MAPA ANTIGUO DE CRETA Y CORFÚ. CANDIA ET LA CITA DE CORPHU.
BRAUN, Georges / HOGENBERG, Frans Materia: Grabado del siglo XVII de una vista de pájaro de las islas de Candia (Creta) y Corfú. Autores: Georg Braun y Frans Hogenberg. Año: 1580. Dimensiones aprox.: 410 x 535 mm [papel], 370 x 490 mm [huella]. Técnica: Grabado calcográfico en cobre. Impresión oscura en papel grueso y fuerte, de gran calidad y tonos caros. Coloreado a mano con acuarela en la época. Reverso: Texto en latín. Conservación: Buen estado. Color antiguo, pliegue de imprenta en el ángulo superior derecho con separación de la zona impresa. Pequeño desperfecto en la parte central del grabado de Candia". Ligeras manchas: mancha de óxido más oscura en la esquina superior derecha de Candia, otra en el puerto de Corfú, y en la parte inferior derecha del lado del mar. Descripción: Dos vistas grabadas en cobre de las ciudades venecianas de Creta y Corfú del segundo volumen de "Civitas Orbis Terrarum" de Braun &, Hogenberg. La vista superior muestra a Creta o Iraklion conocido como "Candia" durante la ocupación veneciana. Es una vista desde el mar con el castillo y las murallas de la ciudad, un barco de pesca y una galera en primer plano. La vista inferior del Fuerte Viejo y la ciudad de Corfú dibuja una ciudadela coronada por castillos "viejos" y "nuevos" y separada de la ciudad por un foso, muchas galeras venecianas en el puerto y el mar circundante, varias áreas identificadas incluyendo San Rocho y "El Bazaro" ahora conocido como la Spianada Civitates Orbis Terrarum: conocido también como el "Braun &, Hogenberg", se trata de un atlas de ciudades en seis volúmenes y está considerado el mejor libro de vistas y planos de ciudades jamás publicado. Se compone de 363 grabados, muchos de ellos ricamente bellamente coloreados, y fue una de las obras más vendidas del último cuarto del siglo XVI. Georg Braun escribió el texto que acompaña a los planos y vistas en el verso. Un gran número de las placas se grabaron según los dibujos originales de Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), un artista profesional. El primer volumen se publicó en latín en 1572, el sexto y último en 1617. Georg Braun (1541-1622) nació en Colonia, donde realizó sus estudios hasta ingresar en la Orden de los Jesuitas como novicio. En 1561 obtuvo su título de bachiller y en 1562 su Magister Artium. Aunque dejó la Orden de los Jesuitas, estudió teología, obteniendo una licenciatura. Por su parte, Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590) fue un pintor, grabador y cartógrafo flamenco y alemán. Nació en la ciudad belga de Malinas y a finales de 1560, trabajó en Theatrum Orbis Terrarum de Abraham Ortelius. En 1568 fue expulsado de Amberes por el duque de Alba y viajó a Londres, donde permaneció unos años antes de emigrar a Colonia. Allí se embarcó inmediatamente en sus dos obras más importantes: los Civitates, publicados a partir de 1572 y los Geschichtsblätter, que aparecieron en varias series desde 1569 hasta aproximadamente 1587. Murió como un hombre rico en Colonia en 1590. Referencias: Koeman IV, 1901, Fauser 2298 u. 6507."- $653
- $653
Les Celliers: Construction et Materiel Vinicole avec la Description des Principaux Celliers du Midi, du Bordelais, de la Bourgogne et de l?Algerie.
FERROUILLAT, P[aul] & M. CHARVET First edition. Quarto. Text in French. [8], 518 pp. plus all 46 full page photographic illustrations of wine cellars at the turn of the century in France. 108 textual illustrations. One photographic illustration with some edge wear to the outer edge. Simple brown cloth with spine lettered and rule in black. A very clean and complete copy if this scarce informational guide to the best practices in wine storage and fermentation.A highly thought of publication and still sought after today as it deals with all aspects of wine making other than the growing and harvesting of the grapes. Many of these vintners are still in business today. For example there is a palte and a diagram of the caves of Moet et Chandon.An agricultural engineer by training, Paul Ferrouillat was in turn tutor at the Montpellier School of Agriculture (1881-1883), professor at Grignon (1883-1887), professor of agricultural engineering at Montpellier (1887-1897), then director of the same school (1897-1919). He is also a corresponding member of the Academy of Agriculture and head of the Agricultural Information Office at the Ministry of Agriculture. He wrote several works, this being his most famous.- $375
- $375
Glacier Point Hotel.
(YOSEMITE) First edition. Twelvemo. 4 x 5 1/4 inches. 12 pp. with a photograph on every page but the last three (which bear rates and directions as well as the publisher's slug). Double page map of the routes to the Hotel in the center. Stapled self-wrappers. Very good condition. Strangely this is quite scarce with OCLC only recording one copy (Bancroft)."It was 1871 when James McCauley obtained permission from the Yosemite Board of Commissioners to build and operate a toll trail to and from Yosemite Valley at the base of Sentinel Rock and climb over 3,000 feet to Glacier Point. With the new convenient access, innkeeper Charles Peregoy built ?The Mountain House? at the overlook in 1873. Hikers ascending McCauley?s Four Mile Trail to reach Glacier Point could now rest for the night at the small hotel with its stunning views. Campfires were often built to entertain the guests at the overlook and ashes were pushed over the edge. From Camp Curry in the valley below the falling ashes looked like a waterfall of fire. This would start a Yosemite tradition: the Firefall.?There may have never been a better balcony view than the one from the Glacier Point Hotel,? which was completed in 1917. ?The Glacier Point Hotel, which is itself entitled to the distinction of being classed as one of the features of the region. Affording accommodations for some two hundred guests, and embodying, as it does, all the comforts and conveniences of the most modern city hotel with its own delightfully informal and rustic atmosphere, it stands unique among the hotels for which our western country is justly famous. Visitors stopping overnight at Glacier Point will be lulled to sleep by the drowsy murmur of Vernal and Nevada Falls pouring into Merced Canyon far below, and throughout the day will be treated to a series of scenic spectacles that can hardly be duplicated anywhere else on earth? (Wilson, 1922).In the winter of 1968?1969 the Glacier Point Hotel was damaged by heavy snow pack and was closed for business that summer. The Firefall was cancelled permanently. A few employees lived in the old Mountain House (then the oldest building in the park), selling snacks to Glacier Point daytime visitors.On July 10, 1969 an electrical fire began in the lower floor of the unattended Glacier Point Hotel. The pile of red fir bark left from the Firefall next to the hotel added fuel to the fire. Structure fire response was 28 miles away by mountain road. The fire completely destroyed the hotel, Mountain House, and many trees" (National Park Service).- $450
- $450
n.t. S.Dorset & S. Devon/ 1/4 Geological Survey, Sheet 22, S.Dorset & S. Devon. F.L.Engledow, St. Johns College, Cambridge.
Ordnance Survey Office colour printed folding map; overall 44 x 65 cm, 10 sections; on cloth, paper slightly lifting off in some places; some dusting and soiling; on verso, some spotting; o/w vg cond. blue cloth cover, 22 x 13 cm, some wear and tear, hand written annotations on covers; o/w g cond. A very detailed geological map South Dorset, South Devon and Dartmoor, showing the various rock formation, with explanations on right side of the map.- $157
- $157
n.t. – Yorkshire Geological Map
Ordnance Survey Office colourprinted folding map; overall 46 x 67 cm, 21 sections; on cloth, paper slightly lifting off in some places; on verso, some spotting; o/w vg cond. green cloth cover, 17 x 9 cm, some wear and tear, title label in ink ; o/w g cond.- A very detailed geological map of Yorkshire, showing the various rock formation and coal fields, with explanations on either side of the map.- $377
- $377
Thames Tunnel 1930
anon coloured folding map. overall 61 x 92 cm, 12 segments, on cloth, with hand written annotations in red ink, in places paper lifting off, o/w exc. cond. green cloth cover, 31 x 15,5 cm, with paper label and ink stamp; some wear and tear; o/w exc. cond.- This unique map shows a proposed plan for a Thames Tunnel. The label is dated 1930 though this might not actually be the date of the map. There are colour coded explanations of the various rock formations as well as a scale: 6 inches to one statute mile.- The paper label bears the name Herbert Lapworth, DSc, MInstCE. 25 Victoria St, Westminster SW1. Herbert Lapworth (1875 1933) was the younger son of Prof. Charles Lapworth. He graduated in Engineering at Birmingham University and spent the greater part of his professional career as a practising engineer, involved mainly with construction for the water supply industry and the building of dams. Work on site enabled him to develop the keen interest in geology he inherited from his father and make original and valuable contributions to palaeontology and stratigraphy. - It should be noted that a plan to build the Lower Thames Tunnel was sanctioned in 2022, with building work to start in 2024 and an initial completion date 2029/30.- $628
- $628
Pictorial Plan of Central Oxford.
