{"title":"New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2026","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhen sorted by Catalogue #, items will display as follows. You can also sort alphabetically or by price.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComposers \u0026amp; Opera: Items 1 - 29\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJazz \u0026amp; Song: Items 30 - 41\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDance: Items 42 - 48\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilm \u0026amp; Theatre: Items 49 - 57\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Art: Items 59 - 104\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Culture: Items 105 - 122\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"4172-verdi-giuseppe-personally-worn-eyeglasses","title":"Verdi, Giuseppe. (1813–1901) Personally Worn Eyeglasses","description":"\u003cp\u003ePair of small eyeglasses purchased by Verdi in Paris and presumably worn on his country sojourns. Blue tinted lenses, together with the leather pouch gilt-stamped \"Delahaye Opticien. 14 Passage Verdeau, Paris.\" Temples 110 mm long, maximum diameter of the oblong lenses 35 mm. Right lense cracked, separation of the case clasp, else fine. An extraordinary memento of one of the most influential figures in the history of opera, and whose works, including such classics as \u003cem\u003eRigoletto\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLa Traviata\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAïda\u003c\/em\u003e, are a cornerstone of the genre. Provenance: Christie's, June 14, 2001, lot 41(illustrated); Private Collection, NY. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe find mention of the Delahaye opticians in annual issues of the Parisian \u003cem\u003eAlmanach du Commerce\u003c\/em\u003e, beginning in 1855, the same year in which Verdi's \u003cem\u003eLes vêpres siciliennes\u003c\/em\u003e was premiered at the Paris Opéra, on 13 June 1855. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1847, Verdi left for London for the world premiere of I Masnadieri, then settled in Paris where he met up with Giuseppina Strepponi, who would create the role of Abigaille. They would never be separated again. Verdi purchased the property at Sant’Agata, near Busseto and openly enlisted in the struggle for the liberation of Italy, which was then occupied by the Austrians. After 1850, Verdi was unrivaled in Italy. In particular, his popular trilogy, Rigoletto – Il Trovatore – La Traviata dates from this period. Les Vêpres siciliennes (Paris, 1855), Simon Boccanegra (La Fenice in Venice, 1857), Un ballo in maschera (Rome, 1859), La Forza del destino (Saint Petersburg, 1862), Don Carlos (Paris, 1867), Aida (Cairo, 1871), the Messa di Requiem (Milan, 1874), Otello (Milan, 1887), and Falstaff (Milan, 1893) would follow. In 1861, he was elected deputy of Busseto. He passed away in Milan on January 27, 1901.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093216546975,"sku":"4172","price":18000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Verdi_GiuseppePersonalyWornEyeglasses4172a.jpg?v=1770424135"},{"product_id":"4793-civil-war-black-james-w-rare-photograph-of-black-regiment-drummer","title":"[Civil War] Black, James W. (1825 - 1896) Rare Photograph of Black Regiment Drummer","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal CDV photograph by the important early American photographer, J.W. Black. In fine condition, with the photographer's 173 Washington St., Boston imprint on the verso. A highly unusual image of an African-American man in uniform, seated on the ground with legs splayed apart, mallet raised in his right hand with his arm obscuring his face, and a large drum resting at his feet. A visually striking image of an unusually candid and impromptu pose. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproximately 180,000 African-Americans, many of whom were formerly enslaved, volunteered for service during the Civil War. This total represented about 10% of the Union forces and they officially began to fill the ranks after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued in the fall of 1862.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe subject of the present photograph may have been a drummer from the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a regiment that was one of the first official black units in the United States armed forces and which saw extensive federal service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Frederick Douglass helped to bring African American troops to the Union Army, and his good relationship with President Lincoln helped convince the President to make emancipation a cause of the Civil War. Two of Douglass' sons served in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which was made up entirely of African American volunteers and was commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Wallace Black, known professionally as J.W. Black, was an early American photographer whose career was marked by experimentation and innovation. In March 1860, Black was commissioned by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ethe publishing firm of Thayer and Eldridge to photograph Walt Whitman when he was in Boston to oversee the typesetting of his 1860 edition of \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass,\u003c\/em\u003e Black's studio at 173 Washington Street less than a block from the publishing firm of Thayer and Eldridge. Later, Black made the first successful aerial photographs in the United States and was also the leading authority on the use of the magic lantern, a candlelight-powered projector that was a predecessor of today's slide projectors. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThere are hundreds of J.W. 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(1819–1892) [Phillips \u0026 Taylor, Philadelphia] Original Photograph with a Butterfly, 1873","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal 4 x 5.5 half-length albumen photo of a seated Whitman with a butterfly perched on his outstretched finger, affixed to a 6 x 8.5 mount. In very good condition, with light overall spotting to image and some light rippling, foxing and soiling to mount.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhillips \u0026amp; Taylor in Philadelphia, 1873, this was one\u003c\/span\u003e of Whitman’s favorite photographs, and it was this image which Whitman\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egave to Oscar Wilde when they met in 1882 and which he later \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eselected as the frontispiece of the 1889 birthday edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e. “\u003cspan\u003eYes–that was an actual moth...the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends: I had quite the in-and-out of taming, or fraternizing with, some of the insects, animals,” Whitman told the historian William Roscoe Thayer. \u003c\/span\u003e Years later Whitman’s “butterfly” was found in the Library of Congress. It was made of cardboard; it had been tied to his finger with string.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860 and 1881 editions of Leaves: a hand with a butterfly\/perched on a finger. Dr. R. M. 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(1934 - 2025) Signed Autograph Questionnaire","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interesting signed and hand completed questionnaire from the British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. 1 page, n.p, n.d., answering the questions \"What do you want to be remembered for?\"; \"What accomplishment means the most to you?\" and \"Who inspired you?