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

F. Scott Fitzgerald
        This Side of Paradise
      Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise". Published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1920. First Edition, First Printing, with the year 1920 on both the title and copyright pages and "Published April, 1920" and the Scribner's Seal on the copyright page. The book is in good condition. Moderate soiling to the dark green cloth boards. The gilt lettering on the spine is faded. Old price in pencil on the front end paper. Both hinges are cracked, and as a result the text block is pulling from the spine. The very rare original dust jacket is from the tenth printing, which is stated at the top of the front panel. This tenth printing dust jacket has the same jacket art as the first state dust jacket. The dust jacket is in very good overall condition. Very minor wear to the spine. Chipping to the inner flap folds. Small chip to the top of the front panel. A very rare and collectible copy of Fitzgerald's debut novel. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Ernestoic Books]

BISCHOFF Henry :
        Suzanne et les vieillards *
      [1920]. 1920 - Bois gravé original 21 x 26, tiré en noir et coloré main, signé à la mine de plomb en bas à droite et justifié à gauche sur 130 exemplaires, sous passe et cadre 52 x 62 à fine baguette fantaisie noir et or. Belle et exceptionnelle épreuve rehaussée de couleur à la main de ce bois en hommage au tableau du Tintoret portant le même titre; dans le catalogue de l'exposition de l'Elysée où il figure sous le numéro 62, on y indique que quelques exemplaires d'essais furent partiellement colorés dans le fonds d'atelier retrouvé. Le nôtre l'est copieusement, dans des teintes ayant conservé toute leur fraîcheur tandis que les épreuves précitées ne comportent que les robes et la coiffe des deux voyeurs.Il s'agit, avec la paire du départ et du retour, de 1915 [cf 27 + 28], des plus grandes et plus belles compositions gravées et aquarelllées par l'artiste.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

SANGER, Margaret
        WOMAN AND THE NEW RACE inscribed to Warren G. Harding
      Brentano's New York: Brentano's, (1920). First Edition. cloth. The spine is a little darkened with fraying at the tips, mostly at the head which has some loss. Many of the pages are unopened, indicating Harding decided not to read the book, with some of the clumsily opened pages resulting in tears but with no loss. Very Good, lacks the dustwrapper. A truly sensational association. Introduction by Havelock Ellis. Frontispiece portrait. Sanger's classic presentation of her feminist theories, including her belief that through birth control women will improve their lives and those of their children and husbands. Amazingly this copy is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author "With my compliments" to Warren G. Harding who would become the 29th president of the United States the same year as the publication of this book, the first election in which women were allowed to vote nationwide. What makes this presentation especially juicy is Harding's reputation as a philanderer. His own father once told him, "It's a good thing you weren't a girl, Warren, you'd be in the family way all the time. You can't say no" (Vrzalik & Minor, FROM THE PRESIDENT'S PEN, p. 84). Harding's only child was the result of a clandestine affair with a woman 30 years his junior, Nan Britton, who claimed their child was conceived in a White House closet (ibid). After the deaths of President and Mrs. Harding, Britton wrote a book, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER (1927), dedicated "to all unwed mothers, and to their innocent children whose fathers are usually not known to the world." It sold 90,000 copies.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Taylor, John Pitt. Mathews, Joseph Bridges, Editor
        A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England
      1920. Taylor, John Pitt [1811-1888]. Mathews, Joseph Bridges, and George Frederick Spear, Editors. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland: With Illustrations from Scotch, Indian, American and Other Legal Systems. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1920. Two volumes. Recent cloth, paper title labels to spines, endpapers renewed, internally clean. * Eleventh edition. "The first edition of this work was published in 1848, and seven editions were subsequently brought out by the Author. The last of these was published in 1885, and in preparing the present edition the Editors have, as far as possible, reverted to the very words used by the Author in his final edition.": Preface (iii). The twelfth and final edition of this venerable treatise was published in 1931. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:353.

      [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.]

Brandeis, Louis D
        Photograph of Brandeis with Inscribed Studio Card
      1920. Brandeis, Louis Dembitz [1870-1938]. [Photograph of Brandeis in Judicial Attire with Inscribed Studio Card]. Washington: The Clinedinst Studio, 1920. 7" x 10" portrait black-and-white photograph and 2" x 7" card from the Clinedinst Studio. Card inscribed and signed in bold hand. Handsomely matted and glazed. * The card reads: "For [illegible] with appreciation of services/ to the Jewish cause/ Oct. 20, '20/ Louis D. Brandeis." Brandeis became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1916 and was the first Jewish Justice on the Court, where he served until 1939.

      [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.]

HUXLEY, Aldous
        Leda
      London: Chatto & Windus,, 1920. Octavo. Original cloth-backed grey boards, paper label to spine, title in black, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in a burgundy cloth chemise with slipcase. With a frontispiece of Leda and the Swan. Light partial toning to pastedowns and endpapers, spine just a little darkened, an excellent copy. Signed limited edition; one of 160 copies, signed by the author. With autograph excerpt from the poem signed and dated by "Aldous Huxley London 1927." With a postcard illustrating a sculpture after Michelangelo's Leda and the Swan loosely inserted.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

        KÜNSTLER VORLAGEN FÜR FILETARBEIEN UND HANDSTICKEREIEN. Kunstaltat J.B. Oberneitter. München, s.d. (1920 ca.).
      2 voll. Bross. edit., cm 30x41, complessiv. 160 pregev. tavv, di cui alc. su doppia pag., con numerosiss ill. Lievi tracce d?uso est., peraltro ottimo esempl.

