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1927rif. 56060NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Original black cloth titled in red and gilt patterned eps. The gilt titles are rubbed. Light corner wear. Bookplate of Ruth and Mark Schorer. PO inscription both volumes To Mark from August as always 9 April 1929. Mark Schorer was an author critic and scholar born in Sauk City Wisconsin; the inscriptions are possibly from August Derleth who was known to be Mark Schorer's co-author and friend. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiii 436; 437-900 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1838rif. 35636Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1838. Stitched 75pp. Untrimmed scattered foxing Good. 'Senate.No. 26' at head of title. When Mann took office as Secretary the free public school system was characterized by "short school terms dilapidated and unsanitary school-houses untrained and underpaid teachers and irrational methods of teaching. He brought to his new duties such a degree of courage vision and wisdom that during the brief twelve years in which he held office the Massachusetts school system was almost completely transformed" DAB. This first Report was significant for its "presentation and discussion of school problems of crucial importance. The needs and remedies growing out of these problems are set forth with convincing clearness and with the fervor of a prophet and reformer" Id. Edward Everett was President of the Board of Education whose membership included Mann Jared Sparks and Robert Rantoul Jr. FIRST EDITION. AI 51561 5. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown
1972rif. 161480New York: Norman Rosemont Productions 1972. Draft script for the 1973 television movie originally aired on April 24 1973 on ABC. Production memo and seven-page shooting schedule laid in. An American officer is sentenced to permanent exile from his homeland after being court-martialed for conspiring to attack and annex Mexico with Aaron Burr. Shot on location in Newport Rhode Island in Niagara New York and in Mystic Connecticut. Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated August 14 1972 with credit for screenwriter Sidney Carroll. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 88. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus moderately edgeworn with splashes affecting the final ten leaves and rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Norman Rosemont Productions unknown
1966rif. 614878New York: Octagon Books 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition with a new preface and additional chapter by Bond. Octavo. xxxvi 531pp. Red cloth gilt. Modest wear tiny ink spot at the spine base and the endleaves a bit foxed a very god or better copy issued without dust jacket. Octagon Books hardcover
1834rif. 730541834. KENTUCKY. BUTLER Mann. A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Louisville KY: Wilcox Dickerman and Co. 1834. 1st ed. Frontis. port. xi396pp. Contemporary full calf spine gilt all edges marbled. Small amount of faint scattered foxing wear to final leaf not affecting text else very good. HOWES B-1059 "aa": "Disputes many of Marshall's findings; contains the Journal of Col. George Croghan one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country previously appearing only in magazine form. unknown
1959rif. 160610Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1959 film all four showing actress May Britt dancing in a cabaret. One with a French Twentieth Century-Fox stamp on the verso. A little-seen American remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 German film based on the 1905 novel "Professor Unrat" by Heinrich Mann. A tale of the destruction that obsession can cause about a German high school teacher who falls for a traveling showgirl marries her and is then shunned by his community slowly losing all of his dignity. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned with brief wear at the corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1914rif. ABE-1760303068805Emma Goldman Mother Earth 1914 A very nice and well kept example of the Mother Earth magazine that was infamous in its time. This issue with writing from Goldman Berkman Reitman Lincoln Steffens and more. Book is about near fine showing some signs of age toning rusted staples a touch of curling to corners faint lines of rust stains likely from bailing wire at the printers a spot of tanning to pages 336-337 from envelope laid in. This issue contains a small envelope addressed to Ida Hansen the editor of a little-known Swedish-American magazine dedicated to women's suffrage among other things. The envelope has her name title as editor as well as that of the magazine "QVINNAN OCH HEMMET" printed on it. Presumably this magazine once belonged to her. Small folio printed wraps staple bound 321-352pp. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted padded box. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Emma Goldman, Mother Earth paperback
1914rif. ABE-1760248131058Emma Goldman Mother Earth 1914 Excellent issue with work by Kropotkin on his ideas of Mutual Aid as well as original work from Goldman. Near fine light toning rusted staples. Small folio printed wraps staple bound 98-128pp. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted padded box. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Emma Goldman, Mother Earth paperback
1958rif. 168476Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film showing Tina Louise buried partially in the sand. 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 Louise and Fay Spain were perceived as obscene the film was said to call marital fidelity into question and even worse portrayed a popular uprising of mill workers. Many theaters either banned the film entirely or admitted only moviegoers 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. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1823rif. 29285Dedham: H. & W.H. Mann 1823. Hardcover. First Edition. 5 x 8.25in. 25pp. Bound in recent cloth with gilt titling. 32pp. of added blanks. Appears to be Horace Mann's first publication predating his oration delivered at Providence in 1825 which is the earliest entry in Benjamin Pickman Mann's bibliography of his father. NEAR FINE. Shows very minor and occasional oxidative stress throughout else Fine. As pictured. H. & W.H. Mann hardcover
1970rif. 051523-DSeattle Washington: University of Washington Press 1970. Book. Illus. by Imogen Cunningham. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By Photographer. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st. Edition 1970 Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket unpaginated . With 94 black & white full page plates by Ms. Cunningham this copy is inscriber and signed by her on the title page. Condition : Fine with very light edge foxing . DJ is Very Good with light rubs and a very small tear at the top corner . University of Washington Press Hardcover
