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1974réf. 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
1988réf. 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
1923réf. 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
1920réf. 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
1930réf. 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
1997réf. 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
1940réf. 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
1961réf. 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
1947réf. 32320New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First American Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; original black cloth gilt-stamped spine; 2vii5472pp.; photographic frontispiece. Cloth a bit rubbed along extremities faint soil spot to upper cover spine gilt quite dulled. About Very Good albeit lacking jacket. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with the former's ownership inscription dated May 1947 to front free endpaper and their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Shahn would design the cover of the Vintage edition of Mann's Buddenbrooks in 1952. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1931réf. 47254Jerusalem: J. Yunovitch 1931. First edition. Softcover. g-. Quarto. xliii 67pp. 1. Tan textured paper wrappers with black lettering and publisher's device on the front cover protected by modern mylar. Pages untrimmed. Volume one from the series of Hebrew translations from the writings of Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. The text has been translated by Isaac Mann and there is initial introductory text notes and commentary by German-Israeli classical philologist and epigraphist Moshe Schwabe 1889-1956. Includes a brief bilingual Hebrew- Greek lexicon of philosophic terms at rear. This publication is believed to have been the first such Hebrew translation of Philo's works done in the 20th century and also the first published in Palestine. Text throughout in Hebrew with running scholarly footnotes and commentary. Text in Hebrew. Wrappers with some small sporadic wormholes as well as rubbing to extremities and some light stains. Wrappers and interior in good- condition overall. Hebrew title: כתבי פילון ×”××œ×›×¡× ×“×¨×•× ×™ ×ž×ª×•×¨×’×ž×™× מיוונית לעברית. ספר ר×שון: על ברי×ת העול×. J. Yunovitch unknown books
1988réf. 24265New York: Aperture Foundation 1988. Cloth. Very Good /Good . A serviceable copy of the 1988 1st edition. Tight and VG one very small stain --the size of a pea-- along the front panel's fore-edge in a bright Good dustjacket with minor soiling to the panels very light creasing --with one or two smalll closed tears along the edges-- and one chip along the dustjacket's front panel. Still though very presentable. Quarto Introduction by Ann Beattie. Aperture Foundation unknown books
1969réf. 35749NY:: Greenwood Press. Near Fine. 1969. Hardcover. Complete in six volumes. Facsimile reprints of the 1903-4 Cassell edition. Each volume is near fine in blue cloth. No dust jackets as issued. ISBN: 0837119642 0837120411 0837120381 0837119731 083712042X 0837120438. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
1973réf. 24902New York: Simon and Schuster 1973. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A superb copy of the 1973 1st edition with the correct number bar at the title page. Exceptionally clean. Tight and Fine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Octavo 382 pgs. Truly a collector's copy the sharpest this bookseller has seen. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1936réf. 204085London: Burlington Fine Arts Club / University Press Oxford 1936. Hardcover. VG. End papers have some foxing. Section featuring plates is more toned than the text portion but otherwise clean and unmarked. Quarto. Hardcover. Privately printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and beveled edges. 84 pages plates 32 cm. Burlington Fine Arts Club / University Press Oxford hardcover books
1975réf. 62479Freehold: Al Mann Exclusives 1975. Comb bound booklet 11" x 8.5"; typescript on rectos only pp. 1 20; green printed covers; covers fading text clean and sound very good with both the large and small "prompter's lists" laid in but without the ungimmicked dictionary and the "Enrich your word power" booklet required for the effect. With some information on the development of the effect and facsimiles of ads and correspondence with the managers of Linking Ring magazine. A mentalist effect in which the performer is able to surmise what words the participants are thinking of out of thin air simply by having them look up the word in a dictionary from a distance. Al Mann Exclusives unknown books
