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1964rif. 152478New York: The Viking Press 1964. First edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Signed by Saul Bellow on a page bound in. Founded over a century ago in 1900 the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf top grades of Nigerian moroccos and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. A novel complex compelling absurd and realistic Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. "A masterpiece" The New York Times. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language since Time's founding in 1923. The Viking Press hardcover
rif. 191Black and white silver gelatin print of novelist and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow. The photograph measures 11 inches by 14 inches. Signed by Saul Bellow on the photograph. The photograph was taken by renowned photographer Art Shay in October 1976 the same day the author heard that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Shay is a former Time-Life staff reporter who became a full-time photojournalist in the early fifties. More than 25000 of his photographs have since appeared in numerous publications including Life Time the New York Times Fortune and Sports Illustrated. His work has been much exhibited critically acclaimed and collected. He has won some twenty Art Director awards for distinguished photography as well as commendation for Life magazine's "Picture of the Year" in 1959. Signed and stamped by Shay on the verso. In fine condition. Matted and framed. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. unknown
1953rif. 1386456New York NY: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Printing First State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo 536 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition contained in a custom case with gilted lettering on the outside and a green velvet interior. Black spine with green orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$4.50" has moderate age-toning throughout a large tear from the front head edge to title moderate wear along the edges mild chipping along the head edges moderate wear along the extremities. Boards have stains on the rear board mild age-toning along the edges mild wear along the edges mild wear along the fore corners and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild adhesive wear along the pastedowns mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Saul Bellow on title page. Contains a loose "An Evening with Saul Bellow" pamphlet. DL consignment. Shelved Case 2. Saul Bellow was born June 10 1915 in Lachine Quebec to two Jewish Lithuanian immigrants arriving from the then Russian Empire. They moved to Chicago when he was young. Bellows rebelled against his parent's expectations by pursuing a love of writing born of a love of the Torah Shakespeare and the great Russian authors of the 1800's. Bellows wrote his first novel "Dangling Man" while serving in the merchant marines in World War II seeing it published in 1944. Bellows would write "The Adventures of Augie March" in 1953 while in teaching in Paris under a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The Adventures of Augie March" has been hailed for it's dispelling of the traditional idea of the American hero as the eponymous Augie while having many heroic qualities and every opportunity to succeed fails to do so as he has no clear goal for himself chasing an ever elusive "better fate". The novel has been named as one of the 100 best novels in the English language by "TIME" magazine and Modern Library. 1386456. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover
1944rif. 55082New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First printing. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket. First edition of Bellow's acclaimed first book the beginning of an auspicious career that culminated in the National Book Award Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes among numerous other accolades. Fellow Nobel winner J.M. Coetzee wrote of THE DANGLING MAN: "in it can be discerned the lonely humiliated clerks of Gogol and Dostoevsky brooding upon revenge; the Roquentin of Sartre's NAUSEA the scholar who undergoes a strange metaphysical experience that estranges him from the world; and the lonely young poet of Rilke's NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE." A nice copy of an important debut. 8'' x 4.75''. Original beige full cloth with red titles. In original unclipped $2.50 jacket. 192 pages. Spine moderately sunned; minor edgewear and rubbing. Book has slight lean. Some offsetting to endpapers. Else clean and sound. The Vanguard Press unknown
1964rif. 204661New York: Roger Stevens 1964. Few chips and nicks excellent copies. Two vols; 4to 145pp & 160pp bolt bound in printed leatherette wrappers of the Hart Stenographic Bureau. Two distinct and textually variant versions of Bellow's only full-length play upon which he labored relentlessly drafting and re-drafting to the annoyance of his collaborators. The play centers on the character of a retired Jewish comedian reflecting on his life. Intriguingly one of the present scripts numbered "1" in the top corner of the title leaf has Milton Berle's name and two telephone numbers penciled to the same leaf. The final version of the play was published as "The Last Analysis. Roger Stevens unknown
1947rif. 34235New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bellow. Lovely example of the First edition of the author's second book. Signed by Bellow at the top of the title-page in black ink. First edition. 8vo. 294pp. black cloth lettered in light blue to spine top edge stained blue. A fine copy in dustwrapper price-clipped showing minimal use; The delicate powder blue dustwrapper just a bit faded and toning at the spine a couple of short closed tears. Protected in mylar. By far a better than usual example of this important Burgess 99 Novel. The Vanguard Press hardcover
1959rif. 371297New York: Viking 1959. First Edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. First Edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Flat signed by Bellow on the title page. Viking unknown books
1964rif. 100242London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1964. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed decorated orange wrappers. Author's name written on the front wrap still fine. Uncommon format of this National Book Award-winning novel by the Nobel laureate. Weidenfeld and Nicholson unknown books
