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1989réf. 185811Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press 1989. Hardcover. VG-/VG- Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Black cloth boards silver lettering on gray title block on spine; bw illustrated dj mylar cover; xvi 476 pp music. "This book contains the first complete translation in English of E.T.A. Hoffmann's major musical writings complementing the well-known Tales. It offers therefore a long-awaited opportunity to assess the thought and influence of one of the most famous of all writers on music and the musical links with his fiction. Containing the first complete appearance in English of Kreisleriana it reaveals a masterpiece of imaginative writing whose title is familiar to musicians from Robert Schumann's piano cycle and whose profound humour and irony can now be fully appreciated. This volume offers translations aiming at the greatest fidelity to Hoffmann as well as musical accuracy in the reviews. David Charlton's three introductory essays provide extensive information on the background to Romantic music criticism; on the origins and internal structure of Kreiseriana; and on Hoffmann and opera. A concluding essay by the late Friedrich Schnapp lists Hoffmann's planned reviews and those mistakenly attributed to him." DJ. Contents: Hoffmann as a writer on music -- Kreisleriana: Introduction to Kreisleriana ; Prefatory remarks to individual essays ; 'Jacques Callot' ; Kreisleriana: Part I ; Kreisleriana: Part II --The poet and the composer : Introduction to The Poet and the Composer Hoffman and opera ; The poet and the composer -- Music Criticism ; 'Letter from a monk to his friend in the capital' ; 'Observations on Quaisin's Le Jugement de Salomon on Melodrama and on the chorus in tragedy' ; Review of Witt's fifth and sixth symphonies ; Review of Fioravanti's I virtuosi ambulanti ; Review of Beethoven's fifth symphony ; Review of Weigl's Das Waisenhaus extract ; Review of Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide ; Review of Paer's Sofonisba ; Review of Spohr's first symphony ; Review of Beethoven's overture to Coriolan ; Review of Gyrowetz's Der Augenartz extract ; Review of Mehul's overture La Chasse du jeune Henri ; Review of Beethoven's piano trios op. 7- nos. 1 and 2 ; Review of Beethoven's mass in C ; Review of Beethoven's overture and incidental music to Goethe's Egmont ; 'Old and new church music' ; Review of Riem's Zwolf Lieder op. 27 extract ; Review of Boieldieu's Le Nouveau Seigneur de village ; 'Letters on music in Berlin. First letter' ; Review of Mozart's Don Giovanni 20 September 1815 ; Review of Mehul's Ariodant 1 June 1816 ; 'Some observations on the comments made by the Royal Chamber singer Herr Fischer ; 'A letter from kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler contributed by E.T.A. Hoffmann' ; 'Further observations on Herr Konzertmeister Moser's concert on 26 March this year 1820' ; Concert under the direction of Spontini 3 August 1820 ; 'Casual reflections on the appearance of this journal' ' Further observations on Spontini's opera Olimpia extract. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1860réf. 35786New York: McLoughlin Brothers 1860. Fine. First edition of this McLoughlin Brothers STRUWWELPETER-esque title describing children of different temperaments. 4.5'' x 3.5''. Original pictorial wrappers saddle-stitched. Illustrated with four full-page two-color illustrations. 10 pages. A sharp copy. McLoughlin Brothers unknown books
2015réf. 52986Leiden: Brill 2015. First edition. Octavo. xviii 320pp. Index. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block. Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe offers an account of the research focused on the origins development and the current situation of the Study of Religions in the 20th century in countries such as the Czech Republic Poland Slovakia Hungary Estonia Latvia Ukraine and Russia. Special attention is devoted to the ideological influences determining the interpretation of religion especially connected with the rise of Marxist-Leninist criticism of religion. Publisher Contents: The Czech journey to the academic study of religions: From the critique of religion to its study /; Tommáš Bubík --; Searching and finding: A history of the Slovak study of religion /; David Václavík --; The development of religious studies in Poland: History and the present state /; Henryk Hoffmann --; The history and recent trends of Religionswissenschaft in Hungary /; András Máté-Tóth and; Csaba Máté Sarnyai --; Estonian study of religion: A historical outline of the 20th century developments /; Ülo Valk and; Tarmo Kulmar --; Development of the study of religion in Latvia in the 20th century /; JÄnis Priede --; The history of the scientific study of religion and current state of religious studies in Ukraine /; Liudmyla Fylypovych and; Yuriy Babinov --; The outline of religious studies in Russia: Did Soviet religious studies really exist /; Ekaterina Elbakyan. OCLC Volume 149 in the Brill's series "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions. Brill unknown books
