‎Contemporary look‎

‎van de Poll, Willem; Bernard (Ben) Mohr (cover design by)‎

‎Nazi Hel‎

‎Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. 1945. First edition. Spiral_bound. g to vg. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. 30 pages. Spiral binding. Black heavy stock cardboard with white lettering on the front cover. The work contains harrowing and powerful photo-documantation of Nazi atrocities carried out in the concentration camps of "Grossdeutschland" "Greater Germany". There are a total of 26 striking b/w images in collotype each captioned underneath. The photos were taken by various unnamed Allied war photographer unders the auspices of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force after the liberation of the camps Bergen-Belsen Buchenwalde Langestein Mauthausen Dachau and Schwabmuenchen. The images were then collected and assembled here by acclaimed Dutch photographer Willem van de Poll 1895-1970. The second page contains a b/w map showing the location of the larger camps in "Grossdeutschland" of the time. <br /> <br /> Text in Dutch throughout. <br /> <br /> Binding with light wear along edges. White lettering on front cover lightly borwned so is white back cover and here two light water stains along top of cover. Inside cover with inked name and date of previous owner. Block somewhat age-toned due to paper quality. Alternate title: Nazi Hel SS. Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 54643

‎Yohji Yamamoto ; Takay (photographer) ; Noriteru Minezaki (book design)‎

‎Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme 2022-23 Autumn Winter‎

‎<p>Stunning Yohji Yamamoto large format men's look book with photography by Takay book design by Noriteru Minezaki the models Tsuyoshi Ihara Masaya Kato Yutaka Matsushige and Yasunori Mihara with styling by Tsuyoshi Noguchi Stie-lo. 56 p. col. & b&w ill. ; 39 x 30 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges no inscriptions tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.</p> Yohji Yamamoto paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 016952

‎Yohji Yamamoto ; Takay (photographer) ; Noriteru Minezaki (book design)‎

‎Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme 2024 Spring Summer‎

‎<p>Stunning Yohji Yamamoto large format men's look book with photography by Takay book design by Noriteru Minezaki modelling by Kyosuke Akiyoshi with styling by Tsuyoshi Noguchi Stie-lo. 56 p. col. & b&w ill. ; 39 x 30 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges small crease to front cover corner no inscriptions tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.</p> Yohji Yamamoto paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 016954

‎JOHN LORING‎

‎TIFFANY JEWELS‎

‎Harry N. Abrams 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to 240 pages black cloth. Note: may require higher shipping fee due to weight. <br/><br/>Loring was the head of design for Tiffany. An extensively illustrated history of the Company. Harry N. Abrams hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0008618 ISBN : 0810938979 9780810938977

‎Environmental Design Research Associatio,A H Ess‎

‎Design for Communality and Privacy‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0306400103.G ISBN : 0306400103 9780306400100

‎Novizagreb Design Project‎

‎Octane: Any year planner‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : A9781387925889 ISBN : 1387925881 9781387925889

‎[SamataMason Design] FEENEY, Kevin, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Larry Gaudet, Jim Hardy, John Pylypczak, Stefan Sagmeister, Howa‎

‎Appleton Coated Utopia Little Books‎

‎Dundee Illinois: Appleton Coated 2002. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers in slipcase. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo. Eight volumes unpaginated each perfect bound. Type and illustrations printed in red and black on various Appleton Utopia papers. Texts by Kevin Feeney Lawrence Ferlinghetti Larry Gaudet Jim Hardy John Pylypczak and Stefan Sagmeister. Introduction and credits on an inserted card printed red and black. In a slipcase covered in matte black paper with titles embossed in gloss black. Light scuffs. A smart paper sample promotion by multiple designers that aspires to "meaningful communications" instead of the usual sales blather. Appleton Coated unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 8908

‎Eng, Cindy (Text); Moerbeek, Kees (Paper Engineering); Vosough, Gene (Cover Design)‎

‎Alfred Hitchcock The Master of Suspense: A Pop-up Book‎

‎New York: Simon & Schuster 2006. Oversized hardcover pop-up book with decorated boards no dust jacket in very good condition. Rear board is slightly scuffed. All parts present and in good working order. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Simon & Schuster Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 611041 ISBN : 1416904670 9781416904670

‎East Wind Design‎

‎Portland Bouldering‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 0999723383.G ISBN : 0999723383 9780999723388

‎INTERIOR DESIGN, CONTEMPORARY‎

‎Barcelona: A decorative book for coffee tables end tables bookshelves and interior design styling: Stack Spain city books to add decor to any room. . own home or as a modern home decoration gift.‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1708365559.G ISBN : 1708365559 9781708365554

‎Design Media Publishing Limited‎

‎Painting in Wall Design‎

‎Design Media Publishing Limited 2010. Hardcover. New. 208 pages. 11.18x9.76x1.02 inches. Design Media Publishing Limited hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 2-9881950872 ISBN : 9881950872 9789881950871

‎Michael Freedland SIGNED & INSCRIBED, Inner DJ flap l300 NET, DJ Design John Munday, Blank Endpapers, Illustrated B/W Fotos 3 0‎

‎AL JOLSON IN COLOR DUSTJACKET in BLACKFACE SINGING WHITE GLOVES on Dustjacket. SIGNED BY Michael Freedland. AUTHOR story of Russian-Jewish boy who became Idol ofmass American Audience‎

‎<p>HBDJ 1972 on Title & Copyrite pg 1st EditionPg Light wear to boards EXTREMITIES tiny chips tears . Content is clean with a slight tone. Signed and inscribed by author to title page. DJ has edge tears Small CHIP that have been tape repaired to inside DARK PURPLE CLOTH TITLES IN GOLD GILT ON SPINE Cvr</p> W.H. Allen / Virgin Books, howard wyndham hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 30290

‎What Design Can do‎

‎What Africa Can Do For Europe - 31 Brilliant Ideas To Inspire The World‎

‎Lecturis December 2016. Hardcover. USED Very Good. This is number 174 out of 2000 copies. The interior is clean with a tight binding. There's some scuffing to the boards. Lecturis hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 582638 ISBN : 9082388618 9789082388619

‎Bayer, Herbert (Design)‎

‎Amtlicher Führer durch die Ausstellung Das Wunder des Lebens. Ausstellung am Kaiserdamm Official Guide to the Exhibition "The Wonder of Life." Exhibition at the Kaiserdamm‎

‎Berlin: Gemeinnützige Berliner Ausstellungs- Messe- und Fremdenverkahrs-G.m.b.H. 1935. First edition. Softcover. Good- to very good condition. Octavo. 160 viii 32pp. Original wraps with cover design by Herbert Bayer protected by modern mylar. Official guide for the exhibition "The Miracle of Life." An important work by Bayer who designed both the exhibition "The Miracle of Life" and the exhibition catalog. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. Text in German. Some wear along edges of wraps chips and creasing rubbed and very small stains on back cover. Wraps in overall good- interior in very good condition. Gemeinnützige Berliner Ausstellungs-, Messe- und Fremdenverkahrs-G.m.b.H. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 54208

