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1933Best.-Nr. 34571New York: Street & Smith Publications Inc. 1933-1949. Tanning to pages of all some minor losses throughout front and back covers present bindings are bright with the exception of volumes 10-13 which are quite faded. All issues trimmed for binding. Overall the magazines are very good to nearly fine. The complete list report upon request. Note for shipping extra funds required. 34571. Octavo thirty-two volumes pictorial wrappers uniformly bound in green cloth. A complete file of 181 issues in bound volumes. Doc Savage was a precursor to the modern super hero. Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. was trained from birth with a rigorous regimen resulting in extraordinary strength and intelligence. He never killed unless necessary he had scientific gadgets a headquarters and a secret base a fortress of solitude. The stories combined mystery adventure and some science fiction. He also had a team of five experts in various fields to assist in his adventures. His stories were extremely popular during the pulp era and then found a new audience in the 1960s-70s when the series was reprinted in paperback. The novels were written using the house pseudonym of Kenneth Robeson the main author was Lester Dent who wrote nearly 80% of the novels. Other author contributors as Robeson included William Bogart Alan Hathway Harold Davis Laurence Donovan and W. Ryerson Johnson. There were many excellent contributors to the short stories which rounded out the magazine with authors such as Steve Fisher E. Hoffman Price Q. Patrick John D. MacDonald Bruno Fischer Frank Herbert William Lindsay Gresham to name a few. Street and Smith publishing executive Henry Ralston and editor John Nanovic established the initial idea for Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. - .a brawny 'superman' a master of many fields-surgeon mineralogist engineer inventor linguist. His skin was a glowing bronze.his hair was a matching hue and so too his eyes resembling gold flake. He would be known as the Man of Bronze."- Server Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers p.81. "Doc Savage was intended to be an adventure character but under Lester Dent's imaginative manipulations he became something more - the first superhero and an inspiration for countless pulp comic-book and television characters." - Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. "The enormously wealthy Doc Savage – headquartered in a fantasticated New York with his five sidekicks who specialize in various crafts and sciences at the borderline of sf – devotes his life to combating criminal conspiracies almost all masterminded by the kind of charismatic villain later given definitive form by Ian Fleming in the James Bond books. Doc Savage himself clearly influenced the creation of Superman." - SFE online. A note on artists Walter Baumhofer contributed the initial look to the character with his striking cover painting through late 1936. Other artists include Robert George Harris Emery Clarke Modest Stein and George Rozen. An ideal collection for an institution. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 183-185. Street & Smith Publications, Inc. unknown
1591Best.-Nr. 1521En Anveres Antwerp: En l’Oficina Plantiniana Cerca la Biuda Iuan Moreto widow of Plantin and Jan Moretus 1591. First Plantin edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Title on spine lettered in ink. Edges tinted in red. Roman type. 20 verse lines and headline. Large floriated and historiated woodcut initials ornamental tailpieces printer's device at the end. A few stains on the binding rear panel rubbed at lower left corner. Title page artistically restored at the lower margin with no effect on the text. Last leaf O4 cut the residual part mounted on pastedown. Inside clean illustrations are sharp the margins wide. An attractive copy in fine condition. Illustrated with an engraved title vignette of a knight on horseback with background and 20 full-page etchings attributed to Pieter van der Borcht. Illustrated with an engraved title vignette of a knight on horseback with background and 20 full-page etchings attributed to Pieter van der Borcht. First Plantin edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Title on spine lettered in ink. Edges tinted in red. Roman type. 20 verse lines and headline. Large floriated and historiated woodcut initials ornamental tailpieces printer's device at the end. 8º: –8 A–N8 O4 O4 blank its residual part mounted to pastedown; 32 208 8 p. Scarce illustrated Spanish edition the first by Plantin of La Marche’s allegorical