viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1918

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985). - Efros, A. and Ya. Tugendhold:
        Iskusstvo Marka Chagalla (russ.). ("Die Kunst Marc Chagalls/The Art of Marc Chagall").
      Gelikon,, Moskau, 1918 - 4°. 51 num, 5 unnum. SS. inkl. Frontispiz mit mont. farb. Abb., 14 s/w Abb. im Text, 2 mont. s/w. Abb., 12 s/w Abb. auf Taf. mit Reprod. von Werken Chagalls. Orig.-Hlwd. mit Deckelillustr. (51 numbered, 5 unnumbered pages incl. frontispiece with mounted color illustration, 14 b/w illustrations within the text , 12 b/w illustr. on plates and 2 mounted b/w illustr. (reprod. from Chagall drawings and painings). Illustr. Orig. Half cloth). Vgl. Vollmer, Bd. 1, S. 415 (nennt nur die Erste Deutsche Ausgabe 1921). - Erste Ausgabe. - Text in Russisch. Papier tls. gebräunt und vereinzelt etw. braunfleckig. Titelseite am Bund oben mit kl. Radierspur. S. 7 mit blassem Stempel. Kl. Archivstempel auf vord. Innendeckel. Einbd. leicht berieben. Vorderdeckel im Bund oben mit Spur e. abgelös. Bibl.schilds. Kanten tls. beschabt. - / First Edition - Text in Russian. - Paper medium browned. Little Rubbed patch on top of title page. Faded stamp on p. 7. Small Archive stamp on front paste down endpaper. Boards somewhat rubbed. Edges slightly bumped/worn. Interior pages with very little foxing. Little rubbed patch near top spine of front cover. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Lutz-Peter Kreussel]

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Deutsches Theater Berlin (Hg.)
        Das junge Deutschland - Monatsschrift für Literatur und Theater - Erster Jahrgang 1918 - Alfred Döblin, Walter Hasenclever, Rudolf Pannwitz, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Orlik, Ernst Stern etc.
      Erich Reiß, Berlin 1918 - Beiträge von Ernst Blaß, Max Brod, Alfred Döblin, Kasimir Edschmid, Walther Seidlitz, Margarete Freund, Hans Hain, Walter Hasenclever, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Emil Jannings, Georg Kaiser, Klabund, Rudolf Pannwitz, Erich Singer, Peter Suhrkamp, Hugo Wolf, Gerhart Hauptmann, Frank Wedekind, August Strindberg u.v.a.m. Beiträge zu: Expressionismus in der Malerei, Maria Stuart im Deutschen Theater, Chagall, Picasso, Kandinsky, Hauptmanns Bühnensprache, Frank Wedekinds Tod, Das neue Drama, Das geistliche Schauspiel des Mittelalters u.v.a.m. Kunst von Erich Büttner, Reinhard Goering, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Orlik, Ernst Stern u.a. 375 S. Einband sehr leicht bestoßen, sauber, Rücken mit geringen Druckspuren, Schnitt angebräunt, sauber, Seiten etwas lichtrandig, sauber, ausgesprochen guter Zustand. Size: gr.8° [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Verlag IL Kunst, Literatur & Antiquariat]

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(POCHOIR). ARNOUX, GUY
        TAMBOURS ET TROMPETTES
      Paris: Devambez, 1918. No. 287 OF 475 COPIES, from a total issue of 500 n. Hardcover. 470 x 375 mm (18 1/2 x 14 3/4"). 1 p.l. followed by plates. No. 287 OF 475 COPIES, from a total issue of 500. Loose as issued within original wrappers and housed in publisher's paper board folio (spine repaired with shipping tape), upper cover with hand-colored lithograph vignette, original (somewhat worn but intact) tri-color silk ribbon ties. With illustrated title page and 10 HAND-COLORED PLATES IN POCHOIR. Rear board with "can't dupl." in black marking pen. Corners and edges somewhat worn, just a hint of soiling to boards, but a very desirable copy, the inelegantly repaired portfolio with obvious condition issues, but the richly colored plates--the important part of this item--especially clean, fresh, and well preserved in general. This is a copy of French caricaturist and illustrator Guy Arnoux's vivid homage to those musical instruments and musicians leading the French into battle from the Revolution through World War I. Arnoux (1886-1951) illustrated almost 80 books, including several of outstanding print quality, for Parisian publisher Devambez. The army and patriotism were favorite themes of this scion of a military family, his body of work, as here, possessing a degree of charming chauvinistic naiveté. As an indication of his versatility, between 1912 and 1925 he produced work for the celebrated Parisian fashion review, "La Gazette du Bon Ton." The large format plates here--hand-colored using the pochoir stencil process--are animated and extremely vibrant.

      [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Mediev]

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Hildebrandt, Lily.
        Klein-Rainers Weltreise.
      Georg W. Dietrich,, München, 1918 - 16 hojas, con 14 litografías a color de Lily Hildebrandt. Cartoné original. Muy buen estado. Primera edición de esta importante obra de Lily Hildebrandt, artista especializada en las vidrieras, de cuya obra este ejemplar es una primera muestra.Lily Hildebrandt, de origen judío, fue la primera estudiante de Ad. Meyer en Berlín. En 1913 se trasladó a Stuttgart, donde fue estudiante de Adolf Hölzel. Tras 1919 su casa fue un lugar de encuentro de la vanguardia artística. El protagonista del libro es Rainer Hildebrandt (1914-2004), hijo de Hans y Lily; fue amigo y alumno de Albrecht Haushofer, combatiente de la resistencia y fundador y directo del museo "Haus am Checkpoint Charlie". [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: InetLlibre S.L.]

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VARISCHI / ARTICO
        MILANO: FOTOGRAFIE ORIGINALI DEL 1918 Realizzate dallo Studio Fotografico Varischi / Artico di Milano.
      (1918). Raccolta di 10 interessantissime fotografie originali (mm. 362 x 486 - al vivo) scattate dopo l?'incendio scoppiato nei Magazzini della Rinascente di Milano il giorno di Natale 1818. Queste immagini sono state realizzate dallo Studio Fotografico di Arturo Varischi e Giovanni Artico, situato in Corso Vittorio Emanuale 22 - studio molto noto nella Milano dell?'epoca. Ogni foto è applicata su cartoncino, con timbro a secco dello Studio Fotografico. Tutta la raccolta è ben conservata (solo 1 foto con 2 mancanze).

      [Bookseller: Libreria Malavasi sas]

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CARCO Francis LOBEL-RICHE Alméry
        Les malheurs de Fernande EDITION ORIGINALE Grand papier
      Paris: A l'édition, 1918. Fine. A l'édition, Paris 1918, 11,5x18,5cm, relié. - First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Arches paper, leading copy after 6 Japan. Bound in half morocco anthracite strip, flat spine enriched head of a bookplate mosaic piece of red and brown morocco, covers and spine preserved, gilded head, pasted on the first contreplat elegant relioure signed Devauchelle. Nice cover illustrated by Lobel-Riche. Nice copy of this well established following Jesus-la-Caille. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale, un des 15 exemplaires numérotés sur Arches, tirage de tête après 6 Japon. Reliure en demi maroquin anthracite à bandes, dos lisse enrichi en tête d'une pièce mosaïquée de maroquin rouge et brun, couvertures et dos conservés, tête dorée, ex-libris encollé sur le premier contreplat, élégante relioure signée de Devauchelle. Jolie couverture illustrée par Lobel-Riche. Bel exemplaire parfaitement établi de cette suite de Jésus-la-Caille.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]

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Rosegger Peter, 1843-1918
        Das Volksleben in Steiermark, 1875, mit AUTOGRAPH VON MARIE THER
      Rosegger Peter, 1843-1918 - Das Volksleben in Steiermark, 1875, mit AUTOGRAPH VON MARIE THERESE V.WITTELSBACH Rosegger, Peter K. Das Volksleben in Steiermark in Charakter- und Sittenbildern. 2 Bde. Graz, Leykam-Josefsthal, 1875. 8°., 18x11 cm., VI, 1 Bl., 184 S., I., 246 S., Orig Einband. KÖNIGLICHE PROVENIENZ: WITTELSBACH; HIER GESTEMPELT Marie Therese; mit eigenhändigem Eintrag: "Gekauft 1875 November/Marie Therese" Marie Therese von Österreich-Este (18491919) Marie Therese Henriette Dorothea, auch Maria Theresia (* 2. Juli 1849 in Brünn;  3. Februar 1919 auf Schloss Wildenwart/Chiemgau) war Erzherzogin von Österreich-Este, Prinzessin von Modena und von 1913 bis 1918 die letzte Königin von Bayern. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Hammelburger Antiquariat]

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RACKHAM, Arthur) SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (GOSSE, Edmund).
        The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by A.C. Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse.
      London: William Heinemann, 1918. - Limited Edition to 765 copies of which this is No. 602, SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full dark green morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration to upper replicationg the publisher's original design, gilt titles to spine, marbled end papers with gilt dentelle; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 9 tipped-in colour plates as well as black and white head and tail pieces. Binding a little rubbed, spine faded to brown. Very occasional small odd brown dot otherwise content tight and clean. A fine copy. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, ABA, ILAB]