Chatfield, J.R.F. black and white folding map; overall 47 x 37 cm; folds as issued; some dusting and soiling; o/w vg cond. yellow paper cover, overall 19 x 12 cm; some wear and tear; o/w g cond.- An attractive town plan of Oxford with a numbered index to Colleges, Churches and Buildings.- $188
- $188
Port of Manchester Plan of the Manchester Ship Canal
Manchester Ship Canal Company: lithographed folding map; overall 42 x 146 cm; some smaller marginal tears; detached from paper cover; o/w vg cond. paper cover, 23 x 16 cm, some wear and tear; o/w g cond.- A very interesting map about the Manchester Canal, giving in-depth information and showing various insets, ie the outline of the canal, sections of the docks, the building works and the docklands.- $126
- $126
Greater London Map showing Public Wells to North of London
Anon: colour printed folding map; overall 90 x 72 cm, 9 segments. on cloth; paper in places lifting off; some slight wear and tear; two pieces of cards pasted in lower right corner; o/w exc. cond. green cloth binding, overall 30 x25 cm, some wear and tear, o/w vg cond.- This very unusual map shows the public wells in North London, covering the area from Letchworth to Watford, Wendover to Chelmsford. The map extends don to Horsham, and Farnborough to East Tilbury. The scale is half-inch to One Statute Mile = 1/126720. A small paste d-on card explains the various rockformation.- $502
- $502
Fables.
GAY, Mr. John Full vellum, 6 1/2 inches tall. A charming 18th century vellum binding with blue calf label, bands and border on the boards. Fine floral gilt tooling on the bands and in the panels, gilt fillets decorate the blue calf straps on the boards. An old hand has written "Edwards (of Halifax) binding" on the reverse of the front free endpaper but I can not verify that, though it is certainly in their distinctive style. There is a neat previous owners name, "M: Dann" on the first blank. A fine, unsophisticated copy.- $1,507
- $1,507
TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF SACS AND FOXES OF THE MISSISSIPPI
[Sac and Fox Tribes] 7pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. Outer leaves lightly soiled, internally bright and clean. Very good. Concluded on October 1, 1859, at the Sac and Fox Agency, Kansas Territory, by Alfred B. Greenwood. The treaty provided for the cession of 153,000 acres of Kansas lands to satiate the land hunger due to westward migration, and further made efforts to convert the Sauk and Foxes into farmers by providing for sedentary homes, livestock, and farming supplies. EBERSTADT INDIAN TREATIES 114.- $600
- $600
![Peter Fröhlich. Ein fünfjähriger Dorfjunge Von Agnes Gewecke-Berg. Fünfte Auflage. (Aus deutschem Schrifttum und Deutscher Kultur. Band 220.) [Bound with:] Peter Fröhlich. Ein fünfjähriger Dorfjunge Von Agnes Gewecke-Berg. Zweite Auflage. (Aus deutschem Schrifttum und Deutscher Kultur. Band 259/260.)](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/31599458462.jpg)
Peter Fröhlich. Ein fünfjähriger Dorfjunge Von Agnes Gewecke-Berg. Fünfte Auflage. (Aus deutschem Schrifttum und Deutscher Kultur. Band 220.) [Bound with:] Peter Fröhlich. Ein fünfjähriger Dorfjunge Von Agnes Gewecke-Berg. Zweite Auflage. (Aus deutschem Schrifttum und Deutscher Kultur. Band 259/260.)
[Hitler, Adolf]; Gewecke-Berg, Agnes Association copy, inscribed to Adolf Hitler by the author. With Hitler's bookplate, bears his name, "Ex Libris", and shows a national eagle, swastika, and oak leaves, designed by Willi Knabe, mounted on the front pastedown. With a lengthy inscription to Hitler by the author on the front flyleaf. In original half cloth. Panels covered with patterned green paper, with title vignette on front panel. 63, (1); VIII, 111, (1) p. A book from Adolf Hitler's personal library with his bookplate and a lengthy presentation inscription from the author. In original half cloth. Panels covered with patterned green paper, with title vignette on front panel Association copy, inscribed to Adolf Hitler by the author. With Hitler's bookplate, bears his name, "Ex Libris", and shows a national eagle, swastika, and oak leaves, designed by Willi Knabe, mounted on the front pastedown. With a lengthy inscription to Hitler by the author on the front flyleaf.- $2,394
- $2,394
![[In Yiddish:] Shtrom; Choydesh Heftn. 2. [Stream/Current. Monthly Magazine. No. 2.]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/31599455878-600x880.jpg)
[In Yiddish:] Shtrom; Choydesh Heftn. 2. [Stream/Current. Monthly Magazine. No. 2.]
[Cover design by:] Chagall, Marc Cover design by Marc Chagall. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 80 p. The second number of the first Soviet Yiddish literary-cultural periodical, featuring a cover designed by Marc Chagall. Shtorm was founded and edited by a literary and artistic group formed in Kiev of Yekhezkl Dobrushin, Nokhem Oyslender, and Arn Kushnirov, and Dovid Hofshteyn. Six numbers were published in five issues between 1922 and 1924. Each cover featured the same illustration on the front by Marc Chagall. "Chagall used only the letters in the word Shtrom as illustrations, which included a disembodied person on the »R« and a factory with a worker entering the building as part of the »Sh«" (Shneer, pp. 145-6). Bibl.: Shneer, D.: Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press, 2004. . Paper yellowed due to aging. Tiny inkblots on cover. Note in pencil on title page. Numeric notes between pp. 9-25. Three pinholes throughout at the gutter. Cover artistically restored. Overall in very good condition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers- $4,189
- $4,189
Vintage photo of a dancer (Mária Senger, the founder of Arizona club in Budapest)
Jozsef Pecsi Vintage print. 8 x 11 cm. József Pécsi (1889-1956) was a Hungarian photographer, known for his influential book "Photo und Publizität" (Photography and Publicity; 1930) wherein, by his own advertisement designs, promoted the blending of typography, design, and photography in avant-garde advertising.- $3,591
- $3,591
RUR. Rossum’s Universal Robots
Capek, Karel First Hungarian edition. In contemporary halfcloth. 97 p. First Hungarian edition of this key work by Czech dramatist Capek, originally produced in Prague in 1921. The word "robot" was coined by Capek's brother Josef, and the concept of the robot has its source in this play.- $2,394
- $2,394
Valiug (In Banat, Romania) people
Andreas Groll (photographer) Vintage albumen print. Very early photo from the Banat. One of the first photographer who worked in Romania. Andreas Groll Born in 1812 in Vienna as a son of servants Anna and Joseph Paul Groll. I. In 1845-1853 he worked at the Viennese Polytechnic Institute as an assistant of professor Anton von Schroetter. At that time, the Polytechnic Institute was the most important place of photography in Austria since it was home institution to the pioneer photographers Joseph Prechtl, von Schroetter and particularly Anton George Martin. After early experiments , since 1852 he established himself as an independent photographer specializing in Austro-Hungarian architecture (besides Vienna also some of the first photographs of Prague, PlzeÅ, Krakow, Kutná Hora; although later he also photographed Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia or Egypt), monuments, factories and weapons. He received a prize at the Paris world exhibition (1855), and two years later an award from Franz Joseph I. In 1857 he opened his first photo studio in Vienna. In 1861 he became a member of the Photographic society in Vienna, where in 1864 he had an extensive retrospective (also showing nine daguerreotypes from 1843). His 1865 catalog was containing 788 photographs. Small tear in the back paper. The print in fine conditon.- $5,985
- $5,985
Moi Libre aussi
Boizot, Louis Simon; Darcis, Louis First edition. Hand-colored engraving. In contemporary or near contemporary frame. Engraved by Louis Darcis, after Boizot (Boizot del.t : Darcis Sculp.t). Showing a black man with a red Phrygian liberty cap, in a circular medallion, with the motto or title engraved beneath twice in different typefaces. Diameter: ca. 75 mm. Important public propaganda image commemorating the abolition of slavery in France in 1794. The abolition of slavery in Saint Domingue in 1793, a major achievement of the slave revolt, the Haitian Revolution, the activity of the abolitionist societies in France, and just as importantly the ideas of the French Enlightenment and the revolutionary ethos of Liberté, égalité, fraternité convinced the French National Convention to issue a decree in 1794, the so-called Law of 4 February 1794, which abolished slavery and the slave trade in all French colonies, and gave the formerly enslaved equal rights. Commemorating the occasion, promoting the idea of general emancipation, and proclaiming equality in public propaganda, various images featuring men and women of African descent, with different printed slogans referring to freedom and equality started to circulate. A pair of these images, depicting a freed woman and a man titled Moi libre aussi (I, Too, Am Free), was created by Louis Simon Boizot (1743-1809). Boizot's designs were probably intended to decorate porcelain box lids, as the artist was the director of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory at the time, and also created sculptures with the same title for the company. The freed black man, the engraving presented here, wears a red Phrygian liberty cap of emancipated enslaved people, a symbol still featured in the centerpiece of the Haitian flag, and the title Moi libre aussi appears twice beneath his image. Scarce. Except for the present one no other records on RBH.We could trace institutional copies only in France (BnF - 4 copies, in two versions with a slightly different arrangement of the text; Le musée Carnavalet), the UK (British Museum), and the United States (JCB). One of the BnF-copies (a variant) was exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, as part of the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast (March 10, 2022-March 5, 2023). . Paper tanned, trimmed, the engraving mounted on paper to fill the arch-shaped frame. Wormholes to the frame. Otherwise in fine condition. Hand-colored engraving. In contemporary or near contemporary frame. Engraved by Louis Darcis, after Boizot (Boizot del.t : Darcis Sculp.t). Showing a black man with a red Phrygian liberty cap, in a circular medallion, with the motto or title engraved beneath twice in different typefaces- $14,363
- $14,363
Nem üthetett vissza (He couldn’t kick back) Poems
Endre Barat First edition. In original paper. 45 p. Endre Barát (1907-1976) writer, journalist. His career began in the early thirties, and his poems were published by Zsido JövÅ. He was a proofreader, editor and, in the 1950s, also an occasional manual laborer. He started out as a poet, but throughout he was a writer and editor in one person. In the 1940s, he was taken to labor service, and he wrote about his experiences there in his poems. In very good condition. Some stains.- $598
- $598
![Paoletti impronte. [8 Volumes] [A collection of over 820 Plaster Medallions](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/31590178608-600x966.jpg)
Paoletti impronte. [8 Volumes] [A collection of over 820 Plaster Medallions, Presented in Eight Vellum-Bound Double-Sided Faux Book-Boxes.]
[Paoletti Manufacture] 8 volumes. 823 white plaster cast medallions each bordered with gilt paper, manuscript numbers added in ink, generally between 1.5 and 5 cm in diameter (some larger). Arranged and mounted in recessed double-sided faux book-boxes, lined with red paper. Manuscript list of contents (not entirely corresponding to the content) in brown ink to front and rear pastedowns of each volume. In original, matching, full vellum binding, gilt spines with 2 labels lettered "Paoletti" and "Impronte opere antiche" or "Impronte opere moderne" with the volume number. Box size: ca. 34 × 22 cm. An 8-volume collection of 19th-century plaster impressions of intaglios and other engraved gems, and miniature copies of ancient and later sculptures and monuments in matching original bindings, manufactured by the Paoletti firm. A fine collection of mid-19th century plaster medallions (intaglios, cameos) known in Italian as 'impronte', manufactured by the Paoletti family, Bartolomeo Paoletti (1757-1834) and his son, Pietro (1801-1847) in Rome. These souvenirs became highly popular among aristocratic and fashionable travelers on the Grand Tour during the early part of the 19th century, especially from England. Such distinguished figures as Goethe, Catherine the Great (Belozerskaya 2013, p. 201-3), Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Lord Elgin were among the clients of the Paoletti firm. Like a miniature museum of the history of art, these carefully arranged and mounted plaster impressions show mythological or classical scenes, portraits of Greek and Roman gods, emperors, warriors, philosophers, and poets, masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, and portraits of famous artists and writers. Many of the intaglios are life-size copies of ancient gems, cameos, coins and medals others are miniature representations of classic or later sculptures and portraits. Four of our volumes cover antique themes and the other four are dedicated to "modern art". The antique section comprises a volume titled Impronte in Stucco cavate dalle Gemme Antiche and contains 116 portraits of Greek and Latin poets and philosophers, antique military leaders, and rulers. Each of the remaining three volumes is titled Istoria-Miteologica they comprise medallions (119+135+109) of mythological and classical scenes and portraits. The first volume of Impronte opere moderne has a mixed content of Opere del Secolo XVI, chiamato 500 (13), Opere Moderne Di Antonio Picler [Anton Pichler] (7), Opere di Giuseppe Picler [Johann-Joseph (Giuseppe) Pichler] (12), Opere di [Nathaniel] Marchant (49). The next two volumes, are titled Opere di varj Autori and contain examples of miscellany "modern art" (127+96), and the last one, titled Incisioni appartenenti a S A. il S.e Pr'pe Poniathowski is a selection of 40 pieces of the Poniatowski gems. Literature: Belozerskaya M. 2013. Medusa's Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese. New York: Oxford University Press.; Lucia Pirzio B. S. 2013. La collezione Paoletti. Stampi in vetro per impronte di intagli e cammei II. Roma: Gangemi. A few medallions detached from backing, three with visible traces of crack, and one broken. Some of the bindings are partly dusted, some labels are rubbed with losses to the extremities. Front panel of Vol. 16 discolored, spine somewhat rubbed labels worn. Overall in fine condition. Generally a very well-preserved collection. 8 volumes. 823 white plaster cast medallions each bordered with gilt paper, manuscript numbers added in ink, generally between 1.5 and 5 cm in diameter (some larger). Arranged and mounted in recessed double-sided faux book-boxes, lined with red paper. Manuscript list of contents (not entirely corresponding to the content) in brown ink to front and rear pastedowns of each volume. In original, matching, full vellum binding, gilt spines with 2 labels lettered "Paoletti" and "Impronte opere antiche" or "Impronte opere moderne" with the volume number- $23,939
- $23,939
Snob International
(Tibor Hajas) First edition. In original paper. 20 p. The samizdat periodical titled Sznob International [Snob International] had six issues altogether from 1981 and 1984. This issue was devoted to Tibor Hajas. It is illustrated by Júlia Szaniszló. and the cover photo. by János VetÅ. Printed in 500 copy. Small restauration on the cover. Later spin. In very good condition.- $1,197
- $1,197
THE EPHESIAN STORY By Xenophon of Ephesus
FRASER, Eric; TURNER, Paul; XENOPHON First edition. 8vo. Number 63 of 75 specially bound copies with an extra suite of seven plates, one of which does not appear in the book. Publisher's deluxe binding of full green morocco with gilt decoration and lettering in gilt to spine. All housed in publisher's orange cloth slipcase. A near fine copy, the spine faded, in a very good slipcase indeed. Collotype reproductions of 6 brush drawings by Eric Fraser. Cock-A-Hoop 207.- $519
- $519
CHORT I RECHETVORTSY. (The Devil & the Speechmakers)
Aleksei Kruchenykh Octavo 22.3x16 cm., original illustrated wrappers with a lithograph by Olga Rozanova. 22 leaves. This polemical work by Kruchenykh sneers at the preoccupations of Russian writers such as Dostoyevsky and Lermontov with the theme of the devil and demons and how Russian literature has been saved by Futurism. Kruchenykh, perhaps unsurprisingly, cites his own works ('Half Alive' and 'A Game in Hell') as examples of the correct approach to any treatment of the devil and demons in literature. The cover lithograph by Rozanova is a particularly gruesome image of a demon with sharp teeth biting off the head of an infant. A very nice, crisp copy with a striking lithograph by Rozanova. MOMA 41, Getty 354- $1,900
- $1,900
Iskhod 1918
N. Tsitsovskii, Anatolii Mariengof, Vitalii Usenko Quarto 23x18 cm, original wrappers, 28 (ii), 6 color lithographs. Unknown edition. Exodus refers to leaving Penza, where Mariengof lived as a student. This is a Futurist work, with superb examples of artwork by Mariengof s fellow student Vitalii Usenko (dates and biographical info unknown). It is late Futurism, and traces the link Mariengof used to connect to Imagism, which morphed into Imaginism by 1920 and for which the poet is most renowned. The almanac includes an assortment of work by other poets (Startsev, Stotov, Vigranskii), with the most notable being the first appearance of Osip Mandel shtam s Dekabristy from 1917---a striking anomaly (it would be first published officially in Tristia in 1922). Copies of this work found in Yale, Getty (260), MOMA 208. A very fine copy, near new.- $7,500
- $7,500
OKTIABR. BORBA ZA PROLETARSKIE KLASSOVYE POZITSII, na fronte prostranstvennykh iskusstv. (October. The Struggle for the Proletarian Class Positions on the Front of the Spatial Arts.)
(Solomon Telingater) Quarto 26.5x18.5 cm., wrappers, 28pp., with insert. 5000 copies; includes corrigenda slip. Designed by the October group members Telingater, Gutnov, and Spirov. October was a Constructivist artist collective organized through the efforts of Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aleksei Gan, El Lissitzky. The elite of Soviet modernism, including Dmitri Moor, Sergei Eisenstein, Boris Ignatovich, the brothers Vesnin, Gustav Klutsis, came together under an aegis of excellence in the visual arts and design. The group was inaugurated in 1928. Rodchenko displayed many of his classic photos in an exhibition in 1931.This manifesto followed, in which the collective called for the consolidation of the proletarian art forces and announced a campaign in aggressive language. Solomon Telingater supported this with a highly dynamic visual design throughout. Authoritarian pressure led to expelling Rodchenko with charges of formalism later that year, and the pressures from above increased steadily to disband the group in 1932. Two holdings found in North American institutions (Yale, Art Gallery Ontario). A near fine copy.- $2,500
- $2,500
Gollivud: Amerikansii kino-gorod (Hollywood: The American Film-City)
A. Rozenbaum (Ayn Rand) Octavo 16.5x13 cm., within original wrappers with unattributed, striking photomontage; 48 pages. Illustrated with movie stills. The second book written by Ayn Rand (1905-1982), the later adopted name of Alisa Rozenbaum, and published after she left St. Petersburg for America, Hollywood is also the second of the only two works in her native language (Russian). This volume examines the origins of the Hollywood studios, their rivalries, and prominent producers, directors, and stars. Some wear to the wrappers, otherwise in very good condition. Six copies found in North American libraries- $2,350
- $2,350
Pola Negri
Alisa Rozenbaum (Ayn Rand) Octavo 15x11.5 cm., wrappers,16pp. This is the first published work by Ayn Rand (nee Alisa Rosenbaum, 1905-1982) and is extremely scarce. Ayn Rand wrote two works on the cinema under her given name before emigrating and embarking on her now well-known career as a novelist and philosopher in the United States. The present work is a short monograph on the film actress Pola Negri (1891-1987, screen name for Barbara Apolonoia Chalupec), famed for her roles as seductress and femme fatale. No institutional holdings found by OCLC for this work worldwide. Very good+ copy.- $2,750
- $2,750
Vystavka proizvidenii K. S. Malevicha. (Exhibition of the Works of K.S. Malevich)
A. Fedorov-Davydov, text Malevich's Tragic 1929 Retrospective Exhibition Catalogue. Octavo 17.3x12.8 cm., original paper wrappers, 10(2) pp. With a b/w reproduction of "Na senokose." 1000 copies only. Glavit no. A-51089. This booklet, published in conjunction with an exhibition of Malevich's works at the Tret'iakov Gallery, includes a biography of the artist. The author, Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov (19001969), at the time the head of the Department of modern Russian art at the Tret'iakov, was a prominent art historian. Malevich produced forty new works for this show. He had left behind the bulk of his mature works in Europe when he returned to Russia in 1927. In this new series of work the artist attempted to redefine himself, given that he had abandoned painting by 1922. In light of the current prevailing conditions he seemed to be reinventing himself in producing new works and antedating them back into the first decade of the century which would produce an historical narrative more suited to the homo sovieticus than can be discerned from the verified works on hand we have and details of his biography. No photographs exist of this exhibition. A fully illustrated catalogue was promised but never materialized, and this is the sole documentation for the event. Some of the work was exhibited in Ukraine in 1930, where the authorities closed down the show and confiscated the items, a dark portent. Within two years of this exhibition at the Tret'iakov Gallery the Stalinist regime had rejected bourgeois abstract art, and Malevich was banned from creating anything of the sort. The paintings from this exhibition were stored in the Russian Museum and not available for view until almost 1980. Fedorov-Davydov's text seems to reflect the tension between Malevich's prominence and the pending rejection of his aesthetic, as he stresses exhibit's importance to up-and-coming artists. "On the one hand," he writes, "this era reached its climax with the whole system engendered by the isolation of bourgeois culture of art from life; on the other, it constructed the germs of those new forms of art that are now growing in front of our eyes". BL 375. Getty 481. MoMA 828. OCLC locates six copies worldwide at the Tate, Frick, MoMA, UNC-Chapel Hill. .Reference: Kokkori, Maria, "Exhibiting Malevich under Stalin," in Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond, ed. Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori, and Maria Mileeva (S.l.: Brill, 2013): 138. A very good+ copy.- $2,500
- $2,500
Le Fabbriche e i Monumenti Cospicui di Venezia
Cicognara, Leopold Second Edition 1858 complete in 2 volumes. 4 titles with engraved vignettes, 259 engraved plates, text in French and Italian on double column, some light spotting and foxing intermittently throughout, period quarter green calf gilt, cloth boards stained and slightly worn, elephant folio. Author note - Cicognara was President of the Accademia delle Belle Art at Venice- $1,570
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- $1,570
Neuwe Biblische Figuren
Amman, Jost. 1539-1591 & Johann Melchior Bocksberger Second edition, appearing only a year after the first. Oblong 4to (160 x 201mm.) Title in red and black, 5pp. text including 3pp. preface by Feyerabend, 132 woodcut illustrations by Amman after Johann Melchior Bocksperger extra illustrated with an additional plate from a later printing inserted at C2 (i.e. all 130 illustrations from this edition are present as called for) Paper repair to title, the word 'Figuren' affected, marginal insect-damage from B1-F4, general light toning throughout, corner marginal loss to Q2-R2. Contemporary vellum soiled and creased. Bespoke photographs available on request- $2,198
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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
FIELDING Henry 1707-1754 VG, 4 volumes, [1792], 15 plates, first Cooke edition, in contemporary tree calf, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped & worn. Spines, worn, edges bumped. Vol 1, additional engraved title with woodcut, plus the series edition & dedication both engraved, (iv), [1], 6-14, [1], (xvi-xx), [1], 22-264 pp, 7 pls. Vol 2, additional eng. title, [3], 4-272, 4 pls. V3, additional eng title, [3], 4-231, 2 pl. V4, eng tp, [3], 4-276 pp, 2 pl. All vols blue marbled endpapers, vols 1&2 with bookplate to fpds (Rev John Roberts), upper joints cracked, spine title labels lacking in V2&4, vertical spine crack to V2. Dated per ESTC 1792, plates dated 1792, the additional eng pl 1793. (142*85 mm). (ESTC T1941). estc T1941- $471
- $471
THE SONG OF ACHILLES
Miller, Madeline NY, 2022 Tenth anniversary edition, first prnt. Specially bound issue with a tipped-in page signed by Miller. Isbn differs from the trade edition's number. Limitation unspecified. "Signed Edition" sticker on front panel as issued. Illustrated boards. All edges and endpages aqua blue. Issued without dustjacket. Weak bump on spine bottom edge corner, otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition.- $125
- $125
CLASSIC BALLROOM DANCES
Simic, Charles (Annie Dillard) NY, 1980 First edition, first prnt. Association Copy. Inscribed by Simic of the front free endpage to Annie Dillard. "For Annie: More Kid Simic + The Dark Night of History... Charlie Apr 27, 1983 Bow Lake, NH" Dillard's ownership plate affixed to first front free endpage. Tight copy with beginning foxing on the topedge; dustjacket with slightest wrinkle on spine topedge. Very Good condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.- $175
