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164724501London: Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corne-hill 1647. 1st Edition variant issue Wing B-3408A. Another issue of the same year has the printer's name "Matth. Simmons. in the yeare 1647". Period full leather with modern rebacking to style. Red morocco title label in second spine compartment. Modern eps. An overall VG copy text paper beginning to brown at edges with some associated chipping/repaired hole to lower right quarter of E2 affects last few words of two lines on p 25 and first few words of four lines on page 26/occasional po marginal pencil annotation a/o check mark. 18 155 7 28 4 pp. Separate t.p. for "Clavis". Last 4 pp: 2 pp 'Catalogue of Bookes' viz. bibliographical list by Behmen 1 pp of "Faults Escaped in Printing" & a blank. Inserted table & plate imperfect lacking 'folded' left side approx. 1 - 1.5". 4to: ¢4 -¢1 a half-title a2 a3 B1 A4 -A1 C - 2B4 2C2. <br/><br/>Bohme a German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Born of poor parents in Goerlitz Germany as a boy he tended cattle later becoming a shoemaker marrying & fathering 4 children. Boehme at the robust age of 37 in 1612 wrote his first treatise Aurora oder Die Morgenroete in Aufgang. In 1613 an unauthorized copy of the manuscript was copied and circulated by Karl von Ender. Its reception "raised him out of his homely sphere and made him the centre of a local circle of liberal thinkers considerably above him in station and culture." However the local pastor primarius of Gorlitz Gregorius Richter leveled a charge of heresy. The local muncipal council administered an admonishment to no further "meddle in such matters." This charge Boehme publicly followed for 5 years. In 1618 Boehme again started writing expository & polemical treatises. The majority of his works were written though not formally published from 1619 - 1624. A second major work Der Weg zu Christo was published in 1624 and signaled a renewal of clerical hostility. Boehem however was destined to suffer but a short period of this second persecution; he died of an illness on 17 November 1624. Boehme has been said to have a "fertility of ideas" and a "trasncendent greatness of religious insight." Boehme was studied by Sir Isaac Newton and influenced the work Henry More as well as and especially William Law 1686 - 1761. Xl Questions concerning the Soule was translated by the English mystic John Sparrow in collaboration with John Ellstone & financed by Humphrey Blunden. This the first of several works by Boehme that Sparrow & Ellstone were to translate into English between 1644 - 1662. Boehme proved to be highly popular in England where there were regular societies of Behmenists at the time. This work XL Questions went into a second edition in 1648 and a third edition in 1665. 11th EB. A scarce title in the Boehme canon. We find no copies currently offered via the major on-line databases OCLC records but 4 institional cc and the work has only appeared at auction 3 times in the last 25 years the last in 1989. Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corne-hill hardcover books
1976130525New York: Hacker Art Books 1976. Reissue. Hardcover. Good ex-library with minimal markings: spine label bookplate pencil notation behind title page one stamp. Slight foxing of text block. Pages clean. Yellow-green cloth with dark blue titles and ornamentation. 332 pp. 51 b/w plates and illustrations. Hacker Art Books hardcover books
19055388.1London: Hodder and Stoughton 1905. Softcover. Fair cover faded and showing wear near edges with some chips spine split several places including loss at tail of spine text block and pages near front and back foxed. Text pages slightly aged-darkened. Plates bright. Binding fragile. Ex-library-portfolio has label. Bookplate inside is unattached. Green paper on stiff paper. In stiff paper protective portfolio. Gray-on-white decorated endpapers. 332 pp. 7 color 44 bw plates. Chapters include: Women Painters in Italy Since the Fifteenth Century; Early British Women Painters; Modern Women British Painters; Women Painters In The United States of America; On Women Painters In France; Women Painters in Belgium and In Holland; Women Painters in Germany and Austria In Russia Switzerland and Spain; Some Finnish Women Painters. Top edge gilt. Not as much text as one would hope for but very nice plates and an index. Hodder and Stoughton paperback books
19055388New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1905. Hardcover. Fair ex-library with spine label and bookplate. Cover spotted scuffed edges show wear upper corner curved text pages aged-darkened. Plates bright. One plate separated from binding. Purple cloth bw photographic label glued to cover gilt cover ornamentation and titling. Gilt top gray-on-white decorated endpapers. 332 pp. 7 color 44 bw plates. Chapters include: Women Painters in Italy Since the Fifteenth Century; Early British Women Painters; Modern Women British Painters; Women Painters In The United States of America; On Women Painters In France; Women Painters in Belgium and In Holland; Women Painters in Germany and Austria In Russia Switzerland and Spain; Some Finnish Women Painters. Top edge gilt. Not as much text as one would hope for but very nice plates and an index. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
