16 602 résultats
1951réf. 5954New York: Knopf 1951. 1st US edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF contemporary owner sig/VG sp sltly darkened/some edgewear. 8vo. Knopf hardcover books
1993réf. 262120New York: Book-of-the-Month Club 1993. Hardcover. 402p. frontis-portrait very good Book Club edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped bright dj. Triangle Classics series: illuminating the Gay & Lesbian experience. Book-of-the-Month Club hardcover books
1838réf. 56267Smithfield 1838. Folio manuscript 36 ruled pages in blue ink in a neat hand original marbled wrappers with the label "Estimate 1838" on the upper cover; slight browning and edge wear; front wrapper neatly reattached; all else very good. Tax estimate for Smithfield residents with four columns following each name showing the numbers of acres owned the amount owed per acre real and personal property. The last page shows an estimated income to the town of $1863076. The names are arranged alphabetically but not in perfect alpha order. Occasional detail on familial relationships are given such as "Arnold Abigail daughter of Ezekiel" and Aldrich George son of Simon deceased" and sometime a geographical detail: Aldrich Duty B. of Cumberland." Businesses are also listed: "Angell Nathan Paper Mill and Allen William of Pawtucket Mass. for 1/4 of Thread Mill at Central Falls" Pawtucket did not become part of Rhode Island until 1862. The last page lists Mark Aldrich Stephen Steere James Dennis Spencer Mowry George Aldrich 3rd and Asa Winsor as the tax accessors for the town. unknown books
1962réf. 38180New York: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. -; Fine. No dust jacket. In fine slipcases; bookplate. Limited Editions Club 1962. . Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1965réf. 1335281New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1965. Hardcover. Octavo; G/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with blue and yellow print; DJ has tears at spine ends and flap corners taped tear to rear bottom edge edgewear wear to hinges shelfwear price-clipped; Boards in black cloth with gold print mild wear to spine caps and corners mildly cocked spine light shelfwear; Text block has yellow tinted top edge clipped illustration taped to front flyleaf slight tanning to endpapers else clean and tight; xv 338 pages. 1335281. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1930réf. 12484Paris: Harrison 1930. First edition in any language of this early autobiographical sketch. One of 75 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum signed by Mann according to the colophon only 50 were intended to be produced. According to the colophon the edition was originally intended to consist of only 50 copies. A regular issue of 695 copies was also published. Undaunted by the Depression the expatriate press of Barbara Harrison under the artistic supervision of Monroe Wheeler published a series of distinguished editions of works by European and American authors in the early 1930s. In its review of A Sketch of My Life at the time the Times Literary Supplement called it "a little masterpiece of its kind." - Hugh Ford Published in Paris N. Y.: Macmillan 1975 pp. 328-331. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. 8vo original quarter-vellum publisher's slipcase. A fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. Harrison unknown books
1930réf. 19048Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 695 copies of which 400 were sent to the U.S. Octavo; beige linen with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; original publisher's slipcase; 69pp. Hand-soil and some light foxing to cloth with a few faint stains to front endpaper; Very Good. Slipcase is stained splitting and edgeworn with partial losses along lower edge; Good to Very Good. Short autobiography of Mann printed here for the first time in English. Harrison of Paris unknown books
1930réf. 014534Paris France: Harrison 1930. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 69 pages of text. Original binding with moderate browning and spotting with minor fraying and soiling to the spine. Lacks the dustjacket. Number 334 of 695 copies printed. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition; limited edition. Harrison Hardcover books
1930réf. 20371Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. First edition. One of 695 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. Original cloth spine slightly tanned as usual otherwise fine card slipcase with printed label edge repaired. Harrison of Paris hardcover books
1937réf. 08030New York: Alfred A . Knopf 1937. First American Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Tall Octavo. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. A very good- copy in original blue-gray printed string bound wrappers. Short closed tears and edge wear covers. Small stain lower edge of front cover. 12 pp. Alfred A . Knopf paperback books
1937réf. 37454NY: Knopf 1937. First Edition. 8vo pp. 12. Frontis portrait. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Paper wraps. Cover little faded and dog-eared o/w VG. The letter from the philosophical faculty of Frederick-William University rescinding Mann's honorary doctorate and his reply. Knopf unknown books
