viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1943

Stewart, Dr. H.L.; Kummer, F.A.; Kendrick, B.H.; Wildes, N.B.; Cunningham, L.A.; Wayling, T.; Smith, J.F.C.; Bayne, E.G.; Howse, E.M.; et al
        National Home Monthly Magazine, May 1943 - Alaska Highway / Canada's Future Housing / Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Centrefold Poster
      Home Publishing Company / National Home Monthly, 1943, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, First Edition, Illustrated By: Phillips, John (cover); Frise; Leake, Gerald Franklin; Green, Hamilton; Warner, Charles; Jousset, Albert D.; Shragge;. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall, 64 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Dominion Oilcloth & Linoleum inside front cover includes illustration of amourous military couple; Nice colour-illustrated Pepsi ad features pretty blonde and illustration of boys fishing; News digest includes The Marsh Report, 'Cradle to Grave' security, and more; Nice one-page illustrated Canadian Pacific Air Lines ad explains their substantial contributions to the war effort, amid dramatic air and land battle scene; Colour Ritz cracker ad includes service man and woman; Editorial discusses how the war has tarnished certain words and lifted others; Ford Motor Company one-page ad with illustration of Canadian troops in firefight; One-page Northern Electric ad includes illustration of deHavilland Mosquito; Friendly Invasion - great photo-illustrated article on construction of the Alaska Highway, with photo of Felix Murawski, 74th Engineers of Oklahoma City; Pigs' Feet (short story); The Penalty is Death (short story); Canada's Future Housing - photo-illustrated article explains ideas to be borrowed from Great Britain and the U.S.; Chowder Boy (short story); Sea Water Gurney's Boy (short story); Hollywood News and photos; One-page Parker Pen ad shows mailman handing mother a letter beneath caption "Your boy writes often now!"; Beer is Booze; One-page ad for the T. Sisman Shoe Co. includes great illustration of soldier on motorcycle; Canadian General Electric half-page ad boldly proclaims "Vitamins For Victory"; Woodbury Powder ad includes nice photo of Lana Turner; Magnificent centrefold two-colour (red and black) Victory Bonds ad entitled "Shoulder Your Own Share" includes text on left and, on right, a large illustration of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek super-imposed over scene of fighting in her war-torn China; Army Meals Go Modern - nice photo-illustrated article explains and illustrates meal preparation for the gigantic 7,000 man "army restaurant" at Webb Hall in Toronto; Nice colour one-page ad for Heinz Tomato soup includes illustration of tomato-headed aristocrat in top hat and monocle; Fashion illustrations; Is Your Daughter Happy in the Service? - article with photos of Daisy Horner of Dorset, Ontario, Dolly Mawson and Gay Sutton of Toronto, Elizabeth Cook from Creemore, Wren Barbara McClelland of Toronto, and twins AW2 Beryl and AW2 Daphne MacPhee of Charlottetown; Fashion article; Quotes from around the world; Elaborately colour-illustrated Canadian Pacific - Canadian National Victory Bond ad inside back cover entitled 'A Profession of Faith' includes calligraphy explaining their faith in Canada's future; Nice colour Wabasso Cottons ad on back cover shows mother, daughter and sewing machine; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Covers detached as one. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue, Magazine

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JUGAKU, Bunsho.
        KAMISUKI MURA TABI NIKKI: Record And Journals of Visits To Washi Hand-Made Paper
      Kyoto 1943, Mukai. Brown raw silk, clam shell box [mended],. minor box wear, 27p., 199 b. w. photos, 134 tipped in paper. samples, Japanese text, 22 x 32 cm., bright, clean copy.. FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. SIGNED, DATED INSCRIBED PRESENTATION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES A SUPERB AND STUNNING FIRST & ONLY EDITION 150 COPIES ONLY . Covers the handmade papers and paper-makes in the Kanto, Tohoku, Chubu, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu areas. This work is the result of his travels and primary observations of the vanishing art as found in the papermaking villages. This work is a record of now "lost techniques" and his research of the old papermakers, and their hand methods of the ancient papermaking processes. * With village maps, 134 actual hand-made paper samples tipped in, plus some 199 b.w. photographs, including some of the author with papermakers. The whole work was printed on hand-made Washi papers, the box is also made of and covered with hand-made papers, as is the title slip. In all the art of the book, nicely bound in brown raw-silk, with a matching paper spine label. * This work contains a good number of photos taken by the author on his sojourn and pilgrimage to the paper-making villages in order to meet with the paper-makers, observe their techniques, collect samples and photograph them at their work. The maps indicate where and how to find these hitherto obscure villages. With copious geographic index and a list of all villages visited. * FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 150 NUMBERED COPIES, this one being a lovely presentation and nicely inscribed copy in the author's hand, signed and dated, and with his wife's name added "Shizuko." A fascinating work, made during World War II item. A lovely colophon is found inside the back cover. * Jugaku was the leading exponent and scholar on Washi or hand-made papers of Japan and authored a good number of fine works most all of which were limited and signed copies. AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE ITEM ! * Color photos can be sent by email. Images displayed may not always be the exact photo of the copy in stock for sale at any given time. If you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock today, please request this by email. . Photos of most of our books are posted to our .

