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1998ref. 171200Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen 1998. Paperback. VG- light corner and edge wear to wraps. Gray and illustrated wraps with white lettering. 78 pp. Color illustrations. Text in German. Catalogue of an exhibition from November 15 1998 to March 1 1999. Museum Folkwang Essen paperback books
2014ref. 170502New York: The Jewish Museum 2014. Paperback. VG- light corner and edge wear. Two orange white and yellow paperback volumes in clear plastic cover. 60 unnumbered pages 48 unnumbered pages. Illustrations. "The landmark Jewish Museum exhibition Primary Structures offered the first presentation of Minimalist sculptures in the United States in 1966. The accompanying catalogue by Kynaston McShine became a key resource on artists such as Donald Judd Carl Andre Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt who were virtually unknown at the time. . This two-volume set includes a replica of the original catalogue plus a new companion volume by Jens Hoffmann that offers a global survey of early Minimalist sculpture during the 1960s and 1970s featuring important sculptors from Asia Africa Latin America and Eastern Europe and complementing the earlier catalogue's focus on American and British artists."--Publisher's website. The Jewish Museum paperback books
2015ref. 166602Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich 2015. Hardcover. VG. Color-illustrated boards with gilt-stamped lettering. 189 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Text in German. On the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zürich August 28 - November 29 2015. Kunsthaus Zurich hardcover books
1991ref. 162537New York City: Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art 1991. Softcover. VG- Covers have faded inconsistently; interior is squeaky-clean. Gray paper wraps 40 pp. 24 BW illus. The first publication of HOME a theatre and gallery in New York City. Presents work by 22 American artists. With essays by David B. Dearinger and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann. Scarce. Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art paperback books
2007ref. 157456Heidelberg: Edition Braus 2007. Hardcover. VG- but art school ex-lib. with usual marks. Bw illus. boards with white lettering on bw spine. 323 with illus. throughout in color and bw. No dust jacket. A bit heavy and may require extra postage depending upon your location. Please inquire. Subtitle: zur Ausstellung Die Neuen Tendenzen. eine Europäische Künstlerbewegung 1961 - 1973 ; eine Ausstellung des Museums für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt 29. September 2006 bis 7. Januar 2007 ; Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren 28. Januar bis 25. März 2007. The project international maps the plurality of art directions represented through exhibitions symposiums and publications which were held under the terms of the New Tendencies the New Tendency and the Tendencies hereafter jointly as NT in Zagreb and in other centres and locations for presentations from 1961 to 1973 taking NT as a dynamic international network and a stage for different but unarguably advanced artistic theories and practices of the 1960s in the Contemporary Art Gallery what is today the Contemporary Art Museum Zagreb within the City of Zagreb Galleries which organized five NT exhibitions in Zagreb from 1961 to 1973 while major exhibitions were also held in Paris Venice and Leverkusen. A joint exhibition of European artists in 1961 grew into an international movement that would be referred to as the NT also significant for gathering artists gallery owners and theoreticians during the Cold War first from Eastern and Western Europe and dissidents from South America and from 1965 onwards also those from USA the Soviet Union and South America and subsequently from Africa and Asia. Such a unique situation was realized by the cultural and geo-political position of Zagreb in the then socialist and unaligned Yugoslavia. - oris.hr Text in German with English at back. Edition Braus hardcover books
2007ref. 157591Mainz: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen 2007. Softcover. VG contents and unbroken spine book appears to be unread but light bottom shelf wear; art school ex-lib. with usual marks. White wraps with color image and red/black lettering. Deep French flaps. xviii 304 pp. with occasional bw illustrations numbered by chapter. The aim of this book is to demonstrate that the social-anthropological approach is very relevant to our understanding of the material evidence from the ancient world and in particular to the study of Greek art. The sixteen essays selected cover a wide range of subjects: from the function of Greek painted vases to satyr sexuality from kouroi and korai to Presocratic philosophy. Herbert Hoffmann was born in 1930. After taking his Ph.D in history of art and classical archaeology at Harvard he went on to study social archaeology at Oxford and Cambridge. A former editor of Hephaistos he has written widely on ancient art and archaeology. - from Good Reads. Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen paperback books
2016ref. 157147San Francisco: Gallery Wendi Norris 2016. Hardcover. As New. Grey cloth/boards. Black-irridescent/silver image embossed onto front cover. 80 pp. with color images throughout. Includes an essay by Jens Hoffmann Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum and an interview by Trevor Paglen artist geographer and author. Val Britton's exhibition Transmissions was held at Gallery Wendi Norris from April to July 2016. Gallery Wendi Norris hardcover books
1972ref. 155900Cambridge Massachusetts: Fogg Art Museum / Verlag Philipp von Zabern 1972. Hardcover. VG Former owner name and year on first page otherwise crisp and clean. Goldenrod cloth 69 text pp. plus 57 BW plate pages at rear some fold-outs. "The first major exhibition of classical bronzes to be held in this country was organized in 1967 by the Fogg Museum. . The exhibition catalog . provided preliminary information on these works of art but a more extended scholarly treatment was clearly called for. This monograph presents the results of a thorough study by two well-known authorities in their fields." foreword. Fogg Art Museum / Verlag Philipp von Zabern hardcover books
1930ref. 123602Frankfurt Germany: Kutten and Loening Verlag 1930. Softcover. VG- Some darkening to page edges; Some light wear to wraps. Color illus. wraps; Red cloth at spine; 24 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Text in German; Ten children's stories each with a direct moral written by Heinrich Hoffmann for his own son; Beloved by children across Europe this book was published as an English translation named 'Slovenly Peter' by Mark Twain. Kutten and Loening Verlag paperback books
1870ref. 3617Frankfurt: M. Literarische Anstalt Rutten & Loening 1870. Maroon cloth spine patterned paper covered boards. Full-page hand-colored title page and 26 pages of hand-colored illustration most quarter page but many pages containing two illustrations. Some wear and repair to title page but overall presentable and quite scarce title. M. Literarische Anstalt, Rutten & Loening hardcover books
1851ref. 3616Frankfurt am Main: Literairische Anstalt Rotten & Lining 1851. Brown cloth spine pictorial paper covered boards. A childhood story in pictures. With a hand-colored title page 33 half-page hand-colored woodcuts. Illustrated cardboard. Heinrich Hoffmann's second picture book. Hoffmann let the toy figures which he had bought probably for his children during a trip to Nuremberg now coming to life in a fabulous way. -Heinrich Hoffmann 1809-1894 was a physician and treated patients suffering from pancreatic cancer. In Frankfurt he had a new clinic for psychiatry in which the patients were not blocked off but treated a tremendous novelty for that time. On the whole in spite of some wear and aging the book is well preserved. Literairische Anstalt (Rotten & Lining) hardcover books
ref. 1505Title printed in red & black. 11 p.l. 400 37 pp. 8vo cont. vellum over boards light browning & foxing. Ulm: D. Bartholomai 1722. First edition. Hoffmann 1660-1742 whom Hirsch calls "one of the heroes of German medicine in the 18th century" was "a leading medical systematist of the first half of the eighteenth century.he became a highly influential teacher and practicing physician in Germany systematizing coherently the Galenic iatromechanical and iatrochemical aspects of the phenomena of health and disease."-D.S.B. VI p. 458. In the present work Hoffmann offers a collection of medical and dietetic instructions developed to improve health. He provides a long description of Hungarian wines and their medical uses. He also recommends bathing in mineral waters. Very good copy of an uncommon book. ❧ Arents 526-"The learned doctor considers the correct use of snuff important enough to entitle the subject to a separate chapter." Hirsch III pp. 256-59. hardcover books
1965ref. WRCLIT58844Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Ars Librorum Gotthard de Beauclair 1965. Folio 41 x 25 cm. Pictorial boards. Illustrated with eight original full-page multicolor woodcuts. Fine in modestly worn and lightly soiled slipcase. First edition in this format illustrated with color woodcuts by Felix Hoffmann. From a total edition of five hundred copies this is one of seventy-five copies numbered in Roman signed by the artist accompanied by a separate suite of the eight woodcuts each of them signed and numbered by the artist in the lower margin. Verlag Ars Librorum Gotthard de Beauclair hardcover books
1967ref. WRCLIT37541New York: Twayne 1967. Boards. First edition. About fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with a few nicks and a large chip from the head of the spine. Twayne hardcover books
ref. 35377Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition NY Potter 1971. Fine copy in dust jacket. . Other hardcover books
1950ref. 85128Bern:: Alfred Scherz Verlag. Near Fine. 1950s. Hardcover. Text is in German. Part of the Duo Bucher series. Miniature book: measures roughly 3" x 4". With five black and white plates by Pierre Gauchat. First edition thus. Age toning along the spine else near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 80 pages . Alfred Scherz Verlag, hardcover books
1929ref. 447911929. HOFFMANN Richard H. THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH. Illustrated. NY: Horace Liveright 1929. 8vo. rust-colored cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Hoffmann on front endpaper: "To Hulda who if I had obeyed the dictates of the Heart of Youth might have been the heroine of an entirely different book called "Happiness-without a Struggle." Cordially inscribed Richard H. Hoffmann. May 1929." Good stain on back cover soil to covers. $50.00. hardcover books
2003ref. 81278Madrid:: Del Prado Publishers. Fine. 2003. Hardcover. 8483729741 . Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. Translated from the German. First edition thus miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5". Fine in a red leather binding. . Del Prado Publishers, hardcover books
1967ref. 76892NY:: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. English version by Jack Prelutsky. Stated first printing. Small patch of abrasion on front free endpaper else very good in a very good two closed edge tears on front panel dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books
1974ref. 74877NY:: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. B000IVZ5TC . Second American printing. Very good in a very good one short closed edge tear lower corner of front flap is clipped dust jacket. . Atheneum, hardcover books
2000ref. 33143n.p.: Feder & Schwert / Sword & Sorcery Studios. Fine. 2000. Hardcover. 1588461238 . Illustrated. First edition. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Feder & Schwert / Sword & Sorcery Studios hardcover books
1971ref. 64217NY:: Clarkson N. Potter. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. With over 200 black and white illustrations and 21 color plates. First edition. Near fine in a near fine light edge wear at the crown of the spine age toning to flaps dust jacket. . Clarkson N. Potter, hardcover books
1973ref. 61860NY:: Atheneum. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. First American edition. Very good in a good two long tape repaired edge tears on rear panel shorter closed edge tear and attendant creasing on front panel age toning dust jacket. . Atheneum, hardcover books
ref. 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
1954ref. 304778New York Dodd Mead & Company 1954. 1954. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated by Algot Stenbery. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good-fine.237 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Hoffmann to Rosario Curletti: "For Rosario Curletti with all good wishes from Eleanor Hoffmann.". Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. hardcover books