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Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller Eric Chaim Kline P. O. Box 829 • USA – Santa Monica, CA 90406 Written during her years serving as a teacher and principal at M Street High School in Washington, D.C, this historically Tel. +1 818 9209968 significant work by Anna Julia Cooper, the author’s first book, is considered to be among the earliest works of black femi- [email protected] nism. Drawing on her own personal experiences and background, the book touches on a number of topics including in- sightful observations on gender, race and class, as well as socioeconomic issues. Throughout her writings Cooper main- Photography • Architecture • Art • Judaic • German and foreign-languages works tains the notion of the specific importance and value of the perspective of women of color. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858 – 1964) was a pioneering African-American feminist educator, scholar, author and activist. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a slave to prominent landowner George Washington Haywood, she went on to excel academically, received a Full descriptions and multiple images for each work are available on our website higher education and ultimately earn a PhD in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, at the age of 65. In www.klinebooks.com doing so, she became the fourth African-American woman in history to receive a doctorate. She died in in Washington, D.C. in 1964, at the age of 105. *The statement “Copyright 1892 by Anna Julia Cooper” is on the verso of the title page. Binding with some light rubbing to the extremities, including the head and tail of the spine. Binding in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. Binding protected with modern mylar. Quite scarce. vg+ to near fine. Hardcover. [Brunet, Gustave]. Le Marquis de Sade: L’homme et ses écrits. Etude Bio-bibliographique. Sadopolis: Justin Valcourt, 1866. Furtwängler, Wilhelm. Collection of 12 items [Signed]. Ger- Limited Edition. 1/150 copies. 12mo. 69pp. 3/4 maroon leather many: 1915-1951. Orig. document. A collection of twelve over marbled boards with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. pieces from the renowned conductor of the Berlin symphony: Raised bands. Marbled end papers. Illustrated title page. Orna- one large format photograph with personal inscription on mental printers’ devices as head- and tailpieces. The headpieces mount, one signed photographic postcard, one original photo- seem to be based on the Marquis’ own sketches. 900,- graphic portrait, three signed typewritten letters, two signed Scarce and early account of the life and writings of French aristocrat, philosopher handwritten postcards, one signed music manuscript, one origi- and writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814), best known for his nal press photo, a signed program of the Berlin Philharmonic explicit sexual works, as well as his writings depicting violence, criminality and Orchestra, and an unused photographic postcard. Text in Ger- blasphemy against the Catholic Church. Chapters listed at the back of the book: “L’homme”, “Ses écrits” and “Discours prononcé á la Section des Piques”. One of man. Good to very good condition overall. Loose leaf. 9.000,- 150 copies of which this is No. 128. Binding rubbed along joints. Some foxing to Contents: 1) Wilhelm Furtwängler Press Photo. Frankfurt, United Press. 7 x fly leaves. Text in French. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ to very good 9 1/2 inch original b/w photograph of Wilhelm Furtwängler conversing with condition. g to vg. Hardcover. Ernst Fischer. Fischer was the “Vorstand der Philharmoniker” (Manager of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra). 2) Signed photograph, 6.8 x 9.2 inch photograph mounted on 11.6 x 15.6 inch photo- Bukowski, Charles. Crucifix in a grapher’s mount. 3) Signed photograph, 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Signed “Furtwängler,” in ink beneath image. 4) Signed musi- Deathhand: New Poems 1963-65 cal manuscript (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") containing three bars of music from an unidentified composition. 5) Letter from Wil- helm Furtwängler to the Herrn Generalintendendanten, dated 12 September 1930. Signed by Furtwängler. 6) Signed [Signed]. New York: Lyle Stuart, typewritten letter, “Dr. W. Furtwängler”, Berlin, 23rd October 1931. 7) Handwritten and signed postcard. W. Furtwäng- Inc., printed by the Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1965. First ler, Mannheim, 1915 (postmark), to the violinist Melanie Michaelis (1882-1941). 8) Signed typewritten letter. “Wil- edition. Signed with a drawing by Charles Bukowski on helm Furtwängler”, Mailand, 15th April 1951. 9) Handwritten and signed postcard. Mannheim, dated 29 May 1924. half-title and inscription with Bukowski’s signature and fully 10) Unused, 3 1/5" x 5 1/4" postcard of a b/w reproduction of a photograph showing Furtwängler reading a newspaper. 11) Original photographic portrait of Furtwängler. 6 1/4" x 9" mounted on 8" x 11" card. 12) Berliner Philharmonisches rendered drawing in red and silver on page opposite of colo- Orchester. 