130 résultats
1879148140Munich: Theodore Stroefer 1879. hardcover. very good. Translated by William H. Furness. Illustrated with 32 large plates after paintings by Alexander Liezen Mayer and with ornamental borderings by Rudolf Seitz. Extra illustrated title page. 4to original green pebbled cloth with lavish gilt and blind-stamped decorated covers and spine. Munich: Theodore Stroefer 1879. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Some foxing on most of the plates but otherwise a very good copy in a beautiful crisp binding.<br/><br/> Theodore Stroefer unknown books
187948602Munich and New York: Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co 1879. Small folio pp. 55 1; 5 engraved plates; text illustrations throughout by Alexander Liezen Mayer many of them full page decorative borders by Rudolf Seitz; original red pebbled-grain cloth with red morocco spine elaborate gilt design on cover and spine back cover with blind-stamped border; a.e.g.; corners bumped extremities rubbed very light foxing; contemporary Greenleaf family gift inscriptions on flyleaf; very good and sound. <br/><br/> Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co hardcover books
194224011New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi2206pp. General wear to jacket extremities including tiny chips crease to upper panel red spine portion quite faded tape repair to jacket extremities verso not showing through to exterior else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Publisher's office copy with their rubberstamp to rear jacket panel. The sixth Dr. Kildare novel adapted into the 1940 film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1912P65711912. Sleep and dreams. A scientifically-grounded interpretation of dreams assembled by the famous medium Miss Hasse: over 1000 dreams. With an introductory article about sleep and dreams by the psycho-phrenologist H. M. Schiller-Shkol'nik. Warsaw: izdatel'stvo "Razsvet" 1912. Slim octavo 23 à 12.5 cm. Original embossed red cloth over boards; decorative endpapers; 58 1 4 36 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; spine cracked still about very good. First edition. The most popular dream interpretation handbook in pre-revolutionary Russia this text offers an alphabetized glossary of dream images and their possible meanings. Little is known about the author Miss Hasse a famous medium supposedly born in a Polish family in a town called Milava in 1854 then a part of the Russian empire. Miss Hasse performed before large audiences conducting séances and managed to amass a fortune riding the wave of popularity of esoterica in the late 19th century. In 1895 she opened a publishing house "MISS HASSE" which specialized in pseudoscientific texts on psycho-phrenology palmistry hypnosis and other esoteric subjects. The publishing house printed works by other popular mediums such as one H.M. Shiller-Shkol'nik. Excerpts from his two earlier books "A sure method for getting to know yourself and others" 1906 and "Hypnosis" 1911 are added to the end of the handbook. The appended text is illustrated with technical drawings. Several pages of testimonials apparently sent by individuals from all over the Russian empire from Kiev to Harbin close the publication suggesting the great reach of the mediums. The handbook was reprinted in 1990 by Moscau Redline press. This first edition is not in the Russian State Library. The Russian National Library's copy is marked lost. Not in KVK OCLC. hardcover books
18073588Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius 1807-8. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volume set. Two engraved frontispieces by W. Bohm after Schnorr. Early ownership signatures in each volume dated 1827. Contemporary boards spine labels. Nice set of an early edition of Schiller. <br/><br/> Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius hardcover books
1901136018Boston: Francis A. Niccolls and Company 1901. 480/1000 copies of Edition De Luxe. Hardbound. VG tiny white letters in base compartment of spine. Full Brown crushed Morocco leather with gilt borders and tooling and devices to the six compartments on the spine which has the title "Schillers Works" and "Thirty Years' War". Top edge gilt others untrimmed. 6 illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece. An absolutely beautiful book. Specially bound in this leather by Erbe Crombie & Lamothe for Wilkinson and Lancaster. Silk endpapers. Would make a wonderful gift with the luxurious texture of the leather spine and covers. Francis A. Niccolls and Company hardcover books
18066607Gotha: Becker 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 190 x 114mm. 71pp. Late-19th-century half calf and marbled paper over boards spine gilt lettered monogram: ìE.M.î at foot of spine marbled endpapers; title stained at upper margin light occasional spots; lightly rubbed. First Edition. Count von Bentzel-Sternau was a German statesman and writer. He became minister of state and finance in the grand duchy of Frankfurt 1812. He published many popular satirical romances. Very scarce work published a year after Schiller's death. <br/><br/> Gotha: Becker hardcover books