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LAWRENCE, D H
        New Poems
      London: Martin Secker,, 1918. Octavo. Original grey wrappers, lettered in dark blue on front cover. Housed in a dark blue cloth chemise and slipcase. Skilful old repair to spine. An exceptionally nice copy. First edition, first impression, "the first printing consisted of 500 copies" (Roberts & Poplawski). Siegfried Sassoon's copy, inscribed on the half-title, in the month of publication: "Siegfried Sassoon. Oct. 1918" and with his monogram book label pasted inside the front cover, which was added to all the books from Sassoon's library that were auctioned by Sotheby's in 1991. "On 13th July 1918, Sassoon was just returning from a patrol in No Man's Land when he was shot in the head by one of his own sergeants, who mistook him for an advancing German. The incident is recounted in Sherston's Progress" (Robert Giddings, The War Poets, 1988, p. 159). Sassoon's diary for early October 1918, show the after effects of this trauma in terse comments such as "awful headache" and "very exhausted", alongside his participation in London's busy social whirl. Two years after the appearance of New Poems Sassoon parodied Lawrence in "Fireflies. A Set of Parodies of the Works of Some Famous Modern Poets" (Vanity Fair, September 1920).

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

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Bishop, Major William A. [Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED, LL.D. (8 February 1894 - 11 September 1956) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace of the war. During the Second World War, Bishop was instrumental in setting up and promoting the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
        Winged Warfare [Signed]
      Published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, and George H. Doran Company First Edition . 1918. - First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covers, black title, author and publisher lettering [Doran] to the spine, over printed bi-plane on a black ground and gilt lettering to the front cover, illustrated end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xi] 272 printed pages of text with 12 monochrome photographs throughout on coated paper. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chips to the spine ends and corners, priced $1.50 to the spine. SIGNED by the author 'W. A. Bishop' on verso of second frontispiece. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD WAR [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member]

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PREISSIG, Vojtech
        BOH DO KRIVDY HROMOM - A Junak Gulami
      New York: Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, 1918. Poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 3/4 x 25 inches. World War I poster by Czech artist Vojtech Preissig, recruiting Czech immigrants living in Europe to join the Czech legion. Several horizontal creases, unmounted. This poster is number 11 in a series of 16 designed and printed at the the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute where Preissig was director. Poster states, issued by the Czech Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York.

      [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store]

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Pierce, Frederick E.
        Currents and Eddies in the English Romantic Generation [ Copy Bearing the Owner's Signature of Norman F. Maclean, dated Feb. 2, 1931 ]
      Yale University Press, New Haven 1918 - A very good copy of the first hard cover edition (dates on title and copyright pages correspond :1918), lacking a dust-jacket, and bearing the ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Norman F. Maclean, dated Feb. 2, 1931. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine. Age-toning and wear to the extremities of the boards, with dulling to the lettering on the spine. A sharp copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Works on Paper]

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(RACKHAM, Arthur) SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (GOSSE, Edmund)
        The Springtide of Life Poems of Childhood by A C Swinburne With a Preface by Edmund Gosse
      London: William Heinemann, 1918., 1918. Limited Edition to 765 copies of which this is No. 602, SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full dark green morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration to upper replicationg the publisher's original design, gilt titles to spine, marbled end papers with gilt dentelle; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 9 tipped-in colour plates as well as black and white head and tail pieces. Binding a little rubbed, spine faded to brown. Very occasional small odd brown dot otherwise content tight and clean. A fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

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PREISSIG, Vojtech
        Czechoslovaks! Join
      New York: Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, 1918. Poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 3/4 x 25 inches. Famous World War I poster by Czech artist Vojtech Preissig, recruiting Czech immigrants living in Europe to join the Czech legion. Several horizontal creases, unmounted. This poster is number 5 in a series of 16 designed and printed at the the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute where Preissig was director. Poster states, issued by the Czech Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York.

      [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store]

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George S Patton Jr
        Signed by Patton three times! World War I envelope from the Tank Army School in France, addressed by Lt Col George S Patton, Jr to his mother - postmarked just 10 days before he led the 1st Tank Brigade into Battle at St Mihiel, the first battle of the American Expeditionary Force led by an American commander (Gen John J Pershing)
      [Langres, France], September 2, 1918. 5" x 4.25". "Envelope, 5"" x 4.25"", addressed by Patton to ""Mrs Geo S Patton / San Gabriel / California / U.S.A."" return address ""Lt. Col. G S Patton Jr. / A.P.O. 714"" with signature in lower left ""G S Patton Jr. / Lt. Col. NA [National Army]"" stamped over ""A.E.F. Passed as Censored."" Neatly torn open at blank right edge. Fine condition.With 2015 Philatelic Foundation Certificate. Accompanied by a color photocopy of the letter mailed in this envelope, 1 page, 8.25"" x 10.5"", September 1, 1918."