\" 8.5 x 11 inches (21.5 x 28 cm.). Creases from mailing, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093486358687,"sku":"12458","price":675.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Goodall_2C_Jane_Signed_Autograph_Questionnaire_12458.jpg?v=1722188342"},{"product_id":"12585-verdi-giuseppe-sinigaglia-leone-signed-photograph-to-leone-sinigaglia","title":"Verdi, Giuseppe. (1813–1901) [Sinigaglia, Leone. (1868 - 1944)] Signed Photograph to Leone Sinigaglia","description":"Superb signed photograph of the great Italian composer who takes a place among the most influential figures in the history of opera and whose works, including such classics as Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Aïda, are a cornerstone of the genre. Original cabinet photograph by Pagliano e Ricordi (Milano), signed and inscribed in ink to fellow composer Leone Sinigaglia \"Al Sr. Leonino Sinigaglia...G. Verdi \/ Milano 9 Feb 1887.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Turin into an upper-middle-class family, Sinigaglia knew the leading figures of thought, arts and science that lived in the city at the time.  In 1888 Sinigaglia began to travel: after spells in several European cities, from 1894 he lived in Vienna, where he associated with Johannes Brahms from whom he developed a taste for so-called absolute music, studying with Eusebius Mandyczewski. In these years he wrote several Lieder and the Concerto for violin and orchestra, opus 20.  From 1900 he worked in Prague with Antonín Dvořák (whom he possibly met through his friendship with the Bohemian Quartet in Vienna). His productivity diminished progressively in the following decades, during which European music underwent far-reaching changes. He died during the Second World War, in tragic circumstances: his Jewish origins made him subject to the persecutions of the Nazi police who occupied Turin during 1944; despite his 75 years he was to be sent to Germany as slave labour, but suffered a fatal heart attack at the moment of his arrest.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093490552991,"sku":"12585","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Verdi_2C_Giuseppe_sig_photo_Sinigaglia_12585.jpg?v=1722188370"},{"product_id":"15261-kircher-athanasius-1601-1680-musurgia-universalis","title":"Kircher, Athanasius. (1601–1680) Musurgia Universalis","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003eMusurgia Universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta. Qua universa sonorum doctrina, et philosophia, musicaeque... aperiuntur et demonstrantur. Tomus I [-II qui continet... musicam mirificam... magiam consoni et dissoni... harmoniam mundi]. 2 parts in one volume. Folio. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003ePart I: 1f. (fine full-page engraved pictorial title by Baronius after a drawing by Paul Schor, incorporating a Canon Angelicus for 9 choirs of 36 voices), 1f. (recto title with vignette, verso contents), 1f. (fine full-page dedicatory engraving of Leopold-Guillaume, Archduke of Austria, by Paul Ponti after Paul Schor, dated 1649), 9ff., 690 (=692) pp. + 11 numbered plates (I-X, XIII) printed on one side of each of 10 leaves; Part II: 2ff. (title with vignette, fine full-page engraved frontispiece), 462 pp. + 18 ff. (indexes and errata) + 12 numbered plates (XI-XI, XIV-XXXIII) printed on one side of each of 11 leaves. The two volumes thus contain 3 unnumbered full-page plates together with 23 numbered plates printed on 21 leaves (plates IV and V are printed on a single leaf, as are plates XI and XII). The plates are all finely engraved and illustrate a variety of musical instruments, among them the harpsichord, organ, strings and winds. With numerous woodcut illustrations, diagrams, tables, etc. within text, including many of musical instruments. Musical examples printed typographically in diamond-head notation, including many of various musical forms including multiple contrapuntal part-writing. Some mispagination to Part I at pp. 554-560 and errors in pagination from page 577 on.  Contemporary vellum (somewhat stained and rubbed. Some slight staining or browning, initially slightly tidemarked, folding plates some small tears in margin, title of part I with restored tear lower right. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eDamschroder pp. 139-140. Cortot pp. 99-100. Hirsch I, 266. Gregory-Bartlett I, p. 135. Wolffheim I, 732. RISM BVI p. 449. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThis extraordinarily wide-ranging seventeenth-century work on music was written by the German Jesuit priest and scholar Athanasius Kircher, a polymath who authored books on subjects including religion, geology, medicine, history, and music. The \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMusurgia universalis\u003c\/i\u003e was Kircher's attempt to bring together the complete musical knowledge of his day, and includes much valuable material including musical examples, some of which are complete works, engraved plates of musical instruments, plans for the construction of organs, and even notation of birdsong. Arguably the most spectacular seventeenth-century book on music, it is a cornerstone of the literature.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMusurgia universalis\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the really influential works of music theory, was drawn upon by almost every later German music theorist until well into the 18th century… Much of Kircher’s contrapuntal doctrine derives from Zarlino, and in this and some other respects \u003ci\u003eMusurgia universalis\u003c\/i\u003e presents a synthesis of 16th- and 17th-century Italian and German compositional practices. A specifically German feature, however, is the description of the affective nature of music, in which Kircher brought the concept of \u003ci style=\"\"\u003emusica pathetica\u003c\/i\u003e into relation with the formal constructive elements of rhetorical doctrine... His ideas concerning the classification of musical styles, based on sociological as well as national characteristics, are also original and important for the study of Baroque music... Although he was apparently not a practising musician he was able to identify the best music composed and performed in his own (and earlier) times. In \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMusurgia universalis\u003c\/i\u003e he quoted frequently extensive music examples from composers such as Agazzari, Gregorio Allegri, Carissimi, Froberger, Gesualdo, Kapsberger, Domenico Mazzocchi and Morales. Other aspects of his treatise that contribute to an understanding of 17th-century musical thought include the lengthy discussions of acoustics, musical instruments..., the history of music in ancient cultures and the therapeutic value of music.\" (George J. 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Some edge wear and chips; overall in fine condition. 8.75 x 12.25 inches (21 x 30 cm.) From the workshop of cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eWegner's high quality and thoughtful work, along with a concerted effort from several of his manufacturers, contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design. His style is often described as Organic Functionality, a modernist school with emphasis on functionality. This school of thought arose primarily in Scandinavian countries with contributions by Poul Henningsen, Alvar Aalto, and Arne Jacobsen. In his lifetime he designed over 500 different chairs, over 100 of which were put into mass production and many of which have become recognizable design icons.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093580730527,"sku":"15319","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Wegner_Table_Design_15319_001.png?v=1722188970"},{"product_id":"16608-givenchy-hubert-de-the-little-black-dress-audrey-hepburn-in-breakfast-at-tiffany-s","title":"Givenchy, Hubert de. 