a snowy American scene entitled 'Winter 1941-2" that was developed at the Westchester Photo Finishing Co. with Nutone process 4 1/8 x 5 1/8". The typewritten caption on this photo is consistent with the captions on the photos so it appears to be a cohesive group belonging to one person.<br /> <br /> 154 photographs 2 5/8 x 4 1/2". They are printed on card and are possibly from contact sheets as they there are some slightly rough edges. The majority have a label affixed to the bottom of photo with identifying number and caption which corresponds with a 3pp typewritten index. The list number 157 photos 154 present here so nearly complete. Very good condition. unknown
1966140944607New York: ESP-Disk 1966. Signed by Sun Ra on the front sleeve on the right side margin in blue ink inscribed "To Dana Dawn and Jodi from Sun Ra." Original pressing with "156 Fifth Avenue" address on the back cover. ESP-DISK 1017 Stereo LP. Fair album with deep scratches to both side in a Good sleeve with wear and chipping along seams dampstain to rear sleeve. Modern 8" x 10" photo of Sun Ra laid in. <p>A signed record of a major free jazz work by the eccentric jazz band leader composer and poet who maintained that he was from Saturn. ESP-Disk unknown
19305130Lovedale South Africa: Lovedale Press. 1930 1930. First edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. pp. 12 225 1bl. Green cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Original illustrated dustjacked chipped and a little torn along top and bottom edges but overall very good and rare in any condition. Internally there is some foxing. An excellent copy in the scarce dustjacket of an important work of African fiction and one of the earliest attempts by an African writer to give an account of pre-colonial Africa and the first novel in English by a black South African. Sol Plaatje 1876-1932 took his name from the Boer family who employed his family on their farm. A brilliant student Plaatje mastered seven languages including Dutch and English which gave him the right to vote although this would be taken away when the new Union of South Africa was created. Throughout his life Plaatje was a leading figure in the struggle for black liberation and was a founder member and first General Secretary of what would become the ANC. Plaatje wrote Mhudi in 1919 although it would take him eleven years to get it published. During this long gestation the book was revised and altered some critics suggesting that it went through a process of censorship and bowdlerization. Whether or not that is so is a matter of scholarly dispute but what is not in doubt is that this novel now firmly established in the African canon represents a brave and early attempt to preserve and regenerate native South African tradition in the face of colonialism. Lovedale, South Africa: Lovedale Press. [1930] hardcover
199286570Museum. New. 1992. Paperback. 9067300926 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Pages not numbered; 270 images. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works Museum paperback
1930304924Los Angeles: Solomon Hodes 1930. Softcover. Near Fine. Modern portfolio with 30 loosely inserted mounted platinum prints and a mounted hand-lettered title page "Photographic Sketches by Sol Hodes". Affixed to the title page is the cover of a small photographic periodical The Developer of the Los Angeles Camera Club dated in 1928 with a clipping presumably from this issue mentioning Hodes in an account of a photography expedition of the Club to Malibu Lake. The images vary in size but are all relatively large most being approximately 7.5" x 9.5". Most are captioned below the image a couple are captioned within the image. The images show a fair amount of talent and the subjects are various: bewitching costumed or semi-costumed women bucolic landscapes prosaic studies of gnarled older gentlemen buildings and cityscapes etc. All are very much of the period. We can find little about Hodes beyond the bare mention of his existence and that he was born in Russia in 1880 and immigrated to the U.S. around 1916. A complete list of images is available upon request. Solomon Hodes unknown
