1971ref. URIIHOW00araDover 1971. Very Good. Riis Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. New York: Dover 1971. 233pp. Illustrated. Oblong 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Dover paperback books
1981ref. 217751Chicago IL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1981. First edition. Softcover. 52 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 12 through November 1 1981. Preface by John Hallmark Neff. Features an essay by Mary Jane Jacob. Includes numerous black and white and color illustrations of Wharton's imaginative fascination with chairs a checklist and list of previous exhibitions. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Internally a clean copy. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
1965ref. URUBPIC00acmfThomas Yoseloff 1965. Good. Rubin Jacob A. Pictorial History of Isarel. Barkai Meyer. NY: Thomas Yoseloff 1965. 322pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Cloth. Book condition: Good with lightly bumped and yellowed edges. Top edge soiled a bit. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with chipped and yellowed panels. Thomas Yoseloff hardcover books
1985ref. UNEEWAY00acmfArkana 1985. Very Good. Needleman Jacob. The Way of the Physician. NY: Arkana 1985. 187pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with yellowed edges. Arkana paperback books
2003ref. UNEELOS00gaJeremy P. Tarcher 2003. Fine. Needleman Jacob. Lost Christianity: A Journey of Rediscovery. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher 2003. 228pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Jeremy P. Tarcher paperback books
1993ref. 213319New York and Washington DC: Thames and Hudson and National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution 1993. First edition. Softcover. 179 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 10 1993 through January 2 1994 at the National Museum of Art and then traveled to two other locations for additional dates. Features a foreword by Elizabeth Broun and essays by Avis Berman and William C. Agee. Includes 132 illustrations with 100 in color a checklist chronology list of previous exhibitions list of works in public collections a bibliography and an index. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Thames and Hudson and National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution unknown books
1971ref. URIIHOW00fpDover 1971. Very Good. Riis Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Dover 1971. xiii 233pp. Illustrated. Oblong quarto. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Dover paperback books
1971ref. URIIHOW01fpDover 1971. Very Good. Riis Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Dover 1971. xiii 233pp. Illustrated. Oblong quarto. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Dover paperback books
1919ref. 37022The Hague Netherlands: 'S Gravenhage 1919. Softcover. Good. Softcover. In Dutch "Jacob Israël de Haan 31 December 1881 - 30 June 1924 was a Dutch Jewish literary writer lawyer and journalist who immigrated to Palestine in 1919 and was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1924 by the Zionist paramilitary organization Haganah for his anti-Zionist political activities." Wikipedia His early works included a homo-erotic novel 1904 and a study on political prisoners in Russia 1913 for whom he worked to pressure Russia to improve their conditions. He emigrated to Palestine in 1919 the same year as the publication of this poem. He was initally a Zionist but converted to anti-Zionist views. This publication appears to be a first edition and is very scarce in the United States. Octavo. Brown papers wrappers with title in black to front panel. Wrappers are worn and slightly damaged on all edges. Wrapper on spine is split with small chips at top and bottom. Text is bright with minor browning to margins and endpapers. Small spots of soiling and finger smudges on some pages but clean overall. 39 pages. POE/011124. 'S Gravenhage unknown books
1939ref. 36203Ursa Minor Maastricht 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number 40 of 300 copies. The seventh volume in the series "Ursa Minor" that is a collaboration between J. Greshoff M.B.B. Nijkerk and A.A.M. Stols. Each book is the series is by a different author. Jacob van Hattum 1900 - 1981 was a Dutch author and poet. Bound in yellow cloth boards with gilt title to spine and gilt signature to front board. Slight fading to spine and edges of boards with minor spotting to boards. Offsetting to endpapers and a few small spots of foxing but clean and bright overall. IN DUTCH. 53 pages. PRI/122022. Ursa Minor, Maastricht hardcover books
1991ref. 30501New Haven: Yale University Press 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This monumental bibliography is the essential guide to 19th century American literature. This is nine of the 10 volumes of the set missing Volume 10. set of 10 volumes. The first seven volumes were compiled by Blanck a noted authority on American literature. Volumes 8 and 9 were edited and completed by Michael Winship who also compiled the 10th volume a selective Index of titles publishers and dates. The individual volumes are of mixed editions but all were published as part of a matched set with black cloth bindings with title on red cloth spine label. All of the volumes are in very good or better condition. This set may require an extra shipping fee. BOB/111616. Yale University Press hardcover books
1959ref. 012617Norman Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press 1959. Dust jacket with almost no wear. Small closed tear top of rear panel. Translated from the German and edited by Thomas N. Bonner. Schiel a German scientist was born in 1813. He published his account of the western US journey in German in 1859. Twelve illustrations and a double-page map. 114pp. First English Editiion. Green Cloth. Nearly Fine/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Octavo. University of Oklahoma Press Hardcover books
1931ref. 12514Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1931. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg ex-library/originally released in wraps- here bound in a card-stock folder with a few institution markings/44 pp. Economics. ECO1/2212. The Johns Hopkins Press paperback books
1951ref. 011750London: Chatto and Windus 1951. Front cover vignette of antlered buck in gilt. This is a revised and modernized version of the "History of Signboards" with a chapter on modern inn signs by Gerald Millar. Illustrated in black and white with 64 plates of inn signs and 16 plates of billheads. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. 336pp. with index. . First Edition. Red Cloth Lettered in Gilt. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket. Large Octavo. Chatto and Windus Hardcover books
