viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1937

TEILHET, Darwin and Hildergarde
        The Crimson Hair Murders.
      London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. A Baron von Kaz Detective Story. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in orange. With the dust jacket. Edges lightly foxed, faint spotting to margins of prelims. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket. First UK edition, first impression, the publisher's retained copy with their ink-stamp to the front pastedown, title-page and front panel of the dust jacket. Originally published in the US the previous year, this first UK edition is represented in only five copies in libraries worldwide (of which two in the British Library), and is considerably scarce in commerce in this condition with the dust jacket.

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FORESTER, C. S.
        [The complete Hornblower:]
      London: Michael Joseph,, 1937?-67. The Happy Return (1937); A Ship of the Line (1938); Flying Colours (1938); The Commodore (1945); Lord Hornblower (1946); Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950); Lieutenant Hornblower (1952); Hornblower and the Atropos (1953); Hornblower in the West Indies (1958); Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962); Hornblower and The Crisis (1967). 11 works, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and gilt ship decoration to spines, single gilt rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Some occasional light foxing, an excellent set. First editions, first impressions. Forester (real name Cecil Smith) was called to Hollywood to write a pirate film, working under Arthur Hornblower. However, before they had finished the script, another studio released Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn, and using the same historical incidents that they had counted on. Rather than seeking another position, hounded by the prospect of a paternity suit, Forester jumped aboard a cargo boat bound for home. Another passenger was the photographer Barbara Sutro. In the voyage, he took a one-day cruise around the Gulf of Fonseca in the ship's motor lifeboat, and by the end of the voyage he had a new novel worked out, The Happy Return, with its characters Hornblower, Bush, and Lady Barbara. Hornblower, with all his human indecisiveness and cross-grainedness, was Forester as he wished he had the courage to be, and Forester wrote about Hornblower again and again. This set includes his unfinished novel Hornblower and The Crisis.

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BOTANICAL) Baxter, W.
        British Phaenogamous Botany; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants. Vol. I, II & III.
      W. Baxter. 1834-1937. Second Edition. 3 VOLUMES. Engravings with original handcolor, a total of 240 plates with accompanying text sheets, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine (hardbound). Light wear to cover extremities, owner inscription to front fly-leaf of Vol. I & II, a couple of notations in pencil, light scattered foxing and some light offsetting. Fly leaves of first and second volumes are toned; there are two or three plates with overall toning. A very attractive set, with exquisite plates. Attractive handcolored engravings by W. Baxter, including poppies, orchids, Lady's Slipper, lavender, peonies, etc. Each volume includes a Systematical Index and an English Index.

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Genzmer, Felix
        Edda. Götter- und Heldendichtung
      Eugen Diederichs Verlag 1937 Großformatige Prachtausgabe (Vorzugsausgabe) in Vollpergament mit Goldprägung und Goldschnitt. Ca. 20x26,5cm abmaße und Buchblock 4,5cm dick. Extrem selten ! Mit dem Vermerk: \"\"Der Druck dieser Monumentalausgabe der Edda wurde im Jahre 1937 in der von Rudolf Koch geschnittenen Peter Jessen-Schrift von der Offizin Poeschel & Trepte in Leipzig ausgeführt. Die künstlerische Gesamtleitung lag in den Händen von Max Thalmann. Übersetzer Felix Genzmer hat den vollständigen Edda-Text für diese Ausgabe neu geordnet und sprachlich verbessert. Neben der Hauptauflage von 2500 Exemplaren wurden 250 auf echtem Zerkallbütten abgezogen und numeriert. Zustand: Sehr guter Zustand Versand D: 5,00 EUR NSDAP, Geschichte, Nationalsozialismus, NS

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CHURCHILL, Winston S[pencer], [Sir] (1874-1965)
        Great Contemporaries
      London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd 1937., 1937. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. 8vo., pp. 335. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Finely bound in half dark blue morocco, with traditional raised bands, gilt titles and lion motif to spine, cloth sides, top edge gilt. Free from the usual foxing, this is a particulalrly clean copy. A lovely fine example in an attractive recent leather binding. Winston Churchill's classic series of essays on major world figures of the day including Lawrence of Arabia, George Bernard Shaw, Trotsky, Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler and King George V. Woods [A43a]; Langworth [178]

