1950rif. 148643West Hollywood: Eagle-Lion 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film. Based on the experiences of Jackie Robinson the first African American major league baseball player with Robinson starring as himself. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles and Anaheim California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light creasing and a few small closed tears to the left edge. Eagle-Lion unknown books
1961rif. 162511N.p.: Phaeton Productions 1961. Vintage studio still photograph of Doris Gohlke from the 1961 film. A Prohibition-era bookkeeper attempts to hide from gangsters at a health farm teeming with beautiful scantily-clad women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Phaeton Productions unknown books
1984rif. 76646Athens 1984. Paperback. Very Good. iv 318p. Bound photocopy. Wrapper in black binder with thin flexible covers. 28cm. Printed on one side. INSCRIBED on Acknowledgments page by Kang to "Dr. Oliver" Robert T. Oliver a former adviser to Dr. Syngman Rhee. paperback books
1975rif. 139993England: ITC Entertainment 1975. Collection of 6 vintage full-color British lobby cards from the 1975 British-Canadian film. Based on Tom Ardies' 1974 novel "Kosygin Is Coming." Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Shaver Segal is ensnared in a KGB assassination plot to kill a visiting Soviet Premier. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps else Near Fine. Scarce. ITC Entertainment unknown books
1985rif. 285099Poughkeepsie NY: Al Mann Associates 1985. Paperback. xiii 89p. 6x9 inches; somewhat toned wraps minor shelfwear along wrap edges light soil on wrappers else very good condition. Author had cerebral palsy; he used a computer with word processing capabilities to communicate after many years of silence. Al Mann Associates paperback books
1983rif. 228317Ann Arbor: UMI 1983. hardcover. 483 pages. Illustrated. 8vo decorative beige cloth. Ann Arbor: UMI 1983. Fine. Studies in Musicology No. 64. UMI unknown books
1940rif. 294586New York: Modern Age Books 1940. Hardcover. xv 318p. foreword prologue epilogue toning to endpapers mild soiling and rubbing to covers else a very good first US edition in bright yellow cloth boards black topstain. The exiled brother and sister children of Thomas Mann write in defense of their Homeland the Other Germany that has not been taken in by the Nazis. Modern Age Books hardcover books
1949rif. 54852Amsterdam: Querido Verlag N.V. 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 354pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; protected by modern mylar. Top edge in gray. Last novel of Heinrich Mann written between 1946 and October 1947 in his California exil. Bermann-Fischer / Querido Verlag N.V. release. It describes the last two days of Kobalt a destitute nobelwoman born Countess Traun of Klostergmund Austria who had worked with the French Communists in the past. Kobalt's assasination is planned while she is staying in Nice. She escapes several assasination attemps only to die in a hospital from lung complications. Just days before her death she had broken the bank while gambling in Monte Carlo. Text in German. Binding with minor wear along edges. Block slightly age toned. Querido Verlag N.V. hardcover books
1949rif. 2354620Boston: Bruce Humphries Inc 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed without attribution signed and dated by author on front endpaper 'Happy Reading J. Adin Mann July 18 1949'. Very good in good jacket. Minor loss from jacket corners two faint ring stains to rear jacket panel. 294 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece mirrored on front jacket panel. A collection of anecdotes related to volunteer firefighting by a volunteer fireman from North Dakota. An interesting blend of biographical sketches social complexities and studies of battling the fires themselves. Bruce Humphries, Inc hardcover books
1970rif. 17738New York: Ktav 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xxxvii 484pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. One of the most important works on the Cairo Genizah. Text is in English with selected Hebrew from manuscripts and fragments. Overall in fine condition. Ktav hardcover books
1981rif. 293135Hamburg: Frühlings Erwachen 1981. Pamphlet. 16p. 6x8.25 inches text in German cover and entire text printed in red type on gray stock minor pen marks and split at spine fold pamphlet in stapled pictorial red and gray wraps. Textreihe 1. Reissues of the authors' writings in the early 1930s. Frühlings Erwachen unknown books
1985rif. 294587Wiesbaden: Edition Klaus Blahak 1985. Hardcover. Four volumes of a six volume set texts in German various pagination very good in green boards and gilt in unclipped white djs. Book numbers 1-3 & 5. Missing volumes 4 & 6. Bd.Bibliographie; Bd. 2. Kroll F. and Täubert K. 1906-1927 Unordnung und früher Ruhm; Bd. 3. 1927-1933 Vor der Sintflut; Bd. 5. 1937-1942 Trauma Amerika. Edition Klaus Blahak hardcover books
1974rif. 695WA UP 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Published in connection with an exhibition. WA UP hardcover books
