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

        Proclamations by the President Relating to the United States Railroad Administration and General Orders and Circulars Issued by the Director General of Railroads [etc.]
      Justice Brandeis' copy, with his ownership signature ("Louis D. Brandeis") on the front wrap, a fine example of his lifelong professional interest in the railroad industry and their abuses, continued in a series of his opinions while on the Court. Original brown printed wraps, somewhat chipped and worn, but a good copy; with several folding forms. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1920.

      [Bookseller: Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.]

[GRAPHICS & ORIGINAL ART][POSTERS][RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] MOOR, D.S. (Dmitrij Stachievic)
        Krasnyi podarok belomu panu ("A Red Present to the White Pan")
      Literature Edition RVSR Moscow: Literature Edition RVSR, (1920). Lithograph in three colors; printed recto-only on thin lithographic paper; 83cm x 60cm (ca 32" x 24"). Small (1") loss to left margin (away from image); darkening and toning to extremities; image bright and unfaded; grade B+/B. A major poster by one of the major propaganda artists of the revolutionary period, produced for the Polish campaign of 1920. Pictured in Stephen White, The Bolshevik Poster, p.98. Rare (only one copy noted at auction in the past 20 years) and a high-spot in the history of revolutionary graphics.

      [Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books ]

Baudelaire, Charles
        LES FLEURS DU MAL
      Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1920. Of an edition limited to 485 copies this is one of 450 copies on Velin. This copy is not numbered, but inscribed to a friend of the publishers and signed by Kieffer. Illustrated with 26 colored pochoirs by Andre Domin. 363 pp. Text in French. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy Half polished morocco over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Binding rubbed at several places along both hinges ( very minor ), else a nice, fresh, clean copy in a clam-shell case.Very good+/No jacket issued. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply) (Insurance required to ship this item).

      [Bookseller: A. Parker's Books, Inc. ]

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        Megillat Esther [MANUSCRIPT]
      Bezalel Palestine Bezalel circa 1920svg 21.5 inches (top to bottom of spindle). 14 inches (scroll case). Burled olive wood case spectacularly carved with depictions of Rachel's tomb and the old city of Jerusalem, and ringed with four multicolored inlay mosaics. The words Jerusalem, Kever Rachel (Rachel's tomb) and Ir Tziyon (the city of Zion aka Jerusalem) written in black ink. Manuscript with black ink on white parchment, ten inches in height, containing the biblical book of Esther. From the Bezalel school in Jerusalem. An unusually large and finely carved example of Bezalel arts and crafts. Complete and kosher. Fine condition.

      [Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller ]

MANSFIELD, Katherine.
        Bliss. The Garden Party. The Doves' Nest. Something Childish. Journal of... The Letters of... [both] Edited by J. Middleton Murry. [with] MANTZ, Ruth Elvish & MURRY, J. Middleton. The Life of Katherine Mansfield.
      London: Constable (1920, 1922, 1923, 1924), 1927, 1928, 1933.. Seven works in eight volumes (Letters 2 volumes), all first editions - "The Garden Party", "The Doves' Nest" and "Something Childish" are second impressions (but see note). These three novels are signed on the fly leaf by Sydney Waterlow, and the "Life" contains his bookplate. Some light foxing. All bound in the original cloth, spines with slight rubbing and fading. "Journal" with its d.w., chipped, spine browned, "Letters" with the d.w. in pieces and loosely inserted. A unique set including four of Mansfield's six prose collections, all from the library of Sydney Waterlow, diplomat, second cousin of Mansfield and close contemporary of the Bloomsbury group, having befriended many of them during his time at Cambridge. In 1910 he proposed to Virginia Woolf, but was amicably rebuffed. Despite this he remained close to her and the group, helping to found their Memoir Club, a monthly dining club, in 1920. In a letter to Edward Sackville-West following the publication of "Orlando", Woolf revealed that the "S.W." character was loosely based on Waterlow. Kirkpatrick A4a, A5a, A6a, A8a, A9a, A10a, B10. The three second impressions were in each case preceded by a first printing of a handful of trial bindings - 25 copies of "The Garden Party" and "The Doves' Nest" and 34 copies of "Something Childish".

