viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1969

Leary, Timothy; Metzner, Ralph; Alpert, Richard; [Dass, Ram]
        The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
      New York: University Books, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: University Books, 1969. 159pp. Pictorial stiff boards sans jacket, as issued. First edition, fifth printing. Inscribed to former owner by Timothy Leary in gold sharpie on front free endpaper. Very Good+ with small snag at head, light edge-rubbing, patch of rubbing to front board. Clean text and sturdy binding. Psychedelic drugs, Tibetan Buddhism, and Jungian psychoanalysis collide in this manual/ psycho-religious text co-written by Harvard academics-turned-psychedelic-advocates Leary and Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass). A high-water mark of '60s psychedelia, rarely found signed.

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ERNST - CHAR RENÉ
        Dent prompte
      Paris , GALERIE LUCIE WEILL - AU PONT DES ARTS, 1969 - 11 litografie a colori originali di Max Ernst a piena pagina di cui una in copertina (cm 47x39,5). Esemplare 29 in cui due delle litografie recano la firma a matita dall'Artista e la numerazione in numeri romani. cm 47x39,5. pp. 52. . Molto buono (Very Good). Prima edizione di 240+L es. numerati e firmate da Char e Ernst. Prima ed. di 240 + L es. numerati e firmate. [Galati, 1980]. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Halsey, William D. and Louis (Hrsg.) u.a. Shores:
        Collier`s Encyclopedia. With Bibliography and Index. Volume 1 - 24 und 2 Bände Standard Dictionary
      Crowell Collier 1969 - Insgesamt rund 18250 S., Buchrücken mit Goldprägung. Mit zahlreichen, teilweise farbigen Abbildungen. Die Bücher sind alle ungelesen und für das Alter noch sehr gut erhalten. Versand ins Ausland leider - wegen des hohen Gewichts - nicht möglich. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 45000

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Hi Dien-fan (Editor in Chief); Chang Che-min (Editor); Translated by: Lee Jen-chieh, Shen Wai-hao.
        The Essence of Chinese Calligraphy Since Shang Dynasty, 2 Volume Set
      Anti-Communist Corporation, Taiwan 1969 - The Essence of Chinese Calligraphy Since Shang Dynasty, 1st edition 2 Volume Set, 1969. Editor in Chief: Hi Dien-fan; Editor: Chang Che-min; Translated by: Lee Jen-chieh, Shen Wai-hao. Published by the Anti-Communist Corporation, Taiwan, October 1969. Scarce 1st edition set. The set comprises two very large large volumes - collectively weighing about 8.5kg prior to packing. Each volume 432mm high x 300mm wide. Dual language text - Chinese and English. Blue cloth hardback with gilt lettering. Very good condition set - a little sun-fading to spine and discoloration to endpapers. Text is nice and clean. These books comprise many calligraphy illustrations including many fold-out sections. A scarce and comprehensive set. No copies listed on COPAC. Only 2 first edition copies on Worldcat. More photos on request. A very large and heavy set, so extra postage will be required. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Searle, Ronald
        FILLES DE HAMBOURG
      First edition. An inscribed presentation copy, with a large original colour drawing by Ronald Searle. Publisher's original pictorial card covers. Very light rubbing to the cover edges otherwise a fine, bright copy.Inscribed on the title page in black ink "For / Wendy / with love & / Happy Birthday wishes / - this bit of / backstreet reporting / by two of your / chums! / ? and Ronnie [underlined]." Beside the inscription Searle has drawn full page illustration of a cigarette smoking Fille de Hambourg in heels and stockings which he has dated underneath 1st May 1969.

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J R R Tolkien
        Lord of the Rings
      Published by George Allen & Unwin, London; 1969. This is the First India Paper Deluxe edition with all three books in one complete volume. This lovely book is an exceptional collector's item, being in Fine condition. Encased in it's original publisher's black cloth boards, with Tolkien's illustration of the Numenorean throne with "Elendil" in Tengwar in gilt to the centre of the front board and gilt lettering and detail to the spine, there is the slightest bumping to the spine ends and a couple of barely visible scuffs to the boards, otherwise this is a Fine binding in beautiful condition. Inside, printed on the thin, dense India paper, the pages are clean and bright and blemish free, with the blue speckles to the paper ends. The book comes with the map of middle earth affixed at the back of the book, this is complete, unmarked and entirely intact. Unfortunately, this book does not come with the slip case it was originally published with, but in spite of this, it is an exceptional example of the deluxe edition first printing of the ever-popular classic trilogy by Tolkien, which is popular across generations and would be the perfect to any Tolkien collection

