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réf. 41052503Group of 8 photo postcards color and black and white very clean most unused a few used as a group only. This is an excellent lot of eight period postcards most likely from about 1898-1920's. THE CARDS & THEIR CAPTIONS: a. No caption. Shows what looks like a Manchurian Princess in elaborate gowns sitting beside a Chinese man smoking opium large format 14.5 x 10.2 cm. black & white very good verso blank. . b. "N. AN OPIUM DEN SHANGHAI. "Verso shows publisher as Denniston & Sullivan Shanghai no. 2. b.w. shows two Chinese men sharing an opium pipe usual postcard size unused card. . c. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKERS." Color card shows 5 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' a child looks on verso publisher states: "Published by the Turco-Egyptian tobacco store Hong Kong Queens Road Old Post Office Building else blank card unused. . d. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKING." Black & white card shows 6 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' while others look on. Verso blank unused card. The color photo illustration occupies 2/3 of the card balance 1/3 to the right is blank. Front states: "Edward H. Mitchell publisher San Francisco." . e. "57 UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO CAL" Color card shows the dank dark basement type opium den common to the San Francisco area in the early 1898-1900's. Shows 4 Chinese men one with a long queue 3 smoke the opium pipe. Verso is blank but printed: "Authorized by act of Congress of May 19 1898. This could be close to that date. . f. "SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN." This is similar to the above but a full-sized card color view. Front also states: "Published & Manif. by the Galloway Lithographing Co. S.F. Cal." Verso is blank unused. . g. "CHINESE OPIUM DEN 614 JACKSON STREET CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO THE CAT HAS BECOME ADDICTED TO THE FUMES OF THE DRUG." Color photo with 1905 dated ink message on the front cover also on the front is: " Britton & Rey Lithographers San Francisco 512." Verso is addressee postmark round dated and cancelled one-cent stamped with 1905 postmark. Shows a Chinese man with queue hair style smoking an opium pipe a cat sits on his body being held in place by the man's hand. . h. "OPIUM AND PIPE SMOKERS." Color card shows 6 Chinese with queue hair styles two smoke opium. Verso is with penned message dated 1910 round-dated stamp with half-penny stamp addressed to Jersey a UK island. CONDITION: All items in very good or better original condition. Please view the photo images posted to our web site if any questions. . unknown
1950réf. 294511950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of California postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 222 postcards 61 RPPC 161 regular 28 are full backed the rest split-back both used with franked postage and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights and sounds of Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Mendocino Santa Clara Catalina Island Modesto Yosemite Monterey Mt. Shasta Long Beach Lake Tahoe Redondo Beach Auburn Santa Maria Santa Monica Hollywood Eureka Santa Maria Sacramento etc. Some with interesting messages postage or destinations e.g. 1946 Roosevelt/Hyde Park stamp; 1906 earthquake postcard sent to New Zealand and cancelled in 1908; 1944 1 cent Statue of Liberty "Industry Agriculture for Defense" stamp; uncancelled 5 cent "Toward United Nations April 25 1945"; 3 RPPC from Fort Ross showing Russian Officers Building built in 1934 chapel built by Russians in 1811 etc. unknown
1938réf. 24708Japan 1938. Ephemera & postcards. Very good overall. Album comprising 100 cards with embossed illustration of a gun-toting soldier on the cover and with a map printed inside the cover showing Japanese territory in China. The postcards are mostly colored artist postcards many stamped and mailed and almost entirely of Chinese locations. Presumably put together by a Japanese soldier with the occupation force in China. Fortunately the album consists mainly of artists' cards of places and doesn't have any of the images of atrocities committed against the conquered Chinese. Illustrated printed color postcards include many of military life: cavalry units soldiers bathing in hot tubs soldiers relaxing in courtyards a soldier standing in city street soldiers at drill and a seaplane. One card with printed signature T. M. Kauri ; another signed T. Hazma and dated 1938. Other printed color post card subjects include landscapes both Japanese and Chinese Mt. Fuji temples temple gates Japanese beauties one waving a Japanese flag lake and mountain views pagodas industrial river sites river families in their junks Japanese gardens and Chinese walled cities. Color and b&w printed photographic post cards include: mountain landscapes waterfalls temples cherry trees in blossom and traditional architecture. A real albumen picture post card shows a seated group in Western clothes the man at the left a military figure in an outdoor thatched roof gazebo. Oblong 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/4" cord bound. Dark blue pictorial embossed boards with red embossed entry gate in fortress wall embossed Japanese soldier and Japanese lettering. Faint damp stain mostly top edge early leaves only; chipping to lower corners of album pages only; the postcards clean and bright. unknown
réf. 46840Minerva Press.1993.In-4,couv.souple ill.en couleurs.375 p.Nombreuses reproductions en noir.Dédicace de l'Auteur. TBE.En langue anglaise.
