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1937Best.-Nr. 81953New York: Critics Group 1937-1939. Nine original issues. 12mo; staple-bound printed wrappers; 32pp per issue. Occasional mild foxing or cover soil else well-preserved and free of significant wear; Very Good. Dialectics was the official organ of Critics Group an alliance of Marxist literary and art critics headed by Puerto Rican literary critic Angel Flores. The group's work in the words of Walter Goldwater "stayed within the Communist Party line." The journal printed new critical essays by American Marxist scholars as well as translations of classic works of Russian criticism by Plekhanov Lenin Marx and others. Issues 3-8 print an ongoing series of bibliographies: "Dialectics and the Sciences;" "Psychology and Marxism;" "Soviet Literature;" etc. Critics Group also issued a series of monographs under the series title "Critics Group Pamphlets." GOLDWATER 66. Critics Group unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 186269Mexico: Museo Nacional 1940. Softcover. VG- light shelfwear to wraps; light age toning to pages but text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Glassine dj is worn and torn. Off-white wraps with burgundy lettering and mounted color illustration on front cover; glassine dj; 4 preliminary leaves 244 pages 2 leaves portraits some color. At head of title: Secretaría de educación pública Instituto nacional de antropología e historia. Text is in Spanish. "Portraits of notable figures in the colonial history of Mexico existing in the National Museum with notes collected from various authors and ordered by the Head of the Department of History of the same Institution" -translated from the title page. Museo Nacional paperback books
1979Best.-Nr. 372688GFolkestone: Dawson 1979. 4388 pp. 4 vols. Large 4to. Cloth. Fine. 4388 pp. 4 vols. Large 4to. Dawson unknown books
2004Best.-Nr. 11422Smithville TX: Rûna-Raven Press 2004. Second Edition Revised and Expanded. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Chisholm James A. Chisholm James A. Second Edition Revised and Expanded. Original Wraps. Stephen Edred Flowers born 1953 also known by the pen-name Edred Thorsson is an American Runologist and proponent of occultism and Germanic mysticism. Thorsson explores all four of the traditional runic systems: the Older Futhark 24 runes the Anglo-Frisian Futhorc 29-33 runes the Younger Futhark 16 runes and the Armanic Futhork 18 runes developed by Guido von List. The author explains the similarities and differences between them as well as how they are all facets of the same underlying runic reality. He examines the early history and possible origins of runic symbols and systems. Providing an extensive practical section Thorsson details powerful runework techniques and exercises including rune yoga and dance runic hand gestures mudras rune singing mantras rune yodeling runic healing runic tantra and sex magic group rites with runes and two powerful methods of engaging transpersonal powers: the Ritual of the Ninth Night and the Ritual of the Grail Cup. He also explores runic divination the runic theory of crystals runic symbolism in medieval German buildings and runic material from the documents of the Fraternitas Saturni the Brotherhood of Saturn. Original cover art by Donna Barr. Scarce copy. Near fine with some dogears pages. Color glossy wrappers. xi 108pp. Illus. b/w. Rûna-Raven Press unknown books
2005Best.-Nr. 11423Smithville TX: Rune Gild 2005. Reprint. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Reprint. Original Wraps. Stephen Edred Flowers born 1953 also known by the pen-name Edred Thorsson is an American Runologist and proponent of occultism and Germanic mysticism. Edred Thorsson/ Stephen Flowers who is the Yrmin Drighten of the Rune Gild but works of other Masters and Fellows within the Gild will be drawn on also. In addition to those contemporary sources 34 writings of earlier practitioners within the Northern Tradition will be considered as relevant to the Odian approach as will primary sources such as the Eddas. Some smudging to wrappers dog ears otherwise tight bright unmarred. Color paper wrappers. 139pp. Illus. b/w. Rune Gild unknown books
2007Best.-Nr. 171680N.p.: 360 Pictures 2007. Revised Draft script for the 2008 film. Remake of the classic 1986 slasher film about an April Fool's Day party that goes horribly wrong after a girl has a seizure and dies. Shot in North Carolina. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated September 18 2007 noted as Blue Revisions and Production Draft with credits for screenwriters The Butcher Brothers and Mikey Wigart. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated September 18 2007. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound internally with a silver prong. 360 Pictures unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 11425Smithville TX: Rûna-Raven Press 1993. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. Stephen Edred Flowers born 1953 also known by the pen-name Edred Thorsson is an American Runologist and proponent of occultism and Germanic mysticism. Siegfried Adolf Kummer born 24 September 1899 in Radeberg died 1977 in Dresden was a German mystic and Germanic revivalist. He is also most well known for his revivalism and use of the Armanen runes row. He along with Friedrich Bernhard Marby were imprisoned during the Third Reich for being unauthorised occultists. In 1927 Kummer founded a "runic school" called Runa associated with the summer school Bielatal Bärenstein of Georg and Alfred Richter. The runic exercises comparable to the "runic gymnastics" of Marby runic dancing and runic songs were taught. Still a little dodgy ethics. Scarce copy. Tight bright and unmarred. Red and black wrappers. 44pp. Illus. b/w. Rûna-Raven Press unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 168069Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1935. Vintage double weight satin-finish publicity photograph from the 1935 film musical showing director Roy Del Ruth inspecting a chorus line of showgirls. MGM photographer stamp on the verso. A young woman attempts to convince her high school sweetheart now a Broadway producer to let her star in his new musical. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Dance Direction. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 18324London: A5 Albany Piccadilly 1983. 1 vols. 8vo and 4to. To her friend Isabel Leighton Bunker. Primarily concerning personal matters and opinions. The first responds to Mrs. Bunker's earlier letter congratulating her on her "brilliant son-in-law" hoping that Iran is not a powder keg and regretting that the Bunker's wouldn't be going to Europe for the summer. The second written while she is recovering from a leg injury "the cast is off and I'm left in bandages which replace it from toes to knee" and mentions a letter received "I went back to tears when I read the long and sorrowful letter sent me by Prince Ranier. The pain and anguish he feels is heartbreaking.I've alwas loved her but isn't it sad that I didn't know how much until she was gone After 30 years of close friendship sisterly this is a sad truth." And the last letter commences with business stating that she's fired her agent and was looking for another then describes how she snapped off four teeth biting on an English muffin and needed "pinning all together. 1 vols. 8vo and 4to. Fleur Cowles was the editor and publisher of the elaborate fashion magazine "Flair." Her husband Gardner Cowles was the editor of "Look." Isabel Leighton later Mrs. Arthur Hugh Bunker was a war correspondent playwright actress radio personality and author and very active with various social responsibilites. She was the author of "Where Away" and her short story "Fat Girl" was chosen for inclusion among the "100 Best Stories to Come of the War." Her theatrical successes include "Spring Again" and "Mercenary Mary" and as a war correspondent she covered both Asia and Europe with her articles appearing in most of the leading periodicals in the country. A5 Albany, Piccadilly unknown books
Best.-Nr. 007394Mexico presumed. NA. Good. Brightly colored exuberant specimen of Mexican Folk Art depicting peasants and their shacks. The human figures 20 in all are highly stylized with many shown in profile reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian human representations. A few of the peasants are shown looking head-on. The figures are also from one or two molds -- the same image is repeated more or less but with the dress varied mainly in the choice of colors. Most of the human figures are barefoot with a few wearing sandals as surely would have been the everyday experience of rural life at same time and place. The peasants are arranged in a field with semi-abstract representations of flowers stalks and seedlings. Amidst the people there is a single ox. Some of the peasants look as if they're waving at us. While generally the peasants look impassive or expressionless a few have the look of agitatoin. The painting is rendered without perspective and we think this was a deliberate choice reinforcing the naive feel of the painting as a whole. Above all else it is the colors that stand out with their rich clarity and immediacy. Surrounding the figurative imagery of the peasants and their hovels there are four or more decorative bands also distinctively colored with mostly geometric repeats the outer band inside two ruled lines linking orange flowers with wavy green frondes. The painting is on vellum that is very papyrus-like. The artwork is signed "Flores" with the first part of the signature "Greserv C90" an enigma to us. N.d. circa 1930. Condition: moderate to heavy here and there soiling. A few minor tears. unknown books
