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19941643New York: W.H. Freeman and Company 1994. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo xviii 392pp. Illustrated boards. Publishers dust jacket. Full number line on copyright page. Inscribed by the author to Gene and Clare Thaw dated 1995. Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist and the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics. From the estate of Eugene V. Thaw an influential art dealer and past president of the Art Dealers Association of American. W.H. Freeman and Company hardcover books
1975139993England: ITC Entertainment 1975. Collection of 6 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1975 British-Canadian film. <br/><br/>Based on Tom Ardies' 1974 novel "Kosygin Is Coming." Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Shaver Segal is ensnared in a KGB assassination plot to kill a visiting Soviet Premier. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps else Near Fine. Scarce. ITC Entertainment unknown books
1975002608Los Angeles: Keep America Committee 1975. First Edition. Very good. First separate publication n. d. 1975; 10 1/4 x 8 1/2; pp. 4; illustrated with a photographic image; two horizontal fold lines with two small punctures along spine; age-toning to margins; a stamped note to last page; in about very good condition. Michael Goleniewski 1922 - 1993 was a Polish officer Counter-intelligence Deputy Head in the Polish People's Army Russian spy and a triple-agent revealing Polish and Russian secret documents to the CIA and eventually defecting to the US in 1961. His biggest claim to fame was his statement that he was Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich Romanov who had officially been murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The current publication initially appeared in "The Truth Crusader No. 52" journal and later in the "Double Eagle" monthly bulletin the latter edited and issued by Michael Goleniewski. The entire leaflet was centered around Goleniewski's history of helping the US his work for this country the various scientific proofs that he was indeed Aleksei Romanov etc. It was published by the Keep America Committee a conservative anti-Communist women's organization in Los Angeles which among other things together with other similar groups launched a concerted campaign against UNESCO for allegedly spreading internationalist ideas in line with Communist ideology. OCLC lists one copy at U of Kansas; none in the trade as of February 2020. Keep America Committee unknown books
198142620Boston MA: G. K. Hall & Co. 1981. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Boston MA: G. K. Hall & Co. 1981. 135 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Burgundy cloth. Spine very slightly faded else a nice crisp clean copy. Very good/No jacket issued. G. K. Hall & Co. hardcover books
186664257Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1866. 8vo. 23 cm. 120pp. Library withdrawal stamp on titlepage. Waterstain top of pages throughout disbound. McDADE 774: "The Dearing family of six plus a hired boy and woman guest were all brutally hacked to death by him." <br/><br/> T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
192032379Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1920. First edition. Original green leather gilt. Printed on India paper Slight fading to spine else fine. <br/><br/> Insel-Verlag hardcover books
192928797New York: The Macaulay Company 1929. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Near fine book in a very good dust jacket with a number of closed tears at edges. <br/><br/> The Macaulay Company unknown books
1941WN33950Doylestown PA: Bucks Co. Historical Society 1941. Prior owner signature and date of 1948 on ffep. Laid-in is historical map of Chester Co. PA. A revision of the first edition of 1914. Some paste action in gutters. Dark blue cloth gilt with lettering and cover ornament somewhat faded. A definitive work on pictured stoves and stove plates of the Pennsylvania Germans. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Bucks Co. Historical Society Hardcover books
18487556Boston MA: Published by the author at 22 Water Street and sold by.; printed by Freeman and Bolles 1848. 16mo. 16.5 x 11 cm. 166 2 pages. Publisher's advertisement at rear. FIRST EDITION. A very complete handbook or manual of cage-bird maintenance with sections on Thrushes Finches Grossbeaks Warblers Larks South American Asiatic and African Birds Doves Parrots and with instructions for breeding canaries and the treating the diseases for which they are liable. An author/publisher's advertisement at the rear describes James Mann as "Taxidermist Dealer in American and Foreign Singing Birds Fancy Pigeons Rare Fowls &c.". Light soiling to some leaves; a few pencil annotations to front endpapers. Blind-stamped decorated brown cloth; professionally rebacked with original spine panel laid-down; gilt-titled at spine. Generally very good. Sabin A-67: 784-67786. Published by the author at 22 Water Street, and sold by...; printed by Freeman and Bolles hardcover books
1955021415London: Secker and Warburg 1955. First American Edition. Octavo. 408p. This is the continuation of Felix Krull in which the author recounds the strange and entranced career of the gifted swindler. Krull is a man unhampered by the moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary mortals and this natural lack of scruple coupled with his mental and physical endowments enables him to to develop the arts of subterfuge and deception with astonishing success. Bound in black cloth title in blind spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A handsome copy near fine in near fine unclipped dust jacket. Secker and Warburg unknown books
1948616671948. MANN Thomas. JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS Introduction. Trans. from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. With a new introduction by the author. New York: Knopf 1948. This is a separate printing of just the introduction; 8vo. stapled wrappers; 12 pp. Some sun soil edgewear to wraps; a serviceable copy of a scarce item. unknown books