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Mann, Thomas u. Konrad Falke (Hg.)
        Mass und Wert. Zweimonatsschrift für freie deutsche Kultur. Hrsg. von Thomas Mann und Konrad Falke. 1. Jahrg., Heft 1-6, 2. Jahrg., Heft 1-6, 3. Jahrg., Heft 1-5/6. (17 Hefte, alles was erschienen in 3 Bdn.). .
      Zürich, Oprecht, - 1940 1937 - 8°, 976 S.; 864 S.; 702 S., Gebunden in Verlagseinband, Rücken gebräunt,minimal fleckig, Schnitt min. angeschmutzt. Innen sauber. Im Bd. 3 die Umschläge nicht beigebunden. O 73 .Legendäre Exilzeitschrift. Mit Beiträgen von Thomas Mann, Josef Breitbach, Rene Schickele, Jean-Paul Sartre, Golo Mann, Karl Otto, Ludwig Hohl, Oskar Maria Graf, Max Brod, Hermann Hesse, Otto Braun, Martin Gumpert und zahlreichen anderen. Erstausgabe.Beiliegend: Thomas Mann, «Vom zukünftigen Sieg der Demokratie», Oprecht, 1938 (2. Auflage).Und: Volker Riederl (Hg.), «Mass und Wert 1937-1940, Bibliographie einer Zeitschrift», Aufbau, 1973. 2200 gr. Schlagworte: Exilliteratur - Europa-, Oprecht-Vlg.Deutsche LiteraturErstausgaben deutscher LiteraturZeitschriften [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Sayers, Dorothy L.
        Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story With Detective Interruptions
      Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1937 - The first edition, first printing. Original black cloth hard covers, with titles to spine, in original dust jacket. Some slight shelf and handling wear to covers. Edges toned; small old price in felt-tip pen to upper corner of front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is toned and chipped, affecting especially the publisher's imprint at the tail of spine. 446[+2]pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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VIRGILE / DELILLE Jacques / MAILLOL Aristide
        LES GEORGIQUES.
      - Paris, Philippe Gonin, 1937-1943 (en réalité imprimé en 1950 seulement). En feuilles. 24,5x32,5 cm. Ouvrage en 2 volumes. Texte latin et version française de l'Abbé Jacques Delille, gravures sur bois d'Aristide Maillol. Le tout dans deux chemises-étuis en demi-parchemin et carton recouvert de papier crème. Dernier livre illustré par l'artiste. Couvertures rempliées. Quelques petites traces d'usage sur les étuis, sinon ensemble en très bon état. Un des 750 exemplaires (n° 682). La librairie offre aux clients d'AbeBooks 10% de réduction sur l'ensemble de son catalogue. Prix d'origine : 2000 EUR. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Langley, Noel:
        A TALE OF THE LAND OF GREEN GINGER
      London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1937. First edition. Publisher's original green cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With 20 illustrations in colour by the author throughout. An attractive very good copy, the binding clean and square, the cloth with light fading at the tips of the spine. The contents are entirely complete. There is a small ink name and date in red pen to the front free endpaper and light spotting to the prelims. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper which is worn and darkened to the extremities, with several closed tears, marks and nicks but little in the way of loss. Not price-clipped. A decent example, in entirely original condition of a very scarce book. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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CHEEVER, John; Richard Eberhart; and others
        New Letters in America
      New York: W. W. Norton & Company Publishers,, 1937. Editor Horace Gregory. Associate editor Eleanor Clark. Octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine and front board in black on a red background, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Faint dampstaining to bottom corner of boards and text block but not affecting contents, spine a little darkened, light partial tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in a rubbed and slightly edge-chipped jacket with a few short closed tears. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by John Cheever and Richard Eberhart on the front free endpaper, "Jack and Bernice Fein, this is a pleasure at Hanover in the fall of 1979, with best wishes, Richard Eberhardt", and directly beneath, "To Jack and Bernice Fein, with my cordial regards, John Cheever". New Letters in America is a selection of short stories, poems and critical essays by young American writers, including Elizabeth Bishop, as well as Cheever and Eberhart. Also featured are short pieces by European writers such as W. H. Auden, Kafka and Rimbaud (in translation in the two latter cases).