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, ABA, ILAB]

India. Burma. Ceylon. Murray's Handbook:
        A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon, including all British India, The Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Protected Native States. Tenth Edition. SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY IN SIGNED HATCHARDS BINDING
      John Murray, 1920. Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, on India Paper, with 38 folding coloured maps, 11 full-page maps and plans (a number coloured), numerous illustrations, plans and tables (several full-page) in the text, and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear, some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries, endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS, upper board lettered in gilt, back with five shaped raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames, laid paper endpapers, red, yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands, red buckram pocket, a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD (this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards). A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION.Very scarce in any condition.

      [Bookseller: Island Books]

AUSTEN, Jane.
        [Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. Lady Susan and the Watsons.
      Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, [c.1920].. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Recent red half morocco, a.e.g., red cloth sides, a fine set.

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, ABA, ILAB]

TIMLIN, William M |
        The Fairy Walk
      1920. A Wonderfully Ethereal Watercolor from the Master of Children's Fantasy IllustratorsTIMLIN, William M. "The Fairy Walk." Original pen, ink and watercolor drawing, titled on lower left hand corner, signed on lower right hand corner and marked with Timlin's owl device. Image size: 20 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches: 525 x 320mm.Matted, framed and glazed.William M. Timlin ranks alongside Dulac, Rackam, and Pogany as one of the greatest children's fantasy illustrators, despite his having published only one book in his lifetime (The Ship that Sailed to Mars, 1923). He died before his second great work, The Building of a Fairy City could be completed. The Fairy Walk depicts an elegant young lady in conversation with an ethereal figure sitting on a fence and holding onto a branch of a tree, observed by four ravens and a trio of mischievous looking goblins. It is quite possible that this drawing is a finished watercolor for The Building of a Fairy City. It is beautifully executed and very large, drawn with finesse and detail, indicative of an important work. Even though this drawing is dated 1920, three years before The Ship that Sailed to Mars was published, Timlin had been working on drawings for The Building of a Fairy City for many years previous to the publication of his first book.William Mitcheson Timlin (11 April 1892 - 1943) was an architect and illustrator. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland, the son of a colliery foreman. He showed talent for drawing at Morpeth Grammar School, and received a scholarship to the Armstrong College of Art in Newcastle. In 1912, he joined his parents in South Africa where he completed his training in art and architecture and remained for the rest of his life.Timlin designed a number of important buildings in Kimberley including Kimberly Boys' High School while pursuing his interest in art, turning out a large number of watercolour fantasies in addition to oils, pastels, etchings and periodical illustrations. His work was regularly exhibited. He also wrote stories and composed music.Timlin worked on The Ship that Sailed to Mars for two years. It was started as a diversion for his son in 1921. The work expanded until in its final form it had 48 pages of text and 48 color plates showing remarkable flights of fantasy. Timlin sent the book to publishers George Harrap, who were delighted with the illustrations and the calligraphic text, deciding to print it without typesetting. The book has since become a fantasy classic. The film rights to the book were purchased in the United States, where Timlin enjoyed great popularity. Alan Horne in The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators describes the book as a masterpiece and "the most original and beautiful children's book of the 1920s."Timlin illustrated many South African travel books and prepared illustrations for a book titled The Building of a Fairy City which was never published. He died in Kimberley, Northern Cape in 1943.

