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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
1993réf. 37680Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1993. First edition. Paperback. g to vg. Quarto. 214pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Striking study on the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" as deciphered through the images of Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia." For two weeks in August 1936 Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Softpedaling its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful tolerant Germany. Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that - some observers at the time claimed - might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny. With the conclusion of the Games Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other "enemies of the state" accelerated culminating in World War II and the Holocaust. Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" was divided into two parts: Olympia Part I: Festival of the Nations and Part II: Festival of Beauty both released in 1938. The movies represent a tremendous aesthetic and technical cinematic achievement. Through a compilation of sporting images "Olympia" subtly underlined a tenet of all authoritarian regimes: that individuals must be turned into machines that act as required but do not think. At no point do the sportsmen and women in Olympia speak. After the war Riefenstahl - who hoped her films would continue to be shown - claimed that the Nazi government had no influence on "Olympia." This was untrue. The Nazi government commissioned and financed the films. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' diaries indicate that he was in contact with Riefenstahl about their progress though not always positively. "It is impossible to work with this wild woman" he wrote on one occasion. Wild though she may have been the films are utterly compliant. The fact that "Olympia" depicts such moments as the field hockey final in which India defeated Germany is sometimes mistaken by Riefenstahl's defenders as evidence of her editorial independence. It is the opposite. Riefenstahl's inclusion of the occasional German defeat fits squarely with Goebbels' instructions to the German press during the Games which were to create an impression of Nazi fairmindedness by reporting foreign as well as German victories. The Nazi obsession with race is constantly restated. "Two black runners against the strongest of the white race" muses "Olympia"'s commentator as he surveys the field for the men's 800m. On that occasion the black runners the US's John Woodruff and Canada's Phil Edwards took gold and bronze respectively. The most exhilarating section of the first "Olympia" film is the long-jump final in which black American athlete Jesse Owens faces the white German champion Luz Long. In the last of three jumps Long hits 7.87m: a new European record. The crowd is ecstatic as is Hitler himself who is shown applauding his champion. Then it is Owens's last jump. He composes himself. Sprints. Flies. Lands lightly in the sand. It's 8.06m a new Olympic record Owens already held the world record having jumped 8.13m in 1935. Tactfully Riefenstahl does not show Hitler's reaction to Owens's spectacular achievement. According to Albert Speer the Führer was "highly annoyed" but rationalised Owens's success within the terms of his pseudoscientific race theories. "People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than civilized whites." Moderate shelf wear along edges of wrappers. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Aufbau-Verlag paperback books
1937réf. 40282Berlin: Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 64pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind stiff wrappers. A collection of 45 photogravures documenting Mussolini's 5-day official visit to his friend and ally Adolf Hitler in Germany in late September 1937. Many of the photographs featured in this work were taken by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. Striding side by side the two dictators and partners of the Berlin-Rome Axis are seen touring Munich where they laid wreaths on various Nazi monuments. Among these was the Feldherrnhalle in Königsplatz which held the bodies of 16 Nazi heroes killed in the 1923 Munich Putsch. The next series of photographs were taken in the little village of Lalendorf where Hitler and Mussolini witnessed the most impressive military manoeuvres of post-WWI Germany. The following images show the two leaders visiting the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. Two photographs of Benito Mussolini attending a luncheon given by Göring and his wife at their famous hunting lodge Karinhall are placed between the largest series of pictures showing the two men during the grandiose Berlin celebrations in their honor. Indeed an estimated crowd of 650000 people attended the demonstration organized on the Maifeld the polo ground adjoining the Olympic Stadium. At the official tribune Mussolini delivered a speech where he spoke of the awakening of Germany through the Nazi revolution Bolshevism the common enemy and Germany's friendly stand during the Ethiopian War. The speech ended with a stress on the 115 million Germans and Italians and the need for them to unite "in one single unshakable determination." Closed tear and soiling at back cover of dust-jacket. Moderate abrasion along fore-edge of DJ. Clear and minor water-staining along fore-edge of the first 32 pages not affecting lettering. Text in German gothic script. DJ in overall good- wrappers and interior in good to very good photographs in very good condition. Freiheitsverlag G.m.b.H. unknown books