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Zsigmond, Moricz & Boldizsar Ivan
        Tiborc
      Cserepfalvi, Hungary 1937 - This rare copy, written in Hungarian, has been rebound by Meadland Bindery. A book of black and white photographic portraits by Hungarian photographer, Kalman Kata. Tan-coloured cloth with gilt titling on red leather spine label, red and black titling on front on an off-white cloth label, four-page preface by Moricz Zsigmond, twenty-four full-page black and white portraits, a half-page description of each of the subjects by Boldizsar Ivan, three pages of advertising and a page of photo data at back, 49 pages. Cover is immaculate, text block edges foxed, foxing spots and/or smudges on many pages primarily at page edges, faint writing (one word/name) on title page, small brown stain at edge of page 7/8, most of the plates have light wrinkles/creases and a few have light scratches/pressure marks, one plate has a half-inch closed tear and another has a one-inch closed tear to page edges which appear to have been professionally repaired; tiny brown stains at hinge on a few pages. This is a very handsome book in nice condition. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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HARRISSON, Tom.
        Savage Civilisation.
      London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 - Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket and Book Society Recommendation wraparound band. An excellent copy in the jacket that is a little dust-soiled and with two tears at head of front panel. Frontispiece and 31 plates, 9 maps and plans, most full-page, numerous line-drawn illustrations in the text. First edition, first impression. The publisher's archive copy with small pencil mark to the jacket front panel. Savage Civilisation was the future founder of Mass-Observation's first best-seller, in which he defended the way of life of the cannibals of the New Hebrides and their rights to their own land. "Harrisson's fourth Oxford expedition (19335) was to the New Hebrides. When the rest of the Oxford party left Santo Island for home in 1934, Harrisson got to Malekula, where cannibalism was still widespread. Unarmed, barefoot, with no money, he made friends with the cannibals and took censuses that helped to disprove the then popular thesis that the islanders were dying out from a morbid despair caused by culture shock; he found instead that their numbers were increasing. Harrisson's focus had shifted from birds to people" (ODNB). [Attributes: First Edition]

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]
        Out of Africa.
      London: Putnam, 1937. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Octavo, original light blue wrappers. In very good condition with wear to the spine edges. Uncommon. From 1914 to 1931, Danish aristocrat Baroness Karen Blixen owned and operated a coffee plantation in Kenya. After the plantation failed, she returned to Europe and began to write under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa reads like a collection of stories in which she adheres to no strict chronology, gives no explanation of the facts of her life, and apologizes for nothing. Basis for the film bearing the same name, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, which went on to win seven Academy Awards.

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KAISER, Fritz.
        Führer durch die Entartete Kunst [Guide to Degenerate Art.]
      Berlin: für Kultur und Wirtschaftswerbung,, 1937. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers rubbed and a little abraded and creased, contents tanned. A few pencilled notes and lines in the text. A very good copy. First edition, first impression of the programme accompanying the Nazis' 1937 exhibition mocking "degenerate" avant-garde art. Targeting modern art, music, and literature was an important aspect of the Nazi campaign, and as early as 1930 museums were put under pressure to conform, with certain works taken off show and uncooperative directors removed. By 1933 the first defamatory exhibitions were being staged. "The purpose of this propaganda was the bringing-in-to-line (Gleichschaltung) of the arts within a Nazi state. Art's only task was to illustrate the ideas of National Socialism and the glorification of the State" (MOMA). In 1937, coinciding with widespread confiscation of art across Germany, the Reichskammer für Bildende Künste (Reich Chamber of Visual Art) organised the show Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) in Munich. The exhibition gathered works that were deemed insulting to religion, the state, or the German people; produced by Jews and other minorities; or evidence of foreign and "degenerate" influences such as African culture, homosexuality, and communism. Pieces were crammed chaotically together in the exhibition space alongside derogatory comments and notes about how much the nation had paid for them. Among the 650 items were works by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, George Grosz, Mondrian, Kandisnsky, and Paul Klee. The show was a success, attracting 2 million visitors in just four months and touring Germany and Austria for two years (Adam 1992, p. 124?-25). In 1938 a sister exhibition, Degenerate Music, targeted modern styles such as jazz. Afterward, works from this show and other confiscated pieces were added to party leaders' personal collections or sold internationally, but thousands were publicly destroyed. The artists themselves were prohibited from producing art. Those that could fled, while some continued working in secret and others were interned and died in concentration camps. Following the war some items were found by the Russian Army and made their way to the Hermitage, and in 2010 several bronze sculptures from the exhibition were uncovered during the construction of an underground train line in Berlin. The Entartete Kunst exhibition catalogue is rare on the market; six have appeared at auction in the last decade. An historically significant programme, and a stark reminder of the fate of art and artists under totalitarian regimes.