- $175
Men at Arms. A Discworld novel
PRATCHETT, [Sir] Terry (1948-2015) [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24x 16cm), pp.288. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 4/11/93. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby with printed price of £14.99. A crisp, clean copy, sunned to the jacket spine. Very good.- $157
- $157
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Fleming Tones It Down’ [Goldfinger], in Books & Bookmen, April 1959
[IAN FLEMING / BONDIANA] [Literary Review] Pp.48. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Original price: 2s. Some handling and wrinkling. Very good. Contains a profile of author Ian Fleming by Brian Baumfield (Fleming pictures as the cover personality), together with a contemporary review of Goldfinger, plus pictorial advert for the recently published Pan edition of From Russia With Love. Rare (no other copy currently listed). Gilbert, p.238.- $314
- $314
Worth Dying For. A Reacher Novel
CHILD, Lee [pseudonym of GRANT, James Dover] (born 1954) [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 384 [8]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Lilac endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. The fifteenth Jack Reacher novel, and the 23rd story in the series chronologically. First published in 2010, this special edition contains a new introduction by the author.- $207
- $207
Doting
GREEN, Henry (1905-1973) [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 251; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 11s 6d to front flap. Previous owner's name written neatly in black ink to flyleaf, some toning to edges of textblock, bumping to board corners, tearing to base of jacket spine, chipping to edges. Very good. Set in post-war middle class London, Henry Green explores the tedious society that lives there. 'Doting' is an amusing contemporary satire that reflects on difference between doting and loving in a culture which only values one's appearance.- $151
- $151
Selected Poems.
HARDY, Thomas. First Riccardi edition, number 705 of 1,000 copies printed on handmade paper, from total edition of 1,014 copies, here retaining the scarce dust jacket. "Hardy set great store by the volume. hoping it would bring his poetry to a wider public" (Purdy). Purdy, p. 187 Octavo. Original tan cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper labels to spine and front cover lettered in black, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, green silk bookmarker, spare labels tipped-in at rear. With dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait and title vignette by William Nicholson, with tissue guard. Faint foxing to spine label; jacket slightly sunned, flaps without price as issued: a fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.- $942
- $942
Selected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot.
POUND, Ezra. First edition, first impression, trade issue, rare in the dust jacket. The trade issue was published on 23 November 1928; there was also a signed limited issue, published on 10 December the same year. In his introduction to this important edition of Pound's poetry, T. S. Eliot gives an extended commentary on the originality of Pound's work, his influences ("Browning and Yeats. Swinburne and William Morris", p. ix), and the ways he has been read and misread by some of his contemporaries. Gallup, Pound, A30a; Eliot, B10a. Octavo. Original green cloth, top edge green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Head of spine sunned; jacket lightly marked and toned, some loss to head of spine and front panel, closed tear to rear panel, price-clipped, still a well-preserved example: a very good copy in very good jacket.- $2,198
- $2,198
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The Nile in Darkness. [Conquest and Exploration 1504-1862; A Flawed Unity 1863-1899.]
UDAL, John O. First edition, first impression, signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of vol. 1: "To Christopher and to Alistair from the author in grateful memory of John Carlisle Nanson Donald, Sudan Political Service 1930-55, a generous and trusted friend". This history of the Sudan was written by a former officer in the Sudan Political Service. Reviewing the second volume, Professor Peter Woodward noted that "The great merit of Udal's contribution is that he combines all [previous studies], giving generous recognition to other studies while combining them with much new material of his own in one comprehensive work" (Woodward, p. 162). A purchase invoice from the publisher is loosely inserted. Vol. 2 was issued without the map affixed to the rear endpaper: the map, along with an apologetic note from the publisher, are loosely inserted. Peter Woodward, "The Nile in Darkness: A flawed unity 1863-1899, by John O Udal.", African Affairs, vol. 106, no. 422, 2007. 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered and with publisher's device in gilt. With dust jackets. Both volumes: With maps, photographic illustrations, and tables in the text, folding map to rear pastedown (Vol. 2: folding map loosely inserted) Lower spine end and rear cover of vol. 1 bumped, lower front cover of vol. 2 bumped, several spots of foxing to edges of vol. 1, one spot of damp staining to outer edge of vol. 2; jacket of vol. 1 price-clipped and with moderate rubbing and foxing, jacket of vol. 2 not price-clipped and mildly rubbed: a very good copy in like jackets.- $377
- $377
Instructions and Regulations for the use of Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps of Cavalry. Part I.
HERRIES, Charles. First edition, rare, an online institutional search locating the British Library copy only; the second part was published in 1805. From the library of Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1771-1851), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Ernest Augustus, the Black Sheep, as Queen Victoria's father once called him, was always bent on a military career and served with the cavalry, fighting with courage in Flanders and the Netherlands against the French; "his face was scarred for life and his left eye, always poor deteriorated [and as a result] His sharp wit became cruelly sardonic and malicious. He was made lieutenant-general in the British army in 1799 [he] regarded himself as a professional soldier, but after 1796 he never again held command in the field, despite his wish to serve in the Peninsular campaign" (ODNB). His fizzing portrait by George Dawe (showing him resplendent in hussar uniform, the Order of the Garter pinned to his dolman) is at the National Portrait Gallery. The author, Charles Herries, was descended from a long line of Dumfriesshire lairds. As a merchant based in London he played a leading role in the British volunteer movement, becoming colonel of the light horse volunteers, "a select and prestigious London defence force" (ODNB). He also published General Regulations and an Explanation of the Principal Words of Command (1796) and General Regulations and Instructions for the Light-Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster (1797). Octavo (176 x 110 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, smooth spine gilt-lettered direct and divided by paired gilt fillets, gilt single fillet border to sides, Stormont pattern marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Folding letterpress table at end ("Posts of Officers"). Spine sunned, extremities a little rubbed. A very good copy.- $314
- $314
Beowulf.
HEANEY, Seamus (trans.) First edition, first impression, signed by Heaney on the title page, of his translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic. Dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes, it won the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Brandes & Durkan A72a. Octavo. Original dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, orange endpapers. With dust jacket. Dust jacket not price-clipped: a fine copy in fine jacket.- $1,884
- $1,884
My Cousin Rachel.