1953rif. 1386456New York NY: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Printing First State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo 536 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition contained in a custom case with gilted lettering on the outside and a green velvet interior. Black spine with green orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$4.50" has moderate age-toning throughout a large tear from the front head edge to title moderate wear along the edges mild chipping along the head edges moderate wear along the extremities. Boards have stains on the rear board mild age-toning along the edges mild wear along the edges mild wear along the fore corners and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild adhesive wear along the pastedowns mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Saul Bellow on title page. Contains a loose "An Evening with Saul Bellow" pamphlet. DL consignment. Shelved Case 2. Saul Bellow was born June 10 1915 in Lachine Quebec to two Jewish Lithuanian immigrants arriving from the then Russian Empire. They moved to Chicago when he was young. Bellows rebelled against his parent's expectations by pursuing a love of writing born of a love of the Torah Shakespeare and the great Russian authors of the 1800's. Bellows wrote his first novel "Dangling Man" while serving in the merchant marines in World War II seeing it published in 1944. Bellows would write "The Adventures of Augie March" in 1953 while in teaching in Paris under a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The Adventures of Augie March" has been hailed for it's dispelling of the traditional idea of the American hero as the eponymous Augie while having many heroic qualities and every opportunity to succeed fails to do so as he has no clear goal for himself chasing an ever elusive "better fate". The novel has been named as one of the 100 best novels in the English language by "TIME" magazine and Modern Library. 1386456. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover books
1944rif. 55082New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First printing. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket. First edition of Bellow's acclaimed first book the beginning of an auspicious career that culminated in the National Book Award Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes among numerous other accolades. Fellow Nobel winner J.M. Coetzee wrote of THE DANGLING MAN: "in it can be discerned the lonely humiliated clerks of Gogol and Dostoevsky brooding upon revenge; the Roquentin of Sartre's NAUSEA the scholar who undergoes a strange metaphysical experience that estranges him from the world; and the lonely young poet of Rilke's NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE." A nice copy of an important debut. 8'' x 4.75''. Original beige full cloth with red titles. In original unclipped $2.50 jacket. 192 pages. Spine moderately sunned; minor edgewear and rubbing. Book has slight lean. Some offsetting to endpapers. Else clean and sound. The Vanguard Press unknown books
rif. 22016New York: Simon and Schuster 1987. First edition early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Richard A. Ware One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully Allan Bloom September 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. “The Closing of the American Mind is brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep so witty and so thoughtful so outrageous and so sensible so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary book” William Kristol The Wall Street Journal. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923. Simon and Schuster hardcover
1957rif. 142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's Specially bound copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown
1957rif. 142897Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1957. Second Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Director Michael Curtiz's Specially bound copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. A highly fictionalized portrayal of the life and career of Prohibition era torch singer/actress Helen Morgan. This film marked Curtiz's return to Warner Bros since leaving in 1954 due to a salary dispute. Ever since Morgan's death Warner Bros wanted to make a film biography though struggled to find an actress and continuously in development. Working titles included "Why Was I Born" "Both Ends of the Candle" and as printed in this copy "The Jazz Age." Many female actresses auditioned including Doris Day who rejected due to her squeaky clean image. Blyth was chosen for her dramatic ability even though her singing voice was akin to Morgan's. Gogi Grant would supply the singing voice dubbed over Blyth. Set in New York shot on location in Burbank CA. Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 1/29/57 with credits for screenwriter Nelson Gidding. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/57 and 3/8/57. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1990rif. 14219HEYNE WILHELM 1990. 1. softcover. 2313 HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1944rif. 017368Vanguard 1944. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$2.50 On Bottom Flap. First Edition. Rare In This Condition. The Author's First Book. Excellent Fresh Copy Ownership Small Stamp Front Paste Down. Vanguard Hardcover
1944rif. 017368Vanguard 1944. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$2.50 On Bottom Flap. First Edition. Rare In This Condition. The Author's First Book. Excellent Fresh Copy Ownership Small Stamp Front Paste Down. Vanguard Hardcover books
1944rif. COLLECTI013023INEW YORK NY: VANGUARD PRESS. VERY GOOD IN A VERY GOOD D.J. PUB 1944. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL PALE GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH BROWN TITLES TO THE SPINE AND VIGNETTE TO THE FRONT COVER BUFF ENDPAPERS. BOOK HAS A SMALL BIT OF SOME OF THE TYPICAL TONING DUE TO BINDING ADHESIVE BUT IS OTHERWISE ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS SOME MODERATE CHIPPING TO THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS A FEW EDGE TEARS AND A COUPLE OF SMALL CHIPS SOME SUNNING TO THE SPINE PANEL SOME SCATTERED CHIPPING OF THE FORE-EDGE FOLDS AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A NICE CLEAN BRIGHT UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. . VANGUARD PRESS hardcover
1953rif. 50828New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VG with orange top stain in a very good- dust jacket with $4.50 price intact. Signed by Bellow on the title page. First state in a first state dust jacket. Light foxing on the dust jacket. The Viking Press hardcover