1967réf. 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
1933réf. 41640Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1933. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Large quarto 11 1/2 x 9 1/4". 163-218 2pp Text 30pp Advertisement. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Remarkable issue of this renowned German architecture magazine with articles on Ulfert Janssen and Heinz Wetzel's WWI Memorial project in Bad Berka 2 pages with 5 b/w photographic reproductions and 3 plans; Alfred Daiber's Ortskrankenkassen Local Health Insurance Ressource Center in Stuttgart 19 pages with 27 b/w photographic reproductions and 14 plans and floor plans; Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe's Villa San Michele on the Isle of Capri Italy 7 pages with 12 architectural drawings 6 photogravures 4 floor plans and 1 plan; a lengthy article on furnishing small rooms with 46 b/w photographic reproductions depicting furniture by Hungarian architect and furniture designer Kalman Lengyel p.191-220; a 4-page article with 22 b/w photographic reproductions of chairs; and the last two pages contain the b/w drawings of two modern kitchens by Hans Müller and Margot Gerster. Includes 3 color plates of Interior design by Oskar Fischer Rudolf Frank and Hans Müller. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. WITH 8 larger loose leaves 11 7/8 x 9 1/4" reproducing 11 of the 46 photographs featured in the article on furnishing small rooms. Also included are 3 original silver gelatin prints of furniture by Kalman Lengyel. Two of the photographs measure 7 x 9 3/8" and one is 6 1/2 x 8 7/8". Each print has the following stamp at verso Lengyel 78 Av. Pasteur Vanves Seine. Julius Hoffmann unknown books
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
2009réf. 323888San Francisco: CCA Wattis Inst 2009. Hardcover. 135p. 5.5x7.25 inches decorative endpapers eassays texts folding map illustrations whaling glossary very good hardcover in white cloth boards and gilt. Published to accompany the California College of the Arts exhibit of Moby-Dick related art and artifacts. CCA Wattis Inst hardcover books
1992réf. 182630New York: Harrington Park 1992. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback Very good in wrappers. Some staining on cover. Harrington Park unknown 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
1753réf. 006549Neapoli: Benedicti Gessari 1753. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The RARE First Italian edition published in Naples 1753-1763 this being a 12 volume partial set of Hoffman's major works containing the following: "Medicinae Rationalis Systematique" Tomus Secundus Tomus Tertius Section I and II all published 1753 and Tomus Quarti Pars Secunda and Pars Tertius 1754 ; "Observationum Physico-Chymicarum Selectiorum" Libri III 1755; "Operum Omnium Physico-Medicorum Supplementum" by itself a 13 volume set books 1 1754 5 1757 8 1760 10 1762 and 13 1763 ; and "Opuscula Medica Varii Argumenti Seu Dissertationes" 1756. Two of the volumes have handwritten " ex Libris Josephi de Bertolois Medici Physici Avia" an 18th century M.D. who appears to be the original owner. The "Opuscula Medici" and Book 1 of the "Operum Omnium" are Good only the "Opuscula Medici" lacking its binding but complete in its contents and Book 1 of the "Operum Omnium" the boards heavily soiled and loose in its binding. The rest of the 10 volumes Very Good soiling to boards some worm holes corner creasing. A remarkable collection of Hoffmann's works. Benedicti Gessari Paperback books
1732réf. D7280Halle 1732-38. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary vellum over boards; 12 parts in 6 volumes 4to 166 x 206 mm. Frontispiece portrait in Volume 1. Bookplate of Herbert McLean Evans. Spines chipped and torn; boards lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; text blocks age-toned but otherwise clean. A nice set worthy of repair. A collection of early editions of Friedrich Hoffmann possibly the most important of the latrochemists. Friedrich Hoffmann was one of the most distinguished physicians and chemists of his time court physician to the King of Prussia and primatus professor of medicine at the University of Halle. He was the first to perceive pathology as an aspect of physiology. 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
1932réf. 47555Zofingen Zurich: Verlags AG Zürich Ringier-Verlag 1932. Softcover. Very good condition. Folio 15 x 11". 8pp. Original wraps with photo-illustrated design and white and black lettering on cover protected by modern mylar. Features a full page photograph of the Gold Medalist in Los Angeles Ellen Müller-Preis on the cover. Contains a blurb praising the new world champion and gold medalist in foil fencing a naturalized Austrian born in Germany into a Jewish family. In Germany she had been living in the shadow of another foil fencer Helene Mayer also born to a Jewish father and only one of two athletes allowed to compete in the 1936 Olympics by the Nazis. Among others Müller-Preis beat in Mayer run to win the gold medal in Los Angeles and she was credited with the longest Olympic span of any woman competing from 1932 until 1956. Müller-Preis wanted to fence for Germany in the 1932 Olympics but was rejected by the German Federation. She took on the Austrian citizenship and fenced for Austria instead winning the gold medal against Heather Guinness of England. In the 1936 Olympics in Berlin she won the bronze medal for Austria and again in 1948 during the London Olympics. The issue of the magazine is incomplete missing pages 861-876. Text in German. Light wear along edges and horizontal fold. Verlags AG Zürich (Ringier-Verlag) unknown books
