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47 pages. Features: The (bilingual) National Theatre School of Canada, located in Montreal; They Expect Miracles of (baseball player) Frank Howard; Dillies by Dali - the famed surrealist applies his ideas to a new medium - the designing of jewelry - with seven colour illustrations; Amanda Blake says "I don't need men" - marriage has no place in the life of the girl TV viewers know as Gunsmoke's Kitty Russell; Maurice Chevalier - the eternal youth; Anatomy of a Wedding - X-ray wedding photos!; Showing the flag - 798 Mini-minor cars are arranged to form a giant Union Jack (with colour photo); They have a word for it - a series of new Canadian dictionaries published by Gage; Essie Johnson - new model missionary - a Canadian works in Northern Rhodesia to prepare the Africans to educate their own people; Colour photos of birds; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
92 pages. Contents: National Affairs: When the War Ends; Florida: Pleasure Dome (tourism); Youth: Monstrous Lobby - American Youth Congress; World War: Strategy - Allied Supreme War Council; "One War at a Time" - Asama Maru; Northern Theatre: Planes, Men, Medicine, Soap; Fire Hose - Russians Offensive on Finland; Canada: Wee But Great - John Buchan appointed as Governor General; War in China: Rabbit into Dragon - Japan vs. China; Chile: Don Tinto's Dilemma - President Pedro Aguirre Cerda; Saudi Arabia: Fish to Jidda - Standard Oil and King Ibn Saud; Religion: At Graymoor - the Society of the Atonement, a Franciscan-type religious congregation co-founded by Rev. Paul James Francis (a.k.a. Lewis Thomas Wattson); Art: 20 Years of Gropper - Cartoonist William Gropper; Science: Horatius (Hrdlicka) at the Bridge; Sport: "Most Worstest" - Arturo Godoy / Joe Louis Fight; Music: Mr Big - U.S. Record Corp; Education: Old Blue - Edward Stephen Harkness, heir to Standard Oil and Philanthropist; State of Business: Bull Fever, Bear Facts; and Carriers: Republican Snowplow - Alaska Railroad. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Canadian Club, Budweiser, Ford Motor Company - Mercury 8 and Lucky Cigarettes. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
64 pages. Features: CBC The National colour-photo ad features Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; We Can Keeep Vancouver Livable; Shirley Chan of Strathcona beat back bulldozers and scared City Hall; Gastown developer Larry Killam brought swingers into the slum; SPEC's Robin Harger confronts 'the extinction of the human race'; Mike Harcourt and the law squad; Intermedia's Barry Cramer and media technology; Albert Turnbull, Arthur Erickson, Dr. George Gray, William Graham, and Dr. Walter Harswick draw guidelines to keep Vancouver livable; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for the Lockheed 1011 Tristar; From Bruce Cockburn to Youth - A Very Private Message; How Jasper Park is moving into the 1970s; The Real Poor in Canada and why we don't know who they are; Contest to design trophy for the air race of the century; How Kings County, NS found the cure for despair; How to spot the danger point in drinking; Bilingualism and Biculturalism; Crossword partly completed in light pencil; Great color photo ad for CBC Sports includes group of athletes including Mel Profit of the Argos and boxer Clyde Grey; and more. Average wear. Damage to fore-edge of back cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1964 Chevrolet inside front cover; The Caravelle Uproar - TCA Wanted a good plane; Ian Sclanders writes on right wing US reaction to the passing of JFK; Massive sales of Soviet gold for western wheat; German family reunions permitted; Lyndon B. Johnson - A Frank Look, by Grattan Gray; Can Paul Hellyer Bring Common Sense to our Defense Policy?; The Violent Art of Rodeo - article by Ian Tyson with four pages of photos by Don Newlands; A Little Honest Graft Never Hurt a Politician at the Polls - with reproduction of BC Conservative ad featuring Phil Gagliardi, William Hawrelak and Kelso Roberts; Anthony Frome aka Abraham L. Feinberg - The Poet Prince of the Airwaves - Tells All - article with photos; Successes and Failures of Harvard man Jim Felstiner with the delinquent youth of downtown Toronto's tough Niagara district; Canada's First Foreign-War Heroes - flashback article on the lusty Canadian rivermen sent to relieve the beseiged Gordon at Khartoum; Nice colour-photo ad for Cameo cigarettes; Brief article on Galina Samtsova; How Armand Vaillancourt won a contest, divided a town - and lost $7,000; and more. Bit of sunning to upper left portion of front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Nice 1/2 page color Fatima cigarette ad; 1-page color Hudson car ad - circus scene; 