BOOKBINDING - Operations performed when binding a book by hand. Method unchanged since the fourteenth century.

A BROADSIDE on BOOKBINDING by ARNO WERNER, BOOKBINDER.

INSCRIBED and INITIALED at the bottom by ARNO WERNER to the VEATCHS: "From me - a.w. / For by name Veatch / 6.15.92".

Broadside, printed on heavy stock paper, 15x23 inches.

Printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, undated, c.1992.

GOOD condition: There is light shorelining to the upper 1/3 of the blank backside of the poster, some of it faintly shows through to the top few inches of the front of the poster, there is also some waviness to the top few inches as a result of the shorelining; otherwise bright and clear.

This is a SCARCE poster, especially so with ARNO WERNER'S INSCRIPTION to the VEATCHS (see Veatchs - Arts of the Book).

The broadside will be safely shipped in a sturdy mailing tube.

About ARNO WERNER (from his New York Times Obituary):

******Arno Werner, a German-born master bookbinder who was credited with keeping the craft alive in the United States, died on July 28, 1995, at his home in Hadlyme, Connecticut. He was 96.

His work, often executed in painstakingly hand-tooled morocco leather, was marked by a sturdy yet elegant simplicity. Until 1982 he was chief bookbinder for rare editions at the Houghton Library at Harvard University. His association with the library went back almost to its opening in 1942. In the catalog of Houghton Library's 1981 Retrospective of Werner's work, James E. Walsh, the keeper of printed books, wrote: "There is scarcely a shelf in the Houghton Library that does not contain one or more pieces of Arno's work."

Arno Werner was born in 1899, in Mylau, Saxony, one of 10 children of a weaver. He was apprenticed to a bookbinder at 13. He came to New York in 1925 with $25 and his tools in a cigar box.******

THREE WAYNE THIEBAUD ART MONOGRAPHS:

(1) WAYNE THIEBAUD - A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE. Text by Steven A. Nash and Adam Gopnik. Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco on the occasion of the exhibition that took place at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, June 10 - September 3, 2000, then traveled to other museums.

Softcover Book, 9x12 inches, 216 pages. Illustrated throughout. FINE condition.

(2) THIEBAUD SELECTS THIEBAUD : A Forty-Year Survey from Private Collections. Text by Stephen C. McGough. Published by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that ran from April 21 - August 4, 1996. First edition.

Softcover Book, 8.5x11 inches, 56 pages. VERY GOOD condition, toning to the margins of the covers and inner pages, otherwise barely used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The art reproductions are all brilliant.

(3) THE PALETTES OF WAYNE THIBAUD. Published by the Elliott Fouts Gallery of Sacramento. Illustrated with numerous color photographs of palettes used by Thiebaud. The collection of palettes was built by Matt Bult, stepson of Wayne Thiebaud. Matt Bult is currently the chairman of the Wayne Thiebaud foundation.

From the Introduction by Matt Bult: "For more than three decades I've been collecting the discarded palettes of Wayne Thiebaud. Some are large pieces of glass, palette paper or some are what could be referred to as 'portable palettes.' These consist of paper plates, napkins, tennis ball can lids, cottage cheese lids or small scraps of paper...Once framed, they become three dimensional objects putting them into a different realm - something that one can hold and exhibit."

Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches oblong, NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

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Punk embodied juvenile delinquent culture with a psychobilly edginess that manifest in the late 1970s as herds of disaffected kids dealt with the social disintegration they saw around them. Stapled to poles and pasted up around town punk flyers are rare since they were made to be thrown away, totally unique cultural artifacts.

Three pieces of original punk ephemera from the late 1970s:

One Flyer from the Vacaville, California punk band THE PANTIES who played gigs all over the East Bay -

Flyer, paper, printed on one side, 8.5" x 11" inches. GOOD CONDITION: horizontal fold, numerous pinholes in the margins and in the image, small droplet stain in bottom margin, small edgewear, penned notations by band member Jim on the front, relevant penned note on verso, overall remains solid and bright.