1922143525München: Georg Müller 1922. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2 3-530 531: blank 532-536: publisher ads original pictorial light blue paper-covered boards front cover printed in black blue and violet spine panel printed in black top edge stained blue. First edition. A presentation copy with a signed inscription on the front free endpaper by Ewers to Sam Franko a noted American violinist and composer. A reissue of Schiller's DER GEISTERSEHER THE GHOST SEER an unfinished epistolary novel published in book form in Germany in 1789 that adds Ewers' own conclusion to the story and his fourteen-page afterword presumably explaining of his method and motivations. At least two continuations or conclusions to Schiller's tale in English have been published but Ewers' conclusion appears to be the only one composed in German. It was not well received by critics. Bloch 2002 932. Apart from mild age-darkening to the spine panel a fine copy. #143525 Georg Müller unknown books
194323987New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in yellow-green pictorial dust jacket; 6216pp. General wear to jacket extremities including closed tears and chipping some light dust-soil spine a bit cocked else Near Very Good and sound. The last of the Dr. Kildare books comprised of two novellas. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
183762633London: Black and Armstrong 1837. 43 outline engravings by Retzsch. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. 1/4 calf. Rubbed and worn front cover detached. 43 outline engravings by Retzsch. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Black and Armstrong unknown books
1801179123Tübingen: der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung 1801. Hardcover. VG- overall wear to boards corners bumped leather worn age toning and light foxing to pages as expected with age but otherwise pages are clear. Three-quarters red leather boards five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering colorful marbled end papers 3 preliminary leaves 5-237 1 pages. Text in German. Colophon: Weimar gedruckt bei den Gebrüdern Gädicke. der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung hardcover books
1918276560Offenbach: Klingspor Press 1918. In black paper-covered boards with vellum spine extremities and corners; titling in gilt on the front cover and the spine. With the splendid type of Karl Klingspor. Faint stain to the front board. Klingspor Press unknown books
1838200105Providence. : B. Cranston & Co. 1838. hardcover original bindstamped brown cloth gilt spine title. . Dampstain affecting the upper part of all pages otherwise a very good copy. . Small 8vo. B. Cranston & Co. hardcover books
1980126190Neu-Isenburg Germany: Edition Tiessen 1980. paper-covered boards paper spine label slipcase. Tiessen. 4to. paper-covered boards paper spine label slipcase. 41 3 pages. Text in German. Limited to 25 copies numbered with Roman numerals. With an original etching by Ranier Zimnik. Prospectus laid in. Slipcase torn at fore-edge and lightly soiled. Edition Tiessen unknown books
1822D7077Stuttgart und Tubingen: J. G. Cotta-schen 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Green paper over boards gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label; 10 volumes. Boards a bit rubbed; spines lightly scuffed. Text blocks a little foxed but overall nice and clean. Sold as is. <br/><br/> J. G. Cotta-schen hardcover books
182042714n. p. 1820. White laid paper black printing.German-language text. Light creasing to top edge; minor foxing; small loss to heading minimally affecting one letter; light center fold line. VG. Broadside printed recto only. 14-1/4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>Playbill for a performance on Thursday September 28 1820 at an unnamed playhouse possibly the Frankfurt City Theatre. The star-crossed lovers were played by Herr Becker and Demoiselle Lindner both of whom appear in that theatre's records for other plays. The playbill lists box office times and locations cost differences for the various areas of seating the starting time of 6 o'clock in the evening etc. Interestingly a performance of "Der Corsar" "The Corsair" an opera in two acts is advertised for the following morning which we speculate was based on Byron's wildly popular work of the same name. This opera predates both Francesco Maria Piave's libretto and Verdi's opera of the same name. "Intrigue and Love" was first performed on 13 April 1784 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in Frankfurt to wide acclaim and continues to be performed today. (n. p.) unknown books
194021931New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original orange cloth lettered in black orange topstain; 6227pp. A hint of shelf-wear else a Fine copy lacking the scarce dust jacket topstain still brilliant. Features the popular fictional character Dr. Kildare who would inspire a number of television series and films. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
