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1964140939361New York: Oxford University Press 1964. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Signed by Leo Marx on front free endpaper. x 392 pp. Original green cloth with green spine lettering. Former owner's gift inscription underneath that in pencil else Fine in Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine panel small tear with creasing along bottom of front panel edge wear. An important examination of technology and nature in American literature which is key work in American Studies. The author's first book scarce signed. Oxford University Press unknown books
195920195ENew York: Bernard Geis 1959. Second printing. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author with a funny sexy inscription: “Caroline in the morning but better Caroline at night. Best Groucho.†Illustrated. Used copy with thin splitting to the front hinge and some soiling and wear to the boards used and worn dust jacket with some a 4†piece to the bottom of the spine a 1/2†piece to the top of the spine. and various other chips and tears. The autobiography of the one and only Julius Henry “Groucho†Marx the most prominent member of the popular comedy team The Marx Brothers stars of stage radio screen and television. Bernard Geis hardcover books
1876858331876. Marx Dr. K. F. H. AUSSPRUCHE EINES HEILKUNDIGEN UBER VERGANGENES GEGENWARTIGES UND KUNFTIGES. Gottingen: Dieterich'schen Verlags - Buchhandlung 1876. iv 143 pp. 8vo. quarter brown cloth unmarked with brown marbled paper covered boards. Presentation copy inscribed by Marx on front flyleaf no date. Boards and cloth worn. Pencil margin marks in a good portaion of the text. See Garrison Morton 2531 for another title by this author ORIGINES CONTAGII 1824. Scarce. unknown books
55Monte Carlo. A. Sauret. 1952. 183 pp. 98 pls. One of a ltd. ed. of 2500. Fine copy in slipcase. unknown books
190031504Reading PA: Communist Co-operative Association. c 1900. First Printing. Ephemera. Wooden Karl Marx Cigar Box c. 1944 with a full color cameo portrait of Karl Marx with Economist at the foot of the cameo. At the upper left corner is 6¢ imposed on a shield. A green wreath surrounds the sides and bottom of the portrait and to the wreath are appended a rolled manuscript and book on each side of the portrait. The decorations of the entire panel are embossed in gilt. Beneath the portrait in large type is Strictly Hand Made.The entire label extends below the box lid into the inner rear panel of the box itself. Here are printed Karl Marx Economist beneath which is The Commonwealth Co-Operative Assn Reading PA. ¶¶ A thin ribbon with Karl Marx repeating covers every edge of the cigar box and each end carries Karl Marx in large type. The top of the box is stamped Karl Marx in black as is the front of the box. A tax stamp is visible at the lower left edge of the top and left edge of the front panel. It is this stamp that suggests the date of 1944 but the fact that the Cigarworkers International Local 236 absorbed the Communist Co-operative Association in 1905 suggests a date prior to 1905 rather than the 1944 suggested by the tax stamp.Historical Note: The Communist Co-operative Association was a Socialist collective and their Karl Marx 5¢ cigars were made on the second floor of the Labor Lyceum Hall in ReadingPA. In 1905 they were absorbed by the Cigarworkers International Local 236 also in Reading PA . A good example but with darkened wood at top and miscellaneous stains on the outside of the lid and the front panel. ; 8¼ x 5 5/8 x2 3/8" . Communist Co-operative Association unknown books
1958WRCLIT70956Hollywood: Henry Jaffee Enterprises 1958. 156 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on recto only. Bradbound in stencil-printed wrappers. Soft crease to upper fore-corner of last few leaves and rear wrapper otherwise near fine. An unspecified draft of this unproduced collaborative television production. Dwan was one of the principal writers for the television version of YOU BET YOUR LIFE from 1950 through 1961 and Kanter was a seasoned veteran of screen writing and television writing direction and production - he shared the 1955 Emmy for Best Comedy Writing for the GEORGE GOBEL SHOW. Scarce - no copies are reported in OCLC/Worldcat. Henry Jaffee Enterprises unknown books
189668008First Edition in Book Form MARX Karl. ENGELS Friedrich. Revolution and Counter-Revolution. Or Germany in 1848 London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd. 1896. First edition in book form. This book is collected from a series letters and articles written for the New York Tribune during the years . Octavo 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 125 mm. xi 1 contents 148 4 publisher's advertisements pp. Complete with half-title. We could find no other copy at auction since 1977. Publisher's original red cloth. Front board ruled letterd and stamped with publisher's mark in black. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Top edge uncut. Boards with some discoloration and staining. Spine a bit sunned. Binding slightly skewed. Overall a very good copy. This first German edition which seems to be generally more attainable was translated from this present English edition and published the same year. "Marx was asked in the summer of 1851 by Charles Anderson Dana managing editor of the New York Tribune to write a series of articles on the German Revolution. Founded in 1842 by Horace Greeley the Tribune was the most influential paper in the United States at the time. These articles were written by Engels at the request of Marx who was then busy with his economic studies and felt besides that he had not yet attained fluency in English. Engels wrote the articles in Manchester where he was employed and sent them on to Marx in London to be edited and dispatched to New York. Thus although Engels must be rightly considered their author Marx took a big part in the preparation for in their almost daily correspondence the chief points were discussed thoroughly between them. The articles appeared under Marx's name and it was not until much later when the correspondence between the two life-long collaborators became available that the true circumstances were revealed. The contributions to the Tribune thus begun continued until 1862 and though Marx himself wrote most of the articles after 1852 Engels continued to help his friend by writing for him important articles on political and military affairs. When Marx's daughter Eleanor wrote the preface to the 1896 edition she was still under the impression that Marx had written the series." Publisher's Note to the 1969 edition published in London by Lawrence & Wishart HBS 68008. $1250 Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
4089On a business trip to NYC Groucho writes a rich family letter about possible work in musicals radio and movies. To his family "Svenskie Arthur Miriam and Ma" on Sunday afternoon. Probably written between 1931 and 1932 this letter to his family in Los Angeles talks about his work and mentions many people he knew in those days but also expresses his loneliness missing his family and his home. He addresses the letter to "Svensk Arthur Miriam and Ma." It seems plausible to assume that Svensk is a nickname he called his wife Ruth Johnson as she was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant. They were married in 1920 their son Arthur was born in 1921 and their daughter Miriam was born in 1927. Groucho's mother Minnie died in September of 1929 so it seems likely that his reference to "Ma" would be his mother-in-law. Â The Marx family moved to Los Angeles in 1931. According to "Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales." edited by Robert S. Bader Groucho first met Arthur Sheekman in Chicago during the run of "Animal Crackers." Sheekman was a columnist for the Chicago Times. Before working on "Duck Soup" Sheekman moved to New York in 1932 to work on Groucho and Chico's radio show "Flywheel Shyster & Flywheel." Groucho begins by describing New York being nostalgic for California and wishing his family was with him. "This is Sunday afternoon a particularly gloomy Sunday too." He mentions walking in Central Park saying "how I miss the green grass and the trees. thing that would drive me crazy about living in the city. Nothing to look at but stone and asphalt and nothing to smell but carbon monoxide" Â He tells his family news of his work and social life. "Am still working on the radio script and although I don't think it's too good we will probably audition it. if we get it too smart the sponsors nor the public understand it if it isn't smart enough we don't like it so there you are." He seems to be referring to the radio show he was trying to create with Chico which eventually became "Flywheel Shyster & Flywheel" for Standard Oil's "Five Star Theatre" on the air from 1932-33. Â "Had dinner last night with Hecht" he says referring to Ben Hecht the screenwriter who was a friend and writing partner of Charles MacArthur who Groucho also mentions. Further discussing Hecht "We are trying to get him to do an outline for either a play or a movie. we have definitely abandoned the first Sherwood and Hart idea." here referring to the collaborators of musicals Robert E. Sherwood and Moss Hart whose "Miss Liberty" came out in 1949. Â Further to colleagues and friends "I am going with Sheekman and Perrin and the Goodmans and the Bennys to Lea Sachs for dinner. Last Friday I was out with Ross Harold. Luchow's. food was fair but the beer was superb." Arthur Sheekman as mentioned above and Nat Perrin were writers who wrote "Duck Soup" 1933 for the Marx Brothers. Groucho became a close friend of Sheekman's and in 1967 edited "The Groucho Letters." See "Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers" by Simon Louvish pages 129-130. He also refers to Harold Ross editor of "The New Yorker." Â Groucho spends much of the letter talking about missing his family and wanting them to arrange to come to New York as soon as they can. He says he wants them to come when he gets "something definite." His emotion for his family shows throughout "I hope my little sweetheart has completely recovered from her fall. I look at the pictures every day and getting increasingly lonesome." He refers to the troubles Chico and his wife Betty were having by stating that "Betty is returning to California next Sunday.". The letter is signed with great love and devotion not at all close to how he might feel one day when in 1942 he and Ruth are divorced. "Kiss yourself and Arthur and Miriam for me and love to you all from your ever lovin man Groucho" then signed in pencil "Groucho." He writes in pencil "Did you cut down the vines" and signs again "Love - Groucho." Two holograph corrections in the body of the letter in pencil. unknown books
