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194764666New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1947. New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. 1947.<br> <br> First edition. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm. 8 1-294 2 blank pp.<br> <br> Original full black cloth blue lettering on spine. Top edge blue fore-edge uncut. With original pictorial dust jacket. Sight foxing to endpapers and inner flaps of the dust jacket. Back panel of the dust jacket with a small closed tear. Otherwise near fine.<br> <br> This author's first two books Dangling Man and The Victim 1947 had a profound impact on the mid-twentieth century literary scene. "Together they effectively introduced a new style of American fiction. The "Gentile" era of Fitzgerald Hemingway and Faulkner began with Bellow to give way to a new Jewish tradition and a sense of moral and social alarm. Bellow's characters are generally anti-heroes caught up in the existential dilemma of trying to define themselves with some measure of dignity despite the constant impediments of objective and subjective circumstances." Benet's The Reader's Encyclopedia fourth edition. Bellow is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Humbolt's Gift 1975 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.<br> <br> HBS 64666.<br> <br> $750. The Vanguard Press, Inc unknown
WALTER-FILM000568No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27"" 103 x 68 cm. one sheet poster style B block USA. Spencer Tracy Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn Phil Silvers Terry-Thomas Edie Adams Dorothy Provine dir: Stanley Kramer; United Artists. The crazy classic comedy involving an insane car chases to find the location of buried money. Many of the comedy greats of Hollywood were cast and many who were not wanted to be so they played cameos including The Three Stooges Jimmy Durante Jerry Lewis and Buster Keaton. The couple which Sid Caesar and Edie Adams play originally was set for Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The mishaps stories and legends about the making of the film are enough to fill a volume. It was a huge money maker. There were many Academy Award nominations in the category of sound music and cinematography. Attributed to Saul Bass poster is folded and displays some shelf wear but no pinholes. The bottom right corner is folded or was torn and has been repaired with archival tape. The fold junctures have been reinforced with archival tape. Minor fold to top right corner a few minor margin folds NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000192No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Le vieil homme et l'enfant Vintage original 26 x 35"" 66 x 90 cm. silkscreen art poster USA. Our friend poster collector and dealer Daniel Strebin provided this information: About a decade ago he received consignments of Saul Bass silkscreens from the Bass estate. He personally saw invoices for some of them which were printed around 1965. Most of the silkscreens were produced at Art Krebs Studio in Los Angeles. Bass continued to have silkscreens created up until around 1980. All of the silkscreen editions appear to have been in editions of between 50-150. It also seems that once an edition was exhausted Bass did not make a second edition; as a result all of these art silkscreens are very rare indeed. Bass never intended for these posters to be sold -- they were intended to be given away. Since he was frequently frustrated with the compromises the film studios inflicted on his magnificent modernist designs the silkscreens were intended to represent his imagery in its purest possible form. This was for the US release of a French film by Claude Berri about a young Jewish boy who goes to live with a Catholic couple in France during World War II. The husband Michel Simon who does not know his young charge is Jewish is in fact a virulent anti-Semite but comes to love the young man and outgrow his prejudices. The original US theatrical one sheet poster has a similar design but it is only printed in black with an obtrusive slogan at the top -- making this silkscreen infinitely more effective. Unfolded VERY GOOD. unknown books
1954130925Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1954. First UK. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. 1954 Weidenfeld and Nicolson London first British edition signed by Bellow on the title page. Long inscription prior owner to half title page. No jacket. Light corner wear top edge dust dulled. Please email for photos. Weidenfeld and Nicholson hardcover
191345772John Richmond Ltd: London 1913. Very Good. London: John Richmond Ltd 1913. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's mustard card wrappers printed in red; 30pp. Light shelf wear especially along spine edge wrapper margins a bit toned contemporary heraldic ex libris mounted inside upper wrapper else Very Good and sound. A contemporary pencil note signed "EBH" notes that "Siegfried Sassoon 'Saul Kain' says he is 'mortally ashamed' of the parody."<br /> <br /> Siegfried Sassoon's first appearance in print "The Daffodil Murderer" is a long poem published pseudonymously with the help of the poet T.W.H. Crosland. Though the poem was originally written as an homage to John Masefield Crosland wanted it published explicitly as a satire of Masefield's recently published collection "The Daffodil Fields" while the preface attributed to "William Butler" also a Sassoon pseudonym was a snipe at Yeats. The Chatrey Prize is also entirely made up. <br /> <br /> Reference: Jean Moorcroft Wilson "Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet" 2024. London unknown