18632297530Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1863. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Professionally rebound in half leather by McNamee Binder Cambridge. Spine toned top corner lightly discolored edges rubbed ink name on front free endpaper verso. 1863 Half-Leather. 582 6 pp. 8vo. Green leather spine and corners marbled boards and endpapers gilt titles and rules top edge gilt. Frances Anne Kemble's 'Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839' has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the 'peculiar institution' and of life in the antebellum South. Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian Pierce Butler part of whose fortune derived from his family's vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters and not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from Pierce Butler and living in England were they published. Kemble followed the success of these letters with the publication of a volume of plays translated from the German of Friedrich Schiller and the French of Alexandre Dumas. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover books
1959WRCLIT60124Mindelheim Bayern: Melchior W. Mittl 1959. Large octavo. Paper wrapper over stiff wrappers printed label. Decorations by Erwin Holzbaue. Outer wrapper a bit sunned at extreme edges otherwise near fine. First printing in this format produced by Mittle for the Hahnemühle Paper Company. Signed by the printer on the colophon. Laid in is a full-page a.l.s. from Mittl on his letterhead 29 January 1960 responding to the gift of some Bruce Rogers bookplates sending this item in return commenting on it and on other projects etc. Melchior W. Mittl unknown books
048143Essen: Phaidon Verlag. Neuauflage der Säkularausgabe. 6 vols. complete dj. Contents: Bd. 1 Gedichte. Bd. 2 Die Räuber; Fiesko; Kabale und Liebe; Don Carlo; Wallenstein. Bd. 3 Die Piccolomini; Wallensteins Tod; Maria Stuart; Die Jungfrau von Orelans; Die Braut von Messina; Wilhelm Tell. Bd. 4 Dramen; dramatischer NachlaÃ; Ãbersetzungen. Bd. 5 Philosophische Schriften. Bd. 6 Historische Schriften. Phaidon Verlag unknown books
1955263692Crompond New York: Mohegan Colony Civic Association 1955. Three 8.5x11 inch sheets printed one side only stapled together at upper left fold-creased a few small stains on rear sheet else very good condition with a few handwritten corrections. Signed by Schiller. Letter to members of the Colony on the upcoming Colony elections inviting them to consider running and to join the Civic Association if they are not yet members. The Civic Association was formed after the Peekskill riots to "end the exploitation of the Colony for the benefit of the Communist Party" which had previously had a majority on the Colony's Board of Trustees. Mohegan Colony Civic Association unknown books
19841330719Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing House 1984. Hardcover. Large Octavo; pp 447; VG-/VG-; black spine with white and gilt text; dust jacket shows modest wear to exterior; minor edge wear; cloth shows mild wear to exterior; slightly cocked spine; text block has light toning to exterior edges; illustrated; text in Hebrew. 1330719. FP New Rockville Stock. Ariel Publishing House hardcover books
192021457ENew York: Chelsea House 1920. First Edition. From the library of author William F. Nolan with his signed bookplate on which is printed “The Works of Frederick Faust Bill Nolan†above Nolan’s signature “William F. Nolanâ€. Written in pencil on the front free endpaper above the bookplate in Nolan’s hand is “Faust’s first serial for Western Story Mag.†David Manning is one of the pseudonyms of Frederick Schiller Faust 1892 - 1944 best known for his westerns written under another pseudonym Max Brand. A lightly handled copy with some rubbing and light wear to the cloth the lower right corner of the front board slightly bumped and with some slight spotting to the fore-edge. in a lightly dust soiled and spotted dust jacket with some small chips and tears. Chelsea House hardcover books
1971152316Greenwich Connecticut: New York Graphic Society 1971. First US Edition. Hardcover. NF but for darkening to lower corner from turning pages; DJ is tattered at edges with a small piece missing at head of spine yet still protective and secure. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spine. White dj with bw illustrations and violet lettering. 473 pp. with 585 bw illustrations. Translated from German to English by Janet Seligman. Volume I in the series by the New York Graphic Society. Very comprehensive. New York Graphic Society hardcover books
041450Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes. 1883-1887. 2 vols. in 3 viii 980; viii 492p. half-cloth with marbled boards marbled edge Handbücher der alten Geschichte. III. Serie: Römische Geschichte. 2. Abetilung 1-2. Friedrich Andreas Perthes unknown books