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A brilliant original sketch which is unmistakably the 'little black dress' Givenchy designed for actress Audrey Hepburn in the classic 1961 romantic comedy, the dress which has been voted the most iconic movie dress in the history of cinema.  We could find no record of a signed Givenchy drawing of his most famous design having appeared on the market. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe French aristocrat and fashion designer founded The House of Givenchy in 1952 and is celebrated in particular for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eHubert de Givenchy was that rare designer whose work reached everyone from fashion aficionados to the casual observer. It defined an era. It helped to create the foundation for what it means to be a fashion icon. His work told the story of glamorous sophistication, female rebellion and the complexities of beauty and desire.  \u003c\/span\u003eHe achieved this remarkable feat with a single little black satin dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the opening sequence of 1961’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” From the front, the dress was simple enough: sleek and sleeveless with a flattering bateau neckline. From the back, it was dynamic, sexy and utterly sophisticated with its geometric cutouts and the alluring way it framed the nape of the neck.  That moment in that dress tells the audience a lot about Hepburn’s character, Holly Golightly. For one thing, it’s a cocktail dress — an evening dress — and there she is standing on the street peering into the store window with her breakfast. She has been out all night and she does not look wrecked. In fact, she looks splendid.  The dress is not easy to wear. It follows the curves of the body. It reveals the arms. But it’s not a dress that constrains a woman. It requires effort but not sacrifice. The dress is special. It makes a woman want to slink about, controlled and teasing. It’s possible to envision it on all sorts of shapes — slim, like Hepburn, but also curvy. And it looks as perfect in 2018 as it did 50 years ago.  Givenchy didn’t invent the little black dress, but he gave it its enduring cachet. He infused it with meaning beyond the practical and versatile. The dress represented a lifestyle: glamorous, reckless, defiant, urbane. It was Holly Golightly’s dress. She was complicated and sad, confounding and charming. She was not Everywoman. She was exceptional, which is what every woman wants to be.  And her signature dress was wondrous.\" (Robin Givhan, \"\u003cspan\u003eWhat Givenchy knew before the rest of us about the power of a little black dress,\" Washington Post, 3\/12\/18)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093623328927,"sku":"16608","price":20000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Givenchy_2C_Hubert_de_Little_Black_Dress_-_Audrey_Hepburn_16608a.jpg?v=1722189260"},{"product_id":"20184-zappa-frank-one-of-a-kind-schott-leather-jacket-from-zappa-s-estate","title":"Zappa, Frank. 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Zappa was photographed wearing this jacket with conductor Joel Thome while promoting the music of Edgard Varese at the New York Palladium on April 16, 1981; a photo of Zappa wearing the jacket is included.  An outstanding and highly displayable piece of rock and roll regalia, previously and proudly worn by one of music's most eccentric and influential artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Julien's Auctions, Icons \u0026amp; Idols: Rock n' Roll 2016, Featuring Property from the Estate of Frank Zappa, November 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093740834975,"sku":"20184","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Zappa_Frank_Schott_Leather_Jacket_20184a.png?v=1722190042"},{"product_id":"20480-halston-roy-gallo-richard-bound-collection-of-original-1937-vogue-retail-editions-inscribed-to-halston","title":"[Halston, Roy. (1932–1990)] [Gallo, Richard. (1946 - 2007)?] Bound Collection of Original 1937 Vogue Retail Editions - INSCRIBED TO HALSTON","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCloth bound hardcover collection of four original Vogue Magazine advance retail trade editions, March 1 through April 1937, gifted to the legendary fashion designer years after the initial publication, in 1971.  Inscribed to the front marbled endpage, \"Happy Birthday Halston – \/ Love \/ Richard 1971\".  Large 4to. Approximately 700 pp. Scattered mild toning, a handful of pages lacking, overall in fine condition. While it is impossible to confirm, one wonders if some of the pages may have been removed by Halston to use as inspiration or sources for his own work.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWe believe the inscription to be from the artist Richard Gallo, who like Halston's partner Victor Hugo, spanned the performance and fashion worlds. \"Also known as “Lemon Boy” because of his tendency to demarcate the boundaries of his street performances with lemons, Gallo maintained no separation between his art and life. Whether walking around downtown, making an appearance at Max’s Kansas City, performing on the sidewalks in front of luxury stores on Fifth Avenue, or lounging in his apartment, Gallo’s signature outfits were immediately recognizable. The outfits were alternately pieced together from store-bought articles or made specifically for Gallo, most frequently by the designers Ronald Kolodzie and Phillip Haight. Gallo’s aesthetic was characterized by queer, overtly sexual, hyper-masculine camp, sort of like Tom of Finland goes to Studio 54.\" (Paul Michael Brown, \"Richard Gallo in Louisville,\"\u003cem\u003e Burnaway\u003c\/em\u003e, 2019) \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093750239391,"sku":"20480","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Screenshot2025-12-06at5.31.28PM.png?v=1765060298"},{"product_id":"21039-china-chinese-decree-from-the-qing-dynasty-19th-century","title":"[China] Chinese Decree from the Qing Dynasty, 19th century","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eGraphically striking Chinese governmental decree in both Mandarin and Manchu, relating essentially to a promotion of an official into a new position. Silk brocade on paper. The decree, four panels mounted to a single scroll, is rendered in four strong and striking colors; green, red, brown, and yellow. Two red governmental stamps to yellow panel. Overall in fine condition. 10.5 x 68.5 inches (27 x 174 cm.).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Imperial decrees are documents issued by the emperor to inform officials and the general public on the occasion of a major event or ceremony such as ascension to the throne, an imperial marriage, an end to regent rule, a death in the imperial family, abdication, the announcement of an honorific for the empress dowager, and any other matters that the emperor wanted to make known. The emperor could also issue imperial decrees of self-criticism to publicly take responsibility for the people's suffering. Qing dynasty imperial decrees were written in Manchu and Chinese scripts and began with the phrase, 'The Emperor, who governs with the Mandate of Heaven, declares that,\" followed by the actual text of the decree, and ending with \"Proclaimed to all under the Heavens, let it be known.' Imperial decrees were drafted by Grand Secretariat (Neige) ministers, reviewed by the Grand Secretary, and then presented to the emperor for final approval and promulgation. Decrees might differ in content, but what they have in common is that each announces a major event.