Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1920

Steinhagen, Heinrich (*1880 Wismar - 1948 Hamburg )
        3 spielende Kleinkinder oder Putten. Tempera Gemälde auf Leinwand, rechts unten signiert.
       Monumentales Tempera Gemälde in beinahe monochromer grün-bläulicher Farbigkeit in dünnem Farbauftrag auf dünner Leinwand mit den Bildmaßen von ca. 115 x 143 cm ( Höhe x Breite ), in schlichter Rahmung ( Rahmenmaß: 120 x 149 cm ). Das Gemälde rechts unten mit *Steinhagen * signiert, undatiert ( wohl um 1920 ). Das Bild mit kleineren Gebrauchsspuren ( berieben, kleine Kratzer, einige winzige Löcher ) sowie 2 kleineren Einrissen oben und einem kleineren seitlichen Einriß. ( jeweils hinterlegbar - restaurierbar ). ( Bitte beachten: Hier aufgrund der Größe kein Versand – hier nur Selbstabholung nach Absprache und hierbei bitte die enorme Größe des Gemäldes berücksichtigen - Please notice: No shipment possible ). >>> Heinrich Steinhagen: Einer der Mitbegründer der Hamburgischen Sezession - Literatur u.a.: Der Neue Rump, Hamburger Künstlerlexikon Seite 447 - Provenienz: Alter Privatbesitz) ( Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage – further pics at request ) Versand D: 5,00 EUR Heinrich Steinhagen, Gemälde, Ölgemälde, Entartete Kunst, Hamburger Sezession, signiert, Kinder, Kleinkinder, Putto, Putti, Tempera

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Friederichsen]

Sedivy Yun, Franz (1888 - 1973)
        ROSA MYSTICA. Original Painting.
      Original Artwork [Unpublished]. c. 1920 - Gouache, watercolour, ink and collage on paper, laid down on board. Signed in full to the bottom right. Measuring 28.5 x 30 cms. The colours bright and unfaded. Signed and inscribed by the artist with the title to the reverse. A beautiful original painting from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Design School trained artist and heraldist Franz Šedivý Yun. His first exhibition was in 1919 and he worked as a theatre stage designer and restorer for various Copenhagen museums such as the National Museum, the Folklore Museum and Svanholm Castle. At the same time he cultivated his talent as a heraldist becoming a coat-of-arms painter for the Royal Order of Denmark between 1945 and 1967. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

      [Bookseller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)]

EINSTEIN, Albert
        The Theory of Relativity.
      London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,, 1920. The Special & the General Theory, a Popular Exposition. Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson, with Five Diagrams and a Portrait of the Author. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in blind. 8 pages of inserted advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of author by Hermann Struck, diagrams, figures and equations in text. Ink ownership inscription to pastedown. Spine slightly faded, small mark to rear cover, a few gatherings standing proud of the text block, endpapers browned. A very good copy. First edition in English, first impression, translated from the third German edition (1918) by Robert W. Lawson. This is the first appearance of any of Einstein's works in English. The additional chapter (Appendix III) written by Einstein for this edition was added at Lawson's urging, who thought the book would be more accessible if its author could provide a proof of the general theory. Einstein intended the book to be intelligible to the general public, which he tested by reading drafts to his step-daughter Margot, "pausing frequently to ask whether she indeed got it" (Isaacson, p. 232).

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

GYGER, Emanuel (1886-1951) (photographe)
        Adelboden. - Photographie originale en grand format.
      S.d., vers 1920, - 43.5 x 57 cm, tirage argent en noir et blanc original, coin sup. gauche taché (abimé), signée en bas à droite. En 1909, Emanuel Gyger ouvre un magasin à Adelboden avec Hermann Eggimann, puis s'installe en 1910 dans la dépendance de l'hôtel Regina (Dorfstrasse) qu'il vient d'acquérir. En 1930, il s'associe à son ancien apprenti Arnold Klopfenstein. Les prises de vue de Gyger soulignent la structure massive de la montagne, son volume et son inaccessibilité; il fixe aussi par l'image l'homme dans sa relation à la montagne. Créateur d'un style pour toute la région, il a su marquer l'esthétique populaire par ses photos des Alpes bernoises et valaisannes (DHS).Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Paul Hugger, Welten aus Fels und Eis, NZZ, 2009; [Attributes: Signed Copy]

      [Bookseller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.]

LAWRENCE T.E.
        Fine ALS signed TE Lawrence
      To "Dear Callow". 2 pp. 8vo. Some light soiling, a couple of patches of abrasion indicating that the letter may have been removed from an album, some offsetting of ink, but in very acceptable condition. On letterhead of All Souls College, Oxford, Sept. 2 

      [Bookseller: Maggs Bros. Ltd.]

[Lawrence, T.E.]
        The Changing East. [In:] The Round Table, No. 40, for September 1920
      London: Macmillan, 1920. Vol. X, pp. 756-772. 1 vols. 8vo. Later red cloth. Minor exterior rubbing, internally fine. Vol. X, pp. 756-772. 1 vols. 8vo. O'Brien B0009

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller ]