work Le chevalier délibéré. A beautiful 16th-century edition of this popular allegory with the suite of twenty-one splendid etchings attributed to Pieter van der Borcht. Translated into Spanish by Hernando de Acuna c.1520–1580 the much-esteemed poet and translator of the Spanish Golden Age. Le chevalier délibéré is the most important poetic work of Olivier de La Marche 1422–1502 the Burgundian courtier poet and chronicler “a didactic poem describing a knight's search for salvation through the vehicle of a quest. At first he is impulsive leaving his house par une soudaine achoison on the spur of the moment. He is started along the way by Thought who brings him to a realization of his soul's unprepared state and who acquaints him with the encounters he must face with the henchmen of Atropos Goddess of Death: Accident and Debility. The knight as Author is befriended by the hermit Understanding and eventually arrives at the house of Study where Fresh Memory begins his real instruction.” Caroll 1999. USTC 440151; Imhof M-5; Brunei 111:782; Hollstein Dutch 111:106 473–493; Palau VII 130356. Bibliography: Caroll C. W. ed.: Olivier de La Marche. Le Chevalier delibere The Resolute Knight. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. Volume 199. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1999. p. 4. Imhof D.: Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press. A Bibliography of the Works published and printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp 1589–1610. Vol. I. A–M. Leiden: Brill 2014. pp. 437–438. . En l’Oficina Plantiniana, Cerca la Biuda, Iuan Moreto [widow of Plantin and Jan Moretus] unknown
1923Best.-Nr. 32048Chicago: Rural Publishing Corporation 1923. Text paper tanned but supple light edge wear creasing closed tear to right front edge paper loss at spine ends not affecting title lettering or date cover appears to have been separated and re-glued small loss at upper and lower left corners a good copy. 32048. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. The first issue of this important 20th century magazine. Includes stories by Anthony M. Rud Otis Adelbert Kline R.T.M. Scott Joel Townsley Rogers Howard Ward and many others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Rural Publishing Corporation unknown
1504Best.-Nr. 5444Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa June 1504. THIRD OR FOURTH EDITION of the two editions of 1504 priority has not been determined. THE FIRST TO BE EDITED BY LUCA GAURICO. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum. Title with large woodcut showing the author in his study surrounded by books lecturing his students one of whom takes notes. Sessa's cat-and-mouse printer's device appears on the same leaf.The text is illustrated with 77 woodcut diagrams. A very fine copy crisp and bright. There is a very light stain on the title page a bit of soiling in the gutter of leaf A3 and a discreet paper repair to the fore-edge of the final leaf. "The 'Perspectiva communis' was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject" DSB. It was first printed in Milan around 1482 then in 1503 it was included in a collection by Thomas Bradwardine "Praeclarissimum mathematicarum opus"Valencia. This 1504 edition the first edited by Luca Gaurico can be considered the third although another edition of the pre-Gaurico version was also published in 1504 at Leipzig. A mathematician from Naples and teacher of Scaliger Gaurico who also edited the works of Archimedes and Ptolemy completely revised the text. "The work on which Pecham's fame has chiefly rested is the Perspectiva communis probably written between 1277 and 1279 during Pecham's professorship at the papal curia. In the first book Pecham discussed the propagation of light and color the anatomy and physiology of the eye the act of visual perception physical requirements for vision the psychology of vision and the errors of direct vision. In book II he discussed vision by reflected rays and presented a careful and sophisticated analysis of image formation by reflection. Book III was devoted to the phenomena of refraction the rainbow and the Milky Way. "The central feature of Pecham's optical system and the dominant theme of book I of the 'Perspectiva communis' is the theory of direct vision. Here as elsewhere Pecham endeavored to reconcile all the available authorities-Aristotle Euclid Augustine al-Kindi Ibn al-Haytham Ibn Rushd Grosseteste and Bacon. Following Ibn al-Haytham Pecham argued that the emission of visual rays from the observer's eye is neither necessary nor sufficient as an explanation of sight; the primary agent of sight is