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1990324836New York: The Limited Editions Club 1990. Number 27 of 50 copies. 8 large colour silkscreen studies Signed by the Artist. 2 text leaves. All loose as issued. Printed by George Drexel Osiris Screen Printing New York on Whatman Print Matte paper. Folio 25 x 19 inches. Laid into black cloth clamshell dropbox with red morocco label inset on upper cover. Fine. Number 27 of 50 copies. 8 large colour silkscreen studies Signed by the Artist. 2 text leaves. All loose as issued. Printed by George Drexel Osiris Screen Printing New York on Whatman Print Matte paper. Folio 25 x 19 inches. The prints illustrate the King James version of the Book of Genesis. Bearing captions lithographed from mylars handwritten by the artist this "exhibition portfolio" format is much larger than the regular edition of Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis. <br /> <br /> Each print signed and inscribed "HC" in pencil lower margin. Printed by Stone Press Editions Seattle with the blind stamp lower right. Published by the Limited Editions Club New York. With the title and colophon pages. Superb clean impressions with bright and vibrant colors. Nesbett L90-2 The Limited Editions Club unknown
1914N - 2024 - 115<p>Max Jacob. Illustrated with three cubist etchings by Picasso in full page from 1913. Max Jacob three-act play reflect the author mystic quest and his research into the cabala and astrology Picasso completed the illustrations during the winter of 1913/14 making three etchings and dry points one for each act to which he gave the titles: Femme Nue plate 1 Nature Morte au Crâne plate 2 and Femme plate 3. This book is second illustrated book published by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler created in collaboration with Picasso. Signed by the Picasso and Jacob in the justification page and marked as number "40" of 85 copies on "Holland van Gelder" total edition 106 copies. The book is complete in the original glassine light offsetting is present in the text page near the first illustration. Ref Cramer #3. Very good conditions.</p> Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler, Editeur hardcover
1929149534London: Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 1929. First and limited deluxe edition of the monumental Legion Book; one of only one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and signed by a remarkable array of British writers and artists as well as four prime ministers. Quarto original publisher's full deluxe pigskin over boards elaborately decorated in blind and gilt top edge gilt tissue-guarded color frontispiece engraved title-page vignette illustrated with 16 captioned tissued-guarded plates in various techniques some signed by the artist and 32 collotypes. One of one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and with five pages signed by each of the 89 contributing writers and illustrators as well as four prime ministers three British Prime Ministers: David Lloyd George Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau including: Winston Churchill who was not yet a Prime Minister Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Eric Gill Stanley Spencer Charles Ricketts W. Heath Robinson Laura Knight William Nicholson Paul Nash David Low Rebecca West John Lavery Max Beerbohm Vita Sackville-West Hilaire Belloc Mark Gertler Edith Sitwell Jacob Epstein W.H. Davies and Aldous Huxley among others. This is number 84. The Legion Book was created at the request of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales—who would later become King Edward VIII and following his abdication the Duke of Windsor—as a fundraising initiative for the British Legion. All profits from its sales were intended to support the organization. The book features contributions from 85 distinguished British writers and artists including Winston Churchill Rudyard Kipling P.G. Wodehouse Aldous Huxley Vita Sackville-West G.K. Chesterton Hilaire Belloc Augustus John Eric Kennington and John Nash. It was compiled and edited by James Humphrey Cotton Minchin 1894–1966 a veteran who served with the Cameronians and the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. While the trade version saw several reprints a special edition of 600 numbered copies was also produced. Of these 500 bore the editor’s signature but “the first 100 were reserved for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales sponsor of the volume in his gift.†According to the note at the conclusion of the Table of Contents “Five pages of contributors’ signatures appear after the Dedication with additional signed pages opposite Collotype No. 3 and Collotype No. 20.†Every contributor signed the book with the sole exception of John Singer Sargent who died in 1925 before the project was completed. In near fine condition with toning to the extremities of the front panel and front hinge. Housed in the original publisher's custom folding cloth clamshell box. An exceptional example of this rare signed limited edition. Formed in the aftermath of a war that had shattered a generation the Royal British Legion emerged in May 1921 as a unified voice for the countless veterans left wounded—physically mentally and economically—by the First World War. The staggering cost of the conflict with nearly 3.2 million British Empire casualties exposed the inadequacy of postwar support. A fully disabled veteran received just 30 shillings a week and any claim had to be made within seven years of discharge. In response to such injustice several ex-servicemen’s groups came together to create the Legion not merely as a charity but as an advocate for those who had borne the brunt of industrialized warfare. From its inception the Legion fought for fair pensions better employment opportunities and meaningful support for both former service members and their families—laying the groundwork for a broader movement of remembrance welfare and national responsibility that continues to this day. Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales hardcover
1904014375New York: The Outlook Company 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked and neatly repaired. Still Near Fine. Second Printing in publisher's original decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates. This copy virtually unique as it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both the author and the subject as President. Riis's inscription is dated 5 August 1908. Roosevelt writes: "with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt/The White House/Jan. 18th 1909." The addition of "The White House" by Roosevelt is notable as prior to his administration the residence was known as the "President's Palace" the "President's House" and the "Executive Mansion." It was Roosevelt who officially named it "The White House" in 1901. Of the many books signed by Roosevelt we have both handled and seen we have never before encountered one in which he has noted his official residence along with his signature. <br/><br/>Jacob Riis among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed and downtrodden arrived in New York from his native Denmark at the age of 21 in 1870. A pioneer in photojournalism Riis photographed and wrote about the slums and tenements of a New York in the dawn of a new century. Riis came to Roosevelt's attention through his 1890 book HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES. As Commissioner of the New York City Police Department Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his evening travels through the slums and witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions endured by many of New York's inhabitants. In his 1901 book MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Riis wrote of Roosevelt: "It could not have been long after I wrote HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES that he came to the Evening Sun office one day looking for me. I was out and he left his card merely writing on the back of it that he had read my book and had 'come to help.' That was all and it tells the whole story of the man. I loved him from the day I first saw him; nor ever in all the years that have passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years we were brothers on Mulberry Street." Roosevelt in turn wrote of Riis after his death: "It is difficult for me to write of Jacob Riis only from the public standpoint. He was one of my truest and closest friends. I have ever prized the fact that once in speaking of me he said 'since I met him he has been my brother.' I have not only admired and respected him beyond measure but I have loved him dearly . and I mourn him as if he were one of my own family." The Outlook Company hardcover
196444629Vietnam Thailand and elsewhere in Asia as well as the United States Europe and the Middle East ca. 1964-1974: Compiled by Jacob Harris an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War 1964 - 1974. 1964 - 1974. First edition. A large and remarkable archive of images from Vietnam and Thailand covering the decade from the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the beginning of the buildup of American forces in Vietnam to a year before the evacuation of the American embassy. Most notable are the many images showing the training of local security forces by American civil and military advisors. The collection was compiled by Jacob Harris an employee of the United States Agency for International Development USAID Office of Public Safety OPS whose task was to train Vietnamese and Thai police and counterinsurgency forces. Most of the images in the form of photographs and photographic slides were created by Harris his wife or his associates and illustrate all aspects of life in those countries at the time. Harris traveled widely throughout the region and the collection includes images from not only Vietnam and Thailand but also from Laos Singapore Hong Kong Macao Malaysia India and elsewhere. The images also document Harris' lengthy career as a New Jersey State Trooper and his travels in other parts of the world. Jacob Joseph Harris ca. 1910-2005 also known as "Jack" and "Jake" served for thirty-six years 1928-64 with the New Jersey State Police eventually attaining the rank of major. Included herein is a printed card dated Dec. 31 1960 marking thirty years of Harris' service to the state of New Jersey. In 1964 he began what he called his "second career" taking a position with the U.S. Agency for International Development and was stationed first in Vietnam and then in Thailand. As his postings permitted he was joined by his wife of many years Virginia and she appears in a great number of the photographs. Harris was associated mostly with USAID's Office