Punch-out DEVO postcard from the cover of their second studio album Duty Now for the Future - color postcard, 9.25" x 6.25" inches: GOOD CONDITION: corner creasing, pinholes in the margins, age toning, penned Christmas notations, names and addresses on the verso but remains solid and bright.

Johnny Rotten themed printed birthday invitation - printed card, 5" x 4" inches folded: FAIR CONDITION: pinholes, tearing in the top margin, staining and wear, but remains extant which is pretty uncommon.

Original Clash Promotional Poster circa 1978. Halftone, printed on paper, issued rolled, 27" x 20" inches.

From a 1978 black & white photograph taken by Pennie Smith during a photo session for the promotion of the band's second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). A Russian propaganda poster was used as the photo's backdrop. GOOD CONDITION: surface creasing and scratches, egdewear, touch of waviness, overall a solid and bright vintage punk poster. Will be sent rolled in sturdy mailing tube. Uncommon.

Formed in London in 1976 The Clash was one of the most successful bands from Punks first wave in the 1970s, early Clash gigs were notoriously violent establishing them as a leading voice of Punk Rock. Clash members were vocalist Joe Strummer, guitarist Mick Jones, bass player Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon.

Artist Pennie Smith (b. 1949) is one of the United Kingdoms most acclaimed rock photographers. She created one of the most iconic Punk Rock photographs ever, the cover image for London Calling by The Clash.

POPULAR DANCE IN BLACK AMERICA

Dance Research Journal Congress on Research in Dance. Spring 1983. Published by the State University of New York, Purchase, New York, 1983. First edition, first printing. Sally Banes, Editor. Softcover, illustrated wrappers, side staple bound, 10.75" x 8.25", 60 pages, illustrated with b&w throughout. VERY GOOD CONDITION: covers have light toning to the margins and a touch of light wear, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon.

A literary journal on the history and critical theory of dance. This issue features articles and photographs on popular dance in the Black community. Authors include African American Dance Specialist Katrina Hazzard-Gordon. Articles include "Swinging at the Savoy," "Between Two Eras Norton and Margot in the Afro American Entertainment World," "Afro American Core Culture Social Dance: An Examination of Four Aspects of Meaning," and "Disco: Afro American Vernacular Performance."

African American dance styles dominated American dance by the end of the 20th century. Over the first 200 years recognizable American dance styles progressed slowly through a blending of African and European movement and musical forms. By the end of the 1890s a distinct pattern emerged where dances created in Black communities spread out to the American mainstream such as the Charleston in the 1920s and hiphop freestyle in the 1970s and 1980s.

THE BATTLES OF CHANCELLORSVILLE AND GETTYSBURG, by CAPT. A. H. NELSON [Captain Alanson H. Nelson], 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Self Published / Capt. A. H. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1899. First Edition.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Signed & Inscribed by Captain Nelson to Captain Jack Wendell on the page facing the title page: "Minneapolis Minn. / May 7th, 1920 / Compliments of the Author / Captain A. H. Nelson / To his comrade / Captain Jack Wendell." At the bottom of this page are two ink stamps of "A. C. Wendell" (perhaps a son of Captain Jack Wendell?). One of the ink stamps states "A. C. Wendell / P.O. Clerk / Minneapolis"; the other: "Comrade A. C. Wendell / Co. K, 39th & Co. D, 46th Wis. Infantry / Minneapolis, Minn."

Hardcovers, cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the front cover (the titling on the spine is almost completely rubbed away / gone), 5x7 inches, 183 pages. Errata slip pasted on the blank area of an early page.

Illustrated with six full page line-maps, plus an illustration of Nelson's broken sword captioned: "Capt. A.H. Nelson's Sword / Shot away by a fragment of shell - Sunday, May 3rd, 1863 - at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va."

EX-LIBRARY with a shelving number on the front cover, "Atascadero Elementary School" stamps on the endpapers and title page, and a card pocket and return date slip on the rear endpapers. Ex-lib aside, the covers are worn but solid, the front cover gilt titling is bright, the spine titling has been rubbed away and is barely visible; internally, the pages are toned as normal, the inner hinge is cracked at a number of places but holding with the sewn binding.