      [Bookseller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. ]

[WITTGENSTEIN]. VOLKMANN-LEANDER, RICHARD von. - [WITTGENSTEIN-BINDING - A PRESENT FOR HIS BEST FRIEND]
        Träumereien an französischen Kaminen. Märchen. Mit einer Einleitung herausgegeben vonFritz Gundlach. Sonderausgabe der Nr. 6091-92 Reclams Universalbiblithek...
      Wien [Vienna], Österreichischer Schulbücherverlag, [ca. 1920]. Small 8vo. Simple cloth-backed paper-covered boards (paper in wood-pattern). Extremities rubbed. Title-page partly glued on to front board. Inner hinge weak, first many gatherings loose, lightly browned throughout. 153, (3, -advertisements) pp.. A most excellent Wittgenstein-item that combines several aspects of the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. The present little fairy-tale book was bound under Wittgenstein's supervision during his time as an elementary school-teacher I Austria (probably 1924-25). The book has an excellent provenance, as it was probably bought by One of Wittgenstein's closest friends, Ludwig Hänsel, bound under the supervision of Wittgenstein, given by Wittgenstein to the second of his two closest friends, Rudolph Koder, and given by Koder to the famous Wittgenstein scholar Professor Brian McGuinness.When Wittgenstein wrote the "Tractatus", one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century, which was printed in 1921, he had proposed the solution to, and thereby put an end to, all fundamental philosophical problems. He had differentiated between that which there can be said something meaningful about and that which there cannot, and as a consequence, he had not only put an end to philosophical problems, he had also put an end to all philosophical production. Wittgenstein took the consequences of this upon himself and left philosophy for what he thought was for good. He now returned from Cambridge to Austria in 1920 and started training as a primary school-teacher. He was educated in the methods of the Austrian School Reform Movement, which probably suited him well, as the intention was to arouse the natural curiosity in children and to let them develop as independent thinkers. In July 1920 he received his diploma from the teacher-training college. He did not, however, begin teaching immediately. He spent the summer working as a gardener, and in September the same year, he took up his teaching duties. First, he taught at Trattenbach, where he remained till the summer of 1922. After the summer he became, briefly, a high-school teacher at Hassbach, and then an elementary school-teacher in Puchberg am Schneeberg, where Koder also taught; he stayed here till 1924, after which he went to Otterthal to teach. During this time, Wittgenstein published a spelling- and pronunciation-dictionary for his teaching of the students - this became the only work that he published in his lifetime besides the "Tractatus". The present binding yields from Wittgenstein's famous "lost years" after the Tractatus. More precisely, it is most likely during his tumultuous time in Otterthal that Wittgenstein had the present fairy tale-book bound. In a letter to Ludwig Hänsel written in September 1924, he asks his close friend to bring back ten copies of this edition from Vienna to Otterthal. During his time as a school-teacher, several acquaintances had tried to persuade him to return to philosophy and scholarly life, e.g. Ramsey, who visited him several times in Puchberg 1924, after which he wrote his famous essay on the "Tractatus", and his friend J.M. Keynes, to whom he also in 1924 explained very clearly that he did not wish to return to scientific work, because everything he had to say had been said already, and that the well had been laid dry.Though the period of 1924-25 were desperately unhappy for Wittgenstein, who often contemplated suicide, he did apparently enjoy his teaching position and took it seriously. The thought that he was appreciated by the pupils kept him at his task, but his expectations of the children of rural Austria might still have been somewhat unrealistic. He had little patience with the children that had difficulties learning, and he was extremely strict towards them. In fact, his severe disciplinary methods together with the general idea among the parents that he was somewhat mad, caused him to leave the job for good in 1926. He had struck a boy on the head, after which the boy had collapsed, and the parents instituted legal proceedings against him. Several parents were also afraid that he would persuade the brighter of the children to leave the family farm and pursue academic careers. The legal proceedings were that which made Wittgenstein finally leave teaching for good. He immediately left town but was subjected to a compulsory psychiatric examination, after which he was acquitted on a trial at Gloggnitz. He never returned to teaching again. Already during his year of training as a school-teacher, Wittgenstein had mostly enjoyed reading fairy tales to the children. In fact, the influence of fairy tales upon his career has been quite extensive. As a school teacher, he considered fairy tales the most instructive reading for children, as it both posed ethical and religious problems and encouraged their fantasy. As a philosopher, the fairy tales provide him with the most excellent of examples. In his theories of language, Wittgenstein frequently uses examples of fairy tales, e.g., he comes to conclusions about the status of logical expressions from the example that statements about elves express logical, not real, possibility. Because the grammar of the word 'elf' gives no observational criteria for that word's application: nothing we observe or fail to observe directs our use of the word 'elf'. Fairy tales do. He also frequently uses examples of fairy-tales to determine grammatical rules. In fairy-tales statements-of-fact are often found, which do not even pretend to state facts. Perhaps we say that a fairy-tale author follows his own rules or rules taken from other writers, but which of these rules are grammatical? The fact that in fairy-tales there is no difference between real and logical possibility made them of great importance to the thought of Wittgenstein. E.g. in the "Tractatus" (6.362), he states that in the fairy tale, "what can be described can happen too". "But what can be described belongs to grammar." And what does "grammar" mean in this case? Is there any grammatical difference between what can happen in a fairy tale and what does happen in that tale?The present "Wittgenstein-binding" is thus not only a curiosity. It also constitutes an example of an item that has played a significant role in the life of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. Not only do these fairy-tales appeal to Wittgenstein intellectually, and not only have they served as a means of solving some of the most important questions of modern logic and philosophy of language, they also tie together the "lost years" of the great philosopher with those for posterity so important philosophically productive years. The present little volume, so simply bound under the instruction of the great philosopher, also contains markings in pencil of six of the fairy-tales, no doubt Wittgenstein's recommendations for reading. The present fairy-tale volume is the most famous literary production by the renowned German author and surgeon Richard von Volkmann (1830 - 1889). For his literary works he used the pseudonym Richard Leander. Apart from being the author of the present famous volume of fairy-tales, Volkmann counts as one oft he most famous surgeons of the 19th century, and is one oft he greatest German surgeons of all times. His fairy-tales were among the best-loved in Germany, together with those of the Grimm brothers. They were written while he served as a general physician at the German-French war of 1870-71. They portray a healthy and beautiful world within one of misery and distress. The fairy-tales are not typically idyllic, though, they much more represent romantic castles in the air that are full of spirit and roguish humour. Rudolph Koder was one of Wittgenstein's closest friends. They met in 1923 when both teaching at the primary school of Puchberg and stayed close friend throughout their lives. Koder was a talented pianist and music teacher, and he shared his great interest in music with Wittgenstein. After Wittgenstein's death in 1951, Mrs. Stonborough, Wittgenstein's sister, entrusted Koder with several of Wittgenstein's papers, which he loyally guarded throughout his life. Wittgenstein did not have many close friends, but the closest together with Koder was Luwig Hänsel, who was a high-school teacher of German and literature. Hänsel and Wittgenstein, who befriended eachother in 1918 while being war prisoners in Monte Casino, also remained close friends throughout their lives. After having quit his job as a school-teacer in 1926, Wittgenstein still did not wish to return to academic life, so he worked at a number of different jobs, first as a gardener's assistant in the Hüsseldorf monastery. The following two years he spent designing and constructing his sister Gretl's house near Vienna. He also considered becoming a monk and inquired about the requirements for joining an order. He was, however, advised that monastic life would not be able to provide him with that which he sought. In 1929 he decided, at the urging of amongst others Ramsey, to return to Cambridge

      [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn A/S]

KEYNES (John Maynard, with others); SMITH (Henry Babington, chair):
        East India, Committee on Indian Exchange and Currency [BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS]
      Comprising the complete suite bound in one volume as follows: 1) Vol I. Report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India to enquire into Indian Exchange and Currency, 56pp folio, London, HMSO., 1920 [Cmd 527]; 2) Vol II. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee... 329pp folio, London, HMSO., 1920 [Cmd 528]; 3) Vol III. Appendices to the Report of the Committee.., 251pp folio, London, HMSO, 1920. [Cmd 529]; 4) Vol IV. Index to Minutes of Evidence taken by, and Appendices to Report of, Committee on Indian Exchange and Currency, 57pp folio, London, HMSO., 1920. [Cmd 530]. A very good complete copy, bound in contemporary red buckram, rebacked. * This includes evidence by J. M. KEYNES who gave evidence on the 12th day (see vol II above, p. 166-175). Keynes was by this time considered to be an authority on the subject, partly through his own first book, 'Indian Finance and Currency', (1913) and partly because he had sat on the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency, 1914-15 to which he had contributed the famous "Annexe to Report of Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency, Memorandum by Mr J. M. KEYNES on Proposals for the Establishment of a State Bank in India".Keynes had a two-fold task; he had to convince the Commission of his view, already expressed in his book, that actual developments had been in the right direction and that the system known as the gold-exchange standard was superior to the full gold-standard. His second task was to procure a distinct advantage by establishing a State Bank. He argued that it would be desirable to develop in India a more extended money market and bank-rate control. Indian currency had been a vexed question ever since bimetallism was abandoned in 1873. The Enquiry was chaired by Sir Henry Babington Smith, a senior British civil servant, who in 1891 became principal private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Goschen. In 1894 he became private secretary to Lord Elgin on his appointment as Viceroy of India. He returned to Britain in 1899 and was immediately sent to Natal as Treasury representative in the South African War. In 1909 he returned to Constantinople as president of the National Bank of Turkey, which he was instrumental in establishing.The First World War saw him holding a variety of posts connected with finance, including deputy governor of the British Trade Corporation, and in 1918 he accompanied Lord Reading to the United States as Assistant Commissioner and Minister Plenipotentiary. After the war, he chaired the Indian Finance and Currency Committee in 1919 and was appointed a director of the Bank of England in 1920.

      [Bookseller: Jeffrey Stern Antiquarian Bookseller]

DE SEGUR,COMTESSE
        OLD FRENCH FAIRY TALES
      1920. 2. (STERRETT,VIRGINIA)illus. OLD FRENCH FAIRY TALES by Comtesse de Segur. Philadelphia: Penn (1920). Large, thick 4to (9 x 11 1/4"), blue cloth, pictorial paste- on, 279p., spine lettering dulled. spine ends frayed, inner corner crease on some pages, overall tight and VG. First edition. Forty French fairy tales are illustrated by Sterrett with 8 truly magnificent color plates (with tissue guards), many lovely black & whites and yellow pictorial endpapers. Done when she was only 19 years of age, this was Chicago native Sterrett's first book. She is often referred to as the "female Kay Nielsen" and with this book you can see why!

      [Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc. ]

Trilussa ..
        Favole. disegni e fregi di duilio cambellotti. prefazione di ferdinando martini. societa' editrice di 'novissima'. roma. 1920.
      In-4°, leg. edit in tutta tela, con piatto anteriore tessuto in seta, pp. 4 bb., 59(9). Con 20 tavole fuori testo protette da velina parlante decorata (xilografie e tav. a colori), e numerosissime illustrazioni e fregi a colori di Duilio Cambellotti intercalati nel testo. Primo della serie di pubblicazioni artistiche voluta da Emerico Steiner (padre di Albe) per 'costituire in Italia un nucleo di Amatori del Libro'. Alla seconda c. bianca invio autografo firmato di Emerico Steiner alla cognata Anna, ed altro invio successivo. La decorazione in seta del piatto anteriore è realizzata dalla Manifattura Vittorio Ferrari di Milano, su disegno di Cambellotti; la carta è delle Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano. Edizione limitata di mille esemplari numerati, il nostro è il 141. Apertura alle cerniere interne di entrambi i piatti. Piccole abrasioni alle cuffie, ed altre marginali tracce d'uso alla legatura. Altrimenti ottimo esemplare.

