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197551922Chapel Hill North Carolina: Carcosa 1975. Large octavo cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Price on the dedication page to the del Reys: "For / Judy-Lynn & Lester del Rey / My best wishes -- / & / A happy day -- this meeting has been long overdue / E. Hoffmann Price / Nov. 3 1981." Omnibus collection of thirty-one fantasy and adventure stories by one of the best writers associated with the WEIRD TALES circle. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1345. See Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A nice association copy. #51922 Carcosa unknown books
1967158505Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. A presentation copy with full-page inscription by Price to David G. Hartwell on the half title page. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with rubbing to the black background ink along the front spine and fore-edge folds and 8 mm closed tear at bottom edge of the front panel. #158505 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1967162705Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. Signed inscription by Price on the half title page. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to the black background ink at spine ends and corner tips. A sharp copy. #162705 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1942008466The Author 1942. A young boy's scrapbook of the 1942 baseball season containing pages of meticulous handwritten box scores letters observationsstatistics etc along with newspaper clippings and the Oct. 8 1942 Sporting News newspaper. A unique album the work of a statitics-obsessed and rabid Brooklyn Dodgers young fan. . Binder. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Author Paperback books
19844191New York: Crown 1984. Square 4to navy cloth lettered in silver on cover and spine; matching cloth slipcase. As new. One of 250 signed copies with a signed and numbered lithograph by Maurice Sendak. Color pictorial endpapers and color double page and vignette illustrations throughout. The book was inspired by the performance of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company of the classic ballet set to the music of Tchaikovsky with costumes and sets by Sendak. The print "Faithful Nutcracker" is an original hand-drawn lithograph printed from an aluminum plate on chine appliqué paper. Signed and numbered by Maurice Sendak and with the workshop chopmark in the margin. An illustration can be found on my website by clicking on Catalogue 31 item 71. By Artist. Cloth. Fine. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. Square 4to. Crown Hardcover books
1923212101Berlin: Chryfelius 1923. Limited. hardcover. very good. 23 hand colored original lithographs each signed in pencil by the artist Walter Wellenstein. 44 pages of text printed in gothic script tall slim 4to 3/4 vellum backed boards spine slightly soiled. Berlin: Chryfelius & Schulz 1923. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> One of 200 numbered copies signed by the artist.<br/><br/> Chryfelius unknown books
1942BB079<p>Charitable Badges / Children's Ornaments - Struwwelpeter</p><p>Original WINTERHILFSWERK handicraft based on the children's book "STRUWWELPETER" still in its original cardboard box. Group of 12 hand-painted terra cotta bust badges H. 1" to 1-3/8"; with safety pinned backs and issued for Christmas holidays of 1942 as gift tokens from Winterhilfswerk.</p><p>These are based on characters from the Heinrich Hoffmann children's tales: Struwwelpeter Katze Kaspar Mohr Nikolas etc all of them are still attached to the original cardboard backing strip 18 x 1-1/2 inches and contained within its original pictorial box 5-7/8 x 1-5/8 x 1-5/8 inches - top side cover panel defective; a couple of the figures with some minor paint chipping.</p><p>These were given as tokens to acknowledge those who donated to the German charitable organization WHW Winterhilfswerk Winter-help-work which was an annual charitable event held by the "NS -Volkswohlfahrt" National Socialist - Peoples'-welfare-organization in which members from all of the organizations would solicit donations from the public and reward contributors with a variety of lapel badges or propaganda booklets.</p> Winterhilfswerk books
1928251304Paris: Trianon 1928. Limited. paperback. fine. Published under the direction of Vladimir Pozner. 20 aquarelles. 6 volumes small 8vo stiff printed wrappers untrimmed. Paris: Ãditions Trianon 1928. Fine.<br/><br/> One of 475 numbered copies. Le Bonheur au Jeu. 4 aquarelles by Emilien Dufour; Don Juan. 2 aquarelles by Ladislas MEDGYES. Le Voeu. 2 aquarelles by CZEREFKOW. Adventures de la Nuit de Saint-Sylvestre.4 aquarelles by Edward GOERG. Le Majorat.4 aquarelles by AF COSYNS. L'Homme au Sable Man in the sand. 4 aquarelles by Constant LE BRETON.<br/><br/> Trianon unknown books
19338275Berlin: German Ministry of Propaganda 1933-1940. First Edition presumed. Original Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine. Some show light shelf/edge wear one with a soft crease at the front one a small closed tear at spine most still have original display string else tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial printed wraps. Each 2" x 1 3/4". 36pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>German text. Richly illustrated. Hoffmann was Hitler's personal photographer having visited & photographed Hitler while Hitler in Landsberg prison and remaining an important photographer for the Reich. Part of a series of 26 Hitler propoganda books issued by the German Third Reich from 1933 to 1940 with an additional 16 titles about Germany more broadly. Rather uncommon and quite scarce in clusters.a very nice start to a collection. German Ministry of Propaganda paperback books