therefore the ray coming to the eye from a point on the visible object. But in an attempt to follow Aristotle al-Kindi and Grosseteste as well Pecham argued that visual rays do nevertheless exist and perform the important but not always necessary function of moderating the luminous rays from the visible object and making them "commensurate with the visual power." Thus Pecham like Bacon resolved the age-old debate between the emission and intromission theories of vision in favor of a twofold radiation although to be sure priority was given to rays issuing from the visible object. "The rays issuing from points on the visible object fall perpendicularly onto the cornea and penetrate without refraction to the sensitive ocular organ the glacial humor or crystalline lens; nonperpendicular rays are weakened by refraction and therefore can be largely ignored. Since only one perpendicular ray issues from each point of the visible object and the collection of such perpendicular rays maintains a fixed order between the object and the eye a one-to-one correspondence is established between points on the object and points on the glacial humor and unconfused perception of the visual field is thus achieved. Vision is not "completed" however in the glacial humor. There is a further propagation of the rays or species through the vitreous humor and optic nerve to the common nerve where species from the two eyes combine and eventually to the anterior part of the brain and the "place of interior judgment." "Pecham's optical system included significantly more than a theory of direct vision. He briefly discussed the doctrine of species; treated at length the propagation of rays; and developed a theory to explain how solar radiation when passing through noncircular apertures gives rise to circular images. He expressed the full law of reflection and applied it to image formation by plane spherical cylindrical and conical mirrors; in this analysis he revealed an implicit understanding of the nature of the focal point of a concave mirror. Although he did not possess a mathematical law of refraction he successfully applied the general qualitative principles of refraction to the images that result from refraction at plane and circular interfaces between transparent media of various densities. In his discussion of the rainbow Pecham again attempted to reconcile different theories. He argued that all three kinds of rays rectilinear reflected and refracted concur in the generation of the rainbow. "Pecham's 'Perspectiva communis' is still extant in more than sixty manuscripts and went through twelve printed editions including a translation into Italian between 1482 and 1665. It was used and cited by many medieval and Renaissance natural philosophers including Dominicus de Clavasio Henry of Langenstein Blasius of Parma Lorenzo Ghiberti Leonardo da Vinci Albert Brudzewski Francesco Maurolico Giambattista della Porta Girolamo Fabrici Johannes Kepler Willebroad Snellius and G. B. Riccioli. It was lectured upon in the late Middle Ages at the universities of Vienna Prague Paris Leipzig Cracow Würzburg Alcala and Salamanca."DSB. Giovanni Battista Sessa, June hardcover
1944Best.-Nr. 28504New York: Scribner's 1944. SIGNATURE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC Personally SIGNED BY RAYMOND CHANDLER & DATED on Blank Endpapers Hollywood MARCH 30 1944 IN FRONT OF BOOK Written BY BEN HECHT A Guide for the Bedeviled Chandler also added "From // Dr. Sam Hirshfeld" on Endpapers BOOK Written BY BEN HECHT HARDBACK NODustjacket NOJACKET BK GOOD CONDITION 1944 SIGNED BY RAYMOND CHANDLER & DATED Hollywood MARCH 30 1944 IN FRONT OF BOOK BY BEN HECHT A Guide for the Bedeviled GREEN CLOTH LIGHT RUB WEAR Hirshfeld was a Hollywood physician active in the 1940's and a good friend of Hecht's & CHANDLER - he is mentioned in "Harpo Speaks" as attending a Marx dinner with Hecht and Hecht gave his funeral oratory. The cloth boards are worn and the dust jacket is missing. Interior sound. BOOK Written BY BEN HECHT . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. New York: Scribner's hardcover
