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04/01/2024

Check out this. The record has a very interesting story.

Paganini: Violin Concerto #1 In D, Op. 6, Chausson: Poème Royale 1339, 1952. Guila Bustabo (February 25, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was a prominent American concert and recital violinist. Guila Bustabo was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1916[1] as Teressina Bustabo.[2] She began playing the violin ...

02/24/2024

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Stay tuned for audio files and massive write up.... James Joyce Gotham Book Mart Anna Livia Plurabelle Finnegan's wake Rare collectible record spoken word audio book

02/22/2024

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[Clement C. Moore] [Stendhal. (Marie-Henri Beyle.) The Life of Haydn in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna... The Life of Mozart, With Observations on Metastasio, And on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. Tranlated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet.

Clement C. Moore's copy, with his signature on the title page. Clement Moore is most well known for his "A Visit from St. Nicholas", he was a scholar of diverse accomplishments. One of Moore's earliest known works was an anonymous pro-Federalist pamphlet published prior to the 1804 presidential election, attacking the religious and racial views of Thomas Jefferson (the incumbent president and Democratic-Republican candidate). His polemic, titled in full "Observations upon Certain Passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, which Appear to Have a Tendency to Subvert Religion, and Establish a False Philosophy," depicted Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) as an "instrument of infidelity" that "debases the negro to an order of Notes on the State of Virginia creatures lower than those who have a fairer skin and thinner lips."- Wikipedia

Apparently the First American Edition, from the first English Edition published by John Murray in London in 1817. This is Stendhal's first book, written before he took his famous pen-name. While the book is not traditionally held in high regard given that it consists of plagiarization of a few sources, recent scholarship suggests it offers insight into the author's personality and style.

"The life of Haydn is a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine; the biographical part of the Mozart is, practically, a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostom-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart, which in turn is a translation of Schlichtegroll's Mozarts Leben; the last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are Bombet." -COPAC. William Gardiner (1770 - 1853) was the compiler/author of Sacred Melodies (1812 - 1838).

[Stendhal. (Marie-Henri Beyle.) The Life of Haydn in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna... The Life of Mozart, With Observations on Metastasio, And on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. Tranlated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet. Clement C. Moore's copy, with his signature on the t...

05/29/2023

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05/25/2023

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Very early work boon on guitar! Link in the comments

05/02/2023

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Rees-Mogg, William (ed). The Case for Gold. Published by Pickering & Chatto, 2002 Avery good set.

04/24/2023

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Elbert Benjamine. Astrodyne Manual. Los Angeles: The Church of Light, 1950. Original wrappers, 100pp. Very scarce, no copies found for sale, two only on worldcat.

04/15/2023

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The Notable History of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States. Chicago: Donnehue, Henneberry & Co., [1895 circa] 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 16pp, card stock covers. Cover and five full page chromolithograph illustrations, several black and white illustrations within text. A very g...

12/24/2021

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03/16/2021

See link in bio for our children’s book elist... The Story of Robin Hood. NY: Mc Laughlin Bros, [not before 1917?]

12pp includes wraps (uniform paper)color printed cover and four full page color plates, two color vignettes. 230 x 170mm.

Not scarce in institutional collections, scarce in commerce.