‎Hajek, Karel (photography and design by ); Jiři Trnka (design)‎

‎Výstava Fotografií Karla Hájka Exhibition of Photographs by Karel Hajek SIGNED‎

‎Prague: ÚstÅ™ední knihovna lavního mÄ›sta Prahy Prague Central Library/ Printed by V. Neubert and Sons 1936. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Black paper wrappers. Main title page and additional exhibition title page both illustrated with striking photo-montage in b/w. Title page signed in pen by Karel Hajek.<br /> <br /> This finely printed photo-illustrated work was published to coincide with the the exhibition of photography by acclaimed Czech photographer and photo-journalist Karel Hajek 1900-1978 held in January 1936 at the Prague Central Library. Images throughout the publication are all gorgeous examples of vibrant b/w photogravure printing. The layout design and typography of the work was created by Hajek in collaboration with the acclaimed Czech illustrator puppeteer and animator Jiří Trnka 1912-1969. Following the title page with a playful photomontage showing the photographer in a newsprint suit is a page of introductory text for the exhibition from writer playwright and filmmaker Vladislav VanÄura 1891-1942 art critic Bohumil Markalous 1882-1952 and finally Hajek himself. This is followed by a beautiful full-page photomontage of images by Hajek which serves as an introduction to the exhibition. A selection of 7 captioned images from the exhibition is then followed by a text page of technical information concerning the photography and a full list of the 181 photos included in the exhibition along with their respective film stocks. The final pages are comprised of numerous finely photo-illustrated period advertisements all also printed very nicely in photogravure. A now very scarce document of the early career of this important figure of Czech photo-journalism.<br /> <br /> Minor scratches and abrasions to the front wrappers. Light chipping with tiny stains along the bottom edge of the back wrapper. Lightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine. Starting at the gutter of the interior front cover. All images throughout very clean and nice. Wrappers in very good interior in very good condition overall. 5 OCLC copies worldwide. Not found in 'Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989' Manfred Heiting ed. [Ústřední knihovna lavního města Prahy] (Prague Central Library)/ Printed by V. Neubert and Sons unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 51694

‎Breton, Nicholas; Rogers, Bruce (design)‎

‎The Twelve Moneths And Christmas Day From "Fantastickes‎

‎New York: Clarke & Way 1951. Limited ed. Hardcover. fine. 1/900 copies of 1000 copies total in navy blue cloth decorated in gilt with spine lettered in gilt. 56 pp. with glossary. Designed and illustrated in pastel color silhouette drawings of classical Greek figures by Bruce Rogers. Introductory note on the design by Rogers. Printed on Eglish handmade rag paper at the Thistle Press in New York. A reprint of Nicholas Breton's 1626 portion of "Fantastickes" with a brief essay on each of the 12 months and on Christmas. The second portion "A Prognostication" is a month by month calendar usable for calculating the days of the week from 1951 to 1979. AS NEW in original red cardboard slipcase alos fine and the original glassine dust wrapper with panels and flaps intact but spine strip lacking. A beautifully and elegantly produced book. Clarke & Way hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : E13057

‎Robbie Design Project‎

‎Happy Gay Kitchen Cookbook and Recipe Journal: Limited Edition‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781304201010 ISBN : 1304201015 9781304201010

‎Fowler, John and John Cornforth‎

‎English Decoration in the 18th Century‎

‎London: Barrie & Jenkins 1978. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 11.9x8.6x1.1in. reprinted 1983; mottling to exposed edge of boards foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>With 140 color plates and 234 monochrome illustrations. <br>288pp 3.11lb 11.9x8.6x1.1in Barrie & Jenkins hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 18113 ISBN : 0214205525 9780214205521

‎Design Architectural‎

‎Doll's Houses Academy Editions Architecture Series‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 0856708275.G ISBN : 0856708275 9780856708275

‎Steiner, Bedrich (ed) Stefan Engel; Lev (Leo) Haas (illus and design by); FO Stein (English trans); J Weiss (Hebrew trans) F O‎

‎The Tragedy of the Slovak Jewry: Photographs and Documents/ Shoʼat Yehude Slovakyah: Temunot u-mismakhim ENGLISH/ HEBREW VARIANT‎

‎Bratislava: CUJCR Documentation Centre of the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities 1949. First edition. Softcover. vg- to vg. Quarto. 142 4pp. Tan paper wrappers. Pages uncut. <br /> <br /> Powerful memorial publication containing photographic and historical material documentation of the horrors perpetrated upon the Jewish community of Slovakia by the Nazis during the Holocaust 1939-1945. Although there is some initial text most of the history is conveyed visually with the book being profusely illustrated throughout with finely produced b/w photogravure images after harrowing original photographs and facsimile images of relevant original documents of all kinds. The design visual layout including some photo-collage and occasional illustrated images including the frontispiece are by Czech-Jewish artist and designer Lev Leo Haas 1901-1983. The work was published by the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Slovakia.<br /> <br /> This variant contains initial text and captions throughout in both English and Hebrew. The final three pages contain a section of notes on the documents which is entirely in English.<br /> <br /> Wrappers with some small tears along the spine and chipping at the tail of the spine. A few pages throughout with some small closed tears to the margins of the pages. All pages clean with vibrant images throughout. Wrappers in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Hebrew title: שו×ת יהודי סלובקיה:†â€×ª×ž×•× ×•×ª ומסמכי×<br /> <br /> This English/Hebrew variant is more scarce than the Slovak-language version issued under the title "Tragédia Slovenských Zidov: Fotografie a Dokumenty CUJCR (Documentation Centre of the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities) unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 53574