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Tarasov, Anatoli.
        Road to Olympus: How to Win the Olympics
      Griffin, Toronto 1969 - First printing. X, 173 pp., photos, 8vo, hardcover. Text is Fine: appears unread with no owner's name, no wear to cloth. Dustjacket is not price-clipped, very lightly worn with one edge-tear about 1.5" to rear panel. Also dustjacket has usual fading to the spine area, but still legible. "Complimentary Copy" publisher's slip laid in. A superb Fine/Near Fine copy of this scarce book. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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MORAND (Paul).
        ALTITUDES ET PROFONDEURS.
      1969Paris, chez l'artiste, 1969. In-folio (277 X 381) en feuilles sous chemise et étui décoré de l'éditeur, couverture rempliée illustrée de deux dessins en couleurs sur le premier plat ; 108 pages. ÉDITION ORIGINALE de ce texte inédit de Paul Morand sur la Suisse, orné de lithographies originales enrichies à la main par J. P. RÉMON. Tirage limité à 95 EXEMPLAIRES, celui-ci un des 75 numérotés sur grand vélin de RIVES (n°70). BEAU LIVRE D'ARTISTE, dont les lithographies ont été tirées sur les presses de Mourlot à Paris. EXEMPLAIRE en PARFAIT ÉTAT, provenant de la bibliothèque de Michel DÉON. FINE COPY. PICTURES AND MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST.

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[ERNST (Max)] LEBEL (Robert) :
        L'Oiseau Caramel.
      P. Le Soleil Noir 1969. In-4° sous étui ajouré, laissant apparaître une gravue de l'Artiste en couleurs, qui contien l'ouvrage d'un format in-12° inclus dans l'objet. Edition originale. Un des 150 de tête, tirés sur vélin d'arches, présentés dans un "livre tableau" qui réunit en regard du volume 3 lithographies en couleurs, numérotées et signées au crayon de Max ERNST. Superbe livre-objet.

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CELAN (Paul)
        Ausgewählte Gedichte
      Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1969 17,7 x 10,8 cm, broché, couv. imprimée, jaquette orange imprimée, 169 pp., 7 ff. n. ch. Deuxième édition (la première ayant paru l'année précédente) de ce recueil de poésies choisies en allemand extraites des ouvrages Mohn und Gedächtnis, Von Schwelle zu Schwelle, Sprachgitter, Die Niemandsrose et Atemwende. Envoi autographe signé de Paul Celan à Pierre Souvtchinsky : "Für Pierre Souvtchinsky, / in verehrung / Paul Celan". Musicologue d'origine russe, grand ami de Stravinsky, Pierre Souvtchinsky émigra en France suite à la révolution au début des années 20. Il fréquenta de nombreux artistes et écrivains et devint après-guerre un ami proche de René Char par l'intermédiaire de qui il fit probablement la connaissance de Paul Celan. Extrêmement érudit et cultivé, il parlait parfaitement le français et l'allemand. René Char semble d'ailleurs avoir soumis à Pierre Souvtchinsky la traduction d'"A une sérénité crispée" faite par Celan pour avoir son opinion : "Merci davoir pensé à menvoyer la traduction de À une sérénité crispée. Je la montrerai à Pierre Souvtchinsky et peut-être à Beaufret." (Extrait de la lettre de Char à Paul Celan du [18. 4. 1958]).

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VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr
        Slaughterhouse-Five
      New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book/ Delacorte Press,, 1969. or, The Children's Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red and black, signature to the front board in gilt, black endpapers. With the dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Spine slightly toned; an excellent copy in the mildly toned jacket with darkened spine and some nicks to spine ends. First edition, first printing. Perhaps Vonnegut's best known novel, the plot centres on the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, which Vonnegut himself experienced.

