Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1927

Verhaeren Émile.
        La guirlande des dunes.
      , Paris l'edition d'art Piazza, 1927 1927 in-8°, 130pp. illustré de 32 en couleurs par Heni Cassiers. Relié plein vélin signeé par Laurent Peeters - Anvers: filet dore cerment les plats. tête dorée sous vouverture imprimée d'éditeur et embîtage luxueux. Tirage limité à 1100 ex. dont 125 sur Vélin de Rives. Imprimés spécialement pour un groupe de bibliophiles Belges.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Erik Tonen]

CARCO, Francis ; DERAIN, André
        La Bohème et mon Coeur suivi de Chansons aigres-douces et de Petits airs. Avec un portrait de l'auteur par Derain. [Avec : ] Poèmes retrouvés, avec une préface inédite.
      A la Cité des Livres 1927 Un des 34 exemplaires sur papier de hollande numéroté, 2 vol. in-4 br. sous couv. rempliée, A la Cité des Livres, Paris, 1927, 111 pp. ; XXVI-76 pp. Un des 34 exemplaires sur papier de hollande numéroté (après 1 exemplaire sur japon ancien et 25 exemplaires sur japon impérial). Bon état (qq. rouss.). Français

      [Bookseller: Librairie Du Cardinal]

Willock, Franklin J
        The Dalmatian. [Foreword by Flora M. Bonney, Tally-Ho Kennels, Flushing, L.I.]
      New York: Ernest Gee 1927 New York: Ernest Gee, 1927. First edition, Number 125 of 200 copies printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press. 8vo. 44, [1] pp. Original printed pictorial white boards, about fine. Custom white cloth clamshell box with Derrydale gilt stamped leather spine and label on upper cover. Jones 3225; Siegel 2; Frazier W-10-a . The first book on the Dalmatian published in America. A beautiful copy of a rare and fragile Derrydale title

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller ]

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
        The War Chief - 1st Edition
      Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1927. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A smart First Edition/First Printing, orange cloth with dark brown lettering and Apache profile in Fine condition with minor rubbing to extremities in Near Fine, with light soiled dust-jacket with closed tear to rear fold. Dust-jacket illustration by Paul Stahr as in the magazine appearance (April 16th, 1927) . Zeuschner 822 ; "This is one of the most impressive Indian stories that has ever been written in recent years. Different from the usual Burroughs tales of wierd [sic] fantasy it not only has trills and excitement galore but it shows us the beauty and grandeur of the life of the red man when he roamed the plains" (from the dust-jacket) .

      [Bookseller: Books Tell You Why]

(BEARDSLEY). MALORY, Sir Thomas.
        (Morte d'Arthur). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal, and in the end, le Morte d'Arthur...The text as... Imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the Year [1485] and now spelled in modern style,  Embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an Introduction by Professor John Rhys. And a Note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance.
      (London: J.M. Dent & Co.), 1927.. Third edition thus, one of 1,600 copies, 4to, lv, (i), 538 pp. Frontispiece and one other photogravure plate plus 20 further plates (5 folding) and numerous chapter headings and other illustrations in the text. Modern bookplate to fly leaf, some marking and offsetting to the first and last two leaves from an old protective covering that was held on by tape, some cracking of the paper to the lower hinge. Original gilt decorated black cloth, t.e.g., lower cover with a few marks and a couple of minor abrasions, overall a very good copy. Originally published 1893-4, this was Beardsley's first major work at the age of 22, intended by the publishers to rival the productions of William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Much of the work shows the influence of Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites but also takes in elements of Japanese prints and his regard for Whistler."...if [Beardsley] had never illustrated another book... Le Morte d'Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration... Some of these designs (he never called his drawings illustrations) stand as models of economy, none is impoverished" (Lewis, The 20th Century Book, pp148-9).

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, ABA, ILAB]