20083565<p>Stated First Edition. In near fine condition clean and unmarked light toning at edges. In a near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Saul Leiter on the title page.</p> Steidl hardcover
1465305Maeght Editeur. Collectible - Like New. Condition: Fine; Dust Jacket Condition: This special edition of Derriere Le Miroir was limited to 150 copies and is signed by Steinberg in pencil on the limitation page. #79/150 copies. Includes 3 original lithographs. Printed on Velin d'Arches paper. Folio 15 x 11. Lithographed wrapssoftcover housed in a blue chemise with a blue slipcase. 18 total lithographs plus the lithographed wraps. Text in French by Hubert Damisch. The covers and lithographs are in Fine condition. The chemise has a little fading on the printed spine and is in Very Good condition. The slipcase has fading to the closed end and along back edge Very Good. Photos upon request. Maeght Editeur paperback
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1980056646Harvard University Press 1980. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 172 Pp. Hard Cover. First Printing Of This 1980 Edition Corrected Throughout And Slightly Revised With A New Preface By Kripke. Near Fine A Few Lines On Three Pages Each Lightly Underlined In Ink; No Names No Other Marks. The Fragile Unlaminated Jacket Is Near Fine Three 1/6" To 1/8" Tears At Edges Clean Very Slight Browning To Spine Panel. A Philosophical Concern For The Logical Use Of Language But Not Addressing The Larger Issue Of Naming Itself As Always Being A Political Act Selective And Prejudiced And Intensional A Personal Activity Of Indefinably Immense Preconditions Characteristics And Consequences Ultimately Unrelated To And Oblivious To The Logical Implications. <br/> <br/> Harvard University Press hardcover
1980056786Blackwell 1980. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 172 Pp. Hard Cover. First Uk Printing Of This 1980 Second Edition Corrected Throughout And Slightly Revised With A New Preface By Kripke.Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. A Philosophical Concern For The Logical Use Of Language But Not Addressing The Larger Issue Of Naming Itself As Always Being A Political Act Selective And Prejudiced And Intensional A Personal Activity Of Indefinably Immense Preconditions Characteristics And Consequences Ultimately Unrelated To And Oblivious To The Logical Implications. <br/> <br/> Blackwell hardcover
196521662HEYNE WILHELM 1965. 5. softcover. HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
2016__0198758324Oxford Univ Pr 2016. Hardcover. New. 2580 pages. 9.75x6.75x4.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
198279466Flammarion | Paris 1982 | 15 x 21 cm | broché
196180665Gallimard | Paris 1961 | 14.50 x 20.50 cm | broché
19642105019Viking Press 1964. first. hardcover. fine/very good. Signed first edition first published in 1964 sated on copyright page. Signed by author on front free end paper. Book fine previous owner's small stickers attached to front pate-down and front free end paper. Dust jacket very good some wear tanning along top of flaps water stain along edge of front flap visible also on inside of dj. Housed in custom-made cloth slipcase. Viking Press unknown books
19701786New York: The Viking Press 1970. First edition of the author's third National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Alderman and Lois Stone from an old Tulyite Saul Bellow March 16' 87." The recipient was Bernard and Lois Stone the former a politician from the city of Chicago. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the spine. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." The Viking Press hardcover books
20031182NY: Viking 2003. Fiftieth Anniversary edition first prnt. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Signed by Bellow on the title page. Spine ends lightly pushed; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacjet with an archival cover. Bellow's third novel. 1954 winner of National Book Award for Fiction. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Anniversary Edition. Viking Hardcover books
19701786New York: The Viking Press 1970. First edition of the author's third National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Alderman and Lois Stone from an old Tulyite Saul Bellow March 16' 87." The recipient was Bernard and Lois Stone the former a politician from the city of Chicago. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the spine. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. The Viking Press hardcover
20031182<p>NY: Viking 2003. Fiftieth Anniversary edition first prnt. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens. <em>Signed</em> by Bellow on the title page. Spine ends lightly pushed; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacjet with an archival cover. Bellow's third novel. 1954 winner of National Book Award for Fiction. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Anniversary Edition.</p> Viking hardcover
