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réf. 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
1957réf. 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
1990réf. 14219HEYNE WILHELM 1990. 1. softcover. 2313 HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1954réf. STEINBER010447Harper & Brothers New York. 1954. First edition. Quarto. 350 drawings made during the artist's travels in his usual satirical and witty style.Presentation copy from the artist inscribed on the half-title page: ''Pour Ga' Jean & Pegeen Saul 1954''. The recipients are the French painter Jean H�lion and his then wife also a painter but probably best remembered as the daughter of Peggy Guggenheim.Very good in good rubbed nicked and slightly torn dustwrapper repaired on the reverse and darkened at the spine. Harper & Brothers, New York. unknown
1944réf. 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
1944réf. 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
1944réf. 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
1953réf. 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
réf. 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
1944réf. 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
1944réf. 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
1959réf. 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
1959réf. 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.).
1944réf. 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
1944réf. 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
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. 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 books
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. 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
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
