1977Best.-Nr. 1507048The Franklin Library 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Bound in premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Gilt title and raised bands to spine. High-quality paper with gilded edges ribbon marker and silk moire endpapers. Limited Edition as stated on title page. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1953Best.-Nr. 10446PRESENCE DE ZOLA Fasquelle Editeurs 1953 first edition some light wear and tear to the somewhat faded covers else vg in wraps as issued. The influence of Zola on their writing careers is expressed in various essays by Albert Camus Erskine Caldust-wrapper ell Jean Cocteau F. L. Green Herman Hesse Thomas Mann Francois Mauriac Andre Maurios Jules Romain Upton Sinclair Franz Werfel Stephen Zweig et.al. Fasquelle Editeurs paperback books
1955Best.-Nr. 135492Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1955 Western. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 2525. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 380443London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Foxing on the foredge slight sunning near fine in slightly rubbed very good dustwrapper. Short stories by the daughter of Thomas Mann. MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
2015Best.-Nr. 32240Leesburg VA: Tribal Analysis Center 2015. Fine/Fine. Leesburg VA: Tribal Analysis Center 2015. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xxiv341pp.; illus. throughout including photographs and maps. Just About Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Tribal Analysis Center unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 168146Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. During the Cold War a Strategic Air Command B-52 wing commander attempts to whip his unit into shape in time to pass a readiness test. 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 269762Milwaukee: Liberation Publications 1973. Magazine. 24p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news art poetry services & resources ads events directory a few pen marks else very good newsletter in stapled wraps. Cover story on Nixon's secret bill Criminal Code Reform Act S1400 HR6046 Also Auden dies. Donna Martin on Lesbians and the Art of Loving. Updates on local activities discussions of the Movement ads photos services etc. Literary reviews. Issues for Oct. 1971 - Nov. 1974 lack volume and issue numbering but constitute v.1 #1 - v.4 #2. Volume numbering begins with v.4 #3 Dec. 1974. The Gay People's Academic Union grew out of a University of a Wisconsin-Milwaukee student organization the Gay Liberation Organization which first met in 1970. The GPU was founded in 1971 and opened the first Gay & Lesbian Community Center. Liberation Publications unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 8953London: A & J Speelman 2006. Very Good/Very Good. London: A & J Speelman 2006. First Edition. Quarto 32x25.5x2cm; 123pp. Full-page and close-detail full-color photographs of 55 precious objects or sets of objects as part of an A&J Speelman celebratory exhibition. Two gatefold spreads: one of lacquer tables; the other of eight erotic plaques in ivory. Photographic dust jacket; volume bound in chocolate linen with gilt stamping on spine and front panel. Brown silk bookmark bound in. Jacket shows light bumps to corners and nudging at spine ends with corresponding pressure to corners of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. The objects are all extraordinary and the photographs of them very fine; the photos in this listing can't do the images justice. The furnishings art pieces and objets de vertu include Canton cloisonné and champlevé enamel; furniture; glass; ivory and rhinoceros horn; lacquer; metalwork; porcelain; stone; textiles; and wood pieces. The objects range from the Tang through the Qing dynasties and periods which is to say from the 7th to the cusp of the 19th centuries. A & J Speelman has been a leading dealer in Asian art since the late 18th century originally in Holland subsequently in London. A & J Speelman unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 501334New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. 253pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Spotting on the top page edge and an abrasion on the rear free endpaper else very good in a very good dust jacket with spotting shallow chips and tears. Expanded with additional material for the Big League Baseball Library series. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 86884NY: Brewer & Warren 1930. First US edition. 322 pp. Very near fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Translated from the original German by Marion Saunders. Young 2479. NY: Brewer & Warren hardcover books
1917Best.-Nr. 37885Leipzig: Kurt Wolff 1917. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 2951pp. Original illustrated gray boards with black lettering on paper and spine. Diederich Heßling an industrial magnet exploits his workers in his paper manufacturing plant. The young worker Karl Balrich thinks he has proof to be the rightful owner of the plant. Balrich prepares to study jurisprudence to seek his right but ends up being one of the first German workers to march enthusiastically against France in World War I. The novel is considered a tragic comedy and drew criticism e.g. from Hermann Hesse who wrote to the publisher Kurt Wolff expressing his displeasure with Mann's comedic simplification of the the capitalist-proletarian relation. Text in German. Binding with light wear and tanning along edges. Block slightly age toned. Binding in overall good interior in good condition. Kurt Wolff hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 293918New York: Random House 1977. Hardcover. 263p. publisher's note lightly stamped remainder mark on bottom edge else very good first US edition stated with First Edition 24689753 as called for with Random House first printings according to Zempel & Verkler quarter-cloth boards and unclipped but worn dj with tape repair at top edge front and back. Young 2480. Basis of the 1981 Academy Award-winning film written & directed by István Szabó starring Klaus Maria Brandauer. Klaus was the son of Thomas Mann a gay writer and playwright exiled in 1933 from Germany. Random House hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 8353Stanford: Stanford University Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. xv 302pp. Numerous tables. Extensive chapter notes bibliography index. Yellow cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A social history of these two towns from their founding during the Gold Rush through the industrialization of the mines. Tables chart demographic social and economic changes. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 340063Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1939. Softcover. Good. First edition. Flexible card boards with applied printed dustwrapper. Erosion and loss at the spine some small chips and tears a good copy. Bermann-Fischer Verlag unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 33709Berlin: S. Fischer 1930. Elfte bis zwanzigste Auflage. Softcover. fair. 8vo. 31 1pp. Original printed wraps. Work contains a speech by Thomas Mann held on October 17 1930 at the Beethoven-Saal in Berlin. In this powerful address Mann pointed out the dangers of National Socialism and warned the German public not to vote for the Nazi's in the upcoming election. Text in German. Age wear creasing sunning on wraps. Top corners bumped affecting pages throughout. Minor chipping on bottom edge of front wrapper. Wraps in fair interior in good condition. S. Fischer unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 562509New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. 608pp. Near fine with spine gilt a bit rubbed at the spine ends which are both a touch bumped in very good dust jacket toning at the spine and moderate edgewear including nicks tears and creases. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 80359NY: Knopf 1933. First US edition. 275 pp. Fine in full decorated black cloth. Lacks dust jacket. NY: Knopf hardcover books
1945Best.-Nr. 4678NY KNOPF 1945 1945. DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION THUS VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NY, KNOPF, 1945 hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. 442338Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. 724pp. Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Brown leather decoratively stamped in gilt all edges gilt silk moire endpapers and bookmark. Faint foxing on blank endpapers else fine without dustwrapper as issued. German novel originally published in 1924. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 543566New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Spine title slightly rubbed near fine in a spine-sunned very good dust jacket with ½" loss at crown 1" tear at foot and modest edgewear. Regarding the Munich Agreement "Dr. Mann castigates those whom he holds responsible for a settlement unfortunate for the future of the democratic peoples. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 455372Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown and Company 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 338pp. Illustrated. Bookplate of collector and scion of the Chrysler family Walter P. Chrysler a bit zealously overglued and come loose now neatly reattached to front pastedown. Binding lightly foxed some offsetting on the endpapers and a bit of the aforementioned glue offset onto the Inscription on the front fly very good. Dustwrapper is just about very good with edgewear a lightly sunned spine price whited out and a couple of tears. Briefly Inscribed to Walter P. Chrysler and his second wife Jean on the front free endpaper. Autobiography of the entomologist and director of the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 197956Boston Little Brown and Company 1948. 1948. First edition. 8vo. 6 illustrations; 5 maps. Original gilt and dark blue stamped gray cloth. Color pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1948. hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 168184Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Based on Peter Shaffer's 1958 play which originally premiered in London's West End later moving to Broadway. A troubled family of four is changed by the arrival of a music tutor bringing domestic tensions to the surface. Shot on location in Carmel. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 34914NY: Abrams 1982. First American edn. 4to pp. 471. Notes Biographical notes index. Selection and foreword by Hermann Kesten. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in very slightly scuffed dj. Abrams unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 184281New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2001. Hardbound. Good ex-library w/ stamps to lower textblock edges & usual markings etc. upper cover edge scuffed. shelf-wear/scuffing to lower textblock edge. pgs edges lightly toned w/ ink ghosting. textlbock slightly rattled; firm w/ intact pgs. dustjacket taped to back cover edges; ID spine to lower spine; plastic cover highly scuffed w/ adhesive residue to spine. Maroon cloth with gold lettering. 496 pp. with 249 illustrations including 121 color plates. illustrated & maroon dustjacket w/ plastic cover. From a college library. Photo is of another copy in our collection. "This beauttifully produced volume brings together for the first time works by two remarkable painters of seventeenth-century Italy who happen also to have been father and daughter: Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. Famous in their own day these two artists have enjoyed renewed fame in the twentieth century: Orazio as one of the first and certainly the most individual of Caravaggio's followers; Artemisia as the outstanding female painter prior to the twentieth century. The tumultuous lives of these two artists moved along parallel trajectories and take the reader from the popular quarters of papal Rome and te rough-and-tumble world of Naples to the courts of the grand duke of Tuscany Marie de' Medici in Paris and Charles I in London. These changing circumstances nourished two different aesthetic visions both of which were deeply rooted in the Caravaggesque practice of painting directly from the posed model. While Orazio's art became ever more refined and elegant Artemisia espoused a rhetorical form of dramatic presentation that is the basis of Baroque painting." dj With essays and dozens of examples of the artists' work in the annotated and illustrated catalog. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York hardcover books