\" (National Palace Museum)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe Qing dynasty was the last in the imperial history of China. its multiethnic bureaucratic structures split rule between the Han Chinese, who had been the exclusive ethnic group at the head of the previous Ming dynasty, and the Manchus, with some positions given to Mongolians. The dynasty came to an end in 1912, following the abdication of emperor Puyi, and was followed by the Republic of China.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093768392863,"sku":"21039","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Quing_Dynasty_Scroll_21039_primary.png?v=1722190221"},{"product_id":"21225-indiana-robert-1928-2018-ting-walasse-1929-2010-green-banana-signed-by-the-artist","title":"Ting, Walasse. 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She was invited to show her work at their Medal Exhibition in Helsinki, Finland in 1990 andi In 1992, she was both an invited lecturer at the British Museum and had her medal, “Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own” featured on the cover of the British Art Medal society’s British Museum Exhibition Catalogue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWoolf’s use of asphodel is largely conventional, relating almost exclusively to its \u003ci\u003elocus classicus\u003c\/i\u003e as the flower growing in the Elysian Fields. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAsphodels first appear, rather ironically, in Woolf’s short story, “The Mark on the Wall” (1917) in a passage where the chaos of “life” is compared to “being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour. . . . 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In the centre cartouche, Saint Cecilia is pictured holding a portative organ, and is surrounded with the openwork painted pattern within a painted floral border, some openings in the frame providing a place for the deposit of reliquary fragments, some of which are here still preserved (!). 12.4 x 10.4 inches (31.6 x 26.4 cm). Mounted to cardboard backing, some worming and mildew damage to mounting, a few small chips, overall in fine condition. An impressive and graphically striking piece of devotionalia.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093785694367,"sku":"21570","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/St._Cecilia_with_Relic_21570A.jpg?v=1764885258"},{"product_id":"21586-wagner-richard-autograph-title-page-for-part-of-gotterdammerung","title":"Wagner, Richard. 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Klindworth, who arranged the piano score from the full score of the \"Ring\". - The words, translated, are these: Continuation of the Pianoforte score of the \"Dusk of the Gods\" sent in for the continuation of the work of engraving...\". \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan title=\"German-language text\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-style: italic;\" lang=\"de\"\u003eGötterdämmerung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"de\"\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwilight of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas \u003cspan title=\"German-language text\"\u003e\u003ci lang=\"de\"\u003eDer Ring des Nibelungen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Ring of the Nibelung\u003c\/i\u003e). 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However, this decryption fails with a five-line poem below, whose letters and words are arranged according to a different system. Above it, in lighter ink, as was also used in many parts of the manuscript, is the name \"Marcantonio Croce\". Since this is unlikely to be the bishop of Tivoli of the same name from the first half of the 16th century, he can probably be identified as the Minorite brother Antonio Croci, a musician born in Modena. In 1633 he became organist of S. Francesco in Bologna and in 1642 \"maestro dei novizi e di cappella\" of the cathedral there.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe manuscript appears to have been a secretly kept sketchbook (hence the encryption in the title, to which the author only added his name later), since it only contains songs with secular texts, mostly love songs. Among them are also pieces by colleagues, such as Giovanni Giacomo Arigoni (1597-1675), who is the only one mentioned by name. 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The jacket features their notorious nun and popsicle artwork from their third and final album, \u003cem\u003eThe Deviants 3 \u003c\/em\u003e(1969), generously applied. Includes dry cleaning tag reading \"R. 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I missed you all terribly yesterday. We wrote a new song for Tony [\"Something’s Coming\"] that’s a killer, and it just wasn’t the same not playing it first for you. It’s really going to save his character – a driving 2\/4 in the great tradition (but of course fucked up by me with 3\/4s and whatnot) – but it gives Tony balls – so that he doesn’t emerge as just a euphoric dreamer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe original Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957 with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, and marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. 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(Chips and tears at edges, some creasing.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColor Photograph of \"Madeleine Milhaud and Jane Galante admiring the painting by Daniel Milhaud taken at 8 Sea Cliff in October 1985,\" the handwritten description attached with a paper clip.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProgram for a \"Milhaud Festival: The Age of Youth,\" in honor of Mihaus' 70th birthday, held at Mills College, signed by Milhaud with letter from C. Easton Rothwell, President of Mills College, presenting the program to Jane Galante. 3 June 1963\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrochure \"Darius Milhaud 1892-1974, being a list of his works, with biographical information. 32 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eJane Galante was a leader in San Francisco’s chamber music scene for more than 60 years as a pianist, scholar, board member, and vigorous advocate of music and education. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e She toured Europe and America with Ferenc Molnar, then principal violist of the San Francisco Symphony, and cellist Zara Nelsova, and performed with the cellist Lazlo Varga and harpist Anne Adams, also of the S.F. symphony. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eGalante taught for several years at Mills College, where she had earlier been a devoted student of Darius Milhaud. 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With their son Daniel, they fled France when the Germans were within range of Paris in May 1940, eventually landing in the US where Darius taught at Mills College and Madeleine taught American students about French and French theatre. 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A happening disguised as a board game: twenty game pieces printed with bright swirling illustrations and cut with interlocking grooves, housed in a box illustrated with a representative three-dimensional construction a player might build.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rare complete example in very good condition, with 20 interlocking cardboard cards, each 6x4 inches with a pattern, letters, or a surprising scene printed on recto and verso, without instructions or other printed matter, as issued (some sets issued with 21 cards, some with cards printed differently). 