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1836Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1957Best.-Nr. 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
1965Best.-Nr. 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
1941Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1963Best.-Nr. 109201Washington DC: Library of Congress 1963. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in moderately soiled wrappers. Library of Congress paperback books
1833Best.-Nr. 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
1838Best.-Nr. 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
1846Best.-Nr. 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
1798Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1924Best.-Nr. 557577New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Two volumes. Black cloth stamped in red red and black patterned endpapers. A few pages with small stains bindings with modest general wear spines slightly faded very good lacking the scarce dust jackets. Owner name of scholar and educator Porter Lander MacClintock on the endpaper and first page of each volume. MacClintock taught at John Dewey's Laboratory School of the University of Chicago. A fictional novel chronicling the decline of a wealthy German family. This was the author's first novel and subsequent Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1929. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1935Best.-Nr. 2132622/04/1935. This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never been offered for sale before In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of Lübeck and their times. It was Mann’s first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author’s body of work the Swedish Academy’s citation for Mann identified “his great novel Buddenbrooks” as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner’s in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns. The League of American Writers was established by the First American Writers Congress a gathering held from April 26–28 1935. It was an association of American novelists playwrights poets journalists and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA in 1935. The group included Communist Party members and so-called ""fellow travelers"" who closely followed the Communist Party's political line without being formal party members as well as individuals sympathetic to specific policies being advocated by the parrty. In 1933 after the takeover of the Nazi party while travelling in the South of France Mann heard from his eldest children Klaus and Erika in Munich that it would not be safe for him to return to Germany. The family except these two children emigrated to Küsnacht near Zürich Switzerland but received Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport in 1936. Typed letter signed April 22 1935 to Hart his publisher. ""It is not easy for me to answer your suggestion in regards to this business news. I have read very carefully the appeal of the American writer’s congress. However I have unsurmountable concerns about contributing a statement to the congress. In the second half of the appeal there is mention of ‘civil liberties’. It stands in logical contradiction to all previous statements which have a purely communist character. A telegram on my part as you have asked me to send would be a clear support of communism which I am not able to force myself to give. I have a true love of civil liberties as much as I am against fascism and war. I much prefer the communist revolution to that of the fascists. Nevertheless the wording of this appeal and the political orientation it lends to this congress does not allow me to follow your wishes to send a note of unrestricted sympathy to the congress. I beg you to understand and not interpret my position as a lack of courage. It is an act of good conscience of what is my duty and what is not. ""Earlier than planned my wife and I will have the opportunity to see you again. In June a little bit later than last time we will come to America and stay for a short while in New York."" This letter was acquired from the family of the recipient and has never before been offered for sale. unknown books
1604Best.-Nr. 1818816/04/1936. An incredibly rare and unpublished letter relating to his perhaps most famous work 1936 was a momentous year for Mann. That year his escalated attacks on the Nazi government led to his German citizenship being revoked. He traveled to Argentina his maternal homeland for a PEN International Conference which was organized to bring peace and understanding between cultures using literature. In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of Lübeck and their times. It was Mann's first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author's body of work the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified ""his great novel Buddenbrooks"" as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later in July 1900 and published in October 1901. Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner's in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns. Typed letter signed in German to Hart April 16 1936. ""I am hurrying to acknowledge receipt of your check from August 25th and am happy that sales of the “Nocturnes” are gradually progressing. ""You have added some very personal notes to your letter hat I would like to address with a few words. The trip to Moscow I will definitely make but will have to postpone it for now since I have travel plans to Vienna and Budapest in the immediate future. For the summer I have agreed to travel to Bueno Aires for the PEN Club Congress. I had committed to this trip a while ago and therefore have to travel there first. This trip is especially enticing to me since it will take me to Rio de Janeiro. It is the home of my mother who often told me about the beauty of the coast when I was a child. ""I was very touched about what you told me regarding your repeated studies of the novel of my youth. I finished it when I was 25 years old. The young man who wrote that book in his solitude could not have dreamed that it would be his calling in life to influence the intellectual life of people in a foreign continent in a educating and encouraging way. From the bottom of my heart I wish you have happy and beautiful ideas for your work and am repeating my request to please send me a copy your book once it is printed."" unknown books