of Public Safety which was established in 1957 to train the police forces of America's overseas allies. The OPS was often used by the Central Intelligence Agency as a cover for its agents abroad and operated in Europe the Middle East Africa and Asia until it was shut down by Congress in 1974. At other times Harris was a part of the State Department's Office of Missions. Whether or not Harris was directly employed by the CIA has not been ascertained and it seems that his actual role in Vietnam and Thailand was in fact the training of local police and paramilitary forces. However Harris' proximity to high ranking officials in the governments of South Vietnam and Thailand as well as the nature of many of the photographs in this collection show that he played an active and important role in training local forces to fight the Vietcong and Thai insurgents. And it is certainly true that the various departments and agencies of the U.S. government in southeast Asia at that time those operating overtly or covertly worked together toward their common goal. Jacob Harris ended his career at the State Department in Washington and retired to Florida in 1975. A slide included as part of the collection explains the "Objective of U.S. Assistance to Civil Police Programs & Paramilitary Forces Overseas." Among these are "encourage humane responsible police administration; enforce the law & maintain public order with minimum use of force; counter subversion & terrorism; improve the character and image of civil police & paramilitary forces binding them more closely to the community." A large percentage of the photographs and slides in this collection show Jacob Harris with the Vietnamese and Thai officials and officers with whom he worked trained and advised during his decade of service. Included are images of military and political leaders members of the Thai royal family and members of military and police forces. A number of the photographs show police operations against members of the Vietcong or other subversive organizations several of them showing dead bodies. One album is devoted to photographs showing a Thai operation against revolutionaries with pictures of soldiers dead and mangled bodies of the enemy and members of the Thai forces recuperating and being commended at their hospital beds. This same album contains a number of typescripts in Thai that appear to describe the actions depicted. A few other photographs have manuscript ink notes apparently in Jacob Harris' hand identifying the scene. One showing a dead body is captioned "Vietcong" while another dated April 2 1969 shows a Thai military force with some members identified with a caption explaining that they were "assigned to eliminate Durae Gang." Some photographs are quite chilling in their juxtaposition as in one album where pictures of the Harrises and their friends at the beach are displayed beside photographs of dead Vietcong soldiers. The photographs and slides show Harris and his American colleagues and often their wives interacting with Vietnamese and Thai officials the local citizenry and each other. One group of images shows a party thrown for Harris and his wife when they were reassigned from Vietnam to Thailand in 1968 in the wake of the Battle of Hue. Several images show Harris visiting villages and interacting with locals and the difficulty of lives of Thai and Vietnamese villagers is clearly evident. Many of these images show villages populated mostly by the elderly women and small children. The absence of most men speaks volumes; they may have left to fight for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or the Vietcong or they may have lost their lives. It is clear from the images in this collection that despite the hardships encountered by American troops in Vietnam USAID officials lived comfortable lives. Many of the photographs show them at parties vacationing at beach resorts lounging by swimming pools etc. As mentioned though stationed in Vietnam and then Thailand Harris traveled widely throughout Asia including to Hong Kong Singapore Macao Malaysia and Laos. He also traveled throughout the countries he was stationed in and there are images in this archive of Saigon the Vietnamese provincial capital of Dalat Danang Bangkok Ayutthaya Angkor Wat and much more. Many of the images of Vietnam show a country that still bears a heavy French influence before the Communist takeover of the 1970s. Other images show trips taken by the Harrises to Europe and the Middle East as well as photographs documenting Harris' life in New Jersey and his earlier career with the state police. The more than 1700 photographs are a mixture of black and white and color ranging in size from 2 3/4 by 3 1/2 inches to 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches though a handful are larger. Included are more than fifty boxes of slides some 2000 original slides in all. The images in the slides appear to have been taken by Harris or his wife and are in color. As with the photographic prints the slides are a mixture of military and nonmilitary scenes: parades assemblies featuring police and military officials pictures of village life aerial views of the Vietnamese and Thai countryside etc. There are many images of American military airplanes and equipment training exercises aerial views of the countryside several images of the demilitarized zone