      [Bookseller: Editoriale Umbra]

STUDDY, G. E and JELLICOE, George
        " My Bonzo Library " . The Good Deeds of Bonzo. Bonzo's Seaside Holiday. Bad Boy Bonzo. The Adventures of Bonzo. Bonzo's Country Holiday. Mr Bonzo Comes To Town
      London: John Swain & Son c1920s, 1920.. First Ed. Near Fine. Small 4to ( 10 x 13 cms ) Book A COMPLETE SET OF SIX IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. Each book printed in blue with full colour illustrations. Original pictorial card covers, slight rusting of stapled bindings (this is quite minor) otherwise in a fresh unused state. Scarce as a set in the original grey printed card slipcase which is lightly stained and worn. Highly decorative and fun item

      [Bookseller: Roger Collicott Books]

FRITZ LANG (Director)
        Folleto cine - Film Brochure : LOS NIBELUNGOS (Sigfrido)
      Imp F.Castañer, Barcelona 1920 - 8 pags 14x22 cm rústica taladrado para fichero Texto: Porqué Los Nibelungos en su conjunto y en todos sus detalles es una obra maestra, firmado por C.V.; Los Interpretes de los Nibelungos, foto del reparto, Richter es Sigfrido, M.Schoen es Crimilda, H.Ralph es Brunilda Y el Argumento. Ed: U.F.A.Decla

      [Bookseller: Librería Maestro Gozalbo]

Coomaraswamy, Ananda
        Twenty-Eight Drawings by Ananda Coomaraswamy
      Sunrise Turn. PAPERBACK. Twenty eight line drawings by Coomaraswamy, finely printed on rice paper. 12 1/2 x9 1/4, original string bound wrappers, paper title label. New York: Sunwise Turn, 1920. A near fine copy. Beautiful studies of the female nude by Coomaraswamy, a prominent art historian. Printed in an edition of 250. Quite scarce, with worldcat locating nine publicly held copies. OCLC 3644188 . Fine. 1920. First Edition.

      [Bookseller: Auger Down Books]

RAMUZ Charles Ferdinand :
        Jean-Luc persécuté *
      Georg, Genève 1920. - Relié demi-maroquin rouge à coins 23 x 17, dos lisse avec pièce de titre et motifs dorés, tête itou, couverture et dos conservés. L'un des 675 exemplaires numérotés sur Hollande van Gelder. Bel exemplaire de cet ouvrage un peu fragile, ici en très bel état , protégé par une ravissante reliure décorative; en version brochée, il ne vous coûtera plus que 380 francs. Bien que portant la date de 1921 au premier plat, cette première édition illustrée fut achevée d'imprimer fin 1920. Il est relativement rare d'en rencontrer des exemplaires aussi frais que nos deux larrons.Exemplaire broché sur demande humble ou sur Japon si elle est bien motivée.Originale également disponible en tirage ordinaire, faut pas charrier y'a que 8 grands papiers ![Bringolf 10b]

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

F. Scott Fitzgerald
        Flappers and Philosophers
      Charles Scribner's Sons 1920 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1920. First Edition / First Printing. Stated Published September 1920 with no additional printings listed. Has the Scribner's Seal on the copyright page. {ref: Bruccoli A6.I.a}. Dark bluish green cloth boards blindstamped title and author's name. Book Condition: Very Good+, clean boards and spine, clean pages mildly rolled spine, soft shelf wear, light age toning at the endpaper. The scarce dust jacket is not present.

      [Bookseller: Rare Bookstore 1st Editions and Antiquar]

DIXON Maynard and PARTREDGE Roi
        Indian Beating a Drum
      1920. Fine condition. Approximately 6-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches image area .

      [Bookseller: Randall House Rare Books]

Charles Dickens
        A Christmas Carol In Prose A Ghost Story of Christmas
      The Atlantic Monthly Press - Boston 1920 - By Special arrangement with Mr. H. S. Nichols, of New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press issues this reproduction of the first edition of "The Christmas Carol." When it was brought out by Mr. Nichols in 1914, it bore the following "Indorsement," signed by him: "This is a genuine copy of my fac-simile edition of the excessively rare and almost unobtainable earliest issue of the original edition, to which have been prefixed an introduction and biographical data." 4 and a quarter" x 6"; gold gilt pages and burgundy cloth bound with classic gold embossed design and lettering. 167 pages - My grandmother's name is written on the forepage - inside binding is loose but could easily be mended. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Peruse the Pages]

DOYLE (A.C), [Sir]:
        The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914-[1918] [complete set]. IDEAL PRESENTATION SET
      Hodder & Stoughton, 1916-[1920] 1920 6 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 19 folding maps (a number coloured), 40 maps and plans (a number in the text) and 7 full-page charts in the text, some occasional light browning; handsomely bound in late twentieth century blue cloth boards, dark blue morocco backs gilt, uncut, a splendid set. With all half-titles and publisher's advertisements as called for. Vol. I: 1914 (1916); Vol. II: 1915 (1917); Vol. III: 1916 (1918); Vol. IV: 1917 (1919); Vol. V: January - July 1918 (1919); Vol. VI: July - November 1918 [1920]. Doyle's famous history of the Great War in France and Flanders was the first full chronological account, and written shortly after the events described. Complete sets in first edition and in nice state are increasingly scarce. A splendid set of a key WWI history, a notable addition to any Great War collection and ideal for presentation. Enser, p.54; Robbins, 14461 (recording the 1928 edition).

      [Bookseller: Island Books]

TOULET Paul-Jean :
        Les trois impostures *
      Émile Paul frères, Paris 1920. - Broché 28 x 20, couverture rempliée saumon imprimée en rouge et noir. Infime manque en tête. L'un des 200 exemplaires numérotés sur Arches. Agréable illustré, très frais, que ce recueil d'aphorismes soigneusement imprimé en deux tons. Image visible sur site céleste.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

Key, Uel (i.e. Samuel Whittell Key)
        THE BROKEN FANG AND OTHER EXPERIENCES OF A SPECIALIST IN SPOOKS
      London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, n.d.. [1920]. original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black.. Embossed stamp of Bill Hopkins, a noted collector of fantasy fiction,. on the front free endpaper. A fine copy. (#134845). First edition. A rare collection of short fiction featuring occult investigator Professor Arnold Rhymer, M.D., and Inspector Brown of the C.I.D. Five longish, well- developed stories that hit expected notes of interest for both the weird tale and the detective story. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 949. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 128. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 304. Bleiler (1978), p. 114. Reginald 08229.

      [Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.]

PISSARRO, LUCIEN
        (Pissarro, Lucien) Esther & Lucien Pissarro at the Dorien Leigh Galleries, together with ALs
      London: Dorien Leigh Galleries, 1920. 12mo. (6)pp., + (1)pp. A catalogue for an exhibition of work by Esther and Lucien Pissarro held December 2-29, 1920, printed at the Pelican Press for the Dorien Leigh Galleries. The catalogue features an introductory essay by Campbell Dodgson titled "Mr. Pissarro's Woodcuts," describing Pissarro's history and development as an artist over thirty years. The exhibition featured 164 items, all of which are described in the catalogue: individual wood engravings, including illustrations, initials, and bookplates, as well as Eragny Press books. Illustrated with a woodcut by the Pissarros to the front cover. The design depicts a woman sitting beneath an apple tree, holding an open book with the words "Eragny Press." A rare catalogue: only one institutional copy recorded. Accompanied by a one-page signed autograph letter from Lucien Pissarro to Laurence Hodson, an important collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, dated July 9th, 1920. Hodson was particularly interested in the Arts & Crafts movement and the modern private presses of his day, including the Kelmscott Press, Vale Press, and Pissarro's own Eragny Press. In the letter, Pissarro thanks Hodson for his payment and writes "I am sending the portfolio by this post." He invites Hodson to visit and mentions that Hodson can being along his son, who is working at the Harmshire House Workshops. The Hampshire House Workshops, which featured a printing press, were founded by Hilary Pepler and others with the goal of providing work to refugees from the war. Catalogue has a faint crease to the front cover and a few light, scattered spots of foxing, letter has a short, closed tear, not affecting the text, else fine.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

Ringelnatz, Joachim
        Kuttel Daddeldu oder Das schlüpfrige Lied
      Berlin-Wilmersdorf, A.R.Meyer Verlag, [1920].: 20th century; Bibliophil; Bibliophile; Buchkunst; Deutsche Literatur; Einbandkunst; Erstausgabe; First Edition; Handeinband; Literature; Rare Books; World Literature. 8°.. Moderner, fantastischer Künstlereinband des 21.Jahrhunderts mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Sehr guter Zustand der Bindung und auch der originalen Broschur.

      [Bookseller: Old Head Books & Collections]

Miller, Olive Beaupre
        The Bookhouse for Children
      Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1920-1927. First Edition (?). 1. Hard Cover. This original wooden "Book House" (c. 1927) holds two sets of volumes: My Bookhouse for Children, a six volume set comprised of (1) In The Nursery, 1925, 448 pp. (2) Through Fairy Tales, 1920, 448 pp. (3) Up One Pair of Stairs, 1927, 448 pp. (4) The Treasure Chest, 1920, 448 pp. (5) From The Tower Window, 1921, 448 pp. (6) The Latch Key, 1925, 448 pp. The second set,My Travelship, is a three volume set, comprised of (1) Little Pictures of Japan, 1925, 4to., 191 pp., illustrated by Katharine Sturges; (2) Tales Told in Holland, 1926, 4to., 193 pp., illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham; and (3) Nursery Friends From France, 1927, 4to., 191 pp., illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. The Book House for children was founded in 1919 by Winnetka resident Olive Beaupre Miller (1883-1968), an American author, publisher, and editor of children's literature. She began by printing children's literature that Mrs. Miller personally edited to meet her own high standards. The individual books were sold door-to-door by a completely female sales force known as the "Bookhouse Ladies." By 1921 when all six of the original volumes were available, the complete set was offered in a cardboard house. The next three volumes, comprising My Travelship, were added in 1926, and the wooden book house was then offered only occasionally as a special promotion, and is therefore extremely rare. The Book House for Children was remarkable for its large female staff, at a time when most women did not work outside of the home. "The utilization of women in all phases of its business activity was one of the unique aspects of The Book House for Children. Not only was there an all-woman sales force but the majority of the employees were women." (Taylor: Olive Beaupre Miller and The Book House for Children). Extremely scarce.. The original wooden house is in very good condition with the paint moderately worn and a couple of chips here and there, else fine. VERY GOOD.. Color Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

      [Bookseller: Round Table Books]

J Thomas Looney
        “Shakespeare” Identified -- in Edward De Vere, the Seventh Earl of Oxford
      London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 551pp (incl index), b&w plates.& Content tight & unusually clean (even allowing for ex-library markings on prelims and plates versos), just 2 sm ink spots in intro; sl foxing & smudges on prelims, but heavier external deterioration, wear & staining (incl 3 tears to cloth & rubbed edges), but gilting of spine & front titles & decoration intact if sl faded -- still quite sound EX-LIBRARY copy -- EXTREMELY RARE IN FIRST EDITION One of the originators of the Oxfordian theory in the Shakespeare authorship controversy

      [Bookseller: NZ_Story]

Anonymous - Photo Album].
        OIL EXECUTIVE'S PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MEXICO.
      (n d), (n. p.): - 167 b/w photographs, most approximately 3-1/2" x 4". During the 1920s Mexico was second only to the United States in petroleum production. Mexico's first oil boom was almost finished, but many oil corporations, entrepeneurs and small partnerships were still jockeying for position in the high production areas. U. S. and British oil companies soon drove out the wildcats and speculative prospectors, brought in hundreds of employees, and installed miles of pipeline in order to dominate transportation, storage and refining. This album appears to have been assembled by a Gulf Oil administrant working at this extraordinary time in the prolific Veracruz region: the Faja de Oro, or "Golden Lane". The photographs suggest that he was living for a time in the area, perhaps with his wife, working in a local office and touring the oilfields and other operations. Co-workers, friends and possibly family members are posed outside company housing and inside the offices of the Gulf Oil building in Tampico. He captured town street life, including a mounted Mexican army formation on parade, market scenes, and a holiday at the beach with ladies in hats and with umbrellas. He photographed Aguila, Terminal and Toteco colonies where the foreign workers were housed. There are a few river shots of boats and oil tankers. The most fascinating of his pictures show oil derricks, equipment, high-pressure blowouts, and oil- coated drilling crews working over the well casings. Two pages of photographs clearly show wells on fire with billowing smoke and enormous flames. Some individual wells are seen to be gushing at over 50,000 oil barrels (bbl) per day, and obviously required a superhuman effort to confine and control. At the end of the album are souvenir photos of a bullfight and a few tourist views of Monterrey and San Luis Potosi. Places noted in handwritten captions: Tampico, Miramar Beach (Tampico), Rio Tamesi, Aguila Col. (British Oil company subdivision), Panuco, Terminal, Amatlan, Tepetate, Zacamixtle, and Toteco. Some minor darkening to front cover, light soiling and rubbing to covers. Age toning (lightening) to black paper leaves. Photographs are in VG or better condition with a few exceptions, including one photograph with abraded areas. Captions and dates written in ink on photographs. One album reinserted (taped in) upside down. Overall, a unique VG to VG+ item. Brown leather binding with whip-stitched edges and a rawhide tie. Front cover embossed with Mexican emblems and the title "Mexico", back cover embossed with motifs and what look to be the initials "E" & "C". 7-3/8" x 12". Ca 1920. [55], [3 (blank)] pp. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Tavistock Books, ABAA]

Casanova, Jacques [Giacomo]. Translated into English by Arthur Machen
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (Six Volumes) Written by Himself now for the First Time Completely Translated into English
      Privately Printed. Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus. N.d., circa 1920. Privately printed for subscribers only. Limited to 500 sets on Louvain laid antique paper. Handsome red leather with simple gilt ornaments between raised bands on the spine. Other than light toning, clean and tight. Rubbing along the hinges of the first volume, and less so, other volumes. Overall, a very attractive leather bound set.

      [Bookseller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques]

Harding, Warren Gamaliel (1865-1923)
        Document Signed
      Harding Publishing Company Marion, OH: Harding Publishing Company, 1920. Bank check drawn on the Marion County Bank Co. from the Harding Publishing Company (publishers of The Marion Star) dated June 26, 1920. Payable to W. G. Harding and endorsed [signed] in ink by W. G. Harding on reverse. Americana, U.S. President (1921-23).. Signed. First Edition. Unbound. Very good+ condition. Octavo (8vo).

      [Bookseller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA) ]

Winston S. Churchill
        Memorandum of the Secretary of State for War Relating to the Army Estimates for 1920-21
      Offered here is a scarce official government publication from Churchill's period as Secretary of State for War and Air - a Memorandum to Parliament regarding his Army Estimates for 1920-21 - meant to accompany his speech to Parliament of 23 February 1920. In January 1919, when he became Secretary of State for War and Air, Winston Churchill was only in his early 40s. Nonetheless, he was already a polarizing national figure who had already held several important Cabinet positions and been a force in national politics for nearly two decades. And he was already steeped in the politics, strategy, tactics, and realities of war. As a young man, he had seen and fought in wars on several continents, as both an insightful war correspondent and a professional soldier. In the First World War, Churchill's experience was truly singular, having served both in the Cabinet and on the front. Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty until 1915 and then, after assuming questionable blame for the Dardanelles tragedy, served as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches, before being politically rehabilitated and returned to the Cabinet, before the war's end, as Minster of Munitions. As the new Secretary of State for War and Air in January 1919, Churchill immediately faced two overarching challenges: to demobilize the army that had fought the First World War, and to replace it with the army that would be prepared to fight future wars. On 23 February 1920, Churchill presented "The Army Estimates for 1920-21" to the House of Commons, announcing the final phases of demobilization and the replacement of the WWI army with "an entirely new Volunteer Army". The original government document offered here is Churchill's memorandum to Parliament "Issued in Amplification of the Speech of the Secretary of State introducing the Army Estimates for 1920-21." The two paragraph introduction by Churchill is dated 21 January, two days prior to Churchill's speech to Parliament. The Memorandum is intended to prepare the Parliamentary ground for the budgetary plow with what Churchill calls in his page 2 introduction "the interesting details". Churchill's speech to Parliament made the case for a very different army, bolstered by Churchill's assessment of major evolutions in strategic realities and the nature and mechanics of warfare itself. Churchill's memorandum offered here substantiates with details his requests and considerations, summarizing lessons of the war, the requirements of "the Future Army", and discussing a broad range of training, personnel policies, and organizational priorities. By all accounts, Churchill handled the mammoth task of demobilizing nearly 3.5 million British soldiers with success. Creating and sustaining a modern army proved more frustrating for Churchill, who found himself: "in charge of a War Office without a war, committed to economies". (See Martin Gilbert, Official Biography, Volume IV, p.506.) This very scarce document encapsulates much of Churchill's effort with respect to the army and offers a unique and substantial window into his time at the War Office. By 1921, he would be eager to leave the War Office, frustrated the lack of outlet for his talents and by differences with his Prime Minister. He would become Secretary of State for the Colonies in February 1921 and would not return to a military Cabinet post until the onset of the Second World War in 1939. This original Memorandum is in superlative, virtually mint, condition. There is absolutely no wear, no soiling, and no age-toning to either the covers or contents. Even the original string at the binding is bright, clean, and perfect. The only markings are official-looking ink stamped pagination (159-177) at the top right corners, indicating that this publication was likely once bound, which would explain the superlative condition. Bibliographic reference: Cohen B21.

      [Bookseller: Churchill Book Collector]

O'NEILL, Eugene G
        BEYOND THE HORIZON. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
      New York: Boni and Liveright, (1920). First Edition. Hardcover. Both hinges split nearly completely with covers loose but still attached. Dampstain to bottom third of spine extending partly to the covers but not showing internally. A Good copy at best with a fine inscription. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Edith---/With all my best, and/in the hope that our dune-/hiking took off a pound or/two/Gene/Provincetown, Nov. 1920." Edith was the wife of Frank Shay, one of O'Neill's first publishers and one of the Provincetown Players (He appeared in John Reed's FREEDOM in 1916.). Shay bought the Boni brothers bookshop (Boni later joined Horace Liveright, becoming O'Neill's next, and major, publisher) and brought out the three Provincetown Plays series: the first appearance in print of BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF and BEFORE BREAKFAST. In 1920, he and Edith, along with the Hutchins Hapgoods, the Wilbur Daniel Steeles, Susan Glaspell, and Jig Cook were frequent visitors at Peaked Hill Bar with Agnes and Eugene O'Neill, all having children who were playmates. Atkinson A 14-I-i.a: Binding A: 1250 copies published. Provenance: Parke-Bernet, 18 May 1971, lot 85.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

WHARTON, Edith
        THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
      New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth rubbed, spine faded, still Very Good and exceptionally scarce when signed. Second Printing with "2" on the last page of text. Original red cloth, neatly rebacked with nearly all of the original spine retained. Winner of the third Pulitzer Prize ever given for Fiction and the first by a woman, this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to her close friends: "To my dear Matilda/& Walter Gay/Edith Wharton/December 1920." In addition, 14 pages of the text have brief pencil corrections by Wharton. A copy of Wharton's ARTEMIS TO ACTAEON inscribed to Matilda Gay sold at Sotheby's in 1976. We have been unable to locate any other signed copies of this title, Wharton's best known book, offered for sale in at least 30 years. When Walter Gay died in 1937, the same year Wharton died, he was dubbed the "Dean of American Painters in France" in his New York Times obituary. One of his better known paintings is of Edith Wharton's bedroom, which he inscribed to her. Matilda Gay attended Wharton's funeral.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

        [Sample Book: Silk Braids] Latest Designs Braid Novelties
      London and Paris: D. & Company, n.d. (ca. 1920). Huge braid sample book (17 x 11 inches) comprising an accordion style page format with dozens of examples of finely braided silk and other fabrics, some pages having over 200 separate examples. A total of 25 separate leaves, each cloth backed and covered with thick printed paper with the company's information and decorative designs on every page. Some of the examples are missing, but greater than 90% are present. Occasional wear and soiling to covers, internally near fine. A scarce survival. We could find no similar item on the net, nor track down any information about this company.

      [Bookseller: Nudelman Rare Books]

BOYLESVE René :
        Alcindor ou suite à la leçon d'amour dans un parc *
      Le Livre, Paris 28.6.1920. - Broché, couverture illustrée rempliée. Envoi autographe signé de l'auteur au faux-titre "Aux meilleurs amis, définitivement". Édition originale. L'un des 512 exemplaires numérotés sur Rives, seul tirage.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

Conrad, Joseph
        ONE DAY MORE
      1920. [1 of 377 signed copies] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Original blue paper-covered boards, with Japan vellum spine and corners. First American Edition, which consisted of 377 copies numbered and signed by Conrad (this being copy #49). Little by little, Conrad's play "One Day More" (a dramatization of his 1903 tale "To-Morrow") was becoming more and more available to the public: in 1917 Clement Shorter issued a 25-copy edition, and in 1919 the Beaumont Press issued a 274-copy one (of which 24 were signed). This first one in America consisted of 377 numbered signed copies. The play was not available to "the masses" until 1924, when Doubleday Page issued a trade edition of it together with Conrad's play "Laughing Anne."~This is an atypically near-fine copy, with only the very slightest of cover soil, plus a hint of rubbing at the foot of the spine; the book was issued with no dust jacket other than a glassine wrapper. Cagle A20c.

      [Bookseller: Sumner & Stillman]

GAUTIER Théophile :
        Le Roman de la Momie *
      F. Ferroud, Paris (1920). - Reliure signée de Jean Hautecoeur, demi maroquin chocolat à coins, plats marbrés, tête dorée, signet, couvertures illustrées et dos conservés. L'un des 1'200 exemplaires numérotés sur Vélin d'Arches. Charmant illustré typique du goût de l'époque, pas si courant malgré le tirage annoncé, dans une reliure honnête. Image visible sur site céleste.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

[Lang, Fritz] Jacques, Norbert
        Dr. Mabuse Der Spieler [The Gambler] (First German Edition, and True First)
      Berlin: Ullstein, 1920. First Edition. First Edition (and correct first). One of the most important film sources of the twentieth century, basis for Fritz Lang's 1922 silent masterpiece, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Dr. Mabuse was one of the earliest examples of film noir characterization, and remained an obsession with Lang until the end of his film career.& & Very Good in black paper-covered boards with green rule, illustrations and titles. Slight lean, light taps to the top corners, rubbing to the boards and edges. A presentable copy of this scarce title.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Schubert, Walter E
        Lucian Zabel
      Berlin: By The Author, ca 1920. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Orig. plain stapled wrappers, cobalt blue dust wrapper with front cover paper label. Very good/No Dust Jacket. Zabel, Lucian. 23 pages in text. 31 x 24.5 cm. Ten plates, and approximately 30 in the text, a few tipped-in, some in vivid colors, of Zabel's posters, advertising images, industrial logos, book bindings and graphic work with a selective list of clients. World Cat locates three copies. The author was also responsible for the classic, "Die Deutsche Werber Graphik." Front cover and dust wrapper spine faded, some chipping to latter.

      [Bookseller: Royoung bookseller, Inc.]

LABE Louise :
        Sonnets *
      L.Pichon, Paris 1920. - Broché 27 x 19, couverture vieux rose décorée rempliée. L'un des 220 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d'Arches à la cuve. Ravissant recueil de poésie amoureuse, soigneusement imprimé et imagé, avec une préface mystérieuse signée F.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

Bonnard, Pierre
        Original Pastel Drawing of a seated nude by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
      ca. 1920-1930. Paperback. Fine. Original pastel drawing of a seated nude, 11 x 7 inches in beige mat with black border, 18 x 14 inches. A sensuous color pastel sketch with rich blues and greens in the background of fleshy peach nude. Signed in the corner by Bonnard. In excellent condition, ready to be framed. Authenticity has been established by Swann Galleries, but debated by a Bonnard scholar. Priced accordingly. Pierre Bonnard (October 3,1867 - January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker known particularly for the decorative qualities of his paintings and his individual use of colour. During his life he was associated with other artists, Edouard Vuillard being a good friend, and he was a founding member of the Nabis. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Met, MoMA, Guggenheim, the Louvre, and other major museums.

      [Bookseller: Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB]

MALLARMÉ Stéphane :
        Vers de circonstance *
      Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, Paris 30.6.1920. - Broché 22 x 17, couverture imprimée. Plus ou moins insolé (ce recueil n'est-il pas insolent ?) et menus défauts compensé par une bien bonne provenance. Avec un quatrain autographe reproduisant en fac-similé la belle graphie du poète. Image visible sur site céleste. Édition originale. L'un des 135 exemplaires de tête réimposés sur vergé, avant 1'040 pur fil.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

MERIMEE Prosper :
        Carmen *
      Rascher & co, Zurich (1920). - Relié pleine soie grenade 25 x 20, titres et cadres dorés, gardes de superbe papier marbré noir et or, signet, étui de carton brut. Fragile recouvrure du dos frotté ayant mis à vif le carton de reliure par endroits, état général néanmoins fort correct. L'un des 150 exemplaires numérotés, signés par l'artiste. Bel & délicat illustré, typique du style maniéré de l'artiste, dans les tons violents de rouge et noir qui conviennent à ce drame espagnol.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

GOKURAKU NO TOMO: FRIEND OF BLISS AND PARADISE.
        GOKURAKU NO TOMO: FRIEND OF BLISS AND PARADISE. [An Old Erotic Hand-Painted Color Story.]
      A HAND-DRAWN AND COLOR PAINTED EROTIC STORY BOOK [Japan n.d. ca 1920] - . Green brocade silk covers, accordionfolded book, all edges gilt, contains 12 double-page colordrawing, on front and back sides of the leaves, 12 x 18 cm.,very good, tiny faint margin stain on 2 else clean. SCARCE Color scans available for this book on request. Description content 2013Copyright Rare Oriental Books Co.