        The All-Australia Memorial. A Historical Record of National Effort during the Great War. Australia's Roll of Honour. History, Heroes and Helpers ... Introductory Narrative by E. Ashmead-Bartlett
      Melbourne, British-Australasian Publishing Service (Head Office in Australia: 'Whitehall', Bank Place, Melbourne), [1920], revised edition/ [1917]. Quarto, 252, [160], [155]-158 (index) pages with 'over 1,000 Double-Tone Illustrations from Original Photographs, Drawings, Maps, Portraits, etc.' plus the very large double-image folding panoramic frontispiece and 20 single-page plates (including 8 each featuring 4 group portraits) tipped in on card mounts with printed borders, and 4 unnumbered pages (between pages 8 and 9) comprising a dedication poem and portraits of the King, Governor-General Sir Ronald Ferguson, and the Governor of Victoria, Sir Arthur Stanley. This copy does not contain the 9 folding plates usually, but not invariably, found in this volume (2 large folding panoramas, 6 double-page folding plates and a double-page folding map). It does contain the plain card mounts for them, but they were clearly never inserted in this copy. Gilt-decorated purple cloth, all edges gilt; cloth a little marked, flecked and sunned on the spine and (unevenly) on the front cover; light wear to the corners; head of the spine slightly snagged; thumbprint-sized piece snipped from the blank margin of the frontispiece (we have seen this in other copies too); a very good copy (internally in fine condition). Mounted within the decorative border printed on the recto of the stiff card to which the frontispiece is attached, is a four-page ACMF card with a gelatin silver portrait photograph (120 x 90 mm) of Lieutenant William Hill Dunn Stewart, 10th Battalion, pasted inside, facing a printed account of his war service (possibly supplied by the publisher). He embarked on October 1915, and saw action in France and Belgium; he was wounded at Pozieres but 'was with the unit at cessation of hostilities'. This 'edition is necessarily confined to the volunteers from New South Wales and South Australia. Originally framed with special reference to the Gallipoli Campaign [in fact, pages 17-201 are devoted to it], the later deeds of Australia's splendid army in France, Belgium, and in Palestine have been recorded in the present revised edition' brought up to November 1918 (Editor's Preface, page 10). Part II of the book, 'Australia's Fighting Families', contains service details and/or portraits of many thousands of men; the contents vary, usually on a state-by-state basis. This copy contains an even more mixed lot than usual: the first portion, 'Some of Australia's Fighting Families', is a pictorial section (portraits only) for Victoria (16 pages, comprising a title page and pages M101-115); it is followed by a pictorial section (portraits only) for SA (24 pages, numbered [A1]-A24), illustrated biographical sections for SA (Sections J, K and L [16 pages each section]), a pictorial section (portraits only) for NSW (24 pages, numbered [S1]-S24), an illustrated biographical section for NSW, incorrectly labelled SA on the title page (Section O, 24 pages, with a small zero or nought after each page number), and illustrated biographical sections for SA (Sections I and O [16 pages each section]).

      [Bookseller: Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers]

Sonnenschein, Hugo:
        Erde auf Erden.
      Wien, Strache, 1920 - 31 S. mit 1 ganzseit. Porträt nach einer Zeichnung von Egon Schiele. Erste Ausgabe mit dem Portrait des Autors von Egon Schiele. - Raabe 282, 6. - "Diese Gedichte, in der zweiten Hälfte 1914 entstanden, konnten im Jänner 1915 infolge Zensurverbots nur in 100 Exemplaren als Manuskript in Wien gedruckt werden. Die vorliegende Ausgabe ist nach Ausscheiden des Gedichtes `Ekel vor Europa` und Ergänzung durch `Klagegesang` unverändert" (Impressum). - Etw. gebräunt. *** /// *** Copyright: Matthaeus Truppe - Stubenberggasse 7 - A-8010 Graz - +43 316 829552 *** /// *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400 Gr.-8°. Illustr. OKart. nach einem Entwurf von Julius Zimpel (gebräunt, Rücken mit Einrissen). [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Matthaeus Truppe Antiquariat]

India]. - Delhi: Jama Masjid.
        Jumma Musjid Delhi". Watercolour on cardboard.
      No place, [ca 1920]. - Signed "A. Alintor" (?). 205 x 460 mm. An imaginative rendering of the Masjid-i Jahan-Numa (World-reflecting Mosque) in Delhi, shown here in the midst of a desert, with camels and bedouins in the foreground. - Mounted on cardboard; two small tears to lower edge. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]

Birnbaum, Menachem
        Chad Gadjo
      Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Menachem Birnbaum . One volume, 28.5 cm, frontispiece in Aramaic, title-page in German. Printed at the Spamersche Buchdruckerei, Leipzig. Cover title in Aramaic and German, with a lamb (lämmchen) stamped between the Aramaic title above and the German title below. The same image of a lamb appears stamped inside the front cover in green. Unpaginated, 15 leaves: Leaf 1 (L1a) with yellow and green decoration, with the young lamb, verso (L1b) with copyright and printers name;( L2a) with printers device, verso (L2b) with half-title: Die Welt-Drucke/Das Fünfte Werk; (L3a) is blank, (L3b) has the frontispiece in Aramaic; (L4a) has the German title-page: Chad Gadjo/ Zeichnungen von / Menachem Birnbaum / Welt-Verlag, Berlin 5680;(L4b) Deutsche Ubertragung von Uriel Birnbaum; (L5a) dedication: Meiner lieben Frau, (L5b) bi-lingual Aramaic-German text begins; (L6a) first color woodblock of a Chasidic father holding a sacrificial lamb, with a pleading barefoot child reaching up towards the animal; (L6b) bi-lingual text; (L7a) woodblock of a large black cat killing a lamb, with its blood flowing out; (L7b) bi-lingual text; (L8a) woodblock of a large canine shaking the bloody carcass of the much smaller black cat, throwing its blood across the image from top to bottom; (L8b) bi-lingual text; (L9a) woodblock of a huge club smashing the dog in a pool of its own blood; (L9b) bi-lingual text; (L10a) a large fire; (L10b) bi-lingual text; (L11a) woodblock of rain extinguishing a small fire; (L11b) bi-lingual text; (L12a) woodblock of an ox drinking from a pool of rainwater; (L12b) bi-lingual text; (L13a) woodblock of the ox being killed by a man with a ritualistic knife; (L13b) bi-lingual text; (L14a) woodblock of the ox-killer himself being claimed by the Angel of Death (Und es kommt der Todesengel); (L14b) final page of bi-lingual text; (L15a) the Almighty is suggested by a shaft of white light, dividing the blackness of the final woodblock and striking down the Angel of Death; (L15b) is blank. This book was formatted as a Western European book, from front to back, with the front cover ties. The front cover is detached and the remaining ribbon ties frayed and worn. A collaboration between two brothers, Uriel Birnbaum (1894-1956) did the German text. There are hand-colored illustrations (10 in-text and 3 prefatory). Menachem Birnbaum was the second son of the Jewish philosopher Nathan Birnbaum and his wife Rosa Korngut. Menachem Birnbaum lived in Berlin from 1911 1914, then returned from 1919-1933. He emigrated to the Netherlands, where he was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo and deported to Poland, where it is believed he perished in Auschwitz in 1944. The Spamersche Buchdruckerei is also well-remembered for printing illustrations of the German Expressionists, later denounced by National Socialist propagandists as Degenerate. The interior condition of this rare bilingual German-Jewish imprint is fine.