réf. 2080502106911326Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
193648 pages. This glamorous publication brought New York women important information including: news of the choicest fashion, entertainment, current happenings, where to go, what to see, and how much to pay. Features: Three-page photo-illustrated feature article on Gypsy Rose Lee "She Undressed Her Way to Fame!"; Full-page ad for the new Lastex Vassarette Girdle, featuring photo of designer Helen Wills; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Du Barry beauty preparations by Richard Hudnut; Letters; Fantastic one-page illustrated Macy's ad shows chef throwing knives at Thanksgiving turkey; Soundings - opinions of the New York Woman; Nice one-page illustrated fashion ad for Stern Brothers; Nice one-page illustrated fashion ad for Franklin Simon & Co. features upper half fashions; Seven fantastic photos of "Curb Commerce" in New York - radios, wart cures, picture postcards, socks, neckties, shoe shines, and photos; These Girls From Out of Town - fiction about 'those panting, galloping creatures - the lady buyers and how they wear down man; Romance Around Town - five photos of New York romance; Unfair to Organized Women - a man's complaint against the women of the world; Nice one-page color fashion photo of model in a glamorous Betty Wales ball gown; How to Collect Butlers; A Fashion Editor's Diary; What not to do to yourself - unfortunate accidents in the choice of clothes, cosmetics and behavior; Photos of the 'Best Dressed Women" from cities around the world; Attractive evening fashion centerfold features large black and white photo with color illustrations; So Much To Buy - and So Much to Spend!; Head to Toe - photos of fashionable hats and shoes; Cosmetics page; Two Quick and Easy Dinners Men Will Like; Photos of dinner table place settings; A Look at Our Medicine Chest; New About Food - a new thought on birthday cakes; "The Plough and the Stars" - Eight photos from the making of this movie which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Erin O'Brien Moore; "Valiant is the Word for Carrie" - photo-illustrated article about this movie; John Gielgud as Hamlet; Helen Hayes takes time to talk about backstage life as Queen Victoria; One page of color humorous illustrations by Dr. Suess illustrating how to attain social publicity!; One-page Schaefer beer ad - in cans!; Half-page photo ad for Best & Co. features pastel wool house coat; Manhattan Date Book; Glossy color cover photos feature woman attempting to install drapes which pipe-smoking husband reads paper; and more. Unmarked with modest wear. A quality copy of this great vintage depression-era item. Magazine
réf. 69558Very Good. Light edge wear. Some with correspondence on the reverse. A couple postcards with areas of abrasion to the reverse. Two with minor markings on the front. The collection as a whole uses deltiology to explore the first half of the 20th century through a unique cultural eye. Postcards although that name was not established first began circulation during the era of the Civil War when the United States government transitioned from the stampless covers type of mail to letters enclosed in envelopes with revenue stamps sold to mail them. Thus plain penny postcards were created. Yet it wasn't until the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 that the modern "picture" postcard was introduced. Largely called private mailing cards or other names these illustrated postcards grew in popularity during 1893-1906. The pioneer era postcards had black and white and later colorful images on one side and on the verso the name and address of the recipient. No message or other writing was allowed on the back. This explains the cramped handwriting on the fronts of cards. In 1906 the US Congress passed a law allowing part of the back of the postcard to include a message with the right side still reserved for the name and address. This created an explosion in popularity of picture postcards postcard collecting groups and pen pals springing up around the world. Subsequently the name postal card post-card or post card started the modern era of pictorial correspondence and only a penny to mail. The collection includes printed postcards real photo postcards sepia tones undivided backs divided backs full bleed borders white borders lines and chromes and largely encompasses the full range and style of printing processes used for modern postcards from approximately 1900-1950. It is arranged by subject and constitutes 47 cards. The collection includes women reading books men reading books and advertisements promoting books and magazines. A collection of postcards highlighting the importance of books in homes libraries and the society at large. With the following postcards in the collection: LIBRARIES The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library General Reading Room. Harvard University. Reference Room- Ryerson Building. Grand Rapids Public Library. The Chained Books All Saints Church Hereford. RPPC. Despacho De La Madre Superiora Convento De Sta Monica Puebla Pue. RPPC. Bookmobile. South Central Nebraska Regional Library. Chrome. BOOK CENSORSHIP Les Sauvages. 