Best.-Nr. 564j1357New York: The Viking Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670303097 . Superlative provenance for this copy which is signed and inscribed by Bemelmans to "Freddy" short for Fredric March upon half-title. On opposite page is the bookplate of Florence and Fredric March. "Fredric March 1897-1975 was an American actor regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. He won two Academy Awards a Golden Globe Award and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards. March and his wife starred as the General and Miss Graves in the 1950 Broadway production of Bemelmans' play Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. Ludwig Bemelmans 1898-1962 was a renowned Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children's books and adult novels." - Wikipedia. 312 p. Color Bemelmans illustration upon endpapers. Somewhat above-average wear to original khaki cloth. Slight spine lean. Cup ring on front board. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now in glossy new archival protection. An very special example. Pomerance A10a. ; Endpapers; 8vo; Signed by Author . The Viking Press hardcover
17905 voll. in-4, pp. XL, 296; VII, 312; VII, 340; VII, 296; VIII, 303, bella leg. m. perg. coeva, c. dec. ai piatti, tass. al d. e tagli spruzzati. Rara opera che si ferma al V tomo (tutto il pubblicato). Rara opera presente in sole 15 biblioteche italiane secondo l'indice ICCU. Lozzi II n. 3592: scrive dal catalogo Bocca "Opera rara anzi rarissima pregevole e assai ricercata". [030]
17512 gr. voll. in folio, pp. XXIII, 472; (4), 356, CXIX, bella leg. cart. rust. coevo con tit. mss al d. Tagli spruzzati. Con una tav. in rame ripiegata al primo front. raff. l'arco romano di Fano dis. e inc. da A. Magini. Lozzi 1560. Biblioteca Picena, p. 102. Splendido e marginoso esempl. [223]
17512 gr. vol. in folio, pp. XXIII, 472; (4), 356, CXIX, leg. cart. alla rust. coevo. Importante storia di Fano molto lodata dal Ranghiasci anche per le notizie storiche sulle località e città vicine. Lozzi 1560. Raro. Lievi gore e qualche traccia di umidità ma ottimo esempl. a larghi margini in barbe. [361]
1700Quattro grossi volumi di cm. 26, pp. 2.000 ca. complessive. Con moltissime illustrazioni e tavole f.t. incise in rame. Legature coeva in mezza pelle, dorsi lisci con fregi e titoli in oro su tasselli. Esemplari spesso slegati e con qualche traccia d'uso alle legature, ma internamente ben conservati e completi. Importante testimonianza del lavoro che Olivieri degli Abbati compì come storico, soprattutto di cose pesaresi. La presente raccolta fu composta nel settecento e vi compaiono varie note manoscritte che spesso rivelano una certa, erudita competenza e sono poste a correzione e completamento del testo. Allegati pure vari fogli manoscritti di mano coeva. Non ci azzardiamo ad ipotizzare che il tutto appartenesse proprio all'Aolvieri degli Abbati, ma sicuramente ad uno storico marchigiano del tempo. Fra le opere presenti: Memorie della Badia di S. Tommaso in Foglia nel contado di Pesaro; Memorie di Alessandro Sforza Signore di Pesaro; Memorie di Gradara Castello di Pesaro; Memorie del porto di Pesaro; Memorie di Novilara; Memorie per la storia della chiesa pesarese del secolo XII; Dell'antico battistero della Chiesa pesarese; Della zecca di Pesaro; della fondazione di Pesaro; ecc...
1950Best.-Nr. 32953Sydney: Associated General Publications later Transport Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. 1950-52. Some toning to text paper issue 12 is very good the rest nearly fine or better. A very attractive set. Scarce. 32953. Octavo later small octavo 23 issues pictorial wrappers side stapled. Pulp 1-12 and later digest 13-23 sized magazine. All published. This was Australia's first SF pulp magazine it was in the vein of U.S. pulp magazine 1920-30s. Many of the stories were produced under pseudonyms artwork contributors included Stanley Pitt and Ray Cavanagh. It did not last in large part due to higher quality material appearing from overseas imports. This magazine also published a number of stories by Australias first female SF author N. K. Hemming Norma. Reference: Blackford et al. Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction pp. 64-65. Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 672-74. Tuck 1982 p. 601. Associated General Publications, later Transport Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. unknown
17512 volumi in folio (mm 320x220), pp. VIII, XXIII, (1), 472; (4), 356, CXIX, (1); legatura coeva piena pergamena, titoli manoscritti ai dorsi. Le "Memorie" sono narrate in ordine cronologico dalle origini al 1751, si concludono con una appendice contenente l'Elenco di tutti i vescovi della città di Fano, una "Raccolta di tutte le bolle, brevi, diplomi, lettere, privilegi, instrumenti, che si citano, distribuita per ordine cronologico" e una raccolta di "Iscrizioni antiche trovate in diversi tempi nella città di Fano, e nel suo Distretto, con alcun'altre, che alla medesima appartengono". Prima edizione di questa non comune storia di Fano, fornisce interessanti notizie anche sulle località limitrofe. Bell'esemplare fresco e marginoso.. .
