viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1945

CHUMBLY, Harold
        Out of the Sunless Caves
      New York: The Acorn Press. 1945. First. First edition. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets stapled into paper wrappers with affixed leather label on the front wrap. Label affixed with tape, possibly as issued, small nicks and tears to the wrappers, very good or better. Inscribed by the author in 1945, with a Autograph Poem Signed pasted over most of the inscription. Another Autograph Poem (unsigned) is laid in. This poem is soiled, has a tape repair, and has various notes on the verso. One of 300 copies. Exceptionally scarce, and obviously homemade volume of poetry. Chumbly was an unrelenting modernist, a friend of Kenneth Patchen, and a relatively early magazine publisher of Charles Bukowski. OCLC locates no copies. .

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Pierre Louys
        Poèmes érotiques inédits
      1945 - Demi-reliure à coins, cuir bleu, 230x290. Dos à quatre nerfs avec pièce de titre dorée. 132 pages. 12 lithographies hors texte de l'auteur. Préface de G.H. Ouvrage en très bon état hormis des traces de colle sur les deux premières pages de titre. Tirage 150 exemplaires sur vélin du Marais, le nôtre portant le numéro 51. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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MILNE, A. A
        When We Were Very Young
      London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,, 1945. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards with pictorial motifs, twin rule to turn-ins, floral endpapers, gilt edges. With black and white illustrations. A fine copy. Forty-third edition. Signed by the author on the title page.

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Collectif
        Le modèle réduit d'avion (332 numéros)
      M.R.A. 1945 - In-4, (27x21 cm), revue mensuelle brochée, numéros 85 (décembre 1945), 99, 100, 102,111/113/115/117 à 164, 166 à 369 /371/373 à 445/ 473 ; plats légèrement défraîchis, assez bon état. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Styrsky and Jindrich Heisler
        Na Jehlach Techto Dni (On the Needles of These Days)
      Prague: Fr. Borovy v Praze, 1945. First Trade Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. This is a very rare first trade edition of the classic photobook, \"Na Jehlach Techto Dni (On the Needles of These Days)\" published by Fr. Borovy v Praze, Prague in 1945 that was preceded by the extremely scarce clandestine self-published edition of 1941 with original tipped-in silver gelatin prints. In \"The Photobook: A History\", Parr and Badger write, \"This remains a haunting photobook, 50 years after the war. It is a prime example of one of the photobook\'s great truths--it\'s not necessarily the individual pictures that count, but what you do with them\". Commenting in the book, \"The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century\", Vince Aletti states, \"On the Needles of These Days\" is a Surrealist meditation on war and resistance. the book\'s aura of alienation, repression, and anxiety not only captured the war\'s home front theatre of the absurd, it anticipated the depth of postwar pessimism.\" Containing 28 striking heliogravures with accompanying prose by Czech poet Jindrich Heisler, the book measures approximately 8.5 x 6 inches and is bound in photographically illustrated wrappers. The condition of the book is Very Good+ with offsetting from the gravures to the text pages. The wrappers are in Very Good condition with general wear to the front and rear wraps, along the spine edges, and the tips. This is a collectible copy of a notoriously fragile photobook that is rarely found in collectible condition. Cited in all three reference books on photobooks: The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century by Andrew Roth, The Photobook: A History, by Parr and Badger, and The Open Book by Andrew Roth.

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Steiner, Herbert.
        MESA.
      Herbert Steiner Wheaton College. Printed by Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press Aurora NY 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1955, Norton, MA - Quarto in printed wraps. Five volumes, complete run. Contributors include: Jorge Guillen, St.-J. Perse, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Heinrich Zimmer, Migule de Unamuno, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Otakar Brezina, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valery M. Gershenzon, Erich Kahler, Katherine G. Chapin, Karl Vollmoeller, Emil Strauss, and Mildred Bliss.Quite rare complete. Wrappers separated on issue I, edges chipped on issues Ii and III, remainder fine Limited to 300, 300, 250, 280, 280 copies respectively [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Gershwin, George] Carnegie Hall Program Season 1945-1946.
        Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, 4363rd Concert under the Direction of Artur Rodzinski in an All Gershwin Program Thursday Evening April 18, 1945 [signed by] Oscar Levant, Pianist, Anne Brown, Soprano and Todd Duncan, Baritone, The.
      New York: Alfred Scott Publisher, 1945-6. - First edition. Stapled illustrated wraps. Signed by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan (p.7) over second program section (side by side). Inscribed by Oscar Levant To Haney? (p.6) on his portrait. Square 8vo. pp. 14. About Very Good. Old creases. Program: An American in Paris, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F major (Oscar Levant); Porgy and Bess selections: Buzzard Song, It Ain't Necessarily So, I got Plenty of Nuttin' (Todd Duncan); Summertime, My Man's Gone Now (Anne Brown; Bess, You is My Woman Now (Brown and Duncan); Rhapsody in Blue (Levant). Porgy and Bess was first performed in 1935 with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan and Gershwin doing stage direction, this program at Carnegie Hall marked 10 years of performance for Brown and Duncan. Duncan performed as Porgy over 1800 times, Brown moved to Norway the following year and married third husband Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian Olympic skier, journalist and philosopher in 1948. Pittsburgh born Levant was a pianist, composer, author, actor and comedian in radio, television and film. A bigger than life trio of signatures for one night. Artur Rodzinski, music director 1943-47 featured on program cover with facsimile signature, rear cover ad for Chesterfield. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

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WILLIAMS, Tennessee and Ezra Pound
        Pharos [Numbers 1-4]
      Murray, Utah [and Norfolk]: Pharos [and New Directions]. 1945,1947. First. First edition. Publisher's bound file copy of the complete run of the magazine. Blue cloth, titled on spine in gilt. A small owner name on the front fly, a few spots on the boards, very near fine, internally fine. Three issues (the first is a double issue) bound into a single volume with the original wrappers bound in. Numbers 1 & 2 constitute Tennessee Williams's first separate publication, Battle of Angels; Number 3 is Harry Levin's Toward Stendahