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réf. 31507London: John Murray No Date. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Slender hardbound octavo in photo-illustrated dustwrapper. A 39 pp essay which originally appeared in 1949 as a review of the first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's War Memoirs. A handsome near fine copy in plain green boards in lightly used photo-illustrated dustwrapper. Photograph by Karsh. John Murray hardcover books
1987réf. S5213Berlin:: Institute for Advanced Study zu Berlin 1987. 1987. 211 x 149 mm. vi 121 pp. Printed wrappers with blind-stamped emblem on top cover. Very good. Institute for Advanced Study zu Berlin, 1987. unknown books
1987réf. S5214Berlin:: Institute for Advanced Study zu Berlin 1987-88. 1987. 211 x 149 mm. 42 pp. Printed wrappers with blind-stamped emblem on top cover. Very good. Institute for Advanced Study zu Berlin, 1987-88. unknown books
1981réf. 71803Berkeley: Turtle Island 1981. First trade paperback printing. 86 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Rear cover endorsement by Ed Dorn. Six stories: The Musical Vanity Boxes Mama and Dad El Tim A Foggy Day Maggie May and the title story. Berkeley: Turtle Island, paperback books
1988réf. 65151Berkeley: Poltroon Press 1988. First edition. 101 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Twelve short stories with four tipped-on illustrations by Frances Butler. Only five of these stories were included in her recently published selected stories. Berkeley: Poltroon Press, hardcover books
1994réf. 26332New York: Oxford. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Berlin. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; Signed and inscribed by Berlin. Fine in fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pp . Oxford hardcover books
1976réf. 265271New York: Michael Giammetta 1976. Magazine. 60p. including covers 5.5x8.5 inches illustrated with photos and ads lightly-worn first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Guide to gay entertainment in NYC and on Fire Island including plays bars baths etc. As mentioned in the 5th episode of "The Deuce" on HBO. Cover photo of Peter Berlin in "The Destroying Angel". Behind the scenes shots from the film. Michael Giammetta unknown books
réf. 14959BRADE L. and Paul Kersten-Berlin. ILLUSTRIERTES BUCHBINDERBUCH. Halle: Wilhelm Knapp 1921. 8vo. White linen spine decorative paper sides original wrappers bound in. viii viii 308 4 pages 16 plates. Mejer 1659 60. Originally published in Stuttgart in 1860 this important work contained a fu and important account of paper marbling. From 1916 the date of the sixth edition Paul Kersten served as co-editor and then full editor. The present edition contains eight plates with thirty two samples of marbled papers made the trade school for bookbinders conducted by Hans Bauer at Gera in Saxony patterns produced through Halferian methods. There are also eight plates on coated paper with twenty illustrations. Unopened. Ex-copy from a Russian library with a few markings edgewear text slightly browned else good. unknown books
réf. 368THE BERLIN COLLECTION: Being a History and Exhibition of the Books and Manuscripts purchased in Berlin in 1891 for the University of Chicago by Will Rainey Harper with the support of Nine Citizens of Chicago. Chicago: The Joseph Regenstein Library 1979. Square 8vo. Wrappers. iv 88 pages. First edition. Very good. unknown books
1977réf. 3081Berlin: Ad 1. Ad 2: Verlag Bruno Hessling 1977. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: xv 5 782 2 pp. With 77 b/w illustrations in the text. Attractively and very sturdily bound in contemporary red quarter morocco over glazed red boards marbled endpapers top edges gilt all original wrappers bound in sic! -- Ad 2: 183 pp. With 43 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's orange cloth. Original edition. B.H. Breslauer copy of the justly famous catalogue of the vast collection of ornamental books and prints of the Kunstbibliothek Berlin at one time the most comprehensive in existence in the field of decorative art and architecture. It comprised printed material from the late 15th to the early 19th century. The collection was based upon that of Hippolyte Destailleur the great connoisseur which was acquired in 1879 to which was added the extraordinary holdings of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kupferstichkabinett. The catalogue is a model of its kind with complete descriptions and plate counts often missing in reference works that claimed to "succeed" it of no less than 5435 items. The collections suffered greivous losses during WWII but the present catalogue remains of permanent value to bibliographers and art historians alike as is attested by the facsimile reprints of it all greatly inferior to ours on account of the shoddy reproductions of the illustrations. Our copy is attractively bound with all the original wrappers of the first 12 fascicles bound in. This original edition is scarce having been published in Berlin at the worst possible time in publishing history namely from 1936-1939. Ad 2: The books described in this "English Architectural Art" volume were completely lost during WWII and thus the rebuiding of this collection became a priority for the Kunstbibliothek Berlin aided with a generous grant from the Volkswagon Foundation. The results are herein and present 119 titles of rare English architectural and topographical books ranging in date from Dugale's "Monasticon Anglicum" 1661 to Robinson's "Designs for Gate Cottages" 1837 all very capably described. Ad 1. Ad 2: Verlag Bruno Hessling unknown books