‎Babel, Isaac (И Бабель, screenplay); Sholem Aleichem (original novel); Alexander Bykhovskii (Александр Быховский, design & illus‎

‎Блуждающие Звезды: Кино-Сценарий Bluzhdaiushchie Zvezdy: Kinostsenarii Wandering Stars: Film Script‎

‎Moscow МоÑква: Kinopechat Кинопечать 1926. First edition. Softcover. Good to very good condition. Octavo. 80pp. Dark blue and white wrappers with constructivist typography on the front cover housed in modern blue heavy paper portfolio with printed typographic design of original cover pasted to cover flap. Publisher's device on title page. This scarce published screenplay for the film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's novel "Wandering Stars" by the acclaimed Russian-Jewish novelist playwright and journalist Isaac Babel 1894-1940. The film was premiered in Kiev on January 4th 1927 and was directed by Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower 1883-1945. It was produced by VUFKU studios the national film studios of the Ukrainian SSR.<br /> <br /> This book contains the entirety of the film's screenplay accompanied by three striking b/w illustrations by Soviet artist and designer Alexander Bykhovskii 1888-1978 who likely also created the striking cover. The final three pages contain publisher's ads listing other work on the topic of cinema.<br /> <br /> The story tells of the love between Leibel the son of a wealthy shtetl family and Reizel a poor cantor's daughter in Bessarabia. The two run off to join a traveling Yiddish theater group. They are later separated with each becoming successful in their own right only to eventually reunite in America. The work was first serialized and originally appeared in the Warsaw newspapers between 1909 and 1911. It has come to be seen as the third in an unofficial trilogy of novels by the writer centering on musicians or performers preceded by Stempenyu 1888 and The Nightingale 1889.<br /> <br /> In 1925 the Moscow State Jewish Theater suggested that the Goskino the Soviet State Film Studio produce a film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s novel. The order was commissioned to Isaac Babel for translation and adaptation from the book's original Yiddish language to Russian for the screenplay. During this period Babel had been working on other translations of Yiddish literature into Russian including the collected works of Sholem Aleichem and work by David Bergelson. According to Babel's foreword printed here he faced a number of difficulties adapting the novel including the modification of petty bourgeoisie motifs as well as the changes of film directors and their differing requirements. Because of certain elements in the script of which the main committee of the Goskino did not approve the film's production had to ultimately be switched to VUFKU studios in Odessa. In a letter during the period of production Babel apparently wrote: “I will have to be present on the set. if I am not there the director will ruin everything" and later upon hearing of further changes made by Gritscher-Tscherikower wrote that "it is more profitable for me not to participate in this shameful productionâ€. Regardless of Babel's opinion of the final product the film was well received by Soviet audiences at the time.<br /> <br /> Text in Russian. Portfolio with minor wear. Wraps partially restored with minor wear. Previous owner's names and date at top of title page one near gutter. Light water staining along right half of bottom edge of first 30 pages reappearing from pages 40 to end though along lower part of foredge more pronounced on pages 75/76 and light fraying along foredge from pages 67 to 76. Block lightly age-toned. Kinopechat (Кинопечать) unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 54867

