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1958007055Terre Haute IN: Terre Haute Fairgrounds Speedway 1958. A fantastic piece of Midwest dirt track racing history SIGNED by legendary drivers A.J. Foyt Eddie Sachs. Elmer George Tommy Hinnershitz Ed Elisian and Joe Barzda with 2 more signatures too faint for me to decipher. SIGNED in ink front cover by Foyt George Sachs and Hinnershitz in pencil right margin by Barzda at rear cover in ink by Ed Elisian and at his photo on page 7 in ink again by George. A.J. Foyt- the first 4-time winner of the Indy 500 a true racing legend. Eddie Sachs- known as the "Clown Prince of Auto Racing" who was killed in the 1964 Indy 500 won by Foyt Elmer George- who retired from racing in 1963 and then served as vice-president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Tommy Hinnershitz "The Flying Dutchman" one of the most popular sprint-car drivers in racing history. Ed Elisian - who was killed in a USAC Champ car race crash at Milwaukee just a year later in 1959. Joe Barzda - whose career spanned 1934-1959 and who quit racing in 1959 after the fatal crash of Van Johnson and later along with his brother operated the Californian Speed and Sport Shop in New Jersey fielding cars in many races. This SIGNED program comes with The Indianapolis Times Speedway Extra 5th Edition newspaper dated Saturday May 30 1964 headlined "A.J. FOYT WINS '500' - 7-Car Crash Kills Sachs McDonald" Very Good paper uniformly browned . The program is about Very Good 12 pp. stapled wrinkling and creasing light soiling 6" lateral tear p.3. Day of race original pencil notations pp. 10 and 11 for the 4 heat finishes with car number driver name and place in that heat and some lap times. These were either sprint or midget races- program doesn't state what races or the month and day of the races just the year 1958. The program includes standings and results for 1957 for both car types as well as stories and photos. The six signatures that are clearly legible are all legends of 1950's midget and sprint car racing which were the proving grounds for many Indy 500 and NASCAR racers and as a group are unique and RARE. SIGNED. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Terre Haute Fairgrounds Speedway Paperback books
191921580Berlin & Charlottenburg: Das Plakat 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth spine and illustrated front cover. Very good. Total of 448 pages without noting the additional advertising. 29 x 23 cm. Among the artistic contributions are names like Paul Scheurich Lucian Bernhard Fritz Erler Elisabeth von Sydow Fitz Koch-Gotha Jo Steiner Adolf Uzarski Max Pechstein. List of posters in Nos. II and V. Host of tipped-in color and black and white plates -- lithographs. With the defeat by Germany in World War I a good deal of material covers the current culture and conditions. Of particular interest is an insert a satiric spoof "Politische Werbeschrift 1917" of 8 leaves on Woodrow Wilson illustrated by A.M. Cay entitled a Modern Fairy tale where he chides Wilson for his German antipathy. Two special issues May and November cover typesetting and the culture of advertising respectively. Wear at cover joints with some fraying binding tight interior generally clean. Das Plakat hardcover books
1904267495Berlin: August Hirschwald 1904. First. hardcover. xii 776 pages. Thick 8vo bound in simple red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. A work consisting of 38 reports published between 1899 and 1904 many of which were co-authored with Julius Morgenroth and Hans Sachs. Berlin: August Hirschwald 1904. First edition. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Ehrlich would later share a Nobel prize for physiology and medicine with Elie Mechnikov in 1908 for his work on immunology. -- GM 2559; Heirs of Hippocrates 2158.<br/><br/> August Hirschwald unknown books
19557431Providence RI: Brown University Press 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Oblong quarto 271pages. Brown University Studies Volume XVIII. Profusely illustrated in black and white from drawings by T. G. PINCHES AND J. N. STRASSMAIER. Prepared for publication by A. J. Sachs with the co-operation of J. Shaumberger. A lovely fine unmarked copy in a so near fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Brown University Press hardcover books
