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Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Snap Judgements: New York's Photo League

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by Alastair Johnston   The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936–1951 Yale University Press, edited by Mason Klein and...
Monday, December 3, 2012

Extraordinary John Lennon Letter To Eric Clapton: Join My New Band!

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by Stephen J. Gertz A spectacular, significant and revealing eight-page handwritten and signed  letter, undated but c. mid-late 1969...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

The Only Bookplate Designed By René Lalique

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by Stephen J. Gertz Found in a copy of the Kelmscott Press's The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris (1892) fr...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Politics, Astrology, And The Weather: A Guide To The 2012 Election

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by Stephen J. Gertz Because of its topical nature, Booktryst revisits a book we first took a look at in 2010 , here with an updated slan...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Marlon Brando Plays Mister Roberts, With Annotations And Bookplate

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1955, while Henry Fonda prepared to reprise his role as Mister Roberts, the title character in director Joh...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

D-I-V-O-R-C-E or, John Milton on Splitsville

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1643, poet John Milton , who later wrote Paradise Lost , anonymously published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divo...
Friday, July 27, 2012

American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902, Part III

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By Stephen J. Gertz   We continue our series on vintage rare book trade ads from 1902. Catch-up with Part I and Part II . John Anderson...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902, Part II

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By Stephen J. Gertz   We continue with our three-part series on vintage rare book trade ads from The Literary Collector, 1902. You can ca...