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1953réf. 000662New York: Etting Emlen Self Published 1953. Soft cover. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11. Etting Emlen. Emlen Etting's unpublished translation original manuscript with his 6 watercolor drawings for that of Rainer Maria Rilke's prose poen The Song of Love and Death of Standard-Bearer Christoph Rilke Cornet Christoph Rilke. Typed manuscript title page 28 pp. dated 1953 with pencil ms. emendations and six original erotic ink and water-color illustrations by noted painter Emlen Etting signed. The manuscript is typed on standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper while the water-color illustrations are on the verso of blank letterhead of the Philadelphia chapter of the Artists Equity Association of which Etting was at the time Chairman that paper being watermarked parchment stationery. Includes original shipping envelope see images. An unpublished translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's prose poem 1899 of war love and sex and the surreal but heroic death of Christoph Rilke in the seventeenth century accompanied by what would have been its erotic illustrations. Slumbering nudes mortally wounded heroes in the buff and love-making couples appear to be thematically revised as proofs. The original manila envelope in which all this was contained is included addressed from Etting at his Philadelphia address to himself in care of Midtown Galleries in New York City and says in part "6 Preparatory Sketches for 'Lovers' / Rilke's Song of Love and Death of the Standard-Bearer". Rilke's singular prose poem published as part of other titles but apparently never separately was by the name Cornet Christoph Rilke's Song of Love and Death and other variants the basis of an opera by Siegfried Matthus a symphony by Viktor Ullmann and other artistic treatments. Etting's translation here carries alternately and sometimes together stark surreal dreamlike melodic and poetic tone presumably true to the Rilke original the reading of which in its original language I am incapable. In any case here it is deeply and strangely moving in its own right. I found myself reading it aloud as if it were a play. Title sheet of manuscript slightly torn at top see scan; some see- through from verso of the water-colors. Overall better than very good. Not bound. A - somehow - spooky feeling pervades this set IMO. Ain't but one like this. LG-1 Etting, Emlen (Self Published) paperback
1922réf. 204721922. Full Limp Red Calf. Slipcase -- marbled paper pastedown on all sides other than opening. Chemise or inner folder -- thick glossy card stock all sides other than that has red calf with title label. Emily Swinton. Magnificent illuminated manuscript version of the Rubaiyat or some verses from the Rubaiyat. The illuminated borders are singular -- their design is unlike that we are familiar with and not even vaguely similar to anything we have ever seen produced by a latter-day illuminator professional or amateur. Their tracery is of blues greens reds some yellow in a few instances and not least the all important gilt. The illuminator surely was paying homage to some Islamic and Persian illumination in her palette but overall these sources are but influences; the illuminations are far from merely imitative. The design pulls you in and as one gazes longer one will discover small figurative imagery woven into the lines and swirls of the larger ornamentation. Words are beyond us to come close to capturing their complexity and character -- our photos hopefully will impart something of that. Let us just say the colors are deep and bold. Within these extraordinary borders is the calligraphic text rendered in a stunning easily legible Gothic Fraktur script. And there are four dream-like miniature watercolors as well of scenic Persian villages. N.d. circa early 1920s. 4to. 28.5 by 19 cm. Unpaginated 14 leaves with illumination -- illumination on one side. The back side of the leaf then left blank. Tissue guards for each page with illumination. The first leaf has no text -- it is a rectangular abstract design suggestive perhaps of a spectacular rug and inspired by such illuminated painting as one finds in many an antiquarian Koran. The next leaf is the title page with the words appearing to float on the page. The lettering has a distinctive verticality and the gilt letters are both clearly the letters they are supposed to be but have an abstraction that one can imagine they are Arabic script as well. The last two leaves with a more restrained formalistic illumination has evenly spaced dome-shaped pointers as one finds in Koranic decoration to highlight important passages. The binding slipcase and chemise are functional but don't really do the contents justice. Other than some crease marks on the calf and light wear overall to these protective features the binding and slipcase present no issues. unknown
