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Christy, Howard Chandler
Americans All! Victory Liberty Loan: Du Bois, Smith et. al.

Boston: Forbes, 1919. Howard Chandler Christy. First Edition. Linen-backed
Poster. A Fine copy of this ORIGINAL LIBERTY LOAN POSTER designed by Howard
Chandler Christie and showing Lady Columbia (an Allegorical female figure
of America) hanging a wreath above the Honor Roll, being a list of ethnic
European surnames united in generous sacrifice for America. This beautiful
Poster measures approximately 26 3/4 inches X approximately 40 inches and
which has been professionally mounted on Linen measuring approximately 30
3/4 inches X 44 1/4 inches and was issued to promote the Fifth Liberty
Loan, the final of the Liberty Bonds, itself designated as the "Victory
Loan", making this Poster one of the last American Posters issued in World
War I to encourage support of the War. The United States entered the war in
1917. [On April 2, 1917, President Wilson went before a joint session of
Congress to request a declaration of War against Germany, citing Germany's
violation of its promise to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the
North Atlantic and the Mediterranean (which included attacks against
American naval forces as well as passenger and commercial ships serving
other European nations), as well as the American-perceived attempts by
Germany to entice Mexico into an alliance against United States. Once the
United States entered the War, the U.S. Government needed to raise funds to
pay for tanks, airplanes, ships, as well ammunition, to fight the war. In
order to raise large sums quickly, the Government issued war bonds in a
Liberty Loans program. The posters encouraged civilians to purchase a
Liberty Loan bond which the purchaser could later sell back to the
Government at a profit. The Poster's artist was famed American Artist
Howard Chandler Christy and, unlike the earlier Posters, this Poster was
issued was launched in April 1919, more than 5 months after the war ended.
Two million men were still overseas and the government needed more funds to
support them and to eventually bring them home. The Honor Roll here appeals
to Americans of different nationalities who had family perish in combat,
trying to convince Americans that it was their patriotic duty to buy war
bonds by thus listing names from many different nationalities on the Honor
Roll. Christy (January 10, 1872 – March 3, 1952) was a portrait painter
whose sitters included presidents, senators, industrialists, movies stars,
and socialites. From Wikipedia: "Christy first attracted attention with his
realistic illustrations and several articles as a combat artist during the
Spanish–American War that included the Battle of Las Guasimas, the Battle
of El Caney and the Battle of San Juan Hill, published in Scribner's,
Harper's, and Leslie's Weekly magazines, and in Collier's Weekly. Christy
gained especial prominence with the series, Men of the Army and Navy, and a
portrait of Colonel Roosevelt that appeared on the cover of his Rough
Riders series published in Scribner's. These illustrations propelled
Christy to national prominence. From this, he decided to turn away from war
and painting men in uniform. Instead, he yearned for beauty and created the
"Christy Girl", redefining the portrayal of women in America through his
illustrations and portraits. He painted patriotic posters for the US Navy
and US Marine Corps. He is also known for his illustrations of the works of
such as the well-known war correspondent, Richard Harding Davis." In spite
of its great age, this Poster shows very little damage. The Professional
mounting of the poster on Linen protects its integrity and any tears or
other damage is very difficult to discern. [The images show spots were a
tear may have existed, but the mounting of the Poster on Linen would have
closed the tears, and the images include parts of the Poster which may have
been torn, but even though we posted the images of places where a tear MAY
have been present, in each case we are not sure that a tear was ever
there.] A STUNNING ORIGINAL OF THIS NOTABLE WORLD WAR I POSTER. Originals
of the Poster in a condition as nice as is this one are EXCEEDINGLY
DIFFICULT TO FIND ON THE MARKET. [The Poster will ship rolled.] Near fine.
Item #3161

Price: $835.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $245.
Coffin, Haskell [Illustrator]
Original World War I Poster: SHARE IN THE VICTORY // save for your country
[War Savings Stamps emblem] save for yourself // BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