Kaeumlen, Viola
        Dear Bee. Loving Letters to a Daughter 1927-1935
      Marshfield Hills, MA. 2012. Artist's book, one of six copies, all on a range of papers, each copy signed and numbered by the artist, Viola Kaeumlen. Page size: box of 13 pouches (tied with brown silk ribbon) as envelopes holding the "letters" and related material written by the artist, printed list of contents, box size closed is 5.5 x 7.5 x 2.25 inches. Bound by the artist: two-part box is brown book cloth over boards and adorned with medallion of young woman; box fastened tan silk cord woven through eight holes in the 2 parts of the box, lined with Canson BFK Rives Tan paper. The artist's statement and the colophon explain that the book contains texts of letters written by Mrs. Mary Arthur to her daughter Beatrice Arthur over the period from 1927 - 1935 that were found in an old suitcase by Ms. Kaeumlen in 2010 in flea market on the Boston South Shore. The letters led to an investigation of not only the women concerned but the times in which they lived, with the pertinent information on the times: the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Great Depression, local industry (in which Bee's father worked) The Cordage Company, their church in Plymouth where they lived (the first church established by the Mayflower colonists), social welfare programs of the times. Unusual for the times, Beatrice Arthur left her parent's home in Plymouth, MA to attend Salem State College in what was then far-off Salem. Her mother's letters of this eight year period are the very stuff of social history as well as the poignant details of one family's struggle to survive in very hard times. Four of the 13 pouches hold general information about how the letters were found, the history of the family (Mr. Arthur was an immigrant from Scotland), and a conclusion. The other nine pouches are related to one of the years Mary wrote to her daughter. Ms. Kaeumlen was able to locate the family home in Plymouth and learned that Bee had passed away in 2009 at the age of 99, a devoted educator for all of her life. The artist has located family photographs, postcards from the era, paper clippings and greeting cards, all of which were scanned in printed on an archival inkjet printer on a range of papers including Epson Matte, Red River Polar Pearl Metallic, Silver Metallic, Canson Newsprint, Strathmore translucent Vellum and Sennelier Calligraphy paper. The fonts used are Helvetica for Ms. Kaeumlen's own writing and general information texts and Lucida Handwriting for the excerpts of Mary Arthur's letters. This is a beautiful object, redolent of another time when hand-written mail meant significant time lapses in communication and correspondents had expressive and unique hand-writing as well as vocabulary. More than that, the author / artist, Viola Kaeumlen, has taken this remarkably personal correspondence and placed it firmly in a time and place in American social history. with information about health epidemics, social issues - the Arthur's must deal with payment in "scrip" instead of real money, criminal cases of local and national interest, as well as the role of the local church and welfare societies in everyday life. It is as beautiful and meaningful way of learning social history as one could find. Beatrice Arthur, the "Dear Bee" of the letters, is perhaps the prototype of the 20th century woman who earned a bachelor's degree in Business Education and completed post-graduate work at Harvard, Boston University and Bridgewater State College and worked summers in the Plymouth Cooperative Bank, the Plymouth Cordage Company office, and as a civil service secretary in the U.S. government as well as marrying and raising her step-children. See an Image.

      [Bookseller: Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. ]

LEWIS, Sinclair
        ELMER GANTRY
      Harcourt Brace and Company New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. There is minimal cracking to the rear hinge but the covers are tight and bright; neat owner name and address on the front free endpaper. The dustwrapper is complete with some neat internal restoration and repairs. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine and uncommon dustwrapper. First state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones), and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks). It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA ]

Grey, Viscount; Fallodon; Gibbings, Robert [illus.]
        The Charm of Birds. Signed copy
      London Hodder & Stoughton 1927. G+ : in Good condition plus with dust jacket. Sporadic foxing First Edition Green hardback cloth cover 243pp :: B/w woodcut illustrations by Robert Gibbings :: 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6") :: Signed to half-title page by the author and Pamela Grey Fallodon. Accompanied by 2 signed letters from Grey to book owner photograph of the pair

      [Bookseller: Barter Books]

Goethe
        FAUST
      Dingwall, Rock Limited New York 1927. Very Good+ with no dust jacket Not First Edition Hardcover SIGNED BY CLARKE. Tight, bright copy of limited edition, this is number 525 of 1000. Grey paper covered boards with one half vellum, vellum slightly darkened, but tight. Hint of tear in paper covering board on front panel, but not weakened or broken - reason unexplainable. Very light wear to four corners, spine title is faded, there is some scattered foxing on first free page and first page of preface. Top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges deckled. A 1/8 inch closed tear is at the top of the spine. SIGNED by Harry Clarke. EIght color plates, plus many text and full page black and white illustrations. Bright green, black, and white end papers with Clarke monogram in corner. Translated by John Anster. ; 8vo; 254 pages; Signed by Illustrator

      [Bookseller: Books, Maps, Prints, and More]

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)
        Typewritten Letter, Signed (TLS) on letterhead of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, to the Archbishop of York, November 9, 1948
      Original manuscript. Very Good. One-half page on quarto letterhead, with five emendations in Eliot's hand, signed as T.S. Eliot. In part: "...Your Grace's kind letter...has been forwarded by my secretary, as I have been at this Institute since the beginning of October....I feel greatly honored by your Grace's attention and am most happy to have received this letter....Your Grace's humble ("obedient" written in) servant, T.S. Eliot. Eliot had converted from Unitarian to Anglican in 1927, but identified himself as "Anglo-Catholic." He was appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study after winning the Nobel Prize in 1948.

      [Bookseller: R & A Petrilla, Booksellers (IOBA)]

White, Edward Lucas
        LUKUNDOO AND OTHER STORIES
      New York: George H. Doran Company New York: George H. Doran Company,. [1927]. original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed.. Top edge lightly foxed, a bright, nearly fine copy in bright, very. good four-color pictorial dust jacket with shallow chips from spine. ends, some fraying and creasing with some loss along upper edge of. front panel, and dust soiling to spine and rear panels. Overall a. pretty nice example of the uncommon jacket. (#131367). First edition. "Very competent material horror stories, original in idea (for the most part), sources for a good deal of later work." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1698. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 182. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-212. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1108. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 462. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3- 255. Bleiler (1978), p. 207. Reginald 15227.

