2004Best.-Nr. 108943New York NY: Robert Mann Gallery 2004. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; String-bound; Unpaginated 16 pp.; 10 color photos. From the gallery exhibition held September 23 - November 13 2004; Includes list of exhibitions. Robert Mann Gallery paperback books
1990Best.-Nr. 104840Washington DC: National Gallery of Art / Cambridge University Press 1990. Softbound. VG. Color illustrated glossy wraps. 165 pp. profusely illustrated in color and bw. Extensively annotated paintings. 33 works are listed. National Gallery of Art / Cambridge University Press paperback books
1975Best.-Nr. 1860Washington D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation 1975. Softcover. VG. Brown & color illus. wraps. 64 pp. 2 color 45 bw repros. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of artwork by American painter Francis William Edmonds 1806-1863. With a short essay by Maybelle Mann. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 40 pieces. Includes a bibliography. Edmonds' painting style is similar to Bingham and Mount. International Exhibitions Foundation paperback books
1936Best.-Nr. 1410452New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo ix 2 567 pages. In Very Good minus condition with two dust jackets; a first printing jacket in Very Good minus condition and a later printing jacket in Good condition. First printing jacket is red with black and navy lettering wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve. Later printing jacket is white and red with black and red lettering. Volume is in full oatmeal cloth binding with burgundy lettering. First printing jacket shows mild wear to covers with some rubbing along edges and joints. Lightly age toned with sunning to spine. Very shallow chipping to jacket at head of spine; wrinkling at tail with a small closed tear at the bottom of the rear joint. Later printing jacket shows heavier scuffing and wear with closed tears and small areas of chipping along the top and fore edges. Moderate soiling to jacket spine and back cover. Price unclipped: "$3.00". Boards show light wear with some fraying to head and sunning to spine. Text block shows moderate wear toning and soiling along edges with foxing to fore edge. Lightly age toned throughout. Soiling along hinges. Splitting to front hinge. Bookplate of former Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution Silvio A. Bedini on front pastedown with his ownership inscription in the top corner of the front flyleaf. Signed flat by Thomas Mann in black ink on front flyleaf: "Thomas Mann". Shelved in Case 7. 1410452. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. 344820San Francisco: Gil Mann & The Ambush 1981. Single 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet printed one side only on cream stock with Mann nude drawing in very good condition. Gil Mann & The Ambush unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 591976Paris: Edward W. Titus 1929. Softcover. Good. Magazine. Tall octavo. 197-379pp. Printed paper wrappers. Bookplate and stamp of a children's library wear to the yapped edges as usual front wrap detached else good. This influential little magazine features Thomas Mann's "Dina" a chapter from Joseph and His Brothers and Hermann Hesse's poem "The Song of Abel's Death." Additional contributors include Titus Roy Sheldon Heinrich Mann Alfred Döblin Stefan George René Schickle Kurt Kläber Robert Oboussier Jean de Bosschére Jerome Blum Walter Lowenfels Henry Cargill Sprietsma Hilaire Hiler Virgina Hersch George Reavey Stanley Burnshaw John Gould Fletcher Ivan Le Cocq Frances Fletcher William Van Wyck and Richard Thoma. Edward W. Titus unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 620026Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing "Erste bis zehnte Auflage" hardcover issue. 12mo. Text in German. Binding with modest foxing and a lightly tanned spine small barely noticeable abrasion on the front pastedown very good lacking the dust jacket. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 1373998Saddle-stitched. Octavo oblong 12 unnumbered pages 1 laid in sheet. In Good condition. Spine is staple bound. Cover is blue with centered illustration without print. Light wear to lower fore corner. Text block has light wear to lower fore corner. Illustrated: water colors by graphic artist Milton Glaser alongside text about the film and the plot. Item without title or publisher. Artist name from final illustration. Laid in sheet is advertisement including Glaser painting for Visconti film. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Oversized Ephemera Shelf. 1373998. FP New Rockville Stock. unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. 010662Richmond Virginia 1900. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This business envelope bears the printed return address of Valentine’s Meat-Juice Company of Richmond Virgina. It was sent from Richmond to the Director of the Private Maternity Hospital of Berlin Germany. It is franked with a 5-cent Grant stamp Scott #281 that has been canceled with a Barry Postal Supply Company machine postmark dated 21 February 1900. The reverse is filled with assorted postal labels handstamps in various colors and manuscript annotations related to its delivery despite having an insufficient address. In nice shape. In downtown Richmond Mann S. Valentine a prosperous merchant lived with his family in a large neoclassical home. In 1870 his wife Anne Maria fell ill from a “severe and protracted derangement of the organs of digestion” that prevented her from eating solid food. Doctors had given up on curing Anne Maria so Valentine took it upon himself to concoct his own highly concentrated protein and iron tonic which he distilled from a mix of eggs and beef broth. It worked wonders. Valentine ever a merchant began to create more which sold well in his store. Seeing the possibility of ever-increasing sales he began to canvass local then regional then nationally known physicians for their endorsements. Some replied with glowing reviews reporting they used it effectively not just as a nutritional supplement but as a treatment for everything from nausea to dysentery and cholera. Valentine began to publish these reviews in advertisements and business boomed. He took his meat juice to the International Paris Exposition in 1878 and introduced it to a global market. Recognizing the importance of physician recommendations Valentine began to contact European doctors for their endorsements. This envelope was no doubt used for that purpose. In 1906 the newly created Food and Drug Administration began its crackdown on patent medicines. Seeing the writing on the wall Valentine stopped promoting his meat juice as a curative and began to market it as a cooking supplement for flavoring various dishes. As such it was even more popular than medicine and became a staple on grocery store shelves throughout the country for years until demand finally wore off and the factory located at Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue shut its doors. . Valentine amassed a fortune during the last quarter of the 19th century and became an inveterate collector of art and artifacts. In his will he provided a large endowment to establish a museum to house his collection and it much expanded continues in operation as the famed Valentine Museum in Richmond. For more information see “The history of Valentine’s Meat Juice” at the RIC Today website and Castellano’s “In the 1800s Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice” at the Atlas Obscura website. Old meat juice bottles are frequently sold on or encountered in antique malls. Company envelopes used to request endorsements from domestic physician endorsements occasionally appear on or in philatelic auctions. Evidence of Valentines attempts to secure international professional recommendations are seldom encountered; this is the first we have seen. . unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 343674Los Angeles: Frontlines Press 2015. Paperback. Two volumes bound together 197 and 203p. respectively wraps very good condition. Cover subtitle under "The Black Nation: "Black/Latino Alliance; Indigenous Peoples Movements; The Third Reconstruction; Nations of Africa; Asia and Latin America; Third World Women. Frontlines Press paperback books
2016Best.-Nr. 47114Traverse City MI: Chandler Lake Books 2016. Very Good /Very Good . Traverse City MI: Chandler Lake Books 2016. First Edition. Octavo 24.5cm; photo-illustrated dust jacket with $24.95 price intact; matching boards; x;198pp; b&w photos throughout. Jacket a bit rubbed along edges. Boards are square with a light bump at tail. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Marlis Mann without inscription on full title. Chandler Lake Books unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 1403180St. Louis: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1925. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo nineteen volumes. In Good plus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Boards have bumping to spine ends and rubbing wear to edges. Volumes 2 7 and 9 have stains to the boards. Volume 8 has bumping to the front bottom fore corner. Textblocks have adhesive stains to end pages paper labels to the front free end pages age toning and wear to edges. Volume 4 is splitting to the gutter between pages 112-113. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-Volume Area ND-MV. 1403180. FP New Rockville Stock. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 343353Minneapolis: Little Free Press 1982. 