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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
1910réf. 97511910. Letters. Collectible; Very Good. 1910 HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM LEGENDARY AUSTRIAN ARCHITECT JOSEF HOFFMANN Vienna Secessionist and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstatte TO EDUARD JOSEF WIMMER-WISGRILL the first Artistic Director of the fashion department of the Wiener Werkstatte. Clean and bright and very well-preserved. Written on the stationary with lavish letterhead of The Hotel Hassler in Rome. In a strong clear hand in fountain pen and on a single sheet folded into quarters -- with very minor crease folds. A translation into English from the original German on another sheet of paper is includeds as well. 8" x 10 1/2". Also includes the original envelope handwritten by Josef Hoffmann. 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
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
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
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
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
1924réf. 26458Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1924. First edition. Very good plus. Scarce early 20th century American Struwwelpeter with bright and jaunty Walter Hayn illustrations. Uncommon 1920s American Struwwelpeter with English verses modeled after Hoffmann's righteous moral vignettes of merciless Justice visited upon careless and vicious children and additional embellishments on the theme of cruelty to animals. Contains the following verse titles: Jimmy Sliderlegs Slovenly Peter Cruel Frederick The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb The Story of Fidgety Philip The Story of Flying Robert Little Jacob Frank the Liar Tom the Thief Paul the Tormentor Simple Hans Idle Fritz Heedless Hugo Ned the Toy-Breaker and Prying Will. An appealing edition of these cautionary tales. 5.5'' x 4.25''. Original quarter red cloth with pictorial boards. Color paste-on mounted to front board. 127 1 pages. Color frontispiece and bright color illustrations facing each page of text "from the Original Designs by Walter Hayn." Light sunning and soil to boards and spine. Scattered light foxing and soil to pages; hinge just starting between pages 126 and 127. Henry Altemus Company unknown 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
1990réf. 616461New York: Donald I. Fine 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. xii 322pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Fine in an about fine dust jacket with a few nicks along the edges. "The bizarre true account of the husband-and-wife serial killers who terrorized the California countryside. Donald I. Fine hardcover books
1892réf. 1726491892. HOFFMANN Hermann. Systematische Farbenlehre Teil 1 und 2. Volume 1 with 115 pp. text and volume 2 with 41 plates. Folios ca. 265 x 185 mm. cloth binding plates loose as issued in cloth portfolio. Zwickau: Förster & Borries 1892. An interesting and scarce work by the German printer Hermann Hoffmann whose work was primarily concerned colour as it could be used by printing ink manufacturers. Tafel 1-2. 30 theiliges technisches Farben-System Plates 1-2. 30-part technical Color System Tafel 3-12. Farben-Akkord Triade Plates 3-12. Color Chord Triad Tafel 13-14. Schein-Farben Plates 13-14. Illusion Colors Tafel 15-16. Harmonie der Farben Plates 15-16. Harmony of Colors Tafel 17-21. Helligkeits-Kontraste Plates 17-21. Brightness Contrasts Tafel 22-30. Chromotypographischer Andruck Plates 22-30. Chromo Typographic Proof Tafel 31-39. Color printing commercial samples Tafel 40. Die gebräuchlichsten Tonfarben Plate 40. The most common clay colors Tafel 41. Schwarzdruck auf farbigem Grunde und umgekehrt Plate 41. Black print on a colored background and vice versa Neat ex-library copy with labels inoffensive library stamps throughout generally in the margins. hardcover books
1961réf. 467303New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by William L. Laurence. Octavo. 207pp. Rust-colored cloth stamped in silver. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. A tiny bit of the delicate decorative stamping on the cover rubbed still easily fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket with the spine faintly sunned. Holt Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1890réf. 68489Calcutta: Johnston & Hofman 1890. JOHNSTON & HOFFMANN. . Jute. Photographic Album of the Jute Production in India. Calcutta: Johnston & Hofman n.d.c.a 1890. Four oblong quarto photographic volumes. mounts: 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; 290 x 199 mm; photographs: 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm With 68 black-and-white photographs mounted one per page on stiff cardboard. Uniformly bound in original half navy cloth over green cloth. Front boards lettered in gilt. Volume one with water damage mainly to rear board and affecting the last