Hoffmann John P.ABAA
213 résultats
2007réf. 322Lanham MD: Lexington Books 2007. First Edition. 230pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Blue pictorial boards. Near fine. In-depth work based on the author's research on a small congregation in northern Japan and in-depth interviews with foreign missionaries. Lexington Books unknown books
1960réf. 150300N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless satin-finish black and white photograph of German-born American artist Hans Hoffman 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
1985réf. UHOFORI00fpPrometheus Books 1985. Very Good. Hoffmann R. Joseph. The Origins of Christianity: A Critical Introduction. Buffalo NY: Prometheus Books 1985. 326pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Prometheus Books paperback books
1942réf. 008466The Author 1942. A young boy's scrapbook of the 1942 baseball season containing pages of meticulous handwritten box scores letters observationsstatistics etc along with newspaper clippings and the Oct. 8 1942 Sporting News newspaper. A unique album the work of a statitics-obsessed and rabid Brooklyn Dodgers young fan. . Binder. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Author Paperback books
2006réf. 167830San Francisco CA: Chronicle Books 2006. Hardcover. 244 pages. Monograph on the work of American artist Masami Teroka. Features text by Alison Bing Eleanor Heartney and Kathryn A. Hoffmann. Includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Chronicle Books unknown books
1988réf. 166769Munchen: Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst 1988. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 24 through May 29 1988. Text by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann in German. Includes several color and black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers. Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst unknown books
1994réf. 162717Freiburg Germany: Kunstverein Freiburg 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 72 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 8 through May 15 1994 at Kunstverein Freiburg and then traveled for additional dates. Text in German with essays by Stefan Berg and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in boards. No dust jacket as issued. Kunstverein Freiburg unknown books
1972réf. UHOFINT00MELFischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1972. Very Good. Hoffmann Gerhard. Interpretationen 12: Amerikanische Literatur des 20. Jahruhunderts Lyrik und Drama. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1972. 309pp. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag paperback books
2004réf. 156868Boulder CO: University of Colorado Press 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Essays by curator Lisa Tamiris Becker and Celaya and with the text of a conversation between Celaya and Roald Hoffmann. Features excerpts from Celaya's sketchbook along with numerous illustrations biographies and checklist. A near fine copy in illustrated board with some minor wear and with laid in publisher complimentary slip. No dust jacket as issued. University of Colorado Press unknown books
1943réf. RSTETAL00MELLimited Editions Club 1943. Very Good. Hoffmann E.T.A. The Tales of Hoffmann Illustrated by Hugo Steiner-Prag. Steiner-Prag illustrator Hugo. New York: Limited Editions Club 1943. #1152 of 1500 copies. 336pp. Illustrated. 4to. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good with faint soiling to covers back strip has a small abrasion near rear joint and label is faintly curled at left bottom corner and faint spotting to fore edge of text block. In gray slip case that is rubbed bumped and browned at edges with boards exposed at corners of opening. Signed by Illustrator on colophon. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1973réf. UHOFALB00MELPlume 1973. Good. Hoffmann Banesh. Albert Einstein Creator & Rebel. New York: Plume 1973. 272pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed and bumped edges creased spine and soiled rear cover. Former owner's name on first leaf and pages yellow with yellow highlighting in chapter 8 only. Plume paperback books
1982réf. UPRIJAD00FPDel Rey Books 1982. Very Good. Price E. Hoffmann. The Jade Enchantress. New York NY: Del Rey Books 1982. 295pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Rubbing to edges. Del Rey Books paperback books
2005réf. 131744Heidelberg: Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 92 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran at Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt November 4 2005 through January 8 2006 and then traveled for additional dates. Text in English and German. A fine copy in illustrated boards and still in the original shrinkwrap. No dust jacket as issued. Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag unknown books
1967réf. 162705Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. Signed inscription by Price on the half title page. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to the black background ink at spine ends and corner tips. A sharp copy. #162705 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1969réf. 161359Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press 1969. Octavo two volumes cloth. First edition of this collection. Volume one collects seven tales including "The Sandman" "The Golden Pot" perhaps Hoffmann's finest single piece of fiction and "The Mines of Falun" a subterranean fantasy of love and death. The whole of volume two consists of Hoffmann's novel THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF KATTER MURR . a subtle satire which tells of the doings of Murr the tomcat. KATER MURR one of Hoffmann's longer works was unfinished at the time of his death. The first volume was published in 1820 and the second in 1822. The projected third volume was never written. Hoffmann "rivals Poe whom he influenced in his importance as a creator of the modern supernatural tale." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 204-05. "The celebrated short tales and novels of . Hoffmann . are a byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form . they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible." - Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature p. 45. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1997 p. 472-73. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II pp. 831-835. A fine set in cloth slipcase without dust jackets as issued. #161359 The University of Chicago Press unknown books