and much more. One group of slides shows an anti-American parade in Vietnam featuring signs reading "Kick out Taylor" protesting the 1964 appointment of General Maxwell Taylor as ambassador to South Vietnam. As a military advisor to President Kennedy Taylor had enthusiastically supported sending more American combat troops to Vietnam. Other slides show Jacob Harris accompanying a Vietnamese delegation on a visit to the United States during which they went to Washington and to New Jersey where they met with his old colleagues in the New Jersey State Police. Yet another box of slides is labeled "Hong Kong" and "Red Chinese border" containing a number of views of Hong Kong in the late 1960s as well as views of mainland China. Other images document visits by American dignitaries to Thailand and Vietnam and there is a series of slides featuring Harris with Army of the Republic of Vietnam general Nguyen Chanh Thi and others showing Harris and police officers at the strategically important Hai Van Pass near Danang. One group of thirty-five slides housed in a box labeled "DMZ bombing" shows the aftermath of an air raid presumably by U.S. forces with bombed-out buildings and ruined villages and countryside. Other images show bombed out buildings in a more urban setting. In all a massive archive of images documenting American activities at the local and police levels in Vietnam and Thailand over the course of a crucial decade. The Harris archive is a wealth of views of all aspects of life in the region during this period which help deepen our understanding of the effects of the American presence in southeast Asia during the era of the Vietnam War. More than 1700 original photographic prints and 2000 original photographic slides plus fourteen audio recordings and miscellaneous documents. Most of the slides preserved in their original Kodak processing boxes. Some photographs loose but most bound into albums. On the whole in near fine condition. Compiled by Jacob Harris, an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War, 1964 unknown
191033635Montrouge Paris: 1910 1910. Original Litho. Original Litho. PICASSO. MAX JACOB. Double Signed Litho. Montrouge Paris Seine. 1910. 14" 7/8 X 10" 3/4 on plain paper stock with the lithograph printed in two tones: Greenish grey for Picasso's drawing and handwriting and black for Max Jacob. Number 17 of only 30 copies. A rare early illustration of Picasso's close friend Max Jacob done in celebration of Jacob's conversion to Christianity. Jacob who had Jewish origins claimed to have had a vision of Christ in 1909 causing his conversion. The illustration of Jacob the first of Picasso's drawings of Max Jacob seated comfortably in a fine armchair dressed in his three piece suit. The printed text: Top A mon ami Max Jacob / Picasso .10 / 22 R. Victor Hugo / Montrouge Seine - Middle L'archange foudroyé n'eut que le temps / de desserrer sa cravate . On aurait sit qu'il / priait encore./ C. Max Jacob. Signed in pencil with his new Christian name: "C. Max Jacob" and by "Picasso" at the bottom. A very good or better example of this rare piece - Max Jacob is regarded as an important link between the symbolists and the surrealists as can be seen in his prose poems Le cornet à dés The Dice Box 1917. Throughout the year of 1901 Picasso traveled to Barcelona & Paris for art exhibitions. During an exhibition in Paris Picasso met Max Jacob. Max Jacob was a poet painter & art critic with connections in the Parisian cultural scene. The two artists developed a friendship after Jacob left an admiring note for Picasso at the art gallery displaying Picasso's work Richardson Vol. I 203. Jacob introduced Picasso to the French language and to French theatre; Jacob was also an actor. Jacob took Picasso to see operas which possibly included I Pagliacci & La Bohème Richardson Vol. I 338. "At night there were frequent visits to the cabarets of Montmartre such as the Chat Noir and when tickets could be found to the Moulin Rouge" Penrose Picasso 76. Picasso & his friends also enjoyed the artistic atmosphere of Le Lapin Agile. Artists & writers would congregate at the small café to listen to recitals exchange ideas & celebrate special occasions such as the opening of an exhibition Penrose Picasso 117. The walls of the café were lined with work by artists that were used as payment for debts. Theatrical entertainment was a prominent part of Picasso's social life in Paris. By 1904 Picasso had established a foothold in Paris and would remain in the cultural center of Europe for the rest of his life. Picasso & Max Jacob cultivated their talents in a dwelling known as the Bateau Lavoir. According to Penrose this place was ". . . composed it seemed of nothing but lofts & cellars all in such a sad state of repair. . . " Picasso 96. Artists of all endeavors were attracted to this bohemian style of living. Picasso's neighbors included painters sculptors writers & actors Penrose Picasso 102. One of Picasso's most influential friends entered his life in 1905: Guillaume Apollinaire. "From the first encounter Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire established a creative dialogue that fostered and inspired some of their finest art & poetry". Apollinaire was a poet & playwright identified as a Surrealist who kept close connections with literary & artistic figures in Paris including Max Jacob & André Salmon. He was a great source for Picasso to meet writers & theatre artists. Many of Picasso's friends encouraged him to frequent the theatre with artists & poets from Paris Picasso Penrose 177. Even though Picasso was not in Paris he managed to find groups of artistic individuals to stay abreast of cultural gossip & happenings. Picasso's connections with writers led him to create several illustrations for books of poetry for friends. For example during summer 1910 in Cadaques Catalonia painting with Derain Picasso was commissioned to illustrate a poetic novel written by Max Jacob titled Saint Matorel issued by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in 1911. Penrose Picasso 179. This was only the first of a collections of poetry they collaborated on. 1910 unknown