Just as Capt. A. H. Nelson survived the Civil War, this book survived an early burial. Laid-in at the rear is a slip of paper that reads: "George found this book in the Atascadero dump along with many others discarded by Atascadero School. It is Autographed by its Author, Captain A. H. Nelson". Thank goodness for book collecting dumpster divers!

Though the book can be found with an unsigned "Compliments of the Author" inscription, the actual SIGNATURE, INSCRIPTION and PRESENTATION by Civil War CAPTAIN ALANSON H. NELSON makes this book quite exceptional.

About CAPT. ALANSON H. NELSON (from the Find A Grave website):

******Alanson H. Nelson, b.1828 d.1921. His father, William Nelson, enlisted in the Regular Army and was killed in the Seminole war. On August 1, 1861, A.H. Nelson enlisted in the Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, leaving his wife and seven small children. He and Capt. Chase organized Company K to the number of thirty men and he was made a First Lieutenant. When the Company arrived in Harrisburg, Penn., A.H. Nelson was ordered make up the remainder of the Company, which he did, enlisting fifty-five more men. The company was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. At the death of Capt. Chase on June 17, 1862, A.H. Nelson was promoted to Commander. He led his Company through seventeen hard fought and historic battles of the Virginia campaigns. In the absence of the field officers Capt. Nelson, being the senior Captain, took command of the regiment for a period of eighteen months. He received his discharge in November, 1864.******

About CAPT. A. H. NELSON (from an Internet Civil War site):

******Captain Alanson H. Nelson, Company E, 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

The 57th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Colonel Peter Sides, who was wounded on July 2. Captain Alanson H. Nelson then took command. The 57th brought 207 men to the field, losing 11 men killed, 46 wounded and 58 missing.

The 57th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment served in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War from December of 1861 until June of 1865. It lost 12 officers and 149 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 217 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. There is a monument to the 57th Pennsylvania on the Gettysburg battlefield.******

WOUNDED SOLDIER'S WWI FRENCH HOSPITAL PHOTO ALBUM - YVETOT HOPITAL DE L'ALLIANCE c.1914. Likely the album of JOSEPH BROSSARD, 7th ZOUAVE BATAILLON, 6th Compagnie, who apparently spent time at the hospital recovering from wounds. There are two handmade cards related to him in the album.

Flexible covers, decorated cloth, cord bound, 7x9 inches (18x23.5 cm) oblong, photos mounted on heavy stock leaves, most with tissue guards, approximately 24 leaves (48 pages). There are 18 photographs plus two handmade cards. Most of the photos are glued-in, the cards are laid-in. Twenty of the album's pages have photos or cards, the rest are blank.

There are twelve (12) photographs of nurses, patients and various other shots taken inside the hospital, varying in size from 2.75x4.75 to 4.75x5.75 inches. There are also six (6) other photographs of people who appear unrelated to the hospital, a man sowing seeds, a mother and child, two men in old traditional garb, a portrait of a woman who appears to be a matriarch of some sort, etc.

There are also two handmade cards laid-in. One card has the name of a soldier: Joseph Brossard, 7th Zouave, 6th Battalion, along with a bit of writing in French; and the other card - somewhat tattered - also has the name Joseph Brossard, and a decorative title: "Souvenir de 1914-1915".

These are unique photos of the Nurses and Patients at the Yvetot Hospital during WWI, plus two "I was there" handmade cards of one of the wounded soldiers whose album this likely was. Though real photo postcards of the Yvetot hospital can be found, these original photographs are unique.

GOOD condition: A few of the photographs are lightly faded, most are bright and sharp. The loose photo of two men in traditional garb has some tears. One of the handmade, hand colored, personal cards is in GOOD condition, solid but showing some age, the other card is torn and ragged along the edges but still lovely and informative.

A unique item related to the important WWI Yvetot Hospital, and Joseph Brossard of the infamous Zouave Battalions.

