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19307700Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Fine. Light sunning at the spine and top of boards gilt toned at spine label small area of loss at spine label else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards red leather spine labels gilt lettering and decorative elements teg. Small 4to. 79pp. Numbered limited edition this being 276 of 500. <br/><br/>Ornaments and initial letters by Eric Gill. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1965002844Niu Iork New York: By the Author 1965. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 2 3-95; light-brown wraps printed in black; a small bump to tail of spine; minor creasing to corners; illustrated with frontis photographs and facsimile documents; very good to near fine condition. Around 1958 Ukrainian emigres in the US came up with the idea of building a memorial to "Ukraine's Favorite Son" author Taras Shevchenko as a way of making a statement about their community and of the situation in their homeland. The campaign gained momentum and in 1960 Congress passed a bill which allocated land in Washington DC for the Ukrainians to build a statue. Platon Stasiuk a prominent Ukrainian-American businessman and treasurer of the Shevchenko Memorial Committee went to Ukraine in 1961 intent on taking back a container of soil from Shevchenko's grave to be placed under the monument in Washington. Expecting an appreciative committee he was instead met with rejection as his bringing the soil was viewed as a Soviet ploy. Disappointed Stasiuk published a book describing his experience and the Soviet media denounced the dismissal as hostility towards a friendly gesture. Stasiuk returned the soil to Ukraine and wrote a second account the current one in which he included numerous letters of support he had received for his initiative. By the Author paperback books
192950495London: The Scholartis Press 1929. Edition limited to 500 copies royal 8vo pp. x 2 202 2; text in Greek and English; original blue cloth gilt title direct on spine t.e.g. inscribed on the endpaper by the publisher Eric Partridge to his sometimes collaborator friend and professor of English at the University of Minnesota dated 1955. Corners bumped else fine. "Meant for those whose knowledge of Greek is small but who desire to become familiar at first hand with Plato's work." <br/><br/> The Scholartis Press hardcover books
1924265918London: The Nonesuch Press 1924. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth-backed boards. Spine ends slightly rubbed. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. INSCRIBED BY ARTHUR HOUGHTON TO PHILIP HOFER. Inscribed on front pastedown: "Arthur Houghton. Given in 1962 to Philip Hofer to start on a new journey through the world. I have been given my father's copy by Richard Smart who bought it after his death." Dreyfus 19 The Nonesuch Press unknown books
192637372Paris: The Pleiad 1926. No. 97 of 475 copies. Large 8vo pp. xxxvi. Patterned paper over boards with small paper label on spine. A nice copy. The Pleiad unknown books
1931031892LOndon: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1931. Translated into English with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett. 3d edition revised and corrected throughout with marginal analyses and an index of subjects and proper names. 5 volumes complete original burgundy cloth. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press unknown books
19792309669Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Edges faintly foxed spine of third volume leans backward. 1979 Full-Leather. Part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 516; 557; 391 pp. Original maroon full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Includes: Charmides; Lysis; Laches; Protagoras; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Ion; Symposium; Meno; Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Gorgias; The Republic; Laws; Timaeus; Critias; Parmenides; Theaetetus; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; The Seventh Letter. The Franklin Library hardcover books
19269023708Paris: Pleiad 1926. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Henry Cary. One of 475 numbered copies designed by Frederic Warde and being the first to use a new type by the Officina Bodini of Switzerland. Marbled paper boards with a paper label on the spine. Fine. <br/><br/>Private Press Pleiad hardcover books
1920R5163Peterburg: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo State Publishers 1920. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fine. Later black cloth preserving the original illustrated wraps; pp. 156 with illustrations by Vidberg. "Within the discursive world created by the Soviet mass spectacles the event announces itself as new by virtue of its shift from the individual to the mass and the instigation of a collective subject as both the subject and object of the drama. In this way it distinguishes itself from the old 'pre-modern' society. More specifically it took the pre-revolutionary Symbolist utopias of 'ritual theatre' whose formulation was largely a response to the abortive 1905 revolution and recast their 'people' as the proletariat" Kleberg 1980 44-64. Platon Kerzhentsev's THE CREATIVE THEATRE was the most influential formulation in this direction -- his book was in its fourth edition by 1920. The October revolution had he claimed provided the social base for the realization of the ritual community valorized by the Symbolists; by the time of the fourth edition he was able to claim that "much of what seemed a utopia two years ago now appears to be on the way to becoming reality" Kleberg 1980 62. "This claim was based on the explosion of mass spectacles that had occurred in the intervening years" Smith "Meyerhold Mass Theatre and Fascism". The theory for Soviet mass spectacles. <br/><br/> Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo [State Publishers] hardcover books
19261270763Paris: The Pleiad 1926. Limited Edition. 8vo. xxxvi VG; spine marbled brown with black paper label and brown lettering; original brown marbled paper over boards; One of 475 numbered copies printed under the supervision of Frederic Warde at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola Switzerland this is number 422; lacking slipcase; GP consignment; shelved case 10. 1270763. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Pleiad unknown books
1926527401926. PLATO. Crito. xxxvi 2 pp. 8vo. bound in full marbled paper title printed on a black letterpress label on spine. Uncut unopened. Paris: The Pleiad 1926. One of 475 copies printed for the Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde. According to the colophon this book marks the first use of Arrighi Vicenza type but the British Library exhibition catalogue notes that this type was first used in the imprint and colophon of The Calligraphic Models published two months earlier. A fine copy with the bookplates of Edward Laurence and Carrie Estelle Doheny on front flyleaf and pastedown. Mardersteig 16. unknown books
1937131093Stuttgart Germany: Chr. Belser for The Friends of Socrates 1937. stiff paper wrappers in later clamshell box. small folio. stiff paper wrappers in later clamshell box. 90 4 pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies. Translated from the Greek by Floyer Syndenham and Thomas Taylor. With eight original signed engravings by Ferdinand Springer printed by Franz von Foullon at Frankfurt-am-Main. Unopened. Chr. Belser for The Friends of Socrates unknown books
1937173642unknown: Freinds of Socrates 1937. Softcover. VG clamshell box is in 3 pieces the actual book is in VG condition. Tan wraps with black lettering inside a clamshell box 90 pp 8 bw plates. Of this edition 150 numerated copies have been printed in 14 point Garamond type on Holland paper by Belser at Stuttgart in Germany in the month of January 1937 under the typographic dir. of T. Stahly. The engravings were printed by Franz von Foullon at Frankfurt-Main. This copy is number 15. With 8 original engravings by Ferdinand Springer.This dialogue is reprinted from the works of Plato translanted by Floyer Sydenham and Thomas Taylor ed. by the latter and published for the first time in London 1804. Freinds of Socrates paperback books