19862901841986. unbound. very good. Exceedingly rare autograph note signed on her embossed personalized greeting card "Mrs. Alexander Sachs" gatefold opens to 5" x 7" October 1st 1986 in full: "At last I found "Julliard Sound" - Sorry about the delay - All good wishes" signing with her large script letter "C" with a musical note in the lower loop. Fine conditoin. It is more than probable that Charlotte Sachs is referring to herself acquiring a vinyl recording by the Julliard String Quartet.<br/><br/> German-born Jewish Entrepreneur and inventor who came to the United States in 1924. In a career that spanned over sixty years she held patents for many inventions including the first powdered cake muffin and frosting mixes requiring only water as an ingredient; the combined key and flashlight the modern wine cellar and later a storage device that kept wine at the appropriate temperature. In 1945 she married the economist and banker Alexander Sachs best remembered as a close friend of Albert Einstein of which he passed on the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany was developing an atomic bomb.<br/><br/> unknown books
20001178360Heidelberg: Kaden Verlag 2000-2005. Quarto; vg/none/slipcases; burgundy leather spine with gilt lettering; quarter-bound w/white cloth boards; ex libris pencil signature ffep; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block clean; illus. photos plates tables and text figures; some color; ffep short pencil note; ---Band1 "Historische Entwicklung chirurgischer Operationen" 261 pp.; 2000 ISBN 3-922777-25-2; ---Band2 "Historische Entwicklung des chirurgischen Instrumentariums" 309 pp.; 2001 ISBN 3-922777-26-0; ---Band3 "Historische Chirurgenlexikon: ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch bedeutender Chirurgen und Wundartze" 382 pp.; 2002 ISBN 3-922777-27-9; ---Band4 "Vom Handwerk zur Wissenschaft: die Entwicklung der Chirurgie im deutschen Sprachraum vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert" 306 pp.; 2003 ISBN 3-922777-28-7; ---Band5 "Erganzungs- und Registerband" 465 pp.; 2005 ISBN 3-922777-29-5; else very good; --TEXT IN GERMAN. Shelve above england. 1178360. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Kaden Verlag unknown books
1937109658New Haven: Pennsylvania Museum of Art / Yale University Press 1937. Hardbound. G fading to spine and cloth overall and wear to edges of cover pages aging slightly but text very clean and tight. Red cloth over boards with black lettering on spine; 133 pp. text followed by 13 bw figures diagrams and 94 bw plates. "The purpose of this book is to discover the characteristics of Persian textiles by an analysis of all the different weaves found in the various productive periods from the Sasanian through the Safavid dynasty and thus to extend by scientific methods the knowledge and appreciation of the development of weaving in Persia and the significance of her contribution to the history of the textile arts. To this end it has been necessary to adopt a systematic classification of weaving types and a uniform terminology from which analysis and comparison of individual examples could be made. The Table . outlines a system of classification which includes all handwoven fabrics and it also provides an index to the terms and classes used in this study of Persian textiles." intro Includes a Definitions of Terms section and Analyses of Textiles; excellent diagrams and clear plates with descriptions. A scarce resource. Pennsylvania Museum of Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
19261258baRParis France: Plon-Nourrit 1926. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First French edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 397 pages of text including table. Paperback binding; original blue printed paper wrappers with numerous small creases and tears and extremities and a few tiny chips at top of spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar and further protected by a custom made gray and navy linen clam-shell box with printed spine label. Measues 20 cm in height. Illustrated with a historic photograph of Ashford as a girl and a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript. Pages 133-221 contain the French translation of "The young visitors" which Ashford wrote at age 9; it was first published in 1919. This edition with an introduction by Cocteau and translated by Maurice Sachs who was Cocteau's secretary at the time. Sachs has inscribed and signed the book on the half-title page in the year of publication. Sachs was a black marketeer anti-semitic collaborateur went to Germany 1943 to work with Gestapo arrested and shot 1945. Contains the following works: "La messagere de la