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Deichmann, Friedrich-Wilhelm:
        Ravenna. Hauptstadt des spätantiken Abendlandes [3 Bde. in 6] I: Geschichte und Monumente. II: Kommentar (in 4 Teilbänden (II.1; II.2; II.3 und Plananhang)). III: Frühchristliche Bauten und Mosaiken von Ravenna.
      Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1969 - 344 S. + Taf./ 262 S. + Taf./ 380 S. + Taf. / 384 S. + Taf. + Faltpläne + Heft: Indices/ XII, 53 Pläne/ 21 S. + 405 Taf. 1969, 1974, 1976, 1989, 1976, 1969. Der Plananhang als leinenkaschierte Mappe mit 53 Faltplänen und Grundrissen. Teils Kopfschnitt und Einbandgewebe unter Schutzumschlag gering stockfleckig, bei Bd. 3 auch die ersten u. letzten Blatt, die Schutzumschläge mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren, sonst tadellos. Insgesamt sehr schön erhalten. *** Wenn Sie an einem Tag mehr als einen Titel bei uns bestellen, liefern wir innerhalb Deutschlands versandkostenfrei *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 9827 31 x 22,5 cm, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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TRUFFAUT (François)
        L'Enfant sauvage
      Paris, [les Films du Carrosse, 1969], dact. Solange Vidaud. 1 vol. (200 x 270 mm) de 121 pp., broché, dos carré collé. Après avoir été capturé par des paysans, un enfant sauvage est amené au Docteur Itard, à Paris. La plupart du monde scientifique le considère comme un enfant attardé, mais le Docteur Itard va réussir à éveiller ses capacités intellectuelles.La marge est étroite entre la sauvagerie civilisée de la vie parisienne et les règles brutales de vie dans la nature. Victor trouve un semblant d'équilibre près des fenêtres qui marquent la transition entre l'enfermement et le dehors. Les bougies et les airs de mandoline jouent aussi les médiateurs. Mais Victor paie son adaptation à des relations sociales en perdant sa capacité à vivre comme un sauvage.Solange Vidaud était une dactylographe des plus réputées, auxquels les plus grands faisaient appels pour leurs versions définitives de scénario (Truffaut, Malle, ...)

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GREER, Germaine
        SUCK First European Sexpaper (Issues no. 1 - 8)
      London and Amsterdam: Joy Publications 1969-1974 - Newspaper - "First European Sexpaper" in tabloid format. Eight issues. Profusely illustrated with black and white and colour photographs and drawings. First four issues printed on news print, issues 5,6 and 7 on coated paper and the final issue 8 on heavy gloss paper. Issue no. 1 was published in London in September 1969. However, following the closure of the London PO Box address and the raiding of Suck's offices, the remaining 7 were published in Amsterdam by Joy Publications. Issue no. 1 has some wearing and small tears to the hinge but is, overall, in good condition considering its fragile news print paper. Issue no. 2 has some marking to the foot of the front cover and some wear. The other issues are all very good or near fine. Issue no 5 contains the loosely inserted pages designed to made into a sex-comic. This is a very good, complete set of a scabrous, revolutionary, humorous, and still relevant magazine that undermined, whilst, paradoxically, defining much of the prevailing culture of the late 60s and early 70s. To occupy such a space is rare and difficult. Very good The aim of Suck was to create "a new revolutionary sex-publication." From the beginning, the magazine worked in the spaces between between pornography, sexual liberation and gender identity. This was controversial then and remains, of course, controversial today with Germaine Greer still battling tirelessly at the front. Greer is now "no-platformed" for her views on what constitutes a woman. Suck, ultimately, left its readers in little doubt. Greer famously resigned from the paper after issue no.7 (the final issue, no.8, carried her resignation letter). For Greer (and probably for readers today), what began as sexual liberation for woman had become little more than a means for male oppression and aggression. Greer, in the final issue, described Suck as both pseudo- and counter- revolutionary. Reading the paper now, it is fascinating to see where the counter-culture ended and a new culture had begun. Suck was edited by William Levy, Jim Haynes, Germaine Greer and Heathcote Williams. It included contributions by W.H.Auden, William S. Burroughs, Tom Clark, Robert Crumb, Michael McClure, Valarie Solanas, Jean Stapleton, Alexander Trocchi (a translation of Apollinaire). This is a scarce set. Only one full set listed on Worldcat (in New York Public Library). We are also selling a first edition of Virgin Sperm Dancer (ref. 2715) and Wet Dreams (ref. 2716). We would be happy to discuss a combined price for these together with the full set of Suck. [Attributes: First Edition]