Manuscript Document Signed (or marked) by eight parties, addressed "Right Worshipful," comprising depositions in several different notarial hands. Concerns two parcels of land adjoining Harsfold Manor, "Willms the freehold" and "Willms the copyhold", apparently involved in some sort of dispute.

Folio, single-sheet folded to make four pages, writing on the front page and one of the inner pages.

ENGLAND: No date, but circa 1600.

GOOD condition, folds from where the document was once folded to a small size, some small tears and holes to the spine fold and some of the folds but holding together well, some wear to the edges, light soiling, overall amazingly solid and bright with writing that is bold and clear. Note that this early English handwriting is difficult to read.

IVONNE BAKI - PAINTINGS of WOMEN of the MIDDLE-EAST..

Ivonne Baki is primarily known for being a diplomat, politician and the first female Ambassador from Ecuador. She was an ambassador to Qatar and later to the United States. BUT she is also an artist. This book catalogs some of her paintings of Middle-Eastern Women (she lived 19 years in Lebanon where she raised her family) as well as promotes her as an artist.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED by IVONNE BAKI on the inside front cover, below her photo: "Muy estimado Fred, Con todo cariño y amistad! Te deseos stempu felicidad! / Ivonne / Dec. 7th, 1991". Baki also wrote a sentence in Arabic below the Spanish inscription.

Softcovers, 8.5x11.5 inches, 46 pages. TEXT in FRENCH and ENGLISH.

ILLUSTRATED with 6 reproductions of Baki's paintings, a photograph of a young Baki at work, and a photograph of Baki on the inside front cover. The book also contains listings of her exhibitions, works in private collections, press articles, etc.

GOOD condition, the covers are pulling from the inner text block due to weak glue, but the sewn text block remains tightly bound; otherwise bright, clean and clear.

Publisher not stated, perhaps self-published; printed by NAHHAL, Beirut, Lebanon, c.1991 (the date of the inscription).

An unusual item from a formidable Ecuadorian woman.

About IVONNE BAKI (from Wikipedia):

******Ivonne Leila Juez Abuchacra de Baki (aka A-Baki), b.1951, is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat. She is most known for her time as the Ecuadorian Minister of Industries and Productivity and as the President of the Andean Parliament. She is Ecuador's former Ambassador to Qatar and the United States. She is currently the Ecuadorian Ambassador to France. She was the first female ambassador in Ecuadorian history. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French, German and Arabic.

In 1998, she became the first woman in Ecuadorian history to represent her country in Washington as ambassador, and four years later, the first woman ever to run for president. A-Baki, as she is commonly known, spent 19 years in Lebanon, living through Lebanon's brutal 1975-90 civil war, and more recently has witnessed Ecuador's rapid slide into violence and gang warfare.

Yet "my first identity is as an artist," A-Baki told The Washington Diplomat some 25 years ago. "Art opens the right and left sides of your brain. It helps you see the whole picture. Music, poetry, painting and dancing make you more human. In order to be in politics, you have to be human. And that's what art does for me."******

THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service Vol. V, No. 20, Saturday, November 14, 1970 Published by The Black Panther Party Ministry of Information, San Francisco, California. First edition, first printing. Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale.

Newspaper format, 17.5" x 11.5" folded as issued, 20 pages, printed on newsprint in pink and black ink, illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs, portraits and Black Power graphics, the rear cover has an intense image by revolutionary Black Panther artist Emory Douglas (b. 1943). VERY GOOD CONDITION: the front cover has a neatly penned phone number in the fore-edge margin, light wear to the horizontal fold, and a small tear at the bottom spine fold, the pages have some light age toning, and light edgewear, otherwise solid, bright, clean, unmarked and the iconic Emory graphic on the rear cover remains very bright. An important and hard to find cultural artifact.

Emblematic of the Black Power Movement, The Black Panther is a visually iconic provocative weekly newspaper that politically engaged readers with BPP ideology, current events, and issues facing Black Americans that were central to the party's Ten Point Platform and Program, spotlighting abuse and killing by police, incarceration, the right to self-defense, inequalities of the justice system, and solidarity with social justice organizations and international human rights movements.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was the Grande Dame of Theosophy, her successor at the Theosophical Society Annie Besant issued the Adyar Pamphlets in the early 20th century. They're a series of monographs illuminating the esoteric occult mystical teachings Madame Blavatsky unveiled during her lifetime.

