l'Allemand, Pauline. (1856-1944). American operatic soprano.

Autograph Musical Quote from "Lakme", Perhaps Her Most Significant Role, Penned by American Soprano Pauline L'Allemand.

Philadelphia, PA: 19th November, 1886. 1886. - Nine bars of music penned on a six-sided piece of cream paper with the text written in English below the music. Inscribed "in kind remembrance of Pauline l'Allemand / Philadelphia 19th Nov 86." There is a diagonal crease & a light paper-clip mark near the left side of the paper. Its left edge is darkened. There are 3 light glue marks & surface rubbing to the verso where the paper has been removed from an album. Very good.

Pauline l'Allemand gave the first American performance of Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on November 17, 1886. This quotation from the opera, which was sung in English, was thus penned two days after the opening.

Born in Syracuse, NY, Pauline l'Allemand [1856-1944) made her debut as an operatic soprano in Stratton's "The Fairy Grotto" at Wieting Opera House in her home town. She subsequently studied singing in Dresden, Stuttgart and Paris. After successfully touring in Europe, she returned to America, performing "Lakme" in Philadelphia. After her attempt to create her own opera company failed, she retired to a farm in Black River Falls, Wisconsin with her grown son. They lived in extreme poverty and both were eventually pronounced insane and in 1920 were remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin. L'Allemand was memorialized in the cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Charles Van Schaick and Michael Lesy.

Rare. Very good .

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Book number: 34588

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; SINGER; OPERATIC SOPRANO; PAULINE L'ALLEMAND; AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AMERICAN PREMIERE OF LAKME BY DELIBES; ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA.

Allen, Gerald; and Oliver, Richard

Architectural Drawing: The Art and the Process

New York: Whitney Library of Design, (1981). (1981). New York: Whitney Library of Design, (1981). (1981). Fine. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], light tan cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is very slightly bumped. The head & tail of the dust jacket spine are slightly chipped & there is a tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. 199 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated with architectural drawings & plans in black & white and color. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition.

The authors "contrast the traditional role of drawings as a documentation of the process of design or the representation of an object as yet unbuilt with the new role of drawing as a visual search for ideas and a statement of the potential role that architecture might play." [From the dust wrapper copy]. The book is illustrated with drawings by numerous architects, among them Cesar Pelli, Daniel Libeskind, Taft Architects and George Ranalli. Fine .

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Book number: 21799

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING: THE ART AND THE PROCESS; GERALD ALLEN; RICHARD OLIVER; DRAWINGS; PLANS; CESAR PELLI; DANIEL LIBESKIND; TAFT ARCHITECTS; GEORGE RANALLI; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Allen, Robert Porter.

Birds of the Caribbean.

NY: The Viking Press, (1961). (1961). - 4to, light green cloth (lightly bumped; extremities slightly faded; scoremark to rear cover) titled in gilt with vignettes of birds stamped in gilt on front cover, in dw (rubbed & lightly chipped; stain to front panel; scoremark to rear panel; price-clipped). 256 pp. with text printed on variously colored stocks. Profuse color illustrations, many full-page. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 328

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; BIRDS; CARIBBEAN BIRDS; ORNITHOLOGY; NATURE.

Allen, Woody

Hannah and Her Sisters

NY: Vintage Books, (1987). (1987). NY: Vintage Books, (1987). (1987). Very good. - Octavo, pictorial B&W wraps. Slightly darkened; light soiling & spotting to front wrap. 187 & [1] pp. B&W illustrations. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 2210

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; CINEMA; MOVIES; MOVIE BOOKS; SCREENPLAY; DIRECTORS; AUTEUR.

(Allen, Thomas B.; editor)

Images of the World: Photography at the National Geographic

(Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1981). 1981). (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1981). 1981). Fine. - Quarto, black cloth titled in silver on the front cover & spine. All the edges are silver. The covers are lightly bumped. 396 pages. Profuse photographic illustrations in color & black & white. Near fine.

Deluxe edition with padded covers. Fine .

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Book number: 8207

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; IMAGES OF THE WORLD; THOMAS B. ALLEN; DELUXE EDITION; TRAVEL; ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MARINE; SCIENCE; NATURAL HISTORY.

Allen, Harry W

A Monographic Study of the Subfamily Tiphiinae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae) of South America

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972. 1972. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972. 1972. Very good. - Quarto, soft cover bound in blue & white wraps. iii & 76 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Very good.

Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology Number 113. Very good .

