16 634 résultats
1848réf. 53917Washington: printed by J. & G. S. Gideon 1848. First edition 8vo pp. 20; self-wrappers. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark advocating Congress's right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories and in a letter in December of that year he said: "I think the country is to experience serious times. Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel. printed by J. & G. S. Gideon unknown books
1959réf. 46895New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1959. First edition 8vo pp. 6 211 7; frontis portrait; black cloth with gilt title on spine in red pictorial dust jacket; top edge in red; near fine in a near fine dust jacket ink checkmarks at bibliography in back bookplate on front paste down light rubbing and fading to dust jacket edge. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1982réf. 22720London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 189; charts; fine in original cloth clipped dust-jacket. Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown books
1996réf. 31245Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1996. First edition review copy with publisher's slip laid in large 8vo pp. xiii 1 417; text in double column; generally a fine copy in original decorative purple cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Indiana University Press unknown books
1994réf. 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
1932réf. 12376London: Martin Secker 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Essays on Goethe and Tolstoy Frederick the Great and the occult. First English edition. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal wear to extremities head/cap wear light toning else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo. 261pp. Green cloth bound with gilt titling. Lacking dj. Light annotations and underlining. Martin Secker hardcover books
1949réf. 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
1883réf. 2354595Boston: Cupples Upham & Co 1883. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Former library copy usual marks. Spine toned boards lightly soiled rear free endpaper removed pages lightly toned. Binding tight and square text clean and unmarked. 1883 Hard Cover. 268 pp. A firsthand account of interactions between Native Americans of the Piute tribe in what is now Nevada and white settlers. Her family scattered to California to escape the resulting conflicts. Contents include: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites; Domestic and Social Moralities; Wars and Their Causes; Captain Truckee's Death; Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes; The Malheur Agency; The Bannock War; The Yakima Affair; Appendix. Cupples, Upham & Co hardcover books
réf. 397987Unbound. Near Fine. A single octavo leaf approximately 6" x 7.75" written on both sides from the Diary of George Combe Mann. One margin a little irregularly cut affecting a few letters but not affecting the readability of the leaf old folds near fine. Both Horace Jr. and George were the sons of Horace Mann died 1859 the Father of American Education and Mary Peabody Mann one of the illustrious Peabody Sisters a reformer teacher and founder of a successful school for young children her sister Elizabeth Putnam Peabody was a reformer and pioneer in the creation of kindergartens and her other sister Sophia Peabody was a painter and the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Horace and Mary Mann had three sons: Horace Mann Jr. George Combe Mann and Benjamin Pickman Mann. The eldest Horace Mann Jr. was an accomplished botanist who studied and traveled with Henry David Thoreau. Mann also studied zoology with Louis Agassiz and was responsible for discovering over 100 plants species in Hawaii. Mann was named to head the botanical gardens at Harvard but died of tuberculosis at age twenty-four before he could fill the position. His personal herbarium of approximately 12500 sheets was purchased in 1869 by Andrew Dickson White as the first accession into the Cornell University Herbarium. The diary leaf in the 22-year-old George Mann's hand covers two sides of one leaf begins on November 11 1868 the day of his brother's death and continues on the other side with entries through November 18th the entry for the 18th may be incomplete. Mann's entry for November 11th in a clear and readable hand is exceedingly poignant: "At a few minutes before 2 p.m. Horace coughed a little harder than usual and mother spoke to him. He answered 'I was trying to stop a hiccough' adding immediately 'in the eastern provinces they say that is death.' She went out a minute and returned to find him with his eyes fixed gasping for breath. She called me who tried to raise him a little but he gasped five or six times at intervals of a few seconds and ceased to breathe. He had been comfortable all day. After his drain was driven out this morning he said he almost wished he had it to drive out again it felt so deliciously. He wanted mother to be with him all the time kept repeating how comfortable he was and wanted to continue just as he was. He enjoyed the day it seemed as much as any one in his life so perfectly calm and tranquil was he. But it was the calm which he now enjoys in full. His temperament made living hard even in health - an invalid intolerable. But he lived better than we realized and in his death I find an untold loss!" On the 13th he notes: "We had service here at 4 o'clock. Dr. Peabody officiated and Mrs. Gould and Dr. & Mrs. Vaughan sang. Brigham staid here last night." On the 14th: "We went to Providence at 11 o'clock - mother Aunt Lizzie Mary Peabody Dr. Gould Ben and I - where we found Aunt Lydia the Messers and Arthur Knapp. It was a beautiful day and the short service at the grave was very satisfactory. We dined at Aunt Lydia's and returned at 4 getting home at 7 p.m. Everything was calm and quiet. It is all over!" On the 16th: "Mother's 62nd birthday. Went in to Mr. Brigham's office again." On the 17th: "Attended to Horace's accounts in the evening." The entry on the 18th is truncated: "Snow in the night and rain all day - Read 150pp. of Greenleaf on Evidence." Unique primary source material on the death of a promising young botanist. From the estate of Horace Mann III died 1978 the son of George Combe Mann. unknown books
