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32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera
For passionate collectors and researchers, 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera discovers and preserves the authentic stories of cultural history. We provide a meticulously curated collection of over 13,000 rare books and ephemera items from pivotal social movements, scientific and artistic achievements and underrepresented voices, making significant historical artifacts accessible to all.
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Robert Ludlum The Scarlatti Inheritance
$300.00
Cleveland: World, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo., 358 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good, lightly rubbed, intact glassine dust jacket which is nearly always chipped or torn. Item #906202522
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Author’s first book. Ludlum wrote a total of 27 novels and is best known for his Bourne Trilogy. The Scarlatti Inheritance was the first of his novels to be published. Many of his works were made into movies but strangely enough this was not one of them. Producer Albert R. Broccoli had the rights to the film and Ingrid Bergman was penciled in as the star but she backed out because of the lengthy production schedule.Â
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Boardinghouse Culture
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894) The Autocrat Of The Breakfast-Table [Fine Binding, H M Brock Illustrations, Temple Classics Era, Gift Book Leather] A turn of the century ‘breakfast table’ classic dressed like a jewel box, all gilt flowers and marbled panels.
$225.00A handsome 1902 illustrated edition of Holmes’s famous conversational essays, a book that reads like a series of bright table-talk performances, witty, humane, and sharply observed. This Dent and Houghton Mifflin issue is strengthened by H M Brock’s line drawings and offered here in an eye-catching leather binding with bold marbled inlays, the sort of small-format book that was meant to be handled, gifted, and kept. Physical description: Leather binding in green, with gilt ruled frame and gilt floral tools to spine compartments, large marbled inlay panels to front and rear boards framed by gilt rules, marbled endpapers, tope edge gilt, illustrated throughout by H M Brock, printed title page states London, J M Dent & Co, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co, dated 1902, text pagination reported as xxi, [1] 2-318 pp for this illustrated Dent issue, small format at approximately 7.5 × 4.5 in Condition statement: The bindings are tight and square, text is clean, light, even age-toning, modest shelf handling wear, gilt remains bright on the spine, marbled endpapers and board inlays present well, 1902 illustrated Dent and Houghton Mifflin issue Holmes frames the book as a series of morning conversations led by an ‘autocrat’ at the boarding-house table, then uses that setup to range widely, personality, education, medicine, literature, religion, reform, habits of mind, and the small vanities that make people both ridiculous and lovable. The voice is quick and companionable, closer to a brilliant magazine column than a formal essay, with sudden turns into tenderness and then back to satire. Brock’s illustrations reinforce the social comedy, giving the reader faces and gestures for the scenes Holmes keeps tossing across the table Contextual or historical significanceHolmes helped define a distinctly American mode of public intellectual writing for the mid 19th century, playful, moral without being heavy, and skeptical of fashionable certainty. This 1902 illustrated issue reflects the long afterlife of the book as a classic of reading culture, revived for gift and library shelves in a compact, decorative format, no major film tie-in applies Subjects: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, 19th century American essays, Boardinghouse culture, Conversation and manners, Satire, Boston intellectual history, Illustrated books, Fine bindings, H M Brock, Genres, American Literature, Essays, Humor, Social Commentary.
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A FIRST EDITION IN DJ OF BALDWIN'S MASTERPIECE
Baldwin, James ANOTHER COUNTRY
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