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Book number: 5635

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: SCIENCE; ZOOLOGY; ENTOMOLOGY; A MONOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE SUBFAMILY TIPHIINAE (HYMENOPTERA: TIPHIIDAE) OF SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMY; HARRY W. ALLEN; TIPHIINAE; HYMENOPTERA; TIPHIIDAE; SOUTH AMERICA; ILLUSTRATIONS; DRAWINGS; SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOL

Allen, Woody; and Murphy, Michael

Original Lobby Card for "the Front

Columbia Pictures Industries, 1976. 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, 1976. 1976. Very good. - sc An 11 inch high by 14 inch wide color lobby card printed by the National Screen Service Corporation for the Martin Ritt film "The Front" starring Woody Allen and Michael Murphy. The image depicts Michael Murphy seated across from Woody Allen with whom he is playing chess while having a discussion. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 26675

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; CINEMA; MOVIES; THE FRONT; ORIGINAL; LOBBY CARD; PHOTOGRAPH; PHOTO; ILLUSTRATION; COLOR IMAGE; MICHAEL MURPHY; WOODY ALLEN; COLUMBIA PICTURES.

Allen, Woody

An Original Lobby Card for Woody Allen's Movie "Annie Hall

United Artists Corporation, 1977. 1977. United Artists Corporation, 1977. 1977. Very good. - sc An 11 inch high by 14 inch wide color lobby card printed by the National Screen Service Corporation for Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. The image depicts Woody Allen talking to a large bald man who is holding a grocery bag. The top left corner is creased. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 26676

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; CINEMA; MOVIES; ANNIE HALL; ORIGINAL; LOBBY CARD; PHOTOGRAPH; PHOTO; ILLUSTRATION; COLOR IMAGE; DIANE KEATON; WOODY ALLEN; UNITED ARTISTS.

Allen, Edward (editor).

The Responsive House. Selected Papers and Discussions from the Shirt-Sleeve Session in Responsive Housebuilding Technologies, Held at the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 3-5, 1972.

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, (1974). (1974). Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, (1974). (1974). Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed light tan wraps, titled in black & white. The covers are slightly soiled and creased with a small chip to the front edge of the rear cover and an early sticker adhering to the rear cover. xviii, [ii] and 307 pages, illustrated in black & white. The corners of the pages are lightly bumped. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 98636

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; THE MIT PRESS; EDWARD ALLEN; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; THE RESPONSIVE HOUSE. Selected papers and discussion from The Shirt-Sleeve Session in Responsive Housebuilding Technologies, held at the Department of

Allen, Frank Gilman (1874-1950). American businessman who served as Governor of Massachusetts.

State House, Boston, Massachusetts. [2 Copies of This Brochure on Massachusetts' State House, Both Signed by Governor Frank G. Allen].

[Boston, Massachusetts], [between 1929 & 1931]. [Boston, Massachusetts], [between 1929 & 1931]. Very good. SIGNED BY MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR FRANK G. ALLEN - Oblong octavo, 5 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, pictorial self-wraps illustrated with a photographic illustration of the "State House, Boston, Massachusetts" on the cover page. Both identical three-page brochures printed on a folded sheet of cream paper with descriptive text describing the history of the state house embossed below the State's coat of arms which in turn is embossed in blue and gilt at the top. A brief history of "The Old State House", embossed on the facing page is illustrated with a woodcut vignette of the historic building. Both brochures are signed in full "Frank G. Allen" as Governor along the bottom right, with some very minor variations in the signatures. The brochures are both lightly creased along the top. Very good. The American businessman and politician Frank Gilman Allen (1874-1950) was the president of a leathergoods business in Norwood, Massachusetts before serving two terms as Lieutenant Governor and subsequently as Governor of Massachusetts. Very good .

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Book number: 96365

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: AMERICANA; MASSACHUSETTS; GOVERNOR; FRANK GILMAN ALLEN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; BROCHURE; STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS; THE OLD STATE HOUSE; SEAL; STATE SHIELD; COAT OF ARMS; ILLUSTRATED; WOODCUT; EMBOSSED; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; FIR

(Allen, Woody).Lax, Eric

Woody Allen: A Biography

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1991. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 1991. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial B&W wraps. Corners lightly creased. Slight soiling to front wrap. 385 & [3] pp. B&W illustrations. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 32723

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; CINEMA; MOVIES; MOVIE BOOKS; PERFORMING ARTS; DIRECTORS; AUTEUR.1

Allen, Don; editor

The World of Film and Filmmakers. Foreword by François Truffaut

NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1979). (1979). NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1979). (1979). Fine. - Quarto, cloth, in dw. The dw is lightly rubbed with the top edge very lightly chipped. 240 pp. Profuse illustrations in B&W & color. Near fine.

A publisher's press release is laid in. Fine .

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Book number: 2286

Catalogue: Film

Keywords: FILM; CINEMA; MOVIES; MOVIE BOOKS; PERFORMING ARTS.

Allen, William.

Wunnissoo, or the Vale of Hoosatunnuk, a Poem, with Notes. By William Allen, D.D.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. 1856. INSCRIBED TO HIS SON & SIGNED BY WILLIAM ALLEN - Octavo, brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the spine with decorations & rules in blind on the covers. The covers are rubbed, soiled and spotted. The head and tail of the spine are chipped. 237 pages, illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Sartain after T. Badger. The text block is cracked opposite the title page and the first signature (i.e. group of pages) is lightly pulled. The pages are slightly darkened with some occasional foxing and there is foxing to the fore edge. Good.

