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Berlin: Verlag Alfred Weiner, 1930. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg-. Quarto. 8 1/4x 10 3/4". Unpaginated [6]. B/w photo-illustrated stapled wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. The publication is an issue of the of the promotional supplement to the German weekly, Illustrierter Film-Kurier, promoting the release of the 1930 German war film "Westfront 1918", directed by acclaimed auteur G. W. Pabst, and produced by Nero-Film. The film, an adaptation of Ernst Johannsen's novel "Vier von der Infanterie", was Pabst's first sound film and was technically pioneering in its use of the new technology to create an immersive visual and sonic experience, with complex tracking shots, live sound, realistic production design, and special sound and effects to portray the horrors of WWI to brutal and grim effect. After the Nazis came to power they denounced and censored the film for its pacifistic and antiwar sentiments. It is seen as a companion film to the other WWI drama from the same year the… Read More

New York: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1989. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xii. 259 pp. (4). In English. Blue and white covered boards with white and blue writing on front cover and spine. Book condition: Fine.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine.. Folio. 342pp. Original color-illustrated dustjacket, red lettering on spine, over red cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece b/w portrait photograph. With contributions by Petra Albrecht, Hubertus Gassner, Klaus Honnef, Michael Krejsa, Heiner Müller, Peter Pachnicke, and Nancy Roth. Published on the occasion of the exhibition John Heartfield at the Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, May 16-July 11, 1991. The traveling exhibition went on to Bonn, Tübingen, Hannover, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. "Heartfield was a master of bitter, satiric art. Using images from newspapers, magazines, and advertisements and juxtaposing incongruous details, he created startling pictures with strong meanings. Many of his photomontages appeared in the German leftist newspaper AIZ (Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung, or Workers' Illustrated Newspaper) between 1930 and 1938;..." (Publisher). Illustrated… Read More

Schenectady: Isaac Stevens, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo (8 x 5"). iv, 28pp (A Solemn Review of the Custom of War), 36, 36, 36, 36, 34, [2], 32, 35, [1]pp. Modern full cloth with gold lettering to spine. The author of this work, Noah Worcester (1758-1837), was a "Unitarian clergyman and a seminal figure in history of American pacifism. Although active in Unitarian theological controversies of the day, Worcester is best remembered as a pioneer in the American peace movement. In December 1814, he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War (under the pen-name Philo Pacificus), still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print, and as relevant today as then." (From Wikipedia) This book contains the first seven issues of "The Friend of Peace" intended to direct the public to a more attentive consideration of the subject of war. It is prefixed with an analytic work on the custom of war, its causes and consequences, and the possible remedy.… Read More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Hardcover. vg. Ex library. 52 plates & 67pp. booklet with wrappers in tan folding portfolio with cloth edges. Minor staining to portfolio. Remnants of library inventory plate and tape near tail of spine. Library bookplate on inside of front cover, inventory number written in pencil on title page. "This Fascicule contains all the Corinthian, Attic-red and black-figured, and South Italian vases in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art". Illustrated with 52 reproductions of b/w photographs. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fascicule 1, Fascicule 18. Overall very good condition.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Hardcover. vg. 52 plates & 67pp. booklet with tan wrappers in tan folding portfolio with cloth edges. Minor staining and discoloration to portfolio. Small tear to fore edge of folder. "This Fascicule contains all the Corinthian, Attic-red and black-figured, and South Italian vases in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art". Illustrated with 52 reproductions of b/w photographs. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fascicule 1, Fascicule 18. In very good condition.

Washington: Governments Printing Office, 1905. Hardcover. g. 4to. 272 pp. Brown cloth binding. Corners frayed and spine have a small amount of fraying, very slightly shaken, otherwise good to very good. Sixty-one full-page plates in color and b&w of drawings and photographs, with two or more images on each plate. Good.

