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187736180Paris: Au Ménestrel . Heugel & Fils PN H. 4814 1877. Large octavo. Original publisher's light blue wrappers with titling in dark blue and red within decorative border. 1f. recto title printed in red and blue within decorative red border verso blank 1f. recto attractive full-page illustrated lithographic title printed on green ground verso blank 1f. recto named cast list and contents verso blank 274 pp. <br/><br/>Named cast includes Bouffar D'Asco Piccolo Ismael Urbain and Berthelier. <br/><br/>With handstamp of former owner "Wesley Boynton" to upper margin of upper wrapper and title.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; minor chips to blank outer edge; split at spine. Minor internal wear; edges slightly foxed. Revised for the first Paris performance. Au Ménestrel ... Heugel & Fils [PN H. 4814] unknown books
1983154195Lyon: Musee Historique des Tissus 1983. Softcover. G Ex-art library with cover label and few interior marks; outer spine has substantial wear and tear; wraps have moderate edge wear with a small part missing at top of front cover; page edges are tanning only slightly and text and illus. are clear. Black & green & color illus. wraps 100 pp. BW & color illus. diagrams. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1983-1984 exhibition of cashmire shawls in 19th-century France. With extensive illustrated essays on their history and technique by Monique Levi-Strauss and Gabriel Vial. The annotated catalogue addresses 87 pieces and most if not all seem to be pictured here. Includes glossaries and a bibliography. Uncommon. Musee Historique des Tissus paperback books
187536170Paris: Au Ménestrel . Heugel et Cie. PN H. 4568 1875. Large octavo. Original publisher's light blue decorative wrappers printed in dark blue. 1f. recto title printed in blue within decorative border verso publisher's catalogue 233 i blank pp. Publisher's catalogue to recto and verso of lower wrapper. <br/><br/>Wrappers worn and partially split; edges chipped; tape repairs to spine. Title slightly worn and foxed; small publisher's stamps to blank lower margin. The first of Strauss's operettas La Reine Indigo was first performed in Vienna at the Theatre an der Wien on 10 February 10 1871. Au Ménestrel ... Heugel et Cie. [PN H. 4568] unknown books
1965WRCLIT55646Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1965. Pictorial wrappers. Second edition. Poet/translator Cid Corman's copy signed by him and with frequent often substantive annotations in his hand. Wrappers rubbed and creased but a good sound copy. Presses Universitaires de France unknown books
201331543Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 654 pp . University of Chicago Press hardcover books
194911727Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1949. Original wraps. Very Good. A solid copy of the 1949 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG in its light-green wrappers with mild darkening along the spine and light browning to the pages. A bit of wear as well to the spine ends and small neat former owner name at the front free endpaper. Thick octavo uncut pages. <br/><br/> Presses Universitaires de France paperback books
1949178544Paris: Presses Universitaires 1949. paperback. very good. 639pp. thick 8vo original printed wrappers pages evenly age browned. Paris: Presses Universitaires 1949. First Edition. Very good. Scarce and fragile.<br/><br/> The founding of structural anthropology reflecting the author's field expieriences in Brazil. With the small ownership label of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Presses Universitaires unknown books
186937299San Francisco: Winterburn & Co.'s Print 417 Clay Street 1869. Broadside 7" x 8-1/2". Receipt letterhead printed in green. Columns and Lines printed in blue and red. "PAYABLE IN U.S. GOLD COIN" The letterhead describes the Company as "Importers of Clothing Domestics Rubber Boots Duck Etc." and gives its location as "14 and 16 Battery Street between Bush and Pine." A small fox mark at head of receipt otherwise Fine.