      [Bookseller: Daris]

Engel, Otto Heinrich
        (Erbach 1866 - 1949 Glücksburg). Dünen auf Föhr (?). Aquarell und Feder auf Papier. Um 1920. Unten links signiert. 24,5 x 34,5 cm. Unter Passepartout gerahmt.
      Otto Heinrich Engel war 1898 neben Walter Leistikow, Ludwig Dettmann, Oskar Frenzel, Curt Herrmann, Fritz Klimsch und Max Liebermann eines der Gründungsmitglieder der Berliner Secession. Zwischen 1901 und 1914 sind es zahlreiche Sommeraufenthalte auf der Nordseeinsel Föhr, die seine Bildthematik bestimmen.- Blick über weiße Dünen- und Strandlandschaft, im weiten Hintergrund ein Kirchturm.- .

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Schramm]

Schnee, Heinrich (Hrsg.)
        Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon. 3 Bände.
      4to. Mit 208 s/w- u. 40 farbigen Taf., zahlr. Karten im Text u. auf 33 meist farbigen Falttaf. sowie einigen Abb. im Text. Titel in Rot u. Schwarz. XXX S., 1 Bl., 776 S.; 2 Bl., 698 S.; 2 Bl., 778 S. zweispaltig gedruckt. OHldr. m. blind- u. goldgeprägt. Rücken. Farbiger Kopfschnitt. Das 1914 fertiggestellte große Projekt eines Koloniallexikons erschien erst nach dem Krieg und dem Verlust der deutschen Kolonien in erstaunlich umfangreicher und hervorragend mit Bildern und Karten ausgestatteter Form in sehr kleiner Auflage. Eine der großen Seltenheiten im Antiquariat. Von den 500 gedruckten Exemplaren gelten 400 als verschollen, Exemplare der Originalausgabe kommen im Handel so gut wie nicht vor, bei uns sogar im besseren Original-Halbledereinband vorhanden. - Tadelloses, nie gebrauchtes Ex. von bester Erhaltung, sorgfältig auf Vollständigkeit durchgesehen.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Düwal]

Shackleton, Sir Ernest H, C. V. O.:
        SOUTH: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
      London: William Heinemann, 1920.. 1st Edition, 4th impression (March 1920); xxiv, 376pp, 1 colour photographic frontispiece of the "Endurance", 87 b/w photographs, 1 folding map. Dark blue cloth with silver titles and image of the Endurance. Blind stamped colophon on rear cover. Covers showing some sign of wear but still bright, Good. Rosove 308.A4. This edition has the two pages in the preliminaries listing the expedition members.

      [Bookseller: Polar Books]

(Munch, Edvard) Struck, Hermann
        Die Kunst des Radierens. Ein handbuch von Hermann Struck. Vierte vermehrte und verbesserte auflage.
      Berlin, Verlag bei Paul Cassirer, 1920. Leks. 8vo. 279 s. Originalraderinger av Edvard Munch, Max Liebermann, Hermann Struck, Hans Meid, Paul Baum, og et originallitografi av Max Slevogt. Orig. dekorert kartonert bd. Ryggstripen løs.. *Originalraderingen "Landschaft" av Edvard Munch

      [Bookseller: Ruuds Antikvariat]