seven photographs but the images are still clearly visible. A few other photos in this volume have some minor fading or spotting. Back endpapers to this volume have been replaced. Some minor spotting to the cloth on other volumes and a bit of wrinkling to the cloth of volume IV. All other volumes internally clean and crisp and the photographs are in very good condition. Overall a very good set. Complete sets are rare. Comprises: Volume I: "Cultivation and Preparation" 25 photos. Volume II: "Its Manufacture" 21 photos. Volume III: "Assorting and Baling" 20 photos. Volume IV: "Baling and Export" 22 photos. "Theodore Julius Hoffmann and P.A. Johnston. Calcutta Studio established in 1882. Probably after the studios of Bourne and Shepherd the second largest commercial photographers in India with their large catalog of views of North and Northeastern India Sikkim and Nepal." luminous-lint dot com. HBS 68489. $3000. Johnston & Hofman unknown books
1895réf. 3316701895. Good. Photogravure print 19 ½" x 25". Modest overall toning with slightly darker horizontal band of toning about very good. An early original gravure print after the classic painting by Hoffmann depicting the opening scene of Jesus Christ's atonement from Matthew 26:36-44 Mark 14:32-41 and Luke 22:39-46. unknown books
1964réf. 409951Minneapolis: Bolingbroke Society 1964. Softcover. Fine. Magazine. Quarto. 143pp. Perfectbound. Edgewear else fine. Contributors include W.D. Quesenbery George Whiteside Frederick J. Hoffmann Alan Williamson David Galloway S.A. Shapiro John Hagopian and others. Bolingbroke Society) unknown books
1958réf. 360485Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1958. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 10 134pp. Printed gray wrappers. Spine and edges faded with spotting else very good. James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science Volume 40 with a complimentary slip from the publisher laid in. University of North Carolina Press unknown books
1922réf. 340896Berlin: Julius Springer 1922. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good ex-library book with minimal markings in wrappers with some soiling edgewear pages uncut. Text is in German. 258 pages. Julius Springer unknown 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
1940réf. 2316154New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1940. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Gay Zhenya. Signed by author. Second printing. Signed by author without inscription. Very good in fair jacket. Splits along front jacket fore edge and rear jacket joint 1 inch chip from rear jacket edge and some loss from other corners light stain along top page edges of first few pages. 1940 Hard Cover. ix 145 pp. "From kitttenhood Thom knew what he wanted and wasn't afraid to try to get it. Indeed he is a cat of rare character and resource whose acquaintance will be thoroughly enjoyed by every child and every cat-lover of any age - particularly those who love Siamese."--jacket Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
1992réf. 2353927Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1992. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Steiner-Prag Hugo. Includes publisher’s slipcase and Sandglass insert. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1992 Hard Cover. xxvi 344 pp. Translated out of the German by various translators. Lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag with a prologue. "Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann January 24 1776 - June 25 1822 better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror a jurist composer music critic draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. The Heritage Press hardcover 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
1954réf. 157338N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage program for the 1954 German film. Text and titles in German. A small spa town gains notoriety after the local theatre announces they will be producing a salacious play based on the Biblical tale of the abduction of the Sabine women. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. About Near Fine. 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
1961réf. 71596New York: Macmillan Co 1961. First American edition 8vo pp. 11 14-199 1; frontispiece and 15 illustrations on rectos and versos of 7 plates; a very good sound and clean copy in the dust jacket. Walter 1.16. Macmillan Co unknown books
2016réf. 71778Dresden: TUDpress 2016. 8vo pp. 200; many illustrations throughout mostly portraits; fine in originmal pictorial wrappers. Published as volume 85 in the publisher's Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation series. The history of experimental phonetics and speech technology from the end of the 19th century to the introduction of computers in speech processing documenting developments at Berlin Hamburg and Dresden. LC appears to be the only tangible copy located by OCLC in the U.S. TUDpress unknown books