47p. 3.5x4 inch staplebound zine slight toning else in very good condition. Larry Johnson a real estate agent in Minneapolis turned on to the counterculture when he went to collect rent from a group of hippies who converted him to their lifestyle. Under the name Ernest Free Mann he printed the Little Free Press newsletter to spread his utopian vision of a cashless society based on mutual aid and the enjoyment of life. Mann's career as a missionary for the cash-free life ended in 1996 when his grandson tragically beat him to death. The Morrison County Historical Society has an interesting overview of Mann's life on its website titled "Getting to Know an Ernest Mann. Little Free Press unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 320006Minneapolis: Little Free Press 1975. Newsletter in the form of an eight-panel brochure 3.5x8.5 inches very good condition. Larry Johnson a real estate agent in Minneapolis turned on to the counterculture when he went to collect rent from a group of hippies who converted him to their lifestyle. Under the name Ernest Free Mann he printed the Little Free Press newsletter to spread his utopian vision of a cashless society based on mutual aid and the enjoyment of life. Mann's career as a missionary for the cash-free life ended in 1996 when his grandson tragically beat him to death. The Morrison County Historical Society has an interesting overview of Mann's life on its website titled "Getting to Know an Ernest Mann. Little Free Press unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 217540Palladium Press 1997. Leather-Bound. New. 0x0x0. New. Still in original shrink wrap. Firearm Classics Library edition published by Palladium Press in 1997. NOT Munn publication. Leather bound book in shrink wrap is gift quality. Palladium Press hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 310513New York: Star Dist 1976. Paperback. 180p. swinger ads old price written in marker on cover and light staining on a few inside pages else a very good first printing PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Stud Series SS-1005. Includes a Swinger ads & pics section. Star Dist paperback books
1993Best.-Nr. 22424New York New York: American Institute of Physics 1993. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. 145 4 pages. Printed blue paper boards. A new copy noting some rubbing to the boards. Boards. Part of the Key Papers in Physics series. American Institute of Physics unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 142112Geneve: Slatkine Reprints 1978. cloth. Erasmus. 8vo. cloth. 227 1 pages. Reprint of the first edition published in 1934. A fine copy of this very rare work. Volume 22 of the Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance Nouvelle Serie. Slatkine Reprints unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 524108Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Large quarto. 350pp. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white reproducing photographs and manuscript material in holograph facsimile. A fine copy in fine dust jacket and publisher's pictorial cardboard slipcase slightly bumped else near fine. An exhaustive study of German writer Klaus Mann son of Thomas Mann. Rowohlt hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 332903New York: Harcourt 1996. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated in black and white. 609 pages. 8vo black cloth-backed boards d.w. New York: Harcourt Brace 1996. Very good in a very good dust wrapper. Harcourt unknown books
1992Best.-Nr. 333334New York: Braziller 1992. paperback. fine. Illustrated in color and black & white. 263 pages. Small 4to glossy printed wrappers. New York: George Braziller 1992. First softcover edition. A fine copy. Braziller unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 329148New York: Aperture 1988. hardcover. Mann Sally. Introduction by Ann Beattie. 37 black-and-white photographs by Sally Mann. 53 pages. Slim square 4to light grey cloth d.w.; dust wrapper edgeworn/torn and dust-soiled. New York: Aperture/A New Image Book 1988. Second printing. A fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper. Aperture unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 330561Philadelphia: Lippincott 1965. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. 199 pages 8vo blue cloth d.w. lightly edgeworn. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1965. First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Lippincott unknown books
2017Best.-Nr. 331081New York: St. Martin's 2017. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 344 pages 8vo red boards d.w. New York: St. Martin's Press 2017. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. St. Martin's unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. 324751Boston: Bulfinch 2003. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Mann Sally. Illustrated with 85 of Mann's beautifully printed tritone photographs and 1 four color photograph. Slim oblong 4to gray cloth d.w. small faint stain on rear panel and front flap creased. Boston: Bulfinch Press 2003. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Inscribed at dated by Mann on the title page: "To. with best wishes Sally Mann 2003" Bulfinch unknown books