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LAWRENCE, T. E.
        An Essay on Flecker.
      New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,, 1937. Octavo (4 pp.). Original cream-coloured printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Short closed-tear at foot of front wrapper, a few minor ink splashes; laid-in is a compliments slip from the Keep of Printed Books at the Bodleian. In excellent condition. First US edition, first printing, one of only 56 copies printed to secure American copyright; originally published in England by the Corvinus Press (1937) in a tiny edition of 30 copies. "Written in 1925 with the intention of publication in a periodical, this article did not appear in print until 1937 when it was issued in this very limited edition of 30 copies. The poet James Elroy Flecker [1884?-1915] had been a friend of Lawrence's in Beirut before the war. None of the appearances of this essay have been in trade editions" (O'Brien). Rare.

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(Laurentian Club) Connell, Herbert Stanley
        Moose Hunting in the Laurentian
      [New York, 1937. First edition, without limitation page, as is not uncommon. Privately printed for the author by New York Lithographing Corp. Authorial correction on p. XIII & XIV. Lithographed title duplicating front cover preceding portrait frontispiece, and photographs. 108 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original green pictorial binding, signed lower left "HSC/1937." Fine copy. Rare Book. First edition, without limitation page, as is not uncommon. Privately printed for the author by New York Lithographing Corp. Authorial correction on p. XIII & XIV. Lithographed title duplicating front cover preceding portrait frontispiece, and photographs. 108 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Heller 1:62; Bruns C-145

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Seymour, David (Chim) et al. (Photographs by)
        La République Espagnole au Service de la Culture (The Spanish Republic in the service of culture)
      Helio-Cachan, Cachan 1937 - Folio. Unpaginated. [16]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. This rare work contains no less than 93 photographs and photo-montages reproduced in photogravure, documenting the defense of culture, as well as cultural life at the front and in Republican-controlled areas in spite of the Spanish Civil War*. The book opens with an iconic photograph by David Seymour (Chim) showing a woman nursing a baby at a land reform meeting near Badajoz, in 1936. The facing page is filled with graphic photographs showing dead women and children, as well as civilians fleeing the battle front. The remaining pages show the efforts of the Popular Front government to keep investing in its youth by providing summer camps, and building schools; organizing folk festivals, conferences, lectures, and theatrical representations for the common people, as well as establishing cultural militia for soldiers at the front.Although the remaining gripping photographs are neither credited nor identified, they are clearly in the manner of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro.Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. * The significance of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as major event in Spanish and European history is well-known. Beyond the implications of the civil war in terms of Spain's own history, the war is viewed, retrospectively, as a prelude to the larger ideological conflicts between fascism, communism, and democracy that eventually consumed all of Europe in World War II. The Spanish Civil War is also remembered as a testing ground for new techniques and technologies of both twentieth-century warfare - as immortalized in the bombing of Guernica - and twentieth-century media as represented by the rise of war photography and photojournalism. In addition to being an important political event of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War was the catalyst for some of the most dramatic imagery of the last century. Among the most striking images are photographs of the war and its effects. Robert Capa's "Death of a Loyalist Militiaman" (1937) is perhaps the most iconic photograph from the Spanish Civil War and remains one of the most acclaimed war photographs of the twentieth century. Capa and the other well-known photographers of the period, such as Gerda Taro and David Seymour, are often cited as the primary representatives of early twentieth-century war photography. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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HARRISSON, Tom.
        Savage Civilisation.
      London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, , 1937. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket and Book Society Recommendation wraparound band. Frontispiece and 31 plates, 9 maps and plans, most full-page, numerous line-drawn illustrations in the text. An excellent copy in the jacket that is a little dust-soiled and with two tears at head of front panel. First edition, first impression. The publisher's archive copy with small pencil mark to the jacket front panel. Savage Civilisation was the future founder of Mass-Observation's first best-seller, in which he defended the way of life of the cannibals of the New Hebrides and their rights to their own land. "Harrisson's fourth Oxford expedition (1933?-5) was to the New Hebrides. When the rest of the Oxford party left Santo Island for home in 1934, Harrisson got to Malekula, where cannibalism was still widespread. Unarmed, barefoot, with no money, he made friends with the cannibals and took censuses that helped to disprove the then popular thesis that the islanders were dying out from a morbid despair caused by culture shock; he found instead that their numbers were increasing. Harrisson's focus had shifted from birds to people" (ODNB).