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

Fliess, Wilhelm
        Stellungnahme zum "Ablauf des Lebens". Handschriftlicher dreiseitiger Brief an die Redaktion des Berliner Tageblatts, datiert 28.IX.27. [Berlin], 1927. 17,5 x 14,5 cm. Gefaltete Briefkarte.
      Unikat. Der Kampf um die Anerkennung seines wissenschaftlichen Lebenswerks hält Wilhelm Fliess bis zuletzt gefangen. Er antwortet der Redaktion des Berliner Tageblatts, die ihm einen Brief von Prof. Richard Koch aus Frankfurt zugeschickt hatte. Dieser hatte sich kritisch über die Lehren von Fliess geäußert und vor deren Verbreitung gewarnt. Der so Angegriffene zeigt Wirkung und schickt der Redaktion zur Kenntnisnahme eine Abschrift seiner Replik auf Kochs "Warnruf", der die Verbreitung der Ansichten von Fliess als grob fahrlässig kritisierte. Sowohl das Anschreiben an die Redaktion auf der ersten Seite als auch die auf der zweiten und dritten Seite der Faltkarte befindliche Abschrift der Antwort an Koch sind von Ida Fliess geschrieben, ebenso sind nach Urteil von Herrn Prof. Fichtner beide Unterschriften von ihrer Hand. Herr Fichtner gab uns auch den Hinweis darauf, daß Wilhelm Fliess zeitlebens von einer übergroßen Furcht vor der Unlesbarkeit der eigenen Handschrift geplagt wurde, seine Ehefrau übernahm daher fast alle offiziellen Korrespondenzen in seinem Auftrag. Der rechte Seitenrand mit zwei Heftlöchern mit nur einem sehr geringen Textverlust. Ansonsten sehr gut erhalten und sehr selten.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Urban Zerfaß]

Reich, Wilhelm
        Die Funktion des Orgasmus. Zur Psychopathologie und zur Soziologie des Geschlechtslebens. Neue Arbeiten zur ärtzlichen Psychoanalyse
      Gr.8°. 206 Seiten, braunes Originalganzleder. Exemplar aus dem Besitz von Richard Sterba, Stempel "STERBA" auf der vorderen Leerseite. Besondere Auflage. Sehr gutes Exemplar.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Urban Zerfaß]

Freud, Sigmund
        Un souvenir d'enfance de Leonard de Vinci.
      216 Seiten, ill. (Les documents bleus, no 32). Übersetzt von Marie Bonaparte, revidiert von Freud. Blaue Originalbroschur. Eines der 75 Exemplare auf Pur fil lafuma, Nummer 57. Exemplar aus André Bretons Bibliothek, mit seinem von Dali entworfenen Exlibris auf dem inneren Deckblatt. Mit Bretons Verkaufskarte.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Urban Zerfaß]

Sydow, Eckart von
        Primitive Kunst und Psychoanalyse. Eine Studie über die sexuelle Grundlage der bildenden Künste der Naturvölker
      Gr. 8°. 3 Abb. im Text, XX Tafeln, 182 S., 4 Bl., Originalleinen mit Originalumschlag (= Imago-Bücher 10). Erstausgabe. Grinstein 32835.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Urban Zerfaß]

Burikin, Alexander
        Signiertes Orig.-Farbaquarell.
      30,7 × 21,3 cm. Das frühe Selbstporträt entstand wohl noch an den Wchutein, wo Burikin 1927 studierte. Die Arbeiten Alexander Burikins (1901-1987) finden sich heute u.a. im Staatlichen Museum "Lenin im sibirischen Exil" in Schuschensk. - Rechts unten von Burikin signiert.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat und Verlag Frank Albrecht]

WOOLF, VIRGINIA:
        To the Lighthouse.
      1st edition. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London 1927. 320 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, weakly faded and grubby, no dustjacket. Last 16 pages with minor defect at the lower edge

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

GRAVES (R):
        Poems (1914-27). EDITION LIMITED TO 115 SIGNED COPIES
      Heinemann, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small inscription on front free endpaper, half-title lightly browned as usual; original paper boards, ivory vellum back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, one small scuff on rear board, covers very faintly age-soiled else a near fine copy.EDITION LIMITED TO 115 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 51).Higginson A24

      [Bookseller: Island Books]

MORAND, PAUL:
        Mr. U.
      Paris: Editions des Cahiers Libres 1927. With 1 orig. etching by Foujita. Bound uncut in cased boards, with orig. wrappers preserved.. First edition. No. 152 of 480 copies on Normandy teinté

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

Taut, Max
        Bauten und Pläne. Mit einem Beitrag von Adolf Behne.
      26,5x20 cm. 80 S., 21 S., Inserate, 1 w. Bl. Mit vielen s/w. Abbildungen und Skizzen. Schwarzer Originalleinwandband mit Silber- und Rotpgrägung. "Neue Werkkunst." - Einband und Typographie von Johannes Molzahn. - Rücken schwach berieben. - Sauberes Exemplar. - Selten. [3 Warenabbildungen bei antiquariat.de]

      [Bookseller: Daniel Thierstein Buchantiquariat]

Raucat, Thomas et Foujita, (Léonard)
        L'honorable partie de campagne. Avec vingt-neuf compositions gravées à l'eau-forte, en couleurs, par Foujita.
      27,5x19,5 cm. 3 f., 221 p., 2 f. Broché. No. 142/300 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d'Arches (tirage: 357 expl.).

      [Bookseller: Daniel Thierstein Buchantiquariat]

Burrage, A[lfred] M[cLelland]
        SOME GHOST STORIES
      [London]: Cecil Palmer,. [1927]. original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed.. Faint vertical crease to cloth of spine panel, neat contemporary. owner's signature in ink on front free endpaper, a near fine, bright. copy. An excellent copy. (#74749). First edition. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the other was SOMEONE IN THE ROOM [1931] published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private X"). "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. "The best stories in SOME GHOST STORIES and SOMEONE IN THE ROOM are intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 47. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 314. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 43-4. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-53. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02267.

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

ARAGON, LOUIS -
        Au Grand Jour.
      Paris: Editions surréalistes 1927. In-16. 29 p.. January 6, 1927 Louis Aragon joined the Communist Party which he considered being the most important step in his life. André Breton and Paul Eluard followed him later the same month, and together with their surrealist art colleagues Benjamin Péret and Pierre Unik they published as defend for the joinment "Au Grand Jour". As well known he dissociated from the communism in 1968 which he now described as "inhuman and anti-intellectual".Very rare

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

Moberg, Vilhelm
        RASKENS. EN SOLDATFAMILJS HISTORIA.
      Albert Bonniers 1927, 1.upplagan, 380s. Smakfullt privat handbundet brunt halvfranskt band med förgylld skinnryggtitel, ryggen med guldlinjedekor, sprängfärgade snitt, marmorerade pärmöverdrag, medbundet främre originalomslag; Elin Lundgrens samtida ägarnamnteckning på främre omslaget, Yngve O K Hedlunds exlibris (1963) på frampärmens insida. Ett mycket välhållet och representativt exemplar av den svårfångade 1.upplagan.. Mobergs genombrottsbok och den egentliga debutboken

      [Bookseller: Antikvariatet i Norrköping]

LAWRENCE, D. H
        Mornings in Mexico
      London: Martin Secker,, 1927. Octavo. Original olive cloth, titles to spine gilt, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled and faded, small mark to front free endpaper affecting inscription, spine cracked between pages 80 and 81, contents toned. A very good copy in the lightly rubbed and toned jacket with two tape repairs to the verso of the spine. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Mrs. Whitworth from D. H. Lawrence, remembering David. May 1927". Phyllis Whitworth staged a production of Lawrence's play David at the Regent Theatre towards the end of May 1927. Because of ill health Lawrence had not been able to leave Italy and Germany to attend any of the rehearsals in England but had kept in touch with Whitworth by letter. On 13 May he wrote to her giving advice on monologues and suggesting ideas for costumes; two weeks later he sent Whitworth his latest book and wrote "I am sending you my last book, in commemoration of David" (see Letter 4032a in Boulton, Uncollected Letters, vol.VIII).

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

LAWRENCE, T.E
        Revolt in the Desert
      London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. One Quarter dark brown pigskin over light brown buckram. Limited edition of 315 copies only of which this is #123. This is the abridged version of Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom which he did in order to pay the bills. Much tighter limitation than the limiteds of Seven Pillars done in 1935, it is rare thus. Other limiteds of Seven Pillars are either impossible to find or impossibly priced. Lacks the dust wrapper. Evidence of label removal from the ffep and half title but is otherwise fine but for slight edgewear. . 1st Limited Edition. Leather and Buckram. About Fine.. Large Octavo.

      [Bookseller: Contact Editions]

Woolf, Virginia
        To the Lighthouse
      London: Hogarth Press, 1927.. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Boards bumped, rubbed and marked. Spine darkened. Some browning within. 320pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Bookplate of Naomi Mitchison, with her signature and book ownership quotation on front endpaper

      [Bookseller: Barter Books]

ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM / ÉRASME:
        Éloge de la Folie.
      Nouvellement traduit du latin par Pierre de Nolhac. Paris: Éditions J. Terquem 1927. With orig. etchings in colours by Chas-Laborde. XV + 152 pp. Limited to 1100 copies. Bound uncut with orig. wrappers and top edge gilt in nice contemporary halfleather.. Copy no. 15 of 19 on japon impérial with an extra suite in b/w