2020ref. 16875Newburgh: Thornwillow Press 2020. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Fine. Illustrations by Herb Roe. Foreword by William Cook Miller. Limited to 385 copies. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound clean internally. Thornwillow Press paperback books
1967ref. 148982N.p.: Childhood Productions Inc 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1955 German film. Based on the Italian fairy tale particularly the 1812 version found in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Grimms' Fairy Tales." A fanciful live-action rendition of the tale of the anthropomorphic cat Margitta Sonke who uses fools King Wonnebald F.W. Schroder-Schrom and his daughter Rosine Christa Oenicke into believing the miller's son Hans Harry Wustenhagen is Count Carabas and tricks the evil wizard Saufdichvoll Helmut Ziegner into giving his noble home a knight's castle to Hans. Shot on location at Burg Castle in North Rhine-Westphalia Germany. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good pinholes to corners small splitting at crease several small closed tears and cello tape at extremities. Childhood Productions, Inc unknown books
2018ref. 172311New York: Aperture 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New. Dedicated to the May 1971 issue of "Artforum" which featured a cover photograph and six-page spread of selections from Diane Arbus' portfolio marking the first time the magazine had featured the work of a photographer and cementing photography's status as art. Fine and unread still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Aperture unknown books
1949ref. 1419189New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1949. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xvii 136 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine faded yellow with red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut: "$2.75." Light age toning to dust jacket. Closed tearing along extremities of dust jacket with some open tearing at tail of spine and bottom corner of front board. Light scuffing soiling and penciling to rear cover. Book spine slightly cocked. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges of boards particularly at bottom corners. Small mark on rear board. Top edge of textblock dyed black. Fore edge of textblock deckled. Signed flat by the illustrator Jacob Lawrence on title page. Shelved in Case 3. Robert and Ann Doyle met Langston Hughes when Robert was at the Chicago Tribune's radio station WGN and he hosted Hughes for a broadcast hour. Robert Doyle served as the Time Shanghai bureau chief in 1948. One of the last evacuees from Nanking he then established a bureau office in Hong Kong. He was killed in Java in April of 1950 and Hughes' was the first cable to arrive in Hong Kong for Ann. "Two Americans Are Found Slain On Jeep Journey in Central Java; One Victim Is R.J. Doyle of Time Magazine The Other Is Believed to Be Professor Raymond Kennedy of Yale" THE NEW YORK TIMES April 29 1950 Page 3. 1419189. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1957ref. 171058New York: George Wittenborn 1957. Hardcover. Later printing. Text in German French and English. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Page edges lightly foxed overall Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket with light foxing to the spine and a small bruise to the bottom left corner of the rear panel. George Wittenborn unknown books
ref. 211191New York: Limited Editions Club 1989. First edition. Large folio hardcover. Number 184 of only 400 copies printed on handmade paper by Cartiere Enrio Magnani. Features eight stunning color silkscreen illustrations by Jacob Lawrence. A clean and tight very near fine copy in blue cloth boards and in a near fine black linen covered clamshell box lined with suede but that has some slight sunning and other very minor wear and with laid in newsletter for the Limited Editions Club. Signed by Lawrence on the colophon page. A very nice copy of one of the most sought after books from this long running Please note that this is a very heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1989ref. 211457Los Angeles CA & Cambridge MA: The Museum of Contemporary Art & The MIT Press 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran May 7 through August 14 1989. Features a foreword by Richard Koshalek an introduction by Ann Goldstein who also contributes an essay and with additional essays by Mary Jane Jacob anne Rorimer and Howard Singerman. Artists in the show included: Richard Baim Judity Barry Ericka Beckman Gretchen Bender Dara Birnbaum Barbara Bloom Tory Brauntuch Sarah Charlesworth Jack Goldstein Jenny Holzer Larry Johnson Ronald Jones Mike Kelley Jeff Koons Barbara Kruger Louise Lawler Thomas Lawson Sherrie Levine Robert Longo. Allan McCollum Matt Mullican Peter Nagy Stephen Prina Richard Prince Cindy Sherman Laurie Simmons Haim Steinbach Mitchell Syrop James Welling and Christopher Williams. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. The Museum of Contemporary Art & The MIT Press unknown books
2000ref. 212373Evanston IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Northwestern University 2000. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 87 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 23 through October 29 2000. Features a foreword and acknowledgements by by David Mickenberg and texts by Mildred Constantine and Mary Jane Jacob. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and a checklist. A near fine copy in illustrated boards with some slight tapping to the corners. No dust jacket as issued. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University unknown books
1950ref. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1944ref. 167538Munich Munchen: Film-Bühne 1944. Vintage program for the 1944 German film. Text and titles in German. Based on Hermann Bahr's 1907 play "Die gelbe Nachtigall" "The Yellow Nightingale". German director and actor Theo Lingen appeared in over 200 films between 1930 and 1980 and directed 21 films between 1929 and 1978. Bi-fold measuring 5.75 x 8 inches when folded. About Fine. Film-Bühne unknown books
1998ref. 205584Seattle WA and London: University of Washington Press 1998. First edition. Softcover. 79 pages. Features a foreword by Jacob Lawrence and an introduction by Vicki Halper. Includes numerous illustrations biographical information list of previous exhibitions list of public and corporate collections and a bibliography. A fine copy in French style wrappers. University of Washington Press unknown books