1970Best.-Nr. 81746Silver Spring MD: James B. Johnson 1970. Archive consisting of 70 original double-weight silver gelatin photographs. Forty-seven 47 measuring 8" x 10" and twenty-three 23 measuring 14" x 11". Many though not all bear the photographer's rubber-stamp on verso James B. Johnson 2200 Dennis Ave. Silver Spring MD. a few bearing brief holograph captions or codes in red and black ink. Light wear to extremities subtle curling to the edges and a few photos with tiny creases to the corners; overall Very Good. A substantial group of images documenting the April 4 1970 "March For Victory" in Washington DC. This march and the victory marches that followed were organized by the Rev. Carl McIntire 1906-2002 and his wife Fairy who were fundamentalist ministers radio evangelists and founders of the International Council of Christian Churches ICCC and American Council of Christian Churches ACCC. The April 4th march drew close to 50000 protestors - the era's largest pro-war demonstration - and was stridently against the "Vietnamization" of the war which McIntire viewed as a sign of retreat and running away from America's duty to fight communism. The march was to take place from Capitol Hill down Pennsylvania Avenue and conclude at the base of the Washington Monument. "Rather than the usual college-age protesters known for demonstrating against the war the Victory March's attendees were largely middle aged and elderly featuring contingents of World War I World War II and Korean War veterans as well as Cuban exiles and members of the National Socialist White People's Party.The demonstrators carried signs and banners saying "Nixon is a No-Win Swine" "In God We Trust" and "Marxism is Jewish" as well as Confederate and American flags and many wore "Wallace for President" hats.While the war was the main point of contention the masses demonstrated for and against a plethora of other issues including support for prayer in school to stop bussing programs designed to desegregate schools and just generally against "secular universities and hippies and yippies everywhere" Mednick Avi. Blog post: "The Silent Majority Storm The National Mall." Boundary Stones: WETA's Local History Website 03/02/2017. Georgia governor Lester Maddox was present and spoke at the rally at the Washington Monument; by the time he spoke the counter-protesters who had been showing up all day outnumbered the Victory Marchers. The images in this archive capture both sides of the march. Carl and Fairy McIntire appear holding a Bible and an American flag with their followers and their children shown marching carrying flags and signs seated on the Washington Mall and stomping on North Vietnamese flags. Numerous images of the counter-protesters are present carrying signs American and North Vietnamese flags passing out flowers dancing a few covered in decorative paint and seated with instruments with a number of photos showing hippies disrobing or fully naked bathing in the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. We have been able to ascertain little about the photographer aside from his name and that he was a member of the Silver Spring Camera Club. A striking group of images documenting the intersection of the "Silent Majority" and the anti-war movement. 81746. James B. Johnson unknown
1963Best.-Nr. List918Washington 1963. Felt pennant measuring 11 ½ x 23 inches. A particularly fine example with two small chips to white felt at border and slightest rubbing to the "f" in "for all" else fine. Fine. A striking large and apparently unrecorded pennant from the 1963 March on Washington with Lincoln's profile under the Capitol dome and the caption "Let's All Join for Equality Now For All Americans / They Shall Not Have Died in Vain."Various banners were produced for the event we find a single record Swann Galleries African-Americana sale 2562 lot 163 of this particular version which is larger than any others and to our knowledge the only one with Lincoln's likeness. unknown books
