2016réf. 120148Distanz. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened. 64 pages. Textl in English and German. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2016. 3954761440 . Distanz hardcover
2003réf. 35633Museen - in German Unless Noted. New. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- 140 S. Mit 65 Abb. davon 63 in Farbe 28 x 345 cm -- with a bonus offer--; 520-zengm; Zeng Mi - Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin und Galerie Gertraud Zeng Mi. Chinesische Tuschemalerei der Gegenwart . 2003. 3886094812 . Museen - in German, Unless Noted unknown
réf. 222098Oxford 1987. unbound. 3 pages front and back on "Headington House" stationery 8.25 x 5.75 inches Oxford April 28 1987. Written to noted Civil Rights attorney Howard N. Meyer responding to an article that Meyer had written about Wilson and "Patriotic Gore" in small part: ".There was an element of permanent as it were un-critical radicalism in Wilson - hatred of establishments suspicion of the motives of all public men natural reaction to slogans and clarion calls and eloquence in political or national causes within the framework of the establishments of what he regarded as hopelessly bourgeois countries - he thought that all wars certainly since Napoleon were monstrous bloodshed of a horrible kind in the interests of groups disguised as ideals - all that he got from Marx and similar writers - this applied to both World Wars and obviously to the Civil War and rather more plausibly to Vietnam. He obviously did not mind sheer killing as such because that does not emerge in for example 'To the Finland Station' - it was only towards the end of his life partly under the influence of Solzhenitsyn and other irrefutable evidence that he turned against the Soviet Union and became nauseated by Stalin and everything to do with him - and his distaste even turned to the once-hallowed Lenin. I had a conversation with him in which he reminded me that I had said that he was too nice about Lenin - he agreed and the Introduction to the second or a later edition of 'To the Finland Station' altered this approach.I realize and from my knowledge of Edmund whose memory I still revere and of whom I am deeply fond. His loss of faith in Russia which began after his visit in the thirties but still persisted when I first met him was I suppose true of an entire generation of American leftists and British ones too; It was a marvelous mass delusion which I think perhaps has no parallel in history. Of course he must have been right in part about the crushing of the Southern states the exploitation and the bullying.but this should not have extended to respect for his violent and irrational political prejudices ferocious suspicion and desire to discredit honorable human motives just wars general idealism above all Lincoln's reputation. He simply wanted to attack icons and fetishes as such - and in the course of this said a great many untrue unjust and silly things." This letter contains much more fine content and is effectively an unpublished essay and critique of one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. Horizontal folds tiny stains and a paperclip impression in the top margins. Still very good condition. Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and as the dominant liberal scholar of his generation. unknown
1950réf. 173243Bielefeld Germany: Prepared by Headquarters British Air Forces of Occupation Air Ministry Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations April 1950. An effort of Biblical proportions Sole edition classified RESTRICTED. This definitive report on the British contribution during the first major crisis of the Cold War was compiled under Air Marshal Williams as C-i-C British Air Forces he received the DSM US for his services. Rare WorldCat notes five locations: Smithsonian National defence University Library Calgary University the Dutch Defensiebibliotheken and the British Library; Library Hub adds the National Aerospace Library. Until relatively recently this remarkable logistical achievement "given its acknowledged importance has been poorly served by its historiography" and particularly so the British contribution Keen p. ii. Current research based in the close examination of sources such as the present report seems to confirm "that the RAF and Civil Lift aircraft were necessary for the logistical success of the total Anglo-American operation and would have continued to be so in the long-term commitment being planned" ibid. p. 263. The ambitions of the report were intentionally widely inclusive being compiled so as "to give as complete a picture as possible of this highly complicated and integrated operation. While the Headquarters B.A.F.O. was the primary operating agency on the British side many other formations