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Stieglitz, Alfred.
        AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED.
      An American Place, July 3, 1943., [New York]: - Handwritten note, presumably written in response to a question put to Stieglitz at his gallery: "I have no favorite American author. There are some that hold me equally. Each in his own particular way"; above which Stieglitz has written "An American Place / July 3--43," then "You desire this: / Alfred Stieglitz." An American Place was Stieglitz's third and final gallery, which he ran from 1929 until his death in 1946. The note is on a thin sheet of 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper. Flattened creasing where folded and some wear wear to edges, still very good. Together with "Alfred Stieglitz and An American Place, 1929-1946," a catalog of an exhibition held at the Zabriskie Gallery, New York, May 2-June 3, 1978 with text by Doris Bry. Illustrated with photographs by Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Paul Strand. Near fine in printed, stapled paperwraps. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Flagg, James Montgomery
        [Four Autograph Letters, Signed (Three as "Monty," one as "Cap. Kidd"), one with Original Pencil Drawing]
      Washington, Providence, Montauk, etc., 1943. Three in ink, one in pencil. Folded for mailing, otherwise fine, accompanied by two envelopes addressed in his hand, hastily torn open at one end. Four substantial, boisterous, opinionated and occasionally inebriated letters from Flagg to Willis Birchman (addressed variously as "Kid," "Country Gentlemen," "Dear Temperamental Meringue," and "Will Bill") who became one of Flagg's frequent correspondents as a consequence of Birchman having featured Flagg in his 1937 book, FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. One letter, 4pp. in ink on letterhead of the Providence Biltmore, consists of an account of a rather Cutty Sark driven meeting with "Cecil" (likely film star Cecil Humphreys, with whom he had a long association). Another letter, 4pp., written on letterhead of Montauk Manor, at Montauk Beach, is in pencil and opens with an attractive pencil drawing of a beach scene, with cars parked and facing out over the ocean; it relates chiefly to the circumstances of his stay at Montauk and is signed "Cap. Kidd." Another letter, 4pp, in ink, on letterhead of the Hotel Raleigh, relates to events surrounding a vague series of meetings in Washington DC, involving representatives of the Australian and British governments, stops at embassies, a meeting with Sumner Welles, etc. The last letter, dated simply Friday, 2pp. in ink, is somewhat diffuse, but mentions a pending trip to Washington and meetings there, perhaps anticipating the stay mentioned in the letter above. Flagg (1877 - 1960) was, in his time, one of the most prolific and popular of American artists and illustrators. His best known work was one of the most widely distributed recruitment posters for the US military: the iconic image of Uncle Sam, captioned "I Want YOU for U.S. Army"

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Flagg, James Montgomery:
        Four Autograph Letters, Signed (Three as "Monty," one as "Cap. Kidd"), one with Original Pencil Drawing].
      Washington, Providence, Montauk, etc. One undated; 5 August 1940; and two envelopes postmarked 25 April 1941 and 29 April 1943. - Thirteen pages, on six quarto and octavo lettersheets (one folded to quarter panels). Three in ink, one in pencil. Folded for mailing, otherwise fine, accompanied by two envelopes addressed in his hand, hastily torn open at one end. Four substantial, boisterous, opinionated and occasionally inebriated letters from Flagg to Willis Birchman (addressed variously as "Kid," "Country Gentlemen," "Dear Temperamental Meringue," and "Will Bill") who became one of Flagg's frequent correspondents as a consequence of Birchman having featured Flagg in his 1937 book, FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. One letter, 4pp. in ink on letterhead of the Providence Biltmore, consists of an account of a rather Cutty Sark driven meeting with "Cecil" (likely film star Cecil Humphreys, with whom he had a long association). Another letter, 4pp., written on letterhead of Montauk Manor, at Montauk Beach, is in pencil and opens with an attractive pencil drawing of a beach scene, with cars parked and facing out over the ocean; it relates chiefly to the circumstances of his stay at Montauk and is signed "Cap. Kidd." Another letter, 4pp, in ink, on letterhead of the Hotel Raleigh, relates to events surrounding a vague series of meetings in Washington DC, involving representatives of the Australian and British governments, stops at embassies, a meeting with Sumner Welles, etc. The last letter, dated simply Friday, 2pp. in ink, is somewhat diffuse, but mentions a pending trip to Washington and meetings there, perhaps anticipating the stay mentioned in the letter above. Flagg (1877 - 1960) was, in his time, one of the most prolific and popular of American artists and illustrators. His best known work was one of the most widely distributed recruitment posters for the US military: the iconic image of Uncle Sam, captioned "I Want YOU for U.S. Army".