1921réf. 204367Berlin: Dieter Reimer 1921. Hardcover. G: An old book that has seen use. The bottom inch or so of fabric on the spine is peeling up. Wear to edges and corners. Pencil notation on the front free end page. The pages are tanning significantly but are still clear and readable. Warping on the back cover. A green casebound book with gilt lettering down a black spine. Pages: 4 5-80. Illustrated in black-and-white. Dieter Reimer hardcover books
1937réf. 18773Utica 1937. Tempera on paper. Exquisite drawing of a quintessential 1930s roadster. The old established Willoughby firm coach body makers in Utica New York had a reputation for conservative quality coachwork in 1930 when Viennese born Otto Hoffmann was hired as draughtsman/designer. He quickly moved the company's design philosophy to the forefront of the streamline school translating traditional luxury car body types such as this touring car into the modern idiom. Willoughby designed bodies for many major luxury car manufacturers including Lincoln and Rolls Royce. Provenance: Acquired from Hoffmann's widow January 1985. unknown books
1943réf. 47584Camp McCain: n/a 1943. Original document. Loose leaf. near fine. Original one page letter 11 x 8 1/2" in original POW Camp envelop 4 x 6". Handwritten letter by Willibald Hoffmann a Jewish soldier in the army of Nazi Germany who was taken prisoner and held in the POW Camp McCain in Mississippi USA. Written on the official US POW mail-form of the camp dated September 13 1943 signed Willibald Hoffmann plus postmarked official envelope with "Prisoner Of War" printed on front and US Censor stamps examined by 763 on front and back. Prisoner of War Camp stamp dated 13th of September 1943 on back. With signed English translation of the original letter attached. There were thousands of men of Jewish descent Mischling and hundreds more of what the Nazis called "full Jew" serving in the army while their families were exterminated at the same time causing psychological trauma for most of them while keeping it a secret for the rest of their lives. The American author Bryan Mark Rigg has documented the Jewish ancestry of more than 1200 of Hitler's soldiers including two field marshals and ten generals some of whom were awarded the Knight's Cross Nazi Germany's highest military honor. Hitler himself had signed declarations that these soldiers were of German blood. These soldiers often believed that they were helping to save the lives of Jewish relatives. "Many while they were fighting their parents were being deported anyway." Rigg. Some 2300 relatives of a group of 1000 soldiers documented by Riggs were killed by the Nazis. See Bryan Mark Rigg "Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich. University Press of Kansas 2009 Hoffmann in his letter September 13 1943 to Rabbi Max Koppel writes: "Dear Doctor You'll be astonished by my lines because I've lost every connection to my relatives who as far as I know are now in America. That is why I am approaching you confidentially with the request to help me in this matter. My father's name is Samuel Felix and comes from Austria-Hungary where we owned a large dye and weaving factory. My father has lived last in Cologne at the Rhine where he owned a textile wholesale. Due to his Jewish faith the events in Germany forced him to flee. I myself took on another name. Maybe I could ask you to visit me here or to send a representative since it is impossible in my situation to convey everything to you by letter. To facilitate this a permission has to be obtained from Washington. Hoping to get a confirmation of receipt of my letter. With sincere regards Willibald Hoffmann" POW Camp McCain was established in the Granada district of Mississippi USA in 1942 originally as a training camp for American infantry bound to join the fighting in Europe. During the war more that 7700 German prisoners of war were held in the camp. They were put to work in the cotton fields of the Mississippi delta. The camp operated until October of the year 1944. The addressee Rabbi Max Koppel was born in Mönchengladbach Germany in 1905. A graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau JTS and the universities of Breslau and Würzburg he served as a Rabbi in Hirschberg today Jelenia Góra in Poland and Berlin and was an educator at the Joseph Lehmann school of the Reform community in Berlin. In 1937 he immigrated o the USA and was one of the founders of the Congregation Emes Wodzedek in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. WITH ADDED Neuda Fanny. Stunden der Andacht Hours of Devotion INSCRIBED. Basel. Verlagsbuchhandlung V. Goldschmidt. 1854. First edition. Inscribed "Zur Erinnerung an Ihren Lehrer. 