1-page color Maxwell House coffee ad features illustration of band practicing in the living room; Nice 1-page color ad for Zenith radios; 1-page color ad for Kelly Springfield tires features lady swimmer; RPM Delo ad features nice color photo of excavation scene in rugged territory; Renegade Canyon (fiction); The Man Who Hunts Old Bones - photo-illustrated article about Dr. Edwin Harris Colbert, curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Schoolgirl in Pursuit (fiction); G.I. Jim's In Love with Paris - color-photo illustrated article about the 1,300 American veterans studying and living under the G.I. Bill of Rights in Paris; Night of Trial (fiction); Senator Paul Douglas - Hard-boiled idealist - article with photo; We Bucked the Ice Pack - aboard the U.S.S. Edisto icebreaker as it ventured to previously unexplored waters - article witih photos; New help for that headache - combining medicine with psychiatry; Get That Rig Through (fiction); Tales of the Talking Taxis - photo-illustrated article explains how two-way radios are improving life for taxi drivers; Botts and the Brink of Disaster (fiction); Is Japanese Youth Going Communist? - photo-illustrated article; 1-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco man Dan Currin of Oxford, NC; Nightmare in Manhattan (fiction); 1-page color ad for Oldsmobile cars featuring the new 'Holiday' coupe; 1-page color ad for De Soto cars features the new 'Carry-All' sedan; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features blind-folded woman smoker; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford Trucks features photos Howard Johnson of hotel chain fame; Nice color-photo Kodak ad with rugged scenery in background; 1-page Chevrolet ad features the Styeline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Nice centerfold color ad for Mobilgas; 1-page color ad for RCA Victor televisions features Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; 2-page color ad for General Motors (GM) shows their range of products; Nice half-page color-photo ad for Florida orange juice; 1-page ad for Northwestern Mutual features photo portrait of Walter Geist, President, Allis-Chalmers; Nice 1-page color ad for TWA shows happy children in flight; 1/2 page color ad for Meadow gold ice cream; 1-page color Gulfpride motor oil ad shows new car by lighthouse; Nostalgic half-page 2-color ad for Elmer's of New Orleans features their Mint Bublets and Chee-Wees; Nice 1/2 page color ad for Beech-Nut gum; Sunkist oranges ad on back cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Anzacs' Great Record During 1917 (conclusion); The Organisation of Youth in the War (by Sir Robert Baden-Powell and E.K. Nugent). Colour illustration laid in bears the caption "At a Franco-British Outpost in the Great German Advance, March, 1918". Centerfold illustrations of the Australians in the Holy Land. Average wear. Staples have disintegrated. Book
Cover portrait of Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. The War and the Worker - The Battles Round Hooge. The Battle of Rue D'ouvert and Stoney Mountain and the Struggle for Round Hooge. Photos and Illustrations: periscope attachment for rifles in action; 4-photo montage of England's youth making bombs; full-page photo of French troops removing their dead and wounded from a trench in Argoonne; Full-page photo portrait of Rear-Admiral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee; Centerfold depicts munitions-making in England; multiple photos of anti-poison gas masks worn by allied troops; Flanders crater photo; Photo of captured German 'Flammenwerfer' or flamethrower/projector in use; and more. Sound unmarked copy with moderate wear. Book
(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 64 pages , illustrated, in Yiddish. Essays by Workmen's Circle students on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Bund. SUBJECT(S) : Workmen's Circle (U. S. ) --- Allgemeyner Idisher arbeyterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (National Library of Israel, National Yiddish Book Center) . Spine rebacked, inner pages clean & tight, good+ condition (YIDCHI-5-21)