took a very active and important part in making the success of the operation possible. so slight incursions have been made into realms that were properly the responsibility of other services and other commands. reports by other formations have been included as appendices so that as much as possible of the valuable experience gained on this operation will be collected under one cover and can be available for reference if it should ever be necessary to carry out a similar operation" Introduction. The account is presented thematically covering The Task The Implements of the Airlift Air Operations Communications Equipment Personnel Freight - Organisation and Handling Accomplishments of the Airlift and a Summary of Lessons Learnt; the appendices include substantial reports from the Officer Commanding Transport Force during the first three weeks of operations from the Operational Research Branch and the Combined Airlift Task Force together with highly informative reviews of meteorology signals technical and equipment organisation. "The achievements of the airlift in statistical terms are impressive enough. The total tonnage lifted into Berlin by British and American aircraft was 2325808.7 tons. Of this the British lift carried 542236 tons split of which the RAF carried 394509 tons. The British carried 241000 tons of food 165000 tons of coal and 92000 tons of wet fuel all the latter in civil aircraft. They also carried 35000 tons of freight including 12800 tons of economic goods and 131436 passengers out of the city. British aircraft flew more than 32 million miles consumed over 35 million gallons of Avgas and spent over 200000 hours in the air. They helped sustain a city of more than two and a half million inhabitants for many months including through the winter. Just as importantly however was that in the first real test of the Cold War they demonstrated immense western resolve in the face of Soviet provocation and intransigence and dealt a significant blow to Soviet prestige and influence with incalculable effects on Western European communist parties particularly those in France and Italy. The western presence in Berlin was maintained and it remained as a beacon of freedom inside the Communist bloc not to mention acting as a very useful centre for intelligence gathering. The airlift also demonstrated to a Service dominated by airmen from an offensive bomber and tactical air background that the RAF's air transport capability could be deployed as a strategic asset to considerable effect" Cox pp. 30-31 Folio. Eight halftone plates folding plan of an "ideal airfield" and 8 full-page plans of actual air fields at the rear numerous plans maps diagrams and tables to the text many full-page many printed in colours. Original moderate olive brown sand-grain half cloth strong yellow printed paper-covered boards spine unlettered. Externally somewhat rubbed bumped and soiled front cover lightly damp-stained at the bottom edge softened and consequently bruised contents toned but overall very good. Sebastian Cox "An Effort of Biblical Proportions The Berlin Airlift 19481949" Air Power Review 21 2 Summer 2018; Richard David Keen Half a million tons and a goat: a study of British participation in the Berlin Airlift University of Buckingham PhD 2013 hardcover
réf. H3846Berlin Reimer 1845-1854. 8vo. Jeder Band zwischen 400 und 600 S. Halbleinenbände der Zeit St.a.T. Bibl.-Schild gute Exemplare. Zahlreiche interessante Beiträge u.a. von Doppler Faucault Faraday und Becquerel vor allem in Band 5 2 und 1. unknown
1936réf. ABE-1604131165620First edition. Quarto 25.118.4 cm 16pp 16pp 19pp 69pp. 69 pages of adverts 51 pages of student names in Chinese their names in English birth places majors current addresses. Text in Chinese and German. Extremely scarce. More photos available upon request. Berlin: Verein Chinesischer Studenten e.v., 1936 hardcover
1850réf. 62042Wien: Carl Gerold 1850. 8vo. 226 pp. Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards. Ex-institutional library of Bibliothek der Musse Riga with usual markings. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Internally clean. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Manoug Parikian British concert violinist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music London. Loosely inserted are three TLS by Isaiah Berlin dated 1972-73 on 'Headington House Oxford' letterhead in which he thanks Parikian for the loan of the book and then apologises for not returning it in a timely manner as the book had become buried somewhere in his library. The author Wilhelm von Lenz was born in Riga and studied with Liszt and Chopin in Paris. He is best known for his research on Beethoven. The final chapter in this book deals with Beethoven's violin concerto as performed in St. Petersburg by Vieuxtemps. Text in German. . Good. 1/4 Sheep. 1850. Carl Gerold 1850 unknown
