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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
1960réf. 162888N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless satin-finish photograph of German-born American artist Hans Hoffmann in his studio 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. 9.75 x 8.25 inchess. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1932réf. 47555Zofingen Zurich: Verlags AG Zürich Ringier-Verlag 1932. Softcover. Very good condition. Folio 15 x 11". 8pp. Original wraps with photo-illustrated design and white and black lettering on cover protected by modern mylar. Features a full page photograph of the Gold Medalist in Los Angeles Ellen Müller-Preis on the cover. Contains a blurb praising the new world champion and gold medalist in foil fencing a naturalized Austrian born in Germany into a Jewish family. In Germany she had been living in the shadow of another foil fencer Helene Mayer also born to a Jewish father and only one of two athletes allowed to compete in the 1936 Olympics by the Nazis. Among others Müller-Preis beat in Mayer run to win the gold medal in Los Angeles and she was credited with the longest Olympic span of any woman competing from 1932 until 1956. Müller-Preis wanted to fence for Germany in the 1932 Olympics but was rejected by the German Federation. She took on the Austrian citizenship and fenced for Austria instead winning the gold medal against Heather Guinness of England. In the 1936 Olympics in Berlin she won the bronze medal for Austria and again in 1948 during the London Olympics. The issue of the magazine is incomplete missing pages 861-876. Text in German. Light wear along edges and horizontal fold. Verlags AG Zürich (Ringier-Verlag) unknown books
1879réf. 104955London:: George Routledge and Sons. Good. 1879. Hardcover. With illustrations throughout. Presumed first edition no indication of printing or year of publication. 24 page publisher's catalogue at the end of the text block. Octavo bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Moderate shelf wear and aging previous owner's name on front paste-down starting to separate along the front hinge else good. ; 504 pages . George Routledge and Sons, hardcover books
1893réf. D21083London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1893. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. xx 394pp 2. With half-title engraved frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations. Origina bluel pictorial cloth. An exceptionally bright copy; rare thus. Mild rubbing to spine but overall a book that seldom turns up in this condition. Bookplate of Edward Bright and a Christmas gift inscription from his mother to him in 1898. [Frederick Warne and Co.] hardcover books
1984réf. TB33606New York: Crown Publishing 1984. First Edition. First Printing Fine in blue cloth covered boards with silver text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An oblong small quarto of 10 7/8 by 9 7/8 inches with wonderfully decorated end sheets. In a near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with rubbing to the corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. Attached to the first free end page is a book plate which is signed by the artist Maurice Sendak. Text by E. T. A. Hoffman and color illustrations by Sendak. 102 pages of text and color illustrations some of which are presented on facing pages Translated by Ralph Manheim. Crown Publishing hardcover books
1827réf. 008736Edinburgh: William Tait 1827. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE. Four volumes rebound in later 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards a Very Good set calf worn at corners boards a bit rubbed lacking half titles and added engraved title pages p.145 in Vol. IV misnumbered 149. From the personal library of noted medievalist Charle W. Jones his signature FEP each volume. Thomas Carlyle's 3rd book appearance to which he contributed a preface to the whole work and biographical and critical introductions for the authors here included. The last volume comprises the first English edition of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Travels". William Tait Hardcover books
1904réf. 62170London: Chatto & Windus 1904. Small 8vo pp. 127 1 32; text illustrations some full-page; brown cloth printed in black; boards cocked and lightly soiled text clean very good. According to the preface "the first attempt to present a drawing-room conjuring entertainment in the guise of a connected story. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1984réf. 017893Crown 1984. Book. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.Stated First Edition.$19.95 On Flap.Signed by Sendak On Half-Title.Beautiful Copy of This Christmas Classic. Crown Hardcover books
réf. 18655New York: Galerie Metropol ND. Softcover. vg. Sm. 4to. 164pp. Illustrated wrappers in original matching dust jacket. Slight creasing to parts of edges on wraps. Minor rubbing and few tiny closed tears on dj. Signed by previous owner on inside of front wrapper. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs drawings and plans of the Sanatorium in Purkersdorf Austria. Text in English and German. Overall very good condition. The Sanatorium Purkersdorf was built in 1904-05 by the Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Hoffmann was a disciple of Otto Koloman Wagner 1841-1918 the founder and leader of modern architecture in Austria. It is an example of architecture from the "Wiener Sezession" Vienna Secession and paved the way for modern architecture. Galerie Metropol unknown books
1921réf. 1404185Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 1921. Limited Edition: #40/500. Loose folio. Booklet and illustrations; 52 2 pages plus 50 illustrated plates. In Very Good condition with a Good case. Booklet and plates are housed in a maroon morocco slipcase with gilt lettering and ruling on the lid. Booklet is in marbled paper wrappers with maroon lettering on a red label; plates mounted within individual paper folders. Case is rubbed along the edges. Lid is separated from the case due to splitting along the hinge. Light cracking to leather along the side panel. Booklet is age toned with some very light wrinkling around the label. Some creasing along the spine. Text block is clean. Some of the plates have come loose from their mounting but remain within their paper folders. All plates remain present and intact. Housed in a protective archival sleeve. Shelved in Room A. . This copy is number #40 out of 500. Per the limitation page copies 1 to 100 of this limited run were issued in morocco cases while the remaining 400 were kept in half linen cases. Also worth noting is that while the text booklet describes 62 illustrations only 50 of these illustrations are included on engraved plates. Due to a dispute with some of the owners at the time of publication the "missing" illustrations were never put onto plates; illustrations 5 6 23-28 39 47 59 and 62 are instead included within the text booklet itself. The set is thus complete as issued. . 1404185. Special Collections. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag unknown books
1890réf. 010515New York : Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann 1776-1822 better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. A New Translation from the German with a Biographical Memoir by J.T. Bealby with Eleven Etchings by Wd. Lafauze. Second American Edition. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and rules to the spine. Two volume set is Very Good Plus top edge gilt. Volume I has small bumps fore edge of spine; prior owner business card attached at front paste down. Volume II has scrape to gilt top edge; prior owner business card to front paste down ; and a contemporary prior owner name address date in ink to front end paper. A few corners turned in each volume. Uncommon in such lovely condition. Contents include the Sand-Man The Cremona Violin The Golden Flower Pot and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Source forJacques Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann" which premiered in 1881. . Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1955réf. 231879Burke 1955. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First Edition First Printing. Dust jacket and book are in very good condition. Dust jacket has minor wear along the top edge jacket price not clipped. Red cloth boards. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Illustrated endpapers. xiii 256 pp. Burke hardcover books
1997réf. 1833New York: W.H. Freeman and Co. 1997. First printing stated. AN ILLUSTRATED EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION BY WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY--SIGNED BY HIM. 18.5x24 cm hardcover beige paper-covered boards tan cloth spine with gilt title signed by author in red on title page. i-xii 362 pp illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. FROM THE JACKET FLAP: "Old Wine New Flasks is a unique and provocative look at how science and religion--too often considered at odds with one another--are actually parallel ways of trying to make sense of the same material world each a voice intertwining with the other to help shape true human understanding." ROALD HOFFMANN born 1937 is a Polish American theoretical chemist who has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University. He and his family escaped to America from the Holocaust except for his father who was killed by the Nazis. He earned his Master of Arts degree in 1960 from Harvard University and PhD from Harvard while working under joint supervision of Martin Gouterman and Nobelist William N. Lipscomb Jr. In 1965 he went to Cornell University and remained there where he is a professor emeritus. Hoffmann's research and interests have been in the electronic structure of stable and unstable molecules and in the study of transition states in reactions. For this work Hoffmann received the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry sharing it with Japanese chemist Kenichi Fukui who had independently resolved similar issues. W.H. Freeman and Co. hardcover books