politique divine" by Humbert Clerissac; "Renoncer a toute richesse" "Jeunesse lacustre" and "Angoisses et autres" by Max Jacob; "Et le sentiment de la mort" by Charles Maurras; "Et sa pensee" by Paul Valery; "Et le soldat" by Anatole France; "Si Peguy etait la." by Henri Massis; "Le destin de la culture" by Nicholas Berdiaeff; "Scenes dans le paradis" by Justin Klotz; "Les freres caches" by Jean Aurenche; "Daisy en France" by Jean Cocteau; "Les jeunes visiteurs ou le plan de Mr. Salteeana" by Daisy Ashford; "Veillee" by Alfredo Gangotena; "Erasme et Thomas Morus contre Machiavel ou la politique et la morale" by Emile Dermenghem; "La traversee inutile" by Julien Green; "I. Mariage" and "II. Les bisons Porteciel" by Paul Sabon; "La Chine et les missions" by Leopold Levaux; "Les traces de Dieu dans la vie de Jacques Riviere" by Jules Lebreton; "Lettre a Frederic Lefevre" by Georges Bernanos. Plon-Nourrit Paperback books
191247165Leipzig: Franz Deuticke 1912. First German Edition. Octavo 23cm.; contemporary cloth-backed reptile-patterned paper-covered boards; 4149pp. Boards rubbed with some loss at corners and fraying at spine ends light toning to stock else Good or better. At head of title: "Schriften zur Angewandten Seelenkunde." From the library of the Austro-American psychiatrist Heinz Hartmann 1894-1970 with his pencil signature on title page. Hartmann is best known as being a leading founder of "ego psychology. Franz Deuticke unknown books
194030315Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1940. hardcover. very good. Color frontispiece Vol. 1; 404 plates 17 text illustrations. 3 volumes small folio cloth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1940. Very good.<br/><br/> Vol. 1 - Text; Vol. 2 - Plates Italian; Vol. 3 - Plates Other European Schools. A scholarly catalogue of the drawings in the Fogg Museum; includes works dating from the 14th to the 20th century.<br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
1960146584N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script are seven copies of a page of reviews for screenwriter William Sach's film "There is No 13" 1974 as well as a small typed list labeled "BILL SACHS / DISTRIBUTORS HE IS CALLING IN NY."<br/><br/>Convinced she is turning into a vampire due to her undiagnosed anemia a teenage girl runs away from home and enjoys a number of sensual hallucinatory experiences. Screenwriter William Sachs was known for his surrealist style as in "The Incredible Melting Man" 1977 and "Van Nuys Blvd." 1979.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter William Sachs. Title page present with credits for William Sachs. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly toned with a few splashes to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1940177767Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1940. Hardcover. Good. scuffs & marks to cloth covers; foxing to spine. light shelf-wear to cover edges. vol 2 & 3 have pronounced shelf-lean; textblock's firm. oatmeal cloth w/ green printing & gilt tiling. volume 1: 465 pgs w/ frontispiece & bw illustrations; volume 2: approx 200 unpaginated pgs w/ 183 bw plates; Volume 3: approx 400 unpaginated pgs w/ 404 bw plates. Volume pages appear clean but with instances of smudges and foxing. Pages may have instances of light edge-taning. A nice three volume set. Harvard University Press hardcover books
193726053New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1937. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a very good dust jacket relatively crisp with a handful of small chips at edges. <br/><br/> W.W. Norton & Company unknown books
1977148483Rutland Vermont / Tokyo Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc 1977. First edition. Hardcover. VG Ex-library with label and pocket and few marks otherwise clean; no dj. Dark green paper boards 176 pp. many BW and some color illus. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been assembling jades from China since 1916. This is an annotated and illustrated catalogue of 235 items. With an introduction by Na Chih-liang. Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc hardcover books