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Mineral investigations.
        [Mudiriyah al-'Ammah lil-Tharwah al-Ma'diniyah]. Jeddah, Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, 1966-1967 and 1969.
      1969. Collection of 14 maps (nos. MI 1-13 and MI 18). Mostly in full colour; various sizes but mostly ca. 70 x 100 cm; scale mostly 1:100,000 (MI 3: 1:250,000; MI 6: 1:2,470 [b&w]; MI 7: ca. 1:1,600 [b&w with red overlays]; MI 8: 1:800 [b&w with red overlays]; MI 9: set of 2 maps [ca. 1:2,340 and 1:1,200] and 1 cross-section [all b&w, maps with red overlays]). All folded in original brown printed envelopes. 14 maps of the 25-map series published between 1966 and 1971, including the complete set of the first 13 maps. Many photomaps based on aerial reconaissance and photomosaics, showing geological or geochemical information. Some sheets include location diagrams, text, notes, cross sections, charts, index map, and insets. The mapped resources also concern ancient gold mines. Among the credited cartographers are some Arabian scientists, but mainly Americans: James Mytton, Robert F. Johnson, Virgil A. Trent, C. W. Smith, J. Kouther, M. Q. Asad, Gerrit Eijkelboom, Mohammed Gendi, Bernard Henry, Xavier Leca, Mohammed Shanti, Phillippe Delange, and Jean Pflaum. Abdullah O. Ankary contributed to the text of several maps, and much of the geology is based on work done in the 1950s and early 1960s by Glen F. Brown, one of the pioneers of the partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Saudi government which began in the 1940s, spanned the next five decades and played such an important role in the development of the kingdom. Also, the map and envelope design closely match that of the geological maps of Saudi Arabia issued by the USGS since the 1950s. - Perfectly preserved.

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Asimov, Isaac
        NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES
      Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City 1969 - Octavo, cloth. First edition. Twenty stories, including "Nightfall, "his most famous story and probably the single most famous US sf story of all time." - John Clute and Malcolm Edwards, SFE (online). Also present here are "Strikebreaker," a dystopian tale, and "Breeds There a Man . ?," in which bacteria-like technological man is wiped out when it threatens its host. A 1988 film, "Nightfall," was based on the title story. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-50. A fine copy in bright, nearly fine dust jacket with hint of rubbing at head of spine panel and front corner tips and 10 mm closed tear at lower front flap fold. A sharp copy. (#114516) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Tricontinental. 12. / Cartel OSPAAAL.
      OSPAAAL, La Habana 1969 - 1ª ed. 15x23. (cartel 33x53). 143pp. Camisas originales. Bello y clásico cartel OSPAAAL de colorido psicodélico y diseño pop que muestra a un soldado americano endemoniado, con dientes de vampiro, aliento de humo, conducido por un burócrata calvo y trajeado colocado dentro de su casco con volante. Aunque los carteles OSPAAAL de los primeros años están sin firmar, esta es obra de Alfredo Rostgaard, director artístico de la revista y de sus carteles. La revista contiene artíclulos de Camilo Torres, Agostinho Neto, Amilcar Cabral, etc., propaganda gráfica, un anti-anuncio (¿tambien de Alfredo Rostgaard?). Roces en las cubiertas de la revista, con una pequeña falta en el margen del cub. posterior, interiores muy bien; el cartel impecable. Envíos para España: el pago contra reembolso conlleva un recargo de 4 Euros.