1757in 8°, (19x13) cm, rilegatura coeva in piena pergamena, titolo in oro incorniciato al dorso; p. (16), 672. Complessivamente 70 tavole di cui: antiporta, 3 grandi carte geografiche più volte ripiegate e 66 belle incisioni di vedute di città ripiegate più volte fuori testo. Bell'esemplare raro da trovarsi completo di tutte le tavole
1540in folio, ccnn 6, cn 78, leg. ottocentesca m. pelle con carta dec. ai piatti e tit. oro mss al d. Bel front. a due colori entro elaborata e ricca cornice xilogr. Lozzi 311: "Questa edizione rara secondo il Manzoni è da considerarsi come princeps per le importanti 'Additionibus' e trovasi esattamente descritta dal Raffaelli...". Restauro parziale perfettamente eseguito al verso del front. Belliss. esempl. marginoso e ottimamente conservato. [222]
1800Animata veduta della cittadina di Ascoli Piceno, nelle Marche. L'opera è attribuita a Fabre Francois Xavier (1766 - 1837) che già da giovanissimo si dimostrò particolarmente dotato nel campo delle arti. Nel 1781, a soli 15 anni si mise in luce all'Exposition de Montpellier, Costeau, il suo primo maestro, lo raccomandò a Vien e a David e proprio nei loro ateliers continuerà i suoi studi. Sarà "pensionnaire du Roi" a Roma, e dopo aver trascorso un anno a Napoli si trasferirà in Firenze dove divenne Professore della Scuola di Belle Arti, sarà questo il periodo in cui eseguì il maggior numero di lavori.Rif: Benezit, "Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs...", vol IV, p. 237
1724gr. vol. in folio, pp. (10), 148, bella leg. p. pelle coeva con nervi e fregi al d. Antip. allegorica inc. in rame da P. Masini su dis. di P. L. Ghezzi. Front. a due colori con gr. vignetta in rame raffigurante veduta prospettica della città di Urbino. Dedicat. a Giacomo III con gr. testat. in rame con lo stemma araldico. Capilett. e gr. final. in rame. Con 146 tavv. numerate e una tav. non numerata raff. la topografia del territorio di Urbino. Manca il ritratto. Ediz. orig. Lozzi 5717: “Ranghiasci ne dice autore Annibale Albani e ne celebra la munificenza dell’edizione e ne loda i pregi storici....”. Ranghiasci p. 283.1. Manca a Moranti, Bibliografia Urbinate. Fossati Bellani III, 3624 cita una copia senza ritratto e carta topografica. Legg. tracce di usura alla pelle della leg. Bell’esempl. a larghi margini e su carta forte. [302]
1915Best.-Nr. 2091202132802490Not Available 1915. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Not Available paperback
1835Best.-Nr. 5845C. Van Benthuysen; George H. Evans; 1835 1840 1841 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 5 vols bound into contemporary cloth 7.25 x 4.63 inches frontispiece 202; 2; vii-viii ix-xxv 1; 4; frontispiece 4 126; 122; 74 pages. Excised leaf of an advertisement also laid in. First American editions of the Bible of Nature and of the Opus Maximum. Walking Stewart articulated a materialist philosophy of Nature which combined elements of pantheism with yogic notions of a single indissoluble consciousness. These early American imprints must have been read by the New England transcendentalists but I don't recall seeing Stewart discussed in the major biographies of Emerson or Thoreau. In any event the similarity is striking for example to Thoreau's Walking. The two volumes here of The Bible of Nature were published together by a consortium of free thought and radical publishers including expatriate English free thought emigrants Gilbert Vale and George Evans and by J. P. Mendum; the second volume as collected here appears either to be fragmentary or published solely as an introduction to stereotype editions of the Evans editions of Moral State of Nations and the Revelation of Nature. Something of a bibliographical tangle given that the stereotype plates were evidently available free to the asking for American radical publishers of the period and completeness of the second part of the Bible of Nature is unclear and may have been included here simply as a sort of table of contents to the volumes that here follow; whether this sammelband is as published and sold by the radical reformer George Henry Evans or had collected by an early reader is unclear. The New-York edition of Opus Maxium not located in OCLC. A nice copy with minimal wear some foxing and light staining; but still very good -- entirely and pleasantly readable throughout. Scarce. C. Van Benthuysen; George H. Evans; hardcover
