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1950rif. 159424New York: F.J. Low Company 1950. First Edition. First Edition a paperback original. Basis for the 1950 film starring Robinson and Ruby Dee also written by Arthur Mann. Very Good in wrappers with moderate rubbing overall and reader's crease to the spine. Holroyd p. 264. F.J. Low Company unknown books
1954rif. 148788Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1954. Vintage six sheet poster for the 1954 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Vina Delmar. Boarding house owner Mrs. Vivien Leslie Shirley Booth reminisces on her affair with the secretive George Leslie Robert Ryan and their annual retreats at an Big Sur. Set in Beverly Hills California. 80 x 80.5 inches. Four panels folded as issued. About Very Good overall silverfish damage to center right of top left panel with loss along crease splitting at some of the folds and some small closed tears at the extremities. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1981rif. 139005Nottingham UK: Lorimar / Rank Film Distributors 1981. Original British quad poster for the 1981 US film "Night School" here under the British title "Terror Eyes." Printed in England by Lonsdale and Bartholomew. Slasher film set at an all-girl night school complete with decapitations set in Boston. Director Hughes' final film one of the 33 non-prosecuted "Video Nasty" titles a selection of censored and banned films during the 1980s in the United Kingdom. 30 x 40 inches folded as issued. A few central pinholes and faint toning else Near Fine. Lorimar / Rank Film Distributors unknown books
1919rif. 157361MUNICH WOLFF VERLAG 1919 1919. ORIGINAL TAN MARBLED BOARDS; TEXT IN GERMAN VERY GOOD. Hardcover. MUNICH, WOLFF VERLAG, 1919 hardcover books
1969rif. 54139Oxford: Oxford University Press 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good- to near fine condition. Octavo. 2 vols. 4 280; 427 1pp. Indices and Hebrew glossary. Original anthracite cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spines; in original gray endpaper with light brown lettering on spine. This book is an attempt to reconstruct the life of the Jews in Egypt and Palestine and to produce a skeleton history of the Jews from 969 C.E. to 1204 C.E. from an extensive examination of Genizah MSS. Vol. I with a Hebrew inscription dated 1976 on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket spines slightly sunned otherwise a near fine set. This work "is perhaps one of the most frequently quoted books in Jewish scholarship." Shelomo D. Goiten. It was first published in 1920-22. Laid in at front of each volume is a xerox copy of Shelomo D. Goiten's Preface and Readers Guide and corrigenda from the first edition. Dustjacket sunned at spines light smudging on jacket of first volume. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1969rif. 28958Oxford: Oxford University Press 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. 280 427pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spines. This book is an attempt to reconstruct the life of the Egyptians and Palestinian Jews and to produce a skeleton history of the Jews from 969 C.E. to 1204 C.E. from an extensive examination of Genizah MSS. First published in 1920-2 this work went out of print in 1950. Wrappers binding and interior in very good condition. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1955rif. 284576New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slightly yellowed spine. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1926rif. 1423Berlin: S. Fischer 1926. First Edition. Near Fine. Nice clean copy of a charmingly designed little book in original decorative slipcase. S. Fischer unknown books
1959rif. 298136Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1959. Magazine. Eight issues various pagination 6x9 inches poetry plays critiques essays fiction lightly worn journals in stapled wraps. Issues included are: Summer 1947 Spring 1948 Autumn 1950 Spring 1953 Summer 1955 Spring 1956 Summer 1958 & Spring 1959. University of Illinois Press unknown books
1992rif. 168466New York: Robert Mann Gallery 1992. Paperback. VG. Cream & BW illus. wraps 56 pp. 42 BW or dutone illus. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of work by American photographer Aaron Siskind 1903-1991. Includes a few comments from others; otherwise the presentation is all about the photographs which number about 40. #253 of 1000 copies numbered on rear colophon. Uncommon. Robert Mann Gallery paperback books
1965rif. 138201Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Original US one sheet poster for the 1965 film based on the 1959 novel "Epitaph for an Enemy" by George Barr. An attempted sequel to the 1962 film "The Longest Day" "Up from the Beach" tells of the days after the Invasion of Normandie and of Allied attempts to "liberate" a nearby French village previously under the control of an uncommonly kind German commandant. Set in Northern France shot there on location. 27 x 41 inches folded. Very Good plus. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1843rif. 56149Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1843. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 25cm. In original tan paper wrappers printed on front; 160pp. Largely sound though front wrapper partially detached some losses to paper over spine minor staining to wraps scattered foxing: Very Good. Mann was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education from 1837-1848. Though his only power as secretary was "to collect and disseminate information" he nontheless worked hard to improve the lacklustre public school system. "As a mean of informing the public . . . his twelve annual reports 1837-1848. . . were unsurpassed. Chock full of statistical data the reports-which were widely read and circulated-presented the problems of the common schools as well as possible solutions" ANB. Approximately 7 copies recorded in OCLC; not common in the trade. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Dutton and Wentworth unknown books
1942rif. 28976New York: Common Council for American Unity 1942. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm; yellow and black printed wrappers stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Highly important single issue of the CCAU's monthly literary magazine issued from 1940-49 which was devoted to bridging ethnic and minority differences and to reflecting America's cultural diversity. This issue includes a substantial 13pp short story by Woody Guthrie "Ear Players" which marked his debut as a published writer in the mainstream media. The issue includes contributions by Langston Hughes Waldo Frank and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Also includes a pictorial insert 4pp of photomontage by Alexander Alland. REUSS 30 p.9. Common Council for American Unity unknown books
