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1910réf. 31962Berlin: Adolf Eckstein 1910. 46.5x30cm. Includes biographical cover page. Fine condition. Adolf Eckstein unknown books
1951réf. 1418478Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1951. Revised edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxxiii 596 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is tan with brown print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear toning to spine peripheral toning. Price unclipped: "$4.50". Boards in brown cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Section . 1418478. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Illinois Press hardcover books
1937réf. 20371Jerusalem: The Bialik Foundfation" of the Jewish Agency for Palestine 1937. Hardcover. vg. 12mo. 8pp. 175pp. Followed by three unpaginated plates and fold-out. 1/4 beige cloth over faux-vellum paper covered boards with embossed gold lettering to cover and spine. Illustrated title page. Work on the Administration of the Ancient Roman Empire in the Holy Land Israel/Palestine which was part of the Roman Empire and hence the "Pax Romanum". With three photographic plates and fold-out map at end. Minor age wear. Owner's signature to Hebrew title page at beginning and English title page at end. Some pencil marks to first few pages of introduction easily erasable. In Hebrew with additional English title page. Very good condition. The Bialik Foundfation" of the Jewish Agency for Palestine hardcover books
2009réf. 035898NY: Knopf. 2009. The advance reading copy of the first novel by the Ethiopian-born physician and author of My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. Cutting for Stone was one of the most highly praised books of the year; the paperback edition stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. The author received a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2015. Hint of a crown bump; slight glue residue lower rear cover; still very near fine in wrappers. Uncommon in the advance issue. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Knopf paperback books
réf. B61186-1Girard Kansas Haldeman-Julius Publications 1947. 12pp. 6 plates in text reproducing 270 drawings. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. Presentation inscription by Walkowitz on the title-page; also signed by him on the front cover. Slight splitting of wrappers at spine with chips at corners. Girard, Kansas (Haldeman-Julius Publications), 1947. paperback books
1865réf. biblio4Newspaper 18 1/2" x 25 1/2" seven columns of text 4 pp. Folded at center another more subtle middle fold probably removed some chips tears and folds mostly at extremities some aging and browning a little uneven darkening ; otherwise about very good. Dated April 21 1865 this paper has several stories on the Lincoln assassination on the second and third pages of the newspaper. The articles include stories on the courage and determination of Secretary Stanton rewards posted for the capture of Booth and a nation in mourning. There is also a short report on the condition of Secretary Seward. Some interesting coverage of a national event in a local newspaper. books
1937réf. 06539THREE LINES OF OLD FRENCH The Bizarre Series N.d. but 1937 first edition near fine in wraps. #1 of the series. Quite uncommon. The Bizarre Series 1937 paperback books
réf. 11721Abraham Lincoln birthplace stereoview undated depicts the log cabin identified with the birth of the sixteenth president near Hodgenville Kentucky. The image belongs to the visual commemoration of Lincoln through sites associated with his early life presenting the birthplace as a historic landmark for audiences encountering presidential history through stereoscopic photography. Black and white albumen stereoview on gray mount showing the log cabin associated with Lincoln's birthplace. The paired images were intended for viewing through a stereoscope creating an illusion of depth and allowing the cabin and its setting to be examined as a three-dimensional scene. No photographer publisher or production date is supplied in the present description. Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12 1809 and his birthplace became an increasingly prominent site of national remembrance after his presidency and assassination. This stereoview records the cabin as it was presented to later visitors and viewers linking domestic-scale architecture with the expanding culture of Lincoln commemoration. Albumen prints and mount in excellent condition. unknown books
1902réf. 8166New York: Burr Printing House 1902. First edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 100pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of author protected by tissue guard. Charts detailing corresponding English/Hebrew calendar and holiday dates. 6 blank leaves in rear for registry of births marriages and deaths. Some wear to edges. Pages in very good condition. Overall in good condition. Stamp: “Entered at Stationer's Hall London." Abraham Nieto was a descendent of the eighteenth century English Chahams David Nieto and Isaac Nieto. He served as a religious teacher ritual slaughterer cantor and mohel in England and the United States. Burr Printing House hardcover books
1939réf. 27358New York: Macmillan Company 1939. Very Good/Very Good vol.1; Good vol.2. New York: Macmillan Company 1935 1939. First American Editions from the British sheets. Thick octavos; publisher's cloth in printed dust jackets; Vol 1: 692pp frontispiece thirty-six 36 leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos hundred of text illus. throughout; Vol 2: 813pp. frontispiece sixty-six 66 leaves of plates & illus. throughout as above. Price-clipped jackets show a few shallow chips and tears along edges and folds with some smudging and soiling to surface heavy toning to spines with dampstaining along bottom few inches and heavy tape reinforcement to interiors at head and tail. Boards are sturdy and square with light shelfwear and some nudging at spine ends. Old bookstore price stickers The Strand to front pastedowns. Bindings are sound and pages unmarked. Both Very Good overall in Very Good copies of the uncommon jacket. Abraham Wolf was an English historian rabbi philosopher moral and intellectuallecturer and writer. As Wolf is credited with introducing the history of science as a field to University College London was the UCL's Professor of Logic and Scientific Method 1920-1941 and was co-editor of the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Wolf's collection of works by and about Baruch Spinoza are now housed in the collections of UCLA. Macmillan Company unknown books