1970réf. 36234Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 1970. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 93p. text plus illustrations 4 color. Softcover with dj. 22cm. German text. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin paperback books
1917réf. 009251Lille 1917. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 60pp. Tribute to German soldiers that died in battle during World War One. Illustrated with period photographs. In tan cloth boards with purple and silver medallion device on front cover. There is light ripple to the binding and forward edge has bump. unknown books
1981réf. Embry 196760U. of Massachusetts Press 1981. First edition first printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. U. of Massachusetts Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1979réf. 299303New York: Viking 1979. hardcover. very good. Edited and with a Bibliography by Henry Hardy Introduction by Roger Hausheer. liii 394 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards. New York: Viking Press 1979. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper. Viking unknown books
1952réf. 26846New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1952. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped a little shelfwear to bottom edge otherwise a nice clean tight copy although with a small piece torn out of the upper right corner of pp.25/26; jacket very lightly browned along spine some minor surface wear and a very faint stain at bottom edge of front panel a couple of very tiny nicks at top edge of front panel. B&W photographs Van Druten's dramatization of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical 1939 book "Goodbye to Berlin" set during the late years of the Weimar Republic just prior to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis -- although the political/historical aspects are rather soft-pedaled compared to the better-known later adaptations "Cabaret" the 1966 musical play and subsequent 1972 film. In between there was also a 1955 British film version in which Julie Harris reprised her performance as Sally Bowles from the original Broadway production. For one thing the entire play takes place in Sally's flat so essentially the Nazis are talked about but not seen; additionally although Sally styles herself as a performer in the play we never actually see her perform. . Random House hardcover books
1880réf. 25137Berlin Germany: Wertheim Zeidler Roloff Strom & Walter Conrad Wilhelm Stein Globus Jandorf Gulzer Wenzel Bohme Appel Fuchs et al 1880. Group includes 7 cabinet cards and 60 cartes-de-visite. Portraits are mostly of young men and young women with a few older adults & children; one cdv of a group of men in a horse-drawn cart accompanied by a young man on bicycle. One cdv with hand coloring. The cabinet cards average approx. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" overall size. Cartes about 2 1/2" x 4" with several longer examples. A few of the cdv's with a name identified: Balke Virujinski Bergmann Fuhrmann; most of the photos are not identified. Several with edge tips wear soiling chipping to the mounts; a few corners clipped or chipped; others very clean and with clear images. A couple with the image faded and with some spotting. Photographs all contained within a red-velvet covered album of the period with gilt decorations and metal clasps broken; one gilt corner mount unpinned; lacking the central ornament; binding worn leaves loose within. Several of the images are loosely laid-in; many of the mounting 'windows' torn. The group of photographs are in very good condition overall; the binding is in fair to good condition. An interesting overview of the prolific Berlin Germany photographic studio portrait work being accomplished at the end of the 19th century. . Photography. Photograph Album. Very Good. Wertheim, Zeidler, Roloff, Strom & Walter, Conrad, Wilhelm Stein, Globus, Jandorf, Gulzer, Wenzel, Bohme, Appel, Fuchs et al hardcover books
1999réf. 185444Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club 1999. Hardcover. VG no dj but covers and pages are very crisp and clean. Light gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover; color illustrated end papers; color illustrated frontispiece and title page; 350 pp; richly illustrated throughout in color. "This definitive book documents the history of the silver flatware produced under the Tiffany name. It includes flatware made by others but retailed by Tiffany as well as the flatware that was designed and made in-house. The story is woven into the broader fabric of the history of flatware in general and that of dining and selected food." "Based on extensive new research in the Tiffany Archives and many years of personal experience in collecting and dealing this volume discusses and illustrates Tiffany-made full-line patterns plus variations numerous not-full-line patterns and custom patterns. Detailed descriptions and specially commissioned photographs document the extraordinary creativity and craftsmanship that distinguished much of Tiffany & Co.'s prolific Victorian flatware production."--Description from dj. Contents: Pt. I. Silver Flatware Retailed by Tiffany 1845-c.1876 -- Ch. 1. Flatware made by Polhamus Hebbard Gorham Moore and others -- Pt. II. Silver Flatware Introduced by Tiffany 1869-1905 -- Ch. 2. Names Pieces Weights Parts Patterns -- Ch. 3. Place Pieces in Standard Patterns -- Ch. 4. Serving Pieces in Standard Patterns -- Ch. 5. Standard Patterns: Era of Edward C. Moore -- Ch. 6. Standard Patterns: Era of Charles T. Grosjean -- Ch. 7. Standard Patterns: Era of Paulding Farnham -- Ch. 8. Not-full-line Patterns -- Ch. 9. Custom Patterns. App. A. Flatware Terminology -- App. B. Glossary of Other Technical Terms as Related to Silverware -- App. C. Tiffany Flatware Markings -- App. D. A Tiffany Chronology: 1837-1997. Antique Collectors' Club hardcover books