4 page fold-out pamphlet of a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on December 19th, 1949. phon at rear. 1/3 100. Small Folio. 101 (3)pp. Original stiff illustrated wrap-around dustwrapper attached at spine, with Gerhäuser, Emil; Hans Hildebrandt; Bernhard original brown belly band inserted. Laid in: Two handwrit- Pankok (illustr.). Stuttgarter Bühnenkunst: Insze- ten letters on Loujon Press letterhead by Jon Webb to Jerry nierungen der Königlich Württembergischen Hof- Cushman, a reprint of an article about the Loujon Press published in a Tucson newspaper, oper von Werken Mozarts und von Schilling’s and a printed advertisement flyer for Bukowski’s “Crucifix in a Deathhand” and the Loujon Mona Lisa [Signed], 1/20 copies. Stuttgart: Wil- Press magazine “The Outsider” on the verso. 1.400,- helm Meyer-Ilschen, 1917. Limited deluxe edition. Foredge of first cardboard page set back 1 3/4 inches with holograph of title poem reproduced. The following 1/20. Quarto. Original vellum, gold-stamped with seven pages deckled and in different colors with widths gradually increasing containing the front endpaper, half- stunning floral designs on cover and spine, resting title, title page, dedication page, a note from Bukowski, and table of content. Deckled paper block with numbered in matching sturdy gold-stamped vellum clamshell box. Binding protected by modern blue cover pages for each chapter, four etchings with tissue guards by Noel Rockmore on yellow paper and poems mylar. All gilt edges. Ribbon marker. Decorative front and rear endpapers in vibrant colors. on cream-colored paper. Publisher’s note on front cover flap and bio for Noel Rockmore on back cover flap. Bound in a statement on Noel Rockmore by E. L. Berenstein on transparent paper at rear, followed by a blue sheet Numbered limitations page illustrated on verso with a reproduction of a b/w drawing. of paper inscribed with Bukowski note “For Jerry Cushman (red) Poems Sure Frontispiece etching signed in pencil by Bernhard Pankok, dated 1916. Title-page printed Poems Why Not? Charles Bukowski” (silver), and illustrated by Bukowski. in red and black with vignette. “Dieses Werk wurde in 300 numerierten Exemplaren her- Decorative, transparent colophon with red print “gypsy lou series # 2 thirty-one hundred of this first edition…” and blue endpaper concluding this extraordinary gestellt. Für die Nummern 1-20 wurden von der Radierung 20 Vorzugsdrucke abgezogen, publication. Fine. Softcover. die Bernhard Pankok handschriftlich signierte.” Handsome copy of this elaborate publica- Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice From the South. By A Black tion looking at productions by the Königlich Württembergischen Hofoper (theater) in Woman From the South. Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing Stuttgart of operas by Mozart and Max Schilling’s Mona Lisa. 1.400,- 20 copies of a limited edition of 300 include an etching signed by the artist, this being one of them. This rare work House, 1892. First edition. Small octavo. (iii) [4] 10-304pp. focuses on the set design & scenery of these productions, recreated in color drawings by Pankok. Foreword “Das Burgundy and light brown buckram boards with gilt lettering on Bühnenbild” by Hans Hildebrandt. Illustrated with 7 plates in photogravure and 45 color reproductions of drawings of the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. costumes and set designs. One drawing of Baron zu Putlitz, and another of E. Gerhäuser. Baron zu Putlitz was the Intendant (director) of the Königliches Hoftheater (Royal Court Theatre). All plates, including frontispiece, protected Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author with a facsimile by decorative tissue guards. Includes some in-text b/w drawings, plans & musical scores. Age wear, scuffing and signature and protective tissue guard. This scarce work is regard- staining on clamshell box. Front board slightly bowed. Minor scuffing and staining on boards. With extensive ed as among the earliest works of black feminism. 5.400,- informative text in German. Clamshell box in overall good, book in near fine condition. Hardcover. Eric Chaim Kline Eric Chaim Kline Internationale Arbeiterhilfe für Sowjet-Russland & Koebner, F. W. Cocain: Mondaine und Demimondaine Neuer Deutscher Verlag. Sichel und Hammer. Illustrierte Skizzen. Berlin: Grotilgo-Verlag, 1921. First edition. Octa- Internationale Arbeiter-Zeitung (Complete III. Jahrgang, vo. 84pp. Original illustrated wraps with black lettering on containing 12 Issue so fthe Periodical). Berlin: Internatio- cover, protected in modern mylar. Collection of fourteen nale Arbeiterhilfe für Sowjet-Russland, 1923-1924. III. short stories around cocaine. Franz Wolfgang Koebner was Jahrgang. Scarce, complete run from Oct. 1923 – October a German writer, journalist, and the a co-founder of the 1924 of “Sichel und Hammer” (Sickle & Hammer), a pre- magazines “Elegante Welt” and “Das Magazin”. The title cursor of the Communist periodical “Arbeiter Illustrierte page image is signed “von Puttkammer”. 1.400,- Zeitung” (AIZ). Scarce complete run of the Communist Koebner was born into an upper middle class German-Jewish family.