      [Bookseller: University Archives]

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Bezruc, Petr
        Slezské Písne [Silesian songs]
      Ekaterinburg: Vydáno Osvetlím odborem O.C.S.N.R. [Odbocka Ceskoslovenské Národní Rady v Rusku], 1918. Cloth. Very Good. 2mo (13.5 x 11.5 cm). 128 pp. This rather elaborately printed edition of Petr Bezruc?'s popular Czech poetic cycle, Silesian Songs, is a relic of the publishing operations of the Czechosloak Legions during their famed Anabasis during the early phases of the Russian Civil War. The Czech Legion were fighting on behalf of the Entente (the U.K., France, Russia) and specifically Tsar during the First World War in the cause of Czech independence from Austria, which was one of the opposing Central Powers. They had proved a puissant combat force, but the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent Soviet treaty with the Central Powers threw everything up in the air. Soon the Czech Legion was taking sides in the Civil War which ensued, with the Legion aligning itself with the Whites, or the Counter-Revolutionary forces. Initially the Legion scored great success against the disorganized, ill-trained Soviet fighters, and by 1919 the Legion had complete control of the Trans Siberian Railroad. Unfortunately for them, the Soviet army got its act together and swiftly reversed the tide by mid-1919, at which point members of the Legion became suddenly homesick and scrambled as best they could to escape from Soviet territory. Most eventually did get out, after long delays and anxieties, and members of the Legion formed the core of the Czech army formed after the country achieved independence with the Treaty of Versailles. In any case, this publication is evidence of the roots the Czech Legion very quickly was able to put down in the land they controlled in Russia, and it is perhaps also surprising at how high the production values are of this trifle. Tan cloth with embossed red title and ornament; original wrappers preserved; handwritten and illustrated text lithographically reproduced; 5-128 pp. Boards lightly soiled; text toned

      [Bookseller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques]

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Sassoon, Siegfried:
        COUNTER-ATTACK AND OTHER POEMS.
      London: William Heinemann, 1918. - Original red and orange wrappers, neatly and sympathetically rebacked in light tan paper with spine lettering, Usual slight tanning to text block, small chip from lower corner of rear wrapper, but a good copy. Folding cloth clamshell box with gilt lettered label. First edition (1500 copies printed) of the first public printing in book form of many of Sassoon's most significant war poems. Inscribed by Sassoon on the half-title: "To J.M. Barrie with admiration from Siegfried Sassoon May 1919." Additionally, Sassoon has made seven corrections in the text in pencil. The circumstances of the presentation can be fairly confidently nailed down: Sassoon had assisted in various ways with the preparation of the first number of THE OWL, the lavish literary periodical edited by his close friend Robert Graves. There was a deluxe issue of 24 copies to be signed by the contributors, and in SIEGFRIED'S JOURNEY (1945, pp.147-8), Sassoon relates how he took 24 copies of the newly minted May publication to Thomas Hardy for his signature. Hardy had contributed and was then staying with Sir James Barrie. It seems possible, if not probable, that Sassoon presented this gift to Barrie on that occasion, or, if not that day, immediately thereafter. KEYNES A17a. REILLY, p.285. BLUNDEN, et al, p.9.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA]

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(RACKHAM, Arthur) SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (GOSSE, Edmund)
        The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by A.C. Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse
      London: William Heinemann, 1918., 1918. Limited Edition to 765 copies of which this is No. 602, SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full dark green morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt illustration to upper replicationg the publisher's original design, gilt titles to spine, marbled end papers with gilt dentelle; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 9 tipped-in colour plates as well as black and white head and tail pieces. Binding a little rubbed, spine faded to brown. Very occasional small odd brown dot otherwise content tight and clean. A fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

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Wellman, William A. [William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 - December 9, 1975] Introduction and Notes by Eliot Harlow Robinson [Richard N. Lightner]
        Go, Get 'Em!: The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps Who Was the Only Yankee Flyer Fighting Over General Pershing's Boys of the Rainbow Division in Lorraine, When They First Went "Over The Top"
      Published by Page Company, Boston, Massachusetts First Edition September 1918. 1918. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers with orange pictorial image of two fighters locked in combat, orange title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 284 [iv] printed pages of text with 16 single-sided monochrome photographs throughout. Wellman enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps as an ambulance driver. While in Paris he joined the French Foreign Legion and was assigned on December 3, 1917 as a fighter pilot and the first American to join N.87 escadrille in the Lafayette Flying Corps (not the sub-unit Lafayette Escadrille as usually stated), where he earned himself the nickname "Wild Bill" and received the Croix de Guerre with two palms. Although he began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant, but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion. He also directed several well-regarded satirical comedies. He directed the 1927 film Wings, which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony. From the private library of actor Richard N. Lightner SIGNED 'Richard N. Lightner' inside the front cover. Light spotting to the top edge. Near Fine condition book in extremely rare Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine, two small pieces of paper missing to the top and bottom edges of the rear cover, priced $1.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