1814Best.-Nr. 0072711814. Quarter Vellum. Cloth Boards. Near Fine. Spectacular manuscript estate survey maps from early 19th Century. Folio 53 by 39 cm. 6 text pages followed by ten double paged maps all handsomely colored and detailed. The first nine maps are numbered 2 to 10 per table in front showing that notwithstanding the enumeration there is not a missing map. One map with extra fold-out flap addenda. An additional double-sided hand-colored map in the back inserted into the foliio and then two additional hand-colored survey maps by de la Marche or his son loose -- never bound in -- architectural sketch of the chateau footprint done in pen-and-ink -- two other smaller less visually exciting maps and some correspondence. Maps are colored in greens reds yellows and blues. The washes of color together with the obvious precision of the draftsmanship render these maps utilitarian in purpose originally pleasing to the eye and very decorative. Tiny vignettes of churches mark villages and forests are signified by dots representing trees as was the convention. This chateau belonged to M. François Louis Barrairon at the time. It is located in the Indre-et-Loire Department and is between and equidistant to Tours and Vendome. Condition: bottom of leaves stained and sometimes slightly chipped or chewed looking. A few other minor chips. A few un-obtrusive well-executed repairs of tears. unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 225421960. LGBTQ Lesbian Pulp Lesbian pulp novels published between 1960 and 1965 a crucial phase in the emergence of lesbian literature in American pulp publishing. These authors wrote about queer experience at a time when lesbian representation was largely dominated by heterosexual male writers and constrained by censorship that required publishers to present same sex desire through salacious marketing and "moralizing" tragic or heterosexual endings. Valerie Taylor Velma Nacella Young Paula Christian Yvonne MacManus and March Hastings Sally Singer were among the small group of queer women producing lesbian novels that treated relationships between women with greater emotional complexity and personal insight exploring themes of lesbian identity and the social consequences of living as an open or closeted gay woman. Several titles by these authors were later identified by lesbian bibliographer Barbara Grier as "A" tier works in The Lesbian in Literature indicating major lesbian thematic content and sympathetic narrative treatment. Archive includes: 1 Valerie Taylor Pen name of Velma Nacella Young. Stranger on Lesbos. Greenwich CT: Fawcett Crest 1960. First Crest printing February 1960. One of Taylor's most enduring works centering on Frances a discontented wife whose encounter with a vibrant lesbian social circle leads her to confront her own desires. A landmark title in Grier's A tier for its substantial lesbian content and refusal to deliver a purely punitive ending. 2 March Hastings Pen name of Sally Singer. Crack-Up. Chicago: Newsstand Library 1961. First printing. Subtitled on the cover: "The torment of a woman-frustrated in marriage-torn between desire and compassion." Hastings one of pulp's most prolific lesbian authors explores emotional collapse and the redemptive possibilities of same-sex love with more psychological nuance than the genre typically allowed. 3 Artemis Smith Pen name of Annselm Morpurgo. This Bed We Made. Derby CT: Monarch Books 1964. First Monarch edition originally published 1961. Greenwich Village-set tale of Elaine Perkins who marries to satisfy societal expectations but is drawn into a relationship with Nicole an artist's model. Back cover tagline: "Wife or Lesbian" 4 Valerie Taylor Pen name of Velma Nacella Young. Unlike Others. New York: Midwood-Tower 1963. First edition. From the author of Whisper Their Love and Stranger on Lesbos Unlike Others follows women whose relationships defy convention and societal approval. Known for infusing pulp conventions with