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Archer, Sir Geoffrey and Eva M. Godman
        The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden: Their Life Histories, Breeding Habits, and Eggs. Complete Set in Four Volumes
      London: Gurney and Jackson. Hardcover. Used: Very Good/Very Good. Thorburn, Archibald; Gronvold, Henrik. Volumes I and II, Gruney & Jackson,1937. Volumes III and IV, Oiver & Boyd, 1961. Twenty-eight color plates reproducing bird paintings by Archibald Thorburn and six color plates by Henrik Gronvold (five of eggs, one of new species. Twenty photographic plates, four folding maps, two of which are colored. The plates by Thorburn are exceptional and the only foreign birds painted by this artist. Quarto. Dust jacket of Volume I worn and wrinkled. Corners bumped, more severely in Volumes I and II. Still, a very good set in dust jackets.

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        DER DEUTSCHE FILM. ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR FILMKUNST UND FILMWIRTSCHAFT. Mit dem amtlichen Mitteilungen der Reichsfilmkammer. 21 Hefte. I. Jahrgang 1,(1936/37), Heft 3,5,8,10,11,12. / II. Jahrgang 2 (1937/38) Heft 7,8,9,11./ III. Jahrgang 3 (1938/39), Heft 1,4,6,7,8. / IV. Jahrgang 4 (1939/40), Heft 5,6,7. / V. Jahrgang 5 (1940/41), Heft 7,10. VI. Jahrgang 7 (1942/43),
      Berlin Max Hesses, Fortlaufende Paginierung, unterschiedlicher Umfang (30 - 40 S.), jedes Heft m. zahlr. Foto-Abb., gedruckt auf Kunstdruckpapier, 4°, OBr.. (Bei Heft 1/3, 1/5 und 1/10 Umschlag im Falz eingerissen; 1/10 hintere Umschlagseitemit Einriß; 2/7 Umschlag mit 2 Fehlstellen und Einriß. Einige Hefte mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren des Umschlags, 11 Hefte sind sehr gut erhalten). Zusätzlich beiliegend 5 restaurierte Hefte, bei denen fehlende Seiten oder Stellen durch Kopien ersetzt wurden, Umschlag gegebenfalls repariert : 2. Jg. 1937, Heft 4, 2. Jg. 1937, Heft 5, 3. Jg. 1938, Heft 5,. 3. Jg. 1939, Heft 12, 7. Jg. 1942/43, Heft 5.Insgesamt 26 Hefte der seltenen und gesuchten Zeitschrift. DER DEUTSCHE FILM war die offizielle Filmpublikation der Reichsfilmkammer, erschienen zwischen 1936 und 1942 in 82 Heften. Die diversen Aspekte des Films werden in zahlreichen Artikeln behandelt: Walter Gronostay / Musik und Farbe im Tonfilm / Luise Ulrich/ Der Mensch im Film /Walter Ruttmann / Reichsparteitag 1936 / Film und Fernsehen / Alois Melichar / Wilfried Basse / Sepp Allgeier / Heinrich George / Werbefilm / Der Tonfilm kommt ins Dorf / Carl Ludwig Diehl / Lil Dagover / Die Komiker des deutschen Films / Werner Hochbaum / Kostümfilm oder historischer Film / Herbert Windt / Paul Hartmann / Komikerinnern iim deutschen Film/ Deutsch-Österreichisches Filmschaffen / Der Film im Dienste der Rassenpolitik / Vom Vorprogramm zur Filmkunst / Viktoria von Ballasko / Carl Hoffmann / Terra-Filmkunst/ Frank Benkhoff / Wolfgang Liebeneiner / Amerikanische Leistungsprinzipien/ Der abendfüllende Kulturfilm / Wolfgang Zeller / Farbfilmgestaltung / Indische Filmproduktion / Der Abeitsgang des Films / Ein Film fälscht Geschichte: Waren Lenin und Stalin Freunde? / Fritz Arno Wagner / Der Kobold des deutschen Films /Leni Riefenstahls OLYMPIA (Mehrerer Artikel) / Dia Anfänge des absoluten Films in Deutschland / Karl Ritter / Emil Jannings / Käthe Dorsch / Ungarn als Filmland / Neue Frauen im deutschen Film / Arnold Fanck / Kunst und Technik im Film / - Die deutsche Handkamera/ Kristina Söderbaum / In der Kopieranstalt / Das Filmplakat im Spiegel der Kritik / Die Ostmark - Quell für Bühne und Film / / Sonderheft Deutsche Filmakademie / Veit Harlan / Herbert Selpin / Die filmische Landschaft / Der Filmtheaterintendant von morgen / Brigitte Horney / Fazit 1938 / Gibt es einen deutschen Kamerastil ? / Die Aufgaben des deutschen Filmexports / POR LE MERITE / Die Weltfilmwirtschaft / Filmkunst im deutschen Werbefilm / Der Welterfolg des Olympia-Films / F. W. Murnau / Die Kunst des Exposes / Filmbauten / Kulturfilm und politische Willensbildung / / Die Bedeutung der Wochenschau / Der deutsche Film in Polen / DER FELDZUG IN POLEN / Japanische Filmkunst von heute / PARACELSUS / Georg Krause / MÜNCHHAUSEN / ANDREAS SCHLÜTER / Film an der Front / Was geht im Ausland vor? Amerikanische Stars im Dienste des Kommunismus / Produktionskostensteigerung und ihre Ursachen / Ist Film Gemeinschaftsarbeit? -HEIMAT / u. v.a Versand D: 5,00 EUR