[1918]. No Binding. In this lithographic poster from 1918, the American
painter and illustrator Haskell Coffin rendered an allegorical figure of
winged Victory carrying a sword and palm branch. Filling the sheet, she
exemplifies the American Renaissance ideals of beauty and classicism
prevalent in art in the US at the end of the 19th century. A plea for
buying war savings stamps and encouraging thrift, the poster urged viewers
to “save for your country, save for yourself.” In Coffin’s words, he chose
to render a “lyric” version of Victory, favoring “sweetness and tenderness”
over the “vain and glorious (The Elevator Constructor 16, no. 5, May 1919).
Coffin preferred depicting young, attractive, and fashionable women as his
main subjects, and these images often graced the covers of magazines, such
as Leslie’s Illustrated, Photoplay, Redbook, and the Saturday Evening Post.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved with his family to Washington,
D.C., and trained there at the Corcoran School of Art and with the academic
painter Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris at the Académie Julian. [PLEASE NOTE:
The foregoing text has been quoted from www. Google. Arts and Culture.] The
Poster has a number of edge tears and the two that extend into the
illustration. [see images] To the Poster's verso at the two that tears that
extend unto the blue of the illustration we have added a small piece of
archival tape to prevent such tears from extending. This lithograph sheet
measures approximately 30 inches by approximately 20 inches. Very good +.
[The Poster will ship rolled.].   Item #3265

Price: $185.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $90.
Wurlitzer, Rudy; Peckinpah, Sam; [Dylan, Bob]
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid [Rare German Poster from Bob Dylan Movie: Pat
Garrett Chases Billy the Kid]

No Stated Place of Publication: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1973. First
German Edition. [Poster - No Binding]. "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"
starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan. The film centers
around an aging Pat Garrett who is hired by a group of wealthy New Mexico
cattle barons to kill his old friend Billy the Kid who had escaped from
jail. In the film, soon after his arrival Billy is confronted by three
strangers seeking to kill him. All three assailants are killed in a
shootout where Billy is aided by a fourth stranger named "Alias" (Blob
Dylan) who kills one of the assailants by knifing him in the neck. Dylan
composed a number of songs for the movie's score and soundtrack album "Pat
Garrett & Billy the Kid" which was released in the same year as the movie.
The film was nominated for two BAFTA Awards: for Film Music (Bob Dylan) and
Most Promising Newcomer (Kris Kristofferson), as well as for a Grammy as
Album of Best Original Score (Bob Dylan). The soundtrack includes the
classic Dylan song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" -- which was a huge
international hit. [Notably, Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in
Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great
American song tradition."] The film also was notable for continual
behind-the-scenes battles between Peckinpah and the production company
(MGM). Shortly after its completion, the film was taken out of Peckinpah's
control and was substantially reedited at MGM's insistence, resulting in a
shortened version being released to theaters. [This reedited version was
largely disowned by the film's cast and crew.] Ultimately, Peckinpah's
original version was released on video in 1998 and many critics declared
the Peckinpah version to be one of the era's best films. The poster, which
measures approximately 33 inches X 23 1/4 inches, is in about Near-Fine
condition with pin holes near the corners, slight wear to the poster's
edge, three horizontal folds and one vertical one. [Bob Dylan won the 2016
Nobel Prize in Literature.] QUITE SCARCE. Near fine. Item #3074

Price: $225.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $65.


Donleavy, J. P.
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S. [SIGNED]

New York: Delacorte, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very
Good + to Near Fine copy in the Publisher's original orange cloth (slight
bumps to the leading board corners and modest wear to the spine ends), in a
Very Good dust jacket with some minor chipping, some tiny edge tears, a
short tear to the lower front panel where it meets the flap fold, and a
longer tear to the rear panel with a tape repair to the rear panel's verso.
The book received excellent reviews with the New York Times describing it
as "“Zany…comic…brilliant”, The National Observer called it "Donleavy’s
best work since The Ginger Man”, and TIME magazine stated: "In this short
novel J.P. Donleavy writes of the tiny battle waged for survival of the
spirit in bedrooms and hearts the world over. Samuel S, hero of lonely
principles, holds out in his bereft lighthouse in Vienna. Abigail, an
American college girl on the prowl In Europe, drawn by the beacon of this
strange out-post, seeks in her own emancipation the seduction of Samuel S,
the last of the world’s solemn failures. Samuel S is the liveliest of
loonies.” This copy has been placed, dated, and signed on the front free
endpaper by J. P. Donleavy as follows: "Levington Park / Mullingar / 24 Jan
1994 // J. P. Donleavy". The book contains a letter on Levington Park,
Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland headed stationary (Donleavy's home in
Ireland) enclosing the signed book, signed by Jacqueline Killard as
Donleavy's secretary, and dated 26 January 1994. Also loosely laid in are
the canceled Irish stamps used on the parcel in which the book was sent
from Ireland to the prior owner. SIGNED COPIES OF THIS NOTABLE J. P.
DONLEAVY WORK ARE SCARCE AND SIGNED COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION ARE SCARCER
STILL. QUITE SCARCE. $325. Very good + / very good. Item #3023

Price: $325.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $125.