159x286x38 mm; 6¼x11¼x1½ inches. Some separations along box corners including 4 in lid reinforced with cello tape, moderate scattered soiling and abrasions to lid, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued in 1966, when both LSD and party games were in the height of fashion (Tim Leary was arguably at the height of his fame at this time) and the casual mind-expanding drug user was in great need of aimless but absorbing activity kits to purchase. Cards included were not identical set to set, with several patterns, themes, and motifs (some figurative, some entirely abstract) printed and inserted into games in various configurations; the present example is particularly psychedelic. Quickly discontinued (LSD was officially outlawed in the US in late 1968), only helping to cement its desirability in the decades to follow and now rare. 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This transformation was highlighted by the creation of the iconic S.T. Dupont Ligne 2 lighter in the 1970s. Known for its distinctive “cling” sound when opened, the Ligne 2 lighter became a symbol of luxury and sophistication. Made from precious metals and often adorned with intricate designs, these lighters are far more than simple fire starters. They represent a nod to the elegance of a bygone era and a testament to Dupont’s craftsmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62094589427871,"sku":"24188","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/DietrichS.T.DupontGoldPlatedLigne2Lighter24188a.jpg?v=1759166729"},{"product_id":"24207-ballets-suedois-leger-fernand-de-mare-rolf-les-ballets-suedois-dans-l-art-contemporain-with-autograph-manuscript-by-leger","title":"[Ballets Suedois] Leger, Fernand. 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Carina Ari and Jean Börlin were the driving forces behind this courageous troupe. Their talent has always been able to take advantage of the sometimes arduous stage demands imposed by the novelty of the show. The Swedish Ballets will remain intimately linked to the History of Modern Art. 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Provenance: Anne Marie Berger Collection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes arrived in Paris in 1909 and immediately turned ballet into a high fashion in the Western hemisphere. But in 1920 a rival introduced itself to Paris: the Ballets Suédois. This company dared to perform in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, home ground of the Russians before the First World War. The newcomers quickly established themselves in the French capital and challenged Diaghilev's concept of avant-garde ballet. They took modernism to a new level and defined avant-garde not through the brilliance of ballet stars or spectacular extravaganza but through a concept that extended beyond all known theatrical conventions. Throughout its brief and hectic existence from 1920 to 1925, the Ballets Suédois were constantly criticised for being not Swedish enough as well as too Swedish, and above all for not presenting real ballet. In many ways the critics were right. 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With Bennett's underlining in pen mostly in the second half, else fine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBennett's painting honoring good friend David Hockney, \"Homage to Hockney,\" is on permanent display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown and Hockney's 1990 portrait of Bennett was featured in the album artwork for Bennett's \u003cem\u003eFifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTony Bennett began drawing chalk pictures as a child on the sidewalks of his hometown in Astoria, Queens but even when he became one of the premiere entertainers in the world, he found time to paint nearly every day. Painting under his family name of Benedetto, Tony Bennett's work has been exhibited in the galleries throughout the world and the United Nations commissioned his artwork on two occasions, including for their 50th Anniversary. Bennett began formal training as an art student at the School of Industrial Arts (now known as the School of Art and Design) in Manhattan and continued his studies with private studios and teachers throughout the years. A self-proclaimed \"museum freak,\" Bennett was known to visit museums and galleries all over the world, especially during his extensive concert tours and his work as a painter has been featured in many international art publications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62198403563679,"sku":"24217","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Hockney_David_Bennett_OnPhotographyInscribed24217c.jpg?v=1764522995"},{"product_id":"24239-capote-truman-in-cold-blood-signed-and-inscribed-to-perry-smith","title":"Capote, Truman. 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The book was not completed or published until after the execution of the killers and the pro-forma nature of the present inscription suggests to us that the author was subsequently asked to sign a copy to someone actually of the same name as the book's subject. While this is thus not a signed association copy in the truest sense, it is almost certainly the only extant signed copy to (a) Perry Smith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eIn the early morning hours of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were murdered in a rural Kansas farming community. Two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were captured six weeks later, put on trial, found guilty of the murders and sentenced to death. They would remain on death row for nearly six years, before both being executed on April 14, 1965. Even before they were apprehended, writer Truman Capote had developed an interest in the story and traveled to Holcomb, Kansas, to interview the locals. After Smith and Hickcock were imprisoned, Capote interviewed both extensively, eventually befriending them and serving as an official witness to their executions. He compiled over 8,000 pages of research notes while writing In Cold Blood, which was first published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning on September 25, 1965. Random House released it in book form on January 17, 1966, where it achieved overnight success. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his story of the killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, Capote paints an especially empathetic portrait of Smith. 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Others have claimed that Capote and Smith fell in love. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62207238701215,"sku":"24239","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/CapoteInColdBloodSignedandInscribed24239a.jpg?v=1753025513"},{"product_id":"24257-kennedy-john-f-profiles-in-courage-signed","title":"Kennedy, John F. (1917–1963) \"Profiles in Courage\" - Signed","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eOctavo. 266 pages, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ewith no publisher's code on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed to the front free endpaper by the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e35th President of the United States, \"To Peggy \u0026amp; Buster Ruggeri, \/ with my best regards and thanks \/ from their old friend \/ John Kennedy\". Includes eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBlack quarter cloth over dark blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt.  \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNear fine in very good jacket with small tears to edges and small tape stain to upper left front. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSold together with supporting documents, including two pages from The Congressional Record of the Senate, June 4, 1996 which includes a lengthy statement about Sebastian Ruggeri by Ted Kennedy on the occasion of his submitting an article on his life to be printed therein.  