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WAKSMAN, SELMAN
        Typed Document Signed, biographical content, with many holograph annotations, 4 separate 4to pages, ca 1971; Two Typed Letters Signed, on Rutgers University stationery, each 4to, August 1, 1966, and October 1, 1971
      "Selman Waksman: Discoverer of a Wonder Drug 1943," is the title of the typed document containing the draft of biographical information which he generously corrected. The draft was for the book, "The Laureates: Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize," (Tina Levitan, 1960 First edition). Here he edits the section on his biography as explained in his 1971 letter to Levitan. In the letter he notes that "made a number of important corrections and changes. He also writes, "The first announcement of the work on streptomycin was published early in 1944 in the journal Science...." He encloses a "laboratory photograph of myself...." He signs, "Selman A. Waksman." The article he extensively corrects is titled, "Selman A. Waksman: Discoverer of a Wonder Drug 1943." He adds the "A" after his first name. The earlier TLS, 1966, to Levitan discusses royalties and production of streptomycin in other countries. Waksman coined the term antibiotics. He and his team of researchers discovered a range of drugs to treat infectious diseases, including Streptomycin and Neomycin. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic to cure tuberculosis. He accomplished his work at Rutgers University where he established an institute for the study of microbiology in 1954. It was renamed for him after his death.

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Kokoscha, Oskar; JOHN HEARTFIELD
        Und Sie Bewegt Sich Doch.
      1943. HEARTFIELD, John. Und Sie Bewegt Sich Doch. Edited by Oskar Kokoschka. 64 pp. 8vo., 185 x 120 mm, bound in original publisher's wrappers with illustrated cover after John Heartfield. In a new black cloth folding box. London: Verlag "Freie Deutsche Jugend," 1943. |~||~||~||~||~||~| A fine copy of this scarce and classic piece of exile literature. The book was edited by the painter Oskar Kokoschka who provided the introduction as well. The text contains poems by German exiles in England, America and Russia of whom the best known is Bertholt Brecht. The Heartfield cover of Hitler as a simian is one of his classic photomontages.