Wilson, August
The Piano Lesson [with Review Slip]

New York: Dutton, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine,
Superior, tight and unread, copy of the First Edition, First Printing
(slight lean to the right), in a Fine dust jacket (some age toning to the
blank verso's edges), TOGETHER WITH A REVIEW SLIP for the then-pending
publication of the first paperback edition by Plume seeking
reviews/comments for use in connection therewith loosely laid in. [Both
Dutton and Plume were, at that time, part of the Penguin Publishing Group.]
"The Piano Lesson" is an installment in Wilson's famed "Pittsburgh Cycle"
[also known as the "American Century Cycle"] of Plays which explores 100
years of the African American experience in America, each Play being set in
a different decade of the Twentieth Century ["Jitney" (set in 1977),
"Fences" (set in 1957), "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (set in 1927), "Joe
Turner's Come and Gone" (set in 1911), "The Piano Lesson" (set in 1936),
"Two Trains Running" (set in 1969), "Seven Guitars" (set in 1948), "King
Hedley II" (set in 1985), "Gem of the Ocean" (set in 1904), and "Radio
Golf" (set in 1990)]. The Plays were neither written nor first performed in
chronological order. "The Piano Lesson" won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama ("Fences" having won that esteemed Award for 1987). A Fine, Superior
copy; QUITE SCARCE -- AND POSSIBLY RARE -- TO THE MARKET. Fine / fine. Item
#3262

Price: $325.00  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $125.


Sadleir, Michael
Things Past

London: Constable, 1944. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. A Very
Good copy of the first edition, second printing, issued in the same month
as was the first printing, in the Publisher's original violet cloth (which
is somewhat askew and shows a spot to the spine panel and some light
edgewear) in the Publisher's original dust jacket in Very Good condition
(which shows some tiny tears as well as some pushing and slight loss to the
spine panel's top edge. The volume contains a group of Essays by Sadeir
written by him and and some of which were read by him to his father
(Michael Sadlier) during his father's last illness. Topics include, but are
not limited to, Henry Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Mary
Elizabeth Braddon, Jane Austen and the Gothic Romance, Archdeacon Francis
Wrangham, Disraeli, and more. Of this book, James Agate, writing in the
Daily Press, stated: "This is a book of essays by one of the most
distinguished and erudite biographers of our time ... Its scope is
immensely varied; it is the product of an exquisite mind which is also a
full mind." This copy is the only copy that we ever have seen in the dust
jacket. QUITE SCARCE TO THE MARKET IN THE DUST JACKET. Very good / very
good. Item #3258

Price: $125.00   TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $45


Van Noppen, Leonard Charles; Van Noppen, Adah [Grierson, Francis; Markham,
Edwin; Markham, Catherine; Rittenhouse, Jesse B.; Weber, Max; de Fornaro,
Carlo; Konno, Takeshi; Kumar, Benoy; [Kumar, Binoy]; Kathryn White; Eudy,
Mary Cummings; Gibran, Kahlil; Matthews, Charles Elk; Kloos, Willem, and
many others.
ORIGINAL SIGNATURE BOOK OF LEONARD VAN NOPPEN AND ADAH VAN NOPPEN: Travel
and Signature Diary of American Poet and Diplomat Leonard Van Noppen and
his wife, Adah Van Noppen [Signed by Leonard Van Noppen, Ada Van Noppen,
Francis Grierson, Edwin Markham, Catherine Markham, Jesse B. Rittenhouse,
Kahlil Gibran, Max Weber, Kathryn White Ryan, Mary Cummings Eudy, Charles
Elkins Matthews, Alma Reed, Willem Kloos, Jeanne Reyneke-Kloos van Stewe
(also as Jacqueline Reyneke v Stewe) & many others