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RUSCHA, Ed (Edward), WILLIAMS, Mason
        Ed Ruscha & Mason Williams: Crackers
      Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood, California 1969 - First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Brown flexible wrappers, with title printed in scarlet on cover and spine of white dust jacket. Photographs by Ed Ruscha, Ken Price, and Joe Goode illustrating Mason Williams' 1967 short story "How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from Crackers" (the text of the story is printed on the back dust jacket flap). Includes the following cast of characters appearing in the photographs: Man -- Larry Bell; Woman -- Léon Bing; Bellhop -- Rudi Gernreich; Chauffeur -- Tommy Smothers. Unpaginated, with 115 black and white plates. 8-3/4 x 5-5/8 inches. This first and only edition was limited to 5000 copies.[Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).]. Fine in Fine dust jacket (light wear to the jacket extremities). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Psychoanalyse, Imago - Freud, Sigmund, Otto Rank, Sachs .a.:
        Imago. Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften. 23 Bände.
      Leipzig, Wien, Zürich bzw. Nendel, Heller, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag bzw. Kraus, 1914-, 1969. - 8°. zusammen ca. 12.000 Seiten Original-Halbleder bzw. Originalbroschur (Reprint) Mischauflage aus 10 Bänden der Originalausgabe und 13 Bänden der Reprintausgabe. - Jahrgang I (1912) bis XXIII (1937). "- Einbände teils berieben, Gelenke teils etwas angeplatzt (aber solide, nicht gelöst). Innen sauber und gut erhalten. Komplett in 23 Bänden. - Heavy set, no shipping outside the EC!. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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White, Minor
        MIRRORS, MESSAGES, MANIFESTATIONS: An Aperture Monograph [signed]; Of the first edtion of Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations two hundred copies are produced with handselected sheets, are specially bound in buckram and stamped in genuine gold. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered
      New York: Aperture, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Large quarto. 242pp; illustrated throughout from photographs; limitation leaf precedes text. Bound in blue buckram over heavy boards, matching slipcase. Spine of book and edges of slipcase are sun-bleached; contents are in fine condition. 12.5" x 12.25". Laid in is a white envelope containing a nine-page booklet of printed comments on the work of Minor White, by Beaumont Newhall, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Bunnell, Jonathan Williams, Barbara Morgan, and Ansel Adams. The booklet is bound in printed wrappers and is in fine condition. Of the 200 copies issued, this is number 127, signed in blue ink by Minor White.

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Zezon, Antonio
        Tipi militari dei differenti Corpi che compongono il Reale Esercito e l' Armata di Mare di S.M. il Re del Regno delle due Sicilie
      Zezon, Antonio. Napoli, 1850 (Stampata dalla AGER, Napoli, 1969). Tipi militari dei differenti Corpi che compongono il Reale Esercito e l' Armata di Mare di S.M. il Re del Regno delle due Sicilie. In - folio grande, similpelle edit. con titolo ed artistica bordura in oro sui piani e decorazioni al dorso. Titolo, Prefazione, idea dell' opera, classificazione dell' opera e 87 tavole a colori di costumi militari protette da veline accompagnate dalle relative pagine di testo esplicativo, ed infine gli indici. Quest' opera, curata da F. Fiorentino è stata stampata su carta greve appositamente fabbricata dalla cartiera Fedrigoni di Verona e rilegata da S. Tonti di Napoli. La tiratura è di 1100 esemplari (ns. N° 242). Splendida e pregevole edizione. Uff. terr.

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ISHIMOTO, Yasuhiro (San Francisco 1921)
        Chicago, Chicago
      Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1969. Rilegato tela (cloth) Foreword by Harry Callahan. Text by Shuzo Takiguchi. 208 black and white photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Note by Yusaku Kamekura. Layout by Yusaku Kamehura. Text in Japanese and English . 4to. pp. 224. . Senza custodia, ma ottima copia (Without original white card slip-case, otherwise fine). Prima edizione (First edition). "Like the earlier work the book is split into sections, seven of them this time, revealing various aspects of Chicago and the two major photographic preoccupations of Ishimoto at the time - the formal urban landscape and the street portrait. If the portraits and street-life images win out, it is because people are more interesting then things, and the photographer himself is more challenged by people, less prone to exercising merely formal concerns, though no Ishimoto image is ever less than elegant" (Parr, Badger, The Photobook: A History volume I - p. 289)\