1987671BASTEI-LÜBBE 1987-07/89. 1.-2. softcover. Inkarnation der Unsterblichkeit Die 2209822104241022411424119 BASTEI-LÜBBE paperback
1902021995New York: The Macmillan Company 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to covers. Near Fine. Second Printing in publisher's original decorated blue cloth. Illustrated. This copy is SIGNED "with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt/Dec 1906." Jacob Riis a significant contributor to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century was among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed and downtrodden. He arrived in New York from his native Denmark at the age of 21 in 1870. A pioneer in photojournalism Riis photographed and wrote about the slums and tenements of a New York in the dawn of a new century. Riis came to Roosevelt's attention through his 1890 book HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES. As Commissioner of the New York City Police Department Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his evening travels through the slums and witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions endured by many of New York's inhabitants. In his 1901 book MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Riis wrote of Roosevelt: "It could not have been long after I wrote HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES that he came to the Evening Sun office one day looking for me. I was out and he left his card merely writing on the back of it that he had read my book and had 'come to help.' That was all and it tells the whole story of the man. I loved him from the day I first saw him; nor ever in all the years that have passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years we were brothers on Mulberry Street." Roosevelt in turn wrote of Riis after his death: "It is difficult for me to write of Jacob Riis only from the public standpoint. He was one of my truest and closest friends. I have ever prized the fact that once in speaking of me he said 'since I met him he has been my brother.' I have not only admired and respected him beyond measure but I have loved him dearly . and I mourn him as if he were one of my own family." <br/><br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1909187099London: Constable and Company 1909. Bound with an onlay design in homage to Briar Rose Signed limited edition number 327 of 750 signed by Rackham this copy in a fine Bayntun-Rivière binding. Rackham's first version of Grimm's Fairy Tales published in 1900 had no signed limited edition. This is a revised and enlarged edition with some new illustrations as well as others redrawn and coloured. As noted by Rodney Engen "Rackham greatly loved fairy tales and had collected his many favourites over the years. The Brothers Grimm held a special place in his collections since they represented his love of all things German and contained the elements of the grotesque which fascinated him throughout his career". Quarto 274 x 219 mm. Colour frontispiece and 39 plates all tipped in and with tissue guard captioned in red black and white illustrations to text illustrated title page printed in red and black. Finely bound by Bayntun-Rivière in later 20th-century dark blue crushed morocco spine lettered in gilt compartments decorated and boards framed with gilt briar and red morocco onlay roses gilt rose and briar detail to turn-ins marbled endpapers edges gilt. Gift inscription contemporaneous to binding to first blank. Binder's blanks foxed else fine. Riall p. 97. Engen Arthur Rackham 2002. hardcover
19311717561931. CHERNIKHOV Yakov. Osnovy sovremennoj architektury: eksperimental'no-issledovatel'skie raboty / J.G. Tchernikhov - Les bases de l'architecture contemporaine: essai de recherches expérimentales / J.G.Tschérnikhow - Die Grundlagen der modernen Architektur: erfahrungsmässige - experimentelle Forschungen / J.G. Tschernichow. 96 pp. illustrated with 46 photographically reproduced colour plates and numerous black and white designs. Folio 304 x 206 mm. bound in original boards. Leningrad: Izdanie Leningradskogo Obscestva Architektorov 1931. Second enlarged edition the first edition had only 5 plates. A fine copy of this rare treatise by the legendary Soviet architect Yakov Chernikhov whose books are among the most visually striking of all Russian avant-garde books. One of the few copies we have seen that has not needed to be rebacked. Incredibly rare with OCLC listing no copies in the U.S. Getty Research Institute Russian Modernism 129. hardcover
