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1941Best.-Nr. 274392New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Offsetting to blank preliminaries from clippings else near fine in a price-clipped near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1954Best.-Nr. 102884New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. Fine with previous owner's notations on the front pastedown in near fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine and a small tear at the crown. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1823Best.-Nr. 008528Dedham: H. & W. H. Mann 1823. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. First edition. Octavo. Pp. 25 1 blank. Self covers. Pulled from a bound volume some remnants at spine. Some slight spotting to covers. Contemporary ink signature and comment to top border; else clean. A fine copy. Perhaps the earliest publication with Horace Mann as author. Horace Mann 1796-1859 was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. Born in Franklin Massachusetts Mann studied at Brown University graduated with honors and then studied law. One of the early residents of Dedham Massachusetts Mann passed the local Bar and opened a law office in 1823. In only his first year in Dedham he was invited to deliver the Independence Day address. In his speech he "outlined for the first time the basic principles that he would return to in his subsequent public statements arguing that education intelligent use of the elective franchise and religious freedom are the means by which American liberties are preserved." Former President and then Congressman John Quincy Adams later read the address and "expressed great confidence in the future career of Mr. Mann". This pamphlet printed by Mann and his father is perhaps the earliest publication with Horace Mann as author. Includes a contemporary ink signature with the words "A significant work" penned in the same hand. Sabin: 44324. H. & W. H. Mann unknown books
1921Best.-Nr. 022063Munich: Phantasus 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's 1922 inscription on the front pastedown; spine of book and slipcase professionally repaired. Theodor Thomas Heine. Striking pictorial green boards 8" x 10-1/2" in red paper slipcase; text in German. One of 530 numbered copies this copy not numbered SIGNED by both author and artist in pencil on the colophon page. First edition of one of Thomas Mann's most controversial works with 12 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS and 20 text illustrations and initials by Theodor Thomas Heine. The text which satirizes Richard Wagner's DIE WALKÜRE was originally intended to be published in 1906 but was withdrawn by Thomas Mann before publication. Phantasus hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 022175Pacific Palisades 24 March 1950. Letter. Near Fine. Single-spaced typed letter on 8-1/2" x 11" personal stationery to Philip Blair Rice editor of THE KENYON REVIEW thanking him for sending an issue of the periodical "with the article by R. P. Blackmur about my novel 'Doctor Faustus'. But it is my desire to tell you that the repeated perusal of the study has given me great satisfaction and that quite apart from its topic I admire Mr. Blackmur's work as a highly distinguished critical achievement." Mann mentions Blair's own essay on Mann's book also published in THE KENYON REVIEW: "'The Merging Parallels' a study I have not forgotten. Together with this new comment it is included in my collection of personal and public reactions to this work of my old age which is particularly close to my heart." unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 021753New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1941. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the Nobel Prize-winning author on the front endpaper: "Mrs. Marcus Cashland/in remembrance of our visits/in her hospitable house where/we spent so happy hours/Pacif. Palisades Jan. 23 - 1942/Thomas Mann." A fine inscription. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 8353Stanford: Stanford University Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. xv 302pp. Numerous tables. Extensive chapter notes bibliography index. Yellow cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A social history of these two towns from their founding during the Gold Rush through the industrialization of the mines. Tables chart demographic social and economic changes. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. 442338Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. 724pp. Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Brown leather decoratively stamped in gilt all edges gilt silk moire endpapers and bookmark. Faint foxing on blank endpapers else fine without dustwrapper as issued. German novel originally published in 1924. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 2297541New York: The Modern Library 1966. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x5x1. 1966 first thus Toledano 365.1 binding/jacket style 11l blank verso $2.45 jacket price grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket edges rubbed jacket lightly toned ink garage sale price on front endpaper. Binding tight and square text clean and unmarked. vi 510 10 pp. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. "A modern reworking of the Faust legend in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist the composer Adrian Leverkuhn is the flower of German culture a brilliant isolated overreaching figure his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkuhn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist. The Modern Library hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 000392New York: Limited Editions Club 1962. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Felix Hoffmann. Two quarto volumes 7" x 10-7/8" bound in linen shelfback with the title stamped in gold on a gray-green label of Italian Roma paper and boards covered with a smoke-brown mould-made French paper impressed with a design by Max Caflisch. Illustrated with 53 wood engravings including 10 full page printed in three colors by Felix Hoffmann. Copy #1098 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1850Best.-Nr. 62509Boston: Redding and Company 1850. Opposing the Extension of Slavery in the Territories with Interesting Provenance Boston edition of a speech by Horace Mann before the United States House of Representatives in which Mann declares his opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories. Horace Mann 1796-1859 was an education reformer politician and abolitionist from Massachusetts. In 1848 following the death of John Quincy Adams Mann was elected to the U.S. House to serve out the remainder of Adams's term. For more than a decade Mann had fought for education reform as secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and he hoped his seat in Congress would give him the opportunity to bring about reform at the national level. Instead however Mann found himself preoccupied with what was perhaps the most pressing political issue of the day: slavery and its extension in the territories. This is the subject of the present speech given on the floor of the House of Representatives on February 15 1850. In it Mann states his opposition to slavery and its extension on moral and legal grounds. Embracing "the epithet 'Free-Soiler'" Mann insists that he "will engage in any honorable measure most likely to secure freedom to the new Territories" and "resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery." Mann goes on to adopt the rallying cry "No more slave Territories no more slave States." Given the South's ultimatum of extension or secession Mann closes with what turned out to be his most forceful – and most controversial – statement: "In conclusion I have only to add that such is my solemn and abiding conviction of the character of slavery that under a full sense of my responsibility to my country and my God I deliberately say better disunion - better a civil or a servile war - better any thing that God in his providence shall send than an extension of the bounds of slavery." Much to Mann's disappointment later that year saw the passage of the Compromise of 1850 which not only failed to prohibit slavery's extension in the territories but worse still Mann thought included the Fugitive Slave Act which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners while denying them the rights of habeas corpus and a trial by jury. Mann's outspoken opposition to the act as well as his criticism of fellow Whig Daniel Webster who helped broker the compromise cost Mann the party's nomination for his congressional seat in 1850. However in a turn of events that in retrospect made his comments from the previous February about being a "Free-Soiler" seem prophetic Mann managed to secure the Free Soil nomination before going on to win reelection by a landslide. This copy bears the bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer 1914-2003 a lawyer intelligence officer and book collector. Pforzheimer was one of the founders of the Central Intelligence Agency having served as an Army Air Force intelligence officer and worked on a number of operations for the Office of Strategic Services - the forerunner to the C.I.A. - during World War II. Among these was an operation called the "Yale Library Project" a mission for which Pforzheimer as a member of the Yale Library Associates used his role as a cover to launder money for the O.S.S. In 1956 Pforzheimer founded the C.I.A.'s Historical Intelligence Collection and went on to serve as the collection's first curator. The rear wrapper of this Boston edition notes other speeches on slavery published by Redding and Company including by Henry Clay John C. Calhoun and William Seward. Another edition of Mann's speech appeared the same year in Washington D.C. and the speech was reprinted the following year as part of a collection of Mann's speeches on the subject. A powerful speech attacking slavery from one of the most contentious legislative sessions in the history of the United States Congress. Original printed brown wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present. Wrappers chipped tanned and soiled. Text lightly soiled with some handwritten textual corrections in ink. Small blue bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer on rear of front wrapper see below. Good. LIBRARY COMPANY AFRO-AMERICANA 6323. DUMOND p.77. ANB 14 pp.424-27. Ernest Cassara "Reformer as Politician: Horace Mann and the Anti-Slavery Struggle in Congress 1848–1853" in Journal of American Studies Vol. 5 no. 3 December 1971 pp.247-63. Robin W. Winks Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War 1939–1961 2nd ed. New Haven 1996 pp.116-51. unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 90210Nottingham: Slow Dancer Press 1999. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Nottingham: Slow Dancer Press unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 88471np: Friends of the Colleges at Claremont 1940. First edition. 25 pp. Fine in full brown cloth with gilt letting to front panel. Ownership signature of Norman Philbrick on the first leaf. Introduction by Joseph Warner Angell. (np): Friends of the Colleges at Claremont, hardcover books