1905036266London: Hodder & Stoughton 1905. 332p. b/w and colored illus. deckle edges original grey cloth quarto format The art and life library 3. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1969130732Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1969. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Illustrated. 152 pages 4to gray cloth d.w. d.w. worn at edges. Cambridge University Press 1969. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Cambridge University Press unknown books
1969D6634Cambridge: at the University Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Dark grey cloth lettering stamped in gilt on spine; dust jacket; 4to; pp. xvi 152. Spine tips very lightly rubbed otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a little rubbed and dust-soiled; lightly wrinkled along the edges with a few small chips here and there; price-clipped. An excellent resource illustrated throughout. <br/><br/> at the University Press hardcover books
1969121587Cambridge: University Press 1969. cloth dust jacket. small 4to. cloth dust jacket. xvi 152 pages. First edition. Over 60 illustrations. Illustrated. Jacket price clipped and with chipping around edges with small pieces missing. University Press unknown books
196942123Cambridge: University Press 1969. cloth dust jacket. small 4to. cloth dust jacket. xvi 152 pages. First edition. Over 60 illustrations. Illustrated. Jacket price clipped. University Press unknown books
1969WRCLIT73022Cambridge: At the University Press 1969. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Plates. First edition. Near fine in good modestly dust spotted and rubbed dust jacket. At the University Press hardcover books
1665567Alexander Hogg No. 16 Paternoster Row London. Print. Very Good. Matted and ready for framing. Ink notation beneath caption of first engraving with light smudge to bottom margin. Two engravings single matted mat measures 11 3/4 x 15. The first view is of the walled walkways leading up to the Carisbrook Castle gatehouse. The second is of Carisbrook Church. Both still exist in the village of Carisbrook just west of Newport. Alexander Hogg, No. 16 Paternoster Row, London unknown books
51153Two works of concrete poetry from the late 1960s by Jean-Claude Moineau comprising an undated 12-page unrecorded work of Concrete Poetry done in collaboration with Christiane Frougny "Textes à tester Texts to Test" and a 1968 work "Orléans mai-juin 1968 / La Bibliotheque Universitaire est occupee". Typed and mimeographed pages. 4to. Stapled self-wrpps some insignificant toning and minor creasing overall very good. N.p. Orléans 1968 and undated late 1960s. Jean-Claude Moineau was a professor of mathematics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Orléans. Following the May '68 revolts in Paris Moineau organized the occupation of the University of Orléans Library and soon after formed the revolutionary artistic group GRRRR Groupe de Recherche et de Réalisation d'une Reflexion Révolutionnaire and the journal "Ne coupez-pas". Moineau is also considered to be one of the founders of the "Meta-Art" avant-garde group of the early 1970s.<br/><br/>The first item in this grouping is an extraordinary and unrecorded work of Concrete Poetry in French and English produced as a collaboration between Moineau and Frougny. The texts attempt to engage the reader by inviting participation such as the direction on the first page which reads "Pointez le doigt au hasard sur cette page. Le résultat du test est indiqué au verso." Other instructions appear throughout the work asking the reader to perform other actions such as drawing a line to reveal a poem and leaving a mark. Page three reads "Vous etes.Le Poeme est. - You are. The Poem is." a bold statement on par with the views of concrete poets.The work was produced by a combination of mimeograph and manual typewriter. We could find no record of this work ever being reproduced.<br/><br/>The second item is a 6-page 3 sheets printed on both sides mimeographed Manifesto for the Occupation of the University of Orléans Library originally printed in Moineau's own journal "Ne coupez-pas" Nos. 1 May 1968 and 2 November 1968. This journal was devoted to politics visual poetry typography and design. This manifesto comes out of a legendary time of revolt in France and is an excellent example of the often hastifly produced typographic and graphic posters pamphlets and leaflets which proliferated during this series of events. In the words of the Parisian agit-prop Atelier Populaire these types of materials are "weapons in the service of the struggle and are an inseparble part of it. Their rightful place is in the centers of conflict.These works should not be taken as the final outcome of an experience but as an inducement for finding through contact with the masses new levels of action both on the cultural and the political plane."<br/><br/>Both incredibly scarce; as of December 2020 we do not know of any other copies of "Textes à tester" and OCLC does not list any separate holdings of the Manifesto outside of its publication in "Ne coupez-pas." Our thanks to Michael Laird for his assistance in cataloging these items. unknown books