      [Bookseller: G.Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper, ABAA, IL]

Šedivý Yun, Franz (1888 - 1973):
        ORIGINAL PAINTING
      Original Artwork [Unpublished]. c.1920. Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper, laid down on board. Signed with initials lower right corner. The painting measures 21 x 17 cms. A skillfully painted esoteric portrait, the colours bright and with pleasing symmetry. An attractive original painting from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Design School trained artist and heraldist Franz Šedivý Yun. His first exhibition was in 1919 and he worked as a theatre stage designer and restorer for various Copenhagen museums such as the National Museum, the Folklore Museum and Svanholm Castle. At the same time he cultivated his talent as a heraldist becoming a coat-of-arms painter for the Royal Order of Denmark between 1945 and 1967. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

      [Bookseller: Lucius Books]

Anonym.
        Plakat. Liefert die Waffen ab! Der Reichskomissar für die Entwaffnung Dr. Peters.
      Stuttgart, Jung und Sohn. 1920 - 94 x 62 cm. Gefaltet, minimalste Randläsuren. Die Orstbehörden bezahlten eine Prämie von 100 Mark für die Abgabe von Militärwaffen. Selten.

      [Bookseller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer]

Barbarus Johannes, Richard Roht, and Henrik Visnapuu
        Looming [Creation], I (all published)
      Tartu: Odamees, 1920. Octavo (21.8 × 17.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Natalie Mei; 69, [1] pp. Later black buckram boards; original wrappers preserved; text lightly resized to binding, else internally very good. First and only volume of this important publication of Estonian modernist art and literature that marked a radical break with the "Siuru" movement around Marie Under of the late 1910s. The aesthetic and political orientation of Barbarus, Roht, and Visnapuu-each of whose work would develop along avant-gardistic lines in subsequent years-was sharply opposed to Under's refined lyricism. In what can be considered the loose group's manifesto, Visnapuu proclaims: "Long live the fresh heaps of manure!" and calls for a new, more authentic sensibility in a way that harkens back to Nietzsche. "The carcasses of dead gods still lie in the streets," Visnapuu writes, and exclaims: "Long live the new pathos [...] the pathos of emergency after chaos threatens to bury everything." Describing the state of contemporary literature, Visnapuu writes: "Anarchist art, neo-romanticism, impressionism, symbolism, futurism are all lowered into one gray, misshapen, and infinite fermenting mass. There is great chaos. Things disappear into it..." In an article on the "death of Siuru" Visnapuu calls for literally enacting the destruction with the Italian Futurists spoke of "symbolically" (p. 56). In addition to Visnapuu's theoretical essays, the volume contains a selection of poems from Johannes Barbarus' forthcoming third volume of poems, Katastroofid, and prose by Richard Roht. With striking expressionist illustrations by Natalie Mei (or Mey, 1900-1975), a gifted, yet relatively unknown Estonian painter, set designer, and graphic artist associated with the "New Objectivity"-influenced period of Estonian art in the 1920s. Aside from a few smaller vignettes, her illustrations are in color and mounted on separate leaves, as well as the front wrapper. A very rare example of Estonian avant-garde book design, which had a brief idiosyncratic moment in the late 1910s and 1920s, when avant-garde visual art was centered in the Eesti Kunstnikkude Ryhm (Estonian Artists' Group), among other places, which emphasized geometric abstraction but was also influenced by movements such as Cubism and Russian Constructivism. Sources in English on Baltic Modernism are scarce, and this is still a topic that awaits further discovery and popularization in the West. KVK, OCLC show only the copy at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

      [Bookseller: Penka Rare Books, ILAB]

Schnitt-Schneid, Duro
        [Jugendstil- With Color Cutouts] Ausmalspiel
      Leipzig: Hegel & Schade, ca. 1920. Oblong quarto. Tinted (red and black/gray) pictorial paper covered boards. The book opens to form three joined card panels consisting of delightful color illustrations of town storefronts for setting up the cut-out sheets provided loosely in the book, three in full color (two large and one small) and three in line for coloring (two large and one small). The small-town interior with shoemaker, baker, butcher and inn is complemented by the cutting-out images with market stalls, fountains, carriage and all sorts of inhabitants. "When everything is ready [...] you get a lovely [90 cm wide] wall-painting, it is called a children's fry for the children's room" (introduction). None of the cut-out sheets has been used or cut down. Slight wear to joings of expanding card base, overall very good. Cut-outs are fine. Most scarce.

      [Bookseller: Nudelman Rare Books ]

Huelsenbeck, Richard:
        En avant Dada. Eine Geschichte des Dadaismus.
      P.Stegemann, Hannover u.Leipzig 1920 - Hannover u.Leipzig, P.Stegemann, (1920). 44 S.u. 2 Bll. OBrosch. Etw. fleckig u. gebräunt. (Die Silbergäule 50/51). Erste Ausgabe. W./G. 7; Raabe 132.8; Meyer 32. - Authentische Geschichte d. Dadaismus seitens eines seiner Mitbegründer. "Der Dadaismus gewinnt in "En avant dada" zum Erstenmal sein anekdotisches Profil. So erwähnt Huelsenbeck als erster d. zukünftig am meisten koloportierte Ursprungsgeschichte d. Namens "Dada": "Das Wort Dada wurde von Hugo Ball und mir zufällig in einem deutsch-französischen Diktionär entdeckt, als wir einen Namen f. Madame le Roy, d. Sängerin unseres Cabarets suchten. Dada bedeutet im Französischen Holzpferdchen. Es imponiert durch seine Kürze u. Suggestivität. Dada wurde nach kurzer Zeit das Aushängeschild für alles, was wir im Cabaret Voltaire an Kunst lancierten." (KNLL.) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Seidel & Richter]

Ulmann, Doris
        "H.M. WHARTON, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, WRITER, AND PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER"
      1920. Ulmann, Doris. Original platinum photograph, image size 8 x 6 in, [ 20.3 x 15.2] ] tipped to board, with archival window overmat, 16 x 20 inches. SIGNED in pencil on the board below the photograph by Doris Ulmann. The Rev. H.M. Wharton was the compiler and editor of the popular War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, 1861 - 1865, to which he added his reminiscences of serving as a private in Lee's army. This print appears as Plate 20, page 185, in Jacobs THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF DORIS ULMANN.Doris Ulmann (1882-1934), although prolific, the majority of her photographs are unique prints, and of these, most are left unsigned. As was her practice, Doris Ulmann only SIGNED those photographs she exhibited or intended to exhibit. She is particularly well known for her portraiture, having published several portfolios in magazines as well as three books of portraits.