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Brockdorff, Cay von
        Konvolut von Büchern, Aufsätzen und Papieren Cay von Brockdorffs aus seinem Nachlaß].
      [um 1880-1943] - Konvolut von Büchern, Dokumenten und Papieren aus dem Nachlaß des Philosophen Cay von Brockdorff (1874-1946). Enthalten sind 1.: vier Bücher von v. Brockdorff (Beiträge über das Verhältnis Schopenhauers zu Spinoza", 1900; Descartes und die Fortbildung der Kartesianischen Lehre, 1923; Die englische Aufklärungsphilosophie, 1924; Hobbes als Philosoph, Pädagoge und Soziologe, 2. Auflage, erster Band, 1929). Der Schopenhauer stellt das Handexemplar des Verfassers dar und enthält v. Brockdorffs eigenhändige Korrekturen und Ergänzungen für eine geplante (aber nie erschienene) zweite Auflage. Die zweite Auflage sollte erscheinen unter dem Titel "Schopenhauers Kampf gegen den Spinozismus". Die weiteren drei Bücher tragen den Namenszug "Stendal" auf den Titelblättern (v. Brockdorffs Frau war eine geborene Stendal). --- Enthalten sind 2.: 27 Kleinschriften (meist als Sonderdrucke) mit Aufsätzen von v. Brockdorff. U.a.: "Zur Psychologie des Schüleraufsatzes" (1909), "Der Gedankenfortschritt" (1910), "Graf Otto Moltke über Dänemark" (1915), "Das Schwedische in deutschen Schulen", "Die Differenz zwischen Schopenhauer und den Nachkantianern" (1919), "Hobbes im Lixchte seiner didaktischen und pädagogischen Bedeutung" (1919), "Die gesellschaftliche Maske" (1922), "Eine Thomas Hobbes zugeschriebene Handschrift und ihr Verfasser" (1932), "Des Sir Charles Cavendish Bericht für Joachim Jungius über die Grundzüge der Hobbes'schen Naturphilosophie" (1934), "Friedrich Maximilian Klinger und Hobbes" (1935), "Die letzten Unterredungen mit Ferdinand Tönnies" (1936) "Fünf ungedruckte Briefe von Jean Pierre de Martel an Thomas Hobbes" und "Hobbes unter dem Protektorat" (1937), "Wahrheit und Wahrscheinlichkeit bei Hobbes und Condillac" (1937), "Inward Veracity in its Religious Sense" (1937), "Zu Tönnies' Entwicklungsgeschichte" (1937), "Zum Gedächtnis des 350. Geburtstages von Hobbes" (1938), "Hobbes als Polyhistor" (1939), "Hobbes als Polyhistor" (1939), "Gelehrte Gesellschaften im XVII. Jahrhundert" (1940), "Erscheinung und Wirklichkeit" (1943). --- Enthalten sind 3.: Einige Zeitungsartikel zu Hobbes und der Hobbesgesellschaft. --- Enthalten sind 4.: private Unterlagen - ein koloriertes Porträt v. Brockdorffs als junger Student (9,5 x 6 cm, aufgenommen von Langbein in Heidelberg - um 1900); ein weiteres Foto von v. Brockdorff, dass ihn in seinem Kieler (?) Arbeitszimmer zeigt (9 x 14 cm; um 1920?); ein weiteres Foto von v. Brockdorff 1940 (17 x 12 cm, montiert auf Karton, in Bleistift signiert und datiert "S. v. Brockdorff [19]40"); Schmuckbrief auf goldumbortetem Schmuckpapier mit aufklappbarem farbigem Freundschaftskranz ("Meinen lieben Eltern von ihrem dankbaren Sohn Cay" - um 1880?). --- Enthalten sind 5.: 12 handgeschriebene Briefe an Cay von Brockdorff aus den Jahren 1904/1905. Thema sind ganz oder überwiegend pädagogische Fragen. --- Enthalten sind 6.: vier Bücher mit Besitzstempeln und/oder Namenszügen Cay von Brockdorffs ("Weltgeschichte in Umrissen"; "Das Geheimnis starker Nerven"; Kürschners Taschen-Konversationslexikon" und "Der Religionsunterricht eine Gewissensfrage"). "Das Geheimnis starker Nerven" u.a. mit dem handschriftlichen Vermerk "real american humbug" auf dem Titelblatt. - Überwiegend etwas fleckig und etwas angerändert, teils stärker angerändert; einige wenige Broschüren im Falz gerissen; die Briefe gelocht und teils mit Minierspuren. Sonst und insgesamt ordentlich. 3002 Gramm. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Stewart, Dr H L ; Kummer, F A ; Kendrick, B H ; Wildes, N B ; Cunningham, L A ; Wayling, T ; Smith, J F C ; Bayne, E G ; Howse, E M ; al, et
        National Home Monthly Magazine, May 1943 - Alaska Highway / Canada's Future Housing / Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Centrefold Poster
      Winnipeg: Home Publishing Company / National Home Monthly. Paperback. 64 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Dominion Oilcloth & Linoleum inside front cover includes illustration of amourous military couple; Nice colour-illustrated Pepsi ad features pretty blonde and illustration of boys fishing; News digest includes The Marsh Report, 'Cradle to Grave' security, and more; Nice one-page illustrated Canadian Pacific Air Lines ad explains their substantial contributions to the war effort, amid dramatic air and land battle scene; Colour Ritz cracker ad includes service man and woman; Editorial discusses how the war has tarnished certain words and lifted others; Ford Motor Company one-page ad with illustration of Canadian troops in firefight; One-page Northern Electric ad includes illustration of deHavilland Mosquito; Friendly Invasion - great photo-illustrated article on construction of the Alaska Highway, with photo of Felix Murawski, 74th Engineers of Oklahoma City; Pigs' Feet (short story); The Penalty is Death (short story); Canada's Future Housing - photo-illustrated article explains ideas to be borrowed from Great Britain and the U.S.; Chowder Boy (short story); Sea Water Gurney's Boy (short story); Hollywood News and photos; One-page Parker Pen ad shows mailman handing mother a letter beneath caption "Your boy writes often now!"; Beer is Booze; One-page ad for the T. Sisman Shoe Co. includes great illustration of soldier on motorcycle; Canadian General Electric half-page ad boldly proclaims "Vitamins For Victory"; Woodbury Powder ad includes nice photo of Lana Turner; Magnificent centrefold two-colour (red and black) Victory Bonds ad entitled "Shoulder Your Own Share" includes text on left and, on right, a large illustration of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek super-imposed over scene of fighting in her war-torn China; Army Meals Go Modern - nice photo-illustrated article explains and illustrates meal preparation for the gigantic 7,000 man "army restaurant" at Webb Hall in Toronto; Nice colour one-page ad for Heinz Tomato soup includes illustration of tomato-headed aristocrat in top hat and monocle; Fashion illustrations; Is Your Daughter Happy in the Service? - article with photos of Daisy Horner of Dorset, Ontario, Dolly Mawson and Gay Sutton of Toronto, Elizabeth Cook from Creemore, Wren Barbara McClelland of Toronto, and twins AW2 Beryl and AW2 Daphne MacPhee of Charlottetown; Fashion article; Quotes from around the world; Elaborately colour-illustrated Canadian Pacific - Canadian National Victory Bond ad inside back cover entitled 'A Profession of Faith' includes calligraphy explaining their faith in Canada's future; Nice colour Wabasso Cottons ad on back cover shows mother, daughter and sewing machine; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Covers detached as one. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue. . Good. 1943. First Edition.

