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26852- "Laugh it off!": Oblong octavo 272 x 176 mm. Bifolium. Notated in black ink on 10-stave paper with blindstamp of Lard-Esnault Bellamy Paris. i title with signature and date: October 16-23 1921 2 i blank pp. In 5-stave systems: one for solo voice "Mezzo Soprano ou Baryton" one for chorus up to 4 parts but no voices specified; G clef throughout one blank and two for piano "ad libitum". Part labels and tempo in French; titling and text underlay 2 strophes in English. Text credited to Henry Rutherford Eliot !Elliot. Dedication: "To the dearest friend Walter Damrosch." <br/><br/>- The Manger Song of Mary: Oblong octavo 272 x 176 mm. Bifolium. Notated in black ink on 10-stave paper with blindstamp of Lard-Esnault Bellamy Paris. i title with signature and date: October 16-23 1921 2 i blank pp. <br/>In 4-stave systems: one for solo voice "contralto" one blank and two for piano "ad libitum". Text 4 strophes and all literals in English. Text credited to Edwin Markham. Dedication: "To Mistress Mabel Montgomery Tuttle."<br/><br/>Both manuscripts slightly browned; creased; slight loss to lower outer corner of first leaf not affecting music.<br/><br/>With scribal copies of both songs both in the same hand:<br/>- "Laugh it off" no exclamation point: Folio 346 x 267 mm. Bifolium. Notated in black ink on 10-stave paper "Melodie Trademark No. 0." 4 pp. No date. Some bleeding. Frayed at edges with slight loss not affecting music.<br/><br/>- The Manger Song of Mary: Folio 343 x 278 mm. Bifolium. Notated in black ink on 12-stave paper "Monarch Brand Warranted Nr. 3 - Carl Fischer New York." 3 i blank pp. No date. <br/><br/>Together with:<br/>Copyright forms of the Société des Auteurs Compositeur et Editeurs de Musique SACEM; French authors' rights society and cover letter from the Symphony Society of New York to J. T. Roach of the publisher Hinds Hayden & Eldredge New York. 1 page. August 2 1923. On letterhead typed and signed by the society's manager George Engles. Engles asks Roach to have the papers signed by the poets.<br/><br/>Together with:<br/>Two typed letters from Walter Damrosch's office to J.T. Roach. Oblong octavo. On stationery with Damrosch's letterhead and signed "Lillian Day." The first dated January 3 1921 is the cover letter to a "corrected copy of M. Widor's song Le Chene du souvenir" the song is not present. The second dated November 14 1921 inquires about royalties Damrosch sent to Camille Saint-Saëns and Ralph Vaughan Williams; the writer wants to adjust Damrosch's French bank account; bank receipt Morgan Harjes & Co Paris dated July 8 1921 is attached. Unrecorded and presumably unpublished. The texts are by Henry Rutherford Elliot 1849-1906 a journalist in New York and Edwin Markham 1852-1940 an American poet. "Laugh it off!" is a humorous song in a popular style; The Manger Song of Mary is a lullaby in a more sophisticated style.<br/><br/>The correspondence suggests that both of Vidal's songs were slated for publication by Hinds Hayden & Eldredge in 1923; the scribal copies were most likely intended as engraver's copies. One of the poets Elliot however was no longer alive; there are no materials in the present collection mentioning his heirs. In any case the SACEM forms also Markham's remained unsigned. The publication stalled and the songs were apparently never published.<br/><br/>A French conductor teacher and composer " Vidal is particularly remembered as a fine teacher who was sympathetic to new ideas. At the Paris Conservatoire he taught classes in solfège from 1894 piano accompaniment from 1896 and composition from 1909. Vidal's most successful compositions were the ballet La maladetta 1893 which had been performed nearly 200 times by 1930 and the light opera Eros." David Charlton in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Mabel Montgomery Tuttle born Mabel Chauvenet Holden 1873-after 1921 studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky and Teresa Carreño. unknown books
1960150322N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless black and white photograph of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward holding hands as they cross the street in Rome circa 1960s. With the stamps of PIP Photo and photographer Elio Sorci on the verso along with holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding cropping.<br/><br/>Vidal relocated to Italy in the 1960s where he lived for many years with his partner Howard Austen. <br/><br/>7.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. N.p. unknown books
