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1933rif. 329187New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1933. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Boards a bit spotted and soiled good or better in very good dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel and a few small chips. Slow Joe's out to get the galoots who murdered his partner to do it he has to break up the whole gang. An attractive copy. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1914rif. 604092Berkeley: Published by the Occident 1914. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 28pp. Sewn stiff printed wrappers. Surface abrasion on the front cover and a moderate crease on the rear a few bumps along the edges a bit of spotting on the first page very good. Verse "written by the members of a class in verse-composition in the University of California." Prints three poems by Max Brand i.e. Frederick Faust being his first appearance in a book preceding his first solo publication written as "Max Brand" by five years. Also prints poems by his close friend Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sidney Howard and winner of the Academy Award for his screenplay for Gone With the Wind.Also includes contributions by Lesley R. Bates Helen Cornelius Jewell Parish and others. Faust is best known for his literary Westerns written under the pen name Max Brand. Uncommon OCLC locates only five copies. Published by the Occident unknown books
1931rif. 57187New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tiny tear at the foot else fine in an attractive very good plus dustwrapper with small nicks and tears at the extremities and some modest tanning to the spine. A very nice copy. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1936rif. 74956New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an attractive very good plus dustwrapper with some rubbing and modest nicks and tears at the extremities. A much nicer than usual copy of an uncommon title. Basis for the 1951 film My Outlaw Brother directed by Elliott Nugent with a script by Gene Fowler Jr. and featuring Mickey Rooney Wanda Hendrix Robert Preston and Robert Stack. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
2018rif. 215602New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 2018. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 331 pages. Published in conjunction a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the Peabody Essex Museum. Features essays by Sarah Greenough Sarah Kennel Hilton Als Malcolm Daniel and Drew Gilpin Faust. Includes 230 images chronology notes notes to epigraphs selected bibliography and checklist. A tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. From the library of actress and photographer Diane Keaton with a small Bonhams sale bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A very nice copy of the most comprehensive book on Mann and with an interesting provenance. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1810rif. 20136Newburyport: W. & J. Gilman 1810. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed boards spine label; interior somewhat browned due to paper stock. An amazing survival. First edition though Faust’s Catechism had been printed in 1795 with a second edition in 1798. Faust 1755-1842 was a German obstetrician and writer who produced a range of texts designed at improving health amongst the general public. His “Health Catechism” Gesundheits-katechismus Zum Gebrauche in Den Schulen und Beim Häuslichen Unterrichte Bückeburg 1794 was aimed at children and used a popular question and answer format which was designed to help people – especially youth – memorize the information. Faust’s writing reflects a trend amongst some medical professionals of the early nineteenth century to conflate health and spiritual concerns where attending to the body became part of moral practice. Children here are taught to interpret care for their bodies as a moral duty reinforcing his claims with bible verses on similar topics. Notably and reflecting the growth in utilitarian ideas that saw pleasure and pain as drivers of human behavior the healthy body is a happy body and pain and unpleasant emotions signs of physical and moral disorder. According to the “Advertisement” prefacing the text “in the compilation of this work Dr. Faust's Catechism of health improved and corrected by Dr. Gregory of Edinburgh has been taken for the foundation; a few observations are omitted as being foreign to the situation and habits of society in this country; and copious additions have been made by selections from the writings of medical men of the first respectability and talents but principally from Willich’s Lectures on diet and regimen and Parkinson's Medical admonitions.” Austin 763. W. & J. Gilman unknown books
1779rif. 29573Rome: Stamperia del Puccinelli al Governo Vecchio 1779. First edition. Large engraved folding map by P. Bombelli. xx 220 pp. Pages ix-xii are signed 5 and 6 but printed with terminal signature O and bound out of order between pp. 214 & 215. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Fine copy. First edition. Large engraved folding map by P. Bombelli. xx 220 pp. Pages ix-xii are signed 5 and 6 but printed with terminal signature O and bound out of order between pp. 214 & 215. 1 vols. 8vo. Libri di L. V. Fossati Bellani 1681 calls for a subsequently issued Appendix not present here; Italian OPAC listings include copies both with and without the Appendix Stamperia del Puccinelli al Governo Vecchio unknown books
1914rif. 524215Berkeley: Published by the Occident 1914. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 12mo. 28pp. Sewn stiff printed wrappers. Small previous owner's book label inside front wrap from San Francisco faint small stain on rear wrap else fine. Verse "written by the members of a class in verse-composition in the University of California." Prints three poems by Max Brand i.e. Frederick Faust being his first appearance in a book preceding his first solo publication written as "Max Brand" by five years. Also prints poems by his close friend Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sidney Howard and winner of the Academy Award for his screenplay for Gone With the Wind.Also includes contributions by Lesley R. Bates Helen Cornelius Jewell Parish and others. Faust is best known for his literary Westerns written under the pen name Max Brand. Uncommon OCLC locates only five copies. Published by the Occident unknown books
