INSCRIBED TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN BY LINCOLN KIRSTEIN - Small quarto, tan cloth titled in black, in its original dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly creased & soiled with rubbing to the jacket's spine. viii, 215 & [1] pages. The top edge of the book is foxed. Very good. Inscribed to Leonard Bernstein: "for Lennie. with thanks and love. May 16. 1974. / (This has a lot more than the version Wystan [i.e. Auden] liked) / I would adapt to any meter or combination of vowels or syllables.. / Hoping to work with you sometime! / Lincoln". The first edition of this book--evidently the one that Auden r... View More...
- Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed & spotted. The front panel of he dust jacket is lightly rubbed & the top edges of the flaps are slightly darkened. [xi, 210 & [1] pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations & music staves. Very good.
First trade edition.
In Elizabethan theatre the arrival of an important person or the beginning of a celebration was announced by trumpet flourishes called sennets and tuckets. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
NY: Poets of America Publishing Company, 1960.. 1960.. Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth (bumped; dent to bottom edge of front cover) titled in gilt, in dw (chipped with piece out of head of dw spine; light soiling & small stains to front panel; dw spine & extremities faded). [x] & 124 pp. (page edges slightly darkened; endpapers darkened with light soiling to front endpaper). Very good in good dw. From the library of Leonard Bernstein [Sotheby Sale 7070, Lot #160], inscribed to him by Aaron Schmuller on the front endpaper: For Leonard Bernstein with greetings and good wishes--A Schmuller Esq. L... View More...
- Octavo, dark gray cloth in a dust wrapper. The bottom corner of the front cover is lightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Title, [1 ] leaf & 152 pages. 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Very good. This title in the series The Art of the Conductor includes a discography. Dust jacket present. View More...
A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE GERMAN CONDUCTOR & VIOLINIST ALOIS SPRINGER TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Quarto, 13-3/4 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. White cloth titled in black on the spine, in the original black dust wrapper which is contrastingly titled in white. The edges of the covers are darkened and there are soiling & tiny black marks to the rear cover. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with tears to the edges of the rear panel, including a longer 3 inch tear to its top edge. The jacket's rear panel is also soiled & stained. 192 pages, with profuse full-page black & whi... View More...
(Paris): Christie's, 2005.. 2005.. Very good. - Quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. There are small areas of light rubbing to the wraps, with a small glue stain to the rear wrap. 145 pages. Profuse black-and-white & sepia-toned photographic illustrations. The contents are fine. Very good.
122 items are catalogued. The text, which is in French, includes four pages of quotations from Claude Berry, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and others. View More...
(Pittsburgh, PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.. 1974.. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth backed blue cloth titled in gilt on spine and within gilt-framed black rectangle on front cover. Bumped. xxix & 285 pp. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece & facsimiles. Internally fine. Very good.
NY: Time, Inc., 1973.. 1973.. Very good. - Quarto, stapled pictorial wraps [portrait of Marlon Brando in watercolor & pastel by Bob Peak]. Lightly spotted; tear to spine at staple. 4-1/2- page, unsigned article on the film and on Brando, illustrated in B&W, together with 1/2-page article on Bertolucci, Choreographer for the Movie Camera. Page edges are slightly darkened, else very good. View More...
- An original 41 inch high by 27 inch wide one sheet color poster for Italian movie director Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna. A soft-hued color photograph of Jill Clayburgh in a black slip gently holding her son, played by Matthew Barry, beneath the lines Between a mother and son. Between the delicate boundaries of love. The poster is boldly titled at the top within the black border Luna / A film by Bernardo Bertolucci with the credits printed in white at the bottom and numbered 790119 at bottom right. Folded with some other minor creases. The poster is accompanied by 2 full color lobby cards, each... View More...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1905.. 1905.. Very good. - Octavo, mauve cloth titled & decorated in gilt with vignettes in mauve on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped and the spine & the adjacent edge of the rear cover are faded. x & 260 pages. 4 color plates, including a frontispiece with a tissue guard, by Ethel Franklin Betts and decorations & vignettes in black & green by Frederick Garrison Hall. There is a gift inscription penned on the verso of the frontispiece. Very good.