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Gauleitung der NSDAP Wien / Gauleiter Odilo Globocnik / Josef Bürckel / Baldur von Schirach, Hg.
        NSDAP Gau Wien Verordnungsblatt 1943 [Komplett!!!]
      Druck von Lang & Gratzenberrger 1943 Bibliothekshalbleinen mit Goldprägung 274 Extrem selten ! Verordnungsblätter des Gauleiters von Wien Odilo Globocnik 1938/39 / Josef Bürckel 1939/40 / Baldur von Schirach ab 1940. Alle Verordnungsblätter Folge 1-12 (Jänner-Dezember) Inhaltlich Organisations- und Personalangelegenheiten der NSDAP Zustand: sehr guter bis guter Zustand Versand D: 5,00 EUR SS - XX, Reichsführer-SS, Hauptamt, Waffen-SS, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Schutzstaffel, Schutzstaffeln, Schwarzes Korps

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Marcel PROUST
        Remembrance of Things Past. Translated into English by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. [Uniform Edition. Third Impression thus]. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
      Chatto & Windus 1943 12 vols., sm. 8vo., Third Impression thus, endpapers mildly spotted; original blue cloth, gilt backs, covers lightly age - soiled else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers worn at folds and edges, lightly browned at backstrips, chipped at heads and tails, wrapper to first volume wanting most of backstrip.. With dustwrapper artwork by Enid Marx. The set comprises Swann's Way (2 vols), Within a Budding Grove (2 vols), The Guermantes Way (2 vols), Cities of the Plain ( 2 vols), The Captive (2 vols), The Sweet Cheat Gone, Time Regained. The uniform was first published in 1941. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.

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Maurice BLANCHOT
        Une étude sur l'Apocalypse. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
      Autograph manuscript of the author of four and a half pages in-4 published in the issue dated November 3, 1943 the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions. Literary review published on the occasion of the publication of the study of Father HM Feret on the Apocalypse of St. John and the Christian view of history. Full typescript is attached. Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published in the "Chronicle of the intellectual life" of the Journal of Debates 173 articles on recently published books. In a half-page newspaper (about seven pages in-8), the young author of "Thomas the Obscure" his first steps in the field of literary criticism and inaugurates a theoretical work that develop later Many in these essays, "The Share of fire" to "The Infinite Conversation" and "The Writing disaster." From the very first articles, Blanchot demonstrates a sharp analysis far beyond the current literature that motivates writing. Oscillating between classical and modern writers of the first order and minor novelists, he puts in his columns, the foundations of critical thinking which will mark the second half of the twentieth. Transformed by writing and by war, Blanchot breaks, over a thought exerted "on behalf of the other," with violent maurassiennes certainties of his youth. Not without paradox, then it transforms literary criticism philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the heart of an "openly marechalist" newspaper: "Burning a book, write, are the two acts between culture which registered its oscillations opposites "(The Book, In Journal of Debates, January 20, 1943). In 2007, Cahiers de la NRF together under the direction of Christophe Bident all literary chronic unpublished volumes with critical analysis of the relevant work of Blanchot "novels, poems, essays give rise to a singular reflection, always safer his own rhetoric, delivered more to echo the impossible or the lure of extinction. (...) Not without contradictions or step aside, and the certainty of a feverish work begins (... ) these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who has transformed during the chronicle necessity of thought. " (C. Bident). The autograph manuscripts of Maurice Blanchot are of great rarity. S.n. (Journal des débats) s.l. (Paris) s.d. (1945) 13,5x21cm & 4 pages in-4 4 1/2 pages in-8

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Du Bois [DuBois], W E B (editor)
        Report of the First Conference of Negro Land-Grant Colleges for Co-ordinating a Program of Cooperative Social Studies (Signed First Edition)
      Atlanta: Atlanta University Publications no. 22, 1943. First Edition. First Edition. Copy belonging to W.E.B. Du Bois, with his owner name to the top of the front wrapper. With a couple of holograph ink notations by Herbert Aptheker, Du Bois' longtime editor, and holograph pencil underlining, bracketing, and occasional notations (we are unsure of the hand) throughout. One of a series of reports edited by Du Bois during his second stint at Atlanta University. From the estate of Herbert Aptheker.Very Good in wrappers. Light toning to the spine and edges, some minor rubbing and bruising. Provenance available on request.