1997réf. 1418204Norwalk: The Easton Press 1997. Hardcover. Large Octavo 107 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in dark blue leather bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have very slight wear with light wear to the edges. Text block has all edges gilt. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Ribbon marker. NOTE: Shelved in Column A. 1418204. FP New Rockville Stock. The Easton Press hardcover books
1836réf. 007789London: Ackermann and Co. Printed by Hillmandel 1836. Half Calf. Very Good. Truly scarce set of hand-colored plates with not a single copy reflected on OCLC First Search nor in bibliographic bibles for color plate and sporting books Tooley and Schwerdt respectively. Oblong 28.5 by 38cm. Six hand-colored lithographic plates Original wraps bound in. Ackermann and Co. Printed by Hillmandel unknown books
1988réf. 49356New York: Aperture / A New Images Book 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Good to fine condition. Signed Sally Mann on title page. Quarto. 53 1pp. Original gray cloth with black lettering on spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. "At Twelve is Sally Mann's revealing collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well caught between childhood and adulthood when the difference is not entirely understood. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose-what adults make of that pose may be the issue." The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution abuse unwanted pregnancy. Mann does not deny this reality but records it both in the faces of her subjects and in written stories that accompany thirteen of the portraits adding another dimension to our understanding of "Childhood. The young women in Mann's unflinching large-format photographs however are not victims. They return the viewer's gaze with a disturbing equanimity." Publisher. Illustrated with thirty-seven striking photographs. Dustjacket with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Binding with very light wear along edges. Endpapers with minor sunning along edges. Interior in fine condition. Aperture / A New Images Book hardcover books
1944réf. 005132New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition stated. Near Fine cloth front board faint rub in a Very Good Plus dust jacket small chip head of spine spine a bit darkened rubs at the folds inside of jacket age-toned not showing on outside. Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1939. The 4th and concluding work in his great tetralogy. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1939réf. 2341086New York: Random House 1939. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. Reisman Philip. Reissue. Includes publisher's slipcase and onion-skin jackets. Jackets toned with chips tears and creases along edges slipcase edges rubbed with corners exposed top slipcase seam repaired. Bindings tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1939 Hard Cover. xxv 968 pp. paginated continuously Complete in two hardcover volumes. Includes color plates by Philip Reisman and an introductory essay by Thomas Mann. Tolstoy's classic tale of forbidden love first serialized in 1873 and first released in book form in the original Russian in 1878. Random House hardcover books
1957réf. 21220Harmondsworth Middlesex England: Penguin Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in Very Good lightly rubbed and chipped dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her small and unobtrusive inventory number; Mann's colossal monumental brasses are among the most impressive and awe-inspiring monuments in the world. These massive sculptures each weighing in at over a ton are meticulously crafted from Carrara marble and bronze. Mann's unique style is characterized by bold sweeping lines and a powerful sense of symmetry. Each brass is a unique masterpiece and together they form an impressive tribute to the power and glory of medieval England.; Color Illustrations; 8vo . Penguin Books hardcover books
1934réf. 338618New York: Equinox Cooperative Press 1934. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Lynd Ward. Illustrated with Lithographs by Lynd Ward. 61 pages. Thin 8vo blue/black pictorial cloth spine a bit faded; publisher's slipcase battered and with repairs. New York: Equinox Cooperative Press 1934. Limited edition -- number 250 of 1000 copies signed by the author. A near fine copy in a good slipcase. These three stories have not previously appeared in English. Equinox Cooperative Press unknown books
1965réf. 1417622New York: Harper & Row 1965. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 171 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is blue and black with white print. Dust jacket in mylar; small surface tears damp stain and smudging to rear panel. Price unclipped: "$4.50". Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and blue cloth to boards; light wear to spine caps and corners slight blemishes. Text block has spotting to fore edge damp stain to endpapers slight puckering to pages. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K ND-K . 1417622. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Row hardcover books