THE KABALAH AND THE KABALISTS By H. P. BLAVATSKY. Published by the Theosophical Publishing House, Madras, India, 1919. Adyar Pamphlets No. 105, First Edition Thus, originally published in the May 1892 issue of LUCIFER MAGAZINE. Softcover booklet, printed wrappers, 7.25" x 5", 23 pages. An exploration of the Kabbalah, a mystical tradition of Judaism that seeks to understand the nature of God and the universe through the use of symbols and esoteric teachings. VERY GOOD CONDITION: spine fold mostly perished and starting to pull apart at page 18, by page 23 it's holding by the middle thread, small ink stamp on title page, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) founded the Theosophical Society in 1883, a New Age Movement of Western occultism and Eastern mysticism that aspired to prepare humanity for the coming of the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher for the Age of Aquarius. After her death, her successor Annie Besant (1847-1933) the international leader of the Theosophical Movement continued in the preparation of a messianic disciple who would serve as the vehicle for the Master to reveal himself.

SLEEPY PEOPLE story and pictures by M. B. Goffstein

The scarce 1966 first edition of Marilyn Goffstein's enchanting story of a miniature family living in a slipper whose bedtime routine includes drinking hot cocoa, stretching, yawning, singing quietly and finally, snoring.

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Ariel, New York, 1966, First printing, so stated. Small format hardcover, periwinkle blue cloth with embossed white slipper design on the front cover and titling on the spine, 5" x 4.75", 30 un-numbered pages, beautifully illustrated with Goffstein's delightful drawings throughout. GOOD PLUS CONDITION: lacking dustjacket otherwise complete, covers have light staining/spotting but remain solid and bright, internally some small droplet staining, otherwise just lightly used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A scarce first printing of this iconic children's picture book.

Marilyn Brooke Goffstein (1940-2017) award winning American author, artist, photographer and painter renowned for her diminutive illustrations and charming stories. Awarded the Caldecott Medal and Jane Addams Children's Book Award, her themes are rich in friendship, family, natural history, and following one's heart. Goffstein taught Children's Book Arts at the New York Parsons School of Design.

Methuen Handbook of Colour by A. Kornerup & J. H. Wanscher

Published by Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, England, 1967, second edition revised, printed in Denmark. Hardcover in dustjacket. Indigo cloth with embossed gilt design on the front cover and title on spine, 7" x 5", 243 pages, illustrated with 30 double pages of color samples (1266 colors) and b&w diagrams. VERY GOOD CONDITION: lacking the grey card finder that was tucked into cloth fold on rear pastedown otherwise complete, covers have light wear to the corner-tips and spine ends, two small stains to the fore-edge, internally the rear hinge is just starting, and the gutter is cracked in a few few places but holding well, and a touch of age, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked, in a price-clipped dustjacket that is chipped at the spine-ends and flap-folds, has a 1" tear in the upper margin of the front panel, it remains solid and bright and retains the four color disks on the rear flap, now protected in a clear jacket protector. A very respectable copy with vibrant color samples.

1950 Linus Pauling & Robert B Corey - TWO HYDROGEN-BONDED SPIRAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN - First Printed Disclosure of their Important RESEARCH FINDINGS;

Plus

Linus Pauling, Philip A. Baughan, and J. H. Sturdivant - THE DETERMINATION of the STRUCTURES of COMPLEX-MOLECULES and IONS from X-RAY DIFFRACTION by THEIR SOLUTIONS: The STRUCTURES of the GROUPS...

Both in this complete, original volume of THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. LXXII [72], September-December 1950.

EASTON Pennsylvania: Mace Printing Company, 1950.

