Search Results: Titles starting with J from Schubertiade

Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1986. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Oversize 4to softcover. 235 pp, including six chapters, a chronology, checklist of the exhibition with thumbnail illustrations etc. Inscribed and signed on the red ffe "For Alan" and dated 8/26/86, likely to someone associated with the museum, with a Seattle Museum business card of Helen Abbott, Public Relations Manager, laid in.  An attractive signed example of this stunning catalog for the career retrospective Seattle Art Museum exhibition of the important American artist who taught at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1986. With 4 paperclip indentations to page edges, some dog eared lower page corners, and notations in black pen to a number of pages, especially in the exhibition checklist. Though he came of age before the Civil Rights Movement brought African Americans the rights they had long been denied, Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000) forged a prominent career as an artist, chronicling the story of black life… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Gold-toned silver gelatin photograph of the great composer and violinist by the Armenian born Canadian portrait photographer. Signed "Karsch/Ottowa" in white ink to the lower left corner, and inscribed "2" in pencil within the estate stamp on the verso.  Not examined out of frame but in apparently fine condition.  Printed on Kodak Opal V paper, measures 11.25 x 9.25 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm), framed.Yousuf Karsh CC was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. An Armenian Genocide survivor, Karsh migrated to Canada as a refugee. By the 1930s he established himself as a significant photographer in Ottawa, where he lived most of his adult life, though he traveled extensively for work. His iconic 1941 photograph of Winston Churchill was a breakthrough point in his 60-year career, through which he took numerous photos of known political leaders,… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed promotional still from the 1957 Columbia film, a full-length portrait of the American actress scantily clad for a burlesque show.  Inscribed to Paul McMahon.  Copyright is "1957 Columbia Pictures," but the title of the film is not mentioned.  10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.4 cm).  Small tear to right margin; else in fine condition. Offered a choice for her next project, Novak selected the biopic Jeanne Eagles (1957), in which she portrayed the stage and silk-screen actress who was addicted to heroin.  Co-starring Jeff Chandler, the film was a largely fictional account of Eagels' life.  The film drew negative reviews but turned a profit at the box office. Eagles' family sued Columbia over the way Eagels had been depicted in the movie. From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An interesting signed poster from the innovative and influential American composer, bearing an especially large and bold autograph signature in red ink. Pictorial poster, framed, with plexiglass.  17 x 22 inches; 43 x 55 cm. Signed by John Cage at the bottom right of the poster, from a week-long residency at Stanford in celebration of Cage's 80th birthday. The event included an exhibition of Cage's prints, two panel discussions of his work, the delivery of an original lecture, a "Musicircus," and two evening performances of Cage's music.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Silver-plated cigar case, with registration mark of 1891, 2.5 x 12.5 cm, together with an autograph letter of provenance on black-bordered mourning stationery from the wife of the March King, to Rev. Robert C. Gillespie of Limestone, TN. 1 page, October 12, 1932. Port Washington, L.I., reading in full, "Some time ago you wrote asking for a souvenir of the late Mr. John Philip Sousa and I am sending you his cigar case which he carried. Yours very Sincerely, Jane van M. Sousa (Mrs. John Philip Sousa)". Letter in fine condition, sold together with the original postmarked  transmissal envelope  (Oct. 15, 1932) and also with a second postmarked envelope (Mar 30, 1932) containing a black-bordered mourning card with printed text "Mrs. John Philip Sousa and the members of her family will remember with grateful appreciation your kind expression of sympathy." Together with a ca. 1930s photograph of a newspaper article image of Sousa at the keyboard and two recently printed… Read More

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First Edition, First Impression. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed first edition of Susanna Clarke's immensely popular Booker Prize nominee and 2005 Hugo Award winning fantasy historical novel, set during the Napoleonic Wars. First Edition stated on copyright page with "1" present in complete number line. Despite the "First US Edition" statement on the copyright page, this US edition precedes the UK edition by 3 weeks. Signed by the author to the title. Hardcover, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' is an exciting fantasy novel, an alternative history set around the Napoleonic Wars in nineteenth century England.This was the author's debut novel.Written by Susanna Clarke, who is best known for this work. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is near fine with a few minor marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original program for a June, 1973 performance at Carnegie Hall by the American-born entertainer, who was celebrating her golden jubilee as a performer.  The evening included some two dozen songs in both English and French.  28 pp.  Wear to cover, overall in fine condition.  8.25 x 11 inches (21 x 27.9 cm.).From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy's Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.

Paris: Librairie Stock, 1927. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 12mo. 94 pp. Original wrappers, front cover illustrated by Christian Bérard, bound into full crimson cloth with leather title to spine by James Macdonald (New York). Inscribed by the author on the ffe "A Monsieur -- [name erased] / ce souvenir / de / Jean Cocteau / [drawing of a star] / 1927," and with an original drawing by Cocteau of a bending female tennis player with racquet and ball, measuring 27 x 21 cm, pasted along the left edge between pages 72 and 73 ("Le Printemps"), signed "Jean [star]" very lightly lower right, folds small tears lower left edge, else fine. A nearly identical version of this drawing appears in Cocteau's 1923 volume of line cuts of his drawings "Sports (Dessins)," dedicated to Picasso with the apology: "Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then retie them differently."