2025réf. 13969Berlin: Tantillusus Libri 2025. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Rat Krespel" is an 1818 short story Künstlernovelle written by the German Romantic author E. T. A. Hoffmann. Rat Krespel Councilor Krespel is a brilliant eccentric jurist diplomat and master violin maker who behaves in bizarre erratic ways. His daughter Antonia is musically gifted and possesses a heavenly singing voice.though singing threatens her life due to a hidden chest ailment. The story explores the tragic gap between ideal art and mortal reality culminating in Antonia's death after she sings one final time. Text in German. Tight bright and unmarred. Full shaped black leather binding in the form of a coffin ribbon tie printed partial sleeve. 64mo. np. Illus. color. Numbered limited edition this being copy 12. Tantillusus Libri hardcover books
1984réf. 98295London:: Bodley Head. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0370308409 . Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. First British edition. SIGNED by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine minor edge wear with a few short closed edge tears dust jacket with no price on the front flap. ; Signed by Illustrator . Bodley Head, hardcover books
1898réf. 31334München Munich: Braun & Schneider 1898. Near fine. Delightful and bizarre anthology of stories presented in broadsides in a comic-like format including a cameo by STRUWWELPETER. The MÜNCHENER BILDERBOGEN were "important documents in the development of comic strips and cartooning" Hansen and over their 50 year run influenced Europe's visual culture with their humor and caricature. Contributors to the series included Lothar Meggendorfer Wilhelm Busch and Adolf Oberlander. This issue number 50 features broadsides 1177-1200 including a delightful glimpse of the year 1900 featuring futuristic trains motorcars and a sky full of balloons by Arpad Schmidhamer who would go on to illustrate the iconic "Totentanz der Politik" comic. 13.25'' x 8.75''. Original hand-colored pictorial boards. Illustrated with hand-colored panels. 96 pages printed one side only. Binding with mild edgewear and a bit of soil. Interior clean and bright. Braun & Schneider unknown books
1960réf. 163138N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless satin-finish photograph of German-born American artist Hans Hoffmann circa 1960s. Mimeo snipe and stamp of photographer Vytas Valaitis on the verso along with a library stamp and the label of PIX agency. Hoffmann was best known as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the early and mid-twentieth century and as an influential art teacher for a number of postwar avant-garde artists including Helen Frankenthaler Nell Blaine Lee Krasner Joan Mitchell and many others. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Approximately 9.25 x 8 inches trimmed irregularly. Very Good plus with a diagonal crease at the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1960réf. 150300N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless satin-finish black and white photograph of German-born American artist Hans Hoffmann circa 1960s. With the stamp of photographer Vytas Valaitis on the verso along with a Newsweek stamp and the label of PIX agency. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Hoffmann was best known as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the early and mid-twentieth century and as an influential art teacher for a number of post-war avant-garde artists including Helen Frankenthaler Nell Blaine Lee Krasner Joan Mitchell and many others. 8 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1950réf. 296075London: Theodore Brun Limited in conjunction with The Bodley Head 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Full black leather with gold gilt illustration of a bird on the front board. Gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. Translated by various hands. Edited and with an introduction by J.M. Cohen. Illustrated by Gavarni. Very good with hinges cracked light stain on bottom page foredges. Theodore Brun Limited in conjunction with The Bodley Head hardcover books
