Search Results: Titles starting with E from Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller

Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. 1/2500. Elephant folio. 35 pages (unpaginated). White dust jacket with printed calligraphic character on the front, and black lettering on the spine. Red cloth binding, with debossed blind-stamped design on the front cover. Contains 48 images in color by the Japanese photographer, and published to coincide with his exhibition of the same name, first held at the PDX Contemporary Art gallery, Portland, OR in 2005. Yamamoto's work is known for the blurring of the boundaries between painting and photography, and for experimenting with printing surfaces. Printed in a limited number of 2500 copies.

Coimbra: Universidade de Coibmbra, 1982. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 73 pp. Original paper wraps. Inscribe din Portuguese on front endpaper from author to a Dr. Maria Chere. Text in Portuguese. Fully annotated, includes bibliographical references. Interesting work on the Jews of Portugal. Minor browning to wrappers, otherwise book is in very good condition.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. g+. Octavo. Original printed paper covered boards. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated May 1956. The Shahnama (Book of Kings) is the Persian national epic, and is generally accepted as one of the world's literary classics. Its first draft was completed in the year 999, and the final version, dedicated to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, just over ten years later. The author was Abu'l-Qasim Hasan, generally known by his professional name, Firdawsi. The pages contained in this book cover the reigns of Ardashir I and Shapur I. Ardashir I, also known as Ardashir the Unifier (180-242 AD) was the founder of the Sasanian Empire. Shapur I, also known as Shapur I the Great, was the second King of the Sasanian Empire. The dates of his reign are commonly given as 240/42 - 270/72 CE, but it is likely that he also reigned as co-regent (together with his father) prior to his father's death in 242 (more probably… Read More

Vienna: Technical University Vienna, 1980. First edition. Softcover. g. Large Square Quarto. Unpaginated (30). Original white wraps with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece photograph. Festschrift on the occasion of the 60th birthday of E. Hiesemayr, Dean of the Technical University in Vienna from 1975 to 1977. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of Hiesemayr buildings and one portrait drawing by Max Weiler. Various contributions by friends and colleagues of Ernst Hiesemayr, photographs are by Dworsky and the Hiesemayr archive. Text in German. Wrappers sunned and rubbed. Second page loose. Wrappers and interior in overall good condition.

Wetzlar, Germany: Ernst Leitz, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. Screw-bolted gilt metal handle bar over brown buckram boards with white lettering on cover, black lettering on metal spine. This collection of Leitz catalogs represents a comprehensive overview of the instruments offered by the famous German lens manufacturer Leitz/Leica and its advertising practices during the late 1920s to 1930. Our collection contains forty-four catalogs and leaflets, all but three attached to vellum paper rails. They are filed in nine categories with stiff light brown wrappers and printed descriptors on tabs throughout the folder: Mikro, Metallogr. (Metallography), Mineralog. (Mineralogy), Lupen (Magnifying lenses), Nebenapp., Apparate f. klin. Untersuchungen (Supporting devices for clinical research), Mikrotome (Cutting tool), Mikrophoto, and Projektion. The catalogs are dated from 1927 to 1930 and many of the photographs contain identifying numbers. The majority of the catalogs… Read More

Berlin: Benjamin Harz, 1922. First trade edition. Hardcover. fair to vg. Large quarto. 260pp. Original 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Decorative title page. Splendidly illustrated throughout with 226 b/w reproductions of drawings of various types, this work is a detailed and authoritative biography on the German-Jewish Art-Nouveau illustrator and printmaker Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925). Particularly noted for his art on Jewish and Zionist themes, Lilien is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist." Some rubbing to covers and along edges of binding. Head and tail of spine partly chipped. Text in German. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in very good condition.

Copenhagen: Galleri Faurschou, 2000. Softcover. vg. Oblong 8vo. 27pp. Illustrated wrappers. Minor scuffing to wraps. Stunningly illustrated with color reproductions of paintings by Munch. Near fine condition.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Oblong 4to. 176pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine in pictorial dust jacket. Parts of bottom edge on front board slightly bumped. Slight creasing and scuffing to dj. Frontispiece. "E. O. Hoppe's Amerika presents rare and little known photographs made by the German-born British photographer during his travels around the United States in the 1920's." Profusely illustrated with annotated reproductions of b/w photographs. Near fine.

Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. near fine. 1/150. Elephant folio. 35 pages (unpaginated). Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell box, with a debossed blind-stamped motif on the front cover. White dust jacket with printed calligraphic character on the front, and black lettering on the spine. Red cloth binding. Original publisher's shrinkwrap present and protecting the dust jacket. Signed by Yamamoto calligraphically, with his chop on the front free endpaper. This copy of one of a limited number of 150, which includes an a plate containing three small photographic prints by Yamamoto. The work contains 48 images in color by the Japanese photographer, and published to coincide with his exhibition of the same name, first held at the PDX Contemporary Art gallery, Portland, OR in 2005. Yamamoto's work is known for the blurring of the boundaries between painting and photography, and for experimenting with printing surfaces. Printed in a limited number of 2500 copies.… Read More

Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap, with jacket sunned, and a few closed tears at the bottom. Elephant folio. 35 pages (unpaginated). White dust jacket with printed calligraphic character on the front, and black lettering on the spine. Red cloth binding, with debossed blind-stamped design on the front cover. Signed by Yamamoto calligraphically, with his chop on the front free endpaper Contains 48 images in color by the Japanese photographer, and published to coincide with his exhibition of the same name, first held at the PDX Contemporary Art gallery, Portland, OR in 2005. Yamamoto's work is known for the blurring of the boundaries between painting and photography, and for experimenting with printing surfaces. Printed in a limited number of 2500 copies.

Sopron: Kende Márta, 1945. First edition. Softcover. g- to g+. Octavo. 10 leaves. Original photo-illustrated, stapled wraps with red backdrop and white lettering on cover. Pamphlet about the Hungarian Pioneer Movement in Hungarian, Russian, French, and English. The movement was established by the Hungarian Communist Party for primary school children between the age of 6 and 14. The goal was to rear an educated, moral, socialist youth true to its country and its people. At the time of publications the membership amounted to about 700,00 children guided by teachers with chief support of the Hungarian Working People's Party and it s wise leader Matyas Rakosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party and acting prime minister for a few days in 1946 and 1947. He was removed from his position as General Secretary in 1956 by the Soviet Politburo under Nikita Kkrushchev. The pamphlet is profusely illustrated with sepia toned photographs depicting the desolate conditions from 1920-1945, Hungary… Read More

New York: Esco Foundation for Palestine, Inc, 1945. g. Ex-library. Over 800pp. Four parts bound in four Accopress binders. Fascinating work by the 'Esco Foundation Study' on the development of the Jewish National Home - history, problems and programs - from the rise of Zionism in the nineteenth century to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in April 1945. Part 1: I. The Development of Zionism in the Nineteenth Century. II. The First World War and the Balfour Declaration. III. The Peace Conference and the Mandate for Palestine. IV. Promises, Claims and Rights. Part II: V. Events and Policies: 1920-1929. VI. The Development of the Jewish National Home. VII. The Arab World and Arab Politics in Palestine. VIII. Communities, Attitudes and Arab-Jewish Relations. Part III: IX. The 1929 Disturbances and their Aftermath. X. Development during the Second Decade: 1930-1939. XI. Political Events and Policies: 1931-1936. XII. The Royal Commission and the Proposal of Partition. Part IV: XIII. The 1939… Read More

Los Angeles: Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller, 2016. Signed Limited edition. 1/60. Oblong Quarto. [1] 252 [1]pp. Black silk with photograph and gilt lettering on cover, housed in matching silk slipcase. All edges gilt. Tan endpapers. Translucent photographic flyleaf. With a 23-inch panorama of Constantinople in rear pocket. Handsome and extensive nineteenth-century photographic survey of the Islamic Near East from Morocco to Turkey. Illustrated with 374 photographs (many full page), arranged thematically. Primarily ethnographic albumen prints, color photochroms, glass slides and a ferrotype, the images were selected from the extraordinary 5000-image archive of Mohammed B. Alwan, Arabic language and literature professor. With eleven-page introduction by Stephen Sheehi, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies at William & Mary College. The work reproduces the hue, value, contrast and focus of each original print. Photo captions in English. Color map of the region and index of photographers at… Read More

Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Small Quarto. 221pp. Illustrated paper covered boards, with dark blue lettering on front cover and spine. Features both Hebrew and English language covers and title pages. The publication is an catalog for the the exhibit of the same name curated by Sarfati, held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem from August 19, 2015-May 14, 2016. The exhibition featured, "A selection of Jewish New Year cards created and circulated in 20th-century Europe, America, and Israel. With imagery relating to different historical events, these cards tell the dramatic story of the Jewish people throughout the century." The publication features high quality color photographic reproductions of the cards themselves. In both Hebrew and English.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 316 pp. Original 1/2 blue cloth over paper-covered boards with gold lettering in an original illustrated dust jacket. Very slight rubbing on upper edges of dj, small crease on dj at tail of spine, very slight staining on inside dj at edges. Dj in very good to near fine, binding in fine, interior in fine condition.

NP, 1946. Softcover. g. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photographic wraps. 24 page publicity booklet and program of Earl Carroll's Theater / Restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. Theatrical producer, director, composer and songwriter, Earl Carroll (1893-1948) was a pioneer in the "supper club" concept. In 1922, he built the first Earl Carroll Theater in New York. 16 years later he opened another on Sunset Boulevard, immediately becoming a Hollywood hotspot. Booklet profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs of various shows performed at the Theater. Other images show performers, Carroll, the interior of the Sunset Theater & his farm in the San Fernando Valley. "...this program is a lasting souvenir of a glamorous visit to Earl Carroll's. With its lavish revue, its all-star cast, its unbelievable stage settings, its sensational double revolving stages, its sixty most beautiful girls - it is indeed a memorable, never-to-be forgotten experience!" Some age wear on edges and spine of wraps,… Read More

Berlin: Paul Gottschalk, 1927. Limited first edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. 1/172. Folio. 91pp. of text, interleaved with an additional 130 plates, including many double pages. Vellum over tan cloth boards with gilt ruling and the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. This is one of a limited number of 172 copies printed. The book contains facsimile reproductions of the Papal Bulls of Donation, from 1493, granting territorial rights in the New World to the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, and the Treaty of Tordesillas. The contents include 130 plates reproduced in photogravure containing the original manuscripts, later copies and an extensive section of early 16th century maps pertaining to exploration of the Americas. The work contains 16 maps including the Cantino Map (1502), The Pilestrina Map (1503), The Munich-Portuguese Map (1519), The Robert Thorne Map (1527) and the Castiglioni Map of Ribero type (ca 1529). The book includes introductory text, explanatory notes and historical analysis… Read More

New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/75. 4to. Oblong. 115pp. Original leather with sculpted image on front cover in brown cloth clamshell box. Cover plate on box. Minor rubbing to box. Title-plate in green leather with gold lettering. Raised bands. Minor scuffing and scratching to leather. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with 42 b/w reproductions of photographs and gravestone rubbings. Includes 3 loose mounted plates of which one is an original gravestone rubbing in duo tone taken directly from the Pompey Benton marker as well as 2 selenium-toned photographs. All 3 plates are signed by Neal and Parker. Also signed by them on colophon page. "This book is based on our original portfolios; substitutions have been made to balance and enrich the selection. The newly added descriptive texts include, wherever possible, the results of research into the lives and working methods of the carvers represented. Each rubbing is complemented by a photograph taken on the site, so… Read More

Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1964. Limited first edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/150. IX, [7], 62pp. Original half tan cloth over illustrated paper covered boards, with red lettering on spine. Fascinating work being an overview of American drinking habits from the Colonial era through the early decades of the Republic, by America's foremost collector of books on food and drink. One of 150 copies printed by the Plantin Press for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club (so stated on tipped in bookplate). Decorative title-page. Frontispiece, 7 plates and engravings in the text. Bibliography and index. Binding and interior in overall near to fine condition.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Large octavo. XXVIII, 301, [1]pp (Vol. I); XXI, [1], 594pp (Vol. II). Original pictorial dust-jacket over green cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Publisher's logo to title. This fascinating work presents a fresh approach to the study of American Jewish life, in its formative period, during colonial and early national times. "Early American Jewry" is a major contribution to American Jewish history. Dust-jackets rubbed along edges, with sporadic and minor chipping. DJ in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition.