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London: Macmillan, 1881. First English edition of Henry James's moving New York story about a downcast heiress and an upstart suitor, successfully serialized on both sides of the Atlantic, and published in the United States in 1880: "Love demands certain things as a right; but Catherine had no sense of her rights; she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favors." Washington Square appears here with two 1879 stories by James: "The Pension Beaurepas," which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and "A Bundle of Letters," which appeared in The Parisian. An early newspaper photograph of what appears to be the James family home on Washington Place has been pasted into Volume I; the residential block where James was born was demolished in 1900 to make way for a ten-story commercial building, the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. This is the second impression of the first English edition of Washington Square, issued two months after the first impression, with pagination errors…
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Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters
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Weimar-era cigarette card featuring a Black cabaret dancer
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Berlin: Garbáty Cigarettenfabrik, 1932. Collectible Weimar-era cigarette card, issued by the Garbáty cigarette factory in Berlin, number 214 of a series of 250 "Famous Dancers." The image depicts an African-American showgirl in bangles and feathers dancing the Charleston; the text on the verso translates as: "The recent interest in Negro dancing brought many American Negro troupes to Europe, where their grotesque dancing and songs were very popular for a while." Although not a portrait of Josephine Baker, the smiling "Negro Girl" featured here, making eye contact with the viewer, recalls the images of the legendary American star of the Folies Bergère. The distributors of this card, the Jewish Garbáty family, were forced to sell their successful cigarette factory at a huge loss in October 1938, two weeks before Kristallnacht; the younger generation, including art collector Eugene Garbáty, managed to escape to the United States. Text in German. A compelling piece of ephemera, testifying to…
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