1914réf. M0166Weisbaden:: J. F. Bergmann 1914. 1914. 8vo. viii 340 pp. 294 text figs. errata sheet index 3 folding plates. Orange cloth-backed boards; minor repair to spine end. Very good. FIRST EDITION. A treatise on the electrographic examination of the heart especially regarding heart irregularities. Hoffman is included in George Edward Burch and Nicholas Paul De Pasquale A History of Electrocardiography 1964 and "Great Men of Electrocardiography" Chapter III pp. 82-3 "he made many early contributions to the understanding of clinical electrocardiology.". "August Hoffmann was born in MUnster on 2 June 1862. In 1891 he set up his medical practice in DUsseldorf as specialist for internal medicine and neurology. There in 1907 he became first professor in ordinary for internal medicine when the Academy for Practical Medicine was founded. Up to 1927 he was head of the medical clinic. On 17 February 1929 he died in DUsseldorf. At first Hoffmann used the X-rays which were discovered in 1895 for the heart diagnostics above all for the determination of the size of the heart. A general notoriety he obtained by publication of the monography about the paroxysmal tachycardia type Bouveret-Hoffmann in 1900. After the preliminary works of Einthoven he belonged to the first German clinicians who dealt with electrocardiography above all problems of arrhythmia. In 1914 he published the second ECG-book in German language. Hoffmann founded the Dusseldorf cardiologic tradition." – NCBI. See: The Evan Bedford Library of Cardiology 522 571. J. F. Bergmann, 1914. hardcover books
1962réf. 460399New York: The Crowell-Collier Press 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 223pp. Foreword by Jacques Barzun. Ownership signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly else fine in a lightly toned and worn near fine dust jacket. A book on standardized testing by the British mathematician and early collaborator with Einstein. The Crowell-Collier Press hardcover books
1969réf. 162200N.p.: Joseph Green Pictures 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 German/Spanish film also released in the US under the title "Two Undercover Angels." Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Janine Reynaud and Rosanna Yanni two sleuths who go by the collective name "Red Lips" are investigating the disappearance of several models and dancers with pop artist Klaus Thriller and his hirsute henchman Morpho being the prime suspects. Shot on location in Spain and Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing at the extremitites. Joseph Green Pictures unknown books
1937réf. NF0443KUNST UND KUNSTHANDWERK AM BAU J. Hoffmann 1937 first edition near fine in worn and chipped but still most pleasing dust-wrapper with 233 photos of both contemporary German and Nazi architectural structures and buildings many of which today no longer exist. Text in German of course. J. Hoffmann unknown books
1923réf. 21300Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/1000. Sm. 4to. 150pp. Quarter vellum over illustrated paper-covered boards with gold decorated spine in original dust wrapper. Some age wear to edges. Head and tail of spine corners and parts of edges on dust wrapper chipped. Some staining and sunning on dw. Fore-page edge untrimmed as issued. Illustrated title-page. Limited German edition of Hoffmann's 3 act opera Die Maske The Mask which he wrote in 1799. "Aufgefunden und zum ersten Male veröffentlicht von Friedrich Schnapp." Illustrated with 2 full-page reproductions of drawings in sepia tone 1 facsimile letter as well as a fold-out page listing the cast. 32 pages in rear with musical scores from the opera. E.T.A. Hoffmann 1776-1822 was a composer and novelist. He was a notorious philanderer and impecunious alcoholic who possibly was the darkest of the German Romantics. Out of his reverence for Mozart he replaced his Christian name Wilhelm with Mozart's middle name to call himself Ernst Theodor Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann. Minor age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Text in German. Dust wrapper and binding in good interior in very good condition. Scarce with dj. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft hardcover books
1935réf. 1379289New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Limited Edition #1007/1500. Hardcover. Quarto 34 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter red leather and pictorial cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Housed in publisher's Good navy blue slip case moderately scuffed and torn along its edges and corners. Also protected by navy blue cloth folding enclosure with heavily worn gilt lettering to heavily faded spine. Minor wear to head and tail of book's spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Previous owner's photograph adhered to front free endpaper. Textblock uncut at top edge. Light age toning throughout textblock. Shelved in Case 14. 1379289. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1754réf. M13008Genevae:: Apud fratres de Tournes 1754. 1754. Two parts in one. Folio. 