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Bookplates
$300.00
Ruth Thomson Saunders
Claremont, California; The Saunders Press, 1930. SCARCE. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RUTH THOMSON SAUNDERS. Number 69 of 110. Lovely book of bookplates designed by Saunders, who operated the Saunders Studio Press with her husband, Lynne Saunders, in the 1920s and 30s. This book includes four additional bookplates designed by Saunders. Expertly rebacked. Black cloth backed grey patterned paper covered boards with black title to front board. Minor browning and rubbing to exterior. Bumping to edges. Additional bookplates to front pastedown, rear free end paper, and rear pastedown. Light offsetting from ink to a few pages. Else is clean and bright with wonderful bookplates on every page, some in color.
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Numbered limited edition portfolio of lithographs
Nach Damaskus: Achtzehn Steinzeichnungen
$500.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
München (Munich): Georg Müller, 1922. SCARCE. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. Number 27 of 300. Large folio. 19 loose lithographs (including the title page) printed on Pan handmade paper housed in a half-parchment folder together with a foreword and table of contents. Text is in German. Minor yellowing to paper as well as light chipping to edges. Light browning and minor soiling to exterior of folder and minor foxing to interior.
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SCARCE SIGNED COPY OF LA AUTHOR'S 3RD BOOK
SEX AND RAGE: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
$995.00The third book by a 1970s Los Angeles “it girl”, an autobiographical novel in which Jacaranda revels in the pleasures of being a sexy beach bum in Los Angeles until  after too many nights of “14 white ladies” she wakes up and takes an opposite path, moving to New York and a world of focus and work.  This novel has been described as one which solidified “her place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature—haunting, alluring, and alive.” SIGNED on title page and scarce thus. 227 pp.  Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket  (minor wear at the head of the dj spine)
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Signed by First Southern Pulitzer Winning Novelist
Black April
$800.00Bobbs Merrill: Indianapolis, 1927.  First edition, first issue with ‘ducks quacked’ on page 17 (Ahearn Collected Books).  “An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation” signed by the author on front free endpaper.  Black April was “accepted by the critics as being one of the best books ever written about the southern negro” (The Sunday Oregonian). A very good copy, gilt on spine and front cover dulled as usual in very good, first issue dust wrapper without Crawford blurb, price intact, extremities of spine a little chipped, one small edge tear to rear. Peterkin went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, the first southern novelist to receive that honor.  A household name for the better part of three decades, “Peterkin’s accomplishment lay in her upending the traditional plantation novel by replacing its gross stereotypes with rural black southerners of complexity, stamina, integrity, and courage, while valorizing the African spiritual inheritance as a transcendent force of cultural regeneration. Because no Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas or Colonels clad in white linen inhabited Peterkin’s fiction (indeed, white characters made rare appearances), and because she dared depict tender love and sex between black people, prickly white southerners viewed her suspiciously, perceiving her work as inflammatory and pornographic. In a letter to her mentor H.L. Mencken, Peterkin admitted the sting of her own family’s disdain. Her grown son, she relayed, urged her to write about ‘beautiful white men and women, not n-words.’  In a poignant confession of her alienation she tersely wrote, ‘No beautiful white people live in my head.'” (Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner by Elizabeth Robeson, M.Phil, Columbia University).
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Exhibition Program with Artist's Scarce Signature
A Retrospective Exhibition 1954
$400.00Art Galleries, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): 1954.  Foreword by William Carlos Williams. Signed boldly by Sheeler and scarce thus, as Sheeler’s signature is quite uncommon. Few creases, wear to spine, some loss of color.  Overall, very good in wrappers. Sheeler was a leading exponent of the innovative modernist style that arose after World War I in the United States and came to be known as Precisionism.  Artists associated with the movement fused a planar geometry developed from European Cubism with an interest in uniquely American subjects, often celebrating industry and a Machine Age aesthetic. Sheeler worked across artistic mediums and developed a versatile, complex practice in which his vision was expressed with equal artistic command and intellectual rigor, masterfully devising compositions of modern, geometric form from America’s burgeoning urban and industrial landscapes. (source: The Whitney Museum).
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