rif. 54518Coimbra: Ediçoes Presença 1934. Octavo 23.1 × 16.6 cm. Original pictorial self-wrappers; 15 1 pp. With two photomontages by Pereira. Occasionally with tiny stains; Fold slightly damaged; else very good. First edition of the rare poetry collection by the artist Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira 1902-1983 published by the journal "Presença" which was central to the Portuguese avant-garde "Segundo Modernismo". The periodical was founded and edited by Pereira's brother José Régio among others. " Not only was 'Presença' an experimental and innovative publication in terms of typography and art but above all in literary terms. Poems by Fernando Pessoa who was not so well known during his lifetime and is now considered one of the most important poets in the Portuguese language were published here for the first time. When Pessoa died in 1935 "Presença" printed a special issue in his honor with tributes and excerpts from Pessoa's letters. However the journal not only provided a forum for the avant-gardes of its own tongue but also promoted experimental exchange across borders: texts by Proust Gide Joyce Valéry and contemporary Brazilian authors were made accessible to the Portuguese public for the first time in many cases. Furthermore the journal ensured that the earlier Orplieu generation was firmly established in the canon of Portuguese modernism. Saúl Dias i.e. Pereira was one of the protagonists of this milieu although his poetry has remained largely unknown to this day. He became well-known after studying engineering primarily through his socially critical paintings which are sometimes reminiscent of Max Beckmann and George Grosz. With his brother however it was the other way around. He also painted and drew but became known as a playwright poet and novelist. Cf. Gerhard Wild Kindler Kompakt: Portugiesische Literatur 20 Jahrhundert Heidelberg 2015 pp. 16-18. As of August 2024 OCLC lists only two copies in North America. unknown
1944rif. 007692New York: Vanguard Press 1944. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Saul Bellow's first book. Near Fine slight toning to the paste downs in a Very Good Plus dust jacket the spine sunned to brown small chips at spine ends 2 small rubs along spine 1/2" closed tear top edge rear panel. The bookplate of Stanton Friedberg and and his wife the poet Martha Friedberg front paste down. Stanton A. Friedberg M.D. was a noted book collector. whose rare medical book collection is now known as the Stanton A. Friedberg M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago. Vanguard Press Hardcover
1944rif. 007692New York: Vanguard Press 1944. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Saul Bellow's first book. Near Fine slight toning to the paste downs in a Very Good Plus dust jacket the spine sunned to brown small chips at spine ends 2 small rubs along spine 1/2" closed tear top edge rear panel. The bookplate of Stanton Friedberg and and his wife the poet Martha Friedberg front paste down. Stanton A. Friedberg M.D. was a noted book collector. whose rare medical book collection is now known as the Stanton A. Friedberg M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago. Vanguard Press Hardcover books
1959rif. 36506(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1959. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. An excellent copy in near mint condition, in- as well as externally. Pp. (1) - 14. (The entire volume: 96 pp.).
1959rif. 36506No place The Association for Symbolic Logic 1959. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. An excellent copy in near mint condition in- as well as externally. Pp. 1 - 14. The entire volume: 96 pp. The seminal first printing of Kripke's debut article which provided the basis for his logic and for the model theory for modal logic in general. The work constitutes the very beginning of Kripke Semantics often called possible world semantics. Kripke's works in general are rare in fist editions. Many of them remain unpublished and are only known in privately circulated manuscripts.The American philosopher Saul A. Kripke born 1940 is an exceedingly important logician and philosopher of language and one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of analytic and Anglo-American philosophy. He is considered the greatest living philosopher and perhaps the greatest since Wittgenstein. In 2001 he was awarded the Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy which is considered the philosopical equivalent of the Nobel Prize.Kripke who grew up in Omaha in a religious Jewish family was somewhat of a prodigy child. During grammar school he got intimately acquainted with and mastered to perfection algebra geometry and calculus and very early on he took up philosophy which later became his career. Still a teenager in high school he wrote a work that was to change the face of philosophical logic forever namely the groundbreaking paper "A Completeness Theorem for Modal Logic" which was printed a few years later in 1959 in the Journal of Symbolic Logic while he was in his first year at Harvard University. This seminal debut work proposed what later came to be known as Kripke models for modal logic. The story goes that the paper earned a letter from the department of mathematics urging Kripke to apply for a job there to which he is said to have written an answer explaining "My mother said that I should finish high school and go to college first."In 1962 he graduated from Harvard University where he remained until 1968 first as a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and then as a lecturer. During these years he developed the logical theories founded in the "Completeness Theorem" further and made seminal contributions to the field of logic and semantics. Kripke Semantics is a formal semantics for non-classical logic systems that Kripke began developing in his teenage years first published something on in 1959 the present work and further developed in the 60'ies and. The development of Kripke Semantics was no less than a breakthrough in the making of non-classical logics of which no model theory existed before Kripke's. With this work Kripke laid the foundation for proving completeness theorems for modal logic and for identifying the weakest normal modal logic which is now named K after him. unknown
1944rif. 137390New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright about Near Fine dust jacket with a lovely deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both very slightly sunned with some minor wear at the spine ends. A very attractive copy overall. Hanna 308. The Vanguard Press unknown
1944rif. 137390New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book with a price of $2.50 at the bottom of the jacket front flap as called for. Near Fine in a bright about Near Fine dust jacket with a lovely deep brown topstain. Backstrip and jacket spine panel both very slightly sunned with some minor wear at the spine ends. A very attractive copy overall. Hanna 308. The Vanguard Press unknown books