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Ursula K. Leguin
        The Left Hand of Darkness.
      Walker and Company 1969 - First issue in hardcover format. Hardcover and dust jacket in mylar. 218p. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. No price listed. BOMC. Winner of the 1969 Nebula and 1970 Hugo awards. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-643. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 60. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 319. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1171-77. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        LumiÃ¨res Dans la Nuit: MystÃ©rieux Objets CÃ©lestes et ProblÃ¨mes Connexes. No. 99 (April 1969) through No. 235-236 (January/February 1984)
      A large sequential run, comprising altogether 136 issues (lacking nos. 100, 142, and 199, two copies of no. 163), most issues 27 pp., of the scarce and long-running French review of ufology under the editorial direction of Raymond Veillith, containing essays and editorials on UFOs, meterology, astronomy and cosmology, extraterrestrial life, symbolism, craft landings, mysterious phenomena, anthropology, and other related topics. Illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams, and photographs. 8vo. Orig. illus. wrpps, overall very good, minor scattered bumping. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, 1969-1984. A fascinating look at a popular and strongly contested field of pseudoscience, from a magazine which began publication in 1958 and is still published today. Over its entire run, Lumieres Dans la Nuit has had only three editors. The journal was originally founded by a study group devoted to the less clearly delineated study of "mysterious celestial objects". Incredibly scarce; as of December 2015, WorldCat locates only one institutional holding in North America, although the extent of the holding is unknown.

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Bulgari Costantino G. - Bulgari Calissoni Anna
        Argentieri, gemmari e orafi d'Italia. Notizie storiche e raccolta dei loro contrassegni con la riproduzione grafica dei punzoni individuali di stato - Maestri argentieri, gemmari e orafi di Roma
      Lorenzo Del Turco - Ugo Bozzi - Fratelli Palombi, 1969 - 1974. 4 volumi in-4° (305x222mm), tra le 450 e le 600 pp. ca. ogni volume, legatura editoriale t. tela azzurra con titolo e impressioni in oro e in nero ai dorsi e sovraccoperte illustrate. Ogni volume è adorno di decine di tavole fotografiche a colori applicate f.t.; numerose altre illustrazioni in b.n. n.t. e f.t. e riproduzioni di marche e di punzoni n.t. Con indici delle località, dei bolli, delle figure e dei simboli catalogati, degli argentieri e degli orafi. Perfetto stato. Dedica autografa di Costantino Bulgari all'occhietto del primo vol. Prima edizione (4 volumi su 6 di cui si compone l'opera). Opera monumentale e di assoluto riferimento sugli orafi, gli argentieri e i gemmari del Centro Italia, di cui costituisce un elenco ragionato suddiviso per rigorosi ordini alfabetici e regionali (gli ordinamenti regionali rispecchiano quelli dei confini degli Stati italiani prima dell'invazione napoleonica, e confermati dopo la Restaurazione del 1815). L'opera, edita nel corso degli anni da diversi tipografi, è così ripartita: 1) Parte prima. Roma. 2) Parte prima [volume secondo]. Roma. 3) Parte terza. Marche. Romagna. 4) Parte quarta. Emilia. Italiano

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The OSS Assessment Staff
        Assessment of Men: Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Services
      NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969. Ex-library copy, glue-stained endpapers, the usual stamps, stickers, labels and markings. Otherwise all else is clean and tight. Library stamped top edge. Red cloth binding with 2 library labels on the foot, rubbing to the back cover. 541pp., including tabels and index.. Reprint. Red Cloth. Good++. Illus. by B&W Photographs/Charts/Tables. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Ex-Library, Hardcover.

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MORAND (Paul)
        ALTITUDES ET PROFONDEURS. Texte inédit de Paul Morand orné de lithographies originales enrichies à la main par J.-P. Rémon.
      A Paris, chez l'artiste, 1969. In-folio, couverture illustrée rempliée, 108 pages, chemise et étui de papier bois imprimés. Edition originale de cet éloge de la Suisse par Paul Morand illustré de 24 lithographies originales par Jean-Pierre Rémon dont 5 sur double page. L'ouvrage, imprimé en caractère Baskerville de corps 30, titres et lettrines gravés, a été tiré à 181 exemplaires dont 26 sur Auvergne enrichis d'originaux, 75 sur grand vélin de Rives et 80 sur vélin pur chiffon réservés aux Bibliophiles étrangers. Les lithographies ont été tirées sur les presses de Mourlot. Notre exemplaire est un des 75 numérotés sur grand vélin de Rives (n°76). Il est en bel état. EDITION ORIGINALE SUR GRAND PAPIER

