1960rif. RVONMAR00ajsCriterion 1960. Very Good. Von Kleist Heinrich. The Marquise of O-- And Other Stories. Greenberg translator Martin; Mann Thomas. NY: Criterion 1960. 318pp. 8vo. Grey cloth. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and soiling. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with short tears and chipping. Criterion hardcover books
1969rif. 29306University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press 1969. Near Fine. University Park PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press 1969. First Edition Limited Issue of 300 specially printed and bound copies this being #192. Octavo. 138 pp. Brown and gray boards stamped in gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards tight in binding and pages unmarked. Slipcase with mild shelfwear and lightly browned along edges else sound and stable. Near Fine. The Pennsylvania State University Press unknown books
1965rif. 154961London: Kinematograph Weekly 1965. Vintage British program for the 1965 film published as a supplement to the September 1965 issue of Kinematograph Weekly with film still photographs throughout and a four page center fold out. Based on the 1954 memoir "Skis Against the Atom" by Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haudelid and the 1962 novel "But for These Men" by John Drummand. Set in German-occupied Norway Norwegian resistance fighter Knut Straud Richard Harris enlists the help of physicist Dr. Rolf Pedersen Kirk Douglas to destroy a German heavy water production plant used in the production of an atomic bomb. Set and shot on location in Norway and England. 8.5 x 11 inches. 18 pages side stapled. Very Good plus with faint vertical creases light toning at the extremities and some light creasing and rubbing to the wrappers. Kinematograph Weekly unknown books
2001rif. 192749Milano: Skira 2001. Paperback. VG Wraps show light shelf/edgewear; there is word in pen on half-title; text block is cracked; pages are clean and bright; binding is solid. Illustrated color wraps with white lettering with French flaps; xx 474 pp.; richly illustrated in color. Text in Italian. Skira paperback books
1933rif. 22248Detroit Michigan: The Classes of 1933 Central High School 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g. Ex-Libris. Square Sm. 4to. 168pp. Cream colored linen gray lettering on front. Frontispiece dedication to and b/w photographic reproduction of Miss Helen Delbridge. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of drawings and photographs. Detroit Michigan's Central High School's yearbook from 1933. Contains sections on Faculty Graduates Study Halls Organizations Features Activities Athletics Humor funnies and Advertisements. Name of former owner on front endpaper. Student signatures throughout pages next to pictures and on rear endpapers. Soiling to boards. Binding in good interior in very good condition. The Classes of 1933 Central High School hardcover books
1972rif. 161696N.p.: Amero Brothers 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. A young woman gets a job selling sex aids door-to-door and soon discovers the erection cream she's selling works a bit too well. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some faint creasing. Amero Brothers unknown books
rif. 13169NY MCKAY 1951. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, MCKAY, 1951 unknown books
1922rif. 29684Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning 1922. Softcover. fair. 8vo. pp. 257-98. Original printed brown paper wrappers. Article by the distinguished early 20th century medieval Jewish historian Jacob Mann in which he published and analyzed a fragment of a text written by an early medieval Karaite living in Jerusalem. Karaites are a group of non-rabbinic Jews who reject the Talmud. This anonymous Karaite pleads with his brethren outside of the land of Israel to settle in Jerusalem in order that the city not be dominated by rabbinic Jews. This text is an important source on the roots of Zionism within the Jewish tradition. Text in English and Hebrew. Wrappers chipped with a creased edge. Error in text corrected by pen. Overall in fair condition. The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning unknown books
1934rif. 18447Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Placement Bereau 1934. Softcover. g. 8vo. 81pp. 14pp. Green wrappers. Original publisher's staple binding. The author Jacob Mann avoided the pitfalls of narrow specialization and provided the outlines of a synthesis of the life of the Jewish communities in the Near and Middle East. He came to England in 1908 and then to the United States in 1920. First teaching at the Baltimore Hebrew College and later until the end of his life at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. From Cincinnati Jacob Mann dominated the field and provided the solid bricks needed for future work. As he himself put it: "The more the material stored up in manuscripts is made accessible in a scientific manner the better will the history of the Jewish life and activities in the course of the past ages be reconstructed anew." Some regular age wear to books ex library copy as indicated by stamp books are in good condition. Author also wrote: "The Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs: a contribution to their political and communal history based chiefly on Genizah material hitherto unpublished" "Asenath's Petition" on the Jews of Kurdistan and "The Bible as Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue Hebrew Union College Placement Bereau unknown books
1948rif. 399333Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First Swedish edition. 554pp. Translated from the German by Nils Holmberg. Text in Swedish. Three quarter green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title horizontal lines on papercovered boards. Spine lightly faded edges a bit tanned with corners modestly worn else very good. Albert Bonniers Forlag hardcover books
1941rif. 542840New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1941. Softcover. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. Self-wrappers. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. stamped "Sample Copy" on topedge slight age-toning very good or a little better. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1941rif. 301426New York Alfred A. Knopf 1941. 1941. First American edition so stated. 8vo. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Title page binding and jacket design by George Salter. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped; spine darkened few nicks; offsetting on the endpapers. Very good. 196 pages 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. hardcover books