1950réf. 470109New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 759pp. Near fine with some bumping at the corners in bright near fine dust jacket lightly worn at the corners and with a hint of sunning to the spine. Inscribed by editor Joseph Warner Angell to bibliographer Donald Gallup in the year of publication: "For Donald Gallup With many thanks for all you have done for me- Sincerely yours Joe Angell. 15 October 1950." A nice copy inscribed to the noted scholar. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1914réf. 189721914. Horace Mannikin" 1914 Yearbook from Horace Mann a co-ed high school in the Bronx New York. 160 pages 8" x 10." Horace Mann school was founded in 1887 with the intent to prepare students for an academic career with the Ivy Leagues. This yearbook is full of students' autograph signatures as well as photographs of clubs classes social events and sports teams. There are 24 pages of advertisements for local New York businesses as well as a sponsorship page from Tiffany & Co. Bound in black boards with gilt lettering. Very good condition. unknown books
réf. 54113London: Privately Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Good- to very good condition. Small Folio. 84pp. li plates. Original orange cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Profusely illustrated with one hundred and sixty seven reproductions printed to special paper and rendered lithographically. Contains list of the Exhibition Committee list of contributors and list of plates at front. With an introduction by James G. Mann. Binding with some wear along edges bump at upper foredge. Spine somewhat sunned. Interior in very good condition. Privately Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club hardcover books
1936réf. 204089London: Burlington Fine Arts Club / University Press Oxford 1936. Hardcover. VG. End papers have some foxing. Section featuring plates is more toned than the text portion but otherwise clean and unmarked. Slipcase has some general wear and is missing the bottom edge piece. Glassine jacket has some tears around the edges and a few missing pieces along the spine. Quarto. Hardcover in red slipcase with glassine jacket. Privately printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and beveled edges. 84 pages plates 32 cm. Burlington Fine Arts Club / University Press Oxford hardcover books
1948réf. 434816New York: Allen Towne & Heath 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Owner's neat name front fly else fine in attractive very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends and some old intern al tape shadows. Allen, Towne & Heath hardcover books
1988réf. 316905New York: Aperture 1988. hardcover. near fine/very good. Mann Sally. Introduction by Ann Beattie. 37 black-and-white photographs by Sally Mann. 53 pages thin 4to cloth d.w.; dust wrapper lightly rubbed dust soiled. New York: Aperture/A New Image Book 1988. Early printing. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Aperture unknown books
1923réf. 413618New York: Henry Holt 1923. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Small bookstore label spine lettering effaced small tears mostly at the crown about good lacking the dustwrapper. A scarce title and one of Mann's earliest books published in the U.S. Henry Holt hardcover books
1947réf. 543309New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. 472pp. Crease on rear fly cover corner lightly bumped about near fine in a good only dust jacket with chips and tears loss at the crown moderate foxing and soiling and tiny red spots along the spine. A collection of biographical and critical essays on celebrated authors composers and other persons. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1938réf. 84659New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book 1938. First American Edition. Two volumes. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind embossed with ruling to covers; yellow topstain; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; glassine wrappers; 369pp.; 664pp; colorful map illustration. Volume one in complete glassine dustjacket has previous owner's name and note inked to front free endpaper occasional pencilled marginal marks fading to topstain and rubbing to titling and board edges; Good. Volume two in glassine dustjacket tiny chip to rear flap has a clean interior and bright topstain with shelf-soil to covers; Very Good. In publisher's pictorial slipcase with cracks to upper edges tanning and rubbing to board edges; Good. Mann's third part of his four-part Joseph and His Brothers series. Originally published as Joseph und Sein Brüder and later Joseph in Ägypten this is the first translation from German. 84659. Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book unknown books
1938réf. 158984New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. Hardcover. VG Books are in terrific shape; slipcase has aged and has small tear along top open end as well as a name written on it in pencil; otherwise pristine. 2 vols. Black stamped cloth tissue guards as dust jackets; 664 pp. plus ads; one colored map at end of vol. 1; held in original cardboard slipcase with wrap-around paper title panel. The complete two-volume set of historical fiction chronicling the life of Joseph son of Jacob and written by one of Germany's finest authors. Published in German in 1936 and translated here for the first time into English by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Section headings are: vol. 1. The journey downwards ; The entrance into Sheol ; The arrival ; The highest ; The man of the blessing -- vol. 2. The smitten one ; The pit. A great copy of a classic work. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books