<br/><br/> Levi Strauss 1829-1902 a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria founded the iconic Levi Strauss & Company. He immigrated to New York in 1846 to join his two older brothers at their wholesale dry goods business. He moved to San Francisco in 1853 attracted by the Gold Rush. He established a wholesale business and was the west coast representative of the New York family business. He later renamed the company Levi Strauss & Co. Originally a dry goods business it became famous for its blue jeans. Levi's customer Jacob Davis a Nevada tailor invented a way to make pants with rivets at points of strain to extend their life. Levi partnered with Davis and they were granted a patent on May 20 1873 from which the now famous blue jeans were born. <br/> In addition to his clothing company Levi was a charter member and treasurer of the San Francisco Board of Trade; director of the Nevada Bank; director of the Liverpool London and Globe Insurance Company; director of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company; and part owner of the Mission and Pacific Woolen Mills. In addition to his many business pursuits Levi was a philanthropist who contributed to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home; the Eureka Benevolent Society and the Hebrew Board of Relief. "The Story of Levi Strauss" website of Levi Strauss & Co. <br/> Jewish brothers Adolph Cohn 1833-1906 and Simon Cohn 1834-1926 worked together as dry good merchants in Downieville California at the time of this receipt. Their business is cited as A. Cohn & Co. and also as S. & A. Cohn or Cohn Brothers. All are listed in the 1870 & 1880 U.S. Federal Censuses Adolph living with his wife Sarah 1849-1937 and Simon living with a roommate. Adolph Cohn was at one time secretary of the Mountain Torrent No. 2 Company of the Downieville Volunteer Fire Department a member of the Mountain Shade Lodge No. 18 of Free and Accepted Masons; and an officer with the Blue Range Encampment No. 8 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Simon was also a member of the Masons. "A. Cohn & Co. receipts 1866-1877 Univ. California Berkeley Bancroft Library BANC MSS 2006/324; Fariss & Smith: ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PLUMAS LASSEN & SIERRA COUNTIES. . . San Francisco: 1882 pp. 240 281 461-464. Winterburn & Co.'s Print, 417 Clay Street unknown books
19773325San Francisco: Levi Strauss & Company 1977. Single sheet 76 cm x 72 cm white stock printed in color. Gentle overall wear. Colors are bright. Fantastical promotional poster for Levi's featuring an illustration of a Levi farmer harvesting jeans. Levi Strauss & Company unknown books
190134541Berlin: Adolph Fürstner PNs A. 5162 F. etc. 1901. Quarto 305 x 235 mm. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers printed in brown and green publisher's advertisements to verso of lower. 1 title 2-3 texts and translations 25 pp.<br/><br/>Includes:<br/>Op. 47 no. 3. Rückleben<br/>Op. 47 no. 4. Einkehr<br/>Op. 46 no. 2. Gestern war ich Atlas<br/>Op. 48 no. 1. Freundliche vision<br/>Op. 49 no. 7. Wer lieben will muss leiden<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; publisher's handstamp to blank lower margin "Copyright for all countries Fürstner Limited 26-27 Conduit Street London W.1." and small ownership stamp "Hoch" to upper left corner of upper wrapper. Uniformly browned. TrV 199 200 202 204. Adolph Fürstner [PNs A. 5162 F., etc.] unknown books
1966106637Guatemala: Departamento Editorial "José de Pineda Ibarra 1966. 64p. 6x8 inches text in Spanish very good in original stapled wraps. Cuadernos del seminario de integración social Guatemalteca Tercera Serie No.14. Departamento Editorial "José de Pineda Ibarra unknown books
1978Embry 174604Johns Hopkins U. Press 1978. First edition first printing. Inked name to half-title page and small ink stamp to bottom edge else fine. In near fine edge and corner rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1978. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19271909Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau 1927. First edition. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original superb color illustrated card wrappers and glassine wrapper. 16 stunning full-page color illustrations by Andree Karpeles 1885-1956 famed French painter and illustrator student of Rene Menard and Lucien Simon. A Jewish painter living in India and France her work is highly regarded for its sensitivity and composition. This title is exceedingly scarce in the first edition and was reprinted in the next year by a German Publisher. A fine copy in the original glassine wrapper. The illustrations are thoroughly enchanting. <br/><br/> Librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau unknown books
