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1949WRCLIT83967London: Univ. of London Press 1949. 159pp. Printed stiff wrapper. Introduction by B.H. Easter. First edition. Spine and edges sunned ownership signature on upper wrapper otherwise very good. Univ. of London Press unknown books
1984300169London: Allen Lane 1984. Reprint. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Vishniac Roman. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Illustrated with 180 remarkable photographs by the author many full- page. 96 unnumbered leaves. Large square 4to glossy brown boards corners very slightly bumped. London: Allen Lane 1984. Second printing of the English edition. Lengthy gift inscription in English & Hebrew on front endpaper else a near fine copy.<br/><br/> Allen Lane unknown books
1983169920New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A powerful collection of photographs of European Jews prior to World War II. Includes a foreword by Elie Wiesel. A tight near fine copy with some light bumping to the top front corners in a near fine dust jacket with same bumping. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
021486New York; 1983: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First Edition. Quarto. Signed by Vishniac. 791pp. With a foreword by Elie Wiesel with black and white photographs Commentary on each photograph follows the preface. Roman in his commentary ask "Why did I do it A hidden camera to record the way of life of a people who had no desire to be captured on film may seem strange to you. Was it in same to cross into and out of countries where my life was in danger every day Whatever the question my answer is the same: It had to be done. I felt that the world was about to be cast into the mad shadow of Nazism and that the outcome would be the annihilation of a people who had no spokesman to record their plight.iI knew it was my task to make certain that this vanished world did not totally disappear". These photographs were taken between 1934 and 1939. Out of 16000 photographs he managed to rescue only 2000. Many of the photographs here have never been seen before and many of the negativeswhich were sewn into his clothing when he came to the US were printed for the first time. Bound in maroon cloth stamped in blind spine lettering gilt. A near fine copy in very nice pictorial dust jacket with just a bit of wear to head. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1983235474New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Vishniac Roman. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Illustrated with 180 remarkable photographs by the author many full- page. 96 unnumbered leaves. Large square 4to brown boards d.w. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. Slightly bumped at head of spine otherwise a fine copy warmly inscribed and dated by Vishniac in the year of publication: "To Howard Kissel - my good and new friend obviously better than many older ones."<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1983234268New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First. hardcover. very good. Vishniac Roman. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Illustrated with 180 remarkable photographs by the author many full- page. 96 unnumbered leaves. Large square 4to glossy brown boards corners very slightly bumped. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper and with previous owner's inscription and faint paperclip impression on front endpaper.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
198339168New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. Wiesel Elie. First edition. Copious b/w photographs. Photography by Vishniac Roman. 180 pp. Hardcover. Oblong Large 8vo size. Dark brown paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Book and d.j. in excellent condition beautifully depicts the artistÕs work Very good/Very good. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
19861328618New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1986. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Square Quarto; unpaginated; G/paperback; black spine with off-white text; covers show modest wear to exterior; slight creases to fore edges; intact panels; text block has slight wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; mild tone to interior edges;. 1328618. FP New Rockville Stock. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
1984148075New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1984. Second printing. Hardcover. A powerful collection of photographs of European Jews prior to World War II. Includes a foreword by Elie Wiesel. A very near fine copy in very near fine dust jacket. Signed and boldly inscribed on the second page by Vishniac in 1985. A very nice copy and with some related laid in ephemera. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
198417051New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1984. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED BY ROMAN VISHNIAC on the first pictorial endpaper. A tight very sharp copy to boot of the 1984 stated 2nd printing. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp Near Fine dustjacket. Square quarto Vishniac's deeply moving heartfelt portraits of Eastern European Jewry taken between 1934 and 1939. Foreword by the formidable Elie Wiesel. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
198316829New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. Boards. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED BY ROMAN VISHNIAC on the first pictorial endpaper. An unusually clean impressive copy to boot of the 1983 stated 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp easily Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Square quarto Vishniac's deeply moving heartfelt portraits of Eastern European Jewry taken between 1934 and 1939. Foreword by the formidable Elie Wiesel. Truly a collector's copy the nicest this bookseller has encountered. <br/><br/> Farrar , Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1983768New York 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Square large 4to. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. All illus. <br/><br/> hardcover books
198328458New York: Farrar Straus 1983. First edition. Cloth fine in dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Vishniac. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus hardcover books