2005Best.-Nr. 2323255New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Reprint. Top edge faintly foxed otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square interior clean bright and unmarked. 2005 Hard Cover. xii 465 pp. A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was for all practical purposes still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong. In a book that startles and persuades Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities - such as Tenochtitlan the Aztec capital - were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore Tenochtitlan unlike any capital in Europe at that time had running water beautiful botanical gardens and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first and perhaps the greatest feat of genetic engineering." Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it - a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 227091Liberty: Short Mountain Collective 2000. 72p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 22058Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press Published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology 1937. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth. Very good; some rubbing to the cloth. Royal 8vo 12. 1 - 444 pp. and illustrations throughout. After qualifying Mann decided to specialize in ophthalmology and took her first post under Leslie Paton at St Mary's becoming FRCS in 1924. She also held several teaching appointments while she progressed up the ladder towards consultant ophthalmologist status reaching the highest point in 1927 with appointment as senior surgeon on the staff of Moorfields Eye Hospital London the first woman ever to do so. At the same time she established a Harley Street practice and consolidated herself as a leading clinical ophthalmologist in London but still carried on her developmental studies and teaching including the diploma course in Oxford. In this period up to the Second World War she learned and promoted the then new technique of slit-lamp microscopy of the eye applying it both to patients and to animals in the London Zoo. She was also instrumental in bringing to London in 1938 Josef Dallos the Hungarian pioneer of glass contact lenses just ahead of the Nazi take-over of Hungary and with him she established the first contact lens centre in the United Kingdom At the instigation of Sir Hugh Cairns Mann moved to Oxford in 1941 to undertake the clinical training of medical students diverted from London and there she was appointed to Margaret Ogilvy's readership in ophthalmology as well as a personal chair the first woman ever to hold the title of professor in the University of Oxford and a professorial fellowship in St Hugh's College In this period she was the first to use penicillin to treat ocular infection. See ODNB; G-M #5987. Cambridge Univ. Press Published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology hardcover books
1816Best.-Nr. 22014Dedham: H Mann & Co. 1816. First Edition. Original publisher's boards. Very good; paper spine abraded in places affecting the label; some toning but internally a clean copy; front board present but detached; verso of the title page with a library release - but no accessioning. 8vo xiv - mis-numbering in the Preface where a number sequence repeats; text is complete and correct 11 - 318 pp. Rutkow describes this book as the best and most vivid account of early 19th century American military life. The chapters on surgery are invaluable for the first hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds. Mann was an army surgeon during the War of 1812. The book offered here is a memoir of his experiences. The sections dealing with military hospitals are especially informative about techniques and care of the wounded. G-M #2161.1; Austin #1190; Kelly & Burrage 805-'06; Rutkow GS4. H Mann & Co. hardcover books
1816Best.-Nr. 22029Dedham: H Mann & Co. 1816. First Edition. Original publisher's boards. Fine bright copy with no foxing or spotting; a superb copy. 8vo xiv - mis-numbering in the Preface where a number sequence repeats; text is complete and correct 11 - 318 pp. Rutkow describes this book as the best and most vivid account of early 19th century American military life. The chapters on surgery are invaluable for the first hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds. Mann was an army surgeon during the War of 1812. The book offered here is a memoir of his experiences. The sections dealing with military hospitals are especially informative about techniques and care of the wounded. G-M #2161.1; Austin #1190; Kelly & Burrage 805-806; Rutkow GS4. H Mann & Co. hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 627717Lincoln University Pennsylvania: Lincoln University 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 616pp. A bit of foxing on the page edges and endpapers else near fine in modestly rubbed very good dust jacket. A history of the traditionally Black college by Bond an author and educator who served as president of Lincoln University and who was also the father of political and civil rights activist Julian Bond. A nice copy and very scarce. Lincoln University hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 211445Baltimore: Women a Journal of Liberation 1979. Magazine. 72p. 8.5x11 inches photos art essays poetry resources news actions very good lightly worn magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes a commentary on female circumcision. Women, a Journal of Liberation unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 2349071Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing 2006. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First edition - a paperback original. An excellent copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. 127 1 pp. "Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region just south of Rochester. It chronicles Victor's past as a Seneca Indian capital to the coming of Massachusetts settlers in the 18th century through to life as it was in the 20th century. With over 200 photographs this book shows how people in rural upstate New York lived played studied worked and worshiped. The images are from the town and village archives the Victor Historical Society the Ontario County Historical Society and private collections. Many are previously unpublished photographs and several are by Fred Locke an amateur photographer who is considered to be "the father of porcelain insulators. Arcadia Publishing paperback books
1845Best.-Nr. 2341534Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown / Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen / C. Stimpson 1845. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor cosmetic wear a couple pages toned. 1845 Hard Cover. 144; 16; 176; 59 pp. Four works bound in one hardcover volume. Brown leather spine marbled paper over boards gilt titles. A collection of publications related to Horace Mann's response to criticisms of his educational reforms to promote non-denominational common school systems. Charles C. Little and James Brown / Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen / C. Stimpson hardcover books