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

LANG, Fritz (dir.)
        Metropolis
      London: Wardour Films Ltd., 21 March, 1927. Premier Presentation Marble Arch Pavilion. Quarto. Single quire, wire stitched, pp. 32. Original pictorial wrappers, monochrome lithograph with blue and red colouring. Many photographic illustrations, portraits and stills from the film. Slight rust on the wire stitching not affecting the wrappers or contents. A superb copy. This marvellous souvenir programme was produced as stated for the British premiere of Lang's masterpiece. Contained in this unusually fulsome programme are the usual statements by the producer, cast and principal crew, but less typically there are some wonderful descriptions and pictures of the making of the film. A full synopsis is given and an interesting section printed which in parallel columns shows how a passage of film scenes was adapted from the fictional source. The film was based on Van Harbou's 1926 novel of the same name but neither could have been produced without Zamyatin's We (1922). The cover art is taken directly from the German poster work, depicting Mary in the robotic headpiece as her animus is being transferred to the machine. An exceedingly scarce piece, we know of only a handful of other copies that have appeared in commerce.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

JOUBIN, L.
        Faune Ichthyologique de l'Atlantique Nord. Classification + Planches.
      Paris, Copenhagen, 1927-38. 4to. Classification: 23 pp. and 418 plates with descriptions and illustrations. The plates are kept in 2 boxes. (Conseil Permanent Internationale pour L'Exploration de la Mer)

      [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn A/S]

JALK, GRETE (Red.):
        Dansk møbelkunst gennem 40 aar.
      Københavns Snedkerlaugs møbeludstillinger 1927-1966. 40 Years of Danish Furniture Design. The Copenhagen Cabinet-makers' Guild Exhibitions 1927-1966. 4 bd./vols. Kbhvn. 1987. Rigt illustr. 4to. Orig. hellrd. Richly illustr. Publisher's cloth.With Danish / English parallel-text.. Grete Jalk registered the carpenters and architects who participated in the furniture exhibitions of the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild during these 40 years. An impressive work and a "must" for all interested in Danish design and furniture.Forlagsfriskt ekspl. Fresh as published

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

POUND, Ezra
        Antheil and The Treatise on Harmony
      Pascal Covici Chicago: Pascal Covici. 1927. First. First American edition. Fine in a slightly age-toned, very near fine dustwrapper. Although this postdates the Paris edition, it is much less common in this condition. .

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

Lewis,Wyndham
        Time and Western Man
      Chatto & Windus 1927. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's red cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has just a couple of small closed tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket and with modest rubbing to spine tips.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.There is some slight spotting to the fore-edge of the book.The book has a firm binding with No hinge weakness and with NO leaning to spine.This title was acquired from a very impressive private collection of 20th Century Literature and Fiction with strict adherence paid in obtaining rare highlights in exellent condition.Great copy for the collector and uncommon in this condition,8vo 487pp First Edition 1st Impression

      [Bookseller: Richard Thornton Books]

FAULKNER, William
        MOSQUITOES
      New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good, completely unrestored dustwrapper. First Printing in the uncommon first issue dustwrapper with the red on green mosquito pattern of Faulkner's second novel. A total of only 3047 copies were issued. The completely original, unrestored dustwrapper has light wear to the spine tips and is complete but for a 3-1/4" sliver to the bottom middle of the front panel that is 1/4" from its beginning point at the "S" of "Mosquitoes" and widens to about 3/4" at the fore-edge of the front cover. Only two letters are affected: the "A" of "William" and the "S" of "Soldiers".

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Faulkner, William
        Mosquitoes
      New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Original cloth with lettering stamped in yellow on upper board and spine; first issue dust jacket with illustration of mosquitoes. Spine tips and corners lightly rubbed, else fine. Dust jacket rubbed (mostly on rear panel); lightly scuffed along joints; a little chipping at spine tips and top corners; VG+, colors remain bright. In custom chemise and slipcase. Faulkner's second novel, satirizing a group of New Orleans artists, arteests (dilettantes), and socialites as they yacht on Lake Pontchartrain. A departure from the fraught, dark tragedies that came to be amongst Faulkner's masterpieces, this novel shows him barbed and sardonic, snickering a bit -- and the novel's reception was less than keen. It's been said that Faulkner's falling out with Sherwood Anderson (who had been his mentor) was due to his portrayal of Anderson as the character Dawson Fairchild. Nor were the editors at Boni and Liveright pleased, leaving much of Faulkner's original typescript on the cutting room floor -- expunging passages deemed homoerotic -- and eventually also changing the dust jacket from its strikingly illustrated red mosquitoes to an image of the yacht's passengers (the irritating figural mosquitoes) playing cards.