‎Moriyama, Daido (森山 大道); Peter B Willberg (design)‎

‎Daido Moriyama SIGNED W/ SIGNED ORIGINAL PRINT‎

‎London: Guiding Light/Michael Hoppen Gallery 2004. Limited first edition. Softcover. near fine. 1/100. 15 1/2 x 11 1/2". Elephant folio. 82pp. 2. Unbound folded leaves. House in a lined translucent and re-sealable electrostatic shielding bag with a hand-numbered sticker on the front. Printed photo-illustrated b/w wrapper with pink lettering on the front cover. #95 from a limited edition of 100 numbered copies with a signed original 8x10" b/w print. Print protected in plastic. This copy is also signed by the photographer on the front cover of the publication in black marker. <br /> <br /> A large scale catalog issued in conjunction with the exhibition Daido Moriyama: Vintage Prints at the Shine Gallery and Michael Hoppen Gallery London held February 2004. Profusely illustrated throughout with finely printed large scale b/w photographic reproductions after unpublished images from the acclaimed Japanese photographer's work. Initial text from photographer William Klein and gallerist Michael Hoppen on the interior front cover. <br /> <br /> From the publisher: "A collection of rare vintage prints from Moriyama's own personal collection providing a substantial body of work from the 1960's 70's and 80's previously unseen in public. A stray dog is caught in strong shadows against a high-contrast background piercing the viewer with an unwavering gaze. The best-known image of Moriyama it encapsulates perfectly the detached observation and raw unsettling style of this highly influential Japanese photographer. Along with Eikoh Hosoe and Kikuji Kawada Moriyama has gone from being one of Japan's most radical and rebellious photographers to being one of it's most celebrated and important visual artists today the Japanese equivalent of Robert Frank. Recently Moriyama has had important retrospectives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the Shimane Art Museum Kashiro Art Museum Japan and the Fondation Cartier." <br /> <br /> Catalog and print both in near fine condition overall. Guiding Light/Michael Hoppen Gallery unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 48646 ISBN : 0953845176 9780953845170

‎Oldenburg, Claes; Hardt Hanson (design by); Barbara Rose (text)‎

‎Claes Oldenburg: Notes‎

‎Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L. 1968. First edition. Softcover. vg- to vg. Small quarto. 27 loose leaves housed in a printed white illustrated portfolio. Black and white lettering on the front cover and spine. A finely produced smaller-scale prospectus promoting Swedish-American artist Claes Oldenburg's project titled "Notes". Contained are 12 color plates printed in offset showing the images that comprise handmade book which was ultimately produced in larger scale lithographs. The plates here each measure 1/ 1/4 x 6 1/4" and each is accompanied by a text plate from the author describing the image. Each of the works from this "suite of monuments" is derived from an illustrated or sketched "note" page by the artist inspired by either a product physical object location landmark or a combination thereof. There is an initial four pages of text at the front including three by art historian and critic and Barbara Rose and a final leaf containing a blank order form for the full-scale lithographic book.<br /> <br /> Portfolio with a small closed tear at the top of the front cover as well as some foxing along the edges of the covers and interior. Minor foxing along the top edge of the initial text pages. Portfolio in good leaves in very good- to very good condition overall. Gemini G.E.L. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 49048

‎Sindler, Adolf (Hrs); Manfred Luhr (Editorial and technical management by); Fritz Heinze, Fritz Buchse (Graphic design by); Hans‎