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Home, Michael (Christopher Bush)
        The Harvest Is Past (With The Bip Pares Wrapper)
      The First UK Printing published by Rich and Cowan in 1937.The BOOK is in near FINE condition.A little pushing to the spine tips with slight rubbing of the lettering and logo on the spine.Text block lightly toned and spotted but otherwise the book is clean and free from erasures and inscriptions.A thin black line along the inner edge of the verso of the rear black end paper.The WRAPPER is neatly price-clipped and is in near FINE condition.Toning to the spine and a little creasing to the spine ends.The Bip Pares wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover.A very scarce title from the detective author Christopher Bush who used this pen name to write non detective fiction.Collectible. Ashtonrarebooks welcomes direct contact.

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Kalman, Kata
        TIBORC [Bauer]. Moricz Zsigmond es Boldizsar Ivan irasa.
      Budapest,, Cserepfalvi, 1937 - 4° (31x23,5cm). Mit 24 ganzseitigen Photographien (Porträts) sowie kleineren Porträtphotos im Anhang mit begleitenden Kurzbiographien der porträtierten ungarischen Landarbeiter. 49 S., 1 Bl., Orig.-Ganzleinenband. Erste Ausgabe. First Edition. - Kata Kalman (1909 Korpona - 1978 Budapest) gilt als Wegbereiterin der soziographischen Fotografiebewegung und gehörte, zusammen mit ihrem Mann Ivan Hevesy, Lajos Kassak, Sandor Bortnyik und Moholy-Nagy zum Kreis der ungarischen Avantgarde. Kalmans Fotoarbeiten gelten als grundlegend für das Genre sozialdokumentarischer Fotografie. Sie fotografierte Bauern, Arbeitslose, Bettler und verarmte Kinder. Ihr Foto eines brotessenden Kindes wurde 1932 als Wahlplakat der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands verwendet. Einband etwas angestaubt. Rückenschild lädert. Titelblatt gestempelt. Sonst sehr guter Zustand. Binding a bit dusty. Stamp on the titelpage. Otherwise very good condition. Ungarisch Band:

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Benton, Thomas Hart
        AN ARTIST IN AMERICA (signed)
      New York: Robert McBride & Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo, 276 pages, with 64 two-color reproductions of Benton's drawings. The book is bound in blue buckram, with a stain at the front edge of the spine and a rather worn though intact dustjacket that shows a panel of Benton 's Missouri mural done for that state's capitol. This copy beloged to Robert E. Nuese Jr., a bookseller in West Cornwall, Connecticut, who was a long-standing friend of Benton's and who owned a number of Benton's paintings. Nuese's bookplate, of which a scan is enclosed, was designed by Benton. This copy is inscribed on the half-title page "To Rbt. E. Nuese from Thomas H. Benton" and also bears a dime-sized squiggle of a drawing that I believe is by Nuese's wife Josephine. It is also signed by Benton's wife Rita, as well as by art historian Thomas Craven. Craven, a long-time friend of Thomas Hart Benton, had been Benton's roommate in Greenwich Village on their respective returns from France and wrote "Thomas Hart Benton: A Descriptive Catalog..." in 1939. Nuese had moved to West Cornwall from his job as an advertising copywriter in New York in 1930, and had founded Hayloft Books and Prints, an antiquarian shop with a small printing operation, Hayloft Press, which was used to print work for writers such as Mark Van Doren, also of Cornwall. The signatures seem to be the product of a country weekend in rural Connecticut, possibly when the book was first published or a few years later when Craven's catalog was published, although no date is given. A wonderful copy.

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        128o legione camicie nere. Documentario fotografico dell'attivita' svolta durante la campagna per la conquista dell'Impero Fascista. Luglio 1935-giugno 1937
      Alfieri & Lacroix, Milano 1937 - In folio, pp. (202) con moltissime foto in b/n., ill.,Âed una grande cartina topografica f.t. rip.Âdella regione africana delloÂTzellemnti. Dedica autogr. al fr. del comandante di legioneÂItalo Romegialli per iniziativa del quale fu pubblicato il volume.ÂCerniera sup. leggermente allentata.ÂLegatura in similpelle nera. Al p. ant. ill. di un paesaggio su cui si staglia una baionetta color argento in rilievo con inciso il motto mussolinianoÂ'Col cuore e col ferro alla meta'. Con introduzione di Roberto Farinacci. Volume fotografico realizzato con accostamenti di immagini e brevi didascalie su sfondo nero. Pagine illustrate, corredate di mappe e relazioni, che raccontano la conquista dell'Etiopia e intendono fornire alle famiglie la prova visiva del valore dei propri figli, definiti 'un blocco formidabile di cuori saldi e di volonta''. Le fotografie che compongono il volumeÂfurono scattate dagli stessi soldati. Le foto mostranoÂle varie fasi di reclutamento, addestramento e imbarco di ufficiali e soldati provenienti da Vercelli, Pallanza, Aosta, Torino e Messina. Poi le immagini dei militari in marcia e al momento dell'imbarco. Seguono foto dell'incontro con gli indigeni, dell'attivita' sportiva, delleÂbattute di caccia grossa, alternate ad altre delle azioni di guerra creando cosi' unÂamalgama tra albumÂmilitare e sezioni dal carattere etnograficoÂsugli usi e i costumi dei locali. ITA