19701315070Charlottesville VA: The Michie Company Law Publishers 1970 1975. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no-DJ; light brown spines with gilt text to red and black spines; 5 volumes: vol. 1 pleading 1 to 413 pp 609; vol. 2 pleading 414 to 762 pp 512; vol. 3 practice 1 to 404A pp 799; vol. 4 practice 405 to 842 pp 774; vol. 5 forms table of rules table of cases and index pp 755; cloths have moderate wear to exteriors; cocked spines; text blocks show light soiling to exterior edges; light ink to pp 289 294 295 of vol. 3; previous law firm's library markings to ffep; interiors clean; supplements in pouchs to rear pastedowns; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1315070. FP New Rockville Stock. The Michie Company, Law Publishers hardcover books
1946248212Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1946. Second. hardcover. very good/very good-. Color frontispiece; 404 illlustrations 17 text illustrations. 2 volumes small folio black cloth d.w. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1946. Very good .<br/><br/> Vol. 1 - Text; Vol. 2 - Plates. A scholarly catalogue of the drawings in the Fogg Museum; includes works dating from the 14th to the 20th century.<br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
1930WRCLIT17308Riant Chateau Territet: Pool 1930. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps edgeworn with short tear at crown of spine else very good with errata slip. First edition of this essay by the early disciple of Sigmund Freud issued under the imprint maintained by his good friend and patient Bryher. Sachs was in part responsible for H.D.'s contact with Freud. Pool paperback books
1914D16818Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing Verlag 1914. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original orange cloth stamped in black. <br/><br/> Velhagen & Klasing Verlag hardcover books
1980228744Murrhardt: Musikwissemschaftliche 1980. First. hardcover. near fine. 405 pages tall 8co green cloth. Murrhardt: Musikwissenschaftliche 1980. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Musikwissemschaftliche unknown books
195732350Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1957. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; original yellow decorative cloth stamped in grey gilt-lettered spine; xvii1216pp. Spine a bit toned else Near Fine albeit lacking jacket. Inscribed and signed to artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn on front free endpaper: "For Bernarda and Ben with affection and admiration / J T S." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label mounted to front pastedown. Collection of art history essays. Ben Shahn makes an appearance in the text on p. 109 in an anecdote recounting his overhearing a conversation between Picasso and Derain at a cafe in Paris. University of Oklahoma Press unknown books
1946181660Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press 1946. 2nd edition. Hardcover. VG/G- dj has small tears and soiling on edges text bloxk has yellowing. Light foxing on beginning/end pages; pages and illustrations clean and tight. Ex-museum - blind stamo. Mylar covered illustrated dj;.black cloth with gilt lettering. 2 volumes illustrations; v. 1. Text -- v. 2. Plates. Harvard-Radcliffe fine arts series. Includes index. Vol. 2: Color frontispiece; 404 illlustrations 17 text illustrations. Harvard University Press hardcover books
191577114Berlin: Georg Reimer 1915. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. photos and illustrations in text folding map 191p. Original olive cloth. 20cm. Sound ex lib. perforated stamp on title-page. No Jacket. German text. Handbucher der Koniglichen Museen zu Berlin bd. 5. <br/><br/> Georg Reimer hardcover books
193744243NY: Norton 1937. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. xii 469. References index. Translated from the German by Bessie Schonberg. With 32 black-and-white plates. Light brown cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's name on title. Front edge of cover little scraped in one place o/w a VG tight copy. Norton unknown books
193147246St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company 1931. First edition 8vo pp. 396; 224 illustrations 10 in color from photographs and drawings depicting the brain tumors and removal surgery in graphic detail; additional translucent illustration tipped in overlaying the first color plate depicting the brain; original green cloth gilt titles on spine; ex-US Penitentiary Hospital Atlanta GA with their stamp on front pastedown and page edges; a good copy with front hinge cracked spine slightly cocked. <br/><br/> C.V. Mosby Company hardcover books
1999107713München Munich Germany: Prestel 1999. Hardbound. VG/VG. Blue cloth with gold lettering; blue illus. dj; 224 pp. with 405 illus. 182 in color;. text in German. Prestel hardcover books
