Black Rococo (13 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 212 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition/First Printing. Super book, jacket nicked, has a longish tear at front flap fold.

Hardcover. 212p., first edition, dj. A satirical novel of the theatre business with a black movie star in the Superfly mode ("Superdude") in the cast. Appears to be a novel of a white theatre manager turning his venue over to soul movies; hard to tell, most everyone seems white. Author Ron Kurz was "a correctional officer in the Maryland prison system (1961-1969), and a movie theatre manager in his native Baltimore".

First Edition. First Printing Hardbound VG-/Good-., DJ 8vo, 212, Light wear to book. DJ has wear to edges/corners. Not price clipped. Back panel has 1" tear bottom edge, next to spine. ISBN:0-87131-196-8.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dustjacket. Owner stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover/pub.1975/Fair condition/212 pages - Clifton Praeger, an urban depressive, aspiring actor in love with an adorable ecology freak who may leave him. Praeger has watched his final decline from white pornography to blaxploitation. [KE619 386]. Book.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (black humor, fiction ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. A very nice and clean copy of the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Condition: Near Fine. Illustrations by Howard Simon (illustrator). Limited Edition #473 of 500. The true first book printed by Edward W. Titus at his legendary Rue Delambre press, establishing the aesthetic blueprint for his Paris expatriate circle. This edition perfectly merges the refined letterpress typography of Titus with Howard Simon's delicate modernist woodcut illustrations. It stands as the essential foundational document for one of the most significant fine press imprints of the 1920s American expatriate movement. KEY FEATURES +++ Visuals: Features three elegant, tipped-in woodcut illustrations by Howard Simon, with the first plate signed by the artist in the matrix. +++ Binding: Original quarter white parchment spine with gilt titles over blue-grey paper-covered boards, boasting a sharp blue paste-on paper label to the upper cover. +++ Content: Collects Dunning's introspective, refined modernist verse, representing his key collaboration within Ezra Pound's Paris circle. +++ Associated Names: Edward W. Titus (Publisher); Howard Simon (Illustrator); Ezra Pound (Circle Associate). +++ Imprint: Paris: Edward W. Titus, at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1926. Limited Edition, this being copy #473 of only 500 printed. +++ Specs: 9 x 5.25 inches tall / unpaginated [22 pages]. CONDITION: Near Fine. The bindings are tight and square, holding firmly. Internally, the text block is clean and free of markings, displaying light, even age-toning, and remaining completely unopened after the preliminary leaves. The exterior shows moderate shelf handling, characterized by even toning and faint hand-soiling to the parchment spine, light rubbing to the extremities, and typical endpaper offsetting to the corners. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Edward W. Titus was an American expatriate bookseller, critic, and publisher whose Rue Delambre shop operated as a vital node of literary modernism, neighboring Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company. By founding the Black Manikin Press, Titus merged classical fine-press craftsmanship with modern aesthetic experimentation, creating a platform that championed controversial and innovative writers who were excluded from mainstream commercial streams. Rococo matters precisely because it is the opening salvo of this publishing crusade. Before Titus took on the financial and legal risks of printing Lady Chatterley's Lover or funding the early booklets of Anaïs Nin, he utilized Dunning's verse and Simon's engravings to test the limits of his handset typography and establish his reputation among international collectors. SCHOLARLY FEATURES +++ Expatriate Fine Press: Functions as the inaugural publication of Titus's Sign of the Black Manikin Press, setting the high typographic standard that would later produce early milestones for Anaïs Nin, D.H. Lawrence, and Henry Miller. +++ Modernist Illustration: Showcases early, masterful Paris-period woodcuts by Howard Simon, whose printmaking captured the intricate, delicate imagery of the lost generation poets. +++ Poetic Lineage: Documents Ralph Cheever Dunning's place as a central, tragic figure in the expatriate avant-garde, whose traditional yet deeply introspective verse was heavily championed by Ezra Pound in the transatlantic review. SUBJECTS: Black Manikin Press, Edward W. Titus, Paris Expatriate Printing, Howard Simon, Modernist Illustration, Modernist Poetry, Fine Press, Rue Delambre. GENRES: Limited Edition, Private Press, Illustrated Book.

[Florence: ca. 1763]. This handsome manuscript, prepared for presentation to Emperor Francis I (1708-65), Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, is a beautifully written contemporary fair copy of the original holograph manuscript now in the Museo Galileo (formerly the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence), compiled by Targioni-Tozzetti (1712-83), the great natural historian, librarian, director of Florence's botanical garden, and professor of botany. He was, after Spallanzani, the most active Italian naturalist of the 18th century. Emperor Francis I, the husband of Maria Theresa, was well-known for his interests in the natural sciences and for assisting his wife in running the complicated Austrian dominions. The collections of natural history specimens in the "Specola" next to the Pitti Palace trace their origins to earlier Medicis and to Georg Eberhard Rumpf, who had sold a large collection of 360 shells to Cosimo III de' Medici in 1682. The present catalogue was compiled at the instigation of Antoniotto Botta Adorno (1688-1774), prime minister of the Duchy of Tuscany. Thanks to Cosimo III's other natural history acquisitions, by the middle of the 18th century, Florence could boast one of the greatest collections of shells, botanical, and mineralogical samples in Europe. In 1775, all the collections were gathered into the "Specola" at the instigation of Grand Duke Peter Leopold which was the only scientific museum or "Wunderkammer" of its kind specifically created for the public to view. The present catalogue, following Targioni-Tozzetti's original manuscript, describes 3449 items, of which 2340 are zoological (mostly shells), 375 botanical, and 734 mineralogical and rock specimens. The preface to the catalogue describes the collections and their histories, their provenances including the Far East, etc. The main body of the catalogue is divided into three sections: zoological, botanical, and mineralogical samples. Each description is quite elaborate with full accounts of each specimen, references to other books, references to where other examples are illustrated, etc. Provenance: This manuscript entered the Apponyi family library in Oponice, Slovakia in the latter part of the 18th century and was sold in Prague in June 1939. ? Dance, Shell Collecting, an Illustrated History, pp. 56-57. D.S.B., XIII, pp. 257-58. Martelli, ed., Le Collezioni di Giorgio Everardo Rumpf acquistate dal Granduca Cosimo III de' Medici, una Volta esistenti nel Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale di Firenze (1903).