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        OMNIBUS - il primo rotocalco italiano diretto da LEO LONGANESI (attualitÃ , politica e letteratura 1937 - 1939 TUTTO IL PUBBLICATO, Milano, Rizzoli, 1937
      formato giornale - Settimanale di politica e letteratura diretto magistralmente da Leo Longanesi , che diede un taglio giornalistico completamente nuovo ed innovativo, con inchieste ed articoli storici e politici ma abbinando anche saggi di cultura letteraria (racconti a puntate, poesie, dibattiti). Viene chiuso bruscamente nel gennaio '39 per evidenti incompatibilitÃ con il regime . Longanesi con questo periodico inaugura la tecnica del rotocalco , con le "famose fotografie innovative e provocatorie" che poi hanno fatto scuola e spesso ognuna di esse vale un articolo.... ( anche "il Mondo di Panunzio" discende da qui ). Notevole l'elenco dei collaboratori : Alvaro, Barilli, Benedetti, Bacchelli, Palazzeschi, Praz, Landolfi, Malaparte, Moravia, Pannunzio e tanti altri . Assai Importanti i vari articoli di guerra e politici, anche sulla guerra di Spagna. In ogni uscita compaiono i graffianti e divertenti disegni di Maccari , ognuno dei quali Ã¨ un vero e proprio articolo di fondo ! Notazione assai curiosa : non risulta su OMNIBUS alcun articolo firmato da Leo Longanesi, salvo non fosse all'ombra di qualche pseudonimo ... ANNO PRIMO 1937 dal num. 1 del 3 aprille al n. 39 del 25 dicembre. ANNO SECONDO 1938 dal num. 1 del 7 gennaio al num. 53 del 31 dicembre. ANNO TERZO 1939 uscirono soltanto 4 numeri dal n. 1 del 7 gennaio al num. 4 del 28 gennaio, poi venne bruscamente chiuso dal regime. I giornali sono rilegati in due volumi mz. tela ed hanno soltanto piccole ferite del tempo.(ne mancano soltanto tre) La rara collezione viene offerta a

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Taddeo Crivelli; Franco de' Russi; Adolfo Venturi; Giovanni Treccani
        La Bibbia di Borso d'Este : riprodotto integralmente per mandato di Giovanni Treccani (2 volume set)
      E. Bestetti 1937 - 2 volume set. 42 x 31 cm. Vellum-paper boards. Spines stamped in gold, Gold silk end papers. slightly darkened. Internally quite lovely. Reproduction of a notable example of the XVth century school of illumination and miniature painting at Ferrara. Illuminated borders including flowers, beasts, birds, emblems, etc., and about 1000 miniatures, chiefly by Taddeo Crivelli, Franco dei Russi, Giorgio di Alemagna, and Marco dell' Avogaro. The original bible is in Biblioteca Estense, Modena. This facsimile is of Duke Borso dâ??Esteâ??s 15th century illuminated manuscript bible. Franco de Rossi and Taddeo Crivelli created the original. Interesting providence: Bookplate on verso of both half titles signed by Alfredo Pizzoni/ Peitro Longhi (real name and nom de guerre). Gift plate to: Allen W. Dulles from Il Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia Riconoscente. Pizzoni was the President of the Italian Resistance. He gave this book to Allen Dulles, in recognition of his work in WWII aiding the surrender of German troops in Italy during Operation Sunrise. Allen W. Dulles was head of the CIA from 1953-61. This is an oversized and heavy books, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        L’AVVENTUROSO. Grande settimanale per tutti. Direttore responsabile: P. Lorenzini (nipote di Collodi).
      Firenze, Nerbini, 1937. In folio (mm. 440x315), mz. pelle mod. con ang. (lieve abras.), tit. oro al dorso, pp. 8/10 cad. numero, stampato in b.n. e a colori. Offriamo l?'annata completa del 1937 (Anno IV), dal n. 117 (2 gennaio) al n. 168 (26 dicembre). Cfr. Treccani.it: ?""L?'Avventuroso", settimanale a fumetti, uscì a Firenze per l?'editore Mario Nerbini dal 1934 al 1943. Pubblicava le migliori storie americane di avventura, quasi in contemporanea con l?'edizione degli USA. La sua fortuna declinò quando a queste storie furono sostituite quelle di ispirazione nazionale, imposte dalla propaganda fascista?".La pag. 9 del n. 132 è staccata e con strappo margin.; la pag. 9 del n. 153 con manc. ang. super. che intacca alc. parole del t., altrim. ben conservato. Alcuni numeri sono intonsi.

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Steinbeck, John
        The Red Pony
      New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Limited edition, signed by John Steinbeck on the limitation page. Copy letter W. While the limitation page states 699 copies were issued, this is one of an additional estimated 52 copies that were lettered. Tipped in on the front free end paper is an address label from McIntosh & Otis, Steinbeck's literary agency; though unmarked, this copy is from the estate of Eugene Winick, former president of the agency. Near Fine, with uneven toning to cloth. In a Poor, matching lettered slip case, which is fragile and incomplete, lacking the top and bottom panel.

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