1997réf. PW1064Berlin:: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 1997. 1997. 8vo. 156 pp. Plates some in color. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN: 3882269286 A marvelous study of the work and life of Beer. "Wilhelm Beer was a Berlin banker and brother of the composer Meyerbeer who set up a private observatory equipped with a 9.5-centimeter refractor. In collaboration with Johann H. Madler he produced in 1830 the first accurate map of the Moon Mappa Selenographica and a companion descriptive volume Der Mond describing the surface features. These showed the Moon to be a world very unlike the Earth and contradicted the pro-selenite claims of Gruithuisen and William Herschel see life on the Moon. Beer and Madler's map remained the best available for several decades and helped persuade most professional astronomers that the Moon is uninhabited. The two also collaborated in the production of the first systematic chart of the surface of Mars." David Darling. "His leisure hours were spent in studying astronomy in an observatory he had constructed in his garden. Together with J.H. Maedler he studied the planet Mars during the 1828 1832 1835 and 1837 oppositions and their findings were published. Later they made a map of the moon; over many years they recorded every aspect of the moon surface and published their findings in Der Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen Verhaeltnissen oder allgemeine vergleichende Selenographie 2 vols. 1837. This was the standard work for many years." – Encyclopedia. "The first quadrant for Beer and Madler's 'Mappa Selenorgaphica' was first published in 1834 with the other three quadrants published the next couple of years." Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1997. unknown books
1920réf. 010753NY: G. Schirmer 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Better than very good copy inscribed by artist/ muralist Paul Burlin whose first wife was author Natalie Curtis on the ffe "In memory of our 'lost friend' / with affection from/ Paul/ New York City/ New York 1922". in reference to his first wife the book's author Natalie who died in 1921. THIS COPY IS DISTINCTIVE AS IT HAS THE NAME BURLIN NAME ON THE SPINE AS AUTHOR INSTEAD OF CURTIS as the author sometimes used her full married name Natalie Curtis Burlin. Period bookplate pastedown. Burlin was invited to participate in the 1913 69th Regiment Armory Show in New York the first modern art exhibition in the United States which introduced the European vanguard such as Picasso Manet Monet and Degas to America. He moved to Santa Fe in 1913 and painted there until 1920 while exhibiting his work in New York City. He painted portraits of Pueblo Indians landscapes and scenes of local daily life. G. Schirmer hardcover books
2014réf. 30206London: Carlton Books 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Oblong hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. Foreword by Mark More. 192 pp. Illustrated in color. Very light handling wear. A very good to near fine copy of the uncommon hardbound edition. Highly recommended for anyone interested in Rave culture ephemera. Correct first edition not to be confused with a revised edition from several years later. Carlton Books hardcover books
1978réf. 25838New York: Interview Enterprises Inc 1978. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Tall newspaper format arts magazine published by Warhol. This is the issue with a classic photo of Truman Capote on the front cover. Warhol has INSCRIBED this copy on front cover. There is a piece of archival tape which adheres the inside front cover to the first page at the top right hand corner; else a very good copy. Paper lightly toned. Includes an interview with Capote contributions by Brigid Berlin Mark Ginsburg and others. Interview Enterprises, Inc paperback books
1919réf. 2716Folio. About 32 published song sheets of various sizes the largest being 13 1/4 x 10 bound into one volume. with the signature of Rosalind Wood former Countess Gauardabassi of Perugia Italy. Compilation of WWI Patriotic songs most with colorful cover graphics. Including a typescript of two songs pasted inside the front cover. Includes 3 songs by Irving Berlin Litz Rice George M. Cohan and Jerome Kern among others. 13 1/4 x 10. In Fine condition. This is a unique compilation of music sheets. One of a kind. Various Publishers for each music sheets hardcover books
réf. 007908New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To James Armey with best wishes Frank Howley". James W. Armsey 1918-2008 was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them including Duke University Vanderbilt University Emory University Tulane University and several major private colleges to admit black students for the first time. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket spine sunned completely small chips rear panel and spine ends. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
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 books
1988réf. 285972Columbus: Merrill 1988. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. Illustrated. xiv 466 pages and xiii 190 pages 4to blue printed cloth; small ownership stamp front free endpaper. Columbus: Merrill Publishing Company 1988. A very good copy with the accompanying paperback work book. Merrill unknown books