No Date (1940? ) Later cloth. 12mo. 40 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Published by the Y. L. Perets Folk Shuln in Winnipeg, Canada. In the series Lit? Erat? Ur far der shul number 1. A second book was published in the series, titled Di Fon. Mayselekh is a collection of short stories in simple prose, intended for native speakers of six to seven years, including a Yiddish version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. With nine illustrations throughout the text; bound in later boards and cloth. The I. L. Peretz Folk School began in 1914 and was originally called the Jewish Radical School. The name was changed in 1915 to honour the Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz. It was a secular program, stressing Yiddish language and Jewish history. The Yiddisher Yugend Farein, a cultural organization founded by new immigrants, began the school. The program introduced a number of innovations to Jewish education in Winnipeg, including kindergarten and day school. (History; Gray Academy of Jewish Education) . Subjects: Childrens Stories, Yiddish. OCLC lists two copies (OSU, Yiddish Book Center) . Light soiling to outer edges and title page, overall clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YIDCHI-6-21)
Original illustrated cover wrappers with distinctive modernist typeface and design. Chidlrens literature. Printed on quality glossy paper. Includes 6 illustrations by Gudelman and photo of author. Aron Gudelman (1890 - 1978) was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s (National Museum of American Art, 1996) . Blue cover Variant. Shul Pinkas Chcago Nr. 203 . Pages and cover are just a bit wavy, touch of edgewear to cover, Good Condition (Yid-24-8)
Features: The Algerian Rebellion; The Abortive Invasion of Cuba; The Empress of Canada; The Education of Commonwealth Youth - Hilton College, South Africa; Lovely colour advertisement for the Humber Super Snipe; Colour Advertisement for State Express 555 Cigarettes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
(FT) Cloth, tall 8vo, 50 pages, musical notes, in Yiddish. First edition. The words with the musical notation are in transliteration. 10 songs for children. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- United States Music -- Children's songs -- Yiddish. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Some shelf-wear and tanning, otherwise very good condition (YIDCHI-5-9)
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 249 pages, including 28 pages of plates of maps, charts and photos, all listed and described. In Yiddish. Title translates as, Jewish Education in Argentina. First Volume: An Overview up to 1946. Includes added title page in Spanish, La escuela judi´a en la Repu´blica Argentina. SUBJECT (S) : Education -- Argentina. Jews. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (Stanford, LOC, Indiana, Harvard, Wayne, Danish Ntl Lin, Swedish Nat Lib) . Very Good Condition (YID-26-29)
296 pages. Features: Massive 5-panel colour photo ad for Ronson products inside front cover; Polaroid 360 colour two-page ad; Simca car ad; Panasonic colour photo ad for their 8-track player; Two-page Helbros watch colour ad; Colour photo Lucien Piccard watch ad featuring ball of Swiss cheese; Nice two-page ad for Henry McKenna bourbon whiskey; Nostalgic ad for two-colour Winthrop leather boots - Vintage '30; Colour photo ad for the Leicina - a new Leitz movie camera; Two-page colour ad for Dr. Grabo Pipes; Two-page illustrated ad for Oleg Cassini shirts; List of 190 things to avoid; Happy moments for General Mark Clark, Jerry Lewisk Jack Benny, B.B. King and Allen Funt; Interview with Hugh M. Hefner; The Perfect Mother, by Tiny Tim; Nine Happy Places; The Decade of the Great Liberal Death Wish, by Malcolm Muggeridge; Who Hates Whom - Religions/Ethnic Groups vs. Socioeconomic Status; The Sex Maniac, by Hilma Wolitzer; The Mechanics of Bliss - colour art photos; The Perfect Toy - Wesley Pavalon and the Milwaukee Bucks; James Michener and the Running of the Bulls in Pamploma - with many photos; Das Hip Kapital, by Craig Karpel - a critique of the youth economy; Weird Harold and the first national Swinger's Convention; The Sears Catalog - 1652 pages of the American Dream; The Motherhood, by Robert Ullian; Exotic Christmas gift vehicles and other gifts; John Rennon's Exlusive Groupie (John Lennon and Yoko), by Charles McCarry; Portugal - a blue heaven for greenbacks; The Sweeter Options of John D. MacArthur and Truman Capote, by Tom Burke; The Great Speckled Post; Out of Uniform - photo of six members of the Santos, Brazil soccer club, with ladies; Several ad for brown leather shoes - apparently trendy at that time; Far too many additional advertisements to list. This issue is a great throwback to the 1970s with hours of great reading. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Roy. 4to., Second Edition, with a fine portrait frontispiece and 292 fine plates all in collotype, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first of Charles de Tolnay's five masterly monographs on the life and work of Michelangelo. First published in 1943, this is the second and corrected edition.
In4¡, non paginé. Cet album est une rétrospective des oeuvres de l'artiste dans tous les genres, assortie de nombreux inédits. Abondante iconographie en noir et en couleurs. En parfait état.