1914. BOOK ADVERTISING Little Nature Library. Printed Photo. Biographical Album of Western Gunfighters. Chrome. Publisher's Headquarters. The Curtis Publishing Company Building. "Over the Garden Wall" Given Away with "Princess' Novels." Wilf Carter Montana Slim Songs of the Plains & Rockies. Music Book Advertisement. RPPC. MAGAZINE ADVERTISING The Great Home Journal. Printed Color. The Youth's Companion. The Old Home Week 1911. Printed Color. The Children's Friend. Printed Photo. The Farm Journal. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Ben Tremont. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Bean-Pole. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Kit Summers. Printed Color. The Mother's Magazine. Easter Greeting. MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES Time Flies. Get Busy. Book with Skull. "I'm a "Daddy." New Comic Book. Not Postcard Back. The Romance of a Christmas Card. When I Was in Europe. U. R. Tiresome. 1909. Private Library. Advertisement. New Encyclopedia Britannica. Photocard. READING AND POSTCARDS Child Dressed as a Bird Reading Paper. RPPC. Old Man Reading Book. RPPC. Cat Reading Poetry Book. RPPC. Man at Lectern with Book. RPPC. Sarah Bernhardt Reading Book. RPPC. Woman in Rocker Reading. RPPC. Woman Coming Out of Book. RPPC. Female Student Studying Books. Printed Color. Nude Female Reading Book. Printed Color. Elegant Woman with Book. Printed Color. Woman Curled Up in Chair Reading. Japanese Woman Reading Art Card. Printed Color. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Muslims Reading in Library. RPPC Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Furniture Store Advertisement with Book. Printed Color. Bible Sales Tent. Bible Readings. Home Circle. Colporteur Tent. Franklin N. H. Aug. 19-29. RPPC. Harry Piel Reading Book. RPPC. Maria Holst Reading Book. RPPC. unknown
réf. 69558Very Good. Light edge wear. Some with correspondence on the reverse. A couple postcards with areas of abrasion to the reverse. Two with minor markings on the front. The collection as a whole uses deltiology to explore the first half of the 20th century through a unique cultural eye. Postcards although that name was not established first began circulation during the era of the Civil War when the United States government transitioned from the stampless covers type of mail to letters enclosed in envelopes with revenue stamps sold to mail them. Thus plain penny postcards were created. Yet it wasn't until the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 that the modern "picture" postcard was introduced. Largely called private mailing cards or other names these illustrated postcards grew in popularity during 1893-1906. The pioneer era postcards had black and white and later colorful images on one side and on the verso the name and address of the recipient. No message or other writing was allowed on the back. This explains the cramped handwriting on the fronts of cards. In 1906 the US Congress passed a law allowing part of the back of the postcard to include a message with the right side still reserved for the name and address. This created an explosion in popularity of picture postcards postcard collecting groups and pen pals springing up around the world. Subsequently the name postal card post-card or post card started the modern era of pictorial correspondence and only a penny to mail. The collection includes printed postcards real photo postcards sepia tones undivided backs divided backs full bleed borders white borders lines and chromes and largely encompasses the full range and style of printing processes used for modern postcards from approximately 1900-1950. It is arranged by subject and constitutes 47 cards. The collection includes women reading books men reading books and advertisements promoting books and magazines. A collection of postcards highlighting the importance of books in homes libraries and the society at large. With the following postcards in the collection: LIBRARIES The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library General Reading Room. Harvard University. Reference Room- Ryerson Building. Grand Rapids Public Library. The Chained Books All Saints Church Hereford. RPPC. Despacho De La Madre Superiora Convento De Sta Monica Puebla Pue. RPPC. Bookmobile. South Central Nebraska Regional Library. Chrome. BOOK CENSORSHIP Les Sauvages. 