      [Bookseller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd]

EINSTEIN, Albert.
        The Theory of Relativity. The Special & the General Theory, a Popular Exposition. Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson, with Five Diagrams and a Portrait of the Author.
      London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920 - Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in blind. 8 pages of inserted advertisements. Ink ownership inscription to pastedown. Spine slightly faded, small mark to rear cover, a few gatherings standing proud of the text block, endpapers browned. A very good copy. Portrait frontispiece of author by Hermann Struck, diagrams, figures and equations in text. First edition in English, first impression, translated from the third German edition (1918) by Robert W. Lawson. This is the first appearance of any of Einstein's works in English. The additional chapter (Appendix III) written by Einstein for this edition was added at Lawson's urging, who thought the book would be more accessible if its author could provide a proof of the general theory. Einstein intended the book to be intelligible to the general public, which he tested by reading drafts to his step-daughter Margot, "pausing frequently to ask whether she indeed got it" (Isaacson, p. 232). Isaacson, p. 232. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

SALOFOCHE, Clyde H.
        Loose Photographs]: Native American Market
      Arizona 1920 - A collection of four black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring 5" x 8" two of which are hand colored. Very good photos with slight curling and creasing. The photos show candid scenes of a Native American market in Navajo County, Arizona in the 1920s with people leaning on stalls, talking, and a mother holding her baby. One photo shows the Navajo pueblos of the village Chimapovi in Toreva Polacca. The only captioned photo has the name Clyde H. Saloftoche who was most likely a Hopi chief.

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA]

Owen, Wilfred
        Poems by Wilfred Owen With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
      London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. A very Nearly Fine copy of the book, with slight discoloration to the spine and some offsetting on the end-papers from the rare dust jacket. Restored dust jacket in Very Good condition, with small chips from the corners and spine ends restored, and a larger portion of the lower spine renewed. Extremely rare in jacket. Only two copies appear in the modern auction record, Sotheby's 2007 (selling for roughly $7,500) and Bonhams 2008 (selling for roughly $5,200 as the pound devalued against the dollar). Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

      [Bookseller: Whitmore Rare Books]

Baum L Frank; Neill, John R (Illus )
        Glinda of Oz
      Chicago: Reilly & Lee. 1920. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth (no priority) Very good+ copy with a little silverfish spotting on spine, with traces elsewhere and a very mild soiled spot at foot of front cover pasted illustration. Owner's name (neat) on designated page. Dust jacket shows Japanese paper repair at one spinefold and some tearing at other folds, short tears spine chip that removes the G in Glinda, but with illustration quite bright, very good overall. Later state of first printing, with type damage on p. 150 (rather than perfect type or "fading" type). ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 279 pp .

      [Bookseller: Beasley Books]

Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript - Huebner, Friedrich Markus:
        Vollständiger Typoskriptdurchschlag mit eigenhändigem Adressvermerk und eh. Korrekturen des Theaterstückes "Das wahre Leben, Spiel einer Nacht". "
      Amsterdam, ohne Datum (wohl 1920er Jahre). - circa 29,5 x 22,5 cm. 67 Blätter Gelocht und mit Schnur gebunden "Offenbar unbekanntes Theaterstück, das nie erschienen ist und weder bei Raabe noch in der neueren Monographie über Huebner von Hubert Roland genannt wird (vgl. "Leben und Werk von Friedrich Markus Huebner (1886-1964). Vom Expressionismus zur Gleichschaltung"). Auf dem Titel in Bleistift Huebners Amsterdamer Adresse, im Text einige Korrekturen. Blätter numeriert von 1 bis 66 mit einem beigefügten Blatt 2a "Bemerkungen für die Regie". - Der Schriftsteller und Kunsthistoriker Huebner lebte seit 1919 in den Niederlanden und war einer der bedeutendsten deutsch-niederländischen Kulturvermittler, wobei er insbesondere den Expressionismus in seiner Wahlheimat bekannt machte. Neben eigenen literarischen Arbeiten wirkte er als Übersetzer und Essayist, sowie als Kunstvermittler wobei er später wohl auch in den nationalsozialistischen Kunstraub hineingeriet. " "- Wenige Blätter etwas knittrig, sonst gut erhalten. - Verdient eine nähere Auswertung. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Thomas Rezek]

Widmungsexemplar - Paul Celan - Celan, Paul.
        Sprachgitter.
      66 (1) Seiten 8, gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag, dieser mit Randläsuren, zwei kleinen Einrissen, fachmännisch hinterlegt, auf dem Vortitel mit Widmung Paul Celans für den Theaterkritiker Georg Hensel: "Für G. Hensel / Paul Celan", insgesamt sehr gut erhalten. Paul Celan (* 23. November 1920 in Czernowitz/Ursaine + vermutlich 20. April 1970 Freitod in Paris eigentlich Paul Antschel, später rumänisiert Ancel, woraus das Anagramm Celan entstand) war einer der berühmtesten deutschsprachigen Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts.

      [Bookseller: Bührnheims Literatursalon GmbH]

signierte Ausgabe - Paul Celan - Celan, Paul.
        Gedichte. Eine Auswahl. S. Fischer Schulausgaben. Texte moderner Autoren.
      78 Seiten 8, gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen Einband leicht berieben und fleckig, auf dem vorderen Spiegel ein Porträtfoto Celans aus einer Zeitung montiert, Fußschnitt mit schmalem, braunen Fleck, der Buchblock minimal gebräunt, auf dem Titel die Signatur Paul Celans, Auswahl und Anmerkungen von Klaus Wagenbach, unter Mitarbeit des Autors, Lizenz Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart. Paul Celan (* 23. November 1920 in Czernowitz/Ursaine + vermutlich 20. April 1970 Freitod in Paris eigentlich Paul Antschel, später rumänisiert Ancel, woraus das Anagramm Celan entstand) war einer der berühmtesten deutschsprachigen Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts.