DU MAURIER, Daphne. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Yours sincerely, Daphne du Maurier", and inscribed by her daughter, Tessa, on the front free endpaper, "To Mr & Mrs Cornell, with love and many many thanks, Tessa, Christmas 1951". A gothic-mystery-romance in the style of Rebecca, the novel was quickly adapted into a film in 1952, starring Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine sunned, binding slightly shaken, traces of tape removal to endpapers; jacket somewhat rubbed and faded, extremities lightly chipped, not price-clipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.- $1,884
- $1,884
The Sherbro and its Hinterland.
ALLDRIDGE, Thomas Joshua. First edition, first impression, of one of the first works to introduce western audiences to traditional Sierra Leonese culture, complete with the two folding maps. The Sherbro and its Hinterland developed from the expeditions of Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1847-1916), who travelled extensively in Sierra Leone as a travelling commissioner for the British colonial administration in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Alldridge spent much of his professional life in Sierra Leone, and eventually served as its first District Commissioner from 1894-1905. In this work, written during that period, he outlines a political, economic and cultural analysis of the traditional cultures he encountered in the Sierra Leonese interior. Alldridge took a camera with him, and this work reproduces his extensive photographs of indigenous dress, ceremonies and practices: a fact much remarked on in contemporary reviews (e.g. that of the Royal Geographical Society). "Alldridge has had a profound influence on the understanding and appreciation of Sierra Leone's traditional culture in the wider world. As one of the first Europeans to travel into the interior of south-eastern Sierra Leone, he is credited with having gained privileged insight into Mende culture, in particular, before it was to use his own expression 'transformed' by European intervention" (Hart, p. 155). This work is thus significant not only for its role in introducing western audiences to traditional Sierra Leonese cultures, but equally for preserving evidence of those cultures before European colonial intervention. The verso of the half-title preserves the bookplate of Guy Fortescue Burrell de Gruchy (1867-1940), a Jersey-born banker and legal official. William Hart, "T. J. Alldridge's Sierra Leone collections", Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 35, no. 1, 2023. Octavo. Original blue vertical-ribbed cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, covers ruled in blind and with two-figure illustration to front in gilt. Pictorial frontispiece with tissue guard and 77 other photographic illustrations on 59 plates, folding map, folding coloured map in rear pocket. Light bumping, rubbing, and wear to extremities, several spots of soiling, light toning and sporadic moderate foxing, wormhole to upper margin of initial leaves, a couple of leaves unopened: a very good, firm copy.- $691
- $691
Revolt in the Desert.
LAWRENCE, T. E. First edition, first impression, limited issue, number 36 of 315 copies in quarto with colour plates which were printed in monochrome in the standard octavo issue. This hugely successful abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) was vital in defraying the soaring production costs of Lawrence's masterpiece and in establishing the fortunes of the Cape publishing house. It was Bernard Shaw who suggested to Lawrence that he fundraise for the £13,000 debt incurred from producing the limited "Cranwell" edition of Seven Pillars by writing an abridged version for a wider readership. Intent on not making an "excessive" profit from the idea, Lawrence ordered that no more copies be printed once his costs had been cleared. As a result, the fifth impression was the last, by which time 90,000 copies were in circulation, with many more still in demand. The public next encountered Lawrence's narrative in 1935, with the release of the first trade edition of the complete Seven Pillars. "Lawrence felt that in Seven Pillars he had failed to create a work of the 'titanic' class: his aim in the abridgement was more modest and therefore more attainable. There was magnificent material in Seven Pillars for an uncomplicated adventure story, and Lawrence was determined to succeed" (Wilson, p. 768). O'Brien A101. Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence, 1989. Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, spine lettered it gilt, light brown buckram boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour portrait frontispiece, 10 colour plates, 8 monochrome plates, folding map at rear; title printed in red and black. Spine ends recently refurbished with traces of older adhesive repair still present, endpapers lightly toned. A very good copy.- $2,826
- $2,826
Death of a Salesman. Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem.
MILLER, Arthur. Signed limited edition, number 325 of 1,500, signed by Miller and the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. This is an attractive edition of Miller's renowned tragedy, first performed and published in 1949. This Limited Editions Club edition features a new foreword by the author, reflecting on the popular reception of Salesman as a "sad play" and contrasting the humble origins of the play with the elegance of the present edition. The five etchings by Baskin depict Willy Loman's gradual slide into apathy and senility. Baskin, a sculptor and graphic artist, founded the Gehenna Press, which published limited edition and finely illustrated books. Quarto. Original brown full morocco, spine lettered in gilt, spine, front and rear covers ruled in blind, The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club loosely inserted as issued. With grey publisher's slipcase, lettered in gilt. With 5 full page etchings by Leonard Baskin. Small tear to head of slipcase spine: a fine copy, in near-fine slipcase.- $471
- $471
Five Go to Mystery Moor.
BLYTON, Enid. First edition, first impression. Opposite the title page is a printed note from the author to her readers, in which Blyton remarks that she had intended to conclude the "Famous Five" stories after her last book, but has released this 13th adventure by popular demand. Octavo. Original red boards, spine and front cover lettered in black, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. With 16 full-page colour illustrations, and black and white illustrations to the text, all by Eileen Soper. Minor bumps to spine ends, faint foxing to edges and toning to endpapers; jacket lightly rubbed, creasing to top edge; a very good copy in like jacket.- $188
- $188
Colonization of South Australia.
TORRENS, Robert. First edition. Robert Torrens (1780-1864), an Irish-born political economist, Member of Parliament, and newspaper publisher, played a prominent role in the colonization of South Australia. He here proposes colonization to solve the problem of overpopulation and enrich the mother country. "Torrens had a significant influence on the theory and practice of colonization. Along with most of the later classical economists he rejected the Smithian view that colonies were of no economic benefit to the colonial power. Much of the later classical case for colonies was based on the view that colonies would provide profitable investment outlets to offset a declining rate of profit at home. Torrens used this argument in some of his later writings but his main argument was that colonies were an ideal solution to the Malthusian overpopulation problem. In this view he was undoubtedly influenced by his interpretation of the causes of Irish poverty - a country incidentally where Torrens was born and in general its problems had a profound effect on his thinking. He [also] advocated systematic colonization with the price of land set sufficiently high that large units of capital would have to be amassed before the immigrant labourers became independent farmers" (The New Palgrave IV, 660). "This somewhat lengthy book, whose title and general appearance would suggest somethign written purely ad hoc for the purpose of forwarding the policies of the Colonization Commission for South Australia, must in fact rank as one its author's major contributions to general economics. Its occasion indeed was the desirability of defending at length the projects of the Commissioners. But in the course of the apologia there occur important expositions of the Ricardian theory of distribution, the theory of Comparative Costs, the general theory of colonization and a form of over-production theory in some respects anticipating modern stagnation theories." (Robbins). De Vivo 50; Goldsmiths' 29034; Ferguson 2056; Kress C.4051; Robbins, Robert Torrens and the Evolution of Classical Economics, 36; Sraffa 5920. Octavo (222 x 140 mm). Original blue boards, grey paper spine, printed paper spine label, untrimmed. Housed in a custom made half morocco and cloth clamshell box. Folding colour frontispiece map, 16-page publisher's catalogue bound at front. Small circular stamp of Webster Collection to rear free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of Sir William Molesworth to front pastedown. Front joint split but cords holding firm, spine ends chipped, grey paper and printed label chipped in places, rear board with vertical crease, still sound. Folding map a little crinkled in the gutter, slightly offset onto title- $4,082
- $4,082
In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences.