      [Bookseller: Sanctuary Books]

Spurling, J./ Lubbock, Basil.
        Sail. The Romance of the Clipper Ships.
      I-III. Pictured by J. Spurling. Storied by Basil Lubbock. Edited by F. A. Hook. With an Introduction by C. Fox Smith. The Blue Peter Publishing Company Ltd 1927-36. First impression. x,153,(1);viii,151,(5);viii,102 pp.+ frontispieces, unpaginated plates and 3 foldout maps (vol.I-III). Richly illustrated. Publisher's decorated cloth. Inscription with pen on the first free endpaper (vol.II). Stamp on the first free endpaper and titlepage (vol.III). Slightly worn at head and foot of spine (vol.I-III). 3 vol. 31,5 x 26,5 cm.. First impression: 1000 copies

      [Bookseller: Antiquaria]

BOHR, Niels.
        The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory.London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition.
      A fine copy in original wrappers of this fundamental paper introducing Bohr's statement of his 'complementarity' principle, the basis of what became known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics. "From the epistemological point of view, the discovery of the new type of logical relationship that complementarity represents is a major advance that radically changes our whole view of the role and meaning of science. In contrast with the nineteenth-century ideal of a description of the phenomena from which every reference to their observation would be eliminated, we have the much wider and truer prospect of an account of the phenomena in which due regard is paid to the conditions under which they can actually be observed - thereby securing the full objectivity of the description" (DSB).<br/><br/> The concept of complementarity started to develop in Bohr's mind during discussions with Heisenberg in Copenhagen early in 1927, when Heisenberg was preparing for publication his famous paper on the uncertainty principle. In fact, the published version of Heisenberg's paper contains a note added in proof which mentions 'recent investigations by Bohr [that] have led to points of view that permit an essential deepening and refinement of the analysis of the quantum mechanical relationship attempted in this work'. <br/><br/> "Bohr presented his ideas on complementarity for the first time at an international congress of physics in Como in the fall of 1927, commemorating the centenary of Volta's death. On this occasion, he stressed that in the quantum world, contrary to the classical world, an observation of a system can never be made without disturbing the system. But how can we then know the state of the system? The quantum postulate would seem to imply that the classical distinction between the observer and the observed was no longer tenable. How then would it be possible to obtain objective knowledge? Bohr's reflections on these and related questions led him to introduce the notion of complementarity as denoting the use of complementary but mutually exclusive viewpoints in the description of nature. Two years later, he defined the complementarity principle as 'a new mode of description... in the sense that any given application of classical concepts precludes the simultaneous use of other classical concepts which in a different connection are equally necessary for the elucidation of phenomena'... The wave description and the particle description are complementary and thus in conflict. But Bohr argued that the physicist is still able to account unambiguously for his experiments, for it is he who chooses what to measure and thereby destroys the possibility of the realization of the conflicting aspect... <br/><br/> "The complementarity principle became the cornerstone of what was later referred to as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Pauli even stated that quantum mechanics might be called 'complementarity theory', in an analogy with 'relativity theory'. And Peierls later claimed that 'when you refer to the Copenhagen interpretation of the mechanics what you really mean is quantum mechanics' ... by the mid-1930s Bohr had been remarkably successful in establishing the Copenhagen view as the dominant philosophy of quantum mechanics." (H. Kragh, Quantum Generations, 1999, pp. 209-210).. In: Nature, vol. 121, no. 3050, pp. 580- 590, April 14, 1928, the entire issue offered here in original wrappers, staples removed, light vertical crease to front wrapper, one advertisement page with an advert cut out. In all a very good copy in the rare wrappers. (The paper was published essentially simultaneously in German, Danish, English and French)

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HEIDENSTAM, Verner von.
        Dikter.
      Med raderingar av Jurgen Wrangel. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1927. Stor 8:o. 3-86,+ (3) s. Halvpergamentband med omslag medbundet. Koppartrycket av Lundin och Karlsson. Tryckt i 124 exemplar. Detta är nummer 6 av 120 tryckta på Van Geldern-papper, signerad av konstnären. Fyra är tryckta på Japanpapper. Som vanligt med viss avsättning av vinjetterna

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
        The War Chief - 1st Edition
      A. C. McClurg & Co. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1927. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A smart First Edition/First Printing, orange cloth with dark brown lettering and Apache profile in Fine condition with minor rubbing to extremities in Near Fine, with light soiled dust-jacket with closed tear to rear fold. Dust-jacket illustration by Paul Stahr as in the magazine appearance (April 16th, 1927) . Zeuschner 822 ; "This is one of the most impressive Indian stories that has ever been written in recent years. Different from the usual Burroughs tales of wierd [sic] fantasy it not only has trills and excitement galore but it shows us the beauty and grandeur of the life of the red man when he roamed the plains" (from the dust-jacket) .

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RATTA Cesare
        L'ARTE DEL LIBRO E DELLA RIVISTA NEI DIVERSI PAESI D'EUROPA E D'AMERICA.
      Ratta In-4 gr., 2 voll., cartonato edit. Il primo: pp. (4),424, con 600 disegni e fac-simili nel t., riprodotti in nero e a colori dalle migliori edizioni pubblicate in Europa e in America; il secondo: pp. XXXIII,(3),XIII,(3), con 486 tavv. f.t. in tinta e a colori, come da Indice. Importante saggio di grafica editoriale. Bella e importante ediz. d?arte in tirat. di 750 esempl. numer. Traccia di foro al margine inf. bianco delle prime carte, altrim. molto ben conserv.