198385437Limited Editions Club. As New. 1983. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B002FKB6RE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR AND BY ROBERT PENN WARREN WHOSE POEM IS INCLUDED. LIMITED EDITION; NUMBERED COPY. -- with a bonus offer-- . Limited Editions Club hardcover
19842846PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION 1984-89. 1. softcover. Doppelwelt 36403662367936963876 PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION paperback
1959150141Paris: Masson et Cie Libraires de l'Académie de Médecine 1959. The meeting of two Nobel laureates prior to their discovery of mRNA First edition first printing presentation copy humorously inscribed by Wollman on the first blank "To Sydney Brenner to disgust him / a good of bacterial sex Élie" likely missing the word "dose" after "good". Wollman's co-author François Jacob has signed beneath. Brenner's signature is on the front cover in pencil. After receiving his doctorate from Oxford in 1954 Brenner 1927-2019 joined Francis Crick's laboratory focusing his research on how DNA is decoded by cells. He met Élie Léo Wollman 1917-2008 and François Jacob 1920-2013 both well-established bacteriologists at the Institut Pasteur at a symposium on microbial genetics in Copenhagen in 1959. An uncommon monograph on bacterial genetics this work was possibly presented to Brenner on this occasion or shortly thereafter. Though nothing concrete came of the Copenhagen conference Jacob met with Brenner Crick and other biochemists at Cambridge the following spring. As Jacob recalled when he pointed out recent experimental results suggesting that the DNA messenger molecule was unstable "Francis and Sydney leaped to their feet. Began to gesticulate. To argue at top speed in great agitation. A red-faced Francis. A Sydney with bristling eyebrows. The two talked at once all but shouting. Each trying to anticipate the other. To explain to the other what had suddenly come to mind" Jacob p. 312. Brenner and Jacob used their overlapping time as visiting scholars at Caltech to prove that the intermediary in the DNA decoding process was the newly discovered unstable RNA. They partnered with the American molecular biologist Matthew Meselson who had just developed a method for marking bacterial macromolecules with heavy isotopes. During the summer of 1960 the trio finally proved that short-lived RNA molecules - which they called messenger RNA mRNA - carry the genetic instructions from DNA to ribosomes. This feat is considered one of the most elegant experiments in the history of biochemistry. Jacob shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff in 1965; Brenner received the Nobel Prize in 2002. Octavo. With 3 double-sided photographic plates. Original buff wrappers printed in black. Extremities rubbed and a little creased a few small spots and marks faint marginal crease in first half of contents: a very good copy. François Jacob The Statue Within: An Autobiography trans. Franklin Philip 1987. unknown
198639495BERTELSMANN CARL 1986. 1. hardcover. Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm BERTELSMANN, CARL hardcover
191875931Paris 1918. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1918 13.30 x 21 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed by Guillaume Apollinaire addressed to Max Jacob. Two pages written in black ink on a sheet with the letterhead of the Chamber of Deputies. Folds inherent to mailing. Unpublished letter concerning the deputy Charles Régismanset then Director at the Ministry of Colonies: ""Veux-tu dire à ton ami que Régismanset m'a prié de te faire savoir que son cas ne comportait point d'atténuation au point de vue des sous-vêtements militaires."" ""La colonie a écrit en personne et émettant l'avis le plus défavorable car la maison en question a bénéficié pour l'heure d'une démobilisation importante."" ""These 'colonies' are hardly distant. He is seconded to Rue Oudinot to the office of Minister Henri Simon who was pleased to be able to assist a poet he had long admired. His duties are rather vague. Assigned to the Press Service he oversees the Bulletin d'Informations coloniales et étrangères occasionally contributing discreetly a task that leaves him sufficient freedom for his own work. His direct superior Charles Régismanset himself a writer calls upon him whenever a 'bushman' passing through might provide information on Bambara customs or Guinean witch doctors."" Pierre-Marcel Adéma Guillaume Apollinaire ""Viens tout de même me voir dirait le père Janvier qui doit pour le moins parler aussi bien que le père de Victor Hugo surtout viens avant janvier et toujours plus haut Excelsior viens j'ai quelque chose d'éditorial à te dire."" unknown
19271707351927. CHERNIKHOV Y.G. Iskusstvo nachertania The Art of Graphic Representation. 77 3 pp. with black & white illustration throughout. 8vo 170 x 130 mm bound in publisher's white wrappers in a new green cloth folding box. Leningrad: Knigoizdate'stvo Akademii khudozhetsv 1927. First edition of Yakov Chernikhov's extremely rare first book. Chernikhov 1889-1951 was an artistic visionary best known for his elaborate architectural fantasies in his later works. The present book is an instructional for neophyte art students encouraging them to depict beauty and movement through abstract representations. Although a considerably more humble publication than his subsequent books its fragile format has rendered it quite scarce. Neat ink ownership inscription on the cover and title page dated 1930. Spine a little worn a near fine copy. Not listed on OCLC. hardcover