CAPOTE, Truman. First edition, first printing, of the author's great work of "non-fiction fiction", winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime in 1966. This copy has all the points for the first issue dust jacket: with "1/66" code on the front flap and "Publishers of The American College Dictionary and The Modern Library" on the rear flap. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt with silver decorations, author's initials gilt-stamped on front cover, red endpapers, top edge dark blue. With dust jacket. Halftone frontispiece of two pairs of eyes in red border. Small faint stain on front free endpaper and first leaf, couple of spots of foxing on fore edge, otherwise clean; jacket slightly toned, couple of nicks neatly repaired with tape on verso, not price-clipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.- $628
- $628
BOOK OF HIMSELFE’ – an Essex Country Clergyman’s Unpublished Autobiography of Hypochondria and Illness
Samuel Jackson An 18th century country clergyman's narrative of hypochondria, illness and death: Jackson's life-writing being continued and completed decades after his death by his sons. Small quarto (17x20cm) bound in full contemporary sheepskin, rebacked; new endpapers and a few paper repairs. In addition to the manuscript book there are several inserts including draft family memorials etc. Paper stock has horizontal chainlines; 'GR' with armorial above for watermark. The manuscript is written from both ends, [pp] 44 (Jackson senior's text written on rectos only) and his son Samuel's transcription of his poem, 'The Paralytick' followed by about a dozen blanks and [pp] 26 from the other end of the manuscript, mostly in the hand of John Jackson, son of Samuel, beginning with an enumeration and analysis of the Bills of Mortality in his Essex parish of Stisted. Samuel Jackson, senior (1708-1792) began this manuscript autobiography in 1758 from fear of his own imminent demise, calling it an 'Account of himself & Family by the Rev.d Sam.l Jackson Rector of Stisted in Essex'. Jackson states that he was writing for his children, as 'my precarious State of Health, give me very natural & convincing reasons to apprehend yt I shall not live to see them of Age and Understanding to regard & remember anything' - in fact the manuscript reveals that Jackson lived to the age of 84, though he did indeed spend his final decades largely paralysed. In fact Jackson senior's last direct contribution to the manuscript, only 9 years later, was to dictate a mournful poem on his reduced state to his son: 'The Paralytick' which includes the reflection: 'My wife and children pensive stand/ To see my doleful State;/ My faithful Servants near at Hand/ My dissolution wait.' At the end of which his son noted: 'My Papa dictated these in Dec.r 1767 - Samuel Jackson'. In a long postscript to this written by John Jackson in the 1790s, the younger son recalls his father's decades-long decline when he made regular use of 'his Garden-chair, & of his Chariot, in which he constantly took his Airing tho' for the last 20 or near 25 Years, his whole Frame was so totally relaxed, that he cd scarcely move Hand or Foot without Help, cd neither feed himself or turn himself in his Bed.' Jackson senior seems to have been haunted by the possibility of his own mortality and his vulnerability to illness. In 1757 he describes dodging the horrors of smallpox when he sat with a 'sick Neighbour, not know-g what her Illness was: but ye Small-pox was then broke out upon her. And my Stay in ye Room was very Short, yet so human Judgm.t I must have been in great Danger of catch.g that fatal Distemper; possibly ye Danger might be ye greater from ye unhappy Fears w.ch I am too apt to have to it. But it is now more an Fortnight ago & I find no Symptoms of ye infection ' His first wife was less lucky, despite the fact that 'We lived together in ye most perfect Harmony and affection above 6 years My Wife seemd Several times under ye Approach of Death, before that Illness w.ch provd to be her last. She has no Child born alive, but Suffered 5 Miscarriages'. His son Samuel (later transcriber of his father's verse) had another close shave: 'And on Saturday June 21. 1760. My dear Child Sam, was rode over in my own yard. And it was a large clumsy horse on ye Gallop, and his Foot caught betwixt ye Childs Arm & Body. So as to drag him several Paces, & put him in ye utmost Danger of being kill'd I was in ye Garden very near, & heard his Crys, and ran to take him from ye Man yt pickt him up. His nose bled profusely; and ye Anguish & Distress in his Countenance when he lookt upon me affected me with deepest Woe.' (p26) Jackson senior began the manuscript with an account of his Whitchurch forebears and arrival in indolent mid-century Oxford, 'raw in ye Latin Tongue and much more' and benefitting very little at Brasenose College from the tuition 'of one Mr Pigot, a very good-natured learned indolent Man who took very little Pains to improve his Pupils.' Despite this Jackson took his degree and was elected to 'One of those Fellowships wch are founded in Brasenose College for ye Benefit of Cheshire Men' and tutored in rural Oxfordshire at Garsington where he fell in love with Molly Wickham, He was ordained in June 1734 by John Potter, Bishop of Oxford (a friend of his mother in law 'as their Houses at Cuddesden & Garsington were but abt a mile distant') only to quit his curacy at Farthingstone, Northants as 'I was then under some Anxiety and Concern how to Station myself.' subsequently rescued by (now) Archbishop Potter 'with such Expedition yt I was inducted into ye Ch.h of Stisted in ye County of Essex October 7. 1742 within little more yn a Fortnight after ye Death of Mr Wagener my Predecessor.' Jackson was married in Lambeth Chapel with Potter, now Archbishop of Canterbyry 'ye ABp [Archbishop of Canterbury], his Grace himself condescend.g to act as Fa[the]r to ye Bride.' A second marriage followed the death of his first wife when 'After 2 years of Widowhood ye Irksomness of Solitude' led him to Jane Blencowe at Marston, whom he married in October 1752 at St Anne's Westminster - 'my first Marriage was after a very long Courtship; my Second after a Short one' which marriage produced Samuel in 1753 and John in 1757. It was John who returned to his father's manuscript in August 1793 when 'I have amused myself in continuing the Account, which my dear Father has given in this Book of himself', describing his father's decline and inserting short biographies of the servants who helped his father as well as describing the impact of the long illness on his mother who 'being happily of a tranquil domestic Disposition, was able to bear the Confinement & Anxiety which a strict attention to my Father under his severe afflictions render'd unavoidable, with comfortable Requiescence'. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $3,140
- $3,140
Northanger Abbey, [and] Persuasion
Jane Austen A very trim copy of Richard Bentley's 1854 edition of two Jane Austen novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, bound in a most attractive publisher's bindings of blind-stamped brown cloth. Yellow-coated endpapers and a 19th century ownership inscription of 'Edgar Jones' to the recto of the 1833 engraved frontispiece which has a tissue guard and is followed by the title page. Persuasion has its own separate title page half way through the volume. This edition has particular significance as being among the first illustrated edition of the work. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $314
- $314
Tarka the Otter, by Henry Williamson
TUNNICLIFFE, Charles Frederick An original pen and pencil drawing on paper, 14 x 8.5 cm, sheet size 22 x 15 cm, measurements in pencil to verso, hinge-mounted. An unused design for the front cover of Henry Williamson's story, first published in 1927. The first illustrated edition with wood-engravings by Charles Tunnicliffe appeared in 1932. The artist and author worked closely together, and Tunnicliffe drew directly from many real settings.- $4,709
- $4,709
Wodwo.
HUGHES, Ted First edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Henry Williamson, three days before publication, 'To Henry / always with thanks / "We that are young / Shall never see so much nor live so long" / Only an owl knows the worth of an owl / from Ted / 15th May 1967'. 'He was three things to me', wrote Hughes in his memorial address for Williamson, 'First one, then two, and finally, late in his life, three.' It began with 'Tarka the Otter'. 'I was about eleven years old when I found it, and for the next year I read little else. I count it one of the great pieces of good fortune in my life. It entered into me and gave shape and words to my world, as no book ever has done since. I recognised even then, I suppose, that it is something of a holy book, a soul-book, written with the life blood of an unusual poet. What spellbound me, as I read, was a sensation I have never felt so acutely in any other book. I can only call it the feeling of actuality. The icy feeling of the moment of reality. On every page of 'Tarka' was some phrase, some event, some glimpse, that made the hair move on my head with that feeling. In the confrontation of creature and creature, of creature and object, of creature and fate - he made me feel the pathos of actuality in the natural world. 'Tarka' put my life under an enchantment that lasted for years, and that gradually crystallised into an ambition to write for myself, and to fasten that strange feeling, that eerie sense of the moment of reality, in my own sentences.' 'The second Henry I encountered later in a book entitled 'Patriot's Progress.' A novel closely drawn from Williamson's own experiences of the First World War, Hughes admired the quality of its writing, regarding it as 'one of the very best records of trench warfare'. The final Henry was the man himself, whom Hughes got to know when he was a little over thirty, and Williamson was in his sixties. 'Still spellbound by his magical book, albeit quite unconsciously, I had found myself living where I still live, on Tarka's river, the Taw, in the middle of Devon, and pretty soon I made contact with Henry.' For several years they met quite often. Despite 'terrible arguments about his politics', Hughes admired the untamed essence of Williamson's character. 'The tremendous energy that had driven him through all those long books was still there, at any moment of the day, a torrent of surprises. His demon had a black side, which gave him his bad hours, but that was the powerhouse of his writing, it connected him to the dark world of the elements. It was what pulsed through the best of his writing, and it was genuinely him, and it was beautiful. And for that, I, for one, loved him'. Hughes' full-page inscription is expressive of indebtedness and warm respect. The middle section quotes the final lines of 'King Lear' and is followed by Hughes' reference to a bird for whom Williamson felt a close affinity, often signing his name with an accompanying drawing of an owl, a pictorial device that he also employed on the binding or final page of his published books A very good copy with light offsetting to free end papers, in a very good dust jacket, which is slightly dust soiled on the rear panel, and with two short tears at head of spine.- $2,512
- $2,512
The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?
