WHITMAN (Walt)
Leaves of Grass
Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61: 1861
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WHITMAN (Walt) 18191892 Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 186061 Third edition. First Printing of the CALAMUS love poems, devoted to male affection, wrought by Whitmans firsthand experience of the horrors of the Civil War, based on his letters to his young friend (Peter Doyle)
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Three Boys (Child Spirits) and Mozart
SENDAK (Maurice) SENDAK (Maurice0: MAGIC FLUTE. 1980, original lithograph on stone, each drawn and fully signed in pencil by the artist Maurice Sendak, each example numbered in pencil lower left 9/10, dated 02 indicating when signed by Sendak but actually printed twenty-two years earlier by Ken Tyler at Tyler Graphics Ltd (New Bedford NY) on partially deckled-edged rag paper with the Tyler blind stamp insignia in lower right corner: Three Boys (Child Spirits) and Mozart. Captioned Dragon Act 1 Scene 1 / Temple No. 1 Measures 15 x 12-1/4 inches- $7,500
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Magic Flute: Queen of the Night
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Really Rosie: “Johnny” Animation drawing
SENDAK (Maurice) SENDAK (Maurice): Really Rosie: "JOHNNY", 1974 Original Pencil animation drawing (Scene 12) with image measuring 5 x 6-7/8 inches, on larger sheet (9 x 12). Signed in full by the artist lower right below image with his circled pencil designation 12. This specific drawing registered in Sendak's Artist Digital Inventory database as # 5627. The image portrays Kathy, Rosie, Johnny and Alligator with Pierre at upper right as if looking out of a window. Created for a CBS-TV Special "Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie"; (February 1975) with music by Carole King, afterwards developed into the popular children's theatre musical "Really Rosie" (1980). This drawing is in response to the animator sending the artist his own version of the scene for Sendak's approval, which caused Sendak to re-draw the entire image on the top sheet correctly. This earlier version (unsigned and on separate paper with three animation peg holes at bottom, (measures 10-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches) is also included . Illustrates the control Sendak had in converting his characters perfectly to animation. He has annotated this sheet with red borders and in red pencil Sendak has captioned it at the top 10F (Truck to 8F as Rosie touches Johnny) and at the bottom titled it JOHNNY.- $7,500
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Entartete Kunst. Austellungsführer
KAISER (Fritz) (Degenerate Art). KAISER (Fritz): Entartete Kunst. Austellungsführer. Führer durch die Austellung Entartete Kunst zusammengestellt von der Reichspropagandaleitung, Amtsleitung Kultur. Berlin: Verlag fur Kultur und Wirtschaftswerbung [1938]. 8vo., 30[2] pp.; printed pictorial wrappers, stapled spine (vertical crease where once folded in the middle, light soiling, otherwise in very good condition). The cover illustration The New Man by Otto Freundlich. This illustrated guide, written by Fritz Kaiser, an official in the Reich Propaganda Ministry, was issued as a souvenir of the vicious and defamatory 1937 show of modern art.- $1,200
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Small archive of American school texts,
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Little Lulu and Friends
BUELL (Marjorie H "Marge")) BUELL (Marjorie H Marge), attributed [19041993] Little LULU with Friends. 1947. Watercolor and mounted cut-out figures. Cover design for McLoughlin Bros catalogue: Childrens Books 1947. The image was used for the last catalogue published by the firm. Measures 14-11/16 x 12-1/2 inches- $5,000
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. An 1865 printing re-described and newly identified as the Publisher’s “File Copy”. With a revised and expanded Census of the suppressed 1865 “Alice”
SCHILLER (Justin G) and GOODACRE (Selwyn) SCHILLER (Justin G) and GOODACRE (Selwyn): Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. An 1865 printing re-described and newly identified as the Publisher's "File Copy". With a revised and expanded Census of the suppressed 1865 "Alice" compiled by Selwyn H Goodacre, to which is added a short-title index identifying and locating the original preliminary drawings by John Tenniel for ALICE and LOOKING-GLASS. Catalogued by Justin G. Schiller. [Kingston NY:] Privately Printed for The Jabberwock, 1990. Illustrated with 98 reproductions, chiefly original sketches by John Tenniel and Charles Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll"), the majority published here for the first time, and with