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19292280930Farrar & Rhinehart 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Both volumes lack jackets spine head and spine base of both volumes lightly rubbed very faint minor stain on top page ridge of Volume I ink name and date on front paste-down endpaper of Volume I. 1929 Hard Cover. Continuous pagination. Two volume set. Stuart Pratt Sherman 1881 Farrar & Rhinehart hardcover books
1985GG01761Los Angeles:: Leigh Wiener 1985. 1985. 10 x 8 inches. With the photographer's rubber-stamp on verso. Inscribed by Zeitlin to Mary H. Owen sister of Neal Harlow "To Mary Happy Days Jake Zeitlin". Zeitlin had a special relationship with the Harlows as he used to live and meet next door to their home and talk & drink in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles. "During his 50-year career as a photographer and photojournalist Leigh Wiener photographed every U.S. president from Truman to Reagan Hollywood legends from Marilyn to Marlon and musicians from Miles to Sinatra. After moving to Los Angeles in 1946 Wiener went on to become a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times before shooting freelance for Life Time Fortune and Sports Illustrated. He created and co-hosted the Emmy-winning television show "Talk about Pictures" on KNBC. Wiener's photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery. He passed away in 1993 leaving behind a rich archive of images that uniquely captures the second half of the 20th century." – LWG. See: Wiener Leigh How do you photograph people BIO: "Mr. Wiener was born in Manhattan and attended the University of California at Los Angeles. In the early 1950's he worked for The Los Angeles Times as a staff photographer then joined the military and worked in Europe on the staff of Stars and Stripes the Army newspaper." Wiener died at just 62 years of age. "The cause was complications of a blood disease said Cliff Dektar his publicist. Mr. Wiener's doctors attributed the disease Sweet's syndrome to radiation Mr. Wiener had been exposed to when he photographed atomic-bomb tests near Las Vegas Nev. after World War II for Life magazine Mr. Dektar said." – Los Angeles Times obituary written by Wolfgang Saxon "Leigh Wiener 62 Photographer Of the Famous and the Historic." May 14 1993. Leigh Wiener, 1985. unknown books
1929007716New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1929. 2 vols. xiv 380; 500p. b/w illus. original brown cloth. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
197919470New York: np 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Near fine. Mild toning to wraps. Interior bright clean throughout. Good and sound. 282pp. <br/><br/>Lit mag first published as SUNDIAL beginning in 1966 by Bill Zavatsky also known for his shorter-lived publication ROY ROGERS. Features fiction by Valery Larbaud and poems by Charles North John Yau and Jack Anderson among many others. np paperback books
195949878New York: Celia Adler Fondeyshon un bukh-komitet Celia Adler Foundation 1959. First Edition. Two octavo volumes 24cm. Blue cloth boards; dustjackets; viii688pp; illus. Old damp-marks to board edges of both volumes causing discoloration to cloth but no structural damage. Text clean tight and unmarked; jackets lightly worn and sun-faded; complete sound and Good. Text entirely in Yiddish save verso of title page which provides both a transcription and an English-language translation of the title and publisher. Exceedingly uncommon autobiography of Celia Adler 1899-1979 daughter of Jacob Adler and half-sister to Stella Adler known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre." Adler was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her brother Luther's 1946 Broadway production A Flag is Born. Unaccountably scarce even for an American work written entirely in Yiddish: OCLC notes a single location only in the U.S. Northwestern; five more copies are in European and Israeli institutions. Celia Adler Fondeyshon un bukh-komitet [Celia Adler Foundation] unknown books
195131109Oslo: Steenske Forlag / J.W. Cappelens Forlag 1951. First edition. Cloth. A very good copies light browning to edges in the scarce dust jackets which are edgeworn chipped with one jacket split at the spine. 705; 442; 595 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. In Norwegian. Naval history of Norway. The complete second volume in three parts. Steenske Forlag / J.W. Cappelens Forlag hardcover books
192931110Oslo: Steenske Forlag 1929. First edition. Cloth. Very good copies light browning to edges in the scarce dust jackets which are edgeworn and chipped one jacket split at the spine and one with a large diagonal chip on the rear panel. 330 xxxv; 517 xxxvi pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. In Norwegian. Naval history of Norway. The complete third volume in two parts. Steenske Forlag hardcover books
19797583North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1979. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo xii121 pages; number 211 of 300 numbered copies printed. Quarter red leather over decorative boards. America's first color plate book: "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original engraved plates - one hand-colored and one left uncolored - which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illlustrate his edition in the usual hand-colored way.led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates amounting to several thousand came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927. and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them - a colored and an uncolored specimen - into each copy of this edition." p. ix. A fine copy. <br/><br/> Bird & Bull Press hardcover books
1923015209München: F. Bruckmann 1923. 128p. plus 20 colored plates b/w illus. original cloth. F. Bruckmann unknown books
1923112767Munich 1923. hardcover. Color frontis. many b/w illus. 4to cloth-backed boards. Munchen 1923.<br/><br/> unknown books
193011377JNew York: Brentano’s 1930. First Edition. Signed by the author Jacob De Haas on the half-title. Former ownership signature. Two inch tear to a blank page a very good copy without dust jacket. A Judaic study of the Balfour Declaration and its influence on Palestine and the Jews. Brentano’s unknown books
1905S0393Stuttgart:: Konrad Wittwer 1905. 1905. 8vo. xiv 320 pp. 107 figs. index. Red cloth gilt; top hinge of spine torn 1/2 inch else fine. Ex-Carnegie. Konrad Wittwer, 1905. hardcover books