      [Bookseller: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB]

VERHAEREN Émile :
        Cinq récits *
      Éditions du Sablier, Genève 8.11.1920. - Broché 23 x 17, couverture imprimée rempliée, un brin défraîchie. Auréolé en bord de grande tranche. Un "Sablier" qui a bien résisté au temps, de plus grand format (ah! Les belles marges) que les habituels petits volumes de cette série, icelui le treizième - Superstitieux, levez-vous.Hormis le défaut signalé, bon exemplaire de ce livre fragile, peu courant même en tirage ordinaire. Les compositions de Masereel, des plus réussies, baignent dans une sorte d'onirisme grouillant, entre expressionnisme et images d'Épinal.Imprimé par l'inégalable Kundig à Genève Édition originale. L'un des 35 exemplaires numérotés sur Chine, outre 14 Japon Impérial avec 2 dessins (le premier en possède un 3ème inédit) et une suite sur Chine, 25 Japon Impérial avec la seule suite et 500 Hollande sans truffe.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

[IVANOV, SERGEI I.]
        Chtenie odna iz obyazannostei cheloveka (Reading is one of a Person's Duties)"
      Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, (1920). Framed poster measuring 19 inches by 26 inches. This two-color lithograph was printed in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) by the Petrograd State Publishing House and shows a man and a woman reading books while a hammer rests against the man's leg and more books lay in a pile at their feet. The accompanying text declares, in Cyrillic, "Reading is one of a Person's Duties." Starting in 1919, the Soviet government began a campaign to eradicate illiteracy by mandating compulsory education for children and enrolling illiterate adults in special literacy schools. Part of this new policy included issuing propagandistic posters linking literacy to one's duty as a Communist and positioning knowledge as the key to greater production. This poster, showing the tools of production next to books, was in close alignment with this new campaign. Writing in pencil and ink to upper margin of poster, otherwise fine in wooden frame measuring 23 1/2 by 30 inches.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

CARCO Francis :
        Petits airs *
      R.Davis, Paris 15.10.1920. - Broché 20 x 14, couverture illustrée rempliée. Dos et tranches peu insolés. Dans ce bien rare recueil de poèmes des débuts affleure un brin d'érotisme, le dernier titré "Degas" étant dédié à Barraud. Daté de décembre 1916, il s'agit vraisemblablement de la prime "rencontre" entre nos deux larrons, qui en feront bien d'autres, leur amitié perdurant durant près de quarante ans.Un scoop: la litho dont nous avons établi l'originalité est tirée dans chaque tranche d'édition sur Japon; elle n'a donc pas été relevée dans le catalogue de Darel & Cailler. Quant au portrait de Max, il ne figure que dans les tirages des deux premiers papiers.Pur chiffon sur demande. Édition originale. L'un des 37 exemplaires numéroté sur Vieux Japon à la forme & signé par l'auteur, outre 13 Chine et 300 Pur Chiffon.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

BARRAUD Maurice :
        Été *
      [1920]. 1920 - Lithographie originale 37 x 30, monogrammée en bas à gauche dans la pierre et signée en regard sur la droite, tirée en noir par J.-E. Wolfensberger à Zurich à 30 exemplaires, sous cadre à baguette dorée 49 x 39. Une délicate et vaste composition que cette dame au chapeau qui évoque un peu Renoir, dans le prolongement du célèbre tableau "Femmes à la terrasse" de la collection Barbier-Müller à Genève, maintes fois reproduit comme emblématique de la période du renouveau de Barraud, quittant le microcosme enfumé des bars et du monde de la nuit pour renaître au grand jour à la faveur d'un périple tessinois en 1918; le personnage féminin central de la peinture est très clairement celui qui inspira cette vision gravée inversée.[Cailler & Darel 111]

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

JOUVE Pierre-Jean :
        Heures. Livre de la grâce *
      Éditions du Sablier, Genève 31.1.1920. - Broché, couverture rempliée imprimée en noir et rouge, en partie insolée comme souvent dans le prolongement du dos et des tranches. Pour faire suite aux "Heures. de la nuit", avec un envoi autographe signé de l'éditeur. Dans la production du premier quart du siècle intégralement reniée par l'auteur, au point que la plupart des notices bibliographiques figurant dans ses livres la passe sous silence. Édition originale. L'un des 300 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin, après 5 Japon signés (le premier avec dessin original) et 20 Hollande.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

n/a
        Honni Soit... (Erotic booklet) + 2 vintage nude photographs
      (ca.1920). Softcover. g. Quarto. 32pp. Two vintage photographs of erotic nudes and a booklet of 31 sepia-tone photographic reproductions of nude models, each one with a caption in French and English. One of the vintage prints is reproduced in the booklet (page 2), and depicts a topless 18th century woman. The photograph measures 9.5 x 7 in. and is mounted in an ivory cardboard frame (12.5 x 9.8 in.). The second vintage print is similar to two reproduced in the booklet (pages 24-25). The print depicts a model wearing only shoes, seated on a garden table, under a patio umbrella, with flower in hand. The photograph measures 9.5 x 7 in. Some edge wear on booklet with book block detached from wrappers, and minor rubbing along front cover. Wrappers in overall fair to good, interior in very good condition. Two vintage photographs in very good condition.