1869Best.-Nr. 22799Tacna: El Progreso 1869. First edition. Softcover. fair. 8vo. 54 160 pp. Original wrappers rebound in modern wraps. American ephemeris preceded by historical beginnings on the discovery of the Conquista and the war of the independence of the Spanish America. Spanish history in the Americas beginning with the 1st inhabitants of the Americas then Columbus' discovery. Topics for Mexico include Hernandez de Cordova's 1st expedition into Mexico Cortez form of government administration of justice religion culture and traditions and customs. Also the Spanish in Mexico and Spanish cities and the War of Mexican independence Hidalgo More-los Mina and Iturbide. On Columbia lists discovery "cosmogonia" conquest and work. Also talks about the Guerra de la Independencia and Mirand and Bolivar. On Peru lists the dicovery of the political situation conquests and Pizarro. Also listed is Peru's name origin the Incas form of government distribution of property and customs. Also goes into Peruvian cities landscape Calatayud the Revolucion de 1809 Argentinian expeditions San Martin Bolivar and the creation of the Republic of Bolivia. The section on Chile talks on it's dicovery conquest Almagro Valdivia cities Argentinia protection and San Martin. Some age wear chipping and creasing to original printed wraps printed cover legible. Some age wear chipping creasing and sporadic foxing to interior pages 1st 7 pages missing bottom right corners all text seems to be legible and present throughout book. Text in Spanish. Original wraps in poor modern wraps in very good interior in overall fair condition. Scarce. El Progreso unknown books
Best.-Nr. 004923Wraps. Very Good. Scarce with no copies located on OCLC FirstServe. N.d. circa 1914 when the fragrance "Un Air Embaume" was first introduced. 8vo. 24 by 21 cm. Unpaginated 12 leaves plus tissue guards and wraps with nine of those being color plates. Rigaud as a parfumier dates back to 1852. At the turn of the century it created and marketed fragrances associated with celebrities of the day -- one fragrance was named after the opera star "Mary Garden" -- and the company might well have been a pioneer in such tie-ins. The company also consciously pursued the Anglo market and capitalized on the Gallic vogue at the time for things English by naming a number of its products in English. The company remains in business today but its emphasis it now on home or ambient fragrances. In this glossy marketing brochure intended as much to build the exotic luxurious mystique of the companies fragrances as to peddle its specific products the color plates capture perfectly the sinewy rich aesthetic of the day with equal amounts of Art Nouveau elegance; the overripe almost lurid colors and styles of the Jugendstil or the Teutonic version of Art Nouveau; and the softer Rococo frivolity and flirty lightness epitomized by a Fragonard or Boucher. The Richepin poem that serves as a preface evokes the hedonistic possibly decadent sensuality that is the mood or mix of moods of the illustrations that follow. And so the names of perfumes are Prince Igor Marthe Chenal a French opera singer who like Mary Garden was particularly associated with Jules Massenet Pres de Vous Muses des Bois l'heure charmante lilas de Rigaud Oeillet d'Andalousie Mary Garden and des Roses. The cream cover has foxing. Within the brochure is clean. unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 013353NY: HarperCollins 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Unused book dustjacketed in clamshell case fine all over and signed and dated Oct on presentation page. HarperCollins hardcover books
1877Best.-Nr. 38076Stuttgart 1877. 58 of 60 Chromolithographic plates some folding missing Plate #7 of 1866 and Plate #2 of 1873. 1 vols. 4to 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 Inches. Original yellow printed wrappers. Plates Fine. 58 of 60 Chromolithographic plates some folding missing Plate #7 of 1866 and Plate #2 of 1873. 1 vols. 4to 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 Inches. unknown books
1878Best.-Nr. 1040834to original printed wrappers 27 separate installments incomplete and 108 full-page chromolithograph plates. Wrappers are a little soiled and have a few chips and tears one top cover is missing a few corner folds some aging and browning plates are generally clean and bright but sometimes show some browning along margins; overall a decent set of plates. Meehan 1826-1901 was a noted botanist of his day. While he wrote a number of serious scholarly works on the subject this book was an attempt to reach a wider more popular audience. Meehan goal for this work was to improve popular comprehension of the subject without sacrificing good science and by the way at a price people could afford. The concept of bringing more sophisticated botanical knowledge to a wider audience was rare. However Meehan received a lot of critical success for this effort at that time Nissen Botany 1331. Although incomplete this format of Meehan's work is somewhat scarce. It includes installments from the first and second series and was published by the Prang and Robson firms. Sold as a set of plates. Nissen Botany 1331. L. Prang & Co./Chas.Robson & Co., books