1751réf. 1624Frankfurt and Leipzig 1751. 88 pp. An early example of the use of forensic medicine to establish if an abortion had killed a fetus or the woman had miscarried. unknown books
1937réf. 49068Berlin: Comité Nacional para el Fomento del Turismo en Alemania/ Reichausschuss für Fremdenverkehr 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Folio. 26pp. Illustrated orange and brown wrappers with brown lettering on the front cover. This Spanish-language publication was issued by the German government during the years of the Third Reich to promote tourism in the county. The publication is profusely illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions and drawings in b/w. This issue includes articles promoting the wintery landscape and winter sports of the area of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps where the then recent 1936 Winter Olympics were held as well as the 20th anniversary of the German railway catering company Mitropa the anniversary of the death of English-German racial philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain and articles on the Carnival celebrations in the country. Include images taken by infamous Nazi photographer and publisher Heinrich Hoffmann. Striking art deco front cover design by German designer Ottomar Anton back cover by Edwin Henel. Wrappers with light foxing to the front cover and moderate foxing the back cover. Book block dis-bound from wrappers. Interior wrappers with foxing as well as title page. The rest of the pages are quite clean save for some minor sporadic smudges and minor age toning. Wrappers in good interior in very good condition overall. Comité Nacional para el Fomento del Turismo en Alemania/ Reichausschuss für Fremdenverkehr unknown books
1918réf. 2153New York: George Sully Publisher 1918. Edward P COGGER . JUVENILE POETRY HUMOR. Small 4to; 40pp; glazed pictorial front board an illustration of a boy sliding down a banister on the front brown cloth shelf back; color pictorials with text; binding tight; scuffing and chipping of edges hand-soiled boards lightly age-toned paper; very good minus. OCLC locates 4 copies. Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann 1809-1894 was a German psychiatrist best known for his children's book Struwwelpeter a humorous look at children's behavior and manners. The illustrator and engraver are not identified but may be Edward P. Cogger who was responsible for the artwork in Struwwelpeter. The humorous poems begin with "Jimmy Sliderlegs" the boy who slid down banisters and wore out his pants. Other included poems: Envious Minny; The History of the Dirty Child; Cruel Paul; Slovenly Betsy; Phoebe Ann The Proud Girl; Discontented Lucy; Idle Fritz; Simple Hans; Heedless Hugo; The Night Wanderer; Ned The Toy-Breaker; Prying Will; The Little Glutton; Tom Bogus The Sweet-Tooth; Harry Cobus and the Shang-Hais; The History of Doctor Wango Tango; and The Tragical Story of Mamy Katchem and Her Kittens. The copies listed in OCLC estimate the publication date around 1870 but we feel the date is later. The publisher posted an announcement in Publisher's Weekly in January 1918 stating "TO THE TRADE / We have decided to change Our Firm / Name on and after February 1st 1918 / From Sully and Kleinteich / To George Sully & Co.". George Sully, Publisher unknown books
1937réf. 39388Berlin: Zeitgeschichte 1937. 106. bis 130. Tausend. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. 92pp. Stiff wraps in original attached photographic dust jacket showing Hitler in Berchtesgaden with his residence Berghof in the background. Profusely illustrated with 100 b/w reproductions of photographs by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann 1885-1957. The photographs show Hitler mostly in private settings at the Berghof / Obersalzberg with Nazi officials workers admirers children traveling relaxing at a picnic giving autographs visiting Landsberg prison Karinhall as well as images of the exterior and interior of the Berghof. Between 1932 - 1941 Heinrich Hoffmann published several propaganda works such as this for the German public and for foreign countries to show how 'well liked' and 'popular' the Führer was in Germany at the time. Introduction by Wilhelm Brückner. From dj flap: "Professor Heinrich Hoffmann zeigt in diesem prächtigen Bildband den Führer wie ihn nur seine engsten Mitarbeiter sehen und erleben: abseits vom Alltag fern der lärmenden Welt in seiner ganzen reichen warmen Menschlichkeit und Güte. Stille Stunden mit Büchern zeigt dieses neue Werk einsame Spaziergänge in den bayerischen Bergen Stunden mit Klein und Groß allüberall in Deutschland vertraute Gespräche mit alten Kampfgefährten und im Zusammensein mit einzelnen Volksgenossen die nie rastende Hilfsbereitschaft des Führers.wieder bringt es eine Fülle schöner ergreifender Aufnahmen; wieder ist es von unschätzbarem dokumentarischen Wert." Very minor scuffing and creasing on DJ. Text and captions in German. Dust jacket in overall good wrappers and interior in very good condition. Zeitgeschichte unknown books