1937008386The Golden Cockerel Press 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. GROOM Mary 1903-1958. A celebrated edition of Miltons epic renowned as much for its artistry as for the literary stature of the text itself. A Limited Edition in the publishers black half morocco over red marbled boards gilt tooling. Spine raised bands gilt tooling & titles. Internally 6 5-378 pp 1 1 limitation 30 wood engravings various sizes by Mary Groom wood engraved titles by Robert Gibbings an edition limited to 200 numbered copies bound by Zaehnsdorf with their stamp to fep a few marks lower corners worn cloth sides were hand-marbled by Sydney Cockerell boards a little bowed a few cloth ripples light damp marks to first & last few leaves top edge gilt remainder uncut. Signature: 3 b-3b4. 334236 mm. Pertelote 119. This edition is a reprint of the first impression but includes the Argument and Explanation of the Verse which were added in later 1668 issues. <br/> <br/> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1917113145London: Constable & Co Ltd 1917. Rare with the extra signed plate Signed limited edition number 505 of 525 copies signed by the artist here retaining the rare extra plate signed by Rackham still in the original envelope. The signed plate was issued in all copies loosely inserted for which reason it is often found wanting. It duplicates the plate facing page 178 "He hurried away with long strides". A review in The Bookman noted that "Here is an ideal conjunction of author and artist - the fairy and folk tales of the Brothers Grimm could not have a more fitting illustrator than Arthur Rackham nor he more suitable authors to illustrate." Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with loose tissue guards black and white illustrations in the text by Rackham. Original grey cloth spine lettered in gilt pictorial gilt titles on a white ground to front board pictorial endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Presentation inscription dated 1941 on verso of front free endpaper; old pale stain on back cover light rubbing to extremities head and tail of spine only slightly bumped short closed-tear into margin at p. 209 light offsetting from tissue guards yet still an excellent copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 46-47; Riall p. 129. hardcover
197486491Phaidon. As New. 1974. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B000TSYAB8. FOUR 4 VOLUME SET. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Phaidon hardcover
197486490Phaidon. As New. 1974. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B001IOWXZW. FOUR 4 VOLUME SET. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Phaidon hardcover
1909375909London: Constable & Company 1909. One of 750 signed limited edition copies. 40 tipped in color plates by Rackham. 4to. Original full vellum lettered and decorated in gilt with ribbon ties; some light staining. Deckled fore-edges and tail-edges t.e.g. Endpapers lightly foxed otherwise very clean. Near fine housed in a custom cream clamshell box. One of 750 signed limited edition copies. 40 tipped in color plates by Rackham. 4to. Constable & Company unknown
197692951Andre Sauret. New. 1976. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 166 pages; 97 illustrations including 28 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Andre Sauret hardcover
190311143New York: Macmillan 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo 443pp. illustrated. A worn copy in fair condition with the inner hinges cracked and corners worn but internally clean. A singificant association copy SIGNED by Riis on the front free endpaper and INSCRIBED to Danish-American pianist and interpreter of Scandinavian music Inga Hoegsbro Christensen before she took her married name: "Inga Hoegsbro from her friend Jacob A Riis." Laid-in are two postcards from Riis to Hoegsbro one dated in December 1913 and another whose date is unclear. The first postcard with a new year's theme reads: "A Happy New Year to you and may we both steer clear of illness in 1914. was sick nearly all summer. Let us hope it was the darkness before the dawn and that all will be O. K. with the lengthening days. Sincerely yours Jacob A. Riis." A bittersweet and foreboding note as Riis would die that following May just six months after this letter was mailed. Hoegsbro has added a note in ink on the postcard which reads "Always keep from my dear old Papa Jacob Riis. A friend in need for years." The other postcard's front depicts the St. Joseph Sanitarium & Bath House in Mt. Clemens Michigan where Riis was staying during the end of December 1913 after feeling ill for most of the autumn. The small blank area on the front of the card is entirely covered in Riis's writing and as it is in Danish and a rather difficult hand we are unable to reproduce or translate it here. On the verso next to where Riis had inked Hoegsbro's address Hoegsbro has written: "Last card from dear Papa Jacob Riis." The book's endleaves are covered in news clippings related to Riis and a few Danish poems. On the rear endpaper is a typed document written by Christensen entitled "A Tribute to Jacob Riis. Paid by Inga Hoegsbro-Christensen on the Occasion of the Golden