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Shostakovich, Dmitri. (1906-1975)
        Shest Romansov dlia basa. [Six Romances for Bass] Op. 62 [SIX ROMANCES ON VERSES BY ENGLISH POETS ] - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
      Muzfonda ["Editor: L. T. Atovm'yan"][Music Fund of the USSR], USSR / Moscow 2, Dog Square 10. 1943 - Piano vocal score of the composer's Six Romances, op. 62, signed and inscribed on the first page in fountain pen in Russian (translated): "To the dear Valery Isaacson Boyarovich--Greetings on this day of good news. D. Shostakovich, April 17, 1943." 8.5 x 12. Title, 2-38 pp. Price of 11 rubles, 40 kopeks and limitation on the rear cover. Collotype print. A missing lower quarter of the first page, significant chipping and tears to edges, soiling and staining to the signed page, and overall toning, otherwise very good condition. A very rare copy of this humbly printed wartime edition, issued in only 300 copies according to the limitation on the back cover and with Worldcat recording a single copy, at University of Toronto Music Library. Hulme p. 247. On the date of the inscription, newspapers reported that Russian troops crushed Nazi attacks and captured an important height in the northwest Caucasus front. It is possible this is the good news referred to by the composer. Not one of the other song cycles by Dmitri Shostakovich reflects such personal feelings as the Six Romances: tender concern, the pain of parting, affection for friends with whom he had lost touch. It is to these friends that he dedicated the set. And nowhere else in his vocal works is the presence of death so threatening, so inevitable. But then the cycle was composed during the darkest days of the Second World War, while he was exiled in Kuibyshev (now Samara), evacuated from the besieged city of Leningrad. In 1942 he attended a preview of Prokofiev's War and Peace and shortly after composed Sir Walter Raleigh to His Sonne, to a text by Sir Walter Raleigh. Refused permission to return to Leningrad, now under siege, he wrote settings of three poems by Robert Burns in Russian translations by his friend, Samuil Marshak, Shakespeare's Sonnet LXVI in a translation by Boris Pasternak, and the English nursery-rhyme The King's Campaign. In the atmosphere of friendship with the anti-Hitler Allies, using the poetry of English authors seemed quite natural, especially in the case of Robert Burns, whose poetry praising the common people was popular in the Soviet Union and was considered "ideologically correct." Burns's lines "For a' that, and a' that, our toils obscure,and a' that, the rank is but the guinea's stamp, the Man's the gowd for a' that" were memorized by Soviet schoolchildren, both in Russian at literature classes and in English in English-language classes. The Six Romances were premiered with piano accompaniment in 1942. The orchestrated version was made by Shostakovich in 1943 (Op. 62a). Four years before his death, Shostakovich made a further version for voice and chamber orchestra (Op. 140). An uncommon and highly interesting signed score from the esteemed Soviet composer whose 15 symphonies and large body of chamber and instrumental works occupy a place of central importance in the 20th-century repertoire. [Attributes: First Edition]

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VILLON (François) [Jean DRATZ]
        uvres
      La nef d'argent 1943 - Paris, La nef d'argent, 1943 In-Folio (36cm x 29cm) de [2ff.] 169pp. Tiré à 1500 exemplaires dont 185 sur vélin supérieur signés par l'artiste et 21 sur vélin pur chiffon comprenant une suite des hors-texte et une aquarelle originale; 194 sur vélin pur chiffon comprenant une épreuve en "bon à tirer" signée par l'artiste et une suite des hors-texte; 1100 sur vélin pur chiffon. Couverture, nombreuses illustrations in-texte coloriées au pochoir, frontispice et 9 hors-texte de Jean DRATZ. En feuilles à toutes marges non coupées, sous couverture illustrée, étui et chemise (titre, auteur et illustrations aquarellés au dos de la chemise) Un des 185 sur vélin supérieur signé par l'artiste comprenant une suite des hors-texte et une aquarelle originale (N°129) Bel exemplaire, frottements épars sur l'étui, chemise et couverture en bel état; feuillets en bel état également, frais. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

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(PENGUIN MODERN PAINTERS). [Kenneth CLARK, ed.]
        Penguin Modern Painters. COMPLETE SET IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
      Penguin, [Harmondsworth],, [1943-1959]. 19 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly dust- and age-soiled as usual else a very good, clean set. Complete set of the famous series edited by Sir Kenneth Clark. The artists featured are: Edward Bawden, Georges Braque, Edward Burra, Duncan Grant, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Edward Hopper, David Jones, Paul Klee, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Ben Shahn, Matthew Smith, Stanley Spencer and Graham Sutherland. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE

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"Manfred, Frederick"
        The Golden Bowl
      n.p. [Minneapolis?]. n.d. [ca. 1943-44]. "Original corrected 229-page typescript of Manfred's first novel, likely used as the setting copy by the publishers, Webb Publishing Company of Saint Paul, with numerous typographical notes as to typesize, fonts, picas, etc. and also containing many what we assume to be last minute corrections to the text proper by Manfred himself - a couple of hundred instances where the typescript differs from the work as published. Also, a 6-page corrected typescript of the copy used for the dust jacket, also a setting copy, but with no corrections by Manfred. Also, page proofs for the same, tall 8vo, 129 leaves printed on rectos only, with extensive annotations throughout by the editior and printer, including the amending of a number of words and phrases in the text. Also, a first edition of the book, 8vo, pp. [8], 226; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy inscribed ""For Paul C. Hillestad 'our' first book together. Frederick Feikema Manfred."" Hillestad was Manfred's editor at Webb."