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BOHR, Niels.
        Das Quantenpostulat und die neuere Entwicklung der Atomistik.Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928. First edition.
      Very rare offprint issue, inscribed presentation copy, of this fundamental paper introducing Bohr's statement of his 'complementarity' principle, the basis of what became known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics. "From the epistemological point of view, the discovery of the new type of logical relationship that complementarity represents is a major advance that radically changes our whole view of the role and meaning of science. In contrast with the nineteenth-century ideal of a description of the phenomena from which every reference to their observation would be eliminated, we have the much wider and truer prospect of an account of the phenomena in which due regard is paid to the conditions under which they can actually be observed - thereby securing the full objectivity of the description" (DSB).<br/><br/> The concept of complementarity started to develop in Bohr's mind during discussions with Heisenberg in Copenhagen early in 1927, when Heisenberg was preparing for publication his famous paper on the uncertainty principle. In fact, the published version of Heisenberg's paper contains a note added in proof which mentions 'recent investigations by Bohr [that] have led to points of view that permit an essential deepening and refinement of the analysis of the quantum mechanical relationship attempted in this work'. <br/><br/> "Bohr presented his ideas on complementarity for the first time at an international congress of physics in Como in the fall of 1927, commemorating the centenary of Volta's death. On this occasion, he stressed that in the quantum world, contrary to the classical world, an observation of a system can never be made without disturbing the system. But how can we then know the state of the system? The quantum postulate would seem to imply that the classical distinction between the observer and the observed was no longer tenable. How then would it be possible to obtain objective knowledge? Bohr's reflections on these and related questions led him to introduce the notion of complementarity as denoting the use of complementary but mutually exclusive viewpoints in the description of nature. Two years later, he defined the complementarity principle as 'a new mode of description... in the sense that any given application of classical concepts precludes the simultaneous use of other classical concepts which in a different connection are equally necessary for the elucidation of phenomena'... The wave description and the particle description are complementary and thus in conflict. But Bohr argued that the physicist is still able to account unambiguously for his experiments, for it is he who chooses what to measure and thereby destroys the possibility of the realization of the conflicting aspect... <br/><br/> "The complementarity principle became the cornerstone of what was later referred to as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Pauli even stated that quantum mechanics might be called 'complementarity theory', in an analogy with 'relativity theory'. And Peierls later claimed that 'when you refer to the Copenhagen interpretation of the mechanics what you really mean is quantum mechanics' ... by the mid-1930s Bohr had been remarkably successful in establishing the Copenhagen view as the dominant philosophy of quantum mechanics." (H. Kragh, Quantum Generations, 1999, pp. 209-210).. Offprint from: 'Die Naturwissenschaften', Vol. 16, Issue 15 (13. April), pp.245-257, original printed self-wrappers, inscribed by Bohr to physicist Axel Waldbuhm Marke (1883-1942) (The paper was published essentially simultaneously in German, Danish, English and French). The offprint issue is extremely rare; we know of no other copy

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VON NEUMANN, Johann.
        Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik.Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932. First edition.
      A fine copy of his classic text on the foundations of quantum mechanics. In the early years of quantum mechanics several distinct formulations were developed; Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, Schrödinger's wave mechanics, and Dirac's more general transformation theory. However these theories lacked strict mathematical rigor (only much later through Laurent Schwartz's theory of distributions did Dirac's theory achieve this). Quantum mechanics is one of the fields of science which was fortunate to attract the attention of a mathematician of von Neumann's character. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. Von Neumann was strongly influenced by Hilbert's program of axiomatizing the fields of science. The axiomatic approach which von Neumann takes in his theory has ever since dominated modern physics and functional analysis, and it was von Neumann who coined the term 'Hilbert space'. Von Neumann's work in this field culminated in this monograph which in addition to the earlier paper includes his important considerations, inspired by Bohr and Heisenberg, regarding the problem of measurement, in particular von Neumann's disproof of hidden variables.. Published as Vol. 38 of <i>Die Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Einseldarstellungen</i>. 8vo: 238 x 158 mm. Publishers full cloth: fine, and completely clean throughout. (VIII), 262, (2:adverts) pp. Rare in such fine condition

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Woolf,Virginia
        To The Lighthouse
      Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1927. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's original blue hardcover cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has one previous owner's name to the blank ffep.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning to spine.There is a little fading to the spine with title lettering slightly dulled and with a toucvh of uneven colour fading to cloth along top edge of the upper cover.The book itself is in very good condition with just a little light spotting to the endpapers and there are a couple of marks to the top page edge of the book.This is a rare and highly sought after title,and this copy would add nicely to any collection of Virginia's Woolf's work.8vo 320pp First Edition 1st Impression

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GREY, Zane
        Forlorn River
      Harper & Brothers New York: Harper & Brothers. 1927. First. First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers else near fine in a slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the corner of the crown. Filmed twice -- silently in 1926 by John Waters (not the John Waters of current fame, although that might make for an interesting film) featuring Jack Holt, and more notably in 1937 by Charles Barton with Buster Crabbe and June Martel. An attractive copy. .

