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1978Best.-Nr. 45732New York: Mobilization for Survival 1978. First Edition. Original poster 55.5x41cm. printed offset in red yellow and silver foil on white stock. Minor wrinkling small closed tear mid-poster slightly touching text else a Very Good vibrant copy. Poster announcing a sit-in to be held during the U.N.'s special assembly on disarmament June 12 1978 at Bryant Park in New York City with orientation and non-violent training the day before. Additional activities noted include a legal rally on May 27 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. Text in yellow and white on a red background a string of men and women running along the bottom edge as two silver nukes come straight towards them. U. Michigan only in OCLC as of September 2019. Mobilization for Survival unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 47602New York: International Publishers 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in green on spine and publishers logo embossed at lower front cover; dustjacket; 67-2873pp. Spine ends gently nudged contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper else Fine. In an attractive example of the dustjacket designed by William Gropper; price-clipped gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with several tiny nicks and small tears along upper edge mended by clear tape on verso; Very Good. Attractive copy of this first-hand account by the Russian-American foreign correspondent written after revisiting his birthplace in the Soviet Union and dealing with "the peasant his daily life his wife and children the village school the Church the Soviet the political and social regeneration of the village" from front flap. With an introduction by Glenn Frank. International Publishers unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 43524New York: Mobilization for Survival 1978. Original illustrated poster offset printed in four colors on white stock measuring 40.5cm x 55.5cm 16" x 22". Mild handling to extremities faint corner crease and a tiny tear to upper edge with a staple hole toward upper margin; Near Fine. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. Planet Earth prominently featured at center swallowed by a large mushroom cloud in the background. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 41785Washington DC: Smoke-In Central 1985. First Edition. Offset lithographed poster in colors 58cm x 43cm ca 23" x 17". Original vertical and horizontal folds as issued else a fine fresh apparently uncirculated example. Terrific punk-inflected poster advertising a 1985 rally in the Capital to promote marijuana legalization and oppose police brutality especially the then-burgeoning phenomenon of police tasers here called "stun-guns". Features a vivid central caricature of President Ronald Reagan who is surrounded by vignettes of police brutality; along the upper quadrant Nancy Reagan chases a line of potheads including Groucho Marx and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers through the sky wielding a stun-gun while sitting astride a flying pig. Copy at the Center for the Study for Political Graphics and not uncommon in commerce though fine copies are unusual; otherwise unlocated in institutional collectons. Smoke-In Central unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 43527Philadelphia: Mobilization for Survival 1979. Original illustrated poster offset printed in three colors on yellow stock measuring 45.5cm x 58cm ca.18" x 23". Old folds smoothed out tiny pin-hole to upper margin with a short tear at lower edge and holograph local contact information pasted at lower right corner; Very Good. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. The group states their demands above silhouettes of nuclear cooling towers and missiles of various sizes: Stop research production and use of nuclear weapons; stop operation and construction of nuclear power plants; guarantee adequate heating fuel for the poor during the winter. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown books
1918Best.-Nr. 44382Basle: C.-A. Junger 1918. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt with design by Masereel; xxviii329523pp.; photographic frontispiece. Rear cover badly dampstained though only slightly affecting interior spine gilt a bit dulled textblock uniformly toned else Very Good and sound. Study of women's rights by the eccentric meat packing millionaire and playwright John Wesley de Kay who concludes that "industrial toil should be performed exclusively by men and machines" p. vii. C.-A. Junger unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 45253Berlin: Malik Verlag 1927. First German Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's stiff card wrappers mounted inside photo-illustrated dust jacket; 443pp. Some light chipping to jacket extremities spine creased light foxing to textblock fore-edge else Very Good and sound. Translation of the Russian author's first novel "Goroda i Gody" 1924 set during the October Revolution and later translated into English as "Cities and Years." Upper cover designed by John Hirschfield features a photographic portrait of the author. See "Der Malik-Verlag 1916-1947" p. 247. Malik Verlag unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 43437New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1990. First American Edition. Quarto 35.5cm x 27cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 328 illustrations including 244 color plates 75 line drawings and 9 maps. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 41970Praha: Aventinum 1928. First Edition. Small octavo 20cm.; publisher's white photo-montaged card wrappers printed in black and green; 159pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper extremities tiny chip at bottom spine edge of upper cover minor dust-soil else Very Good or better. Designed by the prolific Surrealist Czech designer Frantisek Muzika 1900-1974 the art director of Aventinum from 1927 until the publisher's folding in 1934 during which period he would provide the designs for nearly one hundred titles see Jindrich Toman Foto-Montáž Tiskem / Photo-Montage in Print 2009 p. 196. Aventinum unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 42953Praha: Vydal Devetsil 1924. Second Edition. Slim octavo 22cm.; publisher's white pictorial wrappers yapp edges; 61pp. Wrappers rather chipped and worn especially along spine repaired shallow loss at bottom edge of upper cover general dust-soil some foxing to rear cover textblock slightly toned else Good to Very Good. Earliest edition of the author's first play to be issued by the leading Czech avant-garde publishing house Devetsil upper cover designed by the prolific Surrealist artist Jindrich Štyrsky. OCLC locates one copy in the United States as of November 2018 at the NYPL. Vydal Devetsil unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 42043Moscow: The State Publishing Union of RSFSR 1932. First Edition. Folio 42cm; printed wrappers saddle-stitched; 44pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Some wear mild toning and handling to wrappers with a few faint creases to same and a few faint damp marks at margins; 8-panel centerfold spread is detached from staples but present; just Very Good. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148. The present issue is entirely devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Transcaucasian Federation detailing the customs and contributions of its people in text and photos. The State Publishing Union of RSFSR unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 39309New York: Roving Eye Press 1959. First Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth hardcover; 63pp. Limited to 1000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted spotted dustjacket two tiny closed tears else VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Lowenfels 1897-1976 was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer . Returning to the US he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953 but eventually exhonerated for lack of evidence. Roving Eye Press unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 40282Praha: Knihovna Kosmopolis 1927. First Thus. Slim 12mo 18cm.; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 106pp.; pictorial ads in rear. Tiny split at bottom spine edge of upper cover early signature including title page disbound at time of publication else Very Good and sound. Czech translation of Stendhal's 1832 novella "The Abbess of Castro" attractive avant-garde cover art by Otakar Mrkvicka. Knihovna Kosmopolis unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 37650St. Paul: New Rivers Press 1985 c. 1986. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers designed by Gaylord Schanliec; 101pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to wrapper extremities else Very Good to Near Fine. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on half title to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski. Minnesota Voices Project Number 27. New Rivers Press unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 33252Praha: Družstevní Práce 1937. Second Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm.; original pictorial cloth by Sutnar in grey decorative dust jacket printed in blue blue topstain; 255pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed spine somewhat toned and cocked topstain unevenly faded else a Very Good or better copy. Družstevní Práce unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 31017New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Sunning to cloth at spine and extremities else a fresh Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with a few short closed tears; Very Good. Frank's sequel to Dark Mother a strike novel in which a tobocco company executive searches for social order among farmers and workers. A much better example than usually seen of this wear-prone title. HANNA 1299 BLAKE p.252 RIDEOUT p.296. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 31077Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1937. First Edition. Folio 41.5cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers stapled; 36pp; illus. with three illustrated plates tipped onto thicker stock in-text and three panoramic fold-out plates designed by Es and El Lissitzky; text is in English. Light wear along spine fold and extremities else Near Fine with all plates intact. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148. The present issue is devoted to the various people groups of the Caucasus region their history industries and accomplishments. A superior copy of a desirable issue. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 31794New York: Sheed and Ward 1965. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; jade green cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 214pp. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket with a bit of mild shelfwear. Study of woman's role in western society "how modern woman can find fulfillment even in "the split-level trap" and can keep her mind alive and her spirit growing in grace and wisdom" from front flap. Dustjacket designed by Ellen Raskin. Sheed and Ward unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 29903Cincinnati: Program for Cincinnati 1981. First Edition. Square quarto 26cm.; original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 227pp.; color photo-frontispiece illus. throughout. Dime-sized loss to top edge of upper jacket panel additional chips and short closed tears else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed by the designer to half title: "For Bernarda -- a Buckeye who once was a packet boat pilot -- from Noel & Charles ." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Program for Cincinnati unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 27747New York: Aperture 2000. First English Language Edition. Folio 33.5cm.; original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 431pp.; chiefly photographic illustrations. Text pamphlet laid into clear plastic chemise mounted to rear pastedown. Very Near Fine. Photographic documentation of mass-migration covering six years in 40 countries in Eastern Europe the Middle East Africa Latin America and Asia. Aperture unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 26040Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo 1929. Fifth Edition. 12mo 17.5cm.; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; 79pp. A few small tears to spine old rubberstamp to rear wrapper effaced with later ink notes written over. Still an About Very Good copy of a fragile work. In the striking original constructivist wrappers by Boris Efimov. Epic poem by proletarian author and member of the far left Litfront faction Aleksandr Bezymenskii devoted to the Komsomol abbreviation of the Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodyozhi the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union first established in 1918. All early editions of this collection are scarce in OCLC; NYPL the Getty and Illinois only of this edition as of April 2015. ROWELL The Russian Avant-Garde Book 532. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 21433Dallas: Bradburn Books 1958. First Thus. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 216. Octavo 20.5cm.; original pale grey pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red and black; 625pp.; photographic illus. & engravings by John McIntosh throughout. Facsimile edition of a work originally published in the "Rodeo Town" of El Paso Texas 1926. Compilation of short biographies of famous Western criminals and law officers including Billy the Kid Dallas Stoudenmire and John Wesley Hardin "Super Killer. Bradburn Books unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 20354London: Jonathan Cape 1932. First U.K. Edition. First Impression second state with copyright date of 1932. Octavo; rust-colored cloth with titling and decorations stamped in bright green on spine and front panel; dustjacket designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott; 326pp 1 ad leaf. Touch of dustiness to top edge else a tight Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net lightly spine-sunned with a few small chips and tears none affecting titles and two stray marks to rear panel; Very Good or better. O'Flaherty's ninth novel a story involving murder sex and Christian fanaticism. Jonathan Cape unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 20233New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First Edition. First Printings. 2 octavo volumes; mint green cloth titled and blocked in black and yellow on spines and front panels; black topstains; dustjackets; 356 426pp. 8pp publisher's catalog for Fall 1929 laid in. Minute wear at crowns trifle rubbing to front panel of vol.2 else Fine. Jackets are lightly sunned at spines with some minor edgewear a few short tears and a small nick at the crown of vol.2; small triangular snag to rear panel of vol.1; Very Good overall nicely preserving the attractive cover art by Paul Wenck. Lacking the publisher's original slipcase. One of the last of the German dramatist's novels translated into English by Eden and Cedar Paul and published by Horace Liveright the year after his death. "Sudermann portrays the conflict between a man's craving for unlimited freedom and the longing for a soul-mate and the cheerful anchorage of a home. Horace Liveright unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 20426New York: The John Day Company 1934. First Edition. Octavo; orange and black illustrated cloth boards; orange topstain; dustjacket; 361pp. Some trivial rubbing to extremities else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped with chipping and tears along the edges none affecting lettering some general dustiness to covers and a few tiny splash marks. A novel told through the eyes of an architect who is charged with erecting a new skyscraper after the foundations of its predecessor have crumbled. A particularly well-preserved copy of the book with decorative boards featuring a towering skyscraper in the art-deco style. The John Day Company unknown books
