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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Periodical. Quarto. Perfectbound in wrappers. Good with stain in rear wrap, rear wrap nearly detached and moderate wear to the trimmed yapped edges, including nicks, tears and creases. Including contributions from Sherwood Anderson ("Queer"), Louis Utermeyer ("A Side Street"), Clement Wood ("Prelude"), Kahlil Gibran ("The Greater Sea"), and Van Wyck Brooks ("Young America"),
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
. The Seven Arts December 1916. Seven Arts Publishing Co., 1916.
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Condition: Good
Description: Volume I Number 2, monthly literary journal. Original Issue . fairly scarce in original wraps. Monthly Periodical; volume pages 95 - 195 (99 pages); 6 3/4" x 9 1/2", decorated beige wraps, stapled and glued, printed in orange and dark brown. Covers were given 'yapp' edges (the covers were extended beyond the text-block). Cover design by Rollo Peters. EXTERIOR Rough exterior with chipping and loss about the edges (common with yapp edges), splitting, loss, and weathering to spine; cover surfaces have weathering, creasing moderate surface rub, a touch of spotting , and a small stain to the front cover. Corner tips are bumped with attendant creasing. Spine edges are much abraded. BINDING Cover attachment fragile, but text-block still fairly solid, with no detached or loose leaves. Curvature to entire issue INTERIOR Corners are bumped throughout, but pages are clean and clear with no marking. An important, if briefly existing, monthly literary journal published in from 1916 to 1917, during the upheaval of the First World War, attempted to unite the American literary scene by providing a vibrant central venue for the presentation of leading voices in the arts community. James Oppenheim and Waldo Frank were the editors who were the main driving force, but the advisory board was made up of such literary luminaries as Kahlil Gibran, Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer, Van Wyck Brooks, Edna Kenton and others. Contributors numbered among the most talented writers of the time ( Sherwood Anderson, J. D. Beresford, Randolph Bourne, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Kahlil Gibran, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell, Paul Rosenfeld, and Louis Untermeyer were among the most frequent contributors ). The editorial staff of the magazine took a decidedly anti-war stance, which may have contributed to its unfortunately brief duration.
Seller: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: The Seven Arts Publishing Co., Inc., 1916. The December, 1916, issue, which included pages 95-195 of its half-annual volume. Octavo, wraps. Good Plus only; significant spine damage, rear cover separated and chipped. The curling and wear to covers due to the circuit binding (yapp binding) method used in the production of the Seven Arts series, which left the edges extending beyond the size of the textblock. Balance is quite ship-shape, textblock clean, sharp and still well-bound. See scans. Another tour-de-force; Van Wyck Brooks, Sherwood Anderson, Kahlil Gibran (with "The Greater Sea" a short but engaging prose visit to the sea with his soul - which at the time was naked, blonde, and female), Frederick Booth, J.D. Beresford, Arthur Davison Ficke, Clement Wood, of course others. The Seven Arts was an entity that should have survived, but, due to its wartime clash of artistic and political ideals, didn't. There has been no other periodical like it. Lpr2
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$205.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Seven Arts Publishing Co., Inc., 1916. The December, 1916, issue, which included pages 95-195 of its half-annual volume. Octavo, wraps. Very Good; notable soil spots on front cover; several small chips, two at front cover, one at back. None of the standard unattractive edge curl and tearing from the typical circuit-binding (yapp-binding) of this series, however, since this copy was either not done that way, or was later trimmed. Textblock clean, sharp and still well-bound. See scans. Another tour-de-force; Van Wyck Brooks, Sherwood Anderson, Kahlil Gibran (with "The Greater Sea" a short but engaging prose visit to the sea with his soul - which at the time was naked, blonde, and female), Frederick Booth, J.D. Beresford, Arthur Davison Ficke, Clement Wood, of course others. The Seven Arts was an entity that should have survived, but, due to its wartime clash of artistic and political ideals, didn't. There has been no other periodical like it. Lpr2
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Seven Arts Publishing Co., Inc., 1916. The December, 1916, issue, which included pages 95-195 of its half-annual volume. Octavo, wraps. Very Good; very little cover fade; curling and wear to covers due to the circuit binding (yapp binding) method used in the production of the Seven Arts series, which left the edges extending beyond the size of the textblock. Some soil to covers, one small abraded segment at left center rear cover. See scans. Textblock clean, sharp and still well-bound. See scans. Another tour-de-force; Van Wyck Brooks, Sherwood Anderson, Kahlil Gibran (with "The Greater Sea" a short but engaging prose visit to the sea with his soul - which at the time was naked, blonde, and female), Frederick Booth, J.D. Beresford, Arthur Davison Ficke, Clement Wood, of course others. The Seven Arts was an entity that should have survived, but, due to its wartime clash of artistic and political ideals, didn't. There has been no other periodical like it. lpr14
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 2 vols.; G+; contemporary full navy cloth bindings; spines age-toned brown, with gilt lettering and design; some shelf wear and soiling; all corners of both vols. bumped; scuffing to boards; crown and tail of both spines missing; crease to vol. 2 spine; bindings shaken; both hinges of vol. 1 split; front hinge of vol. 2 split; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1346448. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, and Van Wyck Brooks, eds.. The Seven Arts (New York) Run. , 1916.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 1916) to Vol. 2, No. 6 (October 1917), comprising 12 issues, a complete run, bound in two volumes of functional blue cloth. Octavos. Bindings VG. Magazine covers bound in, several with soiling and/or short tears, the rest near fine. Contents near fine. The Seven Arts was one of the most exciting of the early little magazines. Edited by James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, and Van Wyck Brooks, The Seven Arts proclaimed in its prospectus: "We have no tradition to continue; we have no school of style to build up. What we ask of the writer is simply self-expression without regard to current magazine standards. [However, we do not intend] The Seven Arts [to be] a magazine for artists, but an expression of artists for the community." The results of this appeal were astounding. The magazine ended up lasting only a year, but in that time it published one literary highlight after another: Eugene O'Neill's first short story, "Tomorrow;" Robert Frost's only play, "A Way Out;" Theodore Dreiser's sweeping article, "Art, Life, and America;" H. L. Mencken's brilliant defense of Dreiser; John Dos Passos' first published work on the artistic stirrings in Spain; Bertrand Russell's hopeful speculation on the near-death of nationalism; short stories by D. H. Lawrence and Sherwood Anderson; poetry by Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and Amy Lowell; criticism by Paul Rosenfeld, Marsden Hartley, and Randolph Bourne, and on and on. Politics was also part of the editorial mix and, alas, it was on the hard rocks of politics that the magazine foundered. The thundering pacifism of Oppenheim and contributors Bourne and John Reed so offended the wealthy patron of the magazine, Mrs. Rankine, that she withdrew her support. The editors appealed to subscribers and friends to save The Seven Arts, but it was not to be. Hoffman said of it, "Few magazines can equal, through their entire lives, the vitality or significance of this short-lived magazine." This is only the second complete run in boards that we have ever offered.
Seller: Periodyssey, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.