24 x 35 cm. viii 871 1 pp. Collation: 4 A6-4D6. Half title title printed in red & black engraved title vignette Latin text printed predominantly in two columns engraved initials engraved head and tail pieces small woodcut fig. p.52; occasional minor stains some folds ownership signature Hermann . . . trimmed on title top edge. Original half calf over boards all edges red; heavily worn with chipped portions spine is mostly missing front joint reinforced with Kozo. Binding "as is" good internally. Bookplate of John G. Curtis Library of Columbia University. Rare. Second edition. "Hoffmann based his treatment on the use of sedatives tonics alternatives and evacuants according to the condition responsible for causing the disease. Apart from this system he was one of the premier practitioners of his day and one of the first to give good descriptions of appendicitis chlorosis rubella and convulsive asthma with dropsy." – Heirs of Hippocrates referring to the entire Opera. More description available on request. REFERENCES: The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers 3 vols. edited by Manfred Kuehn and Heiner Klemme London/New York: Continuum 2010; DSB VI pp. 458-461; Blake NLM lists editions from Geneva in 1740 1748 and 1761; Wellcome Library III p.285 2 vols. in 1. See: Garrison & Morton 72 for the complete 9 volumes published 1740-53; Justin E. H. Smith The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy 2006; Willius & Dry A History of the Heart and the Circulation pp. 77-78. Apud fratres de Tournes, 1754. hardcover books
1876réf. 31579New York: McLoughlin Brothers 1876. Very good plus. First edition of this STRUWWELPETER-esque story of a very naughty boy and the consequences of his actions. Part of McLoughlin's "Father's Series" "instructive little stories" each with "particularly apt and pleasing" color illustrations Publisher's Trade List. OCLC locates only 5 copies. 6'' x 5''. Original color pictorial wrapper saddle-stitched. Eight color illustrations. 8 pages. Small early owner's name to inner front and rear wrapper "Willie King." Light soil to wrappers with a couple expert tiny spine repairs. Occasional mild soil and light pencil marks to leaves. Colors bright. McLoughlin Brothers unknown books
réf. 001171Crown 1984 Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. Presentation By Author. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Crown, 1984 Paperback books
1933réf. 19028Stuttgart Germany: Julius Hoffmann Verlag 1933. Cloth. Very Good . A very solid well-preserved copy of the 1933 edition of "Moderne Bauformen". Clean and VG in its beige cloth with rubbing to the titling along the spine. Internally very sharp with no writing or markings to speak of. Thick tight quarto hundreds of crisp black-and-white --and a smaller number of color-- plates throughout. A very impressive collection of early '30s German architecture and design wonderfully illustrated throughout. Julius Hoffmann Verlag unknown books
1984réf. 106529NY:: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0060639997 . Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner in 1989. Two page typed letter SIGNED by the author also laid in. Near fine in a near fine crease to front flap both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. ; 96 pages; Signed by Author . Harper & Row, hardcover books
1936réf. 16480n.p.: n.p. 1936. Near fine. Early 20th century printing of this variation on the 'Struwwelpeter' theme targeted to lazy girls who need improving. A Struwwelpeter for girls who refuse to pull up their stockings and stop yawning in public. In verse loosely built on the model of Heinrich Hoffmann's great and terrible classic for wicked German children this didactic picture book tortures its chronically sleepy heroine with kobolds at night beatings by day and dire threats from Knecht Ruprecht at all hours but leaves her alive to pray for God's mercy in the end. A beautiful copy barely touched. 8.5'' x 6.5''. Later edition "Völlig ungekürzte Volksausgabe". Original pictorial cardstock wrappers. Profusely illustrated in color throughout. Ownership inscription to front wrapper verso: "Vienna Summer 1936". Slight edgewear touch of bowing to fore-edge. Pages lightly and uniformly toned. n.p. unknown books
1984réf. 007467New York: Crown Publishers 1984. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 20" x 22 1/2". Publisher's promotional poster distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1984. Featuring a wonderful Sendak illustration. Near Fine 1/2" closed tear left margin could easily be covered by framing 20"w x 22 1/2" h. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. Crown Publishers unknown books