      [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA]

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Barbusse, Henri.
        Le Feu. (Journal d'une escouade). Illustre de quatre-vingt-six compositions de Renefer dont dix eaux-fortes originales et soixante-seize bois graves par Eugene Dete et accompagne d'une preface inedite de l'auteur. 2 vols (text- and plate volume).
      Paris, Boutitie, 1918.. 4to. (6), 338, (8)pp. With 76 wood-engraved illustrations and 10 orig. etchings with remarques by Renefer. Contemp. blue leather, richly gilt, a.e.g., with orig.-wrappers bound in.. One of 30 numbered copies on Japon Imperial with a double suite hors texte of the wood-engraved illustrations, on Chine and Japon, in a separate volume.- Fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Manfred Nosbüsch]

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McCudden, James Thomas Byford [Prefatory Notes by Major-General Sir Hugh Montague Trenchard, K.C.B., D.S.O. and Major-General John Maitland Salmond, C.M.G., D.S.O.] Introduction by C. G. Grey
        Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
      Published by The Aeroplane & General Publishing Co., Ltd., 61 Cary Street, Chancery Lane, London First Edition . 1918. - First edition hard back binding in publisher's original RAF blue cloth covers, navy title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 348 [1 page advertisements] printed pages of text with monochrome photographs on coated paper throughout. Ink message to the front free end paper 'To Arch, For his 18th Birthday, With the best of wishes from Percy, 7th December 1920.' Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with age tanning of the paper down the spine and with small losses of paper across the spine ends and front gutter, priced 7/6. The only known dust wrapper left in existence. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member]

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SASSOON, Siegfried
        Counter-Attack and Other Poems
      Heinemann, 1918. 1st edition. Red card covers as issued with yellow spine, slightly chafed along folds and spine, pages clean, with the oval bookplate of Anthony Hobson, perhaps the most distinguished British collector and bibliophile of the 20th century. Published a year after The Old Huntsman, this first printing of a further 39 of the author's most powerful war poems is an important work in his canon, and is in very good condition for such a fragile and scarce publication.

      [Bookseller: Shellhouse Books]

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BLOY Léon
        Dans les ténèbres
      Mercure de France, Paris 1918 - 276 pages, 20 X 16 cm Edition originale de cet ouvrage posthume (Bloy est mort le 3 novembre 1917), un des 75 ex. sur Hollande (N°52) après 7 Chine et 11 Japon. On peut y lire : « Songez donc ! Faire fortune lorsque la ruine menace tout le monde, utiliser les catastrophes en les aggravant, féconder la désolation, fertiliser le désespoir, être les mouches prospères et la ribotante vermine des morts, après avoir été la dernière torture des agonisants ! Ne serait-ce pas le comble de la bêtise de négliger l'occasion du sommeil inexplicable de la guillotine ? Accaparer les subsistances, raréfier ou sophistiquer la nourriture de tout un peuple pour en décupler la valeur sont des pratiques traditionnelles que la potence rémunérait autrefois et que récompensent aujourd'hui l'admiration et l'envie. Il y a les grands et les petits profiteurs et c'est une question de savoir quels sont les plus hideux. Les grands assassinent les pauvres de très loin, d'une manière générale, à l'abri de telle ou telle combinaison administrative toujours mystérieuse. Les petits, ceux qu'on nomme les détaillants, égorgillent chaque jour les indigents qui leur tombent nécessairement sous la main. Admirablement concertés entre eux, ils établissent les prix qu'ils veulent, réalisant des gains de 3 ou 400 pour cent. C'est la guerre ! disent-ils avec un sourire et ils triomphent dans leur turpitude, sachant très bien qu'aucune sanction n'interviendra pour désobliger les électeurs. » Exemplaire tel que paru, à toutes marges, bien complet du portrait de Bloy par son épouse en frontispice, en excellent état, excepté quelques coupure au bord de la très fragile couverture papier caractéristique du Mercure de France au début du vingtième siècle. 950  (1 scans) Maison [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Masjutin,W.:
        Die sieben Todsünden. Mit 23 Original-Radierungen und 1 Originalradierung auf dem Titelblatt.
      Privatdruck o. O. u. J.. Folio ( 43,5 x 33,5 cm). Originalhalbpergamentmappe / Flügelmappe mit goldgeprägtem Vordertitel. Vorliegend Nr. 4 von nur 20 Vorzugsexemplaren auf Bütten (Gesamtauflage 30 Exemplare). Alle Blätter (bis auf d. Titelblatt) signiert und unter Passepartout und in vorzüglichen Abzügen. Im Druckvermerk vom Künstler signiert. 1Bll. Titel, 1 Doppelblatt Verzeichnis der Radierungen mit vom Künstler eigenhändig signiertem Druckvermerk. Die Flügelmappe leicht berieben, zwei Flügel (rechts und oben) ca. 7,5 - 8cm eingerissen. Bei ca. 11 der Radierungen ist das Passepartout sehr leicht braunrandig, nicht jedoch die Radierung selbst. Bei der Radierung 4, II (Keilerei) ist das Passepartout auf einer Länge von 10 cm am rechten Rand wenig geknickt, bei der Radierung 4, III (gnädiger Herr) ist der Bereich unterhalb der Radierung minimal staubfleckig. Bei zwei Radierungen (4, VI Greisin) und 4, VII (Knabe) weist die Radierung am oberen Rand einen hellbräunlichen Feuchtigkeitsrand auf, die Radierung ( 4, IV, Predigt ) hat minimale, kleine Staubfleckchen über dem Motiv von ca. 0,5 x 0,5 cm ). Wie aus der Beschreibung ersichtlich - alle Radierungen genauestens besehen und in wirklich gutem Zustand. Schönes Exemplar.. Oestermann O1 b. -- Außerordentlich seltene Radierfolge der ersten Illustrationsarbeit Masjutins. Zuerst in Moskau 1918 in 10 [ oder 25 ] Exemplaren erschienen. #M11001