1945Best.-Nr. 88470NY: Knopf 1945. First US edition. 63 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with an erasure and strike through the printed price on the front flap. Jacket design by Paul Rand. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 86884NY: Brewer & Warren 1930. First US edition. 322 pp. Very near fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Translated from the original German by Marion Saunders. Young 2479. NY: Brewer & Warren hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 2vot416Sarasota Florida: Pineapple Press Inc. 1999. First Edition. Review Copy stamped to ffep. Quarto navy blue cloth & gray boards hardcover ix 191 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This authoritative and wide-ranging book presents for the first time the history of art in Florida from the first European artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues who arrived in 1564 until the end of the Second World War when art in Florida exploded into the modern forms and styles. For many years few artists came to Florida a lingering frontier due to the swampy terrain and subtropical climate. Those artists who did come however were intrigued by Florida’s spectacular sunsets and sunrises exotic forests hung with moss and a myriad of unique flora and fauna all depicted in early Florida paintings. A wide array of these artists and their paintings are presented and written about here for the first time. The early chapters document the artistic offerings of early explorers and naturalists like Mark Catesby and John James Audubon as well as the Seminole Indians and those who painted them including George Catlin and Charles Bird King. St. Augustine the first permanent settlement also came to be the first center of art in Florida. After the Civil War when Northerners began to flock to Florida for health and pleasure art found a place in the thriving business of travel literature. This drew artists like brothers Edward and Thomas Moran who began to paint the beauty of Florida. In the 1880s St. Augustine through the efforts of Henry Morrison Flagler again became the center of artistic endeavor attracting artists like Martin Johnson Heade. At the end of the century many prominent American artsts arrived and painted the Florida they found. This included Frederic Remington George Inness Hermann Herzog and Winslow Homer. In the first half of the twentieth century Florida paintings were created by such notables as John Singer Sargent Jane Peterson Martha Walter Milton Avery William Glackens Ernest Lawson Harold Betts Frank Weston Benson Ralston Crawford Andrew Wyeth and Milton Avery. The final chapter covers government-sponsored art in the 1930s including murals in public buildings and the Index of American Design. Collected here are 160 illustrations of Florida art 100 in color. The illustrated paintings were gathered from public and private collections all over the country many reproduced here for the first time. Pineapple Press, Inc., (1999). First Edition. Review Copy stamped to ffep. hardcover books
1934Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 80441NY: Knopf 1930. First US edition. xv 151 pp. Very near fine in decorated full black cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn. Young 2485 Penguin edition. NY: Knopf, hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 80359NY: Knopf 1933. First US edition. 275 pp. Fine in full decorated black cloth. Lacks dust jacket. NY: Knopf hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 80346London: Secker & Warburg 1940. First UK edition. ix 342 pp. Reader’s pencil notes and underlining to the first 95 pages else near fine in very good dust jacket with small chips to flap folds and sunning to spine. London: Secker & Warburg, unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 68381np: Phyllis Baldwin Browne 1934. First edition. 10 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very good only publisher’s slipcase lacking the top edge and with a half-inch missing from the bottom edge. One of 60 copies on Arnold handmade paper designed and printed by William E. Rudge’s Sons. (np): Phyllis Baldwin Browne, hardcover books
1816Best.-Nr. 5778fdDedham: Printed by H. Mann and Co. 1816. First Edition. Octavo bound in modern cloth-backed marbled boards hardcover uncut 317 i pp. Howes M258. “The primary record of medicine during the War of 1812.” – Garrison & Morton 5th 2161.1. The book bears the ownership signatures of John Whitridge 1793-1878 a practicing medical doctor in Baltimore and a later 19th century medical doctor John W. Partridge. Very Good; the book shows old damp-staining and some toning; the final leaf pp. 317-18 has been professionally repaired. Printed by H. Mann and Co., 1816. First Edition. hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 24837NY: Situations 1997. First edition. 16mo. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Fine. NY: Situations, unknown books
1816Best.-Nr. 65448Dedham MA: Printed by H. Mann and Co 1816. First edition. 8vo. 317 1 pp. Sabin 44328: "Contains information relative to the war not found elsewhere." HOWES M-258. AUSTIN 1190. American Imprints 38138. Bookplate of prominent Rhode Island physician Irving Addison Beck on front pastedown some light browning to the text but very good. Contemporary calf rubbed and somewhat eroded rebacked with gilt rules and leather label on the spine. 11197. Printed by H. Mann and Co unknown books
1866Best.-Nr. 64257Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1866. 8vo. 23 cm. 120pp. Library withdrawal stamp on titlepage. Waterstain top of pages throughout disbound. McDADE 774: "The Dearing family of six plus a hired boy and woman guest were all brutally hacked to death by him. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