Contains the first notification by Linus Pauling and Robert B. Corey of their discovery of the "TWO HYDROGEN-BONDED SPIRAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN". This was a stunning announcement with far reaching scientific implications. The brief letter announcing their research findings is on page 5349. It was a "Big Bang" announcement, so to speak, that led to incredible developments in the scientific and medical fields.

Also contains a paper by Linus Pauling, Philip A. Baughan, and J. H. Sturdivant titled: THE DETERMINATION of the STRUCTURES of COMPLEX-MOLECULES and IONS from X-RAY DIFFRACTION by THEIR SOLUTIONS: The STRUCTURES of the GROUPS... This paper is on pages 5477- 5486.

Hardcovers, burgundy cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the spine, 8x10 inches, thick with over 2000 pages (numbered 3835-5891). The complete Volume 72. Filled with MANY scientific papers and letters in addition to those by Linus Pauling and his group, but none as IMPACTFUL.

Laid-in is a note by a previous owner that reads: "NOTE : This is Linus Pauling's first work on structure of Proteins. Very Important."

NEAR FINE condition: The initials "J. E. R." are gilt embossed at the bottom of the cover's spine (perhaps a previous owner who had the work professionally bound), the title page has a 1 inch closed tear, otherwise the volume is just lightly used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A very nice, solid and presentable copy; rarely found in this condition.

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RAMALLAH - Its HISTORY and Its GENEALOGIES / UNVEILING the ANCESTORS and LINEAGES in the CITY of RAMALLAH, by AZIZ SHAHEEN. In Arabic, with a section in English.

Published by Birzeit University, Birzeit, "Israeli Occupied West Bank of Jordan",1982.

Hardcovers, dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt titling to the spine, 9x12 inches (23x30.5 cm).

There are 877 pages in ARABIC, including all the genealogies, titled: "UNVEILING the ANCESTORS and LINEAGES in the CITY of RAMALLAH".

There is also a 77 page English section written by Naseeb Shaheen that opens on the backside of the book titled: "RAMALLAH: Its History and Its Genealogies". This section is illustrated with b&w photographs.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some rubbing and light soiling, one cover corner is bumped, otherwise the covers are solid and well bound; internally, there are pencil page numbers in Roman Numerals written below the printed Arabic page numbers (neat and helpful), else internally fine, tight, bright, clean, and clear. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

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UN PORTRAIT D'APRÈS NATURE - ou l'histoire telle qu'on la crée. A monograph on the Belgian Female Surrealist Artist JANE GRAVEROL, by the surrealist poet PAUL NOUGÉ.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JANE GRAVEROL in FRENCH on a blank prelim page. Graverol's inscription thanks a friend for their kindness and companionship during her trip to New York and Washington. Ends with: "Très affectueusement / Jane Graverol / Mai 1963".

PARIS: Le Soleil Dans La Tête, 1955.

Wrappers / Softcovers, 5.5x7.5 inches (14x19 cm), 126 pages. Illustrated with 30 b&w reproductions of Graverol's surrealistic art works (28 in-text and two on the covers).

Condition: The covers are soiled, sunned, smudged, peeling at the spine, and starting to pull from the text, nonetheless they are present and still doing their job. Internally the pages are nice, lightly toned at the margins, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked, and the sewn binding is holding the pages of text together well. Graverol's inscription is bright and bold.

Scarce with the Signature and Inscription of the sadly overlooked female Belgian surrealist artist, Jane Graverol.

About JANE GRAVEROL (from Wikipedia):

******Jane Graverol, b.1905 d.1984, was a Belgian surrealist painter. She started painting between 1920 and 1930, before the rise of surrealism and before she adapted the surrealist style she is known for today. She began to exhibit her work in 1927.