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THOMPSON,RUTH PLUMLY
        GNOME KING OF OZ
      1927. 1. (BAUM,L.FRANK) THE GNOME KING OF OZ by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Chicago: Relly & Lee (1927). 4to, green cloth, pictorial paste-on, FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (lightly soiled and chipped and price clipped with ads listing this title last on flap). First edition (Hanff-Greene p.73) illustrated by J.R. NEILL with 12 color plates (coated on both sides) plus b&w's. This is a magnificent copy, rarely found so bright and rare in the wrapper.

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MAGRE Maurice
        LES BELLES DE NUIT. Illustré de dix-huit eaux-fortes originales gravées par Edouard Chimot.
      In-8 gr. (mm. 277x190), bella legat. firmata (Lemercier, Paris) in mz. marocch. coevo a grandi ang., elegantissima decorazione a colori e oro intarsiata al dorso con tit. oro, tagli sup. dorati, conserv. cop. orig., con le deliziose illustrazioni inc. all?acquaforte da Chimot così composte: 10 tavv. a colori f.t. e 8 grandi finali in b.n. Cfr. Carteret,IV, p. 259: ?Publication estimée et cotée? - Benezit,III, p. 593 cita l'illustraz. di quest'opera. Edizione di 457 esempl. numer. Il ns., 107, appartiene alla tiratura di 325 (num. 92 a 426) ?sur vélin de cuve spéciale d?Arches, vergé et filigrané au nom de l?ouvrage, avec les eaux-fortes dans l?état définitif?. Esempl. molto ben conservato.

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[CAPEK, Karel]
        [Poster]: See Rossums Universal Robots. A Play with a Message [Not a Motion Picture]. Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
      Sacramento: Hapeman-Gee Printing Co.. 1927. Printed in blue ink on cardstock. Approximately 14" x 11.25". Tiny tears or small creases, else a near fine copy. The information "A Play with a Message" has been added over an original line (that seems like it might have been misspelled). An influential play by Karel Capek, which premiered in Prague in 1921, most famous now for introducing the word "robot" (derived from the Czech noun "robota" meaning "labor"). The play, in which androids who are at first content to work for their human creators decide to rebel, made its U.S. premiere in 1922 and supposedly Spencer Tracy made his stage debut as one of the robots in an early American production. .

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VERNE
        MICHAEL STROGOFF
      1927. 1. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. MICHAEL STROGOFF by Jules Verne. NY: Charles Scribners Sons (1927). 4to (7 1/2 x 9 1/2"), black cloth, pictorial paste- on, FINE IN PUBLISHER'S BOX WITH PICTORIAL LABEL PASTED ON (box slightly rubbed else near Fine). 1st edition of this Scribner Classic illustrated by Wyeth with cover label (repeated on box) pictorial endpapers and title page plus 9 color plates.This is a magnificent copy, rarely found in the publishers box.

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SANBORN MAP COMPANY
        Vol. 4 of 29 Atlases of Insurance Maps for Queens. Woodhaven and Richmond Hill
      Sanborn Map Company New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1927. hardcover. very good. Atlas. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Massive elephant folio. Decorative calligraphic titles, indices, and key maps. Contains a set of 76 detailed maps along with changes recorded on paste-on correction slips through 1974. Quarter leather binding with gilt title on front and spine. Large tear to spine of original protective canvas cover. This volume includes the area between Rockaway and Lefferts Boulevards, and also shows the widened Woodhaven Boulevard and the Long Island Railroad intersection. The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large scale maps, dating from 1867 to the present depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps were designed to assist fire insurance agents in determining the degree of hazard associated with a particular property and therefore show the size, shape and construction of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories as well as fire walls locations of windows and doors, sprinkler systems, and types of roofs. The maps also indicate widths and names of streets, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. They show locations of water mains, giving their dimensions, and of fire alarm boxes and hydrants. Sanborn maps are an unrivaled source of information about the structure and use of buildings in American Cities. The collection includes some fifty thousand editions of fire insurance maps comprising an estimated seven hundred thousand individual sheets. The Library of Congress holdings represent the largest extant collection of maps produced by the Sanborn Map Company. The majority of the maps were acquired by the Library through copyright deposit, but the collection was substantially enriched in 1967 when the Bureau of the Census transferred to the Library of Congress a complete set. The 1,899 loose-leaf binders were particularly noteworthy because they included later editions than those previously acquired by the Library. The Bureau of the Census set of maps had been regularly updated by printed, paste-on corrections supplied by the Sanborn Map Company, whereas the Library of Congress copies were retained in the form in which they were copyrighted.

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