réf. 28012Paris Le Livre de Plantin 1927 grand in 4 1 fort volume reliure plein maroquin marron, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, filet doré sur les coupes, sur la partie interne du plat supérieur est inséré un cuivre original (plaque) dans un encadrement de maroquin rouge orné de 2 filets dorés et d'un filet à froid, gardes de soie moirée rouge, couverture conservée, 335 pages [1], quelques pâles rousseurs éparses, chemise de demi maroquin marron à bandes assortie, étui bordé. Très belle reliure signée de Toumanianz (actif des années 30 jusqu'en 1952). Ouvrage illustré de 41 eaux-fortes par le peintre et graveur Lobel-Riche (illustrated with 41 original etchings by Alméry Lobel-Riche). Tirage limité à 197 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci un des 25 exemplaires numérotés sur japon ancien comprenant: 1°/ l'eau-forte pure des 20 hors-texte; 2°/ l'état en noir avec remarques; 3°/ l'état en couleurs avec remarques; 4°/ l'état noir des lettrines avec remarques; 5°/ Une épreuve du frontispice avec sa remarque (portrait d'Edgar-Allan Poe; 6°/ L'état terminé, plus un beau dessin à pleine page (dessin à la sanguine et crayon signé de Lobel-Riche) et un cuivre originaux (original pencil drawing, signed by the artist, and one original copper plate). Bel exemplaire. Superbe et rare reliure signée de Toumanianz ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) colis 6 kilogrammes
1932réf. 058083London Uk: Emery Walker Wilfrid Merton And Bruce Rogers 1932. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. One Of The Most Famously Well Produced Books Of The 20Th Century. Unpaginated One Of 530 Copies Only. Bound In Full Black Niger Morocco With Top Edges Gilts And Gilt Spine Lettering Deckled Edges. Printed On Special Paper Made By J. Barcham Greem & Son In 16-Point Monotype Centaur. There Are 26 Decorations Of Homeric Figures From Greek Vase-Paintings That Are Printed In Black On Roundels Of Gold Leaf That At The Head Of Each Book And On The Title Page. Several Of The Original Loose Tissue Guards Are Present. Lacking The Slipcase. Slight Usage To Covers. Endpapers Darkened In Half-Inch Strips Along Edges From Turns As Usual. Emery Walker, Wilfrid Merton And Bruce Rogers hardcover
réf. 8017Barcelona: Ediciones Grijalbo S.A. 1978. First Spanish Edition. First Impression wrappered issue. Two octavo volumes 19cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 67-5951; v596-11113pp. Each volume has been signed by Pynchon in black pen on the half-title page. Light wear to extremities hint of sunning and some mild spotting to spines with some light scattered foxing to rear wrappers inner covers and text edges; Very Good or slightly better. Second translation into any language of Pynchon's third and best-known book "a sprawling slipstream novel about a World War II psychological warfare unit full of weird characters one of whom seems to be determining the pattern of V-2 rocket attacks by his sexual activities but refuses to submit to study and possible control" Barron Anatomy of Wonder II-885. One of the defining books of the 1970s and a novel that redefined the postmodern novel. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974 and selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1973 though no award was given for fiction that year. Rare signed. Provenance: From the collection of Gail M. Sweeney b.1951 Pynchon's friend and former housemate in both Manhattan Beach and Eureka California between 1969-1971 with whom he maintained a lengthy correspondence between early 1972-2006. Mead D3b. Ediciones Grijalbo, S.A. unknown
réf. 16910Paris, Vascosan, 1567-1574. 14 vol. in-12, [40]-545 pp. + 546-1170 pp.+ 1171-1784 pp. + 1785-2474 pp. + 2475-3263 pp. + 3264-3932, 150 pp. + [12]-336 ff. + 337-624 ff. + 625-924 ff. + 340 ff. + 341-624 ff. + 625-834-[2] ff. + non paginé + 581-[13] pp., veau blond postérieur, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné de caissons et filets dorés, pièce de titre noir, pièce de tomaison rouge, tranches dorées, plats de vélin d'une reliure antérieure conservée, orné d'un médaillon et de filets dorés( f. Kkkk relié dans le désordre au vol. 6 des Oeuvres mêlée, petits manques aux reliures).
