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Barbianus, M Vestrius (Dedication and Introduction by); Camillo Graffico; Antonio Tempesta; Francesco Villamena; Giacomo Luna; LABAA

Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII Pont. Max. iussu restitutum atque editum FULLY HAND-COLORED WITH 156 IN TEXT ENGRAVING AND WITH STRIKING PAINTED PAPER EDGES

1596ref. 39771Romae Rome: Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum 1596. First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Folio 15 1/4 x 10 3/4". 8 705 1pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped calf with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Striking floral design painting to paper edges with head of Christ on fore-edge. Engraved title by Francesco Villamena. Title page in red and black lettering and highlighted in gold. Decorative initials and tailpiece. Dedication to Pope Clement VIII by M. Vestrius Barbianus the Papal secretary. Printer's device on last page. Illustrated with no less than 156 magnificent hand-colored in-text engravings this monumental work is the official and complete liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the offices for sacramental and other sacred acts and ceremonies such as baptism communion confirmation ordination matrimony dedication of churches altars bells benediction of crosses sacred vestures burials coronations etc. Also includes numerous liturgical motets in Latin for Masses Te Deum and other religious ceremonies. All the engravings as well as the decorative initials and the printer's device at rear have been splendidly handcolored by a contemporary previous owner. Binding rubbed along edges. Covers detached but present. Title page repaired and re-laid. The first 24 leaves are disbound. Pages 15 to 30 heavily sunned with sporadic holes thus partly affecting text and some illustrations. Minor to moderate age-toning along paper margin for the remaining pages. Text in Latin. Binding in overall poor pages 15-30 in poor to fair the remaining pages in good to very good condition. Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum hardcover books

Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller · Estados UnidosUS$ 20.000,00≈ € 17.833,26

Bucklin Moon; African American LiteratureABAA

African American Literature: Bucklin Moon's The Darker Brother and the Great Migration to Harlem 1949

1949ref. 188141949. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother 1949 brought Moon's 1943 novel of a Black Florida family's migration to Harlem into the postwar mass-market paperback trade centering the racial discrimination Ben encounters after moving North. The novel follows Ben from Florida to Harlem where expectations of greater freedom confront housing employment and interpersonal racism; his later military service returns him to the segregated South. Published originally during World War II the narrative placed these experiences within the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities and the persistence of racial discrimination beyond the Jim Crow South. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother. New York City: Bantam Books November 1949. Bantam edition. First paperback printing. 246 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. 8vo. No dust jacket as issued. The front wrapper depicts Ben and his fiancée Birdie on a Harlem street confronted by a white man clutching papers with buildings and street activity visible behind them. Red blue and gold dominate the illustration. Across the upper margin appears the publisher's line "He came up North for freedom and got---Harlem!" The rear wrapper announces "Born the Wrong Color" in red lettering and summarizes Ben's experiences of racial prejudice. The cover's language and confrontation scene recast Moon's novel for the postwar paperback market by emphasizing racial conflict as its principal selling point. First published by Doubleday Doran in 1943 The Darker Brother follows Ben his mother and sister from Florida to Harlem and traces the consequences of racial violence and discrimination as Ben searches for work plans a future with Birdie and enters military service. Contemporary reviews recognized race relations as the novel's central subject while Moon continued addressing racial discrimination in A Primer for White Folks 1945 and The High Cost of Prejudice 1947. The 1949 Bantam edition is particularly revealing for the history of African American representation in popular publishing: its wrapper converts a novel about Black migration and racism into the visual and promotional vocabulary of the mid-century paperback juxtaposing the promise of northern freedom with the publisher's stark Harlem street scene. Minor creasing to the lower right corner of the front wrapper and minor chipping to the spine neither affecting text or illustration; internally clean and overall very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · Estados UnidosUS$ 225,00≈ € 200,62

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