Book Object (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. HBDJ, 1961, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, VG/GOOD, LARGER FORMAT ,BACK OF DJ SAYS A FEW OF 500 AUTHORS, SMALL GREEN cloth-covered boards with gilt-stampedspine titling & decorations, with SALMON topstain , 443 Pgs , Index of persons, dust jacket with tiny chips WEAR RUB TEARS DJ SPINE EDGES & AT FOLDS, DJ SPINE HAS CHIPS OBSCURE SOME OF TITLE , Translated by the Rev. H. HENRY F. Cary, and with introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner ,FORWARD by Mario Praz, Prof of English Univ of rome, B/W frontis and GOLD & White EL endpapers , edited INTRO by Edmund Gardner, GOLD & WHITE EL Endpapers NAME & ADDRESS.

Blook: 245 x 175 x 40 mm. With printed "title-page" conjugate with front pastedown bearing title, directions to the Funeral Director, and imprint (Edgar Rothrock). Contains: 4 sections of printed pages, each section with Contents on front wrapper, pages numbered 1-240, loose as issued but designed to be spiral-bound, a number of which are now missing: 5-6, 31-2, 35-8, 77-80, 103-4, 111-12, 123-4, 143-8, 153-8, 173-6, 179-84, 191-2, 215-20. Blook covered with embossed leatherette, inside painted gold, green fabric ribbon (detached). CONTAINS: 11 folded cards acknowledging expressions of "sympathy" with envelopes. WITH: 3 folding Pallbearers cards with envelopes. WITH: 39 Sympathy cards, each the size of a business card, each with two pinholes where once attached to flowers, plus one (in envelope) from a florist for the wife of the decedent. Printed note book from Sellers Funeral Home "Lifetime Memories": suede covers, 16 leaves color printed, depicting blue sky and clouds, with typed name of the decedent, family record, date of service, final resting place and pallbearers; signatures of relatives and friends (extending 12 1/2 pages), and floral offerings (typed). Preserved in the original embossed box (slightly defective). Highly curious Blook artifact of mid-1960s funeral practice, which answers the question: how (exactly) was a funeral for a middle-class American conducted at this time? Many of us never went to a funeral in 1965 (or at least we may not remember) but it remains one of the quintessential ritual in American life, affecting the participants not only emotionally but socially and commercially. The present archive documents much about this process, from the "Lingering Memories" notebook to cards acknowledging mourners' expressions of "sympathy," Pallbearers cards, 39 Sympathy cards once accompanying flowers, and information about the decedent and his family, date of the funeral, name of the cemetery, and 12 1/2 pages of signatures of relatives and friends. Interestingly, the bespoke names include many businesses and their employees: C.V. Hose Co., the Girls at Shirley Motors, Stock Control Division & Low Altitude Branch of Huntsville, Alabama; non-commercial organizations are also represented (Loyal Order of Moose #842, Marine Corps League, and American Legion) is also present. In many instances, the type of flowers (and/or vase) is recorded. While there were no "rules" as to the mechanics of a funeral at this time, there were certain expecations. The Blook contains unbound leaves for the Officiant which were designed to meet some of these expectations. The four categories are: Poems (meant to be uplifting), Scriptures, Manual Selections (such as Commitals, including Commitals for a Child), Prose, and "Your Memorial Addresses" (to be filled in by the Officiant). That these are instructions to the Officiant, and not to the bereaved, we learn that "In the case of cremation, burial at sea, or in a mausoleum, the phrases 'to the ground' and 'to the earth' should be changed 'to the elements,'" etc. The Prose selections, all written by American politicians, are also of interest: Garfield on the Death of Lincoln, Last Words of William McKinley, the Gettysburg Address, and so forth. In the present instance, the decedent was Donald J. Smith (1908-1965) who was born, lived, and died in Chambersburg, PA. His widow was Evelyn Smith; they had no children. It is unclear to us why the unbound Officiant's manual was preserved in this archive, but we have been unable to trace another.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Unique. Unique. Hardcover. Almost certainly a French military officer's field latrine.blending humor and function. It is possible it was created for a young man's Grand Tour, but much more likely of military origin. Late 1700s binding has been repurposed to create a folding thunderbox. All elements fit within the closed 'book' (except the thunderpot) so it could be shelved in the officers field office. The binding and use of pear wood strongly collaborate its origins.most likely for use during the Peninsula War. We find reference to two similar 'thunderbooks', one in a private collection in the EU and otherwise unknown detail and a later example (Edwardian) with major elements (seat) replaced. This is a remarkable example of a book concealing a much more utilitarian purpose. Light shelf/edge wear, rebacked (original leather laid down), professional stabilization, shelf later, else tight and bright. Full leather binding, gilt lettering and decorative elements, pear-wood boards and structural elements, catspaw leather seat. fo. np.

20 : 24 cm. 20 coloured original lithographs mounted on poplar wallboard, linen joints, in original board-box. One of only 40 numbered copies of this fantastic book-object. - Après avoir fait ses études à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, Nicole Bottet reçoit un prix à Académie Française et un prix organisé par la Galerie Nichido de Tokyo. - Se sont suivies de nombreuses expositions personnelles en France,Allemagne,Autriche,Suisse, Chine et Japon. - Ses oeuvres figurent dans les collections privées au Canada,Etats Unis, Chine, Japon et en Europe ainsi que dans les collections publiques au Musée Jenish de Vevey (Suisse), musée Olympique de Lausanne (Suisse), Musée Essl Klosterneuburg (Autriche), Musée de L'Albertina, Vienne (Autriche), Musée de Salzbourg (Autriche), Musée Schloss Ritzen Saalfelden (Autriche), Musée Nichido Kasama (Japon). - Ses peintures sont en permanence exposées à la Galerie Nichido (Tokyo, Nagoya, Paris), Galerie Welz Salzbourg ( Autriche), Galerie d'Etraz Lausanne (Suisse). - Les dernières expositions personnelles 2023 Galerie Nichido Tokyo (Japon) 2022 Galerie Welz Salzburg (Autriche), Galerie Nichido Paris (France).