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197943115NY:: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0525362452 . Fifth printing thus. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . Dutton, 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
1984030831New York: Crown Publishers 1984. Translated by Ralph Manheim; pictures by Maurice Sendak. xvii 102p. colored illus. dj oblong quarto format. Crown Publishers unknown 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
1984117456Westminster MD U.S.A.: Random House Value Publishing 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition near fine in a very good dust jacket pictures by Maurice Sendak First edition stated on the copyright page and original price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Westminster, MD, U.S.A.: Random House Value Publishing hardcover books
1984298834New York: Crown 1984. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Sendak. Text by E.T.A. Hoffman. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Small square. 4to blue cloth d.w. New York: Crown 1984. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Sendak's designs for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Christmas 1983 production.<br/><br/> Crown 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
198792218NY:: Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0394553845 . Translated from the German by Andrea Clark Maddon. Stated first edition. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
199691468Mankato:: Creative Editions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0151002274 . Translated from the German. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Creative Editions, hardcover books
1984007467New York: Crown Publishers 1984. Publisher's promotional poster distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1984. Featuring a wonderful Sendak illustration. Near Fine 1/2" closed tear left margin could easily be covered by framing 20"w x 22 1/2" h. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20" x 22 1/2". Crown Publishers 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
1960150300N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless satin-finish black and white photograph of German-born American artist Hans Hoffman circa 1960s. With the stamp of photographer Vytas Valaitis on the verso along with a Newsweek stamp and the label of PIX agency. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Hoffmann was best known as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the early and mid-twentieth century and as an influential art teacher for a number of post-war avant-garde artists including Helen Frankenthaler Nell Blaine Lee Krasner Joan Mitchell and many others. <br/><br/>8 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
190517071607Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening 1905. Cardboard covers. Good . 15th edition quarto size 24 pp. all text in German. Heinrich Hoffmann 1809-1894 although a successful psychiatrist is remembered primarily for his children's stories - Struwwelpeter his first book being one of the most famous. <br/><br/>While the stories may strike us today as somewhat cruel or overly moral Herr Hoffmann's contemporaries saw the world differently than we and they enjoyed their humour; the stories were so popular they were regularly reprinted and translated into many different languages. This work Prinz Grunewald was his last children's book with delightful illustrations whose colours remain bright and vibrant. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Pictoral cardboard covers with a blue cloth spine 15th edition printed at the top of the front board bright red endpapers text block stapled to boards not sewn pictorial title page each page printed on the recto only and each page with both text and illustrations all text in old German Fraktur; quarto size approximately 10.25" tall 24 printed pages. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Almost very good overall with a solid binding the binding and pages toned with age but clean and the colour illustrations remarkably bright and fresh; the cloth spine is sunned with some wear to both the head and tail minor overall edgewear the title and final pages were stapled to both the boards and the text block which has resulted over time with very small tears at the staples and there is a child's name written on the rear pastedown. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. Rutten & Loening unknown books
1991162537New York City: Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art 1991. Softcover. VG- Covers have faded inconsistently; interior is squeaky-clean. Gray paper wraps 40 pp. 24 BW illus. The first publication of HOME a theatre and gallery in New York City. Presents work by 22 American artists. With essays by David B. Dearinger and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann. Scarce. Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art paperback books
1996174508Graz: Neue Galerie Graz 1996. Paperback. VG- light corner/edge wear to wraps and light scuffing. Hot pink and orange wraps with black lettering. 196 215 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW and color. Catalog of an exhibition held at Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Künstlerhaus Graz June 14-July 28 1996; a symposium was held June 14-15 1996. Text in English and German. Neue Galerie Graz paperback books
1929175409Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1929. Hardcover. VG--light shelf-wear to edges & light foxing to covers. front & back hinges crack; text block firmly attached; back cover fly-leaf detached. edge tanned fly-leafs & pastedowns. tan cloth boards w/ orange illustrations & black printing. 120 pgs w/ approx 160 pgs of b&w plates. green edges. In German. An interesting edition on Swiss life and folklore w/ copious black and white plates. Eugen Rentsch Verlag hardcover books
1977134118Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1977. Octavo 359 pp. cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #134118 The University of Chicago Press unknown books
1969161359Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press 1969. Octavo two volumes cloth. First edition of this collection. Volume one collects seven tales including "The Sandman" "The Golden Pot" perhaps Hoffmann's finest single piece of fiction and "The Mines of Falun" a subterranean fantasy of love and death. The whole of volume two consists of Hoffmann's novel THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF KATTER MURR . a subtle satire which tells of the doings of Murr the tomcat. KATER MURR one of Hoffmann's longer works was unfinished at the time of his death. The first volume was published in 1820 and the second in 1822. The projected third volume was never written. Hoffmann "rivals Poe whom he influenced in his importance as a creator of the modern supernatural tale." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 204-05. "The celebrated short tales and novels of . Hoffmann . are a byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form . they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible." - Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature p. 45. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1997 p. 472-73. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 831-835. A fine set in cloth slipcase without dust jackets as issued. #161359 The University of Chicago Press unknown 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
193517042801New York: Harper & Brothers 1935. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Kredel Fritz. Octavo size 32 pp. A classic German children's tale originally published in 1845 with corresponding politically-incorrect racial allusions comprised of ten illustrated and rhymed stories mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way N.B. from Wiki. Mark Twain lived in Berlin Germany with his family in 1891; funds were tight and so as a Christmas present to his three children Twain translated this classic tale. The original illustrations were adapted by Fritz Kredel the result being this charming although somewhat scary as with many of the old folk tales children's book.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Cream colored pictoral paper boards with vignette of main character on the front publisher's device on title page three-page introduction by Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens full colour illustrations on every page; octavo size approximately 9" tall unpaginated with 16 leaves hand-set Lutetia type by the Golden Hind Press New Jersey printed and bound by the Haddon Craftsmen for the publisher. Dust jacket mirrors the binding the front flap shows the original $1.50 price summary of the book on both flaps publisher's ad for other Mark Twain children's books on the back panel.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine the binding is clean the text block is strong and square it has solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; only condition issue we see is slight wear to head and tail of spine. The unclipped dust jacket is very good minus; it is entire but has overall soiling including a light circular old dampstain to the front panel minor overall edgewear with some larger chips out of the head and tail of the spine.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Johnson p. 109 for the first edition published by the Limited Editions Club in the same year 1935.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply; we are happy to ship at cost please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1972128781Frankfurt Germany: Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main 1972. Kleine Schriften des Historischen Museums Heft 6. Softcover. VG a bright crisp and clean copy. White wraps with color illustration 319 pp 176 sets of bw illustrations. Inventory of the collection of playing cards of the Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main. Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main unknown books
199552397Tucson:: University of Arizona Press. Fine. 1995. Paperback. 0816515778 . First paperback printing. Fine in illustrated wraps. . University of Arizona Press, paperback books
19671291876Sauk City: Arkham House 1967. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; G/VG; black spine with white text; jacket has protective mylar cover age toning rubbing flaps glued to pastedowns; boards are strong rubbing in corners and at spine head and tail; textblock has age toning ex library stamps on head and tail edges and on contents page front endpaper removed; pp 208; one of 2000 unnumbered copies.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in bookcase next to Ephemera section. 1291876. FP New Rockville Stock. Arkham House hardcover 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
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