Graverol was closely linked to the development of surrealism in Belgium. She would considered her canvases to be "waking, conscious dreams". Her encounters after the war with René Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, Paul Nougé, and then Marcel Mariën, with whom she collaborated on the periodical "Les Lèvres Nues", reconfirmed her belief in surrealism. Her painting La Goutte d'Eau is a collective portrait of the Belgian surrealists. Her paintings offered an original, dreamy version of feminine sensibility, painted with a figurative technique that was both precise and cold.******

About PAUL NOUGÉ (from Wikipedia):

******Paul Nougé, b.1895 d.1967, was a Belgian poet, founder and theoretician of surrealism in Belgium, sometimes known as the "Belgian Breton".******

39 UPSTATE NEW YORK FARMING and BEEKEEPING FAMILY DIARIES - ABRAM HUNT FAMILY of RODMAN, NEW YORK 1864-1918 Successful Farm with 200 Hives

The years of the 39 DIARIES are: 1864, 1871, 1874-1878 (5), 1880, 1882-1884 (3), 1887-1888 (2), 1890-1897 (8), 1899-1913 (15), 1916-1918 (3). There are also a few pieces of ephemera, folk remedies written on scraps of paper, laid in, including a quite detailed 1896 recipe for dandelion wine.

Most of the diaries are in the hand of ABRUM HUNT, 1830-1912, the owner of the farm and apiary and the patriarch of the family. After Abrum Hunt's death in 1912 his wife, "Mrs. A. Hunt", carried on the diaries from 1913-1918, She died in 1919, and so ended the diaries.

This collection of 39 single family diaries is the most comprehensive daily record of a 19th and early 20th century upstate New York family farm and apiary that I have ever seen.

Planting oats, planting corn, planting everything, cultivating, cutting wood, building fences, fixing barns, painting everything, spreading manure, digging potatoes, oiling harnesses, rolling oats, waiting for rain, dealing with floods, freezing freezing freezing weather, impossible to stay warm, shoeing horses, cleaning pastures, draining swamps, feeding everything, killing "beef", selling turkeys, calves, bulls, attending many funerals, and LOTS OF BEES BEES BEES, selling honey, building frames, painting hives, taking "swarms" into the cellar for winter, harvesting honey and pollen, busy busy bees.

Abram Hunt was a successful farmer and beekeeper who seemed to hold a special affection for his bees. In fact, even his last entry on April 30, 1912, less than two weeks before his death on May 12, 1912, was about his bees: "Feeding the Bees / they brought in lots of pollen today". Pride in his bees until the end.

CONDITION: The 39 diaries vary in condition, a number are poor, with disbound covers, missing pages, stains, etc; some are fair, with foxing, loose covers, some waviness and soiling; many are good, with normal age toning, handling, wear and use. What is impressive about these diaries is the handwriting in the daily entries is almost always fully legible. Abrum Hunt, the patriarch, wrote with a clear hand so future generations (us) could read what he had to say.

July 3, 1904: "Bees, Bees, Bees, and lots of them / that & milking is all I can do. More rain."

May 7, 1891: "Cultivated in the Oats in Swamp & Rolled It / Done Now."

About ABRAM HUNT (from his obituary in the 17 May 1912 Watertown Daily Times):

******ABRAM HUNT of RODMAN [New York] DIES OF HIS INJURIES. HE WAS TRAMPLED ON BY A HORSE.

Watertown Daily Times, Rodman, New York, May 17. Abram Hunt, one of the earliest residents of Rodman, died at his home on Sunday morning, May 12. He was 81 years old. Some ten days ago he went to his horse barn to feed grain to his horses as usual, and while in the stalls a horse became frightened and commenced rearing and kicking. Mr. Hunt fell under its feet and was trampled and he shortly passed away.

Mr. Hunt was born on Oct. 18, 1830. and was nearly a lifelong resident of this town, living on his farm near the village of Rodman for 60 years. He was an enterprising and successful farmer. On March 25, 1853, Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Betsey Jane Parker of Toronto, who has been a most worthy aid and helpmate in their long married life.

Mr. Hunt was a fine musician, especially on the violin, and was in frequent demand at numerous parties. HE WAS ESPECIALLY FOND OF KEEPING BUSY BEES AND HAD SOME 200 HIVES IN HIS CARE. Besides his wife, Mr. Hunt Is survived by four children [including] Charles Hunt of Rodman, New York, and Mrs. Clara Hunt Howard, the well known singer of Wausau, Wisconsin.*****

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