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1997réf. mon0000222484RAO International Publishing 1997-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover with dust cover. Clean copy in good condition. RAO International Publishing paperback
réf. SONG0670366552Brand: The Viking Press 1959-02-23. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 20.00x20.00x20.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: The Viking Press hardcover
réf. 580853New York: Albondocani Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with applied paper label. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued. Copy letter A of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. This was the publisher George Bixby's copy. Bixby made a practice of retaining copy letter A and copy number 1 of each of his limited editions. Albondocani Press hardcover
1944réf. 65366New York: Vanguard Press 1944. First edition of the author's first book. Cloth. Faint darkening to spine and endsheets edges a bit dusty marked otherwise a very good copy in corner-worn somewhat rubbed dust jacket with shallow chips at head and toe of spine a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel and a diagonal panel of sun-fading to the lower panel. HANNA 38. hardcover
réf. 100951New York: The Viking Press 1975. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "To Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz — the homage of letters to justice Best wishes Saul Bellow June 3 1982." The recipient Abraham Marovitz was a famed Chicago attorney and long-time powerful United States District Court judge. Both Bellow and Marovitz were Lithuanian Jews Bellow born in Canada Marovitz in the United States who knew each other well as fellow notable Chicagoans. His inkstamped "From the Library of Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz" on the front pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. An exceptional presentation. Humboldt's Gift is a self-described "comic book about death" whose title character is modeled on the lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine an intellectual middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher a dead poet who had been his mentor and Rinaldo Cantabile a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end Charlie has managed to set his own course. The Viking Press hardcover
1956réf. 84225New York: The Viking Press 1956. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For the Gabels with best wishes from an old exile to Evanston Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University where he graduated with honors and earned bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and sociology. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' Irish Times. "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us step by step the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' New York Times. Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller. The Viking Press hardcover
1953réf. 117859New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels handmade Italian marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Saul Bellow. In fine condition. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American Chicago born and go at things as I have taught myself free-style and will make the record in my own way: first to knock first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language. The Viking Press hardcover
1966réf. 100243London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1966. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed decorated orange wrappers. Fine. Uncommon format of this play by the Nobel Laureate. Weidenfeld and Nicholson unknown
réf. 580853New York: Albondocani Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with applied paper label. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dust jacket as issued. Copy letter A of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. This was the publisher George Bixby's copy. Bixby made a practice of retaining copy letter A and copy number 1 of each of his limited editions. Albondocani Press hardcover books
1959réf. 551234New York: Viking Press 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition first issue. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bellow's seriocomic novel of an eccentric American millionaire on a quest in Africa. A lovely copy and very scarce in this condition. Small book label of author Larry McMurtry and his neat pencil signature dated in 1964. Viking Press hardcover books
1966réf. 100243London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1966. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed decorated orange wrappers. Fine. Uncommon format of this play by the Nobel Laureate. Weidenfeld and Nicholson unknown books
1944réf. 65366New York: Vanguard Press 1944. First edition of the author's first book. Cloth. Faint darkening to spine and endsheets edges a bit dusty marked otherwise a very good copy in corner-worn somewhat rubbed dust jacket with shallow chips at head and toe of spine a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel and a diagonal panel of sun-fading to the lower panel. HANNA 38. hardcover books