Philadelphia: H. W. Kelley, 1880. Sold Only by Subscription. Hardcover. Very good- condition. Octavo. xvi, 893pp., 7 plates. Original illustrated bright green pebbled cloth with gilt and black illustrations, vignettes and decor on cover, gilt lettering and globe on spine. Light red edges. Tan endpapers. Two frontispieces with tissue guard. Illustrated with some one hundred and fifty engravings, many of them full page, one folded map, few double pages, and in-text illustrations. With incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Egypt, India, China, Japan, etc.. Together with a graphic description of the places visited, manners and customs, beautiful scenery, ovations of emperors, Kings and people, carefully edited and arranged from the correspondence of the New York Herald. The only complete authentic one volume edition. Binding somewhat rubbed, binding reinforced with japan tissue along gutter of interior front… Read More

Krakow: Nakladem Zwiazku Mlodziezy Rekodzieln i Przemyslowej, 1947. First edition. Softcover. g+ to near fine. Octavo. 84pp. Printed aqua-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A short biography of and memorial publication for Krakow-based Jesuit priest and respected youth social worker Mieczysław Kuznowicz (1874-1945), who was the founder of the Union of Industrial and Handicraft Youth in 1906. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. Index and bibliography at the rear. Text in Polish. Wrappers with some light foxing and smudging to the front cover. Wrappers in good+, interior in near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Scarce.

Krakow: Nakladem Zwiazku Mlodziezy Rekodzieln i Przemyslowej, 1947. First edition. Softcover. g to near fine. Octavo. 84pp. Printed aqua-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A short biography of and memorial publication for Krakow-based Jesuit priest and respected youth social worker Mieczysław Kuznowicz (1874-1945), who was the founder of the Union of Industrial and Handicraft Youth in 1906. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. Index and bibliography at the rear. Text in Polish. Wrappers with some light foxing and smudging to the front cover. Wrappers in good, interior in near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Scarce.

New York: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial dust-jacket over black cloth, with white lettering on front board and spine. Fascinating work being a book of poems by Padgett along with many b&w drawings and collages by Jim Dine who also designed the book. Back cover of dust-jacket slightly waterstained. Dust-jacket in overall good+, binding and interior in very good condition.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. LIV, 682pp. Original printed wrappers over decorative cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Frontispiece portrait of Karl Marx within decorative red frame. Title-page within elaborate red frame. First edition of this fascinating work containing in full all the major and classic Marx works on the subject of revolution from the revolutions of 1848 to the Paris Commune. In addition to Marx's theoretical writings on revolution, this volume includes his practical, specific, day-to-day comments on men and events. Very minor soiling on wrappers. Previous owner's ex-libris on inside of front board. Author's inscription on free front endpaper. Wrappers in overall good to very good, binding and interior in very good condition.

Łódź: Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, 1956. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). [6]pp (Text), [12]pp (Photographs), [6]pp (Text). Original printed wrappers, with grey lettering to front cover. Official catalogue of the Third Regional Photography Exhibition held in Lodz, Poland, in November and December 1956. The photographs featured in this work were taken by the following Polish photographers: Zbigniew Czajkowski, Eugeniusz Haneman, Zbigniew Hartwig, Jerzy Grygiel, Adam Idzinski, Marian Iwanow, Zbigniew Jarzyński, Jerzy Mackiewicz, Miłosłav Petruszka, Ignacy Płażewski, Edward Przybyłowicz, and Micołaj Zapendowski. Wrappers soiled and partly creased. Text in Polish. Wrappers in overall fair to good-, interior in very good condition.

Gummersbach: Printed by E. Gronenberg, 1948. Second edition. Softcover. vg. Numbered and signed by the artist; numbered 192 and dated 1948. Octavo. Unpaginated, (3) 81 plates of app. 5 x 4 inches. Original beige wraps with brown lettering and publisher's device on cover. Self published by the artist Peter Joseph Paffenholz in cooperation with the printer E. Gronenberg. An extraordinary interpretation of Goethe's Faust executed in 59 bold woodcuts with captioned quotes from the drama and 21 chapter deviders. Vollmer III, 538. An impressive work by this German artist who was persecuted and interned at various times by the Nazis starting in 1933. Text in German. Wraps and block age toned, else in very good condition.