a foldout plate reproducing a page from the British Museum's Dalziel Bros album of woodblock proofs (1865) for ALICE. Tall 8vo, 112pp on Mohawk soft-white Superfine 100lb. Acid-free archival paper; full color laminated boards simulating an art nouveau gilt leather binding by Riviere especially done for this copy in 1899. With inserted errata slip. ISBN# 0-9627110-0-4. When a teacher of mathematics at Oxford University, Charles L. Dodgson told a fantastic tale to a little girl and her sisters while on a summer's picnic. Using the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" Alice's Adventures In Wonderland was first printed by the Clarendon Press (Oxford) for Macmillan (London) in 1865: but most people do not realize that this first edition was suppressed and it has become amongst the most valuable rare books in the English language. Only 22 copies are known to survive intact (plus one stolen from Christ Church Library), and this gives a brief record of ownership for each copy and background history when available; what is normally advertised and sold as the first edition (London 1866) is actually the first "authorized" edition, i.e. second printing, done four months later by another printer. ALICE is much more than just a children's book: in fact, it is the third most frequently quoted book in the English language, and this is the definitive study on its printing history after many years of research. While this is still a definitive study of the first edition, detailing reasons why it was eventually suppressed prior to distribution, further research has now proven that the purple markings on the book are by Lewis Carroll himself, in preparation for the simplification of the text for his "Nursery Alice" (1889). Each of the 23 recorded copies of the 1865 first printing has its own historical paragraph and since publication, no additional copies have been located (though several have changed hands, including the "File Copy" which fetched US$1,542,500 at auction in December 1999 -- making it the most valuable children's book in existence). The sections detailing Tenniel's original drawings.- $45
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Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix Potter
POTTER (Beatrix) Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed. 8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New. First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient was born in London and emigrated ti Canada in 1920. With an introduction and biographical endpiece "Beatrix Potter 1866-1943" by Margaret Crawford Maloney and a checklist of the Beatrix Potter holdings at the Osborne Collection (compiled by Dana Tenny. Fine Condition. Bookseller Inventory # ABB033- $20
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Metreon: Watermelon Moon
SENDAK (Maurice) SENDAK (Maurice): METREON: Wild Things Watermelon Moon . 1996 Metreon Wild Thing Transformation Original Pencil study for Metreon installation in San Francisco Measures 5 x 9-3/4 inches on larger paper Signed in full at bottom center image of a Wild Thing Eating a Watermelon Moon Reference: Schiller Sendak Abrams 2013 (p. 74)- $12,500
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Really Rosie: Suspicious Animation
SENDAK (Maurice) SENDAK (Maurice): REALLY ROSIE. 1974, original drawing in pencil illustrating Rosie with her arms above on her hat talking to Kathy (left side of sheet), a sleepy Pierre in the upper right corner, captioned in lower left portion: Rosie looks very suspicious & offended here - / Kathy tries to be sweet & appealing , entirely in the hand of the artist Maurice Sendak who has fully signed the sheet just below mid-center. Overall sheet sight size measures 7-1/8 x 11 inches, matted and framed with rag-board and plexiglass, overall measurement framed 12 x 16 inches. It was created for a CBS-TV Special "Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie" (February 1975) with music by Carole King, afterwards developed into the popular children's theatre musical "Really Rosie" (1980).- $5,000
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Angels & Wild Things. The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak
CECH (John) CECH (John): Angels & Wild Things. The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Square 4to, xx 284pp including 10 full color reproductions (six are double-page) + 110 b/w illustrations of Sendak images (some from sketchbooks and preliminary drawings) or that which inspired them; brown cloth boards gilt-titled on spine, full color pictorial dust-jacket. First edition, originally conceived as a college on Sendak's art and the philosophy (psychology) behind his images, allegories and symbolism. This was never intended to replace or update Selma Lanes' lavish 1980 biography, but it has still been heralded for going beyond the framework of a mass-marketed trade-book in exploring the universally recognized genius of Sendak: delving deeply into the artist's self-admitted endless fascination and absorption with childhood and child-life. The energy of his picture-books is not simply their artistic beauty, which has dubbed Mr Sendak "the Picasso of Children's Literature", but it also represents a serious enquiry into the emotional and visionary landscape of childhood. Unlike Mrs Lanes' book, this is an analytical study rather than a series of anecdotes, quoting from a variety of published interviews because Prof Cech lacked direct access to the author/artist in the development of this work: but in doing so it also gave him an independence to investigate the psychological quests and journeys that occupy the main activity of so many Sendak books. Most importantly, Cech remains passionate in deconstructing both text and pictures to the scrutiny of an academic researcher and searches for meaning at every step. This "traces the emergence of Sendak's child archetype and maps the exploration and expansion of it . to historical and cultural influences . from Mickey Mouse to Judy Garland, from Blake to Mozart" - (Cathryn M. Mercer, Horn Book Magazine). "Just as Sendak's major works reflect a growing psychological awareness, Cech's essays build in complexity" - Washington Post (Book World). And by the book's end, one can truly comprehend the genius behind Sendakian words as well as images. The author/artist urges his adult readers to "strip away what Freud called 'blessed amnesia' and reclaim the wonder and innocence of childhood, while encouraging children to . believe in the possibility of worlds better than our own" - (Gregory McNamee, Bloomsburg Review).- $35
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BEATRIX POTTER. A Bibliographical Check List
QUINBY (Jane) QUINBY (Jane): BEATRIX POTTER. A Bibliographical Check List. Stroud: Ian Hodgkins & Co, [1999]. Illustrated with 23 full-page reproductions, chiefly of pictorial endpaper designs which help identify first editions, 1st states, and 1st issues of her little "Peter Rabbit" story books. Square 8vo, 121pp; printed red stiff wrappers, with a pictorial paste-label on upper cover. Originally published in 1954 in a limited edition of 250 copies (the original now selling in excess of $600 each), this pioneer study of Beatrix Potter's story books details first edition information, also describes many American editions, original Potter manuscripts, early reviews of her books, with an appendix on minor publications and ephemera. A MUST HAVE for anyone wanting to identify valuable Beatrix Potter first printings, whether a collector, dealer, or research librarian; here reprinted in a new edition of 450 copies. Please Note: despite the quantity of reference books published on both sides of the Atlantic, Quinby has not been superceded nor has all of its information been incorporated into other reference books like those by Leslie Linder. Born in 1866, Miss Potter spent a solitary childhood enlivened by holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, which inspired her love of animals and stimulated her imaginative watercolor drawings. This work covers her two privately printed books, subsequent trade editions, and 28 other children's book titles published by Frederick Warne and others. Besterman 4991- $75
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Mao’s Graphic Voice. Pictorial Posters from the Cultural Revolution.
POWELL (Patricia) and HUO (Shitao) (CULTURAL REVOLUTION). POWELL (Patricia) and HUO (Shitao): Mao's Graphic Voice. Pictorial Posters from the Cultural Revolution. Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin [1996]. Illustrated in color. Oblong 4to, 14pp; printed pictorial wrappers. An important monograph/gallery guide to coincide with an exhibition of Chinese Cultural Revolutionary posters on loan to the Elvehjem Museum from a private collection in Shanghai. Very few surveys have been done on this growing new interest of communist propaganda from China and the use of propaganda art in general.- $20
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Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography. John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles
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Virtue by Design: Illustrated Chinese Children’s Books from the Cotsen Children’s Library
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The Dawn of Wisdom: Selections from the Japanese Collection of the Cotsen Children’s Library
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Dutch Decorative Arts 1880-1940
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