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat und Buchhandlung Carl Wegner]

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Odasso Attilio.
        ATTILIO ODASSO - PUBBLICAZIONI.
      Edite dal 1918 al 1957 (Codice GM / 1013) In 8º , 1.909 pp. complessive. Raccolta completa delle pubblicazioni del noto chirurgo piemontese: 59 fascicoli a stampa, varie illustrazioni. Di particolare interesse il volume "LA MIA PRATICA CHIRURGICA (1917 - 1937)", Ospedale Magg. S.Giovanni Batt., Torino, In 8° 340 pp. Tutti in brossura originale e conservati in due raccoglitori in tutta tela, titoli oro alle cop. Lievi segni del tempo, ma ottima conservaz. Allegato il curriculum vitae di A.Odasso con l'elenco delle pubblicazioni, elenco dei titoli e copia dei certificati (56 fogli sciolti dattiloscritti). Rara, importante e probabilmente unica collezione. Euro 470.00 ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA

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PETRUCCI, Raphael.
        KIAI-TSEU-YUAN HOU TCHOUAN ENCYCLOPEDIE DE LA PEINTURE CHINOISE. CHIEH-TZU YUAN HUA CHUANG:THE MUSTARD SEED GARDEN. Pinyin: JIE ZI YUAN HUA ZHUANG HUA NIAO PU.
      A DELUXE & MAGNIFICIENT CLASSIC ON THE MUSTARD SEED GARDEN Paris 1918, - Laurens. Red cloth, tall folio, very good, indexof painters, general table, glossary, 497 b.w. gravures, 28 x 40 cm. minor wear to corners, spine head/tail, clean solidcopy. FIRST & ONLY LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF 550 COPIES Color scans available for this book on request. Description content 2015Copyright Rare Oriental Books Co.

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George S. Patton Jr
        After tank driving exercises at the Army School in France, Lieutenant Colonel George S Patton, Jr writes his "Papa" that if "all the men could drive as well as the ones we had in the platoon this morning we would certainly kill Germans ?"
      [Langres, France], June 30, 1918. 8.25" x 10.5". "Autograph Letter Signed ""Your devoted son / G S Patton Jr.,"" 1 page, 8.25"" x 10.5"". [311th Tank Center, Langres, France], June 30, 1918. Expertly mended at fold on verso. To his father, George S Patton. Fine condition.In full, ""June 30 18. Dear Papa: We have just hade some driving over rising shell holes some over ten feet deep and thirty across. The tanks did fine and all the people looking on were duly impressed. It was funny to see them go clear out of sight and then reappear and go on. I wish all the men could drive as well as the ones we had in the platoon this morning we would certainly kill Germans. We are having lovely weather but it is I believe too dry for the corps at least they dont look very well according to my notion. I am invited out to lunch so must stop and clean up. Much love to all Your devoted son G S Patton Jr."" Written as director of the 311th Tank Center, Langres, France. In 1919, Lieutenant Colonel Patton was cited by Gen John J. Pershing ""for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous services commanding the Tank Center Army Schools, France."""