First edition with the Betts illustrations. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Small quarto, 9-3/4 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed cream wraps titled in black & red on the front cover. The covers are soiled with darkened edges and a few tiny stains. 38 & [1] pages, illustrated with 2 black & white plates consisting of portraits of Betts and his wife. There is a crease to the top corner and top edge of the first few leaves with some minor faint dampstaining to the the top of Betts' portrait and the following page. Very good. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies printed by the Argonne Press. RARE in commerce. A United States Congressman fr... View More...
Gibellina [Italy]: Edizioni Orestiadi di Gibellina, (1989).. (1989).. Very good. - Small folio [13 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in purple pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with creasing to the bottom corners of the wraps. 105 & [2] pages plus ads. 34 pages of illustrations in color and black & white with additional black-and-white illustrations in the text section. The bottom page corners are bumped. Very good. Labirinti: Cultura del Territorio Rivista Trimestrale Anno II numero 3 (Cover title).Among the contents of this Sicilian quarterly review are The S... View More...
New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, (1993).. (1993).. Very good. - Small quarto [10- 5/8 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover catalog bound in gilt-lettered white wrappers. The catalog in turn is bound into a folding stiff paper case with a black suede surface. The front panel of the case consists of 2 folding wings fastened with a Velcro stud, which form the shape of a plunging neckline, above which the gilt titling of the catalog is revealed. The black suede is somewhat rubbed & dusty. 72 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Very good. Catalog for a 1993-1994 touring exhibition o... View More...
- Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled yellow decorated white wraps, titled in black with a black & white illustration titled In Ole Lunnon Town by Ray Belmont Whitman pictured on the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly soiled and creased. 62 & [2] pages, with black & white textual and full-page illustrations. A few page corners are creased. Very good. This issue includes an essay on Modern Iceland by H.B. MacDonald, a poem titled A Poet's Muse About His Cruise by Ray Belmont Whitman which is described as a true account, lightly told, of a yac... View More...
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1986.. 1986.. Very good. - Quarto, spiral bound green & black pictorial wraps. The wraps are very lightly soiled. A typed note soliciting additional items is stapled to the front wrap. ii, 106 & [1] pp. Very good.
Revised edition.
144 items are catalogued. Author and title indexes are included. View More...
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1959).. (1959).. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed & lightly chipped & soiled with a small piece out of the top edge of its rear panel. xxviii & 454 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of 112 drawings in crayon by George Caleb Bingham. There is a small area of soiling to the bottom edge. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Philadelphia: Printed by Fry and Kammerer, 1809.. 1809.. Very good. - Octavo, gray cloth backed plain gray boards titled in black on the spine. The covers are slightly soiled. 14 leaves plus endpapers, all wonderfully illustrated with depictions of ornaments. Includes 2 wonderful folding plates. Very good.
A facsimile of 600 copies of the first type- founder's specimen book to be issued. Published by Meriden Gravure. View More...
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1970.. 1970.. Very good. - Folio, 12-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide. Softcovers bound in cord stitched cream paper wraps titled in facsimile holograph on the front cover. The book is laid into a plain light blue paper chemise. The extremities of the chemise are faded and darkened. 52 & [2] pages, consisting of the facsimile of the holograph minutes of the meeting followed by 2-pages of finely printed notes and comments in which J. Barcham Green, whose grandfather was present at the meeting and who still owns the mill at Maidstone, sheds light on some of th... View More...
- Octavo, red cloth backed with black cloth in a dust wrapper. There are a few tiny marks to the rear cover. There is some minor soiling to the rear panel of the dust jacket. 190 pages. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white drawings by Timothy Birdsall. Very good. First American edition of the author's first book. Review copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
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