1914. BOOK ADVERTISING Little Nature Library. Printed Photo. Biographical Album of Western Gunfighters. Chrome. Publisher's Headquarters. The Curtis Publishing Company Building. "Over the Garden Wall" Given Away with "Princess' Novels." Wilf Carter Montana Slim Songs of the Plains & Rockies. Music Book Advertisement. RPPC. MAGAZINE ADVERTISING The Great Home Journal. Printed Color. The Youth's Companion. The Old Home Week 1911. Printed Color. The Children's Friend. Printed Photo. The Farm Journal. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Ben Tremont. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Bean-Pole. Printed Color. Rough Rider Weekly. Kit Summers. Printed Color. The Mother's Magazine. Easter Greeting. MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES Time Flies. Get Busy. Book with Skull. "I'm a "Daddy." New Comic Book. Not Postcard Back. The Romance of a Christmas Card. When I Was in Europe. U. R. Tiresome. 1909. Private Library. Advertisement. New Encyclopedia Britannica. Photocard. READING AND POSTCARDS Child Dressed as a Bird Reading Paper. RPPC. Old Man Reading Book. RPPC. Cat Reading Poetry Book. RPPC. Man at Lectern with Book. RPPC. Sarah Bernhardt Reading Book. RPPC. Woman in Rocker Reading. RPPC. Woman Coming Out of Book. RPPC. Female Student Studying Books. Printed Color. Nude Female Reading Book. Printed Color. Elegant Woman with Book. Printed Color. Woman Curled Up in Chair Reading. Japanese Woman Reading Art Card. Printed Color. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Kimono Clad Japanese Woman Reading. Hand Tinted. Muslims Reading in Library. RPPC Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Muslim Reading. RPPC. Tinted. Furniture Store Advertisement with Book. Printed Color. Bible Sales Tent. Bible Readings. Home Circle. Colporteur Tent. Franklin N. H. Aug. 19-29. RPPC. Harry Piel Reading Book. RPPC. Maria Holst Reading Book. RPPC. unknown books
1907réf. 10724AB1907. Vienna Wiener Werkstätte 1907. 142 : 9 cm. Coloured lithographed postcard with monogram by Franz Karl Delavilla. Postcard from the Wiener Werkstätte No. 20. Franz Karl Delavilla born 1884 in Vienna was studying at academy of performing arts in Vienna as pupil of C.O. Czeschka and Berthold Löffler from 1913 on professor at the academy of performing art in Magdeburg Hamburg and Frankfurt. He was famous for his excellent illustrations and design specially for the Cabaret Fledermaus for designs for textiles wall-papers etc. He dies 1967 in Frankfurt/Main. - Clean and unused. - Hansen Postkarten der Wiener Werkstätte no. 20 with illustration. unknown
réf. 24044601Japan n.d. ca 1900-1920's. A green cloth photo album faded green leaves 23 x 39 cm. very good contains 100 cards in all: 71 hand-colored 15 color 14 b.w. cards mounted in slits provide. A very nice period collection. S C A R C E A stunning and beautiful collection of postcards mostly un- used lovely hand colored photographs from about 1900-1910 with four from the 1920's-30's. The album begins with a group of four Japanese women and a young girl under a wisteria garden another shows a woman dishing up a bowl of rice then a lovely young girl plyaing the Koto; other views show flower arrangement New Years Kimono winter scenes with women holding a large umbrellaand with a hood for head protection and another shows two girls reading a book; a girl sewing holding a baby riding a Jinrikshaw in the garden more of girls reading books doing household chores playing the Shamisen poses for New Years cleaning house making dinner and changing her Kimono with friends and hair dressing. This album shows the Japanese woman at her daily chores wearing her finest Kimono for New Years or other celebrations Zen arts of flower and tea cute poses dressed up to visit friends riding the ricksha playing music eating dancing and just about everything in her life as a daughter sister mother and wife. The black and white photos show similar poses 4-5 appear to be 1920's movie stars most in Kimono one in a Western style dress. These beautiful photo postcards show Japanese women at their best wearing stunning and elaborate Kimono with their tradition- al coiffeur holding an umbrella wearing Geta sandals. Some are studio posed others taken in a live setting. A good insight to period Japanese women and their costume and traditions. By and large a comprehensive look at Japanese womanhood a comprehensive and remarkable collection. Color scans can be sent by email. unknown