‎Schlemihl: Blatt für Humor im Kriegsgefangenenlager 307. Blatt No. 4‎

‎Fanara Egypt: Der Tribüne 1947. First edition. Softcover. g to g. Folio. Unpaginated. 11 leaves. Original illustrated wrappers. This rare issue of "Schlemil" a German POW Camp Newspaper provides a first-hand account of the feelings and emotions of the men as well as their day-to-day activities during their internment in Fanara Egypt. This issue the fourth was the first published in 1947 issues 1-3 were published in 1946. The last issue No. 8 was also also published in 1947 shortly before the prisoners were shipped home 1947 through 1948. Of all the German POW camps camp 307 had the highest rate of German mortality. The reason can primarily be found in the harsh climatic conditions. Indeed unlike to the soldiers of the Africa corps who were fit for the tropics the soldiers who were taken prisoners in Italy Greece and its islands had many difficulties with the climate in Egypt. Hot wind and sandstorms in spring great heat in summer and severe cold in the winter impaired life in the strange climate. This led to the well known "Declaration of the captured Lutheran Pastors in Egypt". The front cover of this copy of "Schlemihl" features a drawing depicting a German POW painting a newlywed couple with the year 1947 at the upper left corner. The illustrator must have expressed to see his wish come true being freed and shipped home and marry his sweetheart. The newspaper contains poetry and short stories with a strong anti-Nazi stance. There are 5 other illustrations throughout the whole issue. Each leaf is printed on recto only. Some age-toning and creasing to wrappers with tiny chipping and closed tear at upper front and back cover. Upper corner slightly creased throughout. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in good condition. Declaration of the captured Lutheran Pastors in Egypt:<br /> <br /> The captured Lutheran Pastors in Egypt moved by the emotional situation of their fellow prisoners in the Middle East which has become extraordinarily critical and in obedience to their sworn duties of office would like to make the following declaration before the British authorities before the German public before their fellow prisoners and also before the Christians of the world.<br /> <br /> For at least the last two and a half years and for the most part substantially longer periods German Prisoners of War have been held in the Middle East whose number at this time amounts to more than 60 000. They have been put to work in a climate which for half the year is positively unbearable for a European. Through the long duration of imprisonment through the separation from their relatives through the bad news from home through the impossibility of effectively helping them their relatives and for many the “C†people through the completely immeasurable continuance of their imprisonment the emotional burden of these prisoners has reached a degree which gives grounds for the gravest fears for the future.<br /> <br /> The symptoms which are already manifesting themselves are shocking enough: the incidences where prisoners break down emotionally so completely that they become mentally ill are increasing. Alone in one Work Company 2719 of 5000 men no fewer than six prisoners have been admitted to the appropriate department of the British military hospital because of mental illness. Above all the cases are increasing where prisoners are ending their own lives which appear unbearable to them. In the last month in just one of the three British Military Districts in Egypt five cases of suicide are known to us.<br /> <br /> This is because the majority of Prisoners of War in the Middle East have come to a total collapse of trust in the promises and declarations of the British custodial powers. The emotional strain which has arisen from this among the Prisoners of War is extreme. The most important reasons to name only these few which have led to this crisis are the following:<br /> <br /> 1. At the end of last year more than eighteen months after the capitulation the Prisoners of War were advised of the Repatriation Plan as it was to be binding for the year 1947. This Repatriation Plan gave the individual the opportunity to envisage within an admittedly broad framework according to his score and his political classification his return home. This plan has not been carried out.<br /> <br /> On 30 September 1947 the British Government announced that it would be necessary for it to reduce the repatriation to a fraction of the planned quota because of shortages of ships. Can one think ill of Prisoners of War that they held the following declaration which had been printed in the papers for some time against the British Prime Minister Attlee: that the work of the Prisoners of War at this time was the only available reparation from Germany and could not be done without Or that they received the impression from the speech to the Lower House on March 27 of the Member of Parliament for Ipswich Mr. R.R. Stokes that the reason for the sluggish pace of the repatriation from the Middle East is that the local British authorities held the manpower of the Prisoners of War to be so indispensable that they would simply have to wait for repatriation Can one think ill of the German Prisoners of War who due to previous experience are already full of mistrust today take into consideration that the almost complete halt to repatriation will not just last until the end of the year but that probably the closing date for repatriation the end of 1948 won’t be adhered to<br /> <br /> With great and honest thankfulness the Prisoners of War of the Middle East have experienced the intervention for the easing of the lot of the captured and their speedier return home by men of the British public above all from a great number of Bishops the Member of Parliament Stokes a man such as Viktor Gollancz and finally a group of more than sixty Lower House members. In the Middle East hardly any of this has come about and the result is growing bitterness and hopelessness instability and despair amongst the Prisoners of War. <br /> <br /> 2. A further and exceedingly grave burden for the morale and emotional bearing of the Prisoners of War lies in the recently released regulation that in future Prisoners of War will only be allowed to take in the vicinity of ten pounds of approved luggage to Germany. Germany faces another winter of starvation. Thousands of Prisoners of War have saved their hard earned tiny wages for months and years and have allowed themselves nothing in order to be able to bring a few tins of fat which is lacking most and other foodstuffs to their relatives. Many came to terms with the repeated deferment of their repatriation and found themselves a new mainstay by telling themselves: I can help my relatives to at least a small extent by sending along foodstuffs especially fat with returning comrades.<br /> <br /> Because of the new announcement all this is brought to nought. It has aroused bitterness particularly because it is so completely incomprehensible. The foodstuffs in question are in the markets in Egypt and can be obtained in the camp canteens in great quantities to be used by the Prisoners of War at will. Why should they not be able to save these and take them home No one is hurt by this and the money which is spent stays in the country. <br /> <br /> Finally particularly destructive and embittering is the thought that contrary to the natural development of things where the treatment of Prisoners of war should be gentler and better with the growing interval since the end of the war it is only becoming sharper and more severe. The Prisoners of War can absolutely not understand that they who have actually already have been discriminated against through their late return home are further discriminated against in the hardest and most burdensome way by the aforementioned announcement while the comrades who were lucky enough to return home earlier could take such foodstuffs so vitally necessary for a starving Germany freely and without limits.