[Rarebooks] FS: Three Nobel items at quite low prices

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Here are the other two items:

Benavente, Jacinto. Manuscript Letter Signed [Firma]. No Place Stated:
Jacinto Benavente, No Date. First edition. ORIGINAL TWO-PAGE MANUSCRIPT
LETTER SIGNED FROM NOBELIST JACINTO BENAVENTE to his friend Alberto
____________ written on a single sheet of paper folded once vertically to
produce four pages, each measuring approximately 8 1/4 inches X 5 1/5
inches, with a horizontal fold -- presumably for mailing, and presumably
responding to an invitation to engage in some pleasant visit or occupation.
In his reply letter, Benavente discusses his being greatly occupied and his
lack of time for doing additional things. He compares himself to a matador
-- and his life to a bullring performance -- stating, in part and in
English translation "My Dear Friend: Have you ever noticed how in the
bullring, after any small good performance, the matador takes his time
going all around the bullring to receive applause, and that there are
always some impatient fans shouting 'confront the bull'? That is what
happens to me. I have no time to make the tour all around the bullring.
Truly, I am overloaded with work and a single rest day would delay
everything." Jacinto Benavente, one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of
the 20th century, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy
manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish
drama". With modest toning to the paper, the letter is in Fine condition.
We seldom see items signed by Jacinto Benavente and , in our experience,
Manuscript letters from Jacinto Benavente are quite far from common.
SCARCE. Fine in dust-jacket. No Binding.. (#5840) *$225.00*


Prudhomme, Sully; [Bérenger, Henry]. Sully Prudhomme's Calling Card with an
Autograph Note Signed regarding a reading by Henry Bérenger. [Presumably
Paris. No Place Stated]: Sully Prudhomme, [Undated]. First edition. An
Original Sully Prudhomme Calling Card upon which Sully Prudhomme as written
an ELEVEN-LINE NOTE SIGNED. In this note sent to an unnamed recipient
addressed by Sully Prudhomme as "Cher ami", Prudhomme writes to announce a
gathering to meet with, hear a reading of, and to discuss the work of Henry
Bérenger, the noted French Writer and Radical Socialist Politician. The
note is SIGNED BY SULLY PRUDHOMME with "bonus amour". Sully Prudhomme won
the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature "in special recognition of his poetic
composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection
and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect",
making him the first person ever to win the Prize. In Fine condition (with
a small stain and paper remnant -- presumably from a prior attachment of
the card to another paper -- to the upper left corner, and with a small bit
of wrinkling to the upper right corner), the note provides an excellent
glimpse into the life of an important French author, the first person ever
to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. AN EXCELLENT AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY
SULLY PRUDHOMME WITH STRONG LITERARY RELEVANCE.
 Fine. [No Binding]. (#00004382) *$55.00*


Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Allington Books <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings to All.
>
> Below please find three items signed by winners of the Nobel Prize in
> Literature offered today (only) at very low prices.
>
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> Stephen
> Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
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> Stephen Johnson
> Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
> Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
> www.allingtonbooks.com
> 336-414-0435
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> Eucken, Rudolf [Gell-Mann, Murray]. Die Lebensanschauungen der grossen
> Denker [Unterzeichnet; Signed by Eucken; Murray Gell-Mann's Copy] [The
> Problem and Development of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from
> Plato to the Present] eine Entwicklungsgeschichte des Lebensproblems der
> Menschheit von Plato bis zur Gegenwart von Rudolf Eucken, Professor in
> Jena. Leipzig: Verlag Von Veit & Comp, 1899. First edition thus. A Very
> Good copy of the revised and expanded (by Eucken) edition, bound in
> three-quarter leather with elegant decorative board and with the
> compartmented spine lettered, decorated, and lined in gilt and having a red
> title label and a green author label and the page block's closed edges
> stained red (some minor edge rubbing, light scuffing to the rear board
> leather near the spine, some scuffing to the red spine label, outer board
> corners rubbed through, front board lightly curved at the leading
> extremities, mild damage to and light residue on the front pastedown
> evidently from a bookplate's removal, top portion of the page facing the
> title page clipped off), SIGNED BY RUDOLF EUCKEN on the title page -- text
> in German; Murray Gell-Mann's copy with Gell-Mann's bookplate to the front
> free endpaper. First published in 1890, Eucken, as he explains in his
> second and third forwards, revised and expanded the work in 1896 and then
> again in 1899. Eucken won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in
> recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of
> thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in
> presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and
> developed an idealistic philosophy of life". One of Eucken's best-known and
> most important works, the book presents and critiques the views of great
> philosophers on the problem of human life, including the views of such
> thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Kant, and
> others. Eucken himself maintained that humans have souls, that they
> consequently were at the junction between nature and spirit, and that they
> should seek to overcome their non-spiritual natures and work to achieve a
> more spiritual life. Murray Gell-Mann won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
> "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of
> elementary particles and their interactions". Gell- Mann coined the name
> "Quark" for certain elementary particles, naming them after a line in James
> Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". [Having determined the sound for the word he
> would coin for his discovery, Gell-Mann was for a time uncertain of how he
> would choose to spell it, considering, among other possibilities, spelling
> the sound as "kwork" until, in what he called one of his "occasional
> perusals of Finnegans Wake", he came across the phrase: "Three quarks for
> Muster Mark! / Sure he has not got much of a bark / And sure any he has
> it's all beside the mark." Thus was born a new and important Scientific
> term.] Thus we have one Nobel Prize-winner's copy of another Nobel
> Prize-winner's signed book -- an excellent Association copy.  Signed copies
> of Rudolf Eucken's works are exceedingly difficult to find and our search
> of the auction records reveals only one of his signed books having come to
> auction since 1960. A Very Good copy of Rudolf Eucken's masterpiece, SIGNED
> BY RUDOLF EUCKEN and with an excellent PROVENANCE, BEING THE COPY OF NOBEL
> PRIZE-WINNER MURRAY GELL-MANN. A REMARKABLE AND RARE COPY OF THIS NOTABLE
> WORK. Very Good. Hardcover. (#00003971) *$225.00*
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