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1968réf. UBERKAR01vgOxford University Press 1968. Good. Berlin Isaiah. Karl Marx: His Life & Environment 3rd edition. London UK: Oxford University Press 1968. 295pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Lightly rubbed covers underlining to first several pages and tight binding. Oxford University Press paperback books
1956réf. UBERAGE00twMentor 1956. Very Good. Berlin Isaiah. The Age of Enlightenment: Basic Writings of Locke Voltaire Berkeley Hume etc. NY: Mentor 1956. 282pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Chip in spine. Residue of price sticker on rear cover. Former owner's name on first page. Mentor paperback books
1961réf. UBERAGE01twMentor 1961. Very Good. Berlin Isaiah. The Age of Enlightenment: Basic Writings of Locke Berkeley Voltaire Hume etc. NY: Mentor 1961. 282pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Former owner's name on first page. Mentor paperback books
1970réf. 172774Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1970. First edition first printing. Hardcover. A novel from the daughter of Irving Berlin. A clean very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with the very minor wear. Signed by Berlin on a tipped in page done by the publisher for the Kroch's and Bretano's First Edition club with it's laid in bookmark. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1997réf. UBERSEN00twFarrar Straus and Giroux 1997. Very Good. Berlin Isaiah. Sense of Reality :Studies in Ideas and Their History. Hardy Henry. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1997. xx 278pp. Indexed. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped edges. Farrar Straus and Giroux hardcover books
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 books
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1946réf. 148424N.p.: N.p. 1946. Draft script for the 1946 Broadway musical which premiered at the Imperial Theatre on May 16 1946 and ran for 1147 performances through February 12 1949. An unusual script in terms of size style and purpose made custom for the character of Tommy Keeler with the character name on the front wrapper and containing only the lines and songs for that character. Likely for the use of an understudy or multiple actors who might have had to step into the role with a partially erased name of an uncredited actor to the front wrapper and holograph pencil annotations on page three of the script indicating where the actor needs to take breaths during the song "I'll Share It All with You." A fictionalized account of the life of Annie Oakley sharpshooter and star of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show and her romance with fellow sharpshooter Frank E. Butler. Basis for the 1950 film directed by George Sidney and starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel and revived twice on Broadway in 1966 and1999 with the former nominated for two Tony Awards and the latter three winning for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical for Bernadette Peters. The characters of Tommy and his girlfriend Winnie were dropped from the 1966 revival but restored in 1999. 8.75 x 7 inches. Beige titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 7. Six leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with vertical and diagonal creasing wrapper Very Good with vertical and diagonal creasing with small closed tears to right edge of front wrapper and a two inch vertical closed tear at the bottom of the back wrapper saddle-stapled with two staples. N.p. unknown books
1994réf. UBERKIN01FPOxford University Press 1994. Very Good. Berlin Edward A. King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. New York NY: Oxford University Press 1994. 334pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Rubbing to edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Rubbing to edges and slight soiling to back panel. Oxford University Press hardcover books
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1973réf. 35830New York: Brunner / Mazel 1973. First Edition. Thick octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's cloth in dust jacket; xix1780pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities spine shows very minor toning and cockling from exposure to damp else Near Fine overall. Brunner / Mazel unknown books
1890réf. 32067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown books
1994réf. 704199NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. 1994. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Farrar Straus Giroux paperback books
1977réf. 1002931Washington D.C. i.e. Healdsburg California: Zephyrus Image 1977. Inscribed first edition of Lucia Berlin's first publication the twenty-page chapbook "A Manual for Cleaning Ladies." Later retitled "Maggie May" the story follows a Bay Area house cleaner through her daily routine the precisely observed details of each job gradually revealing her crushing grief: "When I smile my hand goes involuntarily to my mouth. I collect sleeping pills but you know I won't do it." Berlin has inscribed this copy: "Thank you for reading me - love Lucia." The accompanying proof sheet represents pages 7-8 and 13-14 of the completed chapbook and features two of the four linocut illustrations produced by Michael Myers including the full-page image of the narrator standing on a stove "to clean an exploded Coca-Cola off the ceiling." In her lifetime Lucia Berlin found a passionate following among fellow writers winning the American Book Award in 1991 but her spare bleakly comic fiction would not reach a wider readership until 2015 when a posthumous collection of her short stories became a surprise bestseller for Farrar Straus and Giroux. A remarkable survival in fine condition inscribed by Berlin. Side-stitched pamphlet measuring 6.75 x 4.5 inches: 20. Brown paper wrappers printed in black "National Endowment for the Domestic Arts" seal to front wrapper text printed on beige paper linocut illustrations. Inscribed by Lucia Berlin on title page. Housed in original pictorial mailing envelope printed in green. With: unbound proof sheet measuring 6.75 x 9 inches printed on both sides containing two linocut illustrations. Zephyrus Image unknown books