      [Bookseller: Bührnheims Literatursalon GmbH]

RICHARD, William L.
        The Tanjur and The Kanjur: A Dissertation on Sanskrit, the Language of Antiquity, and on the corollary question, "Where was the Cradle of the Aryan race?"
      La Casa Amaraca, Freeport, N.Y. 1920 - First edition. Oblong octavo. Printed wrapper: 7, [1]pp., photographic frontispiece portrait and unpaged (approximately forty-one) gelatin silver photographs of the Sanskrit manuscripts. Contemporary custom binding by the Atelier Bindery in full pale brown morocco with four raised bands and black morocco spine label with title and decorations of dragons and swastikas in gilt, dentelles in elaborate gilt floral pattern, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Top corners slightly bumped, very near fine in custom cloth slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Brief dissertation about the author's copies of rare Tibetan Sanskrit manuscripts. Apparently issued as an eight page pamphlet, this copy has been enhanced with the photographs and seems likely to have been the author's own copy. Attractive and beautifully bound volume. OCLC locates two copies of the pamphlet, but nothing with accompanying illustrations. (Yale and NYPL). [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA]

Laoust ( Emile- ).
        Mots et Choses Berbères. Notes de Linguistique et d' Ethnographie. Dialectes du Maroc. Ouvrage illustré de 112 gravures ou croquis et 4 planches hors texte.
      Paris, Challamel 1920 - Grand in- 8 br. ; XX- 531 pp. ; couv. imprimée. 112 figures, dont 4 planches hors- texte. Ed. originale, assez rare, de cet "inégalable instrument de travail --- (par) la masse des documents linguistiques, ethnographiques, techniques qu' il contient." (Charles Pellat : "Notice sur E. Laoust"). Dos recollé, qq. rousseurs sur la couverture, reste un fort bon ex., partiellement non coupé. Mention manuscrite sur couv. et page de titre : "Lieutenant Gouhier, Affaires Indigènes, Ksar es Souk." Manque à Creswell, malgré les chapitres sur l' habitation, le mobilier, les bijoux, les divers types de poterie utilisés en cuisine, &c. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Thierry Gauville]

Darrow, Clarence
        AN EYE FOR AN EYE. Signed and inscribed by Clarence Darrow.
      New York: Duffield & Company, 1920. [iv], 213 pages of text. Original tan cloth binding is moderately to heavily soiled and rubbed, with minor fraying to the spine extremities, and minor bumping to the corners. No dustjacket, but protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper "Only the sinner knows that there is no sin [signed] Clarence Darrow To Chas Mason Chicago Oct 13th 1920." Inscribed to Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, founder of the Church of God in Christ, the largest Pentecostal church denomination and one of the largest predominantly African-American Christian denominations in the United States. Reprint edition of Darrow's only novel, first published in 1905 by Fox, Duffield & Company. The inner hinges are weakened; many pages have small spots of soiling or staining, and a few pages have tiny tears or creases or other small and minor defects. Several pages with pencil notes that are initialed "JSH." The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) developed a file on C.H. Mason because of his pacifism and interracialism. In 1918 some white followers of Mason in Los Angeles were identified as being of German extraction. Mason was jailed at Lexington, Mississippi, for allegedly preaching against the war, although he sold bonds to help the war efforts. William B. Holt, one of the white brethren targeted by the FBI for suspicion, was a lawyer and former Nazarene preacher who traveled to Lexington to post a two-thousand dollar cash bond for Mason's release.. Signed. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Good+ condition. Octavo (8vo).

      [Bookseller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)]

Taut, Bruno.
        Die Auflösung der Städte oder Die Erde eine gute Wohnung oder auch: Der Weg zur Alpinen Architektur in 30 Zeichnungen von Bruno Taut. Es ist natürlich nur eine Utopie und eine kleine Unterhaltung; - wenn auch mit "Beweisen" versehen.
      Folkwang-Verlag, Hagen in Westfalen 1920 - 4to. (ca. 27 x 21,5 cm). Moderner Halbmaroquin-Band mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und Buntpapierbezug, 3 Bll. (Umschlagtitel, Vortitel, Titel), 31 Bll., 81 (2) S. Enthält 30 Tafelseiten mit teils farbigen Zeichnungen auf verschiedenfarbigem Papier, ein Blatt mit den Bildtiteln zu den Zeichnungen, sowie einen montierten Druck von Zille und eine weitere Abbildung im Textteil. Bolliger 1, 98. - Schöner privater Einband mit cremefarbenen Vorsätzen. Der Orig.-Umschlagtitel der Broschüre wurde mit eingebunden. - Die 30 Zeichnungen stellt Taut in den Zusammenhang verschiedener Texte aus Literatur, Philosophie und Politik. Dabei ist dem Anarchisten Peter Kropotkin viel Raum gewidmet, neben Texten von Landauer, Tolstoi, Whitman, Scheerbart, Nietzsche, Engels u. a. Zu Beginn des Textteils, unter dem kleinen Zille-Druck "Zur Mutter Erde zurück" ein längeres Rousseau-Zitat und der Satz von Jules Méline "Das ist nicht allein tatsächlich, sonder auch im übertragenen Sinne wahr. Die Städte sind der Abgrund der Menschheit". - Gutes Exemplar: Der Einband tadellos, innen papierbedingt gebräunt. Ganz wenige kleine Randrisse, blasse Flecken bzw. Knickspuren im unteren Eck. Der eingebundene Umschlagtitel etwas angestaubt und ungleichmäßig gebräunt. 700 Gramm. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Hannah, Ian C.
        THREE CONTINENTS NOTE BOOK [manuscript title]
      [Various places], 1920. Approximately [300]pp. plus extensive material laid in. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter black roan and cloth, spine detached but laid in. Corners heavily worn. Internally clean. Highly legible. Very good. Lengthy manuscript account, illustrated with numerous clippings, postcards, and photographs, detailing travels through Scotland, France, the American Southwest, Mexico, and Japan, made by architectural historian Ian C. Hannah (1874-1944). A British academic, in 1915 he was appointed to a post at Oberlin Theological Seminary in Ohio as a professor of church history. He was also somewhat of an expert on ancient Scotland and published several books on the subject. Both those passions are in evidence in the present manuscript. His handwritten notes give details on the history of construction and numerous architectural details, as well as sketches of details and floor plans. Hannah married Oberlin alumna and artist Edith Brand, who may be the creator of the original watercolor laid into the book. As listed in the front of the volume, Hannah's journeys are through Scotland; Louisiana, Utah, Colorado, Arizona; France; New Mexico, California, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma; Japan; and Mexico. The opening section on Scotland contains numerous observations on church architecture, together with photographs, clippings, and manuscript floor plans to illustrate the commentary. Moving on to the United States he continues describing architecture and monuments, finding considerable fault with New Orleans. He writes: "The Cathedral of St. Louis is an unsatisfactory building which has been much reconstructed, partly from the slipping of its foundations...." "Christ Church Cathedral. A deplorable Gothic effort, its chief feature being metal pillars, each with four detached shafts of wood." He comments on the cemetery and the process of vaulting versus in-ground burial due to the soil and water table. In each town in Louisiana (New Orleans, Lafayette, Shreveport) the churches and other eminent buildings receive similar treatment, being described as "fair" at best. He does have kind words for the new capitol building in Salt Lake City, calling it "a very successful piece of work." He describes the courthouse in St. Louis as "dignified if not very distinctive," and the Cathedral of San Francisco in Santa Fe as "a poor modern structure in a sort of mongrel Byzantine style...," but praises the efforts to preserve the original Spanish character of the city. Approximately a quarter of the volume is devoted to Japan. His description of the Village of Hachi-Ishi includes a watercolor map of the area. Much like his laudatory descriptions of Scotland and France, Hannah seems to have enjoyed Japan and its architecture, and this section is extensively illustrated with drawings, photographs, and postcards showing the areas and buildings which he toured. The last few pages of the volume comprise an index by region.