1909réf. 3062Wien: Gerlach und Wiedling 1909. First edition. First edition. Original gray-green cloth with cover pictorial design stamped in black white lettering. Color plates throughout by Otto Bauriedl and Ernst Kutzer. In the famous Judendtil series by Gerlach. Some light cover wear very good. Gerlach und Wiedling unknown books
1993réf. 37680Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1993. First edition. Paperback. g to vg. Quarto. 214pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Striking study on the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" as deciphered through the images of Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia." For two weeks in August 1936 Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Softpedaling its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful tolerant Germany. Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that - some observers at the time claimed - might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny. With the conclusion of the Games Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other "enemies of the state" accelerated culminating in World War II and the Holocaust. Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" was divided into two parts: Olympia Part I: Festival of the Nations and Part II: Festival of Beauty both released in 1938. The movies represent a tremendous aesthetic and technical cinematic achievement. Through a compilation of sporting images "Olympia" subtly underlined a tenet of all authoritarian regimes: that individuals must be turned into machines that act as required but do not think. At no point do the sportsmen and women in Olympia speak. After the war Riefenstahl - who hoped her films would continue to be shown - claimed that the Nazi government had no influence on "Olympia." This was untrue. The Nazi government commissioned and financed the films. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' diaries indicate that he was in contact with Riefenstahl about their progress though not always positively. "It is impossible to work with this wild woman" he wrote on one occasion. Wild though she may have been the films are utterly compliant. The fact that "Olympia" depicts such moments as the field hockey final in which India defeated Germany is sometimes mistaken by Riefenstahl's defenders as evidence of her editorial independence. It is the opposite. Riefenstahl's inclusion of the occasional German defeat fits squarely with Goebbels' instructions to the German press during the Games which were to create an impression of Nazi fairmindedness by reporting foreign as well as German victories. The Nazi obsession with race is constantly restated. "Two black runners against the strongest of the white race" muses "Olympia"'s commentator as he surveys the field for the men's 800m. On that occasion the black runners the US's John Woodruff and Canada's Phil Edwards took gold and bronze respectively. The most exhilarating section of the first "Olympia" film is the long-jump final in which black American athlete Jesse Owens faces the white German champion Luz Long. In the last of three jumps Long hits 7.87m: a new European record. The crowd is ecstatic as is Hitler himself who is shown applauding his champion. Then it is Owens's last jump. He composes himself. Sprints. Flies. Lands lightly in the sand. It's 8.06m a new Olympic record Owens already held the world record having jumped 8.13m in 1935. Tactfully Riefenstahl does not show Hitler's reaction to Owens's spectacular achievement. According to Albert Speer the Führer was "highly annoyed" but rationalised Owens's success within the terms of his pseudoscientific race theories. "People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than civilized whites." Moderate shelf wear along edges of wrappers. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Aufbau-Verlag paperback books
1860réf. 31595Lowell: J. Merrill 1860. Very good plus. Uncommon American moral story for children loosely modeled on Hoffmann's STRUWWELPETER. The tale of Peter who cared more for apples nuts and cakes than he did for his lessons and how he was taught to know better through judicious application of humiliation taunting and public disgrace. As with many American stories in this moralizing mode Peter escapes the most gruesome final torments suffered by the classic Hoffmann bad examples and learns his lesson: "For when a fault is repented of and mended it ought not to be spoken of any more; and whoever teazes another about it after that is doing wrong themselves". Number 7 in the Cousin Grace's Pretty Story Book series. Rare; OCLC locates no holdings. 6'' x 4''. Original yellow wrappers. 11 1 pages including covers. Illustrated with engravings on every page. Contemporary inscription in pencil along edge of first page. Soil to covers; lighter soil and foxing throughout. Minor edgewear. J. Merrill unknown books