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KING, Francis.
        A Domestic Animal.
      London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1969 - Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, small mark to foot of rear board; an excellent copy in the bright jacket. First edition, first printing, the so-called "suppressed" edition. This edition was withdrawn before publication, rewritten, and reissued in 1970, as a result of a libel case involving the former Labour MP, and King's erstwhile friend, Tom Skeffington-Lodge. With a TLS from the author to Tom Driberg, journalist and MP, sending him the book and flippantly mentioning the libel action threatened by Skeffington-Lodge, who is referred to here as T.C. Radcliffe-Hall. He laments the unpleasantness but admits, "I suppose it was naughty of me." King had put into the book a scene based on Skeffington-Lodge's bid for a peerage. After writing to senior figures in the Labour Party, urging them to intercede on his behalf, Skeffington-Lodge received a one-line reply from Lord Attlee, expressing the hope that he would "get what he deserved"; Skeffington-Lodge took this at face value and read it aloud at a dinner party at which King was present. King then put this verbatim into A Domestic Animal, taking the precaution of disguising his original source as a female character named Dame Winifred Harcourt. Also present is a subsequent signed note from King imploring Driberg and other owners of advance copies to destroy them "without fail or return to me for destruction". The request has an unrelated but entertaining jotting by Driberg on the back. [Attributes: First Edition]

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CALOGERO Guido
        Esercizi di poesia con cinque incisioni firmate di Leonardo Castellani
      La Pergola. Edizioni d'arte, 1969. In 8, pp. XIV + 136 con 5 inc. f. t. firmate a matita da L. Castellani. Br. ed. Lievi danni alle cuffie. Tiratura di 292 es. (ns. n. 262). Edizione stampata su carta Ventura. Le incisioni sono state tirate da P. Spallacci e l'impaginazione curata da Walter Valentini. Lunga dedica autografa vergata a matita dall'autore, filosofo, antifascista e in seguito tra i fondatori del Partito Radicale. Tra queste esercitazioni poetiche alcune furono composte nel 1942 allorche l'autore venne arrestato per antifascismo. ITA

      [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Coenobium]

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VERLAINE (Paul).
        Parallèlement.
      Paris, Pierre Lanauve de Tartas, 1969. In-folio, en feuilles, emboitage toile rouge de l'éditeur. 117 pp. Lithographies originales de Leonor FINI. Tirage à 290 exemplaires, signés par l'éditeur et l'artiste. Un des 30 sur Japon nacré, n°4, comportant une suite sur grand vélin d'Arches de toutes les planches, ainsi qu'une suite des planches refusées également sur grand vélin d'Arches.Magnifique exemplaire.

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Adler, Harold (letterer); Eric and Lowell Blum (directors, writers); Jay North (narrator)
        The Fantastic Plastic Machine (Original title card maquette for the 1969 film)
      Crown International Pictures, Beverly Hills, CA 1969 - Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film.Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Fantastic Plastic Machine" his credits include "Comanche!" (1956), "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955), "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Psycho" (1960), "The Birds" (1963), "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), and "Finian's Rainbow" (1969). In 2012, an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation, Kansas City.A key early documentary on surfing, shot in California, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, and its intersection with the Summer of Love, and the youth culture surrounding it near the end of the 1960s. The Blum brothers' only film credit, narrated by Jay North ("Dennis the Menace").22 x 13.75 inches. Black ink on white card stock, with tissue paper overlay. Near Fine, with light toning to the card edges, tissue paper chipped at the edges. Holograph notations, including Adler's signature, to the tissue overlay and card.