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[24th Battalion]. HARVEY, Sergeant Walter James:
        The Red and White Diamond Authorised History of the Twenty-fourth Battalion AIF
      Melbourne, Published for the 24th Battalion Association by Alexander McCubbin, [1920]. Octavo, 340 pages plus 25 plates and 4 maps (one folding). Papered boards lightly rubbed and bumped, with a few tiny surface indentations to the rear cover near the foot of the hinge; acidic paper tanned as ever; front flyleaf neatly removed; notwithstanding, a very attractive copy of a book that does not wear well (now preserved in a custom-made clamshell box). The author was a member of the battalion; he was awarded the Military Medal at Pozieres in March 1916. Dornbusch 316; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 225.

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ISEKI, K.R. ed.
        WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN GREAT JAPAN.
      - Tokyo [1920], Hattensha.3/4 leather over cloth, corners worn top gilt,cloth rebacked, recent spine label,gold decorations 18.5 x 26 cm., vol. 1-4 complete Law & Pharmacology,32p.full index, many b.w. photos. R A R E FIRST & ONLY EDITION *** *** *** . . . THE LEGENDARY DICTIONARY OF FAMOUS HAKUSHI [DOCTORS] . . . IN GREAT JAPAN . . . [DOCTORS] OF: LAW, PHARMACY, MEDICINE, ENGINERING, . . . LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & VETERINARY SCIENCES . . * This is complete volume 1 of a 6 volume set. All volumes are exceptionally RARE and difficult to find in a complete set, or even the parts. Each volume was issued separately and serially. . Collating the work is complex and has a somewhat misleading title page, citing: "1888-1920 Vol. I-IV Vol. HOGAKU HAKUSHI [HAKUSHI OF LAW] and YAKUGAKU HAKUSHI [HAKUSHI OF PHARMACOLOGY], DAI IKKAN [ZEN ROKU KAN NO UCHI]." . *** Volume 1 contains listings of all Doctors of Law & Pharmacology. . Volume 1 being of major importance, because it has the two important indices not found in any other volumes: . a. "A CONTENTS OF WHOLE NAME 'Who's Who Hakushi in Great Japan," 49 pages. This is a complete list of all Doctors of Law & Pharmacology in this volume. . b. "Whole Index" covers every Doctor of all disciplines from all 6 volumes in alphabetical order, the index to the whole set and its people, 48 pages. . Also contains index of Law Doctors, and of Pharmacology Doctors different from 'a.' above, i.e. different criterion for listing order. . *** Volume 1 covers Doctors of Law and Pharmacy, The work begins each page with English & Japanese texts, with title page, followed by several b.w. photos of documents and famous people: Ministers of Education [3p.], Presidents of the Imperial University of Tokyo [1p.], Presidents of the Imperial University of Kyoto [1p.], Presidents of the Imperial Universities of Kyushu, Tohoku & Hokkaido [1p.], Professors Emeritus of the Imperial Universities [1p.], preface & prefatory note. . With A CONTENTS OF FRONTISPIECES, Volume 1:p.1-3; A TABLE OF CONTENTS. "WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN GREAT JAPAN volume 1 p.3-9. . The below are comprehensive name indices with other details: A CONTENTS OF WHOLE NAME 'WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN GREAT JAPAN" In a register of the Educational Dep't. Order, Law 6p., Medicine 16p., Engineering 11p., Literature 5p., Science 6p., Agriculture 5p., Forestry 1p, Veterinary Science 1p. . * Followed by: A CONTENTS OF WHOLE NAME "WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN GREAT JAPAN," in Alphabetical Name Order, pp.1-48. Romanized name, Kanji name, entry number, degree in, &c. . AN IMPERIAL ORDINANCE OF A DEGREE 1887-1920 4 in all, 3p. . ABBREVATIONS, ERATTUMS AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE JAPANESE WORDS USED, 2p. . HAKUSHI OF LAW, alphabetical index, 60. . 1888-1920 WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN GREAT JAPAN: arranged in order in register of the Educational Dept., pp.1-232, 210 entries. . HAKUSHI OF PHAMACOLORY: Alphabetical index of Pharmacology, 1p. followed by 188-1920 WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN GREAT JAPAN [Pharmacology]: pp.1-39, 34 entries. . Each of the entries shows the details in both Japanese & English, with a photo and signature of each, with a biography of each, including rank, where employed, details of his activities. . * CONDITION: THE BINDING: The work is in its original binding which was leather spine, leather corners [3/4 leather], over dark green pebbled cloth with gold stamped decorations. Our copy has been restored in the distant past, with a black cloth spine and blue paper label, with gold stamped titles, mislabeled "Vols. 1-6." The book is firmly bound, solid hinges, there was some very old minor bumping to the upper right corner, by and large mostly pressed-flat now, else no other issues. . THE CONTENTS: The contents is very clean, without any markings, tissue guards present before each page of illustrations & photos, as issued. . The contents page shows all 6 volumes, as a form of 'advertisement' for the whole set. It states: . "A CONTENTS OF WHOLE VOLUME. "WHO'S WHO HAKUSHI IN G

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EINSTEIN, Albert.
        Relativity - The Special and the General Theory: A popular Exposition
      Methuen, London., 1920. First U.K. edition. Translated by Robert W. Lawson. Octavo. pp xvi, 138. Frontispiece portrait and five diagrams. Eight-page publisher's catalogue at rear. The particular significance of this edition is that it has an extra chapter.Rear free endpaper a bit tanned. Spine faded. Very good. no dustwrapper.