1901rif. 1392Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co. 1901. 1901. First edition. 8vo. 10 full-page illustrations by Troy and Margaret Kinney. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in white upper cover with a design of a coach and horses signed "K". Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1901. hardcover books
1988rif. 329148New York: Aperture 1988. hardcover. Mann Sally. Introduction by Ann Beattie. 37 black-and-white photographs by Sally Mann. 53 pages. Slim square 4to light grey cloth d.w.; dust wrapper edgeworn/torn and dust-soiled. New York: Aperture/A New Image Book 1988. Second printing. A fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper. Aperture unknown books
1977rif. 197612Washington D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art 1977. First edition. Softcover. 12 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran from September 24 through November 13 1977. Features an essay by Jane Livingston. Includes with the covers 9 dramatic black and white images by Mann that differ vastly from her usual work. Also features biographical information as well. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. The Corcoran Gallery of Art unknown books
1940rif. 7480Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth over boards with illustration female nude stamped in gilt on upper board lettering in blind on spine; pp. 230. First edition. Spine sunned just a bit frayed at tips; top rear corner gently bumped; gift incscription on front free-endpaper; VG in custom mylar dust jacket. A pleasing little book. Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1919rif. 212354Berlin: S. Fischer 1919. Hardcover. Poor. Boards detached along with first three pages before title page. Text block is toned and has some crumbling around the edges. Boards aren't in terrible shape but since they're detached its kind of a wash. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. 5 preliminary leaves 13-190 pages 19 cm. German text. S. Fischer hardcover books
1934rif. 81900NY: Knopf 1934. First US edition. 428 pp. Corners bumped bookplate inside front cover; in all very good plus in very good dust jacket with darkened spine and flap folds and chipping along top edge and base and crown. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1944rif. 200967New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 608 pages. One of the better known works from the winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. A clean and tight near fine copy in black cloth boards with bright yellow topstain and in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the bottom of the spine and some other very minor wear. A nicer than usual copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1944rif. 502645New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition variant dust jacket with pink interior. Translated from the German for the first time by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Octavo. 608pp. Light flaking to lettering at heel of spine else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny tears and creases at the edges. Thomas Mann won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1948rif. 29189Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1948. First edition. Hardcover. g. Gold-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Captivating tetralogy by Thomas Mann. Joseph und seine Brüder Joseph and his brothers is the largest most comprehensive work by the author based on the biblical story of Jakoob's favorite son Joseph. Vol. 1: Die Geschichten Jaakobs & Der junge Joseph. 737 4pp. Vol. 2: Joseph in Ägypten. 684 2pp. Vol. 3: Joseph der Ernährer. 617 3pp. Text in German. Minor age wear and staining on binding. Spines sunned lettering on spines faded. Bindings in good interior in very good condition. Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Thomas Mann. Bermann-Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1936rif. 29773London: Secker & Warburg. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. B000LY2EUY . Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. First British edition. Previous owner's brief inscription on front free endpaper else very good in a very good edge worn at the spine ends age darkened dust jacket. Publisher's postcard laid in . . Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1941rif. 002637New York: Alfred A Knopf 1941. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 196pp. Sharp First Printing square tight and clean throughout. Some darkening and spotting to edges. Offsetting to endpapers likely from clippings. Attractive un-clipped pictorial wrapper $2.00 has some minor rubbing and a few small closed tears and chips to edges. Some darkening to spine. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. A very attractive collectable copy. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1938rif. 09625New York: Alfred A . Knopf 1938. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo 38 pages; with Knopf self-addressed review card laid in blanks not filled-in. Price of 75c on front flap of dust jacket with light fading at spine and fore-edge. Internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Alfred A . Knopf unknown books