1950rif. 167128New York: Harper & Brothers 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Black cloth with gilt title on spine. Title on spine lightly faded corners bumped else very good in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with edges chipped. Contributions by: Pearl buck W.H. Auden Thomas Mann John Hersey Rex Stout Arthur Koestler Paul Gallico James Michener Winston Churchill and many more. Thirty-eight in all. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1951rif. WB16897New York: Van Vechten Press 1951. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of a total edition of 350. Full blue morocco binding by Suzanne Schrag; housed in clamshell box also by Schrag. With dedicatory essays by John Berryman Herman Broch Albert Einstein Ben Shahn Thomas Mann and others. Van Vechten Press hardcover books
1900rif. 010662Richmond Virginia 1900. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This business envelope bears the printed return address of Valentine’s Meat-Juice Company of Richmond Virgina. It was sent from Richmond to the Director of the Private Maternity Hospital of Berlin Germany. It is franked with a 5-cent Grant stamp Scott #281 that has been canceled with a Barry Postal Supply Company machine postmark dated 21 February 1900. The reverse is filled with assorted postal labels handstamps in various colors and manuscript annotations related to its delivery despite having an insufficient address. In nice shape. In downtown Richmond Mann S. Valentine a prosperous merchant lived with his family in a large neoclassical home. In 1870 his wife Anne Maria fell ill from a “severe and protracted derangement of the organs of digestion” that prevented her from eating solid food. Doctors had given up on curing Anne Maria so Valentine took it upon himself to concoct his own highly concentrated protein and iron tonic which he distilled from a mix of eggs and beef broth. It worked wonders. Valentine ever a merchant began to create more which sold well in his store. Seeing the possibility of ever-increasing sales he began to canvass local then regional then nationally known physicians for their endorsements. Some replied with glowing reviews reporting they used it effectively not just as a nutritional supplement but as a treatment for everything from nausea to dysentery and cholera. Valentine began to publish these reviews in advertisements and business boomed. He took his meat juice to the International Paris Exposition in 1878 and introduced it to a global market. Recognizing the importance of physician recommendations Valentine began to contact European doctors for their endorsements. This envelope was no doubt used for that purpose. In 1906 the newly created Food and Drug Administration began its crackdown on patent medicines. Seeing the writing on the wall Valentine stopped promoting his meat juice as a curative and began to market it as a cooking supplement for flavoring various dishes. As such it was even more popular than medicine and became a staple on grocery store shelves throughout the country for years until demand finally wore off and the factory located at Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue shut its doors. . Valentine amassed a fortune during the last quarter of the 19th century and became an inveterate collector of art and artifacts. In his will he provided a large endowment to establish a museum to house his collection and it much expanded continues in operation as the famed Valentine Museum in Richmond. For more information see “The history of Valentine’s Meat Juice” at the RIC Today website and Castellano’s “In the 1800s Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice” at the Atlas Obscura website. Old meat juice bottles are frequently sold on or encountered in antique malls. Company envelopes used to request endorsements from domestic physician endorsements occasionally appear on or in philatelic auctions. Evidence of Valentines attempts to secure international professional recommendations are seldom encountered; this is the first we have seen. . unknown books
1931rif. 545536Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. A little rubbing on the boards near fine in good or better dust jacket with toning on spine a chip on the front panel and some short tears. The first American appearance of the author's first novel published three decades earlier in Germany based on his long experience living in Italy. Mann was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1974rif. 601163New York: Delacorte Press 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Modest stains on topedges of pages spine slightly cocked very good in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket. A very nice copy of this pseudonymous novel apparently novelized from an article about a true incident in which a Brooklyner took over a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. Made into an excellent Sidney Lumet film featuring Al Pacino John Cazale and Charles Durning. Delacorte Press hardcover books
1988rif. 213067New York: Aperture 1988. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 53 pages. Features an introduction by Ann Beattie. Includes 37 black and white photographs by Mann all taken of girls on the cusp of womanhood. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket with an abrasion to the front panel some small edge tears and some other light wear. Still a very presentable copy. Aperture unknown books
1923rif. 543191New York: Henry Holt 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Tiny name front fly corners a bit rubbed and bumped spine lettering faded it out near very good lacking the dust jacket. A scarce title and one of Mann's earliest books published in the U.S. Henry Holt hardcover books
1920rif. 10911Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1920. 103.-112000 Thousand. Hardcover. g. Sm. 8vo. 2 volumes. 500pp. 478pp. Decorated boards by Karl Walser. Corners rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Some discoloration to spine and cover. Green top page edge. Signature and stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Mann's Nobel Prize winning novel about four generations of a German family. Text in German gothic script. In good condition. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1930rif. 514014Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 16mo. 143pp. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and color pictorial endpapers. Blue pictorial paper-covered boards. A fine bright copy in what is likely the publisher's near fine unprinted glassine dust wrapper apparently lacking a slipcase. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1997rif. 618070Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Spiral bound quarto. Blue wrappers. Translated from the German with a note by Peter Constantine. Edited with an introduction by Burton Pike. Slight edgewear else fine with publisher's material laid in. Sun & Moon Press unknown books
1940rif. 3917New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1940. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY "sample copy" stamped on top page edge 453pp. 5pp. ads at rear. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Bound in printed wrappers general light wear and darkening to spine and rear panel. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1961rif. 92972NY:: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Second American printing. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few closed edge tears dust jacket. Dust jacket design by George Salter.; 242 pages . Knopf, hardcover books
