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1938614231938. MANN Thomas. THE COMING VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY. Translated by Agnes E. Meyer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First edition his friend Thomas Mann 23.VI.38" 70 pp. 8vo. black cloth title printed in gold ink to spine Mann's initials blind-stamped to upper board publisher's device blind-stamped to lower board. Dust-soiling to top-edge but internally clean and fresh. The sizing to cloth cover has been removed in places due to moisture and small bits of the dust jacket have adhered to the cloth; the dust jacket is dampstained in corresponding places with some red offset to the upper panel. Also it is spine sunned with small loss at spinal ends and at the fold-in corners. It would be only an acceptable reading copy if it were not for Mann's inscription. This is the text of a lecture in slightly abbreviated form delivered by Mann on a coast-to-coast lecture tour February to May 1938. unknown books
194228976New York: Common Council for American Unity 1942. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm; yellow and black printed wrappers stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Highly important single issue of the CCAU's monthly literary magazine issued from 1940-49 which was devoted to bridging ethnic and minority differences and to reflecting America's cultural diversity. This issue includes a substantial 13pp short story by Woody Guthrie "Ear Players" which marked his debut as a published writer in the mainstream media. The issue includes contributions by Langston Hughes Waldo Frank and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Also includes a pictorial insert 4pp of photomontage by Alexander Alland. REUSS 30 p.9. Common Council for American Unity 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
1955180624002New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. First American Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First American edition. 384 7 pp. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel shelf wear and faint price in pencil on front flap. A very nice copy. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
195517021New York: Knopf 1955. First American edition 8vo pp. 6 383 7; very good copy in jacket. Includes a bibliography of Mann's work to date. <br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
195554New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hilarious "confessions" of a swindler. Octavo pp. 384 6. Very Good in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. Some light toning to pages and offsetting to end papers. The dust jacket has only light edge wear and light toning along the flap edges. An attractive copy. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
196535539New York: Modern Library 1965. Ca 1963 - 1967. Blue cloth binding with blind logo stamped to front board and silver title lettering stamped to spine. Black and blue dust jacket with green title lettering printed to front panel and white title lettering printed to spine. Lean to spine. Wear to dust jacket. Withal a VG copy in a VG jacket. 4 378 2 blank pp. 7" x 5" <br/><br/> Modern Library hardcover books
195536244New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. 1st US edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG some offset to eps lower edges from old-style Brodart/VG spine panel lightl sunned. 6 384 10 pp. Mann bibliography at rear. 8vo. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
196546983NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Modern Library number 360. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. First edition thus. Remainder mark on front free endpaper else very good in a very good minor edge wear price clipped dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
195573502London: Secker & Warburg 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English translated from the German by Denver Lindley. A parody of Goethe's autobiography Poetry and Truth this novel was left unfinished at the time of Mann's death in 1955. Octavo. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles. Mild offsetting to the front endpaper. The dust jacket is a bit toned along the spine and extremities with two tape reinforcements to the verso; otherwise very good. Secker & Warburg 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
199678285New York: The Jewish Museum /David R. Godine 1996. xv398p. acknowledgements using the catalogue indexes bibliography b&w and color photos. A catalogiue of Torah scroll ornaments illustrated with over eight hundred duotone and thirty-three color plates. First edition in original cloth and illustrated dj. Very good. The Jewish Museum /David R. Godine unknown books
2014234452Maple Shade NJ: Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press 2014. Paperback. vii 213p. marked FREE in red marker on bottom edge otherwise a very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Tale of a West Virginia 'Cub' a gay teenager of stocky build and country ways who will grow to be a 'Bear'. Bear Bones Books/Lethe Press paperback books
2016249342New Haven: Yale University Press 2016. Hardcover. ix 338p. introduction epilogue notes bibliography filmography index photos near-fine first edition first printing stated in cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Yale University Press hardcover books
2011UMANDAI00FPLouisiana State University Press 2011. Very Good. Mann Robert. Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ Barry Goldwater and the Ad That Changed American Politics. Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University Press 2011. xvii 179pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Slight rubbing and soiling to bottom edges. Underlining and marginalia in pencil through book. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Rubbing to extremities. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
193332357Berlin/Wien/Leipzig: Paul Zsolnay 1933. First edition. Original wrappers. 48 pp. Slight fading. W.-G. 66. <br/><br/> Paul Zsolnay unknown books
193432364München: Gunther Langes 1934. First edition. Original cloth backed boards inner hinge restored; very good. Not in W./G. <br/><br/> Gunther Langes hardcover books
191132363Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1911. First edition. Original gray cloth fine copy. <br/><br/> Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1968148526N.p.: Omnibus Productions Inc 1968. Treatment script for the 1970 television film which aired on NBC on January 4 1970 and released theatrically in Europe. Annotations on top right and copy number "3" circled all in holograph pencil on front wrapper. Treatment is broken into a prologue three acts then an epilogue which follow character and sets. Producer Frederick H. Brogger is here given a screenwriting credit alongside Jack Pulman.<br/><br/>Based on the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens.<br/><br/>An adaptation told in an extended flashback with the title character Robin Phillips ruminating on his youth while on a deserted beach with an outstanding cast featuring Richard Attenborough Laurence Olivier Cyril Cusack Wendy Hiller Michael Redgrave and Ron Moody among others.<br/><br/>Nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Suffolk and London England and Malta. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated October 16 1968 noted as Treatment/Outline with credits for screenwriters Jack Pulman and Frederick Brogger. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered E/45. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Omnibus Productions Inc unknown books
1972400455New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. Limited edition number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Lacks glassine otherwise fine. Quarto. Illustrated by Felix Hoffmann. Original red quarter morocco marbled boards; publisher's board slipcase. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Introduction by Erich Heller. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1972WB17103New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Signed by Felix Hoffman illustrator. Excellent copy in publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1925140938133New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in red. Very Good Cloth lightly scuffed edges bumped textblock edge foxed and topstain faded else a lovely copy lacking the dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1928180618003London: Martin Secker 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 271 pp. First British edition first printing. Publisher's green cloth binding ruled in blind with titles in gilt on upper board and spine. Very Good Cloth a bit mottled and faded at spine. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Pages toned. A nice copy. Martin Secker hardcover books
1972TB28038New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. Signed Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 pebbled red leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 7 1/4". Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a near fine matching paper covered slip case with a gilt stamped spine label. One of only 1500 copies printed with this copy identified as number 969 and signed by the illustrator Felix Hoffmann. 107 doubled pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece and line drawings throughout by Felix Hoffmann. Translated by Kenneth Burke and with an introduction by Erich Heller. A beautiful copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
197246517New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. 4to pp. 106 1; introduction by Erich Heller frontispiece numerous illustrations from wood engravings; #411 of 1500 copies signed by the artist Felix Hoffmann; monthly letter of the LEC laid in dated 1972; A fine copy in quarter red morocco over marbled boards spine decorated in gilt glassine wrappers in a red publisher's slipcase gilt-lettered spine. LEC Bibliography 444. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