      [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller ]

GARIS,HOWARD
        UNCLE WIGGILY ORIGINAL ART: ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER
      - (CAMPBELL,LANG)illus. UNCLE WIGGILY ORIGINAL ART for comic strip by Howard Garis. Garis originally created Uncle Wiggily for a newspaper comic strip and it became so popular that it was nationally syndicated on a daily basis. Lang Campbell is the artist who drew the characters which later evolved into many books. Offered here is a fabulous 4 panel continuous pen and ink strip that appeared in the Saturday newspapers circa 1920. The image measures 12/1/4" wide by 3 1/2" high on high quality paper. Signed in the corner, it is in fine condition with pencilled caption in the margin reading "One Good Turn Deserves Another" and with each panel featuring Uncle Wiggily (plus other characters). Each panel is remarkably detailed and amazingly has none of the usual white-out corrections that usually appear on these types of pieces.

      [Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc. - ABAA]

Conrad, Joseph
        AN OBSERVER IN MALAY
      1920. [one of 25 copies] London: Printed for The Author for Private Circulation Only | By Richard Clay and Sons, Ltd., 1920. Original dark red wrappers. First Edition, being one of 25 numbered copies, of which this is No 10. This was the eighteenth of the twenty very-limited-issue Conrad productions by Thomas J. Wise (issued with Conrad's permission). This piece -- a review of Hugh Clifford's STUDIES IN BROWN HUMANITY -- had originally appeared in the 23 April 1898 issue of the Academy, and would later be collected in NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS. This is a just-about-fine, unopened copy (just a hint of wear at the fore-edge of the final internal leaf, one light crease to a wrapper corner). Provenance: with the discreet bookplate from the renowned Conrad collection of Stanley J. Seeger. Cagle A46. Housed in a handsome morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.

      [Bookseller: Sumner & Stillman]

Viereck, George Sylvester: Editor
        The Fatherland - Fair Play for Germany and Austria-Hungary, July 14th, 1915 - William Randolph Hearst Cover Photo - He Led This Country Into One War - he Has Helped to Keep it Out of Another, Plus: The War of 1920 - 2nd Instalment
      New York: The International Monthly. Stapled. 20 pages. Features: The Trade in the Tools of Death, by George Sylvester Viereck - an account of the tremendous development of the manufacture of munitions of war in the United States showing how this country, allegedly neutral, is helping to prolong the European conflict by furnishing firearms and explosive to the British Allies; Cartoon by A. Staehle shows the Prince of Peace coming out of Bethlehem, Palestine, and hell going out of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the form of munitions on railcars; White List - A list of some companies what have refused to manufacture arms and ammunition and ammunition-related manufacturing machinery; Money From Death - a partial list of American companies engaged in the manufacture of munitions of war; Victory - In Battle and in Balkan Diplomacy; The War of 1920 - 2nd Instalment; The Ocean Travelers' Suicide Club; Arm the German Ships in New York Harbor; The Cleveland Automatic Company and the New York Times - poison shrapnel being provided to the Allies; Mr. Pulitzer in Looking-Glass Land - he seems to exist in a land where everything is the reverse of the truth; The Verdict - Guilty! - England on the Witness Stand; Spring's Awakening in Berlin, by Louis Viereck; Ad for Kaffee Hag on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Covers loose but present, otherwise a sound copy. . Good. 1915. First Edition.

      [Bookseller: RareNonFiction.com]

n/a
        Antique 6 Sided Wood Block Puzzle
      NP NP , ca. 1920's - 1930's. vg. Original wood boxed set of 30 wood picture blocks depicting 6 various scenes: Riders on horses; A Circus scene with clowns; Children playing in a park; Motorists, motorcyclists and airplanes flying overhead; A farm scene; Dutch people gathered near water and boats sailing. Each richly colored scene is included in the game as lithograph prints (except for the horse riders scene as the print is pasted on the box). Minor age wear on box with rubbing and chipping along edges of print pasted on front board. Clasp partly missing. Very minor rubbing on block designs. Wooden box in overall good+, blocks in very good, prints in near to fine condition.

      [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller ]

ANDERSEN
        FAIRY TALES
      1920. 1. (APPLETON,HONOR)illus. FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen. NY: Thomas Nelson, no date, circa 1920. Large 4to (9 1/2 x 11 3/4"), blue pictorial cloth. AS NEW IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL BOX (box VG with flaps repaired). First edition. A very beautiful edition of 14 fairy tales (Snow Queen, Ole Luk-Oie, What the Moon Saw, Red Shoes, Little Match Girl etc), illustrated by British artist Honor Appleton (of Josephine fame) with pictorial endpapers, 12 magnificent color plates plus numerous detailed pen and ink drawings all throughout the text. This is an outstanding copy, rarely found with the box.

      [Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.]