réf. 416661Tokyo: ggg Books 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 63 1pp. Illustrated in color. Decorated glazed boards. Text in English and Japanese. Fine in fine printed wraparound band. Artist monograph published in Japan as part of a series on American designers and graphic artists this was the first monograph published about Bass and the only one published while he was alive he died three years later. The text consists solely aside from captions and publishing information of brief one-page introductions by Lou Dorfsman and Martin Scorcese. This copy Inscribed by Bass: "For Mr. Ono from Saul Bass." Shigeki Ono was a designer with the book's printer and directed the printing of most of the books in this series although not this one. ggg Books hardcover
réf. 416661Tokyo: ggg Books 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 63 1pp. Illustrated in color. Decorated glazed boards. Text in English and Japanese. Fine in fine printed wraparound band. Artist monograph published in Japan as part of a series on American designers and graphic artists this was the first monograph published about Bass and the only one published while he was alive he died three years later. The text consists solely aside from captions and publishing information of brief one-page introductions by Lou Dorfsman and Martin Scorcese. This copy Inscribed by Bass: "For Mr. Ono from Saul Bass." Shigeki Ono was a designer with the book's printer and directed the printing of most of the books in this series although not this one. ggg Books hardcover books
1990réf. 39560New York: Stamperia Valdonega in Verona for The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1990. Saul Steinberg. A livre d'artiste profusely illustrated with finely-produced tipped-in color offset reproductions of drawings by Steinberg and TWO ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE TIPPED-IN ORIGINAL COLOR WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPANESE PAPER ONE OF WHICH IS SIGNED BY STEINBERG. Edition limited to 160 numbered copies SIGNED BY FRAZIER AND STEINBERG UNDER THE LIMITATION STATEMENT / COLOPHON. Folio. Finely bound as issued in orange-yellow linen boards with a black morocco spine. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH ABSOLUTELY NO DEFECTS. In the original board slipcase and cardboard mailing box. LIKE NEW. Stamperia Valdonega in Verona for The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art hardcover
1959réf. 148856Princeton New Jersey: Association for Symbolic Logic Inc December 1959. First edition first issue of the December 1959 issue of The Journal of Symbolic Logic. Octavo original wrappers as issued Volume 24 Number 4. Signed by Saul Kripke on page 323 next to the title of his abstract paper "Distinguished Constituents." This issue includes three important abstracts of Kripke papers received by the Journal in 1959: "Distinguished Constituents" "Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic" and "The Problem of Entailment." All three papers relate to Kripke's seminal first paper on modal logic "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic" a paper in which Kripke's initial intuitive idea was that a proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds. In near fine condition. Scarce especially signed. American philosopher and logician Saul Kripke has made some of the most important and original contributions to the field of formal mathematical logic particularly modal logic which extends classical logic to include modalities. Kripke wrote his first completeness theorem A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic at the age of 17 before graduating high school and had it published a year later. Association for Symbolic Logic, Inc unknown
1912réf. 36758Warsaw: Ahi'asaf 1912. fair. 4to. 584pp. 526pp. 552pp. 597pp. 122pp. Original half-leather over black cloth. Dictionary of terms found in rabbinic literature with quotes from source material. Hebrew and Aramaic words are translated into Russian and Yiddish. The first volume was published in 1884. Samuel Joseph Fuenn was a moderate Russian maskil who worked for the Czarist government as a professor at the rabbinical school of Vilna and later as the superintendent of Jewish public schools. Fuenn did this as a means of advancing his own Enlightenment agenda of reforming Jewish education. Fuenn's dictionary was the first to cover the Bible Talmud as well as medieval poetry and philosophy. He was heavily influenced by the grammatical work of ibn Janah and R. David Kimhi. In addition to his lexicographical work Fuenn authored the first Hebrew literary journal "ha-Karmel" and an encyclopedia of rabbinic personalities "Keneset Yisroel." Saul Phinehas Rabbinowitz was a student of R. Israel Salanter and active in the early Zionist Hibat Zion movement. He finished Fuenn's dictionary after his death. Text in Hebrew Yiddish and Russian. Wear to covers. Rear board attached but present. Creasing to rear leaves. Overall in fair condition. Not mentioned in Brisman's "History and Guide to Judaic Encyclopedias and Lexicons. Ahi'asaf unknown
