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Unbound. Fine. A magnificent archive consisting of 21 Typed Letters Initialed (as either "H." or "H.C.") from the elusive and fiercely private B. Traven, nearly all of the letters to the actress Ruth Ford, for whom he professes great love in many of the letters. Accompanied by three books, including a first American edition of *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*, and assorted clippings. All of the letters Initialed by Traven as "H.C" or "H." as Hal Croves. Croves, one of several aliases used by Traven, was invented by the author in order to present himself as Traven's literary agent, and used mostly in his interaction with legendary film director John Huston throughout the development and filming of Traven's novel *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. The letters start in early 1947 and end in 1961, but the majority of them were written during 1947 and correspond with the production of the classic film. Many include references to day-to-day events of the film's production. These are dense letters,… Read more

Near Fine. A remarkable collection of 235 H.P. Lovecraft items with over 200 rare amateur press appearances dating as early as 1914 and nearly 20 miscellaneous appearance by Lovecraft or directly relating to his writing. While a couple items are bound in boards, the rest are bound in stapled or sewn wrappers, nearly all with the tiny book label of Black Sparrow Press founder John K. Martin on the rear pastedown or wrap. Overall near fine with exceptions noted in the detailed list.

Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, 1980 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. In splicase.); Used books. The 11 volume set is in good condition with minor scuffs and signs of wear in the slipcases and hardcover cloths. The spines are slightly faded as usual (volume 11 - Metropolitan Museum is slightly more faded than the other volumes). Volume 5 (British Museum) and volume 9 (Freer Gallery of Art) show minor wear marks on the top of the slipcase. Volume 7 (Musee Guimet) has a wear mark on the slipcase. Far Eastern Ceramics is in very good condition showing minor signs of shelf wear, namely some marks on the front and back cover. The ribbon bookmark is slightly scuffed on the bottom. The interior of the 11 volumes looks as new with minor signs of wear. Volume 9 has a tiny part of one page slightly bent at the bottom. Volume 11 show tiny yellow marks on two pages.; A milestone in international ceramic documentation, this series is a brilliant presentation… Read more

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; VOLUMES I, II and III, 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 12 kg; ISBN: 9780955743238; Published by Jorge Welsh Books, 2011.; Limited edition of 900 numbered copies - 500 in English and 400 in Portuguese.; VOLUME IV: Hardcover in slipcase; 504 pages with 404 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4,724 kg; ISBN: 9780993506857, Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, 2019.; Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the world's best private collection of pieces for the European market and contains new research into the subject of Chinese export porcelain. The three-volume set of hardcover books includes chapters… Read more

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; VOLUMES I, II and III, 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm cm; 12 kg; ISBN: 9780955743238; Published by Jorge Welsh Books, 2011.; Limited edition of 900 numbered copies - 500 in English and 400 in Portuguese.; VOLUME IV: Hardcover in slipcase; 504 pages with 404 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4,724 kg; ISBN: 9780993506857, Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, 2019.; Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.; VOLUME V: Hardcover in slipcase; 256 pages with 309 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 2,9 kg; ISBN: 9781838216313; Limited edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the… Read more

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; VOLUMES I, II and III, 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm cm; 12 kg; ISBN: 9780955743238; Published by Jorge Welsh Books, 2011.; Limited edition of 900 numbered copies - 500 in English and 400 in Portuguese.; VOLUME IV: Hardcover in slipcase; 504 pages with 404 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.7 kg; ISBN: 9780993506857, Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, 2019.; Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.; VOLUME V: Hardcover in slipcase; 256 pages with 309 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 2,9 kg; ISBN: 9781838216313; Limited edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; VOLUME VI: Hardcover in slipcase; 392 pages; 312 colour illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.1 kg; Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the… Read more

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1911. First, Limited Edition. Near fine/Very Good / Fair. 2 volumes, large 4to; pp. 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 (324 x 267 mm); each vol. approx. 3 inches (75 mm) thick;Vol. I: xxxviii, [2 (blank l.)], 280, [2 (blank l.)]; Vol. II: [2 (blank l.)], [16 (preliminaries)], 248, [2 (index of provenances, verso blank)], [2 (blank l.)]; 254 color-printed and monochrome plates, gilt highlighting on some, 6 folding plates, all with original tissue guards, facing text descriptions in English and French, index. Original cream-colored cloth, top boards with blocked gilt design and gilt lettering on top board and spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Rare dust-jackets present, with tears and sections missing, especially Vol. 2. Bindings tight, paper evenly toned with some staining on the endpapers and occasional small chips to some pages, not affecting text or plates. Copy number 741 of a LIMITED EDITION of 1000. One of the most important reference works on Chinese porcelains, this opus was written by… Read more

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1911. First, Limited Edition, SIGNED. Very good +. 2 volumes, large 4to; 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 (324 x 267 mm); each vol. approx. 3 inches (75 mm) thick; pp. Vol. I: xxxviii, [2 (blank l.)], 280, [2 (blank l.)]; Vol. II: [2 (blank l.)], [16 (preliminaries)], 248, [2 (index of provenances, verso blank)], [2 (blank l.)]; 254 color-printed and monochrome plates, gilt highlighting on some, 6 folding plates, all with original tissue guards, facing text descriptions in English and French, index. Original cream-colored cloth, top boards with blocked gilt design and gilt lettering on top board and spine, t.e.g., others uncut. Hinge of vol. 2 partially cracked but bindings tight, corners lightly bumped and thumbed, cloth with occasional bubbling; paper evently toned, with a few chips on larger blank pages between chapters, sporadic foxing on endpapers. Copy number 241 of a LIMITED EDITION of 1000, SIGNED by Edgar Gorer in ink on the limitation page. Bookplate of Erving & Joyce Wolf pasted… Read more

Various Places: Various Ephemera. Fine. Unbound. Various. A remarkable collection amassed by a single collector from the 1940s-1970s whose original inventory sheet (included) lists 39,744 labels from 49 countries spanning the globe. The countries with the highest counts include Belgium, 8000+, France, 5100+, Spain, 4400+, and Switzerland, 3500+. The collector sent letters requesting their unused labels to wineries, breweries and distilleries. Consequently, almost all are unused and most are stored in the original contemporary return envelopes, with a count and sometimes a country on the outside for each envelope. A good number of duplicates and variants noted. Total inventory numbers not verified, although a good representative sampling of envelope counts confirms the accuracy of the count. Various sizes of labels, with complete bottle sets noted. Almost all are in Fine condition, with some creases and light wear from storage. The entire collection completely fills three bankers boxes. Provenance:… Read more

Această colecție rafinată de lucrări ale lui François-René de Chateaubriand este o descoperire rară, prezentând unele dintre cele mai influente scrieri ale romantismului francez. Frumos legat în piele de epocă, aceste volume includ "Atala", "René" și "Génie du Christianisme", printre altele. Fiecare carte reflectă profunzimea literară și semnificația istorică a contribuțiilor lui Chateaubriand la literatură și cultură. Perfect pentru colecționari și entuziaști ai literaturii franceze clasice, acest set nu este doar un plus valoros pentru orice bibliotecă, ci și o bucată de istorie atemporală, păstrată cu meticulozitate de-a lungul anilor.

Nashville, Tennessee: Various, 1960. Scrapbook. Very Good. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. An important and substantial archive of material consisting of the Country Music Fan Club collection of Opal May Hardyman, superfan and President of the Carl Butler and Pearl Fan Club, which provides a comprehensive view of the dawn of the Country Music Fan Club era. While the Loretta Lynn Fan Club, organized in 1963 by the Johnson sisters, Loudilla, Loretta and Kay Johnson, is widely recognized as the first CM Fan Club, the Carl Butler and Pearl club was organized in November of 1962, and with the publication of the Butler Bulletin in February of 1963, it may actually hold that distinction. Female fans have been a driving force behind the popularity of country music since its inception.Their unwavering devotion and loyalty have played a crucial role in shaping the genre's cultural significance. The 1960s witnessed a surge in the formation of country music fan clubs, often spearheaded by women who were… Read more

Azymuth Editions, 1994 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text. Title and captions in English and Chinese; Hardcover (cloth in slipcase); Limited edition of 1000 copies, 2 volumes (343 pages volume 1 plus 319 pages volume 2), 957 color illustrations, cloth.; 27 x 37 cm; 6.5 Kg; Signs of wear on the slipcase, namely wear marks. Signs of wear on the exterior of the two volumes hardcover cloth. Interior with minor signs of wear.; CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. VERY HARD TO FIND.; "The first volume of this catalogue contains mainly earthenwares and stonewares from the Neolithic period to the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), the second porcelains from the Yuan (AD1279-1368) to the Qing dynasty. Although the two volumes belong together, they are conceived as individual books, each with its own working bibliography. Volume One contains small maps of China, highlighting the most important, if not the only, regions of ceramic manufacture in different periods; these were not necessary in Volume Two, where… Read more

Collections Baur-Genève, Switzerland Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text; 4 VOLUMES Hardcover (volume 1 and 2 cloth with dust jacket and volume 3 and 4 leather with dust jacket) without the slipcases.; 24 x 29 cm; 7.9 Kg; Each volume includes an introduction followed by an extensive catalogue with black and white and colour illustrations, each with caption.; Used books with signs of wear on the dust jackets and interior. Very good condition overall. The dust jacket of volume I has edge wear at the bottom of the front cover and the exterior text block shows minor yellowing. The dust jacket of volume 2 has some scuffs and scratches on the back cover and spine. The dust jacket on volume 3 has a vertical line throughout the spine, which looks like the spine was glued to the remaining dust jacket and the interior has minor signs of wear with some wrinkles on some of the tissue paper pages. The dust jacket of volume 4 shows some wear signs throughout. All dust jackets… Read more

Azymuth Editions, 1994 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text. Title and captions in English and Chinese; Hardcover (cloth); Limited edition of 1000 copies, 2 volumes (343 pages volume 1 plus 319 pages volume 2), 957 color illustrations, cloth.; 27 x 37 cm; 6.5 Kg; Lacking the slipcase.; Minor signs of wear on the exterior of the hardcover cloth on both volumes and on the outside text block. Interior with signs of wear, namely same pages showing signs of have been bent on the past on volume 1.; CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. VERY HARD TO FIND.; "The first volume of this catalogue contains mainly earthenwares and stonewares from the Neolithic period to the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), the second porcelains from the Yuan (AD1279-1368) to the Qing dynasty. Although the two volumes belong together, they are conceived as individual books, each with its own working bibliography. Volume One contains small maps of China, highlighting the most important, if not the only, regions of ceramic manufacture… Read more

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Battle Hymn of the Republic Signature/Inscription by Julia Ward Howe Book: Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 DETAILS: BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC: (from the book by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott: titled "JULIA WARD HOWE 1819-1910 PAGES 91-95). "In the Autumn of 1861 she went to Washington DC in the company of Friends. In a carriage ride back home they were surrounded by and delayed by marching troop some were singing John Brown's Body. During the night she awoke but before the dawn, the words formed inside head with the praise 'Mine eyes had see the glory of the coming of the Lord--' and words and lines came to her all at once with the sound of marching feet. In the silence of the words ending, she sprang from her bed and scrawled the words with pen and paper in the dark. She then went back to bed and fell asleep. Upon waking she realized she had forgotten the words. The poem was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly for FEB 1862" Here is an… Read more