1938294803New York: Knopf 1938. First. hardcover. near fine. 2 vols. black cloth tops stained yellow. New York: Knopf 1938. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Near fine copies the gilt on the spines very slightly dulled. In the original printed board slipcase which is browned but intact.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1944255598New York: Knopf 1944. First. hardcover. fine/good. 8vo black cloth d.w. New York: Knopf 1944. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Fine copy in a very good dust wrapper toned on the spine and chipped at the corners & extremes of spine; two small chips at the top of the spine impinge on the word "Joseph".<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1930D7975Berkeley: S. Fischer 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue illustrated paper over boards in illustrated slipcase; 16mo; pp. 143 plus publisher's ads laid-in. Book and slipcase are just a little scuffed along joints and edges otherwise a very handsome copy. <br/><br/> S. Fischer hardcover books
199408977New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1994. Wrappers. Fine. Octavo. A New Translation Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. "Instructor's Desk Copy" stamped in gilt rear wrapper. First Edition Thus. Fine copy in original color illustrated wrappers. viii 237 pp. Ads. Printed return postcard with W. W. Norton address laid-in. <br/><br/> W. W. Norton & Company unknown books
1901007195No Place: American Medicine 1901. RARE Worldcat locates 0 copies. Reprint of an article that first appeared in American Medicine journal October 19 1901 detailing the medical care given to President William F. McKinley during the eight days following the shooting that resulted in his death. . 27 pp 5 blank subscription page. Very Good top corner front wrapper small chip wrappers soiled. Contents include "Surgical history" by P.M. Rixey Matthew D. Mann Herman Mynter and others.--"Remarks on the operation" by Matthew D. Mann.--"Report on the autopsy" by Harvey R. Gaylord.--"Report on the Bacteriologic examination" by Herman G. Matzinger. Reprint. Pamphlet. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. American Medicine Paperback books
199624216Boston and New York: Corcoran Gallery 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/none. First edition. 170 pp. Text by Marilyn Webb and Jane Livingston. A sober view of hospice experience with photographs by Goldberg Goldin Mann Radcliffe and Vargas. A near fine copy of the simultaneous first paperbound edition. This copy has been INSCRIBED by contributor Sally Mann "A humble offering for ___ & ___. in friendship Sally Corcoran Gallery paperback books
1965138201Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Original US one sheet poster for the 1965 film based on the 1959 novel "Epitaph for an Enemy" by George Barr. <br/><br/>An attempted sequel to the 1962 film "The Longest Day" "Up from the Beach" tells of the days after the Invasion of Normandie and of Allied attempts to "liberate" a nearby French village previously under the control of an uncommonly kind German commandant. <br/><br/>Set in Northern France shot there on location. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. Very Good plus. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
184853917Washington: printed by J. & G. S. Gideon 1848. First edition 8vo pp. 20; self-wrappers. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark advocating Congress's right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories and in a letter in December of that year he said: "I think the country is to experience serious times. Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel." <br/><br/> printed by J. & G. S. Gideon unknown books
194462New York: Creative Age Press Inc. 1944. First American Edition 1st Printing. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 255 1 pages in gray cloth titles to spine in a pictorial dust jacket. <br /><br />Heinrich Mann's novel about a tyrannical schoolmaster who gets mixed up with a cabaret singer originally published in German in 1905. The novel was the basis for the 1930 movie The Blue Angel starring Marlene Dietrich. <br /><br />Scarce in dust jacket. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slightly cocked with small stain to lower board bumping to spine ends. Internally the pages are lightly toned probably due to being printed on cheap wartime paper but are clean and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has some chips as well as two one-inch tears where the flaps meet the panels. Some darkening to lower panel. Overall about Very Good. Creative Age Press, Inc. hardcover books
184616563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co unknown books
1986141500Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1986. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Hannah Senesh." <br/><br/>Based on two books: "Hanna Senesh Her Life and Diaries" Sphere Books 1973 and "Un Vento Impetuoso Soffio" a memoir by Joel Palgi published only in Italian in 1950 then in English in 2003 under the title "Into the Inferno: The Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper Behind Nazi Lines." <br/><br/>The true story of Hanna Szenes Senesh a Hungarian-Jewish World War II resistance fighter who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc." As a young person she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain she parachuted into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary however lead to her capture torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police. <br/><br/>Set in Europe and British Palestine filmed on location in Hungary and Israel. <br/><br/>Lacking wrappers. Title page present dated December 17 1986 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Stanley Mann. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Golan-Globus Productions unknown books
1972WRCLIT41892New York: Jered Productions 1972. 2160 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Boltbound in steno service gilt- lettered wrappers. Large adhesion marks on upper wrapper resulting in surface loss lower wrapper creased internally very good or better. An unspecified draft of this unpublished and unproduced collaborative screen adaptation based on Quintero's own story. Quintero is best known for his direction of plays by O'Neill and Williams et al at the Circle in the Square Theatre. From the papers of Quintero's friends George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. Jered Productions unknown books
1992202004New York: Robert Mann Gallery 1992. Limited. paperback. near fine. Siskind Aaron. Illustrated with handsomely printed b/w photographs. 51pp. Short slim 4to glossy pictorial wrappers one corner gently bent otherwise a fine copy. New York: Robert Mann Gallery 1992. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Limited edition -- number 451 of 1000 copies.<br/><br/> Robert Mann Gallery unknown books
192629660New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1926. FIRST EDITION THUS. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with some restoraton at edges. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