[Unpublished]: [No Publisher]. Original Signature Book. Hardcover.  The
original Travel and Signature Diary of Leonard Van Noppen and his wife Adah
Van Noppen, bound in the Diary's original vellum. The book is worn and
numerous pages are loose from the binding but present. Two pages and a
partial page have been excised. The volume hosts some plant material
loosely laid in, presumably taken from places the van Noppen's visited.
Leonard Charles Van Noppen was a Dutch-born, American-educated, academic
and Professor at Columbia University, translator, and Poet, who also served
as an American Naval Attache at the Hague and who, as a member of the
United States Naval Reserves authored "The Challenge: War Chants of the
Allies, Wise and Otherwise". Some of his Poems, along with those of Rudyard
Kipling, John Galsworthy, Edith Wharton, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc,
Henry Van Dyke, Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, and others,
were Anthologized in "A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems
of the World War, 1914—1919". Van Noppen is also noted for his translation
of Joost van den Vondel's "Lucifer" into English. Van Noppen and his wife,
Adah (who was associated with the Universal Order, a mystical cult),
traveled the world and met numerous Literary and Political figures, many of
which have signed this Diary, often with inscriptions of various natures.
The many signatures and entries include, among many others the following:
Kahlil Gibran, author of "The Prophet", one of the best-selling books of
all time (who wrote "and now let us sing altogether", followed by his
signature); Francis Grierson (pen name of Benjamin Henry Jesse Francis
Shepard) the author, composer, pianist, and spiritualist; Edwin Markham:
American Poet [In 1922, Markham's poem "Lincoln, the Man of the People" was
selected from 250 entries to be read at the dedication of the Lincoln
Memorial. Markham himself read the poem and Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton
called it "...the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and
the greatest that ever will be written."]; Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy"
Lind af Hageby: a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who
became a prominent antivivisection activist in England in the early 20th
century; Catherine Maclennan; Jessie B. Rittenhouse: Poet, Literary Critic,
anthologist who also was the daughter of John Edward and Mary Rittenhouse;
Mary J. Ball; Nola Logan; Adah B. van Noppen; Leonard van Noppen; Marion N.
Taylor; Philip Sumner Spence: osteopath and campaigner for exercise in
children's schools; Max Weber: the German sociologist, philosopher, jurist,
and political economist, quite important theorist on the development of
modern Western society whose ideas greatly influenced social theory and
social research; Eugene Higgens: heir to a carpet business, a bon vivant,
and considered by many to be the most eligible bachelor in New York; Carlo
de Fornaro (who signed the book in the manner he used to sign his
caricatures "C. de Fornaro"): famed Writer and Caricaturist who was one of
the first critics in the American press to differentiate the caricaturist
art form from the cartoon distortions often found on a newspaper's
editorial page; Kathryn White Ryan: Poet [beneath her holographic Poem "The
Tangerine Bowl"]; Mary Cummings Eudy: Poet [below her brief holographic
poem "I Believe"]; Violet Anderson; Edward Christian Anderson: Poet, signed
above a one-verse holographic Poem; Kate Gertrude Hill; Gertrude
Farquharson Boyle Kanno: Sculptor; Francis Oppenheimer; George Barnard;
Bronislawa du Brissrae; Edna Castleware Bailey [below a holographic portion
of her Poem "Swan"]; Ernest Bancroft; Aida Foster Alden, [Joyce Kilmer's
wife's sister]; Constance Murray Greer; George Watson Cole: American
librarian and bibliographer named in 1999 as one of 100 American librarians
who made a lasting impact on library service and the nation; Laura Ward
Cole; Suno Hossain (Indian independence advocate and India's first
Ambassador to Egypt); Bio De Casseres: Author and wife of Benjamin De
Casseres, an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet; Mary
Marguerite de Vyner; Sarojini Naidu: Indian political activist and Poet. A
proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic
ideas, and an important figure in India's struggle for independence from
colonial rule [below a short newspaper clipping about her daughter Padmaja
Naidu's arrest]; Gladys Edgerton; Emily D. Dury; Frances E. Dury; Nona Sum;
Constant van de Wall: European-Javanese Composer; Maria van de Wall-van
Noppen; Low Olga; Kahlil Gibran [a/k/a Kahlil Gibran] who, above his