1982réf. 51679Penguin Books. As New. 1982. Paperback. 0140063137 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked - 210 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Penguin Books paperback
1945réf. 019061New York: Irving Berlin Music Corporation 1945 but later. wraps. Near Fine. Quarto 9" x 12" in gray and green illustrated wraps; 6 pages. Vintage sheet music with words and music by Irving Berlin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front cover: "For Iris and Jeff/with love from/Irving Berlin/1979." Irving Berlin Music Corporation paperback
1942réf. 68714New York: This is the Army Inc 1942. BERLIN Irving. New York: This is the Army Inc. 1942. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to United States Army Colonel Walter J. Currie Chief of the Entertainment and Recreation Division of the United States Army: "For Walter Currie/with my grateful thanks/for a swell job in/helping 'This is the Army'/through to a big success--/Irving Berlin." Quarto 11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches; 300 x 203 mm. 1-55 1 blank pp. Sheet music with lyrics. Songs separately titled. Original tan leather over flexible boards. Front board lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Speckled endpapers. Some minor soiling and scuffing to boards. Tape residue on front pastedown. Internally very clean. Overall about fine. "The biggest and best-known morale-boosting show of World War II- Irving Berlin's This Is the Army which began life as a Broadway musical designed to raise money for the military. It then toured the nation and later the world and was eventually made into a movie starring the handsome young Lt. Ronald Reagan." National Archives By Laurence Bergreen. HBS 68714. $2500. This is the Army, Inc unknown
1990réf. Collection-04Black Sparrow Press 1990 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press 1990. First edition. First printing. Cloth. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect. Comes with original acetate dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. NOTE: This book was purchased new and never opened. Cloth backed decorative boards with acetate dust jacket. There were 300 hardcover trade copies in the first edition. 125 copies were signed and numbered by the author. This is copy number 118 numbered on the colophon and signed by author on page following title page. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Black Sparrow Press hardcover
1993réf. Collection-02Black Sparrow Press 1993 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press 1993. First edition. First printing. Cloth. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect. Comes with original acetate dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. NOTE: This book was purchased new and never opened. Cloth backed decorative boards with acetate dust jacket. There were 200 hardcover copies in the first edition. 100 copies were signed and numbered by the author on the colophon. This is copy number 100. SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY AUTHOR on colophon page. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Black Sparrow Press hardcover
1999réf. Collection-03Black Sparrow Press 1999 Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press 1999. First edition. First printing. Cloth. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect. Comes with original acetate dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. NOTE: This book was purchased new and never opened. Cloth backed decorative boards with acetate dust jacket. There were 250 hardcover trade copies in the first edition. 100 copies were signed and numbered by the author. 20 copies were handbound in boadrs by Earle Gray and were lettered and signed by the author. This is copy A. SIGNED AND LETTERED BY AUTHOR on colophon page. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Black Sparrow Press hardcover
1925réf. 22717ENew York: Putnam 1925. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the book’s subject American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin in the year of publication. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Min from Irv Palm Beach - 1925”. Frontispiece portrait drawing of Irving Berlin by Neysa McMein. Top edge gilt. A lightly handled copy some mottling and minor rubbing to the dark green cloth and a bit of spotting to the fore edge without dust jacket. Irving Berlin 1888 - 1989 was one of the most beloved and best known songwriters in the Great American Songbook whose prolific body of work includes such classics as Alexander’s Ragtime Band his first international hit Easter Parade Puttin’ on the Ritz Cheek to Cheek White Christmas Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better There’s No Business Like Show Business and God Bless America. Putnam hardcover