1941rif. 301427New York Alfred A. Knopf 1941. 1941. First American edition so stated. 8vo. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Title page binding and jacket design by George Salter. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear; shallow chips. Very good. 196 pages 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. hardcover books
1977rif. 34549Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1977. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. X 310pp. Original beige cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover. The purpose of this study is to investigate the form and function of motifs of divine presence and guidance in the Old Testament. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page. Binding and interior in very good condition. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
1997rif. 409725New York: Robert Mann Gallery 1997. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. 10 x 9 inches. 49 pages. Pictorial boards. First edition one of 1000 copies. With an essay by Sheryl Conkelton and 36 duotone plates. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery. Robert Mann Gallery hardcover books
1992rif. 409726New York: Robert Mann Gallery 1992. Softcover. New. 10 x 8.75 inches. 55 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition one of 1000 copies. Brief texts by Robert Sobieszek James L. Enyeart Carl Chiarenza Henry Holmes Smith and Harold Rosenberg. Includes over 40 black and white images. Robert Mann Gallery unknown books
1935rif. 5757London: A. & C. Black 1935. Hardcover. Fine condition in very good dust jackets. Book 1 is a reprint edition; book 2 is 1st edition. Blind-stamped cloth with gilt letters on the spines. 16 color illustrations and 128 in black-&-white. Fine in lightly soiled jackets with minor chipping at the head of book 1 and closed tears to the top edge of book's 2 back cover. A. & C. Black hardcover books
1934rif. 295575Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in German. Very good with a little browning to the spine and edges of the front panel; lacking dustwrapper. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1975rif. 160871Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1975. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1975 film. Based on the 1974 novel by Patrick Mann in turn based on a true story published in "Life" magazine. An inexperienced robber and his friend attempt to rob a bank largely in order for the robber's girlfriend a preoperative transgender woman to afford gender confirmation surgery. Director Sidney Lumet's masterpiece a snapshot of New York invoking queer politics city politics police politics personal politics and the mood of a city in the heat of the early 1970s-all without being overtly political. AMPAS holdings show two copies. Shot on location in New York. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus folded as issued with light wear and creasing along the folds. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1955rif. 150917Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Vintage portrait photograph of Victor Mature from the 1955 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1947 novel "The Gilded Rooster" by Richard Emery Roberts about a Union army scout whose tyrannical commander wants to attack the local Native American tribe despite being hopelessly outnumbered. Set in Oregon shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1950rif. 23503New York: F.J. Low Company Inc 1950. Pictorial wrappers. Very Good -. The 1950 first movie tie-in edition. A tight well-preserved copy of this fragile digest-sized paperback original. Bright and VG- to VG in its pictorial stapled wrappers. Tender front hinge very light creasing to the panels. 12mo 120 pgs. F.J. Low Company, Inc unknown books
1970rif. 158811N.p.: Cannon Films 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 US release of the 1968 Spanish film. A blind sculptor has been working on a piece using bones but he doesn't know they are real human bones of the victims of his wife. Shot on location in Madrid and Andalucía Spain. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Cannon Films unknown books
2006rif. 213665Chicago IL New Haven CT and London: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale 2006. First edition. Oblong softcover. 128 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 16 through December 3 2006. Features a foreword by James Cuno and text Katherine A. Bussard. Includes color and black and white images by Tina Barney Philip-Lorca diCorcia Nan Goldin Sally Mann and Larry Sultan and a checklist. A fine copy in die-cut French style wrappers. The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale unknown books
1994rif. 300530Athens GA 1994. Deonna Mann b.1965 is an artist and musician who was a fixture of the experimental performance scene in Athens GA in the 1990s before moving to NYC. ~~This rare record is number 21 of 200 containing four songs by Mann and the rest of the 15-piece orchestra in a standard sleeve green covers and plastic sleeve. ~No visible damage. unknown books
1958rif. 152525Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Original pressbook for the 1958 film. Just as Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel was met with scrutiny and censorship upon its publication the film adaptation twenty-five years later met with similar disapproval. Scenes involving actresses Tina Louise and Fay Spain were perceived as obscene the film was said to call marital fidelity into question and even worse: the film portrayed a popular uprising of mill workers. Many theaters either banned the film entirely or admitted only movie-goers ages 18 and up. Though written by Ben Maddow a blacklisted radical leftist documentary and poetry writer screenwriting for the film was attributed to Philip Yordan a writer often credited for scripts written by blacklisted authors. Set in the American South shot on location in California. Ten pages saddle stiched. 11 x 8.5 inches. Lightly toned else Near Fine. United Artists unknown books