signature, has written "And now let us sing altogether" 1929; Kathryn M.
Campbell; Hermine Haedenberg; Arthur Hartmann????; Georges Heupgen: Belgian
Professor, lawyer and politician; Leily G. Kertland; Sosro Kartono (with
Kartono's card laid in); Gertrude Boyle Kanno; Takeshi Kanno: Text in
Japanese then "Takeshi Kanno" then text in Japanese then "I love therefore
I live. 1917"; Edward B. Koster below his holographic poetry titled
Evenwicht; Willem Kloos, noted Poet [whose writings become part of the
canon of Dutch literature, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature five (5) times and was a member of "The Tachtigers"
("Eightiers"), otherwise known as the Movement of Eighty (Dutch: Beweging
van Tachtig), were a radical and influential group of Dutch writers who
developed a new approach in 19th-century Dutch literature. They interacted
and worked together in Amsterdam from the 1880s] [Kloos has signed below
his inscription]; Jacqueline Reyenke v Stewe: Dutch Writer and wife of
Willem Kloos [who has signed below her inscription and who has signed a
second time below a separate inscription using her married name "Jenne
Kloos-Reyneke van Stewe" ]; Fiore della Neve: (pseud. van M.G.L. van
Loghem), Author, Translator, Lyricist, Correspondent, Editor; Salvatore
Lascari: American painter, sculptor, and muralist, winner of the Prix de
Rome, a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and
sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of
France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome
for three to five years at the expense of the state.; Stani Guestafson
Lascari; Bivnty Vishon Mukerji; Paquita Madriguera (Francisca "Paquita"
Madriguera Rodon, a child prodigy on piano who studied with Enrique
Granados as a girl); F. R. Madriguera; E. R. Madriguara; Charles Elkin
Mathews (who signed as "C. Elkin Mathews"): Publisher who was in
partnership with Lane both for selling and publishing books, particularly
belles letters (their reputation reached its height with the publication of
The Yellow Book in 1894). The pair then split (with Lane forming the Bodley
Head and Mathews forming his only publishing company "Elkin Mathews", the
first publisher of such authors as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and
Robert Bridges); Ruby Cross Martin; Howard P. Michener; Ramona Crampton
Michener; Howard P. Michener, Jr.; Tommy B. Morrison; Maude M. Morrison
(who wrote a note about the van Noppen's visit to their Mountain home,
apparently in Sugar Run, Pennsylvania); Anna J. Morrison; Edwin Markham
(again): American Poet who wrote "We sell our eyes for candles!" above his
signature; Hemendra K. Rakshit: Author; Alice E. Rumph: painter of
watercolors and pastels, as well as an etcher, and an art teacher; Richard
S. Reynolds (nephew of R. J. Reynolds of tobacco fame) and wife Louise P.
Reynolds; Dhindera Kumer Sarkar; Eva Sikelianos: Evelina "Eva"
Palmer-Sikelianos was an American woman notable for her study and promotion
of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theater, choral dance and music.; Alma
Reed: Author; Ethel Deodata Earle; Ines Capponi Thomas; Henry Wilton
Thomas: author; Ali Nomad [who also signed as Alexander McIvor-Tyndall --
with "Ali Nomad" being his pseudonym]: author, hypnotist, showman and
speaker who wrote "Cosmic Consciousness: The Man-God Whom We Await" and
other works; Mrs. Alex J. McIv. Tyndall; Hendrikus Van Wesep; William
Wallace Whitelock: Author; (Baroness) Mary von Stackhausen Whitelock, wife
of William Wallace Whitelock, Otto von Stackhausen, her son; Marie
Youshkeyoich; Sosro Kartono below his holographic inscription; and many
others. [Several signatures on one page -- E.B. White, Sherwood Anderson,
James Thurber, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara --
appear on separate pieces of paper that have been pasted in and likely were
added after Van Noppen's possession of the volume ended. Consequently, we
make no representation, warranty, or guarantee whatsoever with respect to
them, but mention them because they are there.] The volume ends with a list
of Bible references followed by various musical references. The volume,
which, of course, has been handled quite a bit, shows general wear and a
number of pages are loose. In short, the volume is a sort of memoir of a
quite active man's life and a Who's Who of prominent persons, male and
female, in the early twenty-first Century, a gathering of a character and
content seldom seen An EXCEPTIONAL RECORD OF A LIFE AND A REMARKABLE
GATHERING OF SIGNATURES. QUITE REMARKABLE AND RARE. About Very Good. Item
#3241

Price: $3,500.  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE FOR $875.



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