1971réf. SBBIH-TTOZFX5YZGJKPenguin Books Ltd 1971. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Penguin Books Ltd paperback
1963réf. 0226181963-1968. Letter. Very Good to Fine. A collection of letters mostly typed but some handwritten all SIGNED by their authors to noted NEW YOR TIMES theater reporter and columnist Sam Zolotow on a variety of matters. Correspondents include Audrey Wood Claire Booth Luce Iphrigini Ochs Sulzberger David Susskind Ray Stark 2 Vincent Sardi Jr. Dore Schary Richard Rodgers Robert Moses Joseph Papp Emlyn Williams Arthur 'Punch Sulzberger Jo Mielziner John V. Lindsey Gian Carlo Menotti Howard Lindsay Joseph E. Levine Garson Kanin Julian Beck 2 Elia Kazan Theodore Mann Federico Fellini Arthur Krock Bella Spewack Eric Bentley 3 Irving Berlin Richard Barr William Ball Barbara Ashley Robert Brustein George Panetta Peter Bridge Lawrence Carr John Mason Brown Richard Chandler Philip Huston Ann Corio Alexander H. Cohen Harold Clurman Cheryl Crawford June Havoc Patrick Dennis Edna Ferber Robert Fryer Bruce Jay Friedman William Gibson Paul Green Rex Harrison Lillian Hellman William Inge A.E. Hotchner Kenneth Tynan and Ralph Bellamy. unknown
1967réf. 149909New York: Andy Warhol Film 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95-minute version although this cut is considered lost. A 109-minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater renamed as such after Warhol recovered from being shot by Valerie Solanas. One of several sexploitation influenced films made by Warhol an episodic story of a biker who has no bike and is both eroticized by the camera and emasculated by various Warhol superstars throughout. 19 x 25 inches rolled. Near Fine with some light soil and an almost imperceptible professional repair to a tear at the top edge. Murphy The Black Hole of Cinema. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown
réf. 82379Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow 1993. First edition numbered & signed issue. 214 pp. Faint foxing to the top edges else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Berlin. Additionally INSCRIBED by Berlin “Aug. 1993 / for Bob / with thanks love / always / Lucia.” Laid into this copy is a thirty-two word ALS from Berlin dated August 19 1993 in part presenting this book and apologizing for the oversight. The recipient is Robert Callahan of the Turtle Island Foundation who published Berlin’s second book ANGELS LAUNDROMAT in 1977. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, hardcover
1938réf. 3554907142141938. Signed by Author. New York: Irving Berlin Inc. 1938. Publishers printed stiff wrappers; printing three new songs from the 1938 RKO musical along with 25 older songs each with a reproduction of its sheet music cover. SIGNED TWICE and inscribed by Berlin: To Mary with love Irving Berlin in pencil followed by an ink signature on the following front free end-paper. A 20th Century-Fox Corporation publication containing the complete piano transcriptions of all the songs old and new featured in the 1938 film as well as other Berlin songs from the same period including Alexanders Ragtime Band and Cheek to Cheek. Full page of black and white photographs of the film cast together with the original cast and production staff list on facing page. Housed in a superb custom-made black cloth box by Asprey of London. The slipcase is itself housed in a stunning lilac Aspreys tissue-lined and purple ribbon tied box. The original invoice from when this book was originally sold by Aspreys is laid in. A wonderful item. A large heavy book which may require additional postage. hardcover
réf. 6377Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press 1999. First Editions. First Printings wrappered issue. Two octavo volumes 22.75cm; original decorative card wrappers; 1011-2146; 1011-2404pp. So Long is inscribed on the front endpaper to Kenward Elmslie: "February 1997 / Dearest Kenward / It has been so great to see you hear you / Love Lucia." Where I Live Now is warmly inscribed to Elmslie on the title page: "May 1999 / For dearest Kenward / with all my love / Lucia." Both volumes gently spine-sunned lightly edgeworn with some mild dust- and finger-soil to wrappers; Very Good. The second and third volumes of Berlin's short fiction published by the Black Sparrow Press collecting between them 41 stories written between 1987-1998 several of which first appeared in the pages of City Lights Review Folio Gas In This Corner Jejeune Barnabe Mountain Review Brick Exquisite Corpse New American Writing and Sniper Logic et al. A distinguished pair of copies from the library of poet publisher and librettist Kenward Elmslie 1929-2022 