1959962Princeton: Association for Symbolic Logic 1959. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME BOUND FIRST EDITION OF SAUL KRIPKE'S SEMINAL FIRST PAPER ON MODAL LOGIC "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic". The paper presents Kripke's important ideas on the semantics of modal logic or the logic of modal notions like necessity and possibility. Included are all 4 journal issues for 1959 one of which is inclusive of abstracts of 3 other papers Kripke sent to the Journal. <br /> <br /> Kripke was "universally hailed" for "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic" this paper In it he both proves the formal completeness of modal logic supplemented by first-order quantifiers and the sign of equality and "creates a semantics now called Kripke semantics" Hurley Logic 217. Kripke semantics "is a formals semantics for non-classical logic systems. first conceived for modal logics and later adapted to intuitionistic logic and other non-classical systems. The discovery of Kripke semantics was a breakthrough in the theory of non-classical logics because the model theory of such logics was almost non-existent before Kripke" Wikipedia. <br /> <br /> As the story goes in 1959 and at the age of seventeen Kripke wrote his completeness theorem in modal logic at age 17; he mailed the paper to the journal and it was sent out for comments to among a number of others the head of the Mathematics at Harvard. This person then wrote Kripke urging him to apply for a job at Harvard. The reply he received read: "My mother said that I should finish high school and go to college first" ibid. <br /> <br /> Kripke's initial intuitive idea was that a proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds. Kripke's paper begins: "The present paper attempts to state and prove a completeness theorem for the system S5 supplemented by first-order quantifiers and the sign of equality" Kripke JSL 241 1959 1. He then notes: ""The basis of the informal analysis which motivated these definitions is that a proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all "possible worlds". It is not necessary for our present purposes to analyze the concept of a "possible world" any further. . In modal logic however we wish to know not only about the 6 real world but about other conceivable worlds" ibid. <br /> <br /> Shortly Kripke then wrote "In trying to construct a definition of universal logical validity it seems plausible to assume not only that the universe of discourse may contain an arbitrary number of elements and that predicates may be assigned any given interpretations in the actual world but also that any combination of possible worlds may be associated with the real world with respect to some group of predicates. In other words it is plausible to assume that no further restrictions need be placed on D G and K except the standard one that D be non-empty. This assumption leads directly to our definition of universal validity." ibid.<br /> <br /> The December issue of the journal is also bound in; it contains abstracts of the other Kripke papers received the Journal in 1959: "Distinguished Constituents" "Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic" "The Problem of Entailment". Also included are the two other issues of The Journal of Symbolic Logic from 1959 this to make a complete set. We separately offer Issue No. 4 alone.<br /> <br /> Saul Kripke 1940- is an American philosopher and logician who was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 2001. He is best known for five major contributions to philosophy beginning with this paper the starting point for Kripke Semantics. In 1962 Kripke graduated from Harvard University. Now associated with Princeton additional areas of note include his contributions to set theory his theory of truth and his interpretation of Wittgenstein's work. CONDITION & DETAILS: Princeton: Association for Symbolic Logic 1959. 4to. 9.75 x 7 inches. Light institutional stamps on text block and one small stamp at the foot of the front pastedown. Tightly bound in black cloth gilt-lettered at the spine. Bright and clean inside and out. Near fine condition. Association for Symbolic Logic hardcover
1964102188Viking Press 1964 First edition. Signed by author on full title page. Light blue top stain. Clipped jacket with light wear at edges. Five small closed tears less than 1/8" Clean interior with no toning. Blue cloth with embossed title on front cover silver gilt title on spine. This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer joker mourner and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher as a father and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog sees himself as a survivor both of his private disasters and those of the age. He writes unsent letters to friends and enemies colleagues and famous people revealing his wry perception of the world around him and the innermost secrets of his heart. 341 pages. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Viking Press hardcover
1965rb15018<p>New York: Harper and Roe 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine hardcover copy yellow cloth lettered in black. Unpaginated. <strong>Signed and inscribed by Steinberg</strong>. 12.25 x 9.25 inches.</p> Harper and Roe hardcover
51-6008Paris: Galerie Maeght 1973. Folio. Original wraps. 28 x 28cm DLM édité en septembre 1973 pour l’exposition STEINBERG à la Galerie Maeght. Texte de Hubert Damish « Tables d’évidences ». 32 pages non reliées. 3 lithographies originales dont 2 en double page et 8 reproductions en noir. Tirage original. Epuisé en diffusion. Paris: Galerie Maeght, 1973. paperback
1995SONG047193559XWiley 1995-01-09. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.38x2.78x9.45. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley hardcover
DA08C-02541Harper & Row. Collectible - Very Good. New York: Harper & Row 1949. NAP. Early printing. 4to hardcover. Yellow cloth with black ink illustration and lettering in pictorial dust jacket. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Near Fine book. Near Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket toned and price clipped with a small stain on the front panel. Cloth has a crease from the binding process. In polypropylene bag. In polypropylene bag. Cartoons Humor Inquire if you need further information. Harper & Row hardcover