Anniversary of the Founding of the Jacob Riis Settlement on Henry Street." Praising Riis for his help in her early career she concludes her remarks by noting: "When I begged from time to time to be allowed to repay Riis for his goodness to me his answer was always the same: Would I help some of his friends among the poor with my music I do not need to add how happy I was to be always at his service as pianist and inscructor in his settlement work." Accompanying the book and these postcards is an inscribed copy to one Frank Burton of Inga Hoegsbro Christensen's autobiography "Inga.Play." In it she mentions Riis several dozen times describing him as "Papa Jacob" the figure who helped her get settled in the United States and who introduced her to the influential New Yorkers who would help her achieve fame and success as a musician and interpreter of Scandinavian music. Altogether despite the book's regrettable condition a fantastic association copy of Riis's memoir which sheds great light on his identity as a Danish-American and a friend to struggling artists of all backgrounds. Macmillan hardcover
194651729St. Ottilien/ Munich: Rabbinical Representative by Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone sic 1946. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Elephant folios.<br /> <br /> Keddushin: 192 32 28pp. Rebound in modern tan soft leather with blind-stamped star of David on the front cover. Blind-stamped tooling and gilt lettering lettering on the spine. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers.<br /> <br /> Nedarim: 206 32pp. Rebound in modern tan soft leather with blind-stamped star of David on the front cover. Blind-stamped tooling and black lettering on the spine. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers.<br /> <br /> Title pages illustrated in yellow and black depict both the suffering and the hope for redemption of the Jewish people. The bottom shows life in the concentration camp and the top shows the yearning for a new Jerusalem. The images are attributed to the artist Grisha Rosenkranz who was active in the DP camps. Text in Hebrew states: "As afflicted prisoners there we sat learned and prayed in secret."<br /> <br /> These individual volumes were the precursors to the famous full 19-volume set known as the "Survivors' Talmud" or the "US Army Talmud" so-called because it was the first complete Talmud printed in Europe after the Holocaust. At the end of the war Jewish survivors and residents of the DP camps had few or no books. The efforts to provide resources to Jews without access to Talmud study in the direct aftermath of the war fell primarily upon the shoulders of two Lithuanian Rabbis Samuel Abba Sneig chief rabbi of the US occupied zone and Samuel Jacob Rose both survivors of Dachau. <br /> <br /> Utilizing two odd volumes of the 1886 Romm edition of the Talmud printed in Vilna tractates Keddushin and Nedarim found at the monastery in St. Ottillien they began their endeavor. Printing plates from these volumes were created using a photomechanical offset process. It should be noted that when the full set of the Talmud was eventually published it was derived from the later Vilna editions which contain additional rabbinic commentary not found in the earlier editions.<br /> <br /> The rabbis' intent from the very beginning was to print a complete set of the Talmud however these two tractates were the only ones found in good enough to reproduce. Later with the assistance of Rabbis Philip S. Bernstein and Abraham Klausner they were able to print a complete set in Heidelberg in 1948 The Survivors' Talmud. <br /> <br /> Bindings with some minor to light instances of scratches stains scuffing and/or smudges to the covers. Interior of Keddushin with pages age toned and a bit brittle with a few closed tears to the edges throughout and a few instances of minor to light stains in the margins. The first few leaves including the title page foxed and stained in the margins. Interior of Nedarim mostly clean with some staining and rippling along the top of pages from about p.120 onward and a few other sporadic light stains throughout with text mostly unaffected. Ink stamps and handwritten names of previous owners of the Nedarim volume located in the top and bottom margins of the title page and in the bottom margin of the final page. Bindings in very good- to very good interiors in very good- condition overall. Alternate title: Survivors' Talmud<br /> <br /> Grisha Rosenkranz aka Gregory Rosenkranz was a Lithuanian-born Jewish artist and Hebrew teacher. In addition to his work on the illustrations for these volumes of the Talmud he was an active artist in the DP camps after the war and was known to have designed a theater sets for a play produced in the camps. Later he emigrated to the United States eventually settling in Miami where he taught Hebrew Jewish studies and art. He also created art for the PBS tv program 'Living Hebrew'.<br /> <br /> With thanks to Jackie Ben Efraim for her research on these Talmuds. See her illustrated presentation ’Survivors’ Talmud' on YouTube. Rabbinical Representative by Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone [sic] hardcover
1974C86490Phaidon. As New. 1974. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B001IOWXZW. FOUR 4 VOLUME SET. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Phaidon hardcover