1951Best.-Nr. 530781London: Cowles Magazines Inc. 1951. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Quarto. 120pp. Heavily illustrated. A bit musty. Cover with a split and a bit of loss at the spine staples somewhat oxidized modest interior toning very good. Signed by John Steinbeck editor Fleur Cowles and contributor William Ward Beecher. The final issue of this very interesting magazine sent by editor Fleur Cowles along with a warm Typed Letter Signed to artist William Ward Beecher to commemorate the collaboration. Fleur has Signed the magazine on the first page. Beecher allowed the use of a black and white reproduction of a Steinbeck-themed trompe l'oeil painting to illustrate the article "Tortilla B Flat: A Serenade to John Steinbeck Composed on the Typewriter" by Eddie Condon also illustrated with a portrait of Steinbeck by Robert Capa. A note in Beecher's hand laid in says: "N.B. this copy autographed by Fleur Cowles is also signed by John and me-" and indeed Steinbeck has Signed above the painting and Beecher beneath it. Also laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from a Flair employee to Beecher asking him to sign an agreement to reproduce the artwork. A 2001 letter from Steinbeck's son Thom written to supply details about sitting for a portrait by Beecher called the artist a family friend and that his father "maintained an abiding fascination for Beecher's work through the years. A half-dozen examples of the artist's best canvases still brighten our house in New York." A nice association. Cowles Magazines, Inc.) unknown books
Best.-Nr. 386621San Francisco: Nocturnal Dream Shows 1970. Fine. Color lithographic poster. Designed by John Flowers printed in purple and gold on light rose-colored paper. Measures approximately 17.5" x 11". Neatly tipped-in at the corner edges into a mat frame. A fine copy. A beautifully printed poster advertisement from the Cockettes legendary series of midnight shows given at the Palace Theater in North Beach San Francisco. A psychedelic drag queen troupe founded by Hibiscus George Harris the Cockettes performed outrageous parodies of show tunes and much else. Breaking many social cultural and sexual boundaries along the way they inspired the glitter rock-era of David Bowie Elton John The New York Dolls and filmmaker John Waters. A scarce survival. (Nocturnal Dream Shows) unknown books
1688Best.-Nr. 8031Paris: L D`Houry 1688. First Edition. Full contemporary calf. A very good copy; binding somewhat rubbed; some toning; light stain in the top margin. 12mo 24 142 2 pp. Contents leaf bound after the text. An anonymous work by one of the members of the small group of connoisseur plantsman of 17th century France known as the ' jardiniers fleuristes '. The work is dedicated to Andre LeNotre the creator of the gardens at Versailles. The book treats the cultivation of the four most prized and novel flowers of the day : the tulip carnation anemone and primrose. The author mentions many of his fellow floriculturists in passing. Oak Spring Flora #34 - "sophisticated little book" ; OCLC - 4 copies. L D`Houry unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 534842Guadalajara México: Et Cætera 1957. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Translated by Miguel Rodríguez Puga misspelled "Juga". Small slim quarto. 99-108pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Text in Spanish. Wrappers with tiny chips at the bottom corners and a couple of very short splits staples lightly oxidized and paper evenly toned a very good example of a relatively delicate pamphlet. From the library of noted Spanish philologist librarian and linguist Tomás Navarro Tomás with a six-line note on the first page some bracketing and underlining in the text and 27 lines in Spanish at the end all in red ink. While the practice of combining the words "magic" and "realism" had been around since the 1920s - with entire books having been written on the subject - this is the paper that popularized the term "magical realism" for the genre of Latin American fiction as we know it today. Flores who found the movement's genesis in Borges' publication of A Universal History of Infamy in 1935 first presented this paper at the Spanish 4 Group Meeting of the 69th Annual Meeting of the MLA in New York December 27-29 1954. It was published in English in the journal Hispania in May 1955 Vol. 38 No. 2. This offprint is from its Spanish-language publication in the important Guadalajara literary magazine Et Cætera Nos. 23-25 July 1957 - March 1958. This is quite likely the offprint of its first Spanish-language publication; information appears to be slight but we do find it cited next to the English-language edition in a footnote of Luis Leal's classic 1967 essay on the subject "Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature" accessed online via an English anthology published by Duke. A rare and early offprint of a pivotal essay on Latin American literature with annotations by a noted Spanish philologist and linguist. OCLC locates no copies of this Mexican offprint nor does it locate any copies of an offprint in English if one was even published. Et Cætera unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 911031891. BIRDS & FLOWERS Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHÔ GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 1891-2. 