1930D4354Paris: Au Sans Pareil 1930. Limited Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. Wraps; glassine jacket; with 7 illustrated plates by Pierre Bonnard plus an additional suite see below. Number 44 from a limited edition of 30 copies on Hollande Van Gelder with an additional suite of 7 plates. Total limitation with variations and 30 HC 310 copies. Spine tips lightly chipped; corners gently rubbed; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket chipped along spine; rubbed on rear panel. <br/><br/> Au Sans Pareil paperback books
193017040EParis: Au Sans Pareil 1930. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Claude Roger-Marx to French-American actor Charles Boyer. Inscribed in French: “A Charles Boyer qui sait qu’il n’est de vraie grandeur que dans la simplicite. A Charles Boyer sans lequel Simili n’ont pas ete Simili. Avec l’amitie affectueuse et l’admiration de Claude R.M.†The translation: “To Charles Boyer who knows that true greatness lies only in simplicity. To Charles Boyer without whom Simili has not been Simili. With fond friendship and admiration Claude R.M.†From a total edition of 280 numbered copies this is one of 225 printed on fine Lafuma wove paper. Paperbound in original printed wrappers entirely uncut and unopened. Quarto 6 3/4†x 8 1/2â€. Illustrated with seven original drypoints by Pierre Bonnard. Very good plus to near fine copy enclosed in a custom clamshell box. Charles Boyer starred in the original 1924 Paris premiere of the play and obviously formed a close bond with the author Claude Roger-Marx. Boyer earned a degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne before turning to a career as an actor. His first big Hollywood break was a very small part of a chauffeur to Jean Harlow in Red-Headed Woman 1932 and he went on to appear in a French adaptation of Liliom directed by the great Fritz Lang. This lead to other memorable roles in such classic films as Private Worlds Shanghai The Garden of Allah All This and Heaven Too Gaslight Algiers Fanny Cluny Brown Arch of Triumph The First Legion Conquest Around the World in Eighty Days Barefoot in the Park etc. He was nominated for four Best Actor Oscars for his work in Conquest 1937Algiers 1938 Gaslight 1944 Fanny 1961 and in 1943 he received an Honorary Oscar Certificate for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference. In 1950 he appeared on Broadway in one of his most notable roles that of Don Juan in a dramatic reading of the third act of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman popularly known as ‘Don Juan in Hell’ and in 1952 he won a Special Tony Award for that performance. He also enjoyed success on the small screen appearing in Four Star Playhouse 1952-1956 on the rather short-lived but critically acclaimed series The Rogues with David Niven and Gig Young and in a favorite episode of I Love Lucy entitled ‘Lucy Meets Charles Boyer.’ Au Sans Pareil unknown books
1945147118Los Angeles: Loma Vista Vilma 1945. Final Draft script for the 1946 film. <br/><br/>An escaped Nazi war criminal in hiding seeks to reclaim the stolen valuables he has stashed in a Casablanca hotel and has steadily murdered the hotel's managers to maintain control of the property. The newest manager however is Groucho Marx as Ronald Kornblow a blissfully unaware womanizer who continually escapes the Nazi's grasp with the help of his self-appointed bodyguards Harpo and Chico Marx. The fourteenth Marx Brothers film and the seventh Marx Brothers film after the departure of Zeppo Marx.<br/><br/>Set in Casablanca Morocco. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 93 dated July 23 1945. Title page present dated July 23 1945 noted as FINAL. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Mimeographed rectos only with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/15/45 and 10-24-45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Loma Vista Vilma unknown books
196130254New York: Bernard Geis 1961. First edition. Cloth backed boards covers worn and faded; internally very good. Inscribed by Harpo Marx to Leonore and Ira Gershwin. <br/><br/> Bernard Geis hardcover books
1946143611Los Angeles: Beacon Productions 1946. Final Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy likely belonging to an uncredited costume designer with annotations in holograph pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Groucho Marx's first solo film appearance and his first with a real mustache as opposed to one made with grease paint. Marx plays an incompetent theatrical agent whose only client is Carmen Miranda in her first film after leaving Twentieth Century-Fox and who he tries to pass off as two different performers. <br/> <br/>Set in New York City and shot there on location. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated October 28 1946. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Mimeograph on pink stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good bound with two silver brads. Beacon Productions unknown books