In part he notes that \"He used to hold strategy sessions for my brother during his campaign for President in 1960, and he's been a valuable friend and adviser to me throughout my years in the Senate.\" Also sold with original sale documentation from 2003, in which the former owner described the relationship of his parents Peggy and Sebastian \"Buster\" Ruggeri, with JFK. \"My father, a retired Lt. Col. in the Army Air Force, met JFK in the service during WWII.  My father, a die-hard democrat and well known attorney residing in Greenfield, MA, became very active for years in Kennedy's campaigns for Senator and President.  I remember fund raisers for him and Ted held in our home on several occasions.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA superb signed copy of Kennedy's Pulitzer-winning examination of \"that most admirable of human virtues,\" written when Kennedy was the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and which served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring accounts of eight previous heroic acts by American patriots inspired the American public to remember the courage progress requires. 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(title), 67 pp. Texts and Foreword by Schoenberg in German. Printed dedication to head of title: \"Der ersten Interpretin Frau Albertine Zehme in herzlicher Freundschaft\" Copyright 1923 to upper wrapper and title; copyright 1922 to first page of music. Plate numbers 5334.5336 to pages of text, corresponding to the full and study score editions; \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003emusic with PN U.E. 7144. Fragile wrappers heavily chipped and torn, separated from the block and with early tape repairs (and stape stains) around edges. Internally fine throughout. The writing of Mitropoulos's name is not in the hand of the conductor and was likely written on his behalf by an associate. Please see below for detailed information on provenance. Contained in a custom cloth both with title label to spine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe music of Schoenberg was particularly dear to Mitropoulos' heart, and he performed it extensively throughout his lifetime. An important copy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds \"Pierrot lunaire\" (\"Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'\"), commonly known simply as Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (\"Moonstruck Pierrot\" or \"Pierrot in the Moonlight\"), is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg, a setting of 21 selected poems from Albert Giraud's cycle of the same name as translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben. The work is written for reciter (voice-type unspecified in the score, but traditionally performed by a soprano) who delivers the poems in the Sprechstimme style accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. Though the music is atonal, it does not employ Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, which he did not use until 1921. Among Schoenberg's most celebrated and frequently performed works, its instrumentation – flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano with standard doublings and in this case with the addition of a vocalist – is an important ensemble in 20th- and 21st-century classical music and is referred to as a Pierrot ensemble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDimitri Mitropoulos was Greece’s most prolific conductor and New York Philharmonic Music Director from 1949-1958.  Widely regarded as one of the most significant conductors of the twentieth century, he is best remembered for his significant recorded legacy and for his commitment in bringing new compositions to the stage of major symphony orchestras.  Indeed, it is thanks to his efforts that many of our current symphonic standards made their way into the repertory.  He gave World and American premiers of seminal works such as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, as well as other major works by Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and many others.  His personal collection has been held in private hands since his death in 1960, when it passed to conductor James Dixon, his student and protégé.  Mitropoulos came to consider Dixon his son, introducing him to conductors and performing arts institutions around the world, jumpstarting his career.  When Mitropoulos died in 1960 he left all his belongings, including his scores, to Dixon.  The bulk of the musical library has been subsequently gifted to the University of Iowa’s music library, but a selection of rare items have been selected to be offered for sale exclusively by Schubertiade Music \u0026amp; Arts.  These examples, many inscribed to the conductor from composers or associates, have only occasional markings from the conductor himself who committed all music to memory before his first rehearsal of the repertoire - a highly unusual method!  Some of these scores, however, were also subsequently used by James Dixon as part of his working reference library for many years and include his occasional markings.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62347917328543,"sku":"24341","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Mitropoulos_Schoenberg_PierrotLunairesigned24341a.jpg?v=1754083392"},{"product_id":"24351-mann-thomas-death-in-venice-signed","title":"Mann, Thomas. 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Black cloth with red type, light wear and endpages toned, else fine throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1912 and published in Germany under the title \u003cem\u003eDer Tod in Venedig\u003c\/em\u003e, this edition also includes the novellas Tristan and Tonio Kröger. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn important signed copy of one of the greatest works of 20th Century literature, one of only a handful of signed examples of which we are aware to have appeared on the market in the last decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe recipient of the inscription was Herbert Marx Meyer (1903-1988), noted Detroit book collector who assembled a large collection of early 20th century literature. He corresponded with many of the authors of the time, and thus many of his books bear friendly and warm authorial inscriptions such as the present example.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the greatest and most widely read authors of the 20th century, Mann was an innovative stylist and synthesizer of the intellectual trends of his time, exerting much influence on modern fiction not only in Germany but in Europe and in both Americas as well. His perceptiveness as an interpreter of Western cultural heritage and his skill as a cosmopolitan teacher of democratic and humanistic values earned him recognition as a \"mirror of his age\" and a \"citizen of the world.\" Among Mann's many important works of short fiction, his novella \"Death in Venice\" (1928) is the most famous. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62363653800095,"sku":"24351","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/MannDeathInVenicesignedandinscribed24351cc.jpg?v=1754587875"},{"product_id":"24382-astronauts-carpenter-m-scott-cooper-gordon-l-glenn-john-h-schirra-walter-m-shepard-alan-slayton-donald-k-we-seven-by-the-astronauts-themselves-signed-by-six","title":"[ASTRONAUTS] Carpenter, M. Scott. (1925-2013) Cooper, Gordon L. (1927-2004) Glenn, John H. (1921-2016) Schirra, Walter M. 