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1988Best.-Nr. AUB-507Canada, éd. du Beffroi 1988. Bel exemplaire broché, gd in-8, 150 pages avec table.
2018Best.-Nr. 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
1990Best.-Nr. 168453Osaka: Kodama Gallery 1990. Softcover. First Japanese Edition. Text in Japanese and English. With color illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Kodama Gallery in Osaka from May 14 through June 16 1990. Lightly rubbed on the spine ends else Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers. Kodama Gallery unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 212129London: Waddington Custot Galleries 2013. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 95 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 20 through December 20 2013. Features an essay by Martin Filler. Includes numerous color illustrations and a checklist a chronology list of previous exhibitions and a list of museum collections. A near fine copy in cloth boards with some slight bumping to the base of the spine. No dust jacket as issued. Waddington Custot Galleries unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 169734Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith 1936. First Edition. First Edition. Author Frederick Faust was better known by his alternate pseudonym Max Brand. Slightly cocked faint foxing and toning to the backstrip evidence of erasure to front and rear endpapers overall Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned to the flap folds and spine with moderate wear and accompanying creasing to the extremities and five old paper tape reinforcements to the verso see image. Macrae-Smith unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 146606Berlin: Central Cinema Company Film CCC 1961. Vintage studio still photograph featuring Lex Barker and Daliah Lavi from the 1961 film. Harald Reinl tackles the enigmatic Dr. Mabuse from Fritz Lang's trilogy of Dr. Mabuse titles: "Dr. Mabuse the Gambler" 1922 "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" 1933 and "The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" 1960. Criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse Wolfgang Priess brainwashes prison inmates to commit crimes as he is pursued by Inspector Lohmann Gert Frobe and the German police. Gert Frobe would gain worldwide fame 2 years later in the role of Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 James Bond classic "Goldfinger." Set in and shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Central Cinema Company Film [CCC] unknown books
1943Best.-Nr. 23987New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in yellow-green pictorial dust jacket; 6216pp. General wear to jacket extremities including closed tears and chipping some light dust-soil spine a bit cocked else Near Very Good and sound. The last of the Dr. Kildare books comprised of two novellas. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 24011New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi2206pp. General wear to jacket extremities including tiny chips crease to upper panel red spine portion quite faded tape repair to jacket extremities verso not showing through to exterior else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Publisher's office copy with their rubberstamp to rear jacket panel. The sixth Dr. Kildare novel adapted into the 1940 film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 21931New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original orange cloth lettered in black orange topstain; 6227pp. A hint of shelf-wear else a Fine copy lacking the scarce dust jacket topstain still brilliant. Features the popular fictional character Dr. Kildare who would inspire a number of television series and films. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 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
1779Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 195050Torino: Associazione per il salone del libro 1988. First edition. Softcover. 119 pages. A collection of 90 black and white photographs of authors by Letizia Battaglia Giovanna Borgese Fausto Giaccone Ferdinando Scianni and Franco Zecchin. A near fine copy in wrappers. Associazione per il salone del libro unknown books
1943Best.-Nr. 9021853Chicago: University of Chicago 1943. Hardcover. Very good/good. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed at edges and extremities. Dust jacket is rubbed at the edges and extremities and sunned at the spine. All pages tight and bright. From the library of R.S. Crane. University of Chicago hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. UFAUTHI00drpAlfred A. Knopf 2008. Very Good. Faust Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2008. 346pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with rubbing and bumping. Tear in rear fold of panel. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2024Best.-Nr. UFAUNEC00fpPicador 2024. Fine. Faust Drew Gilpin. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury. New York: Picador 2024. 304pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Picador paperback books
1985Best.-Nr. UTENPAS00fpNew World Archaeological Foundation 1985. Very Good. Tenorio Jorge Fausto Ceja. Paso de la Amada: An Early Preclassic Site in the Soconusco Chiapas Mexico. Paper number Forty-Nine. Provo Utah: New World Archaeological Foundation 1985. x 130pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Institutional label on back cover. New World Archaeological Foundation paperback books
2004Best.-Nr. UFAURIG00absPraeger 2004. Very Good. Faust Betty B. editor. Rights Resources Culture and Conservation in the Land of the Maya. Anderson editor E. N.; Frazier editor John G. Connecticut: Praeger 2004. 296pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Maroon cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped covers. Former owners' names inked on front free endsheet. Praeger hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. UFAUREA00fpDeseret Book c1990. Fine. Faust James E. Reach Up For the Light. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book c1990. v 147pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Deseret Book hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 26411New York: Purgatory Pie Press 1994. Fine. Number 100. Signed by the book artists. An old record that has been re-produced by the Purgatory Pie Press with a new label printed on both sides: "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Lame!" and "Roberta 'N' Rob Smith - Worse!" This "random re-issue" pokes fun at bad records with lots of typos slogans and gimmicks. The words 'Lame / Stale' and 'Worse / Fukt-Fi' have been scratched into the record. The record sleeve is printed with information about the fictitious Roberta N Bob fan club and is also signed by them. The plastic bag that covers the sleeve has several stickers which further emphasize the poor record quality "30 years after . New British Infestation" "This record waz wuns mor popular than it is NOW" etc. The label sleeve and stickers are letterpress printed. PRI/010213. Purgatory Pie Press unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 604596New York: The Macaulay Company 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. Chips and moderate stains along the edges and spine endleaves stained front fly with remains of an old label rear gutter partially cracked very good in a rubbed about very good dust jacket with chips and small creased tears along the edges most notably at the spine ends chipping along the flap folds light interior spotting. The first mystery by Faust and the first of two written under this name. Faust was probably best known for the books written under his other pen name Max Brand. The Macaulay Company hardcover books
1919Best.-Nr. 590074Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli 1919. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Small chips and tears at the spine modest age-toning on the wrappers a very good copy. Nicola Zanichelli unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 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
1957Best.-Nr. 451871Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 1957. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 16pp. Rebound in green cloth gilt. Fine. Issued as a souvenir of a speech. Syracuse University Press hardcover books
1971Best.-Nr. 402661New York: Arbor House 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Near fine with toning and rubbing. Arbor House unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 156554New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. Later. Ex-library with expected markings stains and tape on top and bottom cover edges surface tear on top of front cover good in a good dust jacket with some short tears and tiny chips on edges and a few small stains. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books