(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 64 pages , illustrated, in Yiddish. Essays by Workmen's Circle students on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Bund. SUBJECT(S) : Workmen's Circle (U. S. ) --- Allgemeyner Idisher arbeyterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (National Library of Israel, National Yiddish Book Center) . Ex-library. Some stains to covers, library markings, ortherwise ver good condition (YIDCHI-5-24)
1st edition. Original red boards with gitl lettering and design, 8vo, 96 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. "Yankele shneyele un andere." Overflowing with gorgeous Yiddish modernist woodcut illustrations by Aharon Gudlman (1890-1978), with 12 full or partial page illustrations and 15 initial letters in this volume. Detailed red bordering on each page add to the deluxe illustrated feel of the work as well. "Goodelman grew up in Russia and studied at an art school in Odessa. After graduating, he moved to New York and attended the Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, working during the day to support himself. He traveled to Paris for a brief time, but was forced to return to America at the outbreak of World War I. He was a member of the Yiddish branch of the Communist Party, and art editor for YKUF, a Jewish cultural magazine. He...was a founding member of the Society of American Sculptors. Goodelman created sculptures in wood, metal, and stone, and illustrated many childrens books in English and Yiddish" (National Museum of American Art, 1996). "Chaver Paver" was the pen name of Gershon Einbinder. Einbinder was born on February 8, 1901 in Bershad (today in the Ukraine) . At the age of 19, he moved to Romania and eventually settled in the United States in 1924. He lived in New York and Los Angeles, where he died in 1964. Chaver Paver made his debut in Yiddish literature in the 1920s as a childrens writer. He wrote five volumes of childrens stories and several plays. However, the majority of his literary works were stories and novels for adults. SUBJECT(S) : children --- fiction --- short stories --- Yiddish. Wear to backstrip, dampstains and old inscription and marks to endpapers bit of light toning, but internally very nice. Good Condition thus. (YIDCHI-5-10C-L-'excc)
P., Chez Caillot, Librairie, sans date (1800-1810). 2 vol. petit in-12 ( 6x10 cm) relié demi-basane (rel. récente), dos longs, 160-160 et 160-160 pp. avec 7 gravures en couleurs. La page de titre du tome 3 et son frontispice sont absents, une restauration à la page de titre du tome 2, sinon exemplaires bien conservés. Dans ces 4 petits volumes on trouvera : Des jeux qui donnent de l'exercice, Des jeux de mémoire, des jeux d'esprit, Tours de cartes et autres amusements de société, Des jeux de pénitence
Paris, Bibliothèque de L'Enfance et de la Jeunesse E. Ducrocq, s.d (c. 1860). In-8 ; 379 pp. demi-chagrin noir, plats en percaline noire, 4 nerfs au dos, caissons dorés de motifs dorés, trois tranches dorées. (reliure époque). Quelques rares rousseurs, planches rehaussées en couleurs hors-texte. Bon exemplaire de cet ouvrage cité dans " Le Siècle d'or du Livre d'Enfants ".
4to. 24 pages. Illustrated, some color; musical scores. One of Sendak's rarest titles. Every page is illustrated, some in color and some in black & white for this grand collection of ideas and teachings. The picture style corresponds to Sendak's early work with straightforward renderings of warm and appealing people and settings. Hanrahan A16. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism - customs and practices - children's literature; Hanukkah - children's literature. Born in Poland, Hyman Chanover (1920-1998) was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1945. He served as a rabbi for ten years, but ultimately worked for Jewish education with the American Association of Jewish Educators and other organizartions. He wrote more than fifty works, including children's books. (EJ, 2007) Ex library with usual marks, spine rebacked, wear to boards, about good- condition. (ART-23-24)
(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 46 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Verso title page: Waksen, Waksen, Blimelech (Childrens Verses) . Bound in yellow cloth, letterpress printed, text in green ink, with decorative borders and illustrations throughout. Hyman Ehrlich (19081981) wrote children's verses, satirical works; his later volumes were devoted to more somber themes. The publisher, Kayor, was established in 1949, and in collaboration with the Di Dorem Afrikaner Yiddishe Kultur Federatzie inaugurated the most productive era in local Yiddish publishing. South Africa became an important center of Yiddish creativity. From 1949 to 1962, Kayor, in association with the Kultur Federatzie, published six collections of essays and short stories, six volumes of poetry and one novel, together with all the journalism and most of the Yiddish and Hebrew occasional publications in South Africa. (EJ 2008; South African Literature) . Subjects: Authors, Yiddish. OCLC lists 15 copies. Previous protective jacket has left a tape residue line across the endpages; upper edge lightly soiled from dust; otherwise fine. Very good + condition. A beautiful book. (YIDCHI-6-20)
(FT) Boards and Half cloth, 8vo. , 203 pages. In Yiddish. Vocalized. Scarce illustrated reader for students. For School and Folk: Anthology for Secular and Evening Schools. The first book by Fichman, who was an important writer for children. He was a Zionist, and wrote mostly in Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish language -- Readers. Ya? Akov Fikhman. OCLC lists only 3 copies worldwide. (Johns Hopkins, Mcgill, National Yiddish Book Center) . Edgewear and pieces missing from corners of covers. Pages tanned and somewhat fragile, but still in good condition. Edgewear to last few pages. Overall, Fair condition. (YIDCHI-2-14)
(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 160 pages. 23 cm. Second edition. In Yiddish. My Reading Book. Bound in blue cloth, with historiated initials and illustrations throughout. One of many version of this Yiddish primer composed by the pedagogue Israel Steinbaum; this edition is rare, and only one copy is listed on OCLC (U of Ottawa) , with less than 10 of any edition on OCLC as well. The author was the founder of Camp Harmony in Warren, New Jersey; he also was heavily involved in the Groyser verterbukh fun der yidisher shprakh project. Subjects: Yiddish language - Text-books. Light wear to cloth and endpages; hinges starting, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (YIDCHI-6-19)