1938réf. 47249Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag 1938. 151.-160. Tausend. Softcover. Very good condition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with red and white lettering on cover protected by modern mylar. Documentation and propaganda publication relating to the annexation of the Sudetenland the Northern mountainous region of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement of September 30 1938. Part of the large series of propaganda publications documenting Hitler's presence in various regions and interactions with his people. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs provided by Heinrich Hoffmann Reichsbilderstatter/ Photographer of the NSDAP. Henlein was a leading Sudeten German politician who joined the Nazi party and SS after the annexation of the Sudetenland and was appointed Gauleiter of the Sudetenland. The photographs depict Konrad Henlein and Hitler Sudentendeutsche refugees heading for Germany the meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain Mussolini Daladier the signing of the agreement the invasion of the Sudetenland cheering German population in Sudetenland Photos of Hitler's visit to the region a Hitler speech construction of military installations and various photographs with Hitler and thankful Germans of the region. Text in German. Very light wear along edges of wraps. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag unknown books
1938réf. 39779Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag 1938. First edition 1st print 1. bis 50. Tausend. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 6pp Text; 56pp Photographic plates. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers. First edition first print of this photo-book documenting the 29 days between Germany's annexation of Austria on March 12 1938 and the April 10 referendum crowning Hitler's achievement. The referendum question was: Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the list of our leader Adolf Hitler The result was reported as 99.73% in favor with a 99.71% turnout. The 73 striking b/w photographic reproductions depict Hitler during several speeches given throughout Germany and Austria and starting in Königsberg on March 26 in which he launched the referendum campaign. The Fuehrer is also seen addressing crowds in Leipzig Berlin Hamburg Köln Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart München Graz Klagenfurt Innsbruck Salzburg and Linz. His last address on the matter was held on April 9 at the Nordwestbahnhof in Vienna. The photographs were taken by Heinrich Hoffmann Hitler's personal photographer and they show the Fuhrer being greeted by and talking to large and enthusiastic crowds. Moderate rubbing along edges of wrappers. Text and captions in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag unknown books
1939réf. 30844München: Amt fur Kommunalpolitik des Traditionsgaues Munchen-Oberbayern 1939. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Large quarto. 84pp. Original tan cloth with red lettering and illustration on front cover. Scarce propaganda book on the NSDAP community works in the district of Munich-Upper Bavaria profusely illustrated with numerous b/w and color photographic reproductions of nazis building bridges roads working in the fields etc. Minor age wear on binding with slight soiling on covers and lower corners bumped not affecting pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription on free front endpaper and dated 7.7.1940. Text in German gothic script. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Amt fur Kommunalpolitik des Traditionsgaues Munchen-Oberbayern hardcover books
réf. 2572Under his name he writes "sends you congratulations! to His Excellency Friedrich Löse Breitegasse Wien." Original German: "sendet Ihnen seine besten Glückwünsche -------------dem Hochwohlgeborenen Friedrich Löse Breitegasse Wien." The envelope is not translated but addressed in Hoffmann's hand postmark on verso shows Vienna "Wein 15" year is not readable. unknown books
1957réf. 100178Berlin:: Walter De Gruyter & Co. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1957-1962. Hardcover. Complete in twelve volumes. Text is in German. First editions thus. Previous owner's book-plate on the front paste-down of each volume else all volumes are near fine in very good or better dust jackets. Each volume is housed in a very good age toning cardboard slipcase. . Walter De Gruyter & Co., hardcover books
réf. WALTER-FILM007064Hans J. Hoffmann; EMI. No binding. Fine. Three vintage original borderless 5 x 7" 13 x 18 cm German photos fine. All are portraits of the duo from very early in their career. Two feature the pair in very op art matching suits and have on verso the stamp of German photographer and music promoter Hans J. Hoffmann. These two photos were done at the time of their first concert tour of Germany and their outfits were considered scandalous at the time. The other has stamp on verso of the German office of record label EMI. Hans J. Hoffmann; EMI unknown books