2005réf. 2213Leipzig: Faber & Faber 2005. Near Fine. Large 4to 305 x 230 mm. 239 1 pp. With 140 color illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine original printed dustjacket. Catalogue of 1448 items. With "Zur Geschichte der Sammlung" Karla Faust; "Die Buchenbande" Andreas Wittenberg; Widerspruchlichkeiten Holger Nickel; Zeittafel Corneila Wolff foreword afterword and indices. Elaborately produced full-color catalogue of 1448 books printed by Aldus Manutius 1450-1515 and his heirs preserved in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Most of the books came from the fabulous library of Count Etienne Mejan 1765-1846 which was acquired en bloc in 1847 by King Ferdinand Wilhelm IV of Prussia for the then enormous sum of 64000 talers. The books are listed chronologically with bibliographical and copy-specific information about bindings provenance etc. There are several insightful introductions including discussions about the history of the Aldine Collection at the SB Berlin K. Faust the bindings A. Wittenberg bibliographical and historical contradictions "Widerspruchlichkeiten" H. Nickel. There are 4 extensive indices / registers and finally a Summary in English French and Spanish. Faber & Faber unknown books
1997réf. 113577Venice 1997. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 15 through August 31 1997. Text in English. Essay on the wrappers by Aris Fioretos. Features work by Steven Bachelder Cecilia Edefalk Meta Isaeus-Berlin Clay Ketter Matts Leiderstam Mikael Lundberg Lars Nilsson Sophie Tottie and Elin Wikstrom. Includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. unknown books
1933réf. 451381933. Blumgart Hermann L. 1895-1977; Samuel A. Levine 1891-1966; David D. Berlin. Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity. Offprint from Archives of Internal Medicine 51 1933. 12pp. 255 x 175 mm. Original printed wrappers tiny rust spots on front wrapper. Fine. The Herbert M. Evans copy with his stamp on the front wrapper. First Edition Offprint Issue of this classic paper describing thyroidectomy for congestive heart failure and angina pectoris. Blumgart and his colleagues played an important role in developing this method for treating coronary sclerosis. Their 1933 paper "described observations made upon the rate of blood flow in hyperthyroid states. When patients with no evidence of thyroid toxicity were subjected to subtotal thyroidectomy the improvement was found to be temporary and consequently total thyroidectomy was recommended . . . Thyroidectomy enjoyed fairly wide usage until antithyroid drugs and radioactive iodine became available" H. B. Shumaker The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery p. 131. This copy is from the library of Herbert M. Evans 1882-1971 co-discoverer of Vitamin E. Garrison-Morton.com 2899. . unknown books
1999réf. 9019577New Jersey: Princeton University 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Princeton University hardcover books
1985réf. 29936Boulder: University of Colorado 1985. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folded tabloid newspaper format. Four early issues of Ed and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn's alternative poetry and politics newspaper sold here together. Notable for the inclusion of short works by Lucia Berlin as well as contributions variously by the Dorns Robert Creeley Tom Clark J. H. Prynne and many other notable writers. All in very good condition. All folded. Papare tanning a bit with age. Issue 9 has a tribute to Richard Brautigan. University of Colorado paperback books
réf. 5103848 pp. type specimen catalogue from the landmark type foundry presenting numerous examples of the various uses of typefaces in a range of commercial printing applications including stationary magazine ads notices and trade catalogues plus two folding plates including a replica of a large newspaper ad for a clothing store. Some light scattered mildew staining. 4to. Original printed wrpps. some light chipping to spine some toning and staining. Stamps for Gutenberg S.A. Barcelona to front cover and title page. Berlin H. Berthold AG n.d. 1920s. H. Berthold AG was one of the largest and most successful type foundries in the modern typographic world. Founded in Berlin in 1858 initially as a manufacturer of printer's rules it began casting metal type in the 1890s. It was a major contributor to the introduction of new typefaces including Akzidenz-Grotesk an early sans-serif which prefigured Helvetica. The company successfully transitioned to cold type technology in the 1950s and ceased operations in 1993. Scarce; as of October 2020 OCLC does not locate any holdings of this catalogue in a North American institution. hardcover books
1914réf. 98381914. Presentation album promoting the work of the pioneering printing firm including unpaginated 16 pp. introductory text printed in blue black silver and white within elaborately ornamented borders and 12 mounted samples of work by the firm including publicity brochures advertisements pamphlets stationery and other items most in striking colors compositions and formats with descriptions on decorative tissue guards. Folio. Orig. ornamental cloth front cover a bit warped. Berlin n.d. circa 1914. A spectacular publication reflecting the firm's originality creativity and great attention to detail presenting striking designs for publicity material epitomizing later manifestations of Jugendstil aesthetics. hardcover books
réf. 38458257 pp. descriptive and critical catalogue by Frida Schottmuller of Spanish and Italian sculptures of the 15th through 18th centuries including pieces in marble clay ceramic wood and stone notes indices all works reproduced in the text. Last few pp. neatly repaired. Large 4to. Cloth. Berlin/Leipzig De Gruyter 1933. Second edition. Bildwerke des Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums. hardcover books
réf. 29566207 pp. descriptive catalogue of the museum's collection of 466 Italian and Spanish Renaissance and Baroque sculptures excluding bronzes notes bibl. all 466 illus. in the text many with multiple views and details. Lg. 4to. Printed cloth. Berlin Reimer 1913. Ex-library copy bookplate on endpaper. An ex-library copy in excellent condition. hardcover books