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1927140937676New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First American Edition. Very Good. Two volumes. First edition first printings in slipcase. Both volumes Very Good with stamping dulled cloth a bit worn and lightly faded spine ends bruised previous owner details to front free end paper and foxing to edge of page block. Volume I with scratch to rear cover hinge slight exposed at title page. In a Good soiled chipped and worn slipcase a bit fragile with a crack to the spine panel name effaced from front panel. Mann's Nobel Prize winning novel uncommon in the publisher's slipcase. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1939140941406New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939. First One-Volume Edition. Very Good. First one-volume edition. Signed by Thomas Mann on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original green cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with some nibbling at the top of the spine spine toned. Front inner hinge started and tender foxing to endsheets and textblock edge. A monumental novel and a towering literary achievement of the 20th century. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
193896001New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First American edition of the third installment of Mann's four-part novel retelling the vast saga of Genesis which Mann considered his greatest work. Octavo 2 volumes pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Herr Pforzheimer herrlich dankbar fur schonste reichste Gastfreundschaft" which translates as "thankful for a beautiful summer day <span class="match">in</span> his wonderful estate." The recipient Carl H. Pforzheimer was a founder of the American Stock Exchange and amassed a large fortune on Wall Street as a specialist in Standard Oil stock. He was an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts and built the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle which contained nearly 25000 items and is now housed in the New York Public Library. In near fine condition. In the rare original glassine and original pictorial slipcase. Rare and desirable. Mann wrote the four-part novel Joseph and His Brothers over the course of 16 years. Set in the 14th century B.C.E. the tetralogy presents the story of Genesis in standard Egyptian chronology from the ascension of Akehnaten to the death and funeral of Jacob. A dominant topic of the novel is Mann's exploration of mythical truths in the midst of the emergence of monotheism as well as the central notion of the underworld and man's descent into it. "Against an extraordinarily vivid background of the pace of life in all its detail is told the inside story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife up to its climax when -- defeated in her determination to win his love she turns against him and Potiphar unwillingly is forced to give him to Pharaoh as slave and prisoner. So much for the pattern of the tale. But the philosophy and understanding and interpretation is Mann's -- and for that it is a book not to passed over. One of the great masters of prose today Mann gives us some of his best in this stupendous work" Kirkus Reviews. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
194483459New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. First American edition of Mann's final work in his acclaimed four-part novel and is widely regarded as one of the greatest creative works of the twentieth century. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "To Charles Jackson grateful for his visit and for the fine gift of his book. Pac. Palisades I.VII 44 Thomas Mann." Mann moved to Pacific Palisades California with his family in 1940 and became friends with the recipient Charles Jackson. The book referenced in this inscription is Jackson's novel The Lost Weekend published in 1944 and describing five days in the life of an alcoholic thought to be autobiographical. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. A nice association. Joseph and His Brothers is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis from Jacob to Joseph chapters 27-50 setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann considered it his greatest work. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
195921243ELos Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1959. First Edition. Original shooting script for the classic Anthony Mann western film Cimarron dated November 13 1959. This was actress Mercedes McCambridge’s personal copy with the following acting notes about how to play her character Mrs. Sarah Wyatt written in pencil by Miss McCambridge on the summary page: “Brown Bird! Play her like Ella talks - to us to the boys - to the cats! When she is soft - when she is mad. Remember her ‘Whoo!’ and the weary ‘Well.’ And the way her head moves out of sync with the cadence of her speech. Back and forth like Keely - like a bird.†McCambridge has made various line edits in pencil at her speaking parts in the script. This copy is custom bound in full dark green gilt stamped leather with raised bands on the spine marble endpapers and with her name gilt-stamped to the lower right corner of the front board. With “COMPLETE†stamped to the bottom of the front cover and with “McCambridge†and her character’s name “Sarah Wyatt†written in pencil at the top of the front cover. Fine. The film tells the story of the Oklahoma land run of 1889 was directed by the great Anthony Mann written by Arnold Schulman based on the novel by Edna Ferber and stars Glenn Ford Maria Schell Anne Baxter Arthur O’Connell Russ Tamblyn Mercedes McCambridge Vic Morrow Robert Keith Charles McGraw and Harry Morgan. The film received two Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction - Set Direction and Best Sound. Some of Miss McCambridge’s other films include All the King’s Men 1949 and Giant 1956 for which she won Best Supporting Actress Oscars Johnny Guitar 1954 and the voice of the Demon in The Exorcist 1973. She also won two Golden Globes for All the King’s Men: Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer - Female. One of her trademarks was her distinctive sultry deep voice which inspired Orson Welles to refer to her as “the world’s greatest living radio actress.†Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hardcover books