1996réf. 156549Northridge: The Center for Telecommunication Studies / California State University 1996. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Abraham Polonsky on the title page. The first publication in book form of the screenplay for Polonsky's 1948 key film noir "Force of Evil" based on Ira Wolfert's 1943 novel "Tucker's People" and starring John Garfield. Fine with no dust jacket as issued. The Center for Telecommunication Studies / California State University unknown books
1965réf. 50810London: The Soncino Press 1965. First edition. Large octavo. 2 volumes. xv 1 ix 1 400; vi vi 401-845 1pp. Index. Housed in brown slipcase lettered in white. Light tan dust jackets lettered in maroon over deep red cloth title blind-stamped on front board gold lettering on spines. Joints of slip case sound but with some rubbing. Slipcase has nicely protected the two volumes. Aside from a hint of unavoidable age toning to the spines of the dust jackets this a fine set. The fifteen minor tractates of the Babylonian Talmud for the first time translated into English in their entirety with Introduction Commentary and an extensive Index. The Soncino Press unknown books
1938réf. 55044Buenos Aires: M. Gleizer 1938. First Spanish language edition Ex-Library. Softcover. Good condition. Octavo. 182 1pp. Original orange illustrated stiff wraps with red lettering on cover black on spine. Title page with elaborate framing with classical architectural motifs. Translated from the Yiddish. Biblioteca de Autores Judios Library of Jewish Authors. Coralnik was an Ukranian born Jewish-American writer journalist and editor. "Coralnik was a "rara avis rare bird" in Jewish literature. An elegant highly cultured and paradoxical writer. He possessed a captivating and lyrical style that allowed him to treat most complicated topics with remarkable simplicity." Preface. This collection of essays includes writings on Socrates Plato San Pablo Maimonides Leonardo da Vinci Machiavelli Montaigne Spinoza Marx and his Manifesto Disraeli Blasco Ibanez Natan y Saladino among others. Text in Spanish. Wraps with some fraying along edges with library sticker at tail of spine. Upper half of spine loosened from block. Library stamps on verso of half-title and bottom of title page. Previous owner's name inked to center of title page. Library pocket attached to verso of last page. Block lightly age-toned. M. Gleizer unknown books
1977réf. 167653Los Angeles: Samuel L. Bronkowitz 1977. Two vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1977 film advertising it under both its US title "Kentucky Fried Movie" and its French title "Hamburger Film Sandwich". Written by and starring the Zucker brothers the duo who would eventually pen similarly irreverent comedy hits like "Airplane!" 1980 "Top Secret!" 1984 and "The Naked Gun" series. John Landis' second film as director and the film which would lead him to direct "National Lampoon's Animal House" 1978 at the suggestion of several cast members. Shot on location throughout California. Black-and-white printed on red stock. 8.25 x 11 inches. Fine. Samuel L. Bronkowitz unknown books
1950réf. 17314Worcester MA: Achille J. St. Onge 1950. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln President of the United States in miniature published in 1950 by Achille J. St. Onge. Miniature volume vii 76pp 2. Blue morocco title in gilt on spine and front panel with decorative gilt illustrations. All edges gilt. Book measures 2 x 3 inches. From a limited edition of 1500 copies produced by The Chiswick Press of London. Light shelf wear to covers minor sunning to spine and front cover. An attractive and unique example of Lincoln's writing. Achille J. St. Onge unknown books
1878réf. 13081878. MESSLER ABRAHAM. Centennial History of Somerset County. Somerville 1878. 190 8 p. Rebound in later buckram. A nice copy of a book whose fragile original binding is usually in tatters. unknown books
1899réf. 5941899. MESSLER ABRAHAM. First Things in Old Somerset. A Collection of Articles Relating to Somerset County N.J . Including Sketches of Washington Rock Chimney Rock and a List of the Freeholders in Somerset County in 1790. Somerville 1899. 4 172 p. Port. Cloth. As in all copies the hopelessly brittle endsheets are detached and the facing leaves are browned. A scarce and fragile county history and one of the standard Somerset County books. There are no fine copies. unknown books
1860réf. 007988Philadelphia: By the Author 1860. First Edition. Blindstamped Cloth. Very Good. A few names still well-remembered with accounts of many now a distant memory from what had been the largest city in the United States until the late 18th Century. 8vo. 23.5 by 16 cm. 223 pp. 20 plates half of which are portraits with tinted background and the other half are maps or diagrams of streets. These diagrams in most instances have indications of the owners of storefronts. Two of the maps are folding expanding by their width. The widest with three folds doesn't name proprietors of stores but has pleasant drawings of the buildings although these drawings have a generic quality like Monopoly buildings and thus aren't reliable as a visual source of the actual appearance of the riverfront at the time. Although this was privately printed as indicated by its being published by the Author there is a substantial subscription list almost six pages long at the end. Howes R321. Condition: erosion of cloth at spine extremities. Tearing along joints repaired but still apparent where there was tear. Corners rubbed and other typical symptoms of shelfwear. Slight cocking of text block -- front board overhangs over rear board. Foxing generally light and other than along page edges quite occasional -- we don't think the foxing and other soiling and/or age toning is going to be disconcerting to most. By the Author unknown books