188053194Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave 1880. First edition. 8vo. xx 493 1 pp. 27 b&w and color plates with tissue guards text illustrations. Quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards tips rubbed. Ownership stamp of nineteenth century French photographer Hubert Bretin on the front and rear free endpapers and an occasional text leaf with same on the title page largely erased leaving a short closed tear; scattered foxing. Near very good. An exceptional treatise on photomechanical techniques with examples of a Woodburytype photoglyptie phototypie photogravure chromolithograph a color carbon photograph as well as monochrome plates as illustrations of color separations etc. <br/> <br/>Roosens and Salu No. 8171. <br/><br/> Librairie Ch. Delagrave hardcover books
1969147266London: Winkast Film Productions 1969. First draft screenplay and copied second draft screenplay for an unproduced film from author Gore Vidal adapting his esteemed 1964 historical fiction novel "Julian."<br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>Vidal's account of the life and murder of Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus "Julian" also known as Julian the Apostate. <br/><br/>First draft screenplay:<br/>Black untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as 1ST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Gore Vidal. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two flat metal brads.<br/><br/>Second draft screenplay:<br/>Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 15 July 1969 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Gore Vidal. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with prong binding. Winkast Film Productions unknown books
1981WALTER-FILM004145Vintage original Second Revision script by Gore Vidal adapted from the novel by Lucian Truscott USA. Los Angeles: Richard Roth Productions 6 March 1981. 11261 quarto brad bound in production wrappers. Paper filing label across spine NEAR FINE. <br /><br />Second revision draft script of this early form of an adaptation by Gore Vidal to television of Lucian Truscott's novel. In its present state the script would translate into a two-hour television film. <br /><br /><i>offered with: </i><br /><br />Vintage original Final Draft script by Gore Vidal adapted from the novel by Lucian Truscott USA. Burbank CA: Warner Bros. Television 25 September - 4 October 1985. 22261 plus lettered inserts quarto printed on blue and salmon stock the latter dated revises brad bound in studio wrappers. A call sheet for the 17th day of shooting is laid in. A few smudges to wrappers else NEAR FINE. <br /><br />Final draft script expanded and in 1986 aired as a two part made-for-television production. Truscott's novel set at West Point at the time of the Vietnam War reportedly based it on fact. The completed film when screened on television dealt with homophobia both external and internalized and it was very strong stuff in the mid-1980s at the height of the Reagan era. The film was clearly troubling to some contemporary critics but it nonetheless was nominated for three Emmy Awards. <br /><br />This pair of scripts which are very different from each other are a very interesting example of Vidal's work as a screenwriter especially because of the film's LGBTQ subject matter. Richard Roth Prod. paperback books
19481184New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1948. First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a bright dust jacket with a few small chips but does not show the fading to the spine panel. Stylistically influenced by Hemingway this work "is distinguished by its honesty and lack of self-pity; the central figure is unexceptional in every respect but his sexual choices" Stringer 690. "One of the best novels of its kind. . . . It isn't sentimental and it is frank without trying to be sensational and shocking" Christopher Isherwood. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
1948218954New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Half length frontal portrait of the author in shirt and sweater. 1 vols. 35.2 x 23.5 cm. approx 13-7/8 x 9-1/4 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Half length frontal portrait of the author in shirt and sweater. 1 vols. 35.2 x 23.5 cm. approx 13-7/8 x 9-1/4 inches. unknown books