245Lancaster PA and New York NY: American Inst. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of Murray Gell-Mann's Nobel-Prize winning work on the discovery of the "Eightfold Way" "Gell-Mann as naturalist collector and categorizer was well primed to interpret the exploding particle universe of the 1960s. New technology in the accelerators- liquid hydrogen bubble chambers and computers for automating the analysis of collision tracks- seemed to have spilled open a bulky canvas bag from which nearly a hundred distinct particles had now tumbled forth. Gell-Mann and independently an Israeli theorist Yuval Ne'eman found a way in 1961 to organize the various symmetries of spins and strangeness into a single scheme. It was a group in the mathematicians' sense of the word known as SU3 though Gell-Mann quickly and puckishly dubbed it the Eightfold Way. It was like an intricate translucent object which when held to the light would reveal families of eight or ten or possibly twenty-seven particles- and they would be different though overlapping families depending on which way one chose to view it. The Eightfold Way was a new periodic table- the previous century's triumph in classifying and thus exposing the hidden regularities in a similar number of disparate 'elements.' But it was also a more dynamic object. The operations of group theory were like special shuffles of a deck of cards or the twists of a Rubik's cube. "Much of SU3's power came from the way it embodied a concept increasingly central to the high-energy theorist's way of working: the concept of inexact symmetry almost symmetry near symmetry or- the term that won out- broken symmetry. The particle world was full of near misses in its symmetries a dangerous problem since it seemed to permit an ad hoc escape route whenever an expected relationship failed to match. Broken symmetry implied a process a change in status. Many of the broken symmetries of particle physics came to seem like choices the universe made when it condensed from a hot chaos into cooler matter spiked as it is with so many hard-edged asymmetrical contingencies. "Once again Gell-Mann trusted his scheme enough to predict as a consequence of broken symmetry a specific hitherto-unseen particle. This the omega minus duly turned up in 1964- a thirty-three-experimenter team had to canvass more than one million feet of photographs- and Gell-Mann's Nobel Prize followed five years later" James Gleick Genius. Particle Physics One Hundred Years of Discoveries: "Introduction of the SU3 singlet-octet structure of the known mesons and octet-decuplet structure for the baryons. Prediction of the Ω- hyperon. Nobel prize to M. Gell-Mann awarded in 1969 'for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their reactions'." NOTE: Gell-Mann first introduced the concept of the Eightfold Way in a 1961 Cal. Inst. Tech Report CTSL-20 before developing his ideas more fully in his famous paper in The Physical Review. In: The Physical Review Vol 125 pp. 1067-1084. Lancaster PA and New York NY: American Institute of Physics 1962. Quarto original printed wrappers; custom box. A little spotting to spine otherwise fine. American Inst paperback books
181179039London: John Booth 1811. First Edition. hardcover. good. With fine folding colored map lacking the 4 plates. Off setting on the title page otherwise a nice clean copy. Rebound in the early 1900s in 3/4 leather over marbled boards; corners bumped spine worn cracking to hinges which has been repaired. London: John Booth 1811. First Edition. Scarce.<br/><br/> John Booth unknown books
1937218960New York 1937. Bust portrait of the author with building in background. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XXIV K". 1 vols. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. Matted and framed. Bust portrait of the author with building in background. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XXIV K". 1 vols. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. Published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten 1978 unknown books
193483578New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1934. First American edition of Mann's first novel in his acclaimed tetralogy. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers. Lengthily inscribed in the year of publication by Thomas Mann. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. Joseph and His Brothers is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis from Jacob to Joseph chapters 27-50 setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann considered it his greatest work. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
193012484Paris: Harrison 1930. First edition in any language of this early autobiographical sketch. One of 75 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum signed by Mann according to the colophon only 50 were intended to be produced. According to the colophon the edition was originally intended to consist of only 50 copies. A regular issue of 695 copies was also published. Undaunted by the Depression the expatriate press of Barbara Harrison under the artistic supervision of Monroe Wheeler published a series of distinguished editions of works by European and American authors in the early 1930s. In its review of A Sketch of My Life at the time the Times Literary Supplement called it "a little masterpiece of its kind." - Hugh Ford Published in Paris N. Y.: Macmillan 1975 pp. 328-331. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. 8vo original quarter-vellum publisher's slipcase. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. Harrison unknown books