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Tears and losses to the dj, significant splitting to front and rear joints, otherwise fine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Seven\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the beginnings of American manned space exploration from the perspectives of those who pioneered it, with each member of Project Mercury contributing at least three essay-length sections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Mercury Seven astronauts \u003cspan class=\"match\"\u003ewe\u003c\/span\u003ere introduced to the American public in April 1959. The process of choosing the first astronauts was elaborate and rigorous. The seven criteria for selection included the following: less than 40 years old; less than 5 foot 11 inches tall: excellent physical condition; bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent; test-pilot school graduate; minimum of 1500 hours flying time; and qualified jet pilot. Once selected, the astronauts began their training program at Langley. This training included a \"little of everything\" ranging from a graduate-level course in introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving. Training continued until the Langley Space Task Group was transferred to Houston, Texas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62392020795551,"sku":"24382","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/CarpenterCooperGlennetal.Wesevensigned24382d.jpg?v=1752093136"},{"product_id":"24386-asimov-isaac-i-robot-first-edition","title":"Asimov, Isaac. (1920–1992) \"I, Robot\" - First Edition","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eHardcover in dustjacket. 8vo. 253 pp\u003cspan\u003e. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eStated First Edition. In a rubbed dust jacket with nicks to edges and small losses to spine; red cloth with some moderate nicks and scratches and a significant dent\/bite to the rear board edge and a lesser ding to the upper board; else fine throughout. One of only 5,000 copies printed of the first edition of this iconic title in which Asimov's \u003cem\u003eThree Laws of Robotics\u003c\/em\u003e were postulated for the first time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction. It includes \"The Evitable Conflict.\" in which machines that have made the world of the twenty-first century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future, moving it \"toward an unknown and happy destiny\" (Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age). It is the basis for the 2004 film starring Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, and Alan Tudyk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62392081940639,"sku":"24386","price":3234.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Asimov_IsaacI_RobotFirst24386a.jpg?v=1752096192"},{"product_id":"24388-thomas-dylan-the-selected-writings-of-dylan-thomas-signed-first-edition","title":"Thomas, Dylan. (1914 - 1953) \"The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas\" - Signed First Edition","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eHardcover. 8vo. 184 pp\u003cspan\u003e. With the neat, diminutive signature of the the celebrated Welsh poet on the front free end paper \"Dylan Thomas\" in black ink. Includes frontis portrait of the poet by Augustus John \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eopposite p. ix.  \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLikely second issue with publisher's address of \"333 Sixth Avenue\" on copyright page instead of \"500 Fifth Avenue,\" as New Directions moved to 333 Sixth Avenue after 1946 and by 1953. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDust jacket with \"333 Sixth Avenue\" on bottom of rear panel and no \"Lowry\" on lower right front panel. Bound in publisher's rose cloth with gilt spine letters blocked in black, in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear and small tear to upper spine flap fold. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRolph B11. Maud, 12. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmong the poems included in \u003cem\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/em\u003e are \"I see the boys of summer in their ruin,\" \"Fern Hill,\" \"A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London,\" and \"In My Craft or Sullen Art.\" Also included are four short stories and two chapters excerpted from Thomas' autobiographical \u003cem\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Dog\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62392095998111,"sku":"24388","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Thomas_DylanTheSelectedWritingsSignedFirstEdition24388a.jpg?v=1752097318"},{"product_id":"24435-saint-georges-joseph-bologne-chevalier-de-viotti-jarnovic-cramer-fodor-violin-concerto-sammelband","title":"Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de. 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[\"Garnovichi\"] (1747 - 1804). \u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Concerto a violon principal, premier et second violons, alto et basse, deux hautbois, deux cors ad libitum.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eComposés par Mr Garnovichi. \u003c\/em\u003eParis: Chez le Sr Sieber. [\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCa. 1773]. Title; catalogue; (2) - 7 pp. Engraved. No PN. Signed by the publisher. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2) Jarnović, Ivan Mane. [\"Garnovichi\"] (1747 - 1804). \u003cem\u003e 8e Concerto De Jarnowick. A Cramant le 22 Praireal ang. \u003c\/em\u003eAutograph copyist manuscript in an unknown hand, apparently accomplished in Cramane (commune in the Marne region of France), dated 10 June, 1795 according to the French Republican calendar, this month named after the French word \"prairie\" (\"meadow\"). 6 1\/2 pages.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3) \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJarnović, Ivan Mane. [\"Giornovichi\"] (1747 - 1804). \u003cem\u003eConcerto a violono principale, violino primo, secondo, alto \u0026amp; basso, deux hautbois et deux cors de chasse ad libitum.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePar Mr Giornovichi. Oeuvre Second. Libro VIIII. \u003c\/em\u003eBerlin: Chez J.J. Hummel. [\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCa. 1780]. Title; Concerto IX. 15 - 22. Engraved. [PN] 545. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4) Viotti, Giovanni Battista. (1755-1824). \u003cem\u003eDix-neuvieume Concerto \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003ea violon principal, deux violons, alto basse, deux hautbois, deux cors, flute et clarinette.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eComposé par J.B. Viotti. \u003c\/em\u003eParis: Naderman. [ca. 1800]. Title; 1 - 14 pp. Engraved. [PN] 434. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSigned by the publisher. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5) Cramer, Johann Baptist. (1771–1858). [4]\u003cem\u003e Concerto \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003ea violon principalle, premier et second violon, alto et basse. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eComposé par G. Cramer. \u003c\/em\u003eParis: Chez le Sr. Sieber [ca. 1775]. Title; 1 -5 pp. Engraved. No PN. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6) Fodor, Josephus Andreas. (1751 - 1828). \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eDeuxieme\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Concerto a violon principal, premier et second violons, alto et basse, deux hautbois, deux cors ad lib.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eComposés par J. Fodor L'aine. \u003c\/em\u003eParis: Chez le Sr Sieber. [\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCa. 1783]. Title; catalogue; (2) - 7 pp. Engraved. No PN. Signed by the publisher. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7) Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de. (1745–1799). \u003cem\u003eDeux Concerto à Violon principal, Premier et Second, Alto et basse, hautbois, flutes, et deux cors adlibitum.