who Berlin met in 1994 at Naropa where they were both visiting writers. "Berlin called it an "instant friendship." "We cut through right away into each other's deep feelings. It was like falling in love or going back to your childhood best friend in first grade that kind of really pure friendship" Love Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin & Kenward Elmslie p.1. Her relationship with Elmslie would prove to be the most significant friendship during the last decade of her life resulting in hundreds of letters postcards and mail art exchanged between them. In a June 13 1999 letter Elmslie mentions the copy of Where I Live Now Berlin had sent him and was complimentary about her work: "Ron Padgett is reading Where I Live Now loaned downhill. He's tough and his advance word is: good stuff. Specific praise for the ending of the doc office cover-up tale "A Love Affair".The placement of the tales is I think masterful. Your Body of Work by now is so strong. Who else has a continuum of short fictions that hold up like - like Gang Busters.Your very own niche. In ancient times Kathy Mansfield. Dotty Parker. And Tru Capote" pp.66-67. Berlin would write him a month later ecstatic about Publisher's Weekly giving her book a rave review. He responded: "I'm so happy about your news - THE review.For some reason I'm afraid to articulate WHY I'm so drawn to your stories as if that'll entail proving I'm a really smart critic. Because I'm not. So it remains a private matter this strong feeling for your work connected to Chekhov that much I know and a blissful summer working on a libretto of The Seagull" pp.86-87. Throughout their decade-long correspondence they would critique each other's work and that of their contemporaries gossip and share the intimate details of their lives. Berlin wrote Elmslie faithfully right up until a month before she died in November 2004; at her funeral "Kenward was last to pay her tribute and he sung a capella a lyric he wrote for his play City Junket Lucia's favorite of his songs: "Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain" p.321. We've traced fewer than a handful of association copies of Berlin's works in commerce and none reflecting this degree of intimacy. Black Sparrow Press unknown
réf. H4003Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften 1857-1858 1860-1867 und 1869-1882. 8vo. Jeder Band mit ca. 500 bis 800 S.mit zahlreichen Tafeln. Halbleinenbände und Pappbände der Zeit teils berieben manche Rücken etwas beschädigt St.a.T. Bibl.-Schild leicht berieben gutes Exemplar. Mit Beiträgen von Kirchhoff Grimm Ehrenberg Abich Helmholtz Poggendorff Curtius Hofmann Hammer-Purgstall Encke Petermann Peters Kiepert Mommsen Rose u.v.a. unknown
1966réf. 022468New York: Irving Berlin Music Corporation 1966. wraps. Light wear and mild staining. Near Fine and quite scarce when signed. Printed white wraps 8-7/8" x 12"; 6 pages including covers. Sheet music with words and music by Irving Berlin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front cover: "For Mike/Best wishes/Irving Berlin/1979." Irving Berlin Music Corporation paperback
1937réf. 022624New York: Irving Berlin Music Co. 1937. First Edition. flexible leather. Light wear. Close to Fine. Small folio 9" x 12" privately printed by Berlin for friends and bound in flexible dark brown leather with gilt lettering on the front cover; 31 pages. Includes sheet music for Berlin's songs from the musical film starring Dick Powell and Alice Faye. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on front endpaper: "To Darryl Zanuck/with my best wishes/Irving Berlin." Zanuck was an American film producer and studio executive best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox. He produced a number of famous films three of which won Academy Awards: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT and ALL ABOUT EVE. [Irving Berlin Music Co.] hardcover
réf. 393396Unbound. Very Good. One partially printed bi-folium one leaf folded to make four pages. The single fold is neatly reinforced with tape else very good or better. Printed with staves music has been filled in with pencil on two facing pages and Berlin has captioned the song filled in the lyrics intended for his granddaughter Mary Ellin Barrett of the title and has Inscribed it at the bottom of the left-hand page: "For Mary Ellin - With love from Grandpa. 1974." Accompanied by a letter of provenance from Mary Ellin Barrett and a photocopy of a newspaper article about Barrett and her relationship with her grandfather. Berlin famously could not write or read musical notation so we cannot confirm in whose hand the music is written however the lyrics are clearly in Berlin's hand. unknown
1931réf. 2080502106916741Not Available 1931. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