1928140941600Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Very Good. Signed limited edition copy number 127 of 1000 copies issued to commemorate the 100th printing of Thomas Mann's literary masterpiece. Two volumes bound in publisher's original striped paper-covered boards over parchment spines stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; with frontispiece by Olaf Gulbransson. text in German. Very Good with rubbing and light soiling to bindings former owner name to title pages. Front hinge of volume 2 is pilled and slightly cracked other hinges are rather tight. A monumental novel and a towering literary achievement of the 20th century often hailed as one of the most influential works of German literature. S. Fischer Verlag unknown books
194877021New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First American edition of Mann's classic retelling of the story of Dr. Faustus the man who sold his soul to the devil for 24 years of health and genius. Octavo original boards red topstain. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Joseph Golde thankful for his musical hospitality Chicago 23 Febr. 1950 Thomas Mann." A few notes in the text from the recipient near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. Photograph of Mann by Yousuf Karsh. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by the author as he lived out his remaining years in Switzerland before passing away in 1955. Doctor Faustus is a re-shaping of the Faust legend set in the context of the first half of the 20th century and the turmoil of Germany in that period. The story centers on the life and work of the fictitious composer Adrian Leverkuhn. The narrator is Leverkuhn's childhood friend Serenus Zeitblom who writes in Germany between 1943 and 1946. It was adapted to West German television in Franz Seitz's 1982 starring Jon Finch as Adrian Leverkuhn. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19274284New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First American edition. Near Fine. A lovely copy of the first American edition of Mann's justifiably famous The Magic Mountain in very nearly Fine condition. Slight discoloration to vellum of both spines. Internally unopened throughout resulting in bright fresh pages. One of just 200 copies signed by the author. <br/><br/>Originally published as Der Zauberberg Mann's opus was worked and reworked over a period of 12 years starting in 1912 and finally seeing publication in 1924. It is a complex work on man European society and culture and the seemingly eternal questions; swirled together in an intoxicating blend of realism allegory and the ironic. Near Fine. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1930117697London: Jarrolds 1930. First UK Edition and first printing in English. Issued under the publisher's Jay Library series at a price of 7/6. <br/><br/>Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg starring Emil Jannings and a very young Marlene Dietrich filmed simultaneously in both German and English. <br/><br/>Very Good in a extremely bright and colorful Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed with evidence of exposure to moisture at the fore-edges. Jacket has no loss only a bit of shallow creasing at the spine ends. Jarrolds unknown books
18421071958vo. Boston: Fowle and Capen 1842. 8vo iv 390pp. Old half calf marbled boards binding sound text quite foxed especially at the front and back. § Volume 4 of this series; this copy inscribed by Horace Mann: : “C. Sumner from Horace Mann 1847â€. Later signature of Mary C. Chapman. Horace Mann inscriptions are uncommon and this is a superb association. “Charles Sumner January 6 1811 – March 11 1874 was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederacy free all the slaves and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen.†Mary Chapman was involved with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and was a friend of poet Julia Ward Howe and close friend of Charles Sumner and Horace Mann. Fowle and Capen hardcover books
123909Rare silver gelatin print signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann. Inscribed by him on the lower portion of the photograph "Mr. Satoru Yamano with all my good wishes Thomas <span class="match">Mann.</span>" Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 10 inches. German novelist short story writer and social critic Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 after he had been nominated by Anders Osterling member of the Swedish Academy principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks 1901 The Magic Mountain Der Zauberberg 1924 and his numerous short stories. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual and his analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. unknown books
192568098New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First edition in English preceding the British edition by three years of Mann's classic novel. Octavo original cloth patterned endpapers. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the crown of the spine. First editions are rare especially in the original dust jacket. "Thomas Mann is one of the greatest and most widely read authors of the 20th century. An innovative stylist and synthesizer of the intellectual trends of his time Mann exerted much influence on modern fiction not only in Germany but in Europe and in both Americas as well. His perceptiveness as an interpreter of Western cultural heritage and his skill as a cosmopolitan teacher of democratic and humanistic values earned him recognition as a 'mirror of his age' and a 'citizen of the world'. Among Mann's many well-written works of short fiction "Death in Venice" 1928 a novella based on Mann's impressions during his stay in Venice is the most famous. Typically for Mann the novella deals with the problem of the unhappy sick artist Gustav von Aschenbach who envies the healthy and 'normal' people of the bourgeois society" Pribic 262-3. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1913140941253Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1913. Very Good. Signed by Thomas Mann on the title page. First trade edition eighteenth printing. 145 3 pp. Publisher's quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards spine label blocked in turquoise with gilt lettering. In the original German. Very Good with rubbing to marbled paper light wear small stain to fore edge. An uncommon signed copy of one of the author's best-known works with strong homoerotic themes. S. Fischer, Verlag unknown books