1941réf. 020957Pacific Palisades CA 5 October 1941. Letter. Light creases from mailing. Near Fine. A superb three-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED TLS on Mann's personal stationery to Louis B. Mayer president of MGM Studios commending Mayer for the Studios' contracting of 5 refugee writers in order to allow their immigration to the United States to escape death during World War II: Alfred Doeblin Alfred Polgar Hans Lustig Wilhelm Speyer and Walter Mehring. In part: "It is not my custom to interfere in matters which do not directly concern me; however I should like to take the liberty of presenting to you with confidence a matter which is close to my heart and which is a source of worry for me as well many other well-meaning people. It was one of the finest and most meritorious deeds during these turbulent years which destroyed so much life and happiness a deed which will certainly never be forgotten when the fantastic tale of the emigration of European culture is told that two great Motion Picture Companies in Hollywood decided to give emergency contracts to a number of German and Austrian writers which not only enabled these men to immigrate into the United States but also secured if only for a certain time a basis for their existence." Mann spends most of the letter arguing for the rehiring of these writers for another year not "for unproductive and merely humanitarian purposes" but because "the value of the agreement for the Company has already been demonstrated." An important letter revealing Mann's solidarity with refugee writers during the rise of Fascism in Europe. Mann himself emigrated to the United States in 1939 following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. The outbreak of World War II on 1 September 1939 prompted Mann to offer anti-Nazi speeches in German to the German people via the BBC and in October 1940 Mann began monthly eight-minute broadcasts recorded in the U.S. and broadcast by the BBC to Germany condemning Hitler and the Nazis. In doing so he was one of the few publicly active opponents of Nazism among German expatriates in the United States. unknown books
1927réf. 1397215New York New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 2 volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Spines are black with embossed lettering. Boards of volume 1 have mild general shelving wear along extremities mild fraying and bumping to fore corners faint ring stain on front cover and moderate shelving and rubbing wear along spine; boards of volume 2 have mild general rubbing wear mild shelving wear along extremities moderate sun-fading along spine and bumping wear to fore corners. Textblock edges of both volumes have moderate age toning and scuffing head edges dyed yellow; mild age toning along endpapers previous owners' bookplates adhesively adhered to front pastedowns. CONTENTS: Volume 1 434 pages - Volume 2 466 pages. DL Consignment. Shelved in Room Z. 1397215. Special Collections - Upstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1963réf. 109201Washington DC: Library of Congress 1963. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in moderately soiled wrappers. Library of Congress paperback books
1833réf. 36802Bedford PA 1833. Folio sheet folded to 8" x 9-1/2". Written on the first two pages in ink manuscript. Docketed on final blank "5th Dec. 1833 D. Mann ansd." Addressed "Samuel M. Barclay Member H.R. Harrisburg Pa." Circular postal cancel "Bedford PA Dec 7". Folded for mailing wax seal with tear of blank margin where opened. Several fold splits repaired no loss. Good. In 1832 and 1833 Pennsylvania conducted a marathon contest for the election of U.S. Senator chosen in those days by the legislature of each State. The term of Senator George Dallas came to an end in March 1833. "The Pennsylvania General Assembly consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate convened on December 11 1832 for the regularly scheduled Senate election for the term beginning on March 4 1833. A total of thirty-six ballots were recorded. Ballots 1-17 were recorded on four separate dates 11th 12th 13th 15th in December 1832. Ballots 18-21 were recorded on two separate dates 9th and 10th in January 1833. Ballots 22-29 were recorded on two separate dates 19th and 20th in February 1833. The thirtieth ballot was recorded on March 12 1833 followed by three additional ballots on April 2. Following the thirty-third ballot on April 2 the election convention adjourned sine die without electing a Senator" wikipedia; "U.S. Senate Election - 1832-33" Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006 Wilkes University Website accessed 7/21/2020. On December 7 1833 two days after David Mann wrote this letter to his friend in the Pennsylvania legislature the Democrat Samuel McKean Mann's least favorite candidate emerged as the winner. The writer of this Letter David Mann 1782-1859 of Bedford County had been County Clerk Recorder Prothonotary under Governors Snyder and Findlay a member of the State Senate from 1822-24 and County Auditor General. The Letter's recipient Samuel M. Barclay 1802-1852 was a Bedford lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in August 1826; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1833; and to the state Senate in 1837 Website of the Pennsylvania State Senate. Job Mann 1795-1873 appears to have been a cousin of David Mann. He was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1835-1837 and a Democratic member from 1847-1851. He also served as the Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1842-1848. unknown books
1838réf. 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 books
1846réf. 16563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co unknown books
1798réf. 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 books
1935réf. 16476New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1935. First American Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine. Signed first American edition first printing of Young Joseph by Thomas Mann in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. Octavo 311pp. Black cloth title stamped in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine. Yellow topstain publisher's patterned endpapers. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block faint dust remnants to top edge a near fine copy. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.50 on front flap sunning to spine bright illustrations on covers. Signed by the author Thomas Mann on the front flyleaf. Thomas Mann 1875-1955 was a German novelist and essayist known for his exploration of intellectual and moral dilemmas which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. This book is part of a four-part novel series retelling the biblical story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. Originally published between 1933 and 1943 the series includes: The Stories of Jacob Young Joseph Joseph in Egypt and Joseph the Provider. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