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Artmann, H[ans] C[arl], Austrian writer (1921-2000).
        3 TLS ("H. C." and "H. C. Artmann"). Salzburg, "c/o Bayer", 1969.
      1969. Large 4to. Altogether (¾+¾+½=) 2 pp. on 3 ff. With 4 letters of response (carbon copies, altogether 7 pp. on 8 ff., large 4to). Correspondence with Mario Hindermann, regarding the publication of "Die Fahrt zur Insel Nantucket" (Neuwied, Luchterhand, 1969): "Ich habe noch zwei kleine Stücke vorgefunden, die ich Ihnen hiermit zuschicke; vielleicht können Sie sie brauchen. Außerdem fand ich in München 'Attila ante portas', welches ich ebenfalls beifüge. Übermorgen fahre ich nach Wien und hoffe dort noch einiges fehlende aufzutreiben. Meine jetzige Adresse (streng geheim!) ist: H. C. Artmann c/o Bayer [...]" (letter dated May 4; without the mentioned content). - "Soeben treffe ich hier in meinem salzburger domizil ein, war auf drei tage in klagenfurt, und finde die manuskripte vor. Den Punch hatte ich bereits vollkommen vergessen, aber er gefällt mir eigentlich gar so übel nicht. Die anderen beiden pantomomen(mimen) sind saumässig schlecht und dürften aus meiner naivsten steinzeit (vd. paläolithikum) stammen. Bitte nicht aufnehmen! Also: Spanischer Capitano et Metamorpföschen beim kinogehen oder wie es heisst. Das ist doch täubchen-kacke, wie der gebildete amerikaner sagt! [...]" (letter dated May 16). - Left margins with punched holes (no loss to text); letter of May 16 with two autograph lines.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris]

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NABOKOV (Vladimir).
        Ada or Ardor : A Family Chronicle.
      New York-Toronto. McGraw-Hill Book Company, paru la même année 1969. Fort volume in-8 de 590 pages, cartonnage éditeur, jaquette typo. Deuxième plat illustré d'un portrait photo de Nabokov par Halsman. Troisième tirage paru la même année que le premier. Très rare envoi autographe de Vladimir Nabokov à René Micha, daté, Montreux 1969. collé sur la page suivant la page de garde.

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APOLLO XI] AMSTRONG (Neil)
        Photographie : Buzz Aldrin devant le drapeau américain [AS11-40-5875]
      [196 - NASA, [1969], , , tirage en couleur d'époque [image 190 x 240 mm] sur papier Kodak, cachet "NASA-USAF PHOTO" au revers, L'une des photographies les plus emblématiques de la mission Apollo XI, réalisée au cours de la première sortie extra-véhiculaire sur la surface lunaire le 20 juillet 1969 : l'astronaute Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. dans la mer de la Tranquillité, site d'alunissage de la mission, salue le drapeau américain qui vient d'être planté. C'est le second des deux célèbres clichés de cet instant, réalisés par Neil Armstrong au moyen d'un appareil Hasselblad 70-mm, vers 20h33 (UTC) : Buzz Aldrin a abaissé sa main droite après avoir porté ses doigts à la visière de son casque pour saluer le drapeau [cliché AS11-40-5874] et s'est légèrement tourné vers Neil pour voir s'il a pris la photo : son visage est visible, en dépit du taux élevé de réflectivité de la visière en or. Les traces de pas sur le sol lunaire sont bien visibles au premier plan. A noter : le cadrage de cette épreuve est légèrement resserré sur la droite et sur la gauche de l'image, entraînant petite perte d'information en particulier sur le module lunaire "Eagle" à gauche. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Librairie Alain Brieux]

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Calder, Alexander. Maeght, A. (editor)
        CALDER: FOUNDATION MAEGHT
      Saint-Paul, France: Foundation Maeght, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed with enormous wit and affection to satiric artist and close friend Robert Osborn by Calder using a Calder quote excerpted from the book that is printed on ffe verso. The quote reads "One of the problems/ confronting me is to get enough/ free time to work/ and not to go around talking about it." Calder has taken the first line and inserted in bold blue ink a different completion of the line (in italics here) so that it reads "One of the problems is Bob Osborn('s) a very nice guy in the long run. Sandy"." With a postcard picturing three of Calder's sculptures in the outdoor collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, from Calder to Robert and Elodie dated by him July 13, 1987, postmarked from Denmark, in which Calder reports on how touring is like a tiring "campaign" ("oh to be 60 again!") and proclaims "the glorious Calders are by far the best at this fine museum." Alexander Calder, known to his friends since childhood as 'Sandy', was an American artist best known for his mobile sculptures. Championed by the Museum of Modern Art, his distinctive mobiles hang permanently there as well as premier institutions like the DC National Gallery. Commissioned to build sculptures and paint murals in several of Marcel Breuer's houses built in Litchfield County, CT. Calder, who lived in Roxbury in that county, Calder had many friends in the artistic community there, Robert Osborn and his wife Eloise being among the closest.

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