1947réf. 145154Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1947. Vintage linen backed keybook photograph of cinematographer James Wong Howe actress Lilli Palmer and members of the crew on the set of the 1947 film noir. Manuscript annotations on the verso. Considered by many to be amongst the best boxing films of all time as well as one of the great 1940s noirs. "Body and Soul" tells the story of a man who became a successful boxer to support himself and his mother after his father is killed but who realizes that he has slowly lost his integrity somewhere along the way. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two others. Shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown books
1947réf. 172445Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Enterprise Sudios 1947. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. One photograph with an Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributed Ltd. stamp on the recto bottom left corner. An amateur prize fighter's desire for fortune and fame leads him to join a corrupt boxing syndicate led by an unethical promoter. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Olive Films 452. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists / Enterprise Sudios unknown books
1943réf. 47538New York: Arbeter Ring National Educational Committee of the Workmen's Circle 1943. First edition. Softcover. g. Small quarto. 4 pages. Printed tan wrappers with dark blue lettering. A scarce Yiddish theater program for the Workmen Circle's Folksbiene theater company's musical production "A Goldfaden Dream". The production in 2 acts 6 scenes was based on the work of pioneering Yiddish theater figure Abraham Goldfaden as well as the writings of Itzik Manger Borekh Fenster and Gershon Einbinder Chaver Paver. The show premiered October 311943 at Malin Theater in New York. The program consists of cast and crew credits as well as a text from director Yacov Rothbaum. Text in Yiddish. Small stain located on the upper right corner of the front cover. Light creasing to pages. Final page with some light scratches and faint pencil markings at the bottom as well as some minor stains. In good condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. Yiddish title: ×Ö· ×’×ָלדפ×דען ×—×œ×•× " ×ין מוזיק×ַלישע פ×ָלקס־שפּיל ×ין 2 ×ַקטן ×ון 6 בילדער" Names: לויט טעקסטן פון ×’×ָלדפ×דן מ×× ×’×¢×¨ פענצטער ×ון ××™×™× ×‘×™× ×“×¢×¨ Publisher: × ×צי×× ×לער בילדונגס ק×מיטעט פון ×רבעטער רינג "The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene" is a professional theater company which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish founded in New York City's Lower East side in 1915 by the Yiddish cultural organization the Worker's Circle Workmen's Circle. It continues to this day and is considering both the oldest consecutively producing Yiddish theater company in the United States as well as the oldest consecutively producing theater of any kind in the U.S. Arbeter Ring (National Educational Committee of the Workmen's Circle) unknown books
1946réf. 35768New York: Machmadim Art 1946. Hardcover. g. Signed. 4to. vii unpaginated. Original red cloth with gold lettering on cover. A collection of 39 charming charcoal and pen drawings depicting Jewish life in the early 20th century by the famous Russian-American Jewish artist Abraham Walkowitz. Includes an English pamphlet by Isaac Lichtenstein which discusses Walkowitz's style and places him within the context of early modernist art. A powerful look into a now lost world that ranges from market place dealings to rabbis with Torah scrolls. This book was printed what after the Holocaust and can thus be seen as part of the beginning of the process of memorializing European Jewry. Text in Yiddish. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Some wear to spine and edges. Binding loose but still intact. Overall in good condition. Machmadim Art hardcover books
1786réf. 26305Boston: Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom 1786. 12 leaves as issued. Stitched light to moderate wear. Two closed tears no loss. Good Folsom's edition is one of three printings of this almanac all from Boston. The almanac includes a "Brief Account of General Washington" and a listing of Connecticut courts. Not in Evans. Bristol B6383. Shipton & Mooney 45017. Drake 3385. Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom unknown books
1935réf. S12059New York:: Macmillan 1935 1939. 1935. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. xxvii 692; 814 pp. 316 345 illus. indexes. Navy blue gilt-stamped cloth dust-jackets. Ownership mark of William B. Bjornstad Drake University Des Moines Iowa. Fine. First American edition. Unusually fine set with jackets of the original edition. Macmillan, 1935, 1939. hardcover books
réf. 40752SWAN Abraham. THE BRITISH ARCHITECT: OR THE BUILDER'S TREASURY OF STAIR-CASES. New York: Da Capo 1967. Folio. Cloth. viii ii viii 16 pages 60 plates. Reprint of the original 1758 edition of Swan's best known and most popular architectural works that was advertised from Boston to Virginia and was found in the libraries of the top architects in colonial America - William Buckland of Virginia and Maryland and Peter Harrison in Rhode Island. It so popular in early America that a reprint of Swan's work was the first architectural book printed in America in Philadelphia in 1775. With a preface by Adolf Placzek. Very good. unknown books