20149325Portland OR: Parasol Press 2014. Limited Edition. Loose Sheets. Fine in Fine Archival Boxes. Bright and unmarred. Black coated cloth archival boxes prints descriptions cards. 8 are 26 1/8 x 31 5/8 inches. 2 are 31 5/8 x 26 1/8 inches. Illus. b/w plates. Limited edition of 100. Signed by the mathematicians/physicists. <br/><br/>A collection of 10 aquatints on Rives Paper. Leon Battista Alberti renaissance scholar artist and architect coined the term Concinnitas to connote the beauty found in the confluence of perfect uses of number position and outline. <br />In 2012 Parasol commissioned ten mathematicians physicists and computer scientists including two Nobel Laureates and five Fields Medalists to create etchings of the mathematical expression most meaningful to them. These formulae were then printed by the fine-art print shop Harlan and Weaver as aquatints evoking the look of equations quickly and elegantly sketched in white chalk on a blackboard. Accompanied by an expository essay of each and description card signed by each. <br />Sir Michael Atiyah. Edinburgh University. Fields Medal <br />Enrico Bombieri. Institute of Advanced Study Princeton. Fields Medal <br />Simon Donaldson. Stony Brook University / Imperial College London. Fields Medal <br />Freeman Dyson. Institute of Advanced Study Princeton. Templeton Prize <br />Murray Gell-Mann. Santa Fe Institute. Nobel Prize <br />Richard Karp. UC Berkeley. Turing Medal <br />Peter Lax. Courant Institute NYU. Abel Wolf and Norbert Wiener Prize <br />David Mumford. Brown University. Fields Medal <br />Stephen Smale. City University of Hong Kong. Fields Meda <br />Steven Weinberg. University of Texas. Nobel Prize <br /> Parasol Press unknown books
192567022New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First edition in English preceding the British edition by three years of Mann's classic novel. Octavo original cloth patterned endpapers. Signed by Thomas Mann on the half-title page. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chipping to the head of the spine and rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare especially so signed. "Thomas Mann is one of the greatest and most widely read authors of the 20th century. An innovative stylist and synthesizer of the intellectual trends of his time Mann exerted much influence on modern fiction not only in Germany but in Europe and in both Americas as well. His perceptiveness as an interpreter of Western cultural heritage and his skill as a cosmopolitan teacher of democratic and humanistic values earned him recognition as a 'mirror of his age' and a 'citizen of the world'. Among Mann's many well-written works of short fiction "Death in Venice" 1928 a novella based on Mann's impressions during his stay in Venice is the most famous. Typically for Mann the novella deals with the problem of the unhappy sick artist Gustav von Aschenbach who envies the healthy and 'normal' people of the bourgeois society" Pribic 262-3. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
194432318Berlin / Vienna / Stockholm: Fischer 1944. First editions. Four volumes original cloth very good copies in lightly worn dust jackets. "Die Geschichten Jaakobs" is inscribed by Mann "Herrn Gottschalk mit den besten Wuenschen New York 23.v.37". "Die junge Joseph" and "Joseph in Ägypten" are signed. <br/><br/> Fischer hardcover books
191398970Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1913. First trade edition of one of the greatest novellas of the twentieth century. Octavo original publisher's quarter vellum over marbled boards. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "An Ernst Bertram in herzlicher Wertschatzung Thomas Mann" To Ernst Bertram in heartfelt appreciation Thomas Mann. One of the best possible association copies as Bertram was Mann's closest friend from the late 1900s through the 1930s when their politics separated them. Bertram was deeply influential on Mann's thinking and literary direction during the time when he was somewhat artistically lost and suffered his own writer's block. It was also in nearly daily conversation with Bertram that the long political confessional Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen Reflections of an Unpolitical Man was born. Bertram was a constant visitor at the Mann's and it is evident that there was some quotient of homoerotic attraction to the relationship. It is well-known that Mann's early adulthood prior to his marriage to Katia in 1905 were spent in more or less explicitly gay attractions and relations but recent scholarship has begun to trace the residues of Mann's homosexuality in his later life and work and the relationship with Bertram who was openly homosexual somehow epitomizes the special significance that the company of men still bore. In addition to being Mann's closest confidant Bertram was an important man of letters in his own right. He was a poet professor at the University of Colon and author of many books including Nietzsche - An Attempt of a Mythology. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Inscribed first editions of Mann's major works are rare; an association copy to this fellow Nietzschean scholar and close confidant makes this a magnificent piece of history. "Thomas Mann is one of the greatest and most widely read authors of the 20th century. An innovative stylist and synthesizer of the intellectual trends of his time Mann exerted much influence on modern fiction not only in Germany but in Europe and in both Americas as well. His perceptiveness as an interpreter of Western cultural heritage and his skill as a cosmopolitan teacher of democratic and humanistic values earned him recognition as a 'mirror of his age' and a 'citizen of the world'. Among Mann's many well-written works of short fiction "Death in Venice" 1928 a novella based on Mann's impressions during his stay in Venice is the most famous. Typically for Mann the novella deals with the problem of the unhappy sick artist Gustav von Aschenbach who envies the healthy and 'normal' people of the bourgeois society" Pribic 262-3. S. Fischer, Verlag hardcover books