First edition.

Inscribed by the author to his son on the front endpaper: "To Rev. John Wheelock Allen, / With much love, / From his Father, / William Allen. / Northampton, / Sept. 15, 1856".

The American biographer, scholar and academic William Allen (1784-1868) graduated from Harvard College in 1802 and worked there as assistant librarian. His substantial "American Biographical and Historical Biography" was the first work of general biography published in the United States (1809). Succeeding his father as pastor of the Church in Pittsfield, he was elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. Allen served as President of Dartmouth University and subsequently as President of Bowdoin College. Among his literary accomplishments were the publication of a supplement to Webster's dictionary, as well as "Junius Unmasked", "Psalms and Hymns", "Memoirs of Dr. Eleazar Wheelock and of Dr. John Codman", "A Discourse at the Close of the Second Century of the Settlement at Northampton, Massachusetts", "Wunnissoo, or the Vale of Hoosatunnuk", etc.

The author's notes published at the end attest to his interest in Indian culture. His interest manifists itself from the get go, starting with the book's very title: "Wunnissoo, the name of the leading character in this poem, means in the Hoosatunnuk language, 'She is beautiful;' and it must be allowed to be a word of a sweet Indian sound". A few pages later, the author dwells on the origin of Indian tribes. Good .

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Book number: 35952

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; WILLIAM ALLEN; WUNNISSOO, OR THE VALE OF HOOSATUNNUK; A POEM, WITH NOTES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; ENGRAVING; FRONTISPIECE; J. SARTAIN; T. BADGER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; INSCRIPTION;THE REV.

Allen, William.

Wunnissoo, or the Vale of Hoosatunnuk, a Poem, with Notes. By William Allen, D.D.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. 1856. INSCRIBED TO HIS GRANDSON & SIGNED BY WILLIAM ALLEN - Octavo, dark brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the spine with decorations & rules in blind on the covers. The covers are rubbed, soiled and stained with wear to the corners and an abrasion to the rear cover. There is evidence of early worming along the rear joint. There is a two inch split to the cloth along the bottom of the rear joint. The head and tail of the spine are chipped. 237 pages, illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Sartain after T. Badger. Several signatures (i.e. group of pages) are lightly pulled and the top inner corner of the first few pages are dampstained. The pages are slightly darkened with some occasional foxing and there is foxing to the fore edge of the book. Good.

First edition.

Inscribed by the author to his grandson on the front endpaper: "To my gransdon / John Wheelock Allen, / from his grandfather, / Wm. Allen. / Northampton, / May 27, 1864".

The American biographer, scholar and academic William Allen (1784-1868) graduated from Harvard College in 1802 and worked there as assistant librarian. His substantial "American Biographical and Historical Biography" was the first work of general biography published in the United States (1809). Succeeding his father as pastor of the Church in Pittsfield, he was elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. Allen served as President of Dartmouth University and subsequently as President of Bowdoin College. Among his literary accomplishments were the publication of a supplement to Webster's dictionary, as well as "Junius Unmasked", "Psalms and Hymns", "Memoirs of Dr. Eleazar Wheelock and of Dr. John Codman", "A Discourse at the Close of the Second Century of the Settlement at Northampton, Massachusetts", "Wunnissoo, or the Vale of Hoosatunnuk", etc.

The author's notes published at the end attest to his interest in Indian culture. His interest manifists itself from the get go, starting with the book's very title: "Wunnissoo, the name of the leading character in this poem, means in the Hoosatunnuk language, 'She is beautiful;' and it must be allowed to be a word of a sweet Indian sound". A few pages later, the author dwells on the origin of Indian tribes. Good .

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Book number: 35953

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; WILLIAM ALLEN; WUNNISSOO, OR THE VALE OF HOOSATUNNUK; A POEM, WITH NOTES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; ENGRAVING; FRONTISPIECE; J. SARTAIN; T. BADGER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; INSCRIPTION; JOHN WHE

(Wyeth, N.C.). Allen, Douglas; and Allen, Douglas, Jr

N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals. With a Foreword by Paul Horgan and an Introduction by Richard Layton

NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1972). (1972). NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1972). (1972). Very good. - Quarto, dark teal buckram titled in gilt, in dw. The dw is lightly rubbed & soiled with a short tear & light creasing to the top edge & a crease to the rear flap. 335 pp. Owner's ink name & address label on the front endpaper. Profusely illustrated in B&W & color. Very good.

First edition.

Inscribed on the half-title by Douglas Allen, Jr. Very good .

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Book number: 21948

Catalogue: Illustrated

Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; ART; ILLUSTRATOR; PAINTER; AMERICAN; N. C. WYETH; MURALS; PAINTINGS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CATALOGUE; REFERENCE; CHECKLIST; DOUGLAS ALLEN; DOUGLAS ALLEN, JR.; PAUL HORGAN; RICHARD LAYTON. (Illustrated). N. C. WYETH: The Collected Paintings, Illustr