emotional depth Taylor was one of the few openly lesbian pulp authors of her time. 5 Morgan Ives Pen name of Marion Zimmer Bradley. Spare Her Heaven. Derby CT: Monarch Books 1963. First edition. The story of Kathara a stage performer worshiped as the "Goddess of the Temple of Joy" whose allure draws both men and women into a cult-like world of pleasure. While framed through pulp's "devil or angel" dichotomy Ives weaves subversive notes of female autonomy into the sensational plot. 6 Paula Christian Pen name of Yvonne MacManus. The Other Side of Desire. New York: Paperback Library 1965. First printing. "Is it lust or love when one woman desires another woman" Carrie risks her marriage children and reputation for an affair with Kim only to find herself enslaved to "forbidden sex." The significance of these novels lies in their authorship and perspective. During the 1950s and 1960s lesbian pulp fiction formed one of the few widely distributed literary spaces where queer women could encounter representations of same sex relationships even when those narratives were sensationalized by commercial marketing. Writers such as Taylor Christian and Hastings expanded the thematic range of the genre by incorporating elements drawn from lived queer experience including emotional partnership internal conflict and the pressures of secrecy. Six volumes total. Standard mid century mass market paperback format. Moderate handling wear consistent with newsstand distribution including light edge wear and toning. Overall very good condition. unknown
1673in-4 antico, pp. (36), 328, leg. p. perg. coeva con tass. e tit. oro al d., tagli spruzzati. Bell'antip. inc. in rame con stemma araldico. A pag.1 una tav. con bel ritr. dell'A. inc. in rame. Fregi, iniziali e testat. xilogr. Rara prima e unica ediz. di importante fonte per la storia civile ed ecclesiastica della città di Ascoli, pubblicata postuma dai nipoti di Sebastiano Andreantonelli (1594-1643), erudito storico e accademico ascolano. I primi tre libri raccolgo pagine di storia cittadina, l'ultimo le biografie di uomini illustri ascolani. Sappiamo che molti esemplari dell'opera, in seguito alla revisione operata dai nipoti, recano delle censure o alterazioni al testo, poche sono le copie con il testo originale integrale: la nostra è una di queste. Lozzi 189. Ranghiasci p.7, nota a: "... siccome bullivano allora nella città di Ascoli le Fazioni [...] che si sopprimessero tutti quegli esemplari che fosse stato possibile ritirare affine di nuovamente adulterarli. Quindi è che in una gran parte di essi furono affatto tolte le pagine 9-10-15-16-17-18-23-24 e con frode altrettante vennero sostituite [...] e questa storia si può riporre tra le rarissime, particolarmente gli esemplari meno viziati". Lieviss. gore marginali sulle prime e ultime cc. Bell'esempl. [091]
1963Best.-Nr. List919Washington 1963. First Edition. Paper pennant measuring 10 1/16 × 16 7/16 inches. Tip detached and toned but easily restorable some wear and small amount of loss at shortest side very good minus condition overall. Very Good. One of only a few known copies of this American flag-themed pennant from the March on Washington notable for its incorporation of the American flag motif. Adaptations of the flag design were common in political graphics of the nineteenth century though the tradition dwindled in the twentieth century. The forty three stars shown appear to have no significance nor do the seventeen stripes. As many of the items created for the March on Washington were made by different groups attending the event most ephemeral items do not survive in any quantity. This pennant is featured in "For Whom it Stands: The Flag and the American People" by Michelle Joan Wilkerson 2015 Reginald F. Lewis Museum for Maryland African American History and Culture p. 22 and 61 and a copy is held at the National Museum of African-American Culture. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 3718Wien Feige 1913 220S m 70 Bildnissen Ohlw leichte Gebrauchspuren - Anthologie unter Ausschluss aller jüdischer Autoren v. Altenberg bis St. Zweig. Kosel 474 f. unknown