      [Bookseller: Peter Ellis bookseller]

Groos, D., Eberhard von Mantey und Walter u.a. Gladisch:
        Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918. Der Krieg in der Nordsee - Hier Band 1-7 in 7 Bücheren und ein Kartenband KOMPLETT!
      Berlin, Verlag von E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1920. 8°, 1. Band: Von Kriegsbeginn bis Anfang September 1914. XV, 293 Seiten mit 60 Karten, Tabellen und Anlagen. / Band 2: Von Anfang September bis November 1914. XIV, 340 Seiten mit 38 Skizzen, Karten, Tabellen und Anlagen. / Band 3: Von Ende November 1914 bis Anfang Februar 1915. VII, 300 Seiten mit 30 Skizzen, Karten, Tabellen und Anlagen. / Band 4: Von Anfang Februar bis Ende Dezember 1915. XV, 442 Seiten mit 46 Skizzen, Karten, Tabellen und Anlagen. / Band 5.1 Textband und 5.2 Kartenband: Von Januar bis Juni 1916. XX, 568 Seiten mit 81 Skizzen, Karten, Tabellen und Anlagen. / Band 6: Von Juni 1916 bis Frühjahr 1917. XII, 352 Seiten mit 18 mehrfarbigen Steindruckkarten und 19 Skizzen. / Band 7 von 1965: Vom Sommer 1917 bis zum Kriegsende 1918. XIV, 368 Seiten mit 5 teilweise mehrfarbigen Karten und Tabellen. ALLE BÄNDE MIT ALLEN BEILAGEN KOMPLETT! Illustrierte Original-Halbleinenbände - Band 3 die Seiten leicht fleckig und die Bände teils leicht berieben sonst guter Zustand - 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1925, 1937 und 1965. H1664 Versand D: 6,00 EUR Seefahrt militärisch und Marine, Erster Weltkrieg, Kaiserliche Marine

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Ehbrecht]

        Stoffmuster. - 65 Original-Stoffmusterbücher einer Elsässer Textilfabrik. / Collection de 65 grands et robustes volumes remplies d?echantillions de textiles.
      Ca. 1880 - ca. 1920, - Folio u. Gr.-Folio, die Musterbücher jeweils mit 50 bis 100 Blatt. Insges. ca. 5000 Blatt (ca. 20.000 Luxusstoffmuster), meist beidseitig bestückt. Versch. Einbände (Stärkere Gebrauchs- u. Lagerspuren). Diese in ihrer Materialfülle von weit über 20.000 Luxusstoffmustern in allen erdenklichen Farbvarianten wohl einmalige Sammlung zeigt für fast ein halbes Jahrhundert einen eindrucksvollen Querschnitt der Stoffmoden in dieser Zeit. Unter den Musterstoffen findet sich von Baumwolle über Kammgarn, Chintz u. Crèpe de Chine bis hin zu Tüll und Taft wohl jede erdenkliche webbare und als Stoff bedruckbare Variante in allen vorstellbaren Farbtonen und Webarten, die vorstellbar sind. Interessant auch die deutlichen Stiländerungen im Laufe der Jahre. (Der Ursprung dieser Sammlung liegt im Elsass, es gibt jedoch auch 1 Band Zürich u.v.a. ).Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

      [Bookseller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.]

PARETO, Vilfredo.
        Compendio di Sociologia generale.
      Florence: G. Barbèra,, 1920. Per cura di Giulio Farina. Small octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, decoration to front board in black. Black and white diagrams in the text. Contemporary price sticker to rear board. Spine darkened and slightly rubbed at tips, front and rear inner hinges starting but still holding firm, outer margins a little toned. An excellent copy. First abridged edition of the author's principal contribution to sociology, Trattato di sociologia generale, which was originally published in 1916 and first translated into English in 1935, as The Mind and Society.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

CAUCASUS] -
        Views of Georgia.
      s 1920 - Small oblong folio (18.7 x 25 cm), 37 mounted gelatine silver print photographs (12 x 17 cm), some matte and some glossy, some with thin border and some full bleed, possibly collected from different dates, mounted back to back and entirely uncaptioned on thick card leaves, contemporary ink inscription to front endpaper: "?? ?????? ?????? ?????????? ??????? ??????????? ?? ?????????, 1961"; inner hinges near broken, very small marginal discolouration to some prints. Contemporary cloth; spine frayed and corners bumped. Fine album of views of Kutaisi, the current legislative capital of Georgia and its second largest city. Among the subjects are views of Rioni River through Kutaisi, White Bridge, Botanical Garden, Church of Annunciation, Kutaisi University, Bagrati Cathedral and Geguti Palace; of particular interest are views of a busy local market. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Shapero Rare Books]

Moore, George
        ESTHER WATERS
      London: Privately printed for Subscribers Only by CUMANN SEAN-EOLAIS NA H-EIREANN [i.e. T. Werner Laurie], 1920. Large octavo. Parchment and boards. Leather bookplate offset slightly on endsheet, otherwise near fine in lightly worn dust jacket. Half morocco slipcase. Limited printing of the third, revised, English edition. Copy #2 of 750 copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author. This copy bears Moore's presentation inscription to the publisher of this volume: "To Werner Laurie My Publisher and Friend George Moore." Laurie issued a number of Moore's novels in this format, under the contrived imprint of the Society of Irish Folk-Lore, beginning with A STORY- TELLER'S HOLIDAY in 1918. An excellent association copy. GILCHER A19c2.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]

Geibel, Margarethe - (1876 – Weimar – 1956)
        Verschneiter Tannenwald.
      - Farbholzschnitt, um 1920/30, auf Japan-Bütten, signiert. 23,6:27 cm, oben und links auf den Darstellungsrand geschnitten, rechts und unten mit schmalem Rändchen. – Im ganzen nicht ganz frisch. Die in Weimar als Graphikerin und Illustratorin tätige Künstlerin, Tochter des Malers Casimir Geibel (1839-1896), war dort seit 1896 Schülerin von Otto Rasch (1862-1952) und 1900-1902 in Stuttgart an der privaten Kunstschule von Leopold von Kalckreuth (1855-1928). 1902 kehrte sie nach Weimar zurück, wo sie sich die Technik des Farbholzschnitts autodidaktisch aneignete, die sie zeitlebens favorisieren sollte. Sie erlangte Anerkennung durch Ankäufe von privaten und öffentlichen Sammlungen. Besondere Bekanntheit erlangte sie durch Darstellungen Weimarer Schauplätze und geistigen Zentren der Weimarer Klassik, vorrangig das Goethehaus. Sie wurden zu ihren künstlerischen Lebensthemen. Daneben schuf sie Ansichten etwa von der Ostsee. 1918 freundschaftlicher Kontakt mit der Schriftstellerin Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff (1878-1963). Ihre Radierungen erschienen u.a. in den Jahresmappen des „Weimarer Radierverein" 1905-1910.

      [Bookseller: Galerie Joseph Fach GmbH]

Khayyam, Omar [Translated By Edward Fitzgerald], With Ownership Signature Of Noel Langley
        Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam (Ownership Signature Of Noel Langley)
      London [circa 1920]: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920. Early Reprint . Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 20 Color Plates By Edmund Dulac. Large Format, Printed On One Side Of Pages Only, All Plates With Printed Tissue Guards. Publisher's Red Cloth,11 1/8" Tall, Ornately Gilt, Rebacked To Style With Calligraphic Title In English. Ownership Name "Noel Langley Ex Libris Xmas 1928" In Large, Elaborated Letters In Green Ink On Front Endpaper, And Small Old Bookseller's Label Of T. W. Griggs And Co, Durban, On Rear Pastedown. Noel Langley (December 25, 1911 - November 4, 1980) Was An American Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter And Director. While Under Contract To Mgm He Was One Of The Screenwriters For The Wizard Of Oz. He Was Chosen For The Job On The Basis Of His Children's Story, The Tale Of The Land Of Green Ginger - A Children's Classic Which Has Seldom Been Out Of Print Since It Was First Published In 1937. However, His Finished Script For The Wizard Of Oz Was Somewhat Revised By Florence Ryerson And Edgar Allan Woolf, Revisions That Langley Himself Strongly Objected To, But Which Appear In The Finished Film. Langley Is On Record As Saying That He Hated The Completed Product, An Opinion Not Borne Out By The General Critical And Public Consensus. The Wizard Of Oz Has Become One Of The Best-Loved Films Ever Made. He Attempted To Write A Sequel Based On The Marvelous Land Of Oz Using Many Of The Concepts He Had Added To Its Predecessor, But This Was Never Realized. Born In Durban, South Africa, He Was First An Author And A Successful Broadway Playwright. Langley Began Writing For Films In The 1930S. After World War Ii, Langley Worked On Many British Films Including The Film Noir They Made Me A Fugitive (1947), The Remake Of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951), The Alastair Sim Scrooge (1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), Ivanhoe (1952) And The Technicolor The Prisoner Of Zenda (1952). (His Contribution To Zenda, However, Was Minimal, Since The 1952 Film Followed The Script Of The 1937 Film Version, On Which Langley Did Not Work, Nearly Word-For-Word.) In 1964, Langley Made A Series Of Tapes For New York Radio Station Wbai, Reading "The Tale Of The Land Of Green Ginger" In Its Entirety. He Subsequently Edited It Down To Fit On An Lp, Which Was Issued By The Listener-Sponsored Station And Offered As A Fund-Raising Premium. Langley Continued To Write Novels And Plays Throughout His Life. He Also Wrote Short Stories For The Saturday Evening Post And Other Magazines.

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Wagener, [Otto]:
        Von der Heimt geächtet. Im Auftrag der Deutschen Legion bearbeitet.
      Stuttgart: 1920 - 167 S. OBr. Mit 11 Skizzen und 1 Bild. Beiliegend kurzes Schriftstück von de Vries an von der Rey (?), wohl ehemaligen Angehörigen der Deutschen Legion; es geht um den Malteserorden in bläulicher statt schwarzer Emaille. Kartenlasche gerissen, Kartenskizzen aber vorhanden. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Johann Nadelmann Antiquariat]

ELIOT, T S
        Poems
      New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First American Edition. An attractive copy of Eliot's first book published in the U.S., published the same year in the U.K. under the title Ara Vos Prec. "Although the poems occur in different order, the contents are the same as Ara Vos Prec, except that "Hysteria" is substituted for "Ode" and "Le Spectateur" is titled "Le Directeur." An important debut. GALLUP A4.b. First Printing. Octavo; tan vertical-ribbed paper-covered boards, with titling and rule stamped in dark brown to spine and front panel; brown topstain; 63pp. Light wear along spine ends and board edges, with faint offsetting to endpapers and a small, vintage Brentanos label to rear pastedown; bright, Near Fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books]

(RACKHAM, Arthur) STEPHENS, James
        Irish Fairy Tales
      London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.,, 1920. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial title block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With sixteen tipped in colour plates, captioned tissues and numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. A fine copy. Limited edition of 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

STRUNK, Jr , William (1869-1946)
        The Elements of Style
      New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1920. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-. Rare, beautifully preserved First Trade Edition of this revered guidebook of essential rules of the English language. Small 8vo: 52pp. Publisher's original slate-blue paper-covered boards titled in black, black linen spine, former owner's name and address to front fly leaf. Binding strong, hinges undamaged, pages clean and bright with mild foxing restricted to front fly leaf. An exemplarily example. Time 100 (Nonfiction), 83. Strunk wrote The Elements of Style in 1918 and privately published it, in 1919, for in-house use at Cornell University, where he was professor of English. Harcourt, Brace published this first trade edition in 52-page format. "Strunk and White [E. B. White (Charlotte's Web), one of Strunk's first students and greatest admirers, who, in 1957, updated and revised the "Little Book," adding an introduction and a chapter on style] waded through the totality of our vast and complicated language and boiled it down to a terse 105 pages, including a glossary and index. No exhaustive explanations or sentence diagrams here-just 22 style rules and principles of composition, followed by 'a few matters of form,' a conclusive list of misused words and phrases and an all-encompassing 'guide to style.'" . . . The Elements of Style is a timeless reminder of the simplicity of proper writing and is likely to remain a useful tool for years to come." (Time 100) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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