2017rif. STM-9781839362583United States: J Walter 2017. Hardbound. Brand New. Book Condition:- Brand New. Secured Packaging. Fast DeliveryBookseller Inventory # 9781839362583 J Walter hardcover
2020rif. STM-9781839363375United States: J Walter 2020. Hardbound. Brand New. Book Condition:- Brand New. Secured Packaging. Fast DeliveryBookseller Inventory # 9781839363375 J Walter hardcover
1965rif. 022404Houston Texas: Premier Printing Company 1965. Book. Illus. by B&w photographs. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by the Subject. First Edition stated. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 96pp ---- Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by Roy Hofheinz ---- rubbing several tears and edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket A warm and personal glance at Roy Mark Hofheinz one of the most talked-aboiut men in the nation. Premier Printing Company Hardcover
1823rif. 13925Dedham: H. & W. H. Mann 1823. First Edition. Sewn binding. Good . Large octavo 25pp. Ex-library with two stamps to the title page and a few stray pencil markings else clean. Side-sewing intact but extra stab holes and missing wrappers suggest that it was removed at some point from a bound volume of other works. Marginal tear to pp. 3-4 just barely approaches text else with shallower chips and tears to extremities. Untrimmed. Minimal foxing; a good or better example. Horace Mann's first publication which he printed at his own expense. A passionate and upbeat celebration of America's first 47 years which looks forward to the fruits of westward expansion. Published when Mann was a young lawyer; in fact the same year that he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. As such it precedes his earliest writings on education--the subject for which he is best remembered--by more than a decade. Missed by his early bibliographers. Scarce in the trade. OCLC records perhaps a dozen holdings distinctly concentrated in Massachusetts. Sabin only records a posthumous reprint as part of a collected edition. American Imprints 13120. H. & W. H. Mann unknown
1798rif. 15192Wrentham: Nathaniel Heaton Jun. 1798. 32pp. Disbound scattered foxing else Very Good. "One of the most notable surgeons of his day" DAB Mann became an army surgeon at age twenty during the Revolution and served in the War of 1812. He "visited Shays's camp during the rebellion of 1786-'7 in order to report to Gen. William Shepard" Appleton; and wrote the highly esteemed Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812. Howes M258. Mann traces the 'Masonic Art' to its beginnings: "as soon as order began and harmony was spoken into existence by the Supreme Architect of the universe the pillars of the masonic fabric were erected." Masonic history is discussed in a highly learned manner; much comment is provided upon Robison's work. FIRST EDITION. Evans 34043. Sabin 44328n. Nathaniel Heaton Jun. unknown
1927rif. 33589New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First American edition. His first book to be translated into English. Translated by Lambert Armour Shears. Klaus was the son of Thomas Mann. An opponent of fascism he was one of the first German writers to go into exile. He went on to become one of the most versatile and productive members of his generation of writers eventually making his home here in the U.S. There are two tiny spots at the bottom of the spine where the cloth is worn through otherwise the book is very good to fine in a lightly spine-tanned dust jacket with small chips and tears and split at front spine fold but still attractive. Boni & Liveright promotional 4-page leaflet with some edgewear laid in. A scarce book. Boni and Liveright unknown
2014rif. 069118Aperture. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover in fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition and in protective mylar cover. 2014 reissue. Photos available upon request. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory. . Fine. Hardcover. 2014. Aperture hardcover
2003rif. 47817Boston: Bulfinch 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. 129pp quarto. First Edition. Signed by Sally Mann on title page. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Top edge of text block lightly foxed else fine. Bulfinch hardcover
1934rif. 470226Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition second printing clothbound issue published in the same year as the first printing with 1934 on title page and stating 'Elfte bis funfzehnte Ausgabe' on copyright page. 12mo. 343pp. Tan cloth stamped in gilt. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket which is rubbed and evenly faded on the spine. The second volume in the Joseph series. An uncommon title in dust jacket. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover
1933rif. 7062NY: Knopf 1933. 1933. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. 8vo. 276 pp. Name else this is a tight fine book in a DJ with light spinal sunning of the delicate mauve color else fine no chips tears or price clipping. Scarce thus. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. NY: Knopf (1933). hardcover
rif. 0323722199New. Never used book hardcover
1958rif. 150167N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Sophia Loren on the set of the 1958 film. With a Photoplay Library stamp on the verso along with the stamp of photographer Bill Avery and manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play. A greedy New England farmer marries for a third time after working his first two wives to death. Trouble ensues when his new wife a headstrong Italian woman begins an affair with his youngest son. Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962rif. 167657Copenhagen: Politikens Presse Foto 1962. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1962 Danish film. Printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the versos along with the stamps of Politikens Presse Foto and Agence France-Presse. Not to be confused with the 1962 British crime thriller directed by Peter Maxwell. Based on South African writer Nadine Gordimer's 1958 novel "A World of Strangers" about a white liberal Englishman who befriends a Black man after moving to Johannesburg only to realize that their friendship carries unforeseen consequences for them both. Shot on location in Johannesburg. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Lightly foxed on the margins and versos else about Near Fine. Politikens Presse Foto unknown
rif. 230735Smith Elder &c London 1839. 360 pp original cloth professionally restored preserving gold-blocked spine very good copy - "From the Author" in old ink on fep lacks map. Section on aborigines describes emasculation of aborigines by early stock- keepers so they could take the gins more easily. Also early black humor - one condemned to hang was preached to by a clergyman whereupon condemned man uttered "preach or hang me- but not both ! Smith, Elder &c, London, 1839 hardcover