1940rif. 21932New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; chickpea-colored cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 223pp 1. Mild wear to base of spine some darkening to endpapers and scattered foxing to title page; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 moderately edgeworn with scattered foxing to flaps and some nearly invisible archival reinforcement along joints and flap folds on verso; Very Good. The second Dr. Kildare book and basis for the 1939 film of the same name directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1940rif. 322314New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Ink owner's name with a small bookstore stamp and one corner bumped else near fine in a lightly edgeworn near fine dustwrapper. Hospital romance and mystery tale featuring the handsome young intern Dr. Kildare. Basis for the 1939 Harold S. Bacquet film starring Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare and also featuring Lionel Barrymore Lionel Atwill and Laraine Day. Scarce. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1554rif. 6336Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta 1554. First edition. Very Good. Quarto 22 cm; 45 3 pages last leaf blank. Title within woodcut architectural border. Historiated woodcut initials throughout. In half vellum over 17th- or 18th-century woodblock printed paste paper titled in manuscript on spine. Lower board ruptured near corner subsequently rebuilt. Some leaves toned brown. Early ownership inscriptions and later bibliographical notes on front free endpaper and on rear pastedown. References: Adams F-182; Olschki Choix de livres anciens VI 5817 This essay extolling marriage is an early artifact of modern ethnography in that it poses as a survey of marriage customs through history and around the world. In true humanist fashion Fausto mines the ancient historians for most of his material. So we find out that in Lacedaemonia or Atlantis men who refused to marry were forced to run naked through the forum in the dead of winter and that in Assyria husbands were bound by law to obey their wives. The text concludes with a long series of Q&A "quesiti" concerning marriage ceremonies in which we find out why the Boetians crowned brides with asparagus why Persian couples wait until spring to "consummate" any marriage and why it is customary to grease the newlyweds' doorway with pig fat or wolf fat. The book is also notable for its lovely large woodcut initials including a letter T showing a satyr and a man at table together a P with a bare-breasted woman driving a triumphal chariot and an N with a lion-headed man astride a swimming horse. Plinio Pietrasanta hardcover books
1946rif. 560415Napoli / Roma: Gaspare Casella Editore / De Luigi Editore 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Nos. 1-18 in 15 issues i.e. three double issues. Slim octavos. Text in Italian. Printed wrappers paper still supple. Owner's signature of author and critic Michele Cantarella a leading anti-fascist Italian expatriate on the cover of one issue and three issues with a bit of pencilled marginal bracketing by him. Modest toning wear and soil a few tiny tears at the spine ends the first five issues with the pages somewhat toned and occasional very light foxing mostly confined to the first and last leaves a nice very good or better run of this somewhat delicate Italian literary magazine that featured two publishers and three editors during this time period. Of particular note is the inclusion of "Angoscia" "Anguish" later known as "Anguish in the Barracks" in issue 16 a very early possibly the earliest published story by Italo Calvino predating his first book by two years. The final issue prints a "Referendum" of four questions for poets about their work and claim that they have already received responses from Eugenio Montale Cesare Pavesi Corrado Alvaro and others and will begin publishing their responses in the next issue but the magazine ceased publication with No. 17/18. A well-preserved set of a cheaply wartime- printed magazine. Gaspare Casella Editore / De Luigi Editore unknown books
rif. 3482141973. Softcover. Very Good. A collection of 17 fanzines focused on Frederick Faust a.k.a. Max Brand including a complete four-issue run and partial three issue run of The Fabulous Faust and the complete 10-issue run of The Faust Collector along with other related ephemera. The first issue of The Fabulous Faust is a second edition which was limited to 50 copies all others are first editions. Quartos except the first issue of The Faust Collector which is octavo. Stapled wrappers with Fabulous Faust partial set also bradbound three issues in one. Overall very good or better with some minor wear at the corners and a few pulled staples; two issues of The Fabulous Faust have detached final sheets and one is also missing the second to last sheet. Rounding out the collection is a group of related ephemera including lists of Faust's print appearances; several catalogs from Richardson along with correspondence sent to a collector; copies of a letter from Faust and another from his literary agent Brandt & Brandt; photocopies of Faust's first published story "The King is Dead" from his high school annual; and a double-sided publisher's promotional sheet for Max Brand: The Man and His Work. A wonderful collection of amateur magazines showing the efforts made to organize study and catalog the varied writings of Faust following his death as a correspondent in World War II. OCLC locates one run of The Fabulous Faust along with two other single issues; and no copies of The Faust Collector. Further details available upon request. unknown books