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Schmitz, Oscar A. H. und Alfred Kubin:
        Herr von Pepinster und sein Popanz<. Geschichten vom Doppelleben., Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz. Mit 14 Zeichnungen von Alfred Kubin.
      Erschienen in München bei: Georg Müller, im Jahre 1918. - Insgesamt 4 Bl.+ 270 Seiten + 3 Bl., Titelblatt in Rot- schwarz- Druck und mit 14 Abbildungen nach Zeichnungen von Alfred Kubin auf separaten Büttenpapier. Inhalt: Die 12 Essays von O. H. Schmitz stammen aus den Jahren 1896 bis 1911, u. a. Der Sieg der Aufklärung; Johannes, der Gottselige; Abraham, der Einsiedler; Der gläserne Gott; Der Mann ohne Kopf und Die Begegnung der Götter, etc., und die traumhaften Zeichnungen dazu schuf A. Kubin. Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz (16. April 1873 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hessen;  17. Dezember 1931 in Frankfurt am Main) war deutscher Gesellschaftsschriftsteller und Mitglied der Münchner Bohème. Er studierte seit 1892 Jura, Ökonomie und Geisteswissenschaften, verkehrte in München mit dem Kreis um Stefan George und den Kosmikern Klages und Schuler. Auch mit Franziska zu Reventlow war er bekannt. In späteren Jahren befasste er sich intensiv mit Themen aus Politik und Gesellschaft, insbesondere mit dem Werk von C. G. Jung. Mit seinem Schwager, dem Grafiker und Illustrator Alfred Kubin, ging er in ganz Europa, Nordafrika und Russland auf Reisen. Längere Zwischenstationen waren München, Salzburg, Rom, Paris und Berlin. (Quelle: Killy, siehe auch Wikipedia). Alfred Kubin, geb. am 10. April 1877, in Leitmeritz, Böhmen. Graphiker, Maler, Illustrator und Schriftsteller, Kubin gilt als bedeutender Vertreter des Expressionismus. Er war ein Mitglied des legendären "Blauen Reiters". Seine Zeichnungen bezeichnete er als "Traumprotokolle". Am 20. 8. 1959 verstarb Alfred Kubin in Zwickledt, (Quelle: Euro-Journal Linz). Zustand: Der bibliophil- gestaltete Einband ist minimal berieben, Ecken und Kanten kaum bestoßen. Innen. Seiten teilweise an den Rändern minimal gebräunt, sonst sehr sauber wohl gepflegt und tadellos erhalten, Sammlerexemplar! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050 Kl.4°(Quart- Format bis 27,5 cm.) Nachtschwarzer Original- Ganzleder- Einband mit goldgeprägter Rückenbeschriftung auf weinrotem Untergrund und reicher Gold- Ornamentik, sowie doppelte Gold- Fileten mit Zickzack- Muster, als Deckel- Illustration, Kopfgoldschnitt und lila- blaues Leseband, außerdem künstlerisch gestaltete rot- violette Vor- und Nachsätze. Dieses Werk wurde im Auftrage von Georg Müller Verlag in München in 200 in der Presse nummerierten Exemplaren auf Bütten gedruckt. Die Exemplare 1 bis 75 wurden in Ganzleder von der Buchbinderei Hübel & Denk in Leipzig gebunden. Dieses Exemplar trägt die Nummer 4. Von Alfred Kubin und Oscar A. H. Schmitz im Kolophon handschriftlich signiert. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

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APOLLINAIRE Guillaume
        Le flâneur des deux rives EDITION ORIGINALE Grand papier
      Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1918. Fine. Editions de la Sirène, Paris 1918, 10,5x18cm, broché. - First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, only five leading copies after China. Illustrated book of a photographic portrait of the author as a frontispiece. Guard slightly and marginally shaded minor. Beautiful copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale, un des 50 exemplaires numérotés sur Hollande, seuls grands papiers après 5 Chine. Ouvrage illustré d'un portrait photographique de l'auteur en frontispice. Gardes très légèrement et marginalement ombrées sans gravité. Bel exemplaire.

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PREISSIG, Vojtech
        Za Nasisamostatnost! Hrr Na Vraha! Za Demokracii! Ceskoslovenska Armada
      New York: Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, 1918. Poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 3/4 x 25 inches. World War I recruiting poster by Czech artist Vojtech Preissig. Several horizontal creases, unmounted. This poster is number 7 in a series of 16 designed and printed at the the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute where Preissig was director. Poster states, issued by the Czech Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York. Repairs to margins.

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VANDERBILT, W. K
        A Trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and Southern France
      New York: Privately printed,, 1918. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, vignette to front board in blind, top edge gilt, others uncut. 51 plates, 2 folding maps, of which 1 is folding. Spine darkened, spine ends and tips a little worn, front hinge partly cracked at foot, but holding. A very good copy. First and only edition, inscribed by the author on the first blank: "To Dr Joseph Collins, with the compliments of the author, W. K. Vanderbilt. July 31st, 1923." William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878?-1944), a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family in the US, travelled extensively after serving with the United States Navy during the First World War. This volume is illustrated with photographs from his tour.