1912réf. 36758Warsaw: Ahi'asaf 1912. fair. 4to. 584pp. 526pp. 552pp. 597pp. 122pp. Original half-leather over black cloth. Dictionary of terms found in rabbinic literature with quotes from source material. Hebrew and Aramaic words are translated into Russian and Yiddish. The first volume was published in 1884. Samuel Joseph Fuenn was a moderate Russian maskil who worked for the Czarist government as a professor at the rabbinical school of Vilna and later as the superintendent of Jewish public schools. Fuenn did this as a means of advancing his own Enlightenment agenda of reforming Jewish education. Fuenn's dictionary was the first to cover the Bible Talmud as well as medieval poetry and philosophy. He was heavily influenced by the grammatical work of ibn Janah and R. David Kimhi. In addition to his lexicographical work Fuenn authored the first Hebrew literary journal "ha-Karmel" and an encyclopedia of rabbinic personalities "Keneset Yisroel." Saul Phinehas Rabbinowitz was a student of R. Israel Salanter and active in the early Zionist Hibat Zion movement. He finished Fuenn's dictionary after his death. Text in Hebrew Yiddish and Russian. Wear to covers. Rear board attached but present. Creasing to rear leaves. Overall in fair condition. Not mentioned in Brisman's "History and Guide to Judaic Encyclopedias and Lexicons. Ahi'asaf unknown books
réf. 117343New York. Viking Press. 1947. . First edition first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo; publisher's black cloth titles to spine in blue blue topstain. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature to front free endpaper mild browning to pastedowns as always but a lovely copy in the minimally sunned dust-jacket. Signed by Bellow beneath the original owner's signature. Bellow's second book and uncommon in this condition. New York. Viking Press. 1947. hardcover
1975réf. 324143Jerusalem 1975. unbound. fine. 1 page letter 23 lines on airmail paper. Jerusalem Dec. 26 1975. An apologetic letter from Jerusalem to the actress who starred in his play Last Analysis. " No defense to offer. You are a thousand times right. allow me to say this that when I am writing a book I am dangerously neglectful scarcely to be trusted unhinged. .suffer keenly.I live under a curse. I hate bad manners and my own manners are awful. I'm glad you like Humboldt - You can still tolerate pleasure - a good sign. unknown
1975réf. 324143Jerusalem 1975. unbound. fine. 1 page letter 23 lines on airmail paper. Jerusalem Dec. 26 1975. An apologetic letter from Jerusalem to the actress who starred in his play Last Analysis. " No defense to offer. You are a thousand times right. allow me to say this that when I am writing a book I am dangerously neglectful scarcely to be trusted unhinged. .suffer keenly.I live under a curse. I hate bad manners and my own manners are awful. I'm glad you like Humboldt - You can still tolerate pleasure - a good sign. unknown books
réf. 580855New York: Albondocani Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with applied printed paper label. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper as issued. This is copy number 1 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. This was the publisher George Bixby's copy and additionally is Inscribed by Bellow on the title page: "For George Bixby with thanks Saul Bellow. Oct 9 1979." Bixby made a practice of retaining for himself copy letter A and copy number 1 of each of his limited editions. Albondocani Press hardcover
1944réf. 146618New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. 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 borders to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Boldly signed by Saul on the title page. In fine condition. "One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" Edmund Wilson The New Yorker. The Vanguard Press unknown
1944réf. 65723New York:: The Vanguard Press 1944. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Some small tape marks to endpapers; else a near fine copy in a very nice jacket with very slight fading to the backstrip and some light use at its top. . 8vo. Author's first book. A typed reviewer's note of seven lines laid in rejecting the book for the magazine Omnibook. The Vanguard Press, hardcover
1964réf. 1403362New York: The Viking Press 1964. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Octavo 254 pages hand-numbered. In Good minus condition. White comb spine without text. Paper covers are partially detached from the spine along the bottom joints have tears and creasing to the extremities a previous owner's signature and orange and green pencil marks to the front cover significant age toning and stains throughout. Textblock has a red ink stamp to the interior of the front page a loose page stapled and paperclipped to the half-title and title page scattered pencil marks and notes to some pages throughout creasing to page corners significant age toning and light soiling scattered throughout. On some pages throughout reprinted correction pages have been pasted over the original textblock; many of these pages have become detached resulting in loose pages with significant adhesive stains. SB Consignment. Shelved in Room A. 1403362. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Viking Press unknown
