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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
1973réf. 134273Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1973. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-10 11-12 13-141 142: blank 143: colophon 144: blank cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #134273 Wayne State University Press unknown books
1977réf. 134118Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1977. Octavo 359 pp. cloth. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #134118 The University of Chicago Press unknown books
1975réf. 126159Chapel 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 a fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. #126159 Carcosa unknown books
1975réf. 51922Chapel Hill North Carolina: Carcosa 1975. Large octavo cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Price on the dedication page to the del Reys: "For / Judy-Lynn & Lester del Rey / My best wishes -- / & / A happy day -- this meeting has been long overdue / E. Hoffmann Price / Nov. 3 1981." 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. A nice association copy. #51922 Carcosa unknown books
1975réf. 81297Chapel Hill North Carolina: Carcosa 1975. Large octavo cloth. First edition. Subscriber's issue signed by Price and illustrator George Evans. 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. Foxing to top edge of text block else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #81297 Carcosa unknown books
1975réf. 81298Chapel 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. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #81298 Carcosa unknown books
1979réf. 74904New York: Ballantine Books 1979. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 28448. Several tiny abrasions to background ink of front cover else a fine copy. #74904 Ballantine Books unknown books
1946réf. LLV2415New York:: A. A. Wyn 1946. 1946. First edition. 8vo. 509 pp. Miniature portrait vignette on title color illus. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth; spine faded. Very good. Includes a short biography of Hoffmann 1776 - 1822 author composer and caricaturist of the Romantic era and these stories: Mademoiselle De Scudery Don Juan Antonia’s Song The Golden Pot The Doubles The Vow The Fermata Berthold the Madman Salvator Rosa and The Legacy. A. A. Wyn, 1946. hardcover books
1950réf. 116732Indianapolis IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1950. First edition. Hardcover. A charming cookbook with color illustrations along with black and white photographs by Hunter. An about very good plus copy with some minor soiling to the pages and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper from Santa in a lightly soiled about near fine dust jacket that has some very minor wear. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc unknown books
1984réf. 4191New York: Crown 1984. Square 4to navy cloth lettered in silver on cover and spine; matching cloth slipcase. As new. One of 250 signed copies with a signed and numbered lithograph by Maurice Sendak. Color pictorial endpapers and color double page and vignette illustrations throughout. The book was inspired by the performance of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company of the classic ballet set to the music of Tchaikovsky with costumes and sets by Sendak. The print "Faithful Nutcracker" is an original hand-drawn lithograph printed from an aluminum plate on chine appliqué paper. Signed and numbered by Maurice Sendak and with the workshop chopmark in the margin. An illustration can be found on my website by clicking on Catalogue 31 item 71. By Artist. Cloth. Fine. Illus. by Maurice Sendak. Square 4to. Crown Hardcover books