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Goebbels, Joseph.
        Der steile Aufstieg. Reden und Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1942/43.
      München, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., 1943. 1. Ausgabe XIV, 473 (1) Seiten 8°, gebundene Ausgabe, Original Halb-Leineneinband mit Rücken- und zweifarbigem Deckeltitel. mit Schutzumschlag, Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten minimal gebräunt, ansonten sauber und frisch, auf dem Vorsatz eingehändige Widmung des Autors: \"Pg. Julius U..../ in alter Kameradschaft herzlichst zugeeignet/ Dr. Goebbels/ 24. XII. 43\". Beiliegend Ex Libris von Curt Riess sowie ein Zeitungsartiekl. Joseph Goebbels (* 29. Oktober 1897 in Rheydt - + 1. Mai 1945 in Berlin) war einer der einflussreichsten Politiker während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und einer der engsten Vertrauten Adolf Hitlers. Von 1933 bis 1945 war er Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda und Leiter der Reichskulturkammer. Damit trug er dazu bei, Presse, Rundfunk und Film sowie den gesamten Kulturbereich mithilfe strenger Zensur- und Repressionsmaßnahmen im Sinne des Nationalsozialismus auszurichten. Versand D: 5,00 EUR

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Ronsard, Du Bellay, Louise Labbé, Belleau, Jodelle, Agrippa d?Aubigné, Malherbe, De Viau, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sainte-Beuve, Musset, Nerval, Baudelaire, Heredia
        Sonnets d'Amour - Illustré avec 20 pointes sèches de Marie LAURENCIN, Yves BRAYER, DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, GALANIS, Edouard GOERD, Hermine DAVID.
      Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques, Paris 1943 - - PRESENTATION : in-4 en feuille sous chemise et emboitage rouge, présentant 18 sonnets illustré chacun par une gravure originale d'un artiste de l'époque. - ILLUSTRATION : 20 eaux fortes signées dans la planche de DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, ROBERT BONFILS, CAMILLE BERG, MICHEL CIRY, J.-G. DARAGNES, LUC-ALBERT MOREAU, JEAN FRELAUT, MAURICE SAVIN, ANDRE JACQUEMIN, GALANIS, VERGE-SARRAT, JACQUES BOULLAIRE, ROGER WILD, JEAN BERSIER, HERMINE DAVID, MARIE LAURENCIN, HENRI DE WAROQUIER, EDOUARD GOERG, DIGNIMONT, YVES BRAYER. - TIRAGE : Limité à 298 exemplaires. - TAILLE : 25 x 32 cm. - ETAT : Excellent - Emboitage abimé. AUTRES PHOTOS SUR DEMANDE [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Posada, Jose Guadalupe
        36 GRABADOS
      Mexico: Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo, 1943. Folio. Original printed red wrappers. Spine mostly perished, light wear and soiling. Printed on multi- colored sheets. Very good. Thirty-six leaves of woodcut illustrations, issued in conjunction with the famous Mexican artist Posada's first major exhibition, organized by Fernando Gambio at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. The introduction states: "On the occasion of this first exhibition of his gigantic labor and since we made available to the organizers the original plates - preserved by my father, Blas, in honor of Posadas memory - from which were printed the copies now at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, I publish this small edition in modest homage to the great Jose Guadalupe Posada, with the desire of extoling [sic] him and of cooperating in the success of his exposition." It is signed by Arascio Vanegas Arroyo, grandson of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Posada's original publisher.

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BLANCHOT Maurice
        André Gide et Goethe. Manuscrit autographe
      1943 - - 1943, 3 feuillets in-8 (21,2 x 13,6 cm) paginés, en feuilles. - Manuscrit autographe de l'auteur de 5 pages in-8 publié dans le numéro du 3 février 1943 du Journal des Débats, repris, légèrement modifié, dans Faux Pas (1943). Manuscrit recto-verso complet, à l'écriture très dense, comportant de nombreux ratures, corrections et ajouts. Chronique parue à l'occasion de la publication du Théâtre de Wolfgang von Goethe dans la « Pléiade » avec une introduction d'André Gide. Maurice Blanchot avait consacré dans les pages du Journal des débats une première étude à André Gide en novembre 1942 ; à propos des Nourritures terrestres, dont il louait « la grandeur authentique », il écrivait alors, dans une forme de réhabilitation : « Cet ouvrage n'est pas seulement un essai dans un sens impersonnel, un essai sur quelque chose, à propos de quelque chose, mais un essai de l'auteur sur lui-même, où il s'essaie par l'intermédiaire de pensées et d'images, où, en se donnant dans une complète adhésion à une certaine vue du monde, il entreprend une expérience dont il est le sujet, dont il accepte aventureusement le risque et qui ne peut pas le modifier d'une certaine manière. » Cette nouvelle étude est l'occasion pour Blanchot de revenir à Gide, cet auteur « si divers quoique si fidèle » à lui-même, et à l'étonnement que lui a causé sa préface au Théâtre de Goethe parue dans la « Pléiade » : « Ce qu'André Gide voit dans Goethe, ce n'est pas le devenir infiniment riche d'une existence qui a su être quantité d'êtres et tant de choses tout en étant de plus en plus elle-même, mais ce qu'il y a de plus stable, d'un peu guindé dans l'éternel, la figure mythique glorifiée par Eckermann ; ce qu'il admire, ce n'est pas le Titan qui cherche à étreindre plus qu'il n'est, qui veut tout sans se perdre, c'est le vieillard solennel des dernières années, devenu le modèle de l'univers et préoccupé de tirer de chaque chose une leçon. » C'est aussi l'occasion d'écrire sur Goethe, étudié à l'Université de Strasbourg, et sur lequel Blanchot reviendra notamment dans un article publié en 1950 dans L'Observateur et intitulé « Le Compagnon de route ». Intéressante lecture des liens unissant Gide à Goethe. [AUTOMATIC ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Autograph manuscript in the Journal of Debates of February 3, 1943 and Faux Pas. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