KELSEN, HANS. - [ORGANIZING SOCIAL POWER]
        Vom Wesen und Wert der Demokratie.
      Tübingen, 1920. 8vo. Cont. blue half cloth w. a bit of wear to spine and loss of gilt lettering. Internally fine. 38, (1, -advertisement) pp.. First edition, off-print, of Kelsen's book on democracy, which not only provides invaluable insight into the conception of political morality that underpins the most important legal theory of the 20th century, but which also constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on democracy as well as a fascinating contribution to the reception of democracy in modern legal and political thought. Kelsen wrote the book in the aftermath of the First World War which had brought about the advent of mass democracy in many European countries. The book is thus one of the first attempts to come to terms with this new form of organizing and exercising social power. The theory of democracy which Kelsen articulates must be understood in the light of the 19th century German theory of state. At the same time, Kelsen stands apart from this tradition by being the first to recognize that, within a democracy, the parliament is the essential political forum, whereas earlier theory of state had defined the parliament as on organ of state, not of the people, hence stripping it of political significance. The willingness with which Kelsen embraced democracy is intimately connected to his famous pure theory of law. The ethics of democracy - which Kelsen shall describe as "political relativism" - is central to his affirmation of the independence of law from political power. The book is thus an indispensable analytical tool for anyone interested in understanding the interaction of law and power in modern society

      [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn A/S]

Picabia, Francis (Herausgeber)
        391. Nummer 13. Paris. Au Sans Pareil Juli 1920. 49,1 x 31,8 cm. 4 Seiten. Originalheft mit einer Maschinenzeichnng von Picabia auf dem Titel..
      Originalausgabe. Dada global 167 -- Dada Centre Pompidou 1340, mit Abbildung auf Seite 69 -- Almanacco Dada 160. Wichtige von Francis Picabia herausgegebene Dadazeitschrift, deren erste Nummern in Barcelona, dann in New York und schlieslich in Paris herausgebracht wurden. Vorliegend die Nummer 13, die anstelle einer weiteren Nummer von Cannibale veröffentlicht wurde. Mit Texten von Ribemont-Dessaignes, Tristan Tzara und Francis Picabia. Ausser der Titelzeichnung von Picabia befinden sich in dem Heft noch eine Illustration von Marcel Duchamp für ein Detail des Grossen Glases und von Man Ray "Lampshade". Durch den Versand gefaltet mit entsprechenden Faltspuren und einer aufgeklebten französischen Briefmarke. Sehr gut erhalten.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Günter Linke]

AUSTEN, Jane.
        [Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. With... Introduction[s] by Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson [and] Charles E. Brock.
      London: Macmillan and Co., 1920-24.. Five volumes, small 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's gilt decorated limp red morocco, a.e.g., a few very minor scuffs otherwise an excellent bright set. Brock illustrated "Pride and Prejudice", Thomson the remainder.

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, ABA, ILAB]

White, Gilbert.
        The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
      in the County of Southampton. The standard edition by E. T. Bennet. Throughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting. Stereotyped edition with ten letters not included in any other edition of the work. Illustrated with engravings by Thomas Bewick and others. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. no date. (About 1920). xxii,568 pp. Contemporary full red marocco, spine in compartments richly gilt. Boards floral decoration within trippel gold lines board within gilt lines, inside dentelles. Edges on boards gilt. All edges gilt. Inner front hinge weak. (Bickers & sons Leicister square). Inscription on front free endpaper. 22 x 15 cm

      [Bookseller: Antiquaria]

HEISE, CARL GEORG und HANS MARDERSTEIG (Hrsg.).
        Genius. Bilder und Aufsätze zu alter und neuer Kunst. Band 1-2.
      Mit vielen Abbildungen im Text, eingeklebte Illustrationen, und 5 Original-Litographien von Alex Archipenko, Karl Hofer, Alexander Kanoldt, Edwin Scharff und George Ehrlich, sowie 5 Originale Holzschnitte von Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Max Kaus, Frans Maserell und André Rouveyre. München, Kurt Wolff, 1920. 4°. Orginaler Leinwand-Bände. VIII + 332 + VIII + 356 Seiten. Band 1 mit ein Paar minimale Flecken am Vordeckel.. Mit schriftliche Beiträge von Döblin, Hesse, Tagore, Kafka, Hölderlin, France und viele andere.[= Genius. Zeitschrift für werdende und alte Kunst 2. und 3. Jahrgang]

      [Bookseller: Mandøes Antikvariat]