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ADAMS, Henry, ed. Documents Relating to New-England Federalism 1800-1815. Boston: Little, Brown, 1877. Octavo. The great historian's collection of documuments and correspondence pertaining to this contentious period of American political history: the death throes of Federalism as a national party ideology manifested in New England as seccesionist fervor. This copy belonged to Adam's protegé and lifelong friend, politician and historian Henry Cabot Lodge, with notation to that effect in Lodge's hand. Lodge had just dealt with the same controversies in his own Life and Letters of George Cabot, which Adams cites in his preface. The date of the presentation -- Dec. 20th, 1877 -- is two days earlier than the inscription BAL reports examining at the New York Public Library. Adams and Lodge co-edited the North American Review (1874-76) and contributed chapters to the volume Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law. Free front endpaper detached, else a clean fresh very good+ copy in brick cloth-covered boards, housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box, with leather label. An extraordinary association copy.
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Adorno, Theodor W. / Sohn-Rethel, Alfred. Konvolut von 10 Briefen Adornos an Alfred Sohn-Rethel / Archive of Letters to Alfred Sohn-Rethel. 1938-1970. Zehn (10) ganzseitige (maschinenschriftliche) Briefe Adornos an den Ökonomen Alfred Sohn-Rethel. Die Briefe aus den Jahren 1938-1970, mit einigen handschriftlichen Korrekturen Adornos, und meistens von Adorno handschriftlich signiert (Referenzstellen z.B.: Seite 176 von "Negative Dialektik" und Brief vom 23.Dezember 1966). Ein unglaublich interessantes Konvolut mit zahlreichen Anmerkungen Adornos zu philosophischen, geschichtlichen und auch persönlichen Themen. Adorno spricht über sein Verhältnis zu Ernst Bloch, aber auch z.B. über Walter Benjamin: „Es gehört zu den trostlosesten Gedanken, daß er, wenn er nicht die Nerven verloren hätte, heute auch im äußerlichen Sinn etabliert und wohlbestallter Ordinarius wäre, was ihm fraglos auf seine Weise Spaß gemacht hätte." Zahlreiche persönliche Bekenntnisse und z.B. der Bericht über Studenten die seine Vorlesung gestört hätten Adorno wird hier ausführlich und geht auf die von Ihm vermuteten Intrigen der Asta ein. „Ich habe unterdessen die grauenhafte Erfahrung gemacht, daß linke Studenten meine - meine ! - Vorlesung in der widerlichsten Weise gesprengt haben; die Geschichte mit der Polizei war ein bloßer Vorwand, da uns bei der Besetzung im Januar gar keine andere Wahl blieb. Und der Studentenführer die ganze Aktion nur gemacht hatte, um uns zu der Geganmaßnahme zu zwingen, die ihm dann propagandistisches Material auf die kaum auch nur mehr klappende Mühle lieferte".
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Aiken, Henry David. A Philosophers Life in Letters - A Significant Portion of his Literary Archive with private and philosophical correspondence from C.I.Lewis to Philip Rice, Rod Chisholm, Ralph Barton Perry etc. etc. / Henry David Aiken's umfangreiche, private und philosophische Korrespondenz, Manuskripte etc. 4°. Approximately 15 linear feet of manuscript materials from the literary papers of American philosopher Henry David Aiken, including numerous essays and longer works of a philosophical, cultural-critical and political nature, as well as a number of large fregments of a never-completed autobiography. Aiken was a highly-regarded professor of philosophy at Harvard over a long career, colleague of W.V.O. Quine, John Rawls, Hilary Putnam, C.I. Lewis, Roderic Firth, etc. A handsome and charming, if mercurial and, ultimately, rather tortured man, Aiken would become one of the significant public voices of political dissent in his generation, an early and vigorous opponent of the Vietnam War, a crusader for sane sexual morality and social justice. The Archive includes the welcoming letter to Aiken by C.I.Lewis - his careerstart at Harvard - The here also included private correspondence allows us an insight into the life of a philosophical researcher, his fights, frustrations and accomplishments reflected in the correspondence with colleagues and to date famous fellow philosophers. Further information available upon request.
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AKHMATOVA, Anna. A collection of six original photographs of Akhmatova, various sizes ranging from 4 x 3 inches to approximately 8 x 5 5/8 inches, dating from the 1960s. Two of the photographs are inscribed on the back to the Kozlovskis as follows: "To dear Kozlovskis, who I remember and love always and everywhere, Akhmatova, 14 May 1962, Moscow" and "To dear Kozlovskis from their friend Akhmatova, 8 Oct 1962, Moscow." The photographs are in fine condition.