1980211195San Francisco: Aleph Press / Eidolon Editions 1980. Paperback. 50p. 6.5x5.5 signed and inscribed by the poet very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Aleph Press / Eidolon Editions paperback books
198054478San Francisco: Aleph Press/Eidolon Editions 1980. First edition. 50 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Strauss on the half-title page. San Francisco: Aleph Press/Eidolon Editions unknown books
2004116691Zurich: Pro Helvetia 2004. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 46 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color figures. From a 2004 exhibition; Includes an essay provided in both German and English by Dorothea Strauss. Pro Helvetia unknown books
196648968New York: American R.D.M. Corporation 1966. First Edition. Slim octavo 21cm; pictorial card wrappers stapled; ii67-73pp; illus. Light wear to extremities printed price at upper right corner of front wrapper blacked-out; contents clean; Very Good. Brief early biography of the Nobel Prize-winning pastor and civil rights leader published during his lifetime two years prior to his assassination. American R.D.M. Corporation unknown books
199820871New York: Aperture Foundation 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to. Black cloth in glossy photographic dust jacket. Just a hint of wrinkling to pages visible only from top edge; else fine in like DJ. Sharp and crisp throughout. 149pp. <br/><br/>Monograph on Rio Branco a photographer and multimedia artist born in Spain. Collects primarily photographs taken in Brazil where he lives and other Latin American countries. (Aperture Foundation) hardcover books
61117Brown wrappers. 19 pp. with 2 blueprint illustrations of mines. Offered with INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MINESWEEPING DETACHMENT / MINE FORCE U.S. ATLANTIC FLEET April 1919. Rust wrappers. Part 1: 20 pp. Part 2: 10-a pp.; Offered with MINESWEEPING ORDERS FOR THE MINESWEEPING DETACHMENT / MINE FORCE U.S. ATLANTIC FLEET May 1919. Buff wrappers. 31pp. All 9 x 7 in. covers attached by brads through punchholes. First two initialed J.W.S. under Rear Admiral Strauss's printed signature. Strauss was the first Jewish Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He won the distinguished Service Award for the laying of the mines and then the removal. Apparently no OCLC on any of the titles. For the three items. <br/><br/> unknown books
194911008N.P.: Pied Piper Press 1949. paper wrappers. small 4to. paper wrappers. 28 pages. An illustrated manual that has a full color example tipped-in as a frontispiece. Near fine. Pied Piper Press unknown books
34687Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Pied Piper Press NY 1949. 28 pages clothbound very good condition no jacket. . Other hardcover books
194620242New York: The Viking Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . green cloth see note light wear at spine ends otherwise a solid clean book; jacket slightly edgeworn very shallow paper loss at spine ends small triangular surface-scrape at upper right corner of front panel light soiling to rear panel about a one-inch split at bottom front hinge. Dark and brooding novel of loneliness romance and murder in a small Southern town; basis for the dark and brooding and very romantic Frank Borzage film 1948 of the same title. NOTE: This novel was issued in both a red and green cloth binding with the green being slightly thicker than the red at least in examples I've seen. There are also two variant dust jackets: this one designated "Variant B" in Johnson "The Dark Page" features a man's head poking out of a cloudbank and partially blocking the moon and is again in my experience less common than the "no-face" version. . The Viking Press hardcover books
1948135343Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1948. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1948 film noir. Rubber stamped "7" on the verso. Based on the 1946 novel by Theodore Strauss. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Republic Pictures unknown books
1929040978Berlin: Der Heine-Bund 1929. xxiv 264p. original yellow cloth. Der Heine-Bund unknown books
198424144NY:: Fullcourt Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. B0006YLRDO . More than 100 color and 200 black and white illustrations. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Fullcourt Press, hardcover books