1907136454Leipzig: Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born 1907. Octavo pp. iii-vii viii-xi xii-xiv 1 2-233 234: printer's imprint 235: blank 236: ad complete despite gap in pagination; preliminary gathering 6 leaves appears to be tipped in original tan wrappers printed in black all edges untrimmed. First edition. An important German utopian novel set in the future in which the Social Democrats have established a world state headquartered in Germany which has achieved significant technical progress longevity spaceships robots etc. Kretzmann The Pre-War German Utopian Novel 1890-1914 Ph.D. diss. Brown University May 1936 p. 212. Lexikon 1 p. 128. Bloch 2002 1505. Not in Nagl. Wrappers worn at edges spotting and dust soiling to same a sound good copy with clean nearly fine interior. #136454 Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born unknown books
1928152283Dresden und Leipzig: Verlag von Moewig & Höffner 1928. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-190 191-192: ads original yellow wrappers printed in red and black. First edition. A future history in the mode of Olaf Stapledon in which mankind ultimately achieves a paradisal state of being by the year 10000. Hoffmann also wrote SILVESTER 2999 1907 an important German utopian work. Lexikon 2 p. 148. Not in Bloch 2002; 2010 or Nagl. Wrappers lightly worn and dust soiled a very good copy. KVK reports 4 copies. OCLC adds 1 copy National Library of Israel. And Duke now has a copy. Rare. #152283 Verlag von Moewig & Höffner unknown books
1965WRCLIT58844Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Ars Librorum Gotthard de Beauclair 1965. Folio 41 x 25 cm. Pictorial boards. Illustrated with eight original full-page multicolor woodcuts. Fine in modestly worn and lightly soiled slipcase. First edition in this format illustrated with color woodcuts by Felix Hoffmann. From a total edition of five hundred copies this is one of seventy-five copies numbered in Roman signed by the artist accompanied by a separate suite of the eight woodcuts each of them signed and numbered by the artist in the lower margin. Verlag Ars Librorum Gotthard de Beauclair hardcover books
1984140941240New York: Crown Publishers Inc 1984. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine. Signed limited first Sendak edition. Copy 97 of a limited 250 signed by Sendak on the limitation page with a signed and limited lithograph laid in. Bound in publisher's grey cloth-covered boards with front cover decorated in blind and titled in silver silver titles on spine; in original slipcase. Cloth lightly sunned else Fine. E.T.A. Hoffmann's early 19th-century tale illustrated here for the first time by Maurice Sendak. Crown Publishers, Inc unknown books
1984294705London: Bodley Head 1984. Limited. hardcover. fine. Sendak. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Colored pictorial end-papers & pictures throughout by Maurice Sendak. Square 4to blue-gray cloth lettered in silver in matching cloth slipcase slightly sunned. Limited First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Sendak's designs for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Christmas 1983 production. One of 250 copies signed with an original hand-drawn lithograph separately inserted signed by Sendak. Fine.<br/><br/> Bodley Head unknown books
19114044Vienna: Concordia Druck Bruder Rosenbaum 1911. Vienna: "Concordia" druck Brüder Rosenbaum 1911. Narrow 12mo illustrated booklet in pictorial paper wrappers bound with ribbon into a beautiful full pictorial red morocco case with metallic ribbons. Decorated endpapers. Slight rubbing. Lettered on back cover "Concordia Ball 1911". The morocco binding was designed by Josef Hoffmann architect and designer. Along with Koloman Moser he founded the Wiener Werkstatte in 1903 inspired by C. R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft. The book taken from Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools is illustrated by various artists.PLEASE NOTE: THE PICTURE THAT ABE HAS PUT WITH MY LISTING WAS NOT SUPPLIED BY ME AND IS NOT THE CORRECT PICTURE. Pictorial Wrappers Morocco . Fine. Illus. by Josef Hoffmann. Narrow 12mo. Concordia Druck Bruder Rosenbaum unknown books
1937187971937. Mixed media on paper. Exquisite drawing of a 1930s concept car.<br/> <br/>The old established Willoughby firm of Utica New York had a reputation for conservative quality coachwork in 1930 when Viennese born Hoffmann was hired as draghtsman/designer. He quickly moved the company's design philosophy to the forefront of the streamline school translating traditional luxury car body types such as this touring car into the modern idiom. Willoughby designed bodies for all the major luxury car firms. We have attributed this drawing to Hoffman on the basis of a very similar drawing of the period that was acquired in 1985 from Hoffmann's widow clearly done by the same hand and exhibiting the same exquisite touch and sense of proportion. unknown books
193718773Utica 1937. Tempera on paper. Exquisite drawing of a quintessential 1930s roadster.<br/> <br/>The old established Willoughby firm coach body makers in Utica New York had a reputation for conservative quality coachwork in 1930 when Viennese born Otto Hoffmann was hired as draughtsman/designer. He quickly moved the company's design philosophy to the forefront of the streamline school translating traditional luxury car body types such as this touring car into the modern idiom. Willoughby designed bodies for many major luxury car manufacturers including Lincoln and Rolls Royce. Provenance: Acquired from Hoffmann's widow January 1985. unknown books