New York: Ferrar & Rinehart, 1930. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xiv, 362 pp. Light blue cloth binding w/o dj. Edges faded and spine sunned. Head and tail of spine bumped. Some yellow stains to back. Inscribed by previous owner. Frontis. Illustrated with b/w photographs and some drawings. In good condition.

St. Augustine, Trinidad: The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 131, [1]pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Errata and corrigenda slip laid in. Publisher's logo on title page. Scarce study of scientific research on cacao between 1945 and 1951. This work is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous b/w photographic reproductions, charts, tables, and 14 full-page color plates. Spine heavily rubbed. Moderate rubbing along edges of binding. Minor offsetting on endpapers. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in very good condition.

London: The Central Asian Research Centre in association with Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1971. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 152 pp. Yellow wrapped boards with brown lettering on front cover and spine. Interesting work analyzing 15 years Soviet Middle Eastern Policy. Some sunning to spine and scuffing to boards, former library book of the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies at the George Washington University in D.C. Book is in good condition.

Lyon: Sebastien Gryphius, 1529. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. [16]ff., 7152 [i.e., 2752] col., [2]ff. Woodcut historiated title border and large historiated initial at first page of the dedication; Hebrew lettrines at each section; printed marginalia; printer's device at colophon. Text in two columns. Modern leatherette (laminated over an earlier binding with stamped vignettes), hand-lettered title section from early vellum binding preserved at spine, discrete early inscription in neat hand at title, faint marginal embrowning, four minute worm holes at title, fading away to two by the sixth leaf, only one continuing throughout first half of text, with no significant loss, small clear tape repair at bottom margin title, other repairs at top corner and outer margin last three leaves, paper restoration at top corner final leaf. Overall a very good copy, crisp and clean. Collation: [16 leaves, irregular signatures], a-z6, A-Z6, aa-zz6, AA-ZZ6, Aa-Zz6 (= 706 leaves; quire p with signature… Read More

Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. vg. 1/200. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). 63, [17]pp. Original gilt-stamped grey cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Limitation page signed by both the author and the artist. Original etched frontispiece hand-numbered (74/190) and signed by Roy E. Purcell. Illustrated title page. Book housed in its original gilt-stamped brown cloth slipcase. "The Cerbat Mountains and other barren ranges in western Arizona along the Colorado River, offer to the inquisitive visitor a wide range of unexpected experiences. Tucked away in several canyons are the skeletal remains of abandoned mines and towns. Delight in making friends with these desert ghosts awaits the traveler who can discriminate between solitude and loneliness. Illustrated with stunning color illustrations and etchings by Roy E. Purcell, as well as numerous "period photographs of the families who lived in this isolated area, the small towns with their general stores and… Read More

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1889. First edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Folio. 231-270pp. Original color illustrated wraps with black, blue and gilt lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Decorative head and endpiece. Cover art by J. C. Taylor. "As ever, when the skies are drear, And snow falls white, and ice shines clear, The Christmas Puck Comes here To cheer The dying year; Comes to bespeak, For those who follow PUCK week after week, A gift benign FOR 1889..." With contributions by H. G. Paine, J. L. Ford, Williston Fish, Emma A. Opper, G. A. Hanson, among others. Illustrated with drawings and caricatures printed in b/w and color, including an elaborate double-page color drawing by J. Keppler, a double-page reproduction of a watercolor by C. J. Taylor. Illustrated advertisement on inside cover and first four pages, six last pages, including a full page illustrated color ad for Decker pianos, a full page illustrated ad for Liebig Company on inside back cover, and a full… Read More