TROTSKY, Leon First edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. Signed and dedicated on the front free end page "To Mr John Finerty with best regards, Leon Trotsky, 13 April. 1937, Coyoacan". This work analysed and criticised the course of historical development in the Soviet Union following the death of Lenin in 1924 and is regarded as Trotsky's primary work dealing with the nature of Stalinism. The book was written by Trotsky during his exile in Norway. Finerty was the New York lawyer for Alexander Orlov, the KGB officer who defected to the United States during the Spanish Civil War. Orlov became aware of a possible KGB plot to assassinate Trotsky, who was then living in Mexico and attempted to contact Trotsky to warn him of the plan. It was later discovered that Trotsky believed Orlov's letter was a hoax perpetrated by the NKVD. Trotsky was finally assassinated on August 20, 1940. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket slight loss to head of spine which is also slightly faded and has some scattered staining to the back panel.- $4,395
- $4,395
Signed and dated Power of Attorney in his capacity as Trustee of the Estate of the late Cecil John Rhodes
KIPLING, Rudyard Signed and dated Power of Attorney in his capacity as Trustees of the late Cecil John Rhodes estate, relating to farms in Melsetter, part of Chimanimani District, in modern Zimbabwe. Also signed by fellow trustees Viscount Milner, Rt. Hon. Baron Lovat and Sir Otto Beit, dated 6th October 1919. Together a notaries letter certifying the signatures. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) and Cecil John Rhodes (1853 1902) were great friends, Kipling wrote a poem dedicated to Rhodes that was read at his funeral and Leander Starr Jameson, the subject of Kipling's "If", was introduced to Kipling by Rhodes. Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, (1854 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s. From December 1916 to November 1918, he was one of the most important members of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's War Cabinet. Major-General Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat (1871 1933), was a leading Roman Catholic aristocrat, landowner, forester, soldier, politician and the 23rd Chief of Clan Fraser. Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, (1865 1930) was born in Hamburg, Germany, He came to England in 1888, where he joined the stockbroking firm of Wernher, Beit & Co. In 1890 he left for South Africa to gain experience in the diamond industry. He remained for six years and played an active role in the development of Rand Gold Mines. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1896. He fell under the spell of Cecil Rhodes's imperialist vision and was his house-guest at the time of the Jameson Raid. On his return to London, he followed for a few years the career of stockbroker and continued with his interest in the mining industry. Otto was the younger brother of Alfred Beit (1853 1906) a gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia, and the Rhodes Scholarship, named after his employee, Cecil Rhodes. He took part in the planning and financing of the Jameson Raid. By 1910, the hardline imperialism that Kipling developed alongside his friendship with the colonial plunderer Cecil Rhodes meant that "his reputation was damaged, and would remain damaged". (The Economist). Two pages signed letter torn to top right corner and both documents with punch holes for filing.- $1,570
- $1,570
Ted Hughes: Waiting for T. S. Eliot
GILL, Lorraine Two original signed drawings by Lorraine Gill; 105 by 150mm, ink on paper. Both drawn on the evening of 29th November 1995 at St George's Church, Gloucester Road, London where Ted Hughes recited some of his favourite T. S. Eliot's poems. Additionally signed by Raymond Keene chess grandmaster and former British Chess Champion, Sir Brian Tovey KCMG who was director of GCHQ and his wife Mary Tovey. Also present at the event but were Tony Buzan (best-selling author and inventor of mind maps) and T. S. Eliot's widow, Valerie. Tony Buzan, Ray Keene, Brian Tovey and Lorraine Gill were friends with Ted Hughes, meeting at the Lavender Bar on Lavender Hill, London and at Tony's home in Henley. Those five were part of the training for the Liechtenstien Global Academies in 1994-1997 where Tony lectured on brain power and creativity, Ray lectured on mind sports, Brian on strategic thinking, Lorraine on art and perspective, and Ted, on poetry, but also Shakespeare and creativity. Lorraine Gill grew up in the Australian Bush influenced by the extremes of nature and the starkness of the environment and its vividly distinctive colours. She came to Europe in 1966 winning a Scholarship to City and Guilds of London culminating in a Scholarship to Florence, Italy. Her first One Woman show followed in 1972 in London. Her work has been written about extensively by John Berger who has followed her progress for forty years. She has also been featured in BBC films both on Cezanne and on her own life and work; she has also featured in books on remarkable women; 'Interview with the Muse' and the 'Wise Virgin'. Fine paper, a little browned.- $565
- $565
The 1922: The Story of the Conservative Backbenchers’ Parliamentary Committee
GOODHART, Philip, with Ursula Branston First edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Signed by the author and 15 other members of the 1922 Committee on 5th December 1974. Signatures of Edward du Cann, Charles Morrison, Geoffrey Finsberg, John Biffen, Paul Bryan, Peter Morrison, Mark Carlisle, Nigel Fisher, David Walder, Bernard Braine, Godman Irvine, Airey Neave and three others. Additionally inscribed on the publication page " To Bernard - with gratitude for your guidance in exciting tomes - Gerry M." Bernard is likely to be Bernard Weatherill, later speaker of the House. Philip Goodhart (1925-2014) served a record 19 years as a secretary of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, and wrote its history. His study provided insight but was too discreet to be a definitive assessment of that highly influential body.on title page.(Independent Obituary). Following Edward Heath's defeat in the October 1974 election he resolved to remain Conservative leader, and at first it appeared that by calling on the loyalty of his front-bench colleagues he might prevail. In the weeks following the election defeat, Heath came under tremendous pressure to concede a review of the rules with the 1922 Committee and agreed to establish a commission to propose changes and to seek re-election. There was no clear challenger to Heath but Margaret Thatcher joined the leadership contest aided by Airey Neave's campaigning among backbench MPs she emerged as the only serious challenger. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with bookplate to front pastedown.- $1,067
- $1,067
The German Prisoner
HANLEY, James Limited edition; 8vo; original red cloth, frontispiece by William Roberts and an introduction by Richard Aldington. This is number 243 of an edition of 500, signed and numbered by the author on the limitation page. This copy is additionally inscribed by the author on the front free end paper, " The order was passed down the line. PULL UP. More confusion, bubble of voices, whisperings, curses, threats. "What's the matter?" "Lost the Way" O'Garra shivered" for William Edward Hopkins with complements. James Hanley" Quotation taken from page 13 of the book. "Hanley's depictions of sexual violence contrast strongly with the portrayals of tender, romantic homosexual love and desire between soldiers, by other writers of the period. Indeed, such overt and detailed accounts of homosexual desire and sexual violence were exceedingly rare. Censorship rules around homosexual and violent content were severe at the time these books were published. 'The German Prisoner' was only produced as a luxury edition and privately printed to allow its content to bypass conventional publication laws and escape censorship". (National Musuems Liverpool). A fine copy.- $597
- $597