\u003c\/em\u003e C\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eomposés par Monsieur de St. George. \u003c\/em\u003eParis: Chez Bailleux. [1\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e770]. Title;  Concerto. 2 - 7 pp; Concerto II. 8 - 11; (catalogue).  Engraved. No PN. Small early paper repair to lower right title. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8) \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFodor, Josephus Andreas. (1751 - 1828). \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eDeuxieme\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Pot_pouri avec trois Preludes ou Caprices Pour le Violin. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eComposés par J. Fodor L'aine. \u003c\/em\u003eParis: Chez Imbault [\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCa. 1790]. Title; 2 - 15 pp. Engraved. [PN] 85. Signed by the publisher. Three pages with printed notation reinforced in early ink.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOf principal interest in this collection are the two rare concertos by Saint-Georges. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe French violinist, conductor and composer left an indelible mark as a versatile artist and his historical significance lies also in his distinctive background as a biracial free man of color.  Saint-Georges was born in the French colony of Guadeloupe to the wealthy, white planter Georges Bologne de Saint-Georges, and Anne, one of the Creole people Georges kept enslaved.  Saint-Georges was educated in Paris and grew up to be a virtuoso violinist, conductor, composer, and accomplished fencer.  Intriguingly, despite his formidable reputation as a musician, no documentation exists of his musical education prior to 1764.  During the French Revolution, he served as colonel of the Légion St.-Georges, the first all-black regiment in Europe, but today he is best remembered for being the first European classical composer of African ancestry.  His exceptional talents rendered him the first classical composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim within the realms of European music. He composed an array of violin concertos, string quartets, sinfonia concertantes, violin duets, sonatas, two symphonies and an assortment of stage works, notably opéra comique. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBologne probably composed his violin concertos initially for his own use, although their later publication ensured their wider dissemination. Their reputation is further attested to by the existence of manuscript copies of the works most of which appear to postdate their publication. There are also several concertos of uncertain authenticity that are preserved in manuscript parts that possibly represent works composed later in Saint-Georges’ career but to date no detailed investigation of these works has been carried out. Saint-Georges remained active as a performer after the French Revolution, albeit in different circumstances to those under which he worked in the 1770s and 1780s, and it is possible that he continued to compose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint-Georges generally published his concertos and symphonies concertantes in pairs, typically with one work scored for strings alone and the second with wind instruments. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAlso unusual here are the three Concerti by Ivan Mane Jarnović, the violinist and composer who was Italian but whose family was of Ragusan (today in Croatia) origin. He later appeared to have held French citizenship, escaping to England during the revolution. 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He is considered the founder of the 'modern' (19th century) French school of violin playing, and his compositions, among the finest examples of Classical violin music, exerted a strong influence on 19th-century violin style.\" (Grove Online)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62443060166815,"sku":"24435","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Saint-GeorgesViolinConcertoSammelband24435a.png?v=1754679138"},{"product_id":"24438-african-americana-drag-variety-of-roses-female-impersonators-club-savoy-poster-ca-1950s","title":"[African Americana] [Drag] \"Variety of Roses...Female Impersonators\" - Club Savoy (Niagara Falls, NY) Poster ca. 1950s","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eBroadside poster, ca. 1950, from the Club Savoy in Niagara Falls, NY, featuring a large photograph of eight Black performers mostly in drag, advertising 2 shows every Saturday of the \"Most Spectacular Floor Show \/ Female Impersonators \/ Direct from Miami, Florida\" and including \"Such Acts As Our Original Mimex...Billie Holiday - as Brandy, Mr. Tanya Delmor - on Toe, Mr.. 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Nevertheless, Fish visited Schönberg many more times, leaving posterity with a particularly coherent documentation of the composer, teacher and father in his later years.  His photographs of the composer have been exhibited in Paris at the Chatelet Theater, in Vienna at the Schoenberg Center and were featured in the Los Angeles Philharmonic \"Schoenberg Prism\" series brochure presented in 2001-2002.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDimitri Mitropoulos was Greece’s most prolific conductor and New York Philharmonic Music Director from 1949-1958.  Widely regarded as one of the most significant conductors of the twentieth century, he is best remembered for his significant recorded legacy and for his commitment in bringing new compositions to the stage of major symphony orchestras.  Indeed, it is thanks to his efforts that many of our current symphonic standards made their way into the repertory.  He gave World and American premiers of seminal works such as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, as well as other major works by Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and many others.  His personal collection has been held in private hands since his death in 1960, when it passed to conductor James Dixon, his student and protégé.  Mitropoulos came to consider Dixon his son, introducing him to conductors and performing arts institutions around the world, jumpstarting his career.  When Mitropoulos died in 1960 he left all his belongings, including his scores, to Dixon.  The bulk of the musical library has been subsequently gifted to the University of Iowa’s music library, but a selection of rare items have been selected to be offered for sale exclusively by Schubertiade Music \u0026amp; Arts.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62446094221471,"sku":"24452","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/MitropoulosSchoenbergFramedInscribedandSigned24452a.jpg?v=1754684700"},{"product_id":"24460-chapman-jake-spare-prick-at-a-royal-wedding","title":"Chapman, Jake (b. 1966) \"Spare Prick at a Royal Wedding\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"pah-html-parser\" data-testid=\"html-parser\"\u003eInk and acrylic on book dustjacket. 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The artwork further explores the dichotomy between Prince Harry’s public image and his private actions, with subtle inclusions of scandalous details that force the viewer to question the authenticity of his carefully curated public persona.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62447740747935,"sku":"24460","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Chapman_JakeSparePrickataRoyalWedding24460a.jpg?v=1754931064"},{"product_id":"24488-dietrich-marlene-penn-irving-marlene-dietrich-new-york-1948","title":"[Dietrich, Marlene. (1901-1992)]Penn, Irving. 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