1883104806Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner 1883-1885. Rare early printing of one of the most influential books ever published. Octavo original cloth over pebbled leather boards all edges speckled red. In very good condition with ownership stamps tape gutter repairs rebacked. One of the most important works of modern times as well as one of the most influential "Kapital" is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England where this work was largely written Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and generate fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. "Capital" rapidly acquired readership among the leaders of social democratic parties particularly in Russia and Germany and ultimately throughout the world to become a work described by Marx's friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the Working Class'. Verlag von Otto Meissner hardcover books
16913Marx Karl. Capital Volume III and III. All 3 volumes by Karl Marx Edited By Frederick Engels. Translated from The First German Edition by Ernest Untermann. Published by Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company. 1909-1910. Hardcover blindstamp rule borders to covers spines ruled and lettered gilt. Capital Vol I: The Process of Capitalist Production. Vol. II: A Critique of Political Economy 618 pp - Vol. III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole 1048 pp. with index . Untermann was the first American translator of Marx and the first translator into English of Volumes II and III. Volume I is dated 1910 first published by Kerr in 1906 volume II 1909 and volume III 1910. His edition is based on the definitive Engels edition of the complete work A clean tight copy slight foxing to text pages. Former owner name on one volume. Vol. II frontpiece spine gutter cracked but pages still intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. Structurally sound. Rubbing to edges and some marks to covers. A very good set. First complete English translation of Marx's Das Kapital Overall Very Good condition. Only Capital Volume I was published in Marx's lifetime 1867 but Marx died in 1883 before completing the manuscripts for Capital Volume II and Capital Volume III. His friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels edited and published Vol. II and Vol. III as the work of Marx. Ref: Printing and the Mind of Man 359. unknown books
189139678New York: The Humboldt Publishing Co 1891. 8vo. 9 x 5 5/8 inches. xviii 506pp. Publisher's red cloth with rules and Humboldt Library emblem stamped in black to front board and in blind to rear board gilt lettering and black rules stamped to spine plain endpapers.<br/> <br/>Early and rare issue of the first English-language edition printed in the United States of "Das Kapital" an apparent bind-up of Humboldt's original four-part issue in wraps.<br/> <br/>One of the most important and influential works of modern times Marx's "Capital" is an incisive critique of private property capitalism and the social relations it creates. The Humboldt Publishing Company a small left-wing publisher first published this work in four parts as part of the "Humboldt Library of Science" publication between September and October 1890. The following year they bound the four installments together and released a single volume the present work without the permission of Marx's family Friedrich Engels or the European publishers. This copy is bound without advertisements which accompanied the original parts. The text comprises Moore and Aveling's translation of the first volume of Das Kapital Marx's prefaces to the first and second editions and Engels' preface to the first English edition.<br/> <br/>Cf. PMM 359 first edition; Jason D. Martinek Socialism and Print Culture in America 1897-1920 London: Pickering & Chatto 2012. The Humboldt Publishing Co unknown books
187247305Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie 1872-1875. First French Edition. Large octavo 28.5cm.; original parts bound in early 20th century blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; 351pp.; pictorial half title and title pages full-paged steel-engraved portrait and facsimile additional vignettes throughout; text printed in double column. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped foxing and toning to preliminaries as well as minor dampstaining to last few leaves of text light foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good and sound. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital" the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. 7: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction de 'Das Kapital' en livraisons périodiques. Sous cette forme l'ouvrage sera plus accessible à la classe ouvrière et pour moi cette considération l'emporte sur toute autre" "I congratulate you on your idea to publish the translation of 'Das Kapital' as a periodical. In this format the work should be more accessible to the working class and to me this is more important than all else" our translation. Maurice Lachatre 1814-1900 was a Parisian radical bookseller publisher and collaborator of Félix Pyat's with whom Marx butted heads over the growth of the International Working Men's Association in France. Lachatre's projected publication of the anarchist newspaper "La Commune" nearly cost him his life after the fall of the Paris Commune when his bookshop was attacked with murderous intent by the Versaillaise army see "The Publisher's Weekly" Vol. 19 1881 pp. 50-1. It was while exiled first in Belgium and then Switzerland that Lachatre began work on publishing the present edition though he was not free to return to Paris until 1879. Maurice Lachatre et Cie unknown books