1938réf. 56284New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1938. Paperback. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter; Second Printing; 12pp. blue printed wrappers tied together slight discoloration/toning to wraps contents slightly toned but overall very good. . Alfred A. Knopf paperback books
1938réf. WRCLIT24988Stamford: The Overbrook Press 1938. Plain wrappers printed label. First edition thus. One of 350 copies printed to mark a dinner given in Mann's honor at Yale. Fine. The Overbrook Press unknown books
1937réf. 21776New York: Knopf 1937. First American edition. Wrappers sewn very good. Knopf unknown books
1937réf. 20387New York: Knopf 1937. First American edition. Wrappers sewn slightly marked and and with a little edge wear very good. Signed by Mann and dated "Cansas sic City 14.III. 1938." Knopf unknown books
1938réf. 20386Stamford Conn: The Overbrook Press 1938. Wrappers sewn slightly marked and faded. One of 350 copies printed. The Overbrook Press unknown books
1938réf. WRCLIT36142Stamford: The Overbrook Press 1938. Plain wrappers printed label. First edition thus. One of three hundred and fifty copies printed to mark a dinner given in Mann's honor at Yale. Fine. CAHOON p.16. The Overbrook Press unknown books
1938réf. WRCLIT24600Stamford: The Overbrook Press 1938. Bright red wrappers paper label. Wrappers irregularly sunned otherwise a nice copy. First edition thus. One of 350 copies printed in honor of Mann's visit to Yale. The Overbrook Press unknown books
1923réf. 73406New York: Henry Holt and Company 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. The first American edition translated from the German by Herman George Scheffauer. Moving story of Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. Octavo. Original aqua paper-covered boards over a dark blue cloth spine with a printed paper title label inset on the front panel and titles stamped in green. In the uncommon dust jacket which is price-clipped and toned particularly along the spine and folds with a lengthy tear along the front fold a clip to the bottom corner of the rear fold and some old cellophane tape reinforcements to the verso. Scarce. Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
1954réf. 1426Frankfurt: S. Fischer 1954. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good . Fine copy in a lightly edgeworn and nicked pleasingly colorful DJ. S. Fischer hardcover books
1990réf. 611111990. HEJDUK John. MANN Thomas. THE BLACK SWAN. Translated by Willard R. Trask. With lithographs by John Hejdukm. Afterword by David Shapiro. N.p.: The Limited Editions Club 1990. Limited edition signed by the artist John Hejdukm at the colophon; this is number 186 of 375 copies printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made Rives Buff Text; the eight lithographs of which seven are in color were printed at Pondside Press on Rives Buff Cover. 183 pp. Mann's text is printed in black and Shapiro's Afterword is printed in dark brown. 4to. bound at Jovonis Bindery in brown full niger with title printed in black to upper board black endpapers and fly-leaves. This is a very fine and fresh copy. Housed in a black buckram slipcase lined with black felt with a very slight bump to one board. unknown books
1924réf. 140940274New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Complete in two volumes bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jackets. Very Good with water stains to cloth and bottom corner of textblock edge of one volume light biopredation previous owner inscriptions to first blanks and vintage bookseller tickets to recto of rear free endpapers. Still not a bad looking set. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1968réf. 63014Germany: Fackelverlag. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. 758pp. black and white illustrations. German Text. A clean nice copy. Very Good. . Fackelverlag hardcover books
1938réf. 614231938. MANN Thomas. THE COMING VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY. Translated by Agnes E. Meyer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First edition his friend Thomas Mann 23.VI.38" 70 pp. 8vo. black cloth title printed in gold ink to spine Mann's initials blind-stamped to upper board publisher's device blind-stamped to lower board. Dust-soiling to top-edge but internally clean and fresh. The sizing to cloth cover has been removed in places due to moisture and small bits of the dust jacket have adhered to the cloth; the dust jacket is dampstained in corresponding places with some red offset to the upper panel. Also it is spine sunned with small loss at spinal ends and at the fold-in corners. It would be only an acceptable reading copy if it were not for Mann's inscription. This is the text of a lecture in slightly abbreviated form delivered by Mann on a coast-to-coast lecture tour February to May 1938. unknown books
1955réf. 180624002New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. First American Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First American edition. 384 7 pp. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel shelf wear and faint price in pencil on front flap. A very nice copy. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books