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AKHMATOVA, Anna. Anno domini. (Year of the Lord). St. Petersburg: n.p., 1921. Sextodecimo, 102pp. First edition of Akhmatova’s fourth collection, combining twenty-three new poems from this fertile era in her creative life with the republication of the contents of Plantain, which had been published earlier in the same year. Many of the poems concern Akhmatova’s husbands Gumilyov and Shileiko: she felt somehow responsible for Gumilyov’s death, and she mourned him for years, in spite of the fact that their relationship quickly proved untenable subsequent to their marriage in 1910. The volume marks the dawn of Akhmatova’s special poetic strategy of mythologizing her own autobiography, which would come to fruition in her summa, Poem Without a Hero. One of 2000 copies printed. A quite worn and demeaned copy, but appropriately so, and still, however retaining its original printed wrappers: this copy is inscribed by Akhmatova to her second husband Vladimir Shileiko, "To my dear friend Volodya from his Anna." At one location in the text (p. 85), the word "Svetlan" is inserted above the poem, probably as a title. Akhmatova and Shileiko "married" in 1918, subsequent to the break-up of Akhmatova and Gumilyov. Shileiko was a respected Assyriologist, who famously attempted to persuade Akhmatova to forego writing poetry -- sadly, eventually burning some of her poems. Their relationship was no more successful than Akhmatova's first marriage, though Akhmatova, reduced by penury and financial dependency during the years in which she was not permitted to publish, was forced to maintain a domestic arrangement with him for years longer than it warranted. A superb, if horrifying association copy.
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AKHMATOVA, Anna. Podorozhnik (Plantain). Petropolis: n.p., 1921. Sextodecimo, 58pp. First edition of Akhmatova's first book of poetry to appear after the Revolution, most of the poems concerning the theme of Russia itself, many specifically treating the theme of the emigre and the spiritual betrayal the emigration of many of her friends evokes in the poet as well as her own spiritual inability to consider emigration; yet other ponder the changes the Revolution has wrought in Russia. A very good copy, edges trimmed, in an elegant contemporary private binding of decorated green silk. The illustrated wrappers are bound in, the front wrapper showing a surface abrasion where a label has been removed. This copy inscribed by Akhmatova: "To A.A. Urban, under Komarov's trees, May 21, 1961." Rare inscribed.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. 8 Canciones. Buenos Aires: 1958. Quarto, unpaginated loose bifolia in paper chemise. First edition, one of fifteen copies, all entirely in Alberti's hand and with an original watercolor frontispiece by the author. Perhaps the rarest work by this magnificent Spanish poet -- no copy located in any institution. Alberti trained as an artist. As a young man, he took ill and left his native Puerta San Maria for a mountain cure. There, unable to paint, Alberti turned his hand to poetry. The resulting work earned him such acclaim that his chosen path was diverted. It was only years later that the poet would return to his first passion. We have examined a number of the author's works of art, and his is clearly a significant talent in both realms. Fine. This copy unnumbered, but designated in Alberti's hand for Luis Santamaria.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Diez liricografias. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Galeria Bonino, 1954. Folio, three unnumbered bifolia containing a table of contents in color and lithographic reproductions of Alberti's holograph versions of the poems, accompanied by ten single folio sheets, all color lithographs illustrating the poems in Alberti's wonderful quasi-surrealist style of the period. One of 100 copies of this superb livre d'artiste, each signed by the author/artist in the colophon and at the foot of each lithograph. Near fine, housed in a very good example of the publisher's cloth-covered folding chemise. An extraordinary production.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Holograph Manuscript of Marinero en tierra. 1930 c. . One hundred forty-three pages, rectos only, square small octavo notebook. Holograph fair copy manuscript of the text of Alberti's first book, the collection of poems entitled Marinero en tierra, this being the only known extant manuscript of the text. The present text was prepared from a later edition ("ultima edicion") of the text, probably circa 1930 and containing something like two-and-a-half times the text of the first edition. The original collection won Spain's prestigious National Prize for Literature in 1925. Alberti is among the greatest poets of modern Spain, the equal of a Machado or a Garcia Lorca although he spent the majority of his many years in exile, returning only in 1977 at the age of 75. Among his dozens of volumes of verse and his ten significant plays, several number among the great volumes of twentieth-century poetry, including Cal y canto, Sobre los angeles and Sermones y moradas. The present work is one of extraordinary maturity and singularity of poetic voice for the work of a 22-year old. Its primary theme and tone is one of nostalgia for a lost world of childhood, namely, the sea (the Bay of Cadiz) of the poet's birthplace at Puerta Santa Maria. While formally reminiscent of the old Spanish ballad and the Cancioneros of the 15th and 16th centuries, it already bears the mark of the poet's own distinctive style. Alberti had intended a career as a painter, and he is indeed an accomplished artist, but a health problem that compelled him to take a mountain air cure would call forth the poet within him. Over many tedious months recuperating from his lung disease, Alberti longed more and more for the sea, and a voice singing the joys of his youth arose within him, resulting in the present lyrics. Juan Ramon Jimenez praised the work, "viewing it as very personal and traditional but fresh, new and fully perfected." Alberti had shown Jimenez, a fellow Andalusian who had also grown up by the sea, an early draft of the poems, and the older poet was so favorably impressed that he not only published some of the text in the journal, Si, but wrote Alberti an appreciation which the poet subsequently included in all editions of the book, included here about half-way through the text. A wonderful manuscript.
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ALBERTI, Rafael. Original Watercolor, Signed. n.p., c. 1950. 13 ¾” x 9 7/8” original watercolor, signed by the great Spanish poet. Alberti had trained as an artist, and it was due only to a health problem requiring a mountain cure that would uproot him from his studies, that his poetic gift would emerge in his early twenties. The present image, which we date from the fifties, shows an abstracted man on the deck of a small sailboat at sea, his hair lashed in the wind. Very good, effected on a sturdy stock of paper.
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