1983réf. 102764The Hague; Nijhoff. New. 1983. Hardcover. 9024727413 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - Corresponds to ISBN: 9024727413. Text in English. Volume 1: The Text; Volume 2: Catalogues; Volume 3 : The Plates. One Two Three 1 2 3 I Il Ill Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee The Hague; Nijhoff hardcover
1973réf. 83995PHAIDON PRESS LTD ENGLAND. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 687 pages 228 illus. 84 in color 612 reference illustrations large square 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1973. PHAIDON PRESS LTD (ENGLAND) hardcover
1663réf. 195824London: Thomas Roycroft 1663. First folio edition of Ogilby's translation of Virgil's works. Fine Binding. First Folio Edition of Ogilby's translation of Virgil's works magnificently illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Ogilby double-page map of Greece and Italy and 100 splendid full-page copper-engraved plates. With a frontispiece portrait of Virgil by Cleyn after Lombart engraved portrait of Ogilby by Faithorne after Lilly folding map opp. P. 117 and 101 full-page engravings by W. Hollar W. Faithorne and P. Lombart after designs by F. Cleyn. Folio 392 x 257 mm bound in near-contemporary French brown morocco spine gilt à la groteque marbled edges a. E. G. London: Roycroft 1663. One of the very few notable English illustrated books of the Restoration period "a great folio with plates dedicated to noble patrons by Pierre Lombart" Pollard Great Books p. 289. This elaborate English production was much admired by the French: "Belle édition exécutée en gros caractères. Elle est recommandable par le grand nombre et la qualité des gravures dont elle a été ornée. Ces gravures on été faites par le plus habiles artistes de ce tems Hollar et autres au depens de différens Seigneurs d'Angleterre." De Bure no. 2686. Thiscopy was no doubt bound in France at an early date possibly for "Claude Le Muet Lemuet Tresorier de Legle d'Auxerre" whose name is inscribed on p. 95 it was erased from the title-page. Ogilby's Latin edition of Virgil was first published in 1658; the illustrations first appeared in his second English translation of Virgil in 1654. The above work which is described by Brueggemann as a "Splendidum opus forma augusta contains the Bucolics Georgics and Aeneid. As Lowndes has shown copies of Ogilby's Latinedition of Virgil were prized by such noteworthy collectors as Towneley the Marquis of Townshend La Valliere Count MacCarthy Reagh Hibbert and the Duke of Roxburghe. The engravings were executed by Wenceslaus Hollar William Faithorne and Pierre Lombart after designs by Franz Cleyn. Cleyn 1590 Rostock- 1658 London was for some time in the employment of Christian IV King of Denmark. He worked as an artist in Rome for four years after which time he embarked to London where he served as an artist in the court of James I and until the Civil War Charles I. This is a choice copy all the more remarkable owing to the fact that seventeenth-century English books almost never survive in tolerable condition. Furthermore very few English books of the period were so grandly illustrated as here. Frontispiece mounted; inscription on lower blank portion of final leaf excised. An extremely attractive copy from the Ambrose Firmin Didot collection with leather book-label.; Folio - over 12" - 15" ta. Thomas Roycroft unknown
1669réf. 195823London: James Flesher 1669. Folio Edition. Fine Binding. A rare early edition of John Ogilby's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey. Beautifully illustrated throughout both voumes. Volumes Very Good in decorative boards. A scarce early edition of John Ogilby's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Ogilby full page engraved scene of Ancient Rome and 48 plates to the Iliad and a frontispiece and 24 plates to the Odyssey. Translated into English with extensive notes by Ogilby to the outer margins.; Folio - over 12" - 15" ta. James Flesher unknown
564pp, recto blanc Marque typographique au tit, Lettrinesavec bois gravé pour chaque changement de lettre.