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Stammbuch der Gräfin Maja Gallenberg
        Stammbuch der Gräfin Maja Gallenberg mit 110 Eintragungen von namhaften Künstlern der Zeit, darunter Enrico Caruso, Richard Strauss und Gustav Meyrink.
      Meist Wien, 1886 bis 1918. - 93 num. Bll. (recte: 79). Lederband der Zeit mit umlaufendem Goldschnitt. 8vo. Das über drei Jahrzehnte hinweg geführte Stammbuch von Maja Gallenberg, einer Enkelin des Komponisten Wenzel Robert Graf Gallenberg (Musikgraf") und Julia Giuletta" Gräfin Giucciardi, die einst mit Beethoven in enger Beziehung gestanden hatte, der ihr seine Mondschein-Sonate" widmete. Die Eintragungen stammen mehrheitlich von Schauspielern, Sängern, Musikern und Intendaten, darunter (in alphabetischer Reihung) John Quincy Adams, Josef Altmann, Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg, Alice Barbi, Agathe Barsescu, Bernhard Baumeister, Josef Freiherr von Bezecny, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Ferdinand Bonn, Hermine Braga, Karl Bukovics von Kiss Alacska, Max Burckhard, Aloys Burgstaller, Willy Burmester, Enrico Caruso, Max Devrient, Babette Devrient-Reinhold, Andreas Dippel, Ella Forster, Zerline Gabillon (2), Oskar Gimnig, Alfred Grünfeld (Notenzitat), Ellen Gulbranson, Hugo von Habermann, August Hablawetz, Konrad Hallenstein, Ernst Hartmann, Helene Hartmann, Josef Hellmesberger sen., Oskar Hofmeister, Stella Hohenfels, Willibald Horwitz, Elisabeth (Klein-)Hruby, Robert Hübner, Marcel Journet, August Junkermann, Alma Kallina, Louise Kaulich-Lazarich, Ferdinand Kracher, Emilie von (Jauner-)Krall, Josefine Kramer-Glöckner, Fritz Krastel, Felix von Kraus, Anna Kratz, Viktor Kutschera, Marie Lehmann, Josef Lewinsky, Ida Baier-Liebhardt, Konrad Loewe, Pauline Lucca, Amalie (Friedrich-)Materna, Friedrich Mitterwurzer, Wilhelmine Mitterwurzer, Georg Müller, Rosa Paumgartner-Papier, Franceschina Prevosti, Theodor Reichmann, Georg Reimers, Hella Rentsch-Sauer, Emmerich Robert, Louisabeth Roeckel, Arnold Rosé, Adele Sandrock, Wilhelmine Sandrock, Anton Schittenheim, Antonie Schläger, Louise Schönfeld, Katharina Schratt, Fritz Schrödter, Adolf v. Sonnenthal, Philipp Stätter, Maria Strassmann, Richard Strauss, Guilhermina Suggia, Hugo Thimig, Hans Thoma, Rudolf Tyrolt, Ernest Van Dyck, Siegfried Wagner, Fanny Walbeck, Josephine Wessely, Hermann Winkelmann, Eugen Witte, Charlotte Wolter und Carl von Zeska.  Ferner unterzeichnen die Mitglieder des Flonzaley Quartetts  Adolfo Betti, Alfred Pochon, Ugo Ara und Iwan dArchambeau , der deutsche Politiker und Bankier Bernhard Dernburg (18651937), der Schriftsteller Gustav Meyrink (mit dem Schlußteil seiner Erzählung Der heiße Soldat", die den Grundstein für Meyrinks literarische Laufbahn legte), die Schriftstellerin Edith Gräfin Salburg (Schlage die Trommel und fürchte Dich nicht") und der Schriftsteller Raoul Auernheimer.  Die SS. 25, 27, 30, 33, 34, 39, 45, 49, 50, 51, 53, 61, 70 und 73 alt entfernt, S. 85 lose; Buchblock gelockert, eine kleine Fehlstelle am Rücken, Vordergelenk etwas angeplatzt, Deckel und Kanten etwas berieben und beschabt. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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EDWARD VII
        Order of the British Empire Document Signed
      Partially printed Document Signed. Order of the British Empire Document Signed by Edward VII ("Edward P") as Grand Master, and with the stamped (not original) signature of his father King George V. Dated 1 January 1918. Large quarto sheet (watermarked "J. Whatman Hand Made 1917") folded into four pages. A faint bend in one corner and a small stain in the upper right corner, near fine. The recipient was Harold Augustus Fortington, a wealthy businessman. With a typed note of transmission from the Central Chancery, and with the original mailing envelope, which exhibits some wear. .

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