1889109230New York: Humboldt Publishing Co 1889. Rare first American edition of Karl Marx's seminal work in both economic and political thought first published in German in 1867. Octavo original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and triple ruling in blind to the front and rear panels rebacked. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels. In very good condition rebacked. Two editions were published in America in 1889 the other by Appleton with the priority undecided. Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik des Politischen Oekonomie 1859. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century's economic studies". The 'Athenaeum' reviewer of the first English translation 1887 later wrote: 'Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital Karl Marx's work is principally a polemic against capitalists and the capitalist mode of production and it is this polemical tone which is its chief charm.' The historical-polemical passages with their formidable documentation from British official sources have remained memorable; and as Marx". wrote to Engels while the volume was still in the press 'I hope the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles all the rest of their lives.' Carbuncles financial embarrassment and political preoccupations of many kinds hampered Marx's work on Das Kapital which he would never have completed but for the material and moral support of Engels"." PMM 359. "In his funeral eulogy for Karl Marx Engels concluded that 'Marx was above all a revolutionary". It is doubtful that any figure in history has inspired more violently contradictory opinions than Karl Marx" Downs 22. "Only this first part of Marx's magnum opus appeared in his lifetime" with its publication in German in 1867 PMM 359. The remainder was constructed by Engels from Marx's posthumous papers. Containing Marx's central concept of surplus value this first edition in English is translated from the third German edition of Moore and Aveling is edited by Engels and incorporates substantial revisions Marx made for the first French translation 1872-5. Humboldt Publishing Co hardcover books
189923048ELondon: Leonard Smithers & Co 1899. First Edition. Number 298 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Square quarto. Bound in original lavender cloth with gilt lettering at the spine and gilt decorative designs by Charles Shannon at the outer edges of the boards and the spine. A lovely copy with a trace of foxing a minor bump to the top corner of the front board some slight browning to the endpapers and very minor edgewear. From the library of Harpo Marx the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.†Leonard Smithers & Co hardcover books
1889140941076New York: The Humboldt Publishing Company 1889. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels. Two editions were published in America in 1889 the other by Appleton with the priority undecided. Bound in publisher's original maroon buckram tripple-ruled in black spine lettered in gilt patterned endpapers. Near Fine with light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners subtle repairs visible at spine joints spine discolored. Front inner hinge and front free endpaper repaired; rear inner hinge slightly cracked. Pages toned. Marx's groundbreaking work of political economy Das Kapital a spark which would eventually ignite many of the largest conflagrations of the 20th century. The Humboldt Publishing Company unknown books
19044178Paris: Les Cent Bibliophiles 1904. 4to cream wrappers with embossed design covering both covers in pink green and gilt. Professionally rebacked in compatible paper. Included is the contemporary marbled board portfolio into which the book had been bound presumably for the original owner Maurice Quarré a member of the French bibliophile with his bookplate laid in. With announcement from L'Estampe Originale listing this work as appearing next. Scattered minor foxing; a very pretty copy. Seventeen embossed designs in color "estampes modelées" by Pierre Roche. These are sculptural relief engravings apparently from plaster models according to Gordon Ray printed with touches of color in a process called gypsography. Roche a pupil of Rodin was a noted sculptor medallist and ceramist. This is the first use of relief illustrations in a book and the first use of Auriol Italique type which combine for a beautiful mise-en-page. This exquisite Art Nouveau book captures the celebrated American artiste whirling in here diaphanous veils lit by colored spotlights. Loïe opened her own special theater at the 1900 Paris World's Fair and called her performance "la danse serpentine." A vibrant homage to the dancer who fascinated the world and a bibliographic and technical tour de force. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated book p. 480. Illustrations can be found on my website by clicking on Catalogue 31 item 51. . Embossed Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Pierre Roche. 4to. Les Cent Bibliophiles Paperback books