réf. 41053601A group of 43 black & white period photo post cards lithos collotypes &c. Shows the harbor tram rickshaws streets foreigners hawkers &c. most unused a couple with textand some are actual photographs all clean nice. AS A LOT. unknown
1940réf. 32442AB1940. Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. London John Lehmann / Allen Lane - Penguin Books / Rupert Hart-Davis 1940-1965. Octavo. The Postcards written from Venice Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: "This city does not boast a supply of the "Sunday Dispatch" and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st he hopes you will keep copies of the .for him to read on his return in ten Days time - J." / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Am staying with Sir Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa - calme luxe "Villa La Pietra" all night.pity you aren't with me. Off to the sea this afternoon - may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully - Love J." Date hard to decipher possibly in 1962 / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg may it mend quickly as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence .Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March but then off again - to Jimmy Carter Country - Love J." 20.2.77. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the "New Writing " Series only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann's personal copy of Sean O'Faolain's Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good. This set of books belonged to Adrian Liddell Hart Lover and friend of publisher John Lehman from whom he received these publications fresh from the press. Included in the collection are for example: "The Penguin New Writing" Volume I - Second Edition 1941 with Georg Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" / Morton Freedgood - "Good Nigger" etc. Volume II: - First Edition 1941 with a note in pencil by Lehman: "Publication Jan. 10" with Rosamond Lehmann - A Dream of Winter / Stephen Spender - Books and the War I / Louis MacNeice - June Thunder / B.L.Coombes - The Way we live now I / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz etc. Volume III: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Lay your sleeping Head / Willy Goldman - The Way we live now II / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz - II / Rosamond Lehmann - When the Winters came / Jean Giono - The Corn Dies / Volume IV: - First Edition 1941 with Louis MacNeice - March gave clear Days / C.Day Lewis - Ode in Fear / Margot Heinemann - Grieve in a New Way etc. Volume V: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Exiles / F.G.Lorca - The Dawn / Louis MacNeice - The Way we live now IV etc. Volume VI: - First Edition 1941 with John Lehmann - Seven Poems of Vienna / Bert Brecht - The Informer / Dylan Thomas - A Visit to Grandpa's / etc. Volume VII: - First Edition 1941 with Jean Paul Sartre - The Wall / F.G.Lorca - Song / W.H.Auden - The Leaves of Life / Rosamond Lehmann - For Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume VIII: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - The Armoured Valley / Dylan Thomas - The Peaches / Georg Anders - Song of the Austrians / Ahmed Ali - Morning in Delhi / Beatrix Lehmann - The £2000 Rasperry etc. Volume IX: - First Edition 1941 with Graham Greene - Men at Work / Robert Pagan - The Night before the War / F.G.Lorca - Song of the Andalusian Sailors / Charles Brasch - In These Islands / Inez Holden - The Flat above me / Yuri Olesha - Love etc. Volume X: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - Poem / Jean Howard - The Night of the Landslide / Ignazio Silone - The Journey to Paris / Rex Warner - Two Sonnets / Roderick Finlayson - The Totara Tree / W.H.Auden - The Novelist etc. Volume XI: - First Edition 1941 with Anna Seghers - The Rescue / Dylan Thomas - Extraordinary Little Cough / F.G.Lorca - The Clear Death / Isobel Leslie - Fine Spring Weather / Volume XIII: - First Edition 1942 with Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Diary II / John Lehmann - Vigils / Frank Sargeson - Making of a New Zealander / Paul Nizan - About Theseus / Elsa Triolet - "Mayakovsky - Poet of Russia" / With Drawings by Keith Vaughan / Volume XIV: - First Edition 1942 with Julia Strachey - Fragment from a Diary / Christopher Isherwood - The Day at La Verne / W.H.Auden - Two Poems / Walter Allen - Reflections on Aldous Huxley / With Photogravure Illustrations From the Film "The Foreman went to France" / Volume XVIII: - First Edition 1943 with John Lehmann - The Heart of the Problem / Walter Allen - The Novels of Graham Greene / George Barker - Elegy on the Eve / Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Jiri Mucha - Manoeuvres / etc. Volume XIX: - First Edition 1944 with Edith Sitwell - One Day in Spring / Donagh MacDonagh - My Grandfather was Irish / W.H.Auden - Victor / John Lehmann - Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume XX: - First Edition 1944 with Demetrios Capetanakis - The Isles of Greece / Elizabeth Bowen - Mysterious Kor / George Barker - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - Girl and Butterfly / John Lehmann - Three Poems / H.B.Mallalieu - Two Poems / William Plomer - Introduction to E.M.Forster etc. Volume XXIII: - First Edition 1945 with Denis Glover - It was D-Day / John Heath-Stubbs- The Defeat of Romanticism / Laurie Lee - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - A Song of the Cold etc. Volume XXIV: - First Edition 1945 with Frank O'Connor - A Story by Maupassant / Peter Viertel - Smudge / John Lehmann - State Art and Scepticism / etc. Volume XXV: - First Edition 1945 with Anthony Thorne - Potatoes Have Hips of Their Own / Rupert Doone - Three Shakespearean Productions / John Heath-Stubbs - Georg Crabbe and the Eighteenth Century / etc. Volume XXVI: - First Edition 1945 with John Lehmann - Two Poems / Alec Guinness - Money for Jam / etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann 2 June 1907 7 April 1987 was an English publisher poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals "New Writing" and "The London Magazine" and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Born in Bourne End Buckinghamshire the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann and brother of Helen Lehmann novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College Cambridge. He considered his time at both as "lost years". At Trinity Lehmann had a passionate relationship with Virginia Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell. After a period as a journalist in Vienna he returned to England to found the popular periodical New Writing 193640 in book format. This literary magazine sought to break down social barriers and published works by working-class authors as well as educated middle-class writers and poets. It proved a great influence on literature of the period and an outlet for writers such as Christopher Isherwood W. H. Auden Edward Upward and miner-author B. L. Coombes. Lehmann included many of these authors in his anthology Poems for Spain which he edited with Stephen Spender. With the onset of the Second World War and paper rationing New Writing's future was uncertain and so Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books one of the first critical summaries of the writers of the 1930s in which he championed the authors who had been the stars of New WritingAuden and Spenderand also his close friend Tom Wintringham and Wintringham's ally the emerging George Orwell. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books who secured paper for The Penguin New Writing a monthly book-magazine this time in paperback. The first issue featured Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant". Occasional hardback editions combined with the magazine Daylight appeared sporadically but it was as Penguin New Writing that the magazine survived until 1950. He joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company John Lehmann Limited with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets Cecil Day-Lewis. They published new works by authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Nikos Kazantzakis and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. Lehmann edited two anthologies of new writing entitled Orpheus: A Symposium of the Arts 194849. He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. He published two of Denton Welch's posthumous works: A Voice Through a Cloud for which he supplied the title 1950 and A Last Sheaf 1951. This publishing house published several book series including the Chiltern Library the Holiday Library the Modern European Library and the Library of Art and Travel. It operated from 19461953. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine remaining as editor until 1961 following which he was a frequent lecturer and completed his three-volume autobiography Whispering Gallery 1955 I Am My Brother 1960 and The Ample Proposition 1966. In The Purely Pagan Sense 1976 is an autobiographical record of his homosexual life in England and pre-war Germany discreetly written in the form of a novel. He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell 1952 Virginia Woolf and her World 1975 Thrown to the Woolfs 1978 Rupert Brooke 1980 and Christopher Isherwood. A Personal Memoir 1987. His book Three Literary Friendships 1983 deals with the relationships between Lord Byron and Percy Shelley Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. In 1965 he published Christ the Hunter a spiritual/autobiographical prose poem which had been broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme. In 1974 Lehmann published a book of poems The Reader at Night hand-printed on handmade paper and hand-bound in an edition of 250 signed copies Toronto Basilike 1974. An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A.T. Tolley's collection John Lehmann: A Tribute Ottawa; Carleton University Press 1987 which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller Thom Gunn Charles Osborne Christopher Levenson Jeremy Reed George Woodcock and others. John Lehmann died in London on 7 April 1987 aged 79. Wikipedia paperback
réf. 41053201A group of 68 items: 1 orignal early b. w. panoramic view of Singapore factory & quay; post cards: 11 color 27 b. w. 29 original b.w. photographic cards all very good most unused a few used with text and some stamps. A nice lot ! unknown
2000"The basic purposes of this book are simple: to distinguish between the various original printings and reprints of the four series [Family Dog, Bill Graham, Russ Gibb/Grande Ballroom, Neon Rose], to locate prints listing specific performers and to give credit to the correct artists and photographers who created this material." - Introduction. This vastly improved and expanded 642 page edition contains 185 pages more than the 1996 first edition. Hundreds of small grainy black and white illustrations. Appendices list Family Dog and Bill Graham numbered posters by artist and by performer. Index of Gibb/Grande artists/posters. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An exceptional copy of this indispensable reference. Book
réf. 41053501A group of 47 period color Hong Kong postcards some hand colored lithograhs &c. Shows harbor various streets Peak tram opium smokers rickshaws &c. unknown
réf. 67122Berlin, Ferdinand Osertag Verlag,, 1923 Original hardcover binding,(1) 50 pages (1), 27x20cm. illustrated with 20 b/w illustrations (woodcuts) *fine condition.
1910réf. ABC_487091910. All postcards ca. 9 x 14 cm. In a 20th-century ring binder with the title "Postzegelmapje van Nederland" lettered in gold on the spine and the front underneath a gold embossed coat-of-arms of the Netherlands. The postcards are loosely inserted in 21 translucent plastic covers. With 81 hand-coloured or black-and-white photographic picture postcards including 9 duplicates. Three remarkable sets of early 20th-century French picture postcards which form a large image of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 when laid side-by-side. This type of photographic collage is known as "instalment puzzle postcards". The three sets consist of 12 10 and 12 postcards respectively and are partly coloured by hand. They show Napoleon Bonaparte in a classic pose with bicorne hat and one hand in his waistcoat surrounded by various scenes from his domestic and military life. Also included are nearly 40 postcards composed of scenes with actors and montaged reproductions of historical engravings relating to Napoleon.Two of the puzzle postcard sets are published in the series "Croissant" referring to the address "Rue du Croissant" in Paris where the publisher Charles Fontane was located at the beginning of the 20th century. Fontane is also known as director of the French magazine "Le Cartophile" and president of the "Cartophile-Club".Two sets with "carte postale" printed on the verso the third set with "made in France" printed on the verso. A fourth set of Napoleon puzzle postcards is incomplete missing one postcard. All postcards are unused with only signs of minor wear. Overall in very good condition. ART ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY EUROPE HORSES HUNTING SPORTS & GAMES France Games & Sports Photography unknown
réf. 54256c.1909-1935. Comprising 188 postcards of which 8 coloured loosely mounted on 47 slatted turquoise leaves in a contemporary purpose made album decorated with hearts and shamrocks and titled "POSTCARDS" to upper cover. Titles to the majority in various languages. Includes a menu card for breakfast dinner tea supper aboard H.M.S. "Protector" on Christmas day 1937. Presentation inscription in red ink reading: "Harold Fogg age 6 years / Birthday Present from Mama & Dada / 1909" to front paste down. Binding rubbed some leaves frayed at edges one leaf loose. The postcards show the following locales: -Hong Kong c.50 -Peking Beijing 6 -Singapore c.22 -Kuala Lumpur 10 -Malaya -Borneo -Dairen -Beppu Japan -Nagasaki -Penang -Ceylon -Port Said -Shanghai [c.1909-1935] unknown