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Rosenberg, Alfred:
        Schriften und Reden, mit einer Einleitung von Alfred Bäumler, Bände 1 und 2 (alles Erschienene)
      München, Hoheneichen-Verlag, 1943 / 1944. - Vollständige Ausgabe im Original-Verlagseinband (2 Bände: dunkelblaues Halbleinen / OHLn / HLn im Format 16 x 23,3 cm) mit dekoriertem Rückentitel und Deckeltitelvignette jeweils in Goldprägung. CVII,624 und 746 Seiten, mit insgesamt neun Fotoabbildungen auf Kunstdruckpapier ("Aufnahme des Reichsleiters Alfred Rosenberg aus dem Jahre 1941 - Geburtshaus Alfred Rosenbergs in Reval, gezeichnet von G.Reindorff - Jugendbild aus dem Jahre 1909 - Straße in Reval. Zeichnung von Alfred Rosenberg aus dem Jahre 1918 - Manuskriptseite aus den ersten Aufzeichnungen von "Form und Formung im Kunstwerk" 1918> - Titelblatt des ersten Buches von Alfred Rosenberg: die Spur des Juden im Wandel der Zeiten, 1920 - Treppenhaus eines Bürgerhauses in Reval, gezeichnet von Alfred Rosenberg im Jahre 1918 - Herbstlandschaft, gemalt von Alfred Rosenberg im Jahre 1918 - Titelseite des "Völkischen Beobachter" vom 9. November 1923 mit dem Aufruf Alfred Rosenbergs). - Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung - Erste Aufzeichnungen (1917 bis 1919, u.a.: "Der Jude") - Die Spur des Juden im Wandel der Zeiten (1920) - Unmoral im Talmud (1920) - Das Verbrechen der Freimaurerei (1921) - Schlusswort - (Band 2:) Der staatsfeindliche Zionismus (1922) - Wesen, Grundsätze und Ziele der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei. Das Programm der Bewegung (1922), mit verschiedenen Vorworten - Pest in Russland. Der Bolschewismus, seine Häupter, Handlanger und Opfer. Gekürzt herausgegeben von Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (1922) - Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion und die jüdische Weltpolitik (1923) - Kampf um die Macht. Aufsätze aus dem "Völkischen Beobachter" (1921 bis 1923). - Später Kriegsdruck, Erstausgabe, EA, erste Auflage in ganz guter Erhaltung (Stempel auf Vorsatz, Einbände mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, sonst gut). - Mit bezeichnenden Ausführungen im Stil der Zeit wie z.B.: "An den geschichtlichen "Sprechstunden", an denen sich unter dem feurigen Anhauch der Zeit unter der geistigen Führung Adolf Hitlers das Ideengut und die taktischen Grundsätze der Bewegung formten, nimmt Rosenberg immer teil. Am 14. Oktober 1922 ist er mit dem Führer auf dem entscheidenden Tag in Coburg. Am Abend des 8. November 1923 begleitet er, zusammen mit den Parteigenossen Graf und v.Scheubner-Richter, mit der Pistole in der Hand den Führer in den Saal der Bürgerbräukellers, und am Vormittag des 9. November marschiert er an der Spitze des Zuges, der den Weg zur Feldherrnhalle nimmt. Ebenso gradlinig wie die geistige Entfaltung verläuft die Entwicklung des handelnden Menschen. Man kann sich heute nur schwer noch vorstellen, welche Charakterstärke damals dazu gehörte, den aussichtslos scheinenden Kampf gegen die jüdische Macht zu führen. Wer sich gegen die Judenschaft auflehnte, galt als "Volksverhetzer"; daß ein geistige Mensch Antisemit sein könne, schien undenkbar. Gerade in der Ausbildung einer neuen geistigen Haltung aber bestand das Revolutionäre der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung." - "Für die Männer, die mit Adolf Hitler kämpften, war eine Haltung bezeichnend, die wohl einmalig in der Geschichte ist. Der Fanatismus ihrer Gefolgschaft ist bekannt; weniger bekannt ist, daß mit der inneren Unbedingtheit eine heitere Überlegenheit verbunden war, die sich oft in Fröhlichkeit entlud. Der s h a k e s p e a r i s c h e H u m o r d e s F ü h r e r s klang mit dem Temperament seiner engeren Mitarbeiter sehr oft in befreiendem Gelächter zusammen . . .", usw. - Später Kriegsdruck, Erstausgabe, EA in guter Erhaltung (Stempel auf Vorsatz, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, zB. Kanten etwas berieben, sonst gut) Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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