4 vols. each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Vol.1 Spring has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 Summer has 32 plates of which 8 are double page. Vol.3 Autumn has 38 prints of which 4 are double page. Vol.4 Winter has 34 plates of which 4 are double page and one is a four page spread. These original Tanaka Jihei issues which preceded the Unsodo versions have become quite scarce complete sets even more so and sets with the western number captioning the true first printing almost impossible to find. The original covers are worn and the 4 volumes have been placed into heavy cloth outer bindings with supplied title labels. The printings are excellent the colors much milder than the reprints subtle and lovely. Complete as issued by Tanaka Jihei very unusual. unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 871711891. BIRDS & FLOWERS Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHO GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 1891-2. 4 vols. each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound fukuro-toji Japanese style. Vol.1 Spring has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 Summer has 32 plates of which 8 are double page. Vol.3 Autumn has 38 prints of which 4 are double page. Vol.4 Winter has 34 plates of which 4 are double page and one is a four page spread. These original Tanaka Jihei issues which preceded the Unsodo versions have become quite scarce complete sets even more so and sets with the western number captioning the true first printing almost impossible to find. The covers are original with the titles directly printed there and the gold flecking. The summer issue has a single worm track in the margins else it and the other volumes are impeccable the printing excellent the colors subtle and lovely. The nicest set we have ever handled. All in a clasped chitsu case which itself is quite rough. 4 vols. complete as issued by Tanaka Jihei very unusual thus. unknown books
1819Best.-Nr. ST12549London: Published by Thomas McLean 1819. Second Edition. 368 x 273 mm. 14 1/2 x 10 3/4". 26 leaves of text including 3 pp. ads. Three parts in one volume. SPLENDID CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO ELABORATELY TOOLED IN GILT AND BLIND covers with concentric filigree frames in alternating gilt and blind tooling raised bands spine panels intricately gilt with two large lozenges formed by rectangular and triangular tools surrounded by curling botanical ornaments turn-ins gilt all edges gilt. In an excellent recent matching morocco-lipped slipcase. WITH 36 VERY APPEALING ILLUSTRATIONS BEING 18 ENGRAVINGS six flowers six fruits six birds EACH IN TWO STATES monochrome and fully hand colored. Dunthorne 53-55; Sitwell "Fine Bird Books" p. 82. Text leaves with faint mottled foxing and minor browning and off-setting just a few plates with negligible faint spots or smudges otherwise A WONDERFUL COPY THE ORIGINAL SPARKLING BINDING IN AN AMAZING STATE OF PRESERVATION. This is a sumptuously bound copy of three manuals intended to teach the art of drawing to young persons written by the accomplished botanical painter who produced the renowned "Pomona Britannia." In an earlier career Brookshaw ca. 1751-1823 was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood speculates that the sudden change was prompted by involvement in a financial or sexual scandal as he also parted company with his wealthy wife around this time. He spent a decade living under the name "G. Brown" teaching flower painting to refined young ladies before producing his first manual "A New Treatise of Flower Painting" which was finally issued under his real name in 1816. The three guides that make up the present volume were intended as a supplement to that work and they expand the subjects covered to fruit and birds. In the preface to this work Brookshaw observes that flower painting is a "peculiarly appropriate" accomplishment that may be obtained "without the expense of a Master a few elementary instructions and good copies being sufficient." The plates here are more highly finished than the examples in his original "Treatise" in order to "lead the young artist onward in a progressive line of improvement." Fruits and birds are added to offer a new challenge for the pupil and Brookshaw notes that while avian subjects lack the variety of botanical ones they compensate with "the inifinite number of attitudes they assume." Our elaborate and immaculately preserved binding is testament that our volume was never used as a drawing manual but was more likely enjoyed for its own merits as an attractive object. Published by Thomas McLean unknown books