186553051Paris: Leiber 1865. First edition. 12mo. i 51 pp 2 pp 160 tables 45 pp 1 pp errata. Contemporary publisher's cloth titled in gilt on the upper cover and in blind on the spine. A fine copy. SIGNED and presented by the author on the blank front flyleaf. Appended to the text by Vidal is: MANUEL OPÉRATOIRE POUR L'EMPLOI D'UN PROCÉDÉ USUEL DE COLLODION SEC. by Charles Teisseire and Joseph Jacquemet. <br/><br/>The first published exposure calculator and manual and the prolific author's first book. Roosens and Salu No. 3712. <br/><br/> Leiber hardcover books
1950009598Dutton 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine copy in Like Jacket.Beautiful Gorgeous Copy of Author's Scarcest Book.First Edition Stated $2.75 on flap. Dutton Hardcover books
194825087New York: E.P. Dutton 1948. First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with two small chips to the crown but does not show the fading endemic to the spine panel. A very sharp example. Stylistically influenced by Hemingway this work "is distinguished by its honesty and lack of self-pity; the central figure is unexceptional in every respect but his sexual choices" Stringer 690. "One of the best novels of its kind. . . . It isnt sentimental and it is frank without trying to be sensational and shocking" Christopher Isherwood. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1876266001Paris: Imprimerie de J. Claye 1876. First edition one of 500 copies. 118 engraved plates. 3 vols. 4to. Contemporary half velum and decorated paper boards red morocco spine labels. Light soiling to covers sporadic foxing an attractive set. Large etched bookplate of Gustav Frid in each volume. First edition one of 500 copies. 118 engraved plates. 3 vols. 4to. A beautiful uncut set of this landmark work on the history of the violin. "This is beyond the possibility of doubt the greatest work ever published or which is ever likely to be published on the violin" Fidiculus Bibliographia. Fidiculus Bibliographia 191 Imprimerie de J. Claye unknown books
194857819New York 1948. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. In the Year of City and the Pillar. Very early photographic portrait of the 23-year-old Vidal taken in the year that the publication of his controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR scandalized the mainstream press. unknown books
1948218953New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. unknown books
18904306Paris: Georges Chamerot Pour Les Amis Du Livre 1890. Pretty contemporary binding by G. Champs of brown levant gilt. Gilt filet border on covers with gilt rose in corners; spine gilt-lettered with climbing vine and urn design. Original black and gilt wrappers and spine bound in with colored scenes on each cover. Minor marginal spotting. One of 120 copies. Preface by Henri Beraldi scholar and the most distinguished book collector of his time who initiated a series of illustrated books celebrating life and locales in Paris published in very limited editions. Thirty colored plates and one vignettte by Pierre Vidal depicting peddlers and merchants each with facing text by various authors. In addition to the flower girl street singer and food and drink vendors there is a chair renter for outdoor evnts a man who picks up cigar butts and a ticket scalper. Vicaire I 46. Brown Levant Gilt. Fine. Illus. by Pierre Vidal. Large 8vo. Georges Chamerot Pour Les Amis Du Livre Hardcover books
1820WRCAM55021London: Published by R. Ackermann 1820. xxviii115pp. plus twenty-four colored aquatints including one double-sheet and three folding. Large quarto. Antique-style blue morocco boards tooled in gilt and blind spine gilt with raised bands a.e.g. Minor staining in lower margin and tape repair to verso of one folding plate. Occasional marginal thumbsoiling minor offsetting but on the whole quite clean internally. A very good copy handsomely bound. A superbly illustrated work about the people and places of Buenos Aires and Monte Video with striking colored aquatints by the prominent engraver and publisher R. Ackermann making this one of the premier South American view books. Some of the scenes people and places depicted are: "Monte Video" "Church of San Domingo" "Beggar on Horseback" "Pampa Indians" "General View of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros" "Balling Ostriches" "Guachos sic Rustics of Tucuman" and "A Horse Race." Also depicted are representative inhabitants of the Pampas and Rio de La Plata regions and picturesque views of outdoor