28. Juli 1956 Rabb. Max Koppel To remember your teacher Rabbi Max Koppel" on inside front cover; with stamp of Koppel's New York Congregation. Duodecimo. viii 176pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on cover. A prayer and book for edification of the women and virgins of Israel to be used in public and private as well as all affairs of the female life. Published in honor and memory of her husband Abraham Neuda Rabbi in Lostice Czech. Contains one hundred and three prayers: including the prayer when entering the synagogue the daily prayers a prayer for the Sabbath prayers at the New Moon a prayer on the day of the destruction of Jerusalem a prayer for mothers on the wedding day of their sons etc. The book closes with a poem to be read during "Hagbaha" The raising of the Torah a legend from the Menorah Hamaor read on the day of reconciliation during the time of the morning prayer a poem expressing thanks for recovery and an address to the noble mothers and women in Israel dealing with the education of their daughters. Text in German. Binding with some wear along edges small chips and front joint partially cracked. Block browned. Binding in overall good- interior in good condition. n/a unknown books
1996réf. 202398San Antonio TX: Artpace 1996. First edition. Exhibition brochure. Single sheet folded three times to create 8 pages. Features an essay by Hills Snyder. Includes color illustrations list of previous exhibitions and a selected bibliography. A very near fine copy. Uncommon with only 6 copies listed in OCLC. Artpace unknown books
1951réf. 108828NY:: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. Introduction by John Mulholland. Enlarged edition with 266 illustrations. Foxing on edges and endpapers a bit faded along the spine else very good in light brown cloth with black lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 738 pages . E. P. Dutton & Company, hardcover books
2009réf. 1408883Washington: Smithsonian Institution Libraries 2009. Hardcover. Octavo viii 400 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue and tan with white and black print. Boards in black cloth. Text block has small stain to front endpapers. Illustrated: b&w graphs maps photographs drawings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1408883. FP New Rockville Stock. Smithsonian Institution Libraries hardcover books
réf. 6765First Edition. paperback. 8 plates 101 pages in French. 8vo original printed wrappers unopened. Princeton & Paris 1964. Presentation copy. unknown books
1930réf. 28101Stoccarda: Julius Hoffmann 1930. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy with edgewear to spine and fore-edge gift inscription dated 1936 on rear paste down. vii 80 plates. Illus. with 80 color plates. 4to. Short introduction in Italian captions in French Germany and English. Lavishly illustrated Interior designs. Hans Hartl's Arbeitszimmer study is a brilliant fusion of modern set in a soaring almost medieval space. Artists represented also include August Dietterle Carl Muller F.A. Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot Friedrich Fahr Walter Sobotka Julius Cunow Herrmann Gerson Paul Stosseck Tom Merry Otto Volckers Gregor Rosenbaur Pfeifer & Grossman Franz Gebhard Bernard Fech Josef Berger Franz Kuhn Paul Perks Wilhelm Kreis Georg Rudolph Bruno Paul Karl Kirmes Wilhelm Lange Runge & Scotland and others the first four being the most heavily represented. These images were selected from the series of volumes titled L'Abitazione Moderna but also published as Farbige Raumkunst. OCLC shows only nine copies. Julius Hoffmann hardcover books
1938réf. 178996Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1938. 2nd. Hardcover. VG- pencil marks and foxing on endsheets light foxing on edges shelf wear boards discolored binding tight and interior otherwise clean. Gray 1/4 cloth binding with tan paper-wrapped boards. Profusely illustrated in B&W. 206 pp. German. "Arts and crafts in construction: 250 works in stone iron wood and other materials." German architecture decoration and ornament. Julius Hoffmann hardcover books
1937réf. NF0443KUNST UND KUNSTHANDWERK AM BAU J. Hoffmann 1937 first edition near fine in worn and chipped but still most pleasing dust-wrapper with 233 photos of both contemporary German and Nazi architectural structures and buildings many of which today no longer exist. Text in German of course. J. Hoffmann unknown books
1987réf. 1409158Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann Verlag 1987. Hardcover. Quarto 143 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine silvery gray with black lettering. Exterior has slight wear including slight scuffing and minor edge wear. White paper band with English translation around dust jacket. Boards have very slight wear including light edge wear. Text block has slight wear including some foxing to the edges. Profusely illustrated. Gift inscription to the front end paper. Text in German. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Quarto and Folio Case. 1409158. FP New Rockville Stock. Julius Hoffmann Verlag hardcover books
réf. 002700Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening Verlag. 63rd Printing. Hardcover Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. N.d. circa mid-1920s. 4to. 32 pp. No printing nor page numbers on versos. Color illustration on every page accompanying the witty verse by the author of "Struwelpeter". Soiling on the boards. Leaves are age toned. Otherwise clean and tight. Rutten & Loening Verlag hardcover books