1917986Billings 1917. Good plus. 18pp. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Light dust soiling and wear to wraps. Central pair of leaves detached. Slightly later gift inscription on title page. Scare account of a fishing trip made by the Yellowstone County Bar Association to Stillwater River near its confluence with the Yellowstone in 1917. The group travelled from Billings Montana and made camp on the river north of Custer National Forest. The pamphlet is illustrated with several reproductions of engaging photographs and the text provides a humorous report of the occasion. We locate one copy at the Montana Historical Society. unknown books
1996UWEIDEF01BHScribner c1996. Very Good. Weisberg Jacob. In Defense of Government : the Fall and Rise of Public Trust. New York: Scribner c1996. 209pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Scribner hardcover books
1994203496Maryland: Madison 1994. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated in b/w and color. 285pp. 8vo black boards with gilt lettering glossy d.w. Maryland: Madison Books 1994. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Madison unknown books
1973010924New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc 1973. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xiv 295 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by historic photographs. Signed and inscribed by the author to a member of the Goldman Memorial Foundation "To David: With happiest memories of those many sessions when we worked out the major outlines of this book. With affectionate gratitude signed Jacob.". KTAV Publishing House, Inc Hardcover books
1959009049New York: Bloch Publishing Company 1959. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. x 181 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with several small chips tears and creases; protected in archival mylar. Signed and inscribed by the author in ink on the front endpaper "1/23/59 To Phyllis Allen with affection signed Jacob Weinstein." The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Bloch Publishing Company Hardcover books
1932503355<p>"Paul Francis Webster" & "John Jacob Loeb" in black fountain pen ink on their Leo. Feist Inc. 56 Copper Square New York New York letterhead April 22 1932. 8 1/2" x 11"; very good. To Mr. Rudy Vallee 55 Central Park West New York City "Dear Rudy: - Of all the broadcasts to date on our song "MASQUERADE" we got the biggest thrill out of hearing the beautiful rendition you gave it on last night’s Fleischman program. We were particularly grateful to notice that you presented and interpreted "MASQUERADE" in the high class manner that a waltz of this type requires. Speaking for our many friends as well as for ourselves we are looking with keen anticipation to the time that you see fit to reprise it on a future program. Thanking you again Sincerely Paul Francis Webster John Jacob Loeb." Webster 1907-1984 born December 20 1907 New York City; died March 22 1984 Los Angeles California; American lyricist; wrote many of Shirley Temple's lyrics in the mid-30's including "Our Little Girl" in 1935; winner of 2 Best Song Academy Awards "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" 1955; "The Shadow of Your Smile" 1965. Loeb American composer; film scores include: "Follow the Band" 1944 and "Rosie the Riveter" 1944.</p> unknown books
1962005776New York: Frederick A. Praeger 1962. ix 320p. original grey cloth Praeger publications in Russian history and world communism series 115. Frederick A. Praeger unknown books
192619503New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . very nice book virtually as new with no significant wear spine very slightly turned; jacket similarly nice with a few tiny edge-nicks minor crinkling at top of spine slight darkening to spine. Novel about a young aristocrat who becomes embroiled in a homosexual scandal at school in the First Stage spends the Second Stage in a struggle with his mother for control of his soul and in the Third Stage gets involved in an exotic crime. These "Stages" are bookended by an apparently unrelated story "The Unknown Guest" and a novelette "Sturreganz" described by a contemporary reviewer as "a mordant study of absolute monarchy in the Germany of the Seven Years' War" Wassermann a German writer of Jewish descent achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s the rear jacket panel indicates that at least five of his novels including this one had been published in the U.S. but didn't fare well when the Nazis came to power: his works were banned in 1933 and he died the following year. . Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1932WRCLIT61777New York: Horace Liveright Inc. 1932. Thick octavo. Decorated medium brown cloth. First U.S. edition of Cyrus Brooks's translation from the German. About fine in very good lightly sunned and slightly chipped dust jacket. Horace Liveright, Inc. hardcover books
1934WRCLIT70311New York: Liveright 1934. Decorated cloth. First U.S. edition of the posthumously published final volume of the trilogy translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. About fine in very faintly used dust jacket with tiny edge tear. Liveright hardcover books
1921775661921. WASSERMANN Jacob. THE WORLD'S ILLUSION 2 Vols. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1921. Authorized translation by Ludwig Lewisohn. Volume one: Eva. Volume two: Ruth. First edition. 8vo. blue cloth with minor shelfwear in fragile dust jackets with tears along perimeter more pronounced on spine with cracking along spine. Dust jacket is detached along edge of spine on Volume two. This set is scarce with dust jackets; a very good set overall. unknown books
19279409New York: Boni & Liveright. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. Binding loose; Near Very Good . Boni & Liveright hardcover books
1927116577New York: Boni & Liveright Publishers 1927. Octavo original blue cloth stamped in gold. First edition in English. Two of the stories are of novella length. A preliminary notes states: "A translation of DER UNBEKANNTE GAST one of the volumes in the series of fictions to which Wassermann has given the general title; DER WENDEKREIS. The title story "Der Unbekannte Gast having already appeared in English in another volume has not be included in WORLDS' ENDS." The book has attractive patterned endpapers in an art deco style. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips damp stain to lower spine end a very good copy. #116577 Boni & Liveright Publishers unknown books