<br /> <br /> 3. A further hardship and exceedingly heavy emotional burden is the treatment of the Prisoners of War who have placed under “Automatical Arrest†A.A. namely those whose identity is suspected to be that of a wanted war criminal or those who are needed as witnesses in such a case. They are held in custody here indefinitely often being unable to discover why and without sentence. Despite the fact that the British authorities have had at least two years and often considerably longer at their disposal to prove identities and make investigations in countless cases the affected Prisoners of War are put under “A.A.†only hours before their repatriation. In two cases men were even fetched down from the repatriation ship a procedure which it is hardly too harsh to characterise with the expression “emotional abuseâ€. <br /> <br /> Apart from all rules about humanity this kind of procedure also contradicts all accepted laws in the Allied countries in that Prisoners of War are punished for being war criminals when they haven’t been convicted. Indefinite imprisonment for a Prisoner of War who has waited for repatriation according to a classification and score is nothing other than punishment.<br /> <br /> An example: A Prisoner of War rank Oberfeldwebel Staff Sergeant was placed under “A.A.†in December 1945 without being given any notice because he was mistaken for his brother a Leutnant Second Lieutenant who had died in the war. His assertions were not believed. He pointed out that a comrade of his dead brother could be found in the same camp and could be interrogated about this. This was refused. Only after the intervention of a Lower House member Mr. Stokes who was approached about it was the case taken up. The interrogation of the commandant was carried out and the affected person released although subject to the agreement of a superior central office. He has still not been repatriated to this day despite being scheduled for repatriation by British doctors since April because of severe asthma. That is one of several dozen cases.<br /> <br /> It is understandable that the feeling of complete absence of rights emotionally oppresses particularly these Prisoners of War and brings them to despair. <br /> <br /> 4. The Prisoners of War gratefully acknowledge that the vast majority of commandants of camps and of work companies honestly strive to lighten their burden through good food through the improvement of canteens and recreation rooms through sporting events radio cinema theatre and musical performances and also through opportunities for further education. They have complete understanding for the fact that because of their special situation in Egypt their freedom of movement cannot be as extensive as in England itself.<br /> <br /> What they do not understand however is the severity of punishment with which often only a trifling offence is often only punished by mistake. In many cases the admissible maximum penalty – twenty-eight days’ detention - is lengthened. In most of the cases the severity of the punishment bears no relationship to the severity of the misdemeanour. An example: In recent times a Prisoner of War was punished with fourteen days’ detention and loss of Work Points ie the extension of his captivity by many months because he had accidentally and not on purpose had the command post flag of a passing British military car. Examples of this sort could be continued for a long time. The severity of such penalties have a particularly hard emotional effect on the Prisoners of War who are in the third to fifth year of their captivity none of them any longer in complete possession of their emotional resilience. They therefore experience these punishments as more severe than another person would. <br /> <br /> We captured Lutheran Pastors in Egypt have hitherto purposely kept silent before the public about the completely unnecessary cases of severity and the partly open injustice for example physical mistreatment of Prisoners of War in the Detention Centres. We have tried through personal calls at the responsible British departments to do away with these things in the belief that this was about the unauthorised actions of a subordinate authority such as they appear in every human community.<br /> <br /> We asked ourselves earnestly whether we could continue to keep silence in the present situation. In thinking this we considered that one had - and rightly so - reproached our Nation and our Lutheran Church with silence when we should have spoken out. In the Stuttgart Declaration of October 1945 the Lutheran Church did penitence for this failure before the whole world.<br /> <br /> From this in earnest self-examination we came to the opinion that in further silence toward the injustice that has happened and still does happen to the Prisoners of War in the Middle East we would be guilty before the office of spiritual care which is our command before our consciences before our Lutheran Church in Germany and our German People and not least before God the Lord in front of whose Judgment Seat we will all one day need to answer for ourselves. We would have to be silent if our opponents in the past war had told us that they wanted to fall upon us in the name of revenge and retaliation. Then we would only have been able to say to our fellow captives: See where unlawfulness and Godlessness lead; see how the dreadful law of retaliation makes itself felt! In that case we could only have bowed dumbly before the deserved justice of God.<br /> <br /> But our former opponents did not say this. Rather they ceremoniously proclaimed that in the names of justice and humanity and in the spirit of Christendom with their unchanging qualities they had gone into the war and brought it to an end. In this spirit they would lead our people in a new way.<br /> <br /> That however gives us the courage and the right; today it lays the holy duty upon us as spiritual carers for our fellow captive brothers with all the earnestness of our duty of care to beg their leading personages and their responsible authorities to no longer passively watch the injustice that has been and is still being done to the Prisoners of War in the Middle East but rather to remedy the great spiritual need and despair which daily continue to gain ground through practical effective and quick measures.<br /> <br /> We have the bitter and serious concern that otherwise our fellow captives in the Middle East will lose the ultimate and best thing that we in the spirit of Christ so dearly wanted to show them how many have already lost it!: the belief and trust that in this world not power not the spirit of vengeance and retribution not the justice of the strong have the last word; rather that co-existence in the spirit of right justice humanity reconciliation and brotherly helpfulness within nations and between nations is possible.<br /> <br /> In the name and by order of the captured Lutheran Pastors in Egypt.<br /> <br /> Signed Norbert Rückert<br /> <br /> Dean of Pastors for the Middle East<br /> <br /> P.W. Camp 380<br /> <br /> 11 October 1947. Der Tribüne unknown‎