1975réf. 159658Chapel Hill North Carolina: Carcosa 1975. Large octavo cloth. First edition. Omnibus collection of thirty-one fantasy and adventure stories by one of the best writers associated with the WEIRD TALES circle. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1345. See Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Fine in fine dust jacket with mild wrinkle at upper spine end. #159658 Carcosa unknown books
1967réf. 158505Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. A presentation copy with full-page inscription by Price to David G. Hartwell on the half title page. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with rubbing to the black background ink along the front spine and fore-edge folds and 8 mm closed tear at bottom edge of the front panel. #158505 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1975réf. 158346Chapel Hill North Carolina: Carcosa 1975. Large octavo cloth. First edition. Subscriber's issue signed by Price and illustrator George Evans this one personalized to David G. Hartwell. Omnibus collection of thirty-one fantasy and adventure stories by one of the best writers associated with the WEIRD TALES circle. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1345. See Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #158346 Carcosa unknown books
2005réf. 34054Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich / Stiftung Neue Synagogue Berlin Centrum Judaicum 2005. First Edition. 12mo 15.5cm.; publisher's stiff red pictorial card wrappers 120pp.; illus. Minor wear gift inscription possibly by one of the authors in English and German on title page else Near Fine. Forms part of the series Jüdischen Miniaturen. Hentrich & Hentrich / Stiftung Neue Synagogue Berlin Centrum Judaicum unknown books
1967réf. 155109Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. The author's first collection of short fiction twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and 1953. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1344. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 923. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with some of the inevitable rubbing to the black background ink and mild wear to lower spine end. #155109 Arkham House: Publishers unknown books
1893réf. 152989Erfurt und Leipzig: Bacmeister's Verlag 1893. Octavo pp. 1-3 4-106 107-109 110-112: ads original gray-green wrappers printed in black. Ninth printing. A utopian novel in the tradition of Edward Bellamy and Theodor Hertzka set in the year 2398 in Africa in Thomasville the capital city of the "Freilandstaat" that provides a history of the city's progress during the 500 years since its founding. Lexikon 1 pp. 129-30 citing this printing. Bloch 2002 2371. Not in Nagl. A very good copy bound into green cloth with front and rear wrappers preserved. KVK reports 6 copies. Rare. #152989 Bacmeister's Verlag unknown books
1928réf. 152283Dresden und Leipzig: Verlag von Moewig & Höffner 1928. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-190 191-192: ads original yellow wrappers printed in red and black. First edition. A future history in the mode of Olaf Stapledon in which mankind ultimately achieves a paradisal state of being by the year 10000. Hoffmann also wrote SILVESTER 2999 1907 an important German utopian work. Lexikon 2 p. 148. Not in Bloch 2002; 2010 or Nagl. Wrappers lightly worn and dust soiled a very good copy. KVK reports 4 copies. OCLC adds 1 copy National Library of Israel. And Duke now has a copy. Rare. #152283 Verlag von Moewig & Höffner unknown books
1907réf. 136454Leipzig: Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born 1907. Octavo pp. iii-vii viii-xi xii-xiv 1 2-233 234: printer's imprint 235: blank 236: ad complete despite gap in pagination; preliminary gathering 6 leaves appears to be tipped in original tan wrappers printed in black all edges untrimmed. First edition. An important German utopian novel set in the future in which the Social Democrats have established a world state headquartered in Germany which has achieved significant technical progress longevity spaceships robots etc. Kretzmann The Pre-War German Utopian Novel 1890-1914 Ph.D. diss. Brown University May 1936 p. 212. Lexikon 1 p. 128. Bloch 2002 1505. Not in Nagl. Wrappers worn at edges spotting and dust soiling to same a sound good copy with clean nearly fine interior. #136454 Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born unknown books
1975réf. 141826Chapel Hill North Carolina: Carcosa 1975. Large octavo cloth. First edition. f One of the subscriber's copies with pictorial label signed by Price and artist George Evans affixed to front free endpaper. Omnibus collection of thirty-one fantasy and adventure stories by one of the best writers associated with the WEIRD TALES circle. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1345. See Barron ed Horror Literature 3-159. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a bit of wrinkling at spine ends. #141826 Carcosa unknown books
1885réf. 137623London: John C. Nimmo 1885. Octavo two volumes: pp. i-ix x-lxxii 1 2-332; 1-8 1 2-399 400: blank 20-page publisher's catalogue dated "SEPTEMBER 1884" inserted at rear flyleaves at front and rear eleven inserted plates with etchings by Lalauze title pages printed in orange and black original gray bevel-edged cloth spine panels stamped in gold all edges untrimmed white endpapers with floral pattern printed in purple. First edition of this collection. According to the "publisher's notice" "One thousand copies of this Edition have been printed and / the type distributed. No more will be published." One of the standard English translations of Hoffmann's short fiction. Collects eleven stories all but one taken from DIE SERAPIONS-BRUDER 1819-1821. "Rivals Poe whom he influenced in his importance as a creator of the modern supernatural tale." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 204-05. "The celebrated short tales and novels of . Hoffmann . are a byword for mellowness of background and maturity of form . they convey the grotesque rather than the terrible." - Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature p. 45. Not all stories collected here are fantastic; includes "Signor Formica" perhaps Hoffmann's best historical tale and "Mademoiselle de Scuderi" sometimes viewed as the first detective story. Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 1-69 and 1-71. Barron ed Horror Literature 1-40. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 827. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV pp. 1547-53. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1848-53 "The Sandman". Tymn ed Fantasy Literature pp. 97-8. Tymn ed Horror Literature 1-164. Bleiler 1978 p. 101. Reginald 07315. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips a bit of soiling to cloth still a clean tight very good set. #137623 John C. Nimmo unknown books