1983220554New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. Illustrated. 180 pp. Designed by Janet Halverson. 1 vols. 4to. Brown boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by Vishniac on flyleaf. First edition. Illustrated. 180 pp. Designed by Janet Halverson. 1 vols. 4to. SIGNED. A glimpse of Eastern European Jews befor the Holocaust. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
140651N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single ink notation in on the title page. <br/><br/>Ted Halverson is a precious metals dealer who receives an offer for something incredible precious for $250000 in Switzerland. He responds to the call bringing the money and not even knowing what he is buying. A great mystery unfolds involving a beautiful con artist political dissidents disguised as dancers a professor of geology a bickering Russian couple a man who loves junk more than anything else and an assassin disguised as a cop hunting them all. <br/><br/>Lawrence Roman is a writer best known for his work writing the play and screenplay for the film "Under the Yum Yum Tree" 1963 and "Red Sun" 1971." <br/><br/>Set in Zurich Switzerland. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lawrence Roman. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1998UROMACT00LWIndiana University Press 1998. Very Good. Roman David. Acts of Intervention: Performance Gay Culture and Aids. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press 1998. 344pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with very light bumping. Indiana University Press paperback books
1930WRCLIT58217London: William Heinemann 1930. Large octavo. Gilt black cloth. Near fine in good somewhat smudged and lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition trade issue. It "is a very fine book.Certain of its scenes as that when the principal character drives from G.H.Q. to revisit his old comrades in the trenches are perfection itself" - Falls. FALLS p.299. William Heinemann hardcover books
1983353266Garden City New York: Nelson Doubleday Inc 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book club edition. About near fine with some bumping to spine and light wear to the bottom of the rear board in a dustwrapper with discoloration to the spine and part of the front wrap very good. Nelson Doubleday, Inc hardcover books
191652570Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; 434p; photographicallly illustrated halftones; frontispiece; includes glossary and index. Cracks to front and rear hinges holding; mild external wear and soil; complete and Good. Small ownership stamp "Dr. J. Madison Taylor Philadelphia" to front pastedown.<br/><br/>The author an African-American doctor addresses the matter of race relations from the assumption of biological equality between Blacks and Whites -- an unconventional hypothesis at the time. Noted by Gunnar Myrdal as "one of the most brilliant of the early discussions of the biological equality of whites and Negroes." This the copy of noted Philadelphia neurologist James Madison Taylor who was for many years an assistant to S. Weir Mitchell. F.A. Davis Company unknown books
191615816Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; 434p; illustrated with half-tone engravings; frontispiece; includes glossary and index. Ex-Library copy with ink stamp to front pastedown; both boards cracked at hinges; mild wear and fraying to edges; a good complete reading copy with no interior markings; in good condition.<br/><br/>The author an African-American doctor addresses the matter of race relations from the assumption of biological equality between Blacks and Whites -- an unconventional hypothesis at the time. Noted by Gunnar Myrdal as "one of the most brilliant of the early discussions of the biological equality of whites and Negroes. F.A. Davis Company unknown books
1926100966<p>8vo original cloth with gilt lettering on spine illustrated 434 pp. Some wear to spine head and heel extremities also with a little wear slight aging and toning; overall a very nice copy. Roman 1864-1934 was a physician surgeon and writer. He was the first African-American to graduate from the Hamilton Collegiate Institute in Ontario and also the first to receive training in ophthalmology. He had a outstanding career as a physician and also had a good deal of success as a writer. His best known work was Meharry Medical College: A History. The current title takes a look at the African-American in American history and also looks at what his future might be. Website of the American Academy of Otolaryngology.</p> F.A. Davis Company, books
2009120039Gainesville Florida: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art University of Florida 2009. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 190 pp.; Profusely illustrated with approximately 100 color plates. Contains works with annotations by over 85 American artists including Carrie Mae Weems Frank Stella Ben Shahn Robert Rauschenburg Georgia O'Keeffe Louise Nevelson John Marin Rockwell Kent Charles Ephraim Burchfield and others. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida unknown books
198316106Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1983. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 403pp. Minor external rubbing and soil; internally clean tight and unmarked; VG to Near Fine overall. Study of American ethnic social and proletarian literature. Text entirely in German. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft unknown books
197015887New York: New York University Press 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 294pp; includes bibliography. Clean tight and unmarked copy in moderately rubbed jacket; Very Good. New York University Press unknown books
183022897Amherst: Published by J. S. & C. Adams and Co. Jonathan Leavitt New York. Pierce and Williams Boston 1830. 1st edition American Imprints 1866; Arents N. 1349; Sabin 32550n. Original pale grey-green wrappers lettered in black. Overall VG minor soiling to wrappers with some paper chipping to lower portion of spine/faint stain to rear wrapper extending into text block 4-5 leaves. 48 pp. 12mo in 6s. 17.5 cm x 11 cm. <br/><br/>Hitchcock both a clergyman as well as a Professor of Chemistry & Natural History at Amherst who eventually rose to the position of College President was primarily known for his geological work/publications. Herein early in his professorial career he admonishes college students as to the evils of addictive narcotics including opium & tobacco. Published by J. S. & C. Adams and Co. Jonathan Leavitt, New York. Pierce and Williams, Boston unknown books