195112311TRIPTYCH OF ORIGINAL SCRATCHBOARDS FOR STEWARD'S UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF JEAN GENET'S QUERELLE <br /> Three scratchboards two 12'x 15" the other 16" x 12" depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. <br />The life of Sam Steward 1909 - 1983 the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "Farrar Strauss Giroux 2010 took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas associations with George Platt Lynes Glenway Wescott and other literati and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries journals photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail and which he shared with Kinsey. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books Steward attempted mid-life in the early 1950s to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation—with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed and later in the 1960s under the pseudonym Phil Andros he authored a series of gay paperback novels STUD The Greek Way etc. regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction featuring his alter-ego hustler. He turned his artistic energies to tattooing operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen in Chicago Milwaukee and finally Oakland. And his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010. During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung under one of Steward's pseudonyms <br />Philip von Chicago. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor; in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast; in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". The strangulation picture has in Steward's hand on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. Querelle strangles the Armenian". In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years. It is pictured in one of Steward's sex Polaroids reproduced in "Obscene Diary". On the verso of it Steward wrote "L'Execution De Querelle 9-19-51" <br />Steward did not work in scratchboard alone. His art was quite versatile: murals in his apartments tempera watercolor pastel pen/ink and some wire sculpture and collage. These drawings could be regarded as the most important of his visual art. While they were motivated by literary aspiration they in effect represented a real turning point in his life. They combine a fascination with uniformed sailors and sadomasochism that was thematic to much of his art. And finally with their clear bold stroke of line these scratchboards capture intrinsically the violence and passion in Genet's landmark of 20th century erotic literature. <br /><i>NOTES ON THE IMAGES: The framed pictures are the orignals. The picture on the horizontal hung as framed on Seward's wall witness to his sexual activites as imaged in the cropped snapshot reproduced in Obscene Diary. The two original images on the vertical were reframed in the style that Seward framed the horizontal one. The close-ups of Seward's signature is from the verso of the horizontal image: the other two are photocopies taken from the versos before they were framed. The two reproduced images are as reproduced in the book Obscene Diary. </i> original art books
012311No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards two 12'x 15" the other 16" x 12" depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward 1909 - 1983 the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "Farrar Strauss Giroux 2010 took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas associations with George Platt Lynes Glenway Wescott and other literati and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries journals photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail and which he shared with Kinsey. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books Steward attempted mid-life in the early 1950s to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation-with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed and later in the 1960s under the pseudonym Phil Andros he authored a series of gay paperback novels STUD The Greek Way etc. regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction featuring his alter-ego hustler. He turned his artistic energies to tattooing operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen in Chicago Milwaukee and finally Oakland. And his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010. During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung under one of Steward's pseudonyms Philip von Chicago. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor; in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast; in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". The strangulation picture has in Steward's hand on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. Querelle strangles the Armenian". In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years. It is pictured in one of Steward's sex Polaroids reproduced in "Obscene Diary". On the verso of it Steward wrote "L'Execution De Querelle 9-19-51" Steward did not work in scratchboard alone. His art was quite versatile: murals in his apartments tempera watercolor pastel pen/ink and some wire sculpture and collage. These drawings could be regarded as the most important of his visual art. While they were motivated by literary aspiration they in effect represented a real turning point in his lif. unknown books
1905175440London: Hodder & Stoughton 1905. Softcover. Good overall wear to spine staining and shelfwear to wraps light tanning to pages but overall text pages and plates are clean. Tan canvas wraps with brown lettering on front cover and spine color frontispiece 22 text pages followed by 19 pages of plates some in color. With four lithographs four plates in colour twelve Rembrandt photogravures five woodcuts and a critical essay by Léonce Bénédite. Hodder & Stoughton paperback books
195697338London: Robert Hale 1956. hardcover. very good/poor. Frontis. many b/w photo illus. 217pp. 8vo black cloth d.w.; d.w. torn. London: Robert Hale 1956. Very good in poor d.w.<br/><br/> Robert Hale unknown books
19731320146London: Folcroft Library Editions 1973. 833/900. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 197; VG/no-DJ; dark green spine with gilt text; limited numbered edition this is 833 of 900; cloth has mild wear to exterior; strong boards; text block shows only slight wear to exterior edges; interior clean; tight binding;. 1320146. FP New Rockville Stock. Folcroft Library Editions hardcover books
19261295941London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Limited Edition 1000 of 1050. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; hardcover; bound in brown cloth red label with gilt lettering; boards strong some shelfwear general edgewear red ring stain on front rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges spine sun toned browning and soiling in interiors penned signature on front end paper; text block age toned pages cut unevenly occasional soiling; 213pp. 1295941. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
2006287345Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 2006. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo green cloth. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 2006. Fine<br/><br/> University Press of Kansas unknown books
1969188221969. Sparrow Judge Gerald. The Great Assassins. New York: Arco Publishing Company Inc. 1969. 207 pp. Good. Dust jacket. $1. unknown books
1774623261774. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green 1774. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green 1774. Copy of the First American Treatise on Wills that Belonged to an Important Early Illinois Statesman Vallette Elie. Sparrow Thomas 1746-1780 Engraver. The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments For Administrators to Compleat Their Administrations And for Every Person Any Way Concerned in Deceased Person's Estates To Proceed Therein with Safety to Themselves and Others. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green and Son 1774. ii iv 248 12 pp. Copperplate title page and table of descents. Octavo 7-3/4" x 5". Contemporary sheep re-backed in calf retaining original lettering piece endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards corners bumped and lightly worn. Moderate toning to text somewhat darker in places occasional dampstaining mostly to margins. Early owner signature of Ninian Edwards to front endleaf and margin of p.50 interior otherwise clean. $1500. The first original American legal guide it is also the first American book on the law of wills. Dedicated to Maryland Governor Robert Eden it was printed by Dutch immigrant Ann Catherine Hoof Green wife of Jonas Green who inherited his bankruptcy debt along with his shop and she succeeded as public printer of Maryland from 1767 to 1775. The engraved title page the only one issued from a colonial Maryland press and the plate is considered to be the finest work of of Thomas Sparrow the only engraver south of the Mason-Dixon Line prior to 1775. Vallette was registrar of the Prerogative Office of Maryland Province. Originally from Maryland Edwards 1775-1833 was an important early Illinois statesman and political leader. He was the only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1818 one of the first two United States Senators from Illinois from 1818 to 1824 and the third Governor of that state from 1826 to 1830. Wroth Maryland Imprints 338. Wroth The Colonial Printer in America 290. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 4632. unknown books
2014201705Seattle: The Broken Teapot 2014. 40p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations 5 pieces very good second trade edition in stapled pictorial wraps. Anarchist writings and poetry. No copies located in OCLC as of 1/2016. The Broken Teapot unknown books
1978WRCLIT77296Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1978. Cloth. Printed paper label. About fine. The trade format of this collective issue of 12 numbers including work by Davidson Everson Roditi Bukowski Eshleman Kelly Shelnutt Wakoski et al. MORROW & COONEY 308. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
19869025680Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts 1986. paperback. Fine Condition. This is the first monograph issued by Minnesota Center for Book Arts. One of 200 copies designed as part of a design course directed by Sebastian Carter. Printed as part of a printing course directed by Allan Kornblum. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. <br/><br/> Minnesota Center for Book Arts paperback books
1894274336London: Elliot Stock 1894. First. hardcover. good. 6 plates. 8vo original brown panelled cloth and boards spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn corners bumped several pages near end are chipped in right margins. London: Elliot Stock 1894.<br/><br/> Elliot Stock unknown books