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‎Wright, Frank Lloyd (Design); William C Gannett (Text)‎

‎The House Beautiful FACSIMILE EDITION‎

‎Park Forest Illinois: W. R. Hasbrouck 1963. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Very good- to fine condition. Folio. 1 54 1pp. unpaginated. Original brown faux half-leather over green cloth with gilt-framed lettering gilt lettering on spine. Two brown handmade endpapers at front and back. A folio of twelve photographic plates 13 1/2 x 5 1/4" with brown gilt-printed cover is sewn to the first front endpaper. Double-title page with Wright designs in black framing red lettering. Gannett's name is misspelled here. The elaborate designs are printed in black and red. With original limitation page in facsimile stating "One" of 90 copies including signatures of William Herman Winslow and Frank Lloyd Wright.<br /> <br /> Facsimile reprint of the 1896 edition designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and originally printed by hand during the Winter months of of the year eighteen hundred ninety six and seven at the Auvergne Press in River Forest by William Herman Winslow and Frank Lloyd Wright. The so-called Winslow House was built in 1893–94 and for Wright it was the very first commission as an independent architect. It is said to anticipate what became known as Wright's Prairie Houses. Binding with very light scuffing at hinges and tail of spine. Light staining at lower foredge corner of front cover with traces running up along front foredge. Interior in fine condition. W. R. Hasbrouck hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 50401