markets and plazas. Originally issued in six monthly parts the work was then offered in book format apparently bound first in boards and in a later issue bound in half leather. Abbey follows Tooley in suggesting that there were apparently four issues all with the same title and plates and all with the same 1820 watermarks but he provides no satisfactory manner of differentiating the editions; and consequently aside from the original issue in six separate parts there is no means of establishing issue priority. At the time of publication Ackermann announced the production of 750 regular paper copies and fifty large-paper copies. <br> <br> "In 1820 began a series of books dealing with travel and scenery. The first was PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO with descriptions of scenery customs and manners by E.E. Vidal. The book was issued in six monthly parts seven hundred and fifty copies on elephant paper and fifty on atlas.The twenty-four aquatints all after drawings by Vidal four of them being large folded plates are engraved by G. Maile J. Bluck T. Sutherland and D. Havell.and possess a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value" - Hardie. <br> <br> Aside from its perplexing publishing history this book remains a beautiful pictorial record of early 19th-century life. ABBEY 698. SABIN 99460. TOOLEY 1954 495. THOMSON 31. COLAS 3000. PALAU 363371. BRUNET V:1182/83. HILER p.878. PRIDEAUX pp.335 375. HARDIE ENGLISH COLOURED BOOKS p.107. Published by R. Ackermann hardcover books
02645London: R. Ackermann 1820. Don't Cry For Me Argentina & Uruguay <br/>You Were One of Only Fifty Large Paper Copies<br/><br/>VIDAL Emeric Essex. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery and of the costumes manners &c. of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs. By E.E. Vidal Esq. London: Published by R. Ackermann.Printed by L. Harrison 1820.<br/><br/>First edition. One of fifty large paper copies. Atlas quarto 15 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches; 397 x 317 mm. xxviii 115 1 blank pp. Twenty-four very fine hand-colored aquatint plates four of which are double-page and folding including one with two views. The plates include: "General View of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros;" "Landing Place;" "Market Place;" "Milk Boys;" "South Matadero Public Butchery;" "Church of San Domingo;" "Pampa Indians;" "Estantia Farm on the River San Pedro;" "Balling Ostriches;" "Guachos Rustics of Tucuman;" "Convoy of Wine Mules;" "Paolistas Soldiers of the East Bank of the Plata;" "A Quinta Farm;" and "A Horse Race." Text and plates watermarked 1818 and 1820.<br/><br/>Publisher's green morocco-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Very slight wear to upper joint inner hinges strengthened. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase. A wonderful copy. <br/><br/>"In 1820 began a series of books dealing with travel and scenery. The first was Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video with descriptions of scenery customs and manners by E.E. Vidal. The book was issued in six monthly parts seven hundred and fifty copies on elephant paper and fifty on atlas.The twenty-four aquatints all after drawings by Vidal four of them being large folded plates are engraved by G. Maile J. Bluck T. Sutherland and D. Havell.and possess a subtle charm of their own apart from their historical and geographical value" Martin Hardie.<br/><br/>"Not an uncommon book but owing to the importance of its subject and the fact of its being the only notable colour plate book in English dealing with the Argentine it always commands a high price" Tooley.<br/><br/>Emeric Essex Vidal ca. 1788-1861 born into a naval family joined the Navy in 1808 and spent much of his career as a purser. He was stationed in 1820-1821 at St. Helena as secretary to Admiral Lambert on H.M.S. Vigo. Vidal was a distinguished painter and many of his fine drawings like those of his brother Alexander were adapted for the engraved vignettes on early issues of certain British Admiralty charts.<br/><br/>Abbey describes only a red cloth binding on his large paper copy. The green cloth of the present copy with slightly different tooling on the spine without the phrase "24 plates coloured" is obviously a variant.<br/><br/>Abbey Travel 698. Colas 3000. Hiler p. 878. Martin Hardie pp. 107 and 312. Prideaux pp. 355 and 375. Sabin 99460. Tooley 495. London: R. Ackermann, 1820 unknown books
