228 résultats
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
1954réf. 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
réf. 159107New York: Crown. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Illustrated with color plates. A few light brown spots on front fly very good or better in a good browned soiled and scuffed dust jacket with closed tear on top edge of back panel. Crown hardcover books
réf. 35529Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st ed. London Faber & Faber 1947 Hardcover binding cloth very slightly wrinkled else very good condition no jacket. . Other hardcover books
1947réf. 60500London: Faber and Faber 1947. First Edition. Kokoschka. 8vo pp. 367 pp. & 83 plates. Bound in yellow cloth no dj a very good clean copy. Faber and Faber unknown books
1984réf. 117456Westminster MD U.S.A.: Random House Value Publishing 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition near fine in a very good dust jacket pictures by Maurice Sendak First edition stated on the copyright page and original price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Westminster, MD, U.S.A.: Random House Value Publishing hardcover books
1984réf. 214208New York: Crown 1984. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 102 pages. Number 90 from an edition of only 250 copies. A wonderful rendition of this classic Christmas story. Features a translation by Ralph Manheim. The illustrations are based on Sendak's sets and costumes that he designed for a Nutcracker production for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. A clean near fine copy in blue cloth boards with some very slight sunning to the spine and in a near fine slipcase with the same sunning to the opening. Signed by Sendak on the limitation page. Includes the original hand-drawn lithograph "Faithful Nutcracker" printed on chine applique paper which is adhered to a hand torn sheet Lana mould made paper. The lithograph is in fine condition and is signed and numbered by Sendak as well. Crown unknown books
1991réf. 189763New York: Crown 1991. Sixth printing Softcover. 102 pages. A review copy with laid in publisher slip two page publicity sheet and two press photographs. A wonderful rendition of this classic Christmas story with a translation by Ralph Manheim. The illustrations are based on Sendak's sets and costumes that he designed for a Nutcracker production for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. A near fine copy in wrappers and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Crown unknown books
1964réf. 40512Hamburg: Maximilian- Gesellschaft 1964. Limited. hardcover. fine. Holzschnitte von Lieselotte Schwartz. 4to. decorative white boards d.w. Hamburg: Maximilian- Gesellschaft 1964. Fine. Limited edition signed by the artist. Maximilian- Gesellschaft unknown books
1923réf. 21300Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/1000. Sm. 4to. 150pp. Quarter vellum over illustrated paper-covered boards with gold decorated spine in original dust wrapper. Some age wear to edges. Head and tail of spine corners and parts of edges on dust wrapper chipped. Some staining and sunning on dw. Fore-page edge untrimmed as issued. Illustrated title-page. Limited German edition of Hoffmann's 3 act opera Die Maske The Mask which he wrote in 1799. "Aufgefunden und zum ersten Male veröffentlicht von Friedrich Schnapp." Illustrated with 2 full-page reproductions of drawings in sepia tone 1 facsimile letter as well as a fold-out page listing the cast. 32 pages in rear with musical scores from the opera. E.T.A. Hoffmann 1776-1822 was a composer and novelist. He was a notorious philanderer and impecunious alcoholic who possibly was the darkest of the German Romantics. Out of his reverence for Mozart he replaced his Christian name Wilhelm with Mozart's middle name to call himself Ernst Theodor Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann. Minor age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Text in German. Dust wrapper and binding in good interior in very good condition. Scarce with dj. Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft hardcover books
1950réf. 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
réf. 35451München: Holbein-Verlag No Date. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. 140pp. 16 color plates with tissue guards. Original brown paper-covered boards with green Jugenstil decor and gilt lettering on cover green on spine. Illustrated title page head- and endpieces initials. Three tales by Hoffmann: Die Brautwahl Rat Krespel Die Fermate Ritter Gluck Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht all with illustrated title pages. Beautifully illustrated with 16 reproductions of watercolors and b/w head- and endpieces as well as in-text drawings by Wilhelm Stumpf. Text in German Gothic print. Binding lightly rubbed with light wear along edges and small closed tears and small chips at head and tail of spine. Starting at browned and lightly stained front endpapers. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. Holbein-Verlag hardcover books
1822réf. 20155Frankfurt: F Wilmans 1822. First Edition. Original printed paper covers laid down; accompanied by a slipcase. Very good; recased with original decorated covers and spine laid down; new endpapers. 8vo 4 3 - 267 3 - adverts pp. Completed 3 months before the author's death. The book is regarded as a humourous fairy tale while being censored. It was first published with the expurgated chapters in 1908. See Goedeke. F Wilmans unknown books
1987réf. 92218NY:: Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0394553845 . Translated from the German by Andrea Clark Maddon. Stated first edition. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1996réf. 91468Mankato:: Creative Editions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0151002274 . Translated from the German. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Creative Editions, hardcover 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
2003réf. 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
1946réf. 83414NY:: A. A. Wyn. Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. Edited by Christopher Lazare. Translated from the German. First edition thus. Very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. Housed in the original clear plastic slipcase. . A. A. Wyn, hardcover books
1943réf. 021589New York: Limited Editions Club 1943. Hardcover. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine lacking the slipcase. Hugo Steiner-Prag. Large octavo 6-3/8" x 10" bound in full black natural linen decorated with a design in gold by the illustrator and a leather spine label. Translated by various hands; introductory essay by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated with 43 original lithographs drawn on the stone by Hugo Steiner-Prag pulled by George C. Miller at the Printing House of William Edward Rudge. Copy #917 of 1500 SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist who also designed the book and wrote a prologue. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1943réf. 007163New York: Heritage Press 1943. Decorated cloth. Fine in slipcase. Hugo Steiner-Prag. Heritage Press hardcover 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
1984réf. 2047New York: Dover 1984. Paperback. Very Good. 1st paperback ed. Wraps. 160 illus. Dover paperback books
réf. 23425ROOT HOFFMANN Donald. THE MEANINGS OF ARCHITECTURE. New York: Horizon Press 1967. 4to. Cloth dust jacket. 238 pages. First edition. The first comprehensive collection of writings by John Wellborn Root as well as his provocative architectural designs. Acclaimed by his peers Root was described by his contemporary Louis Sullivan as a "man of power." Short tears along lightly rubbed dust jacket else fine. 23425. unknown books
réf. B39221-2Stuttgart/Zürich Belser Verlag 1981. 388pp. 214 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Stuttgart/Zürich (Belser Verlag), 1981. hardcover books
1969réf. 175817Chicago: The Rennaissance Society At The University Of Chicago 1969. Softcover. VG curling to front cover; toning to edges; corners & top of spine rubbed; light shelf-wear. pgs glossy bright & clean w/ edge toning. white glossy pictorial wraps w/ black printing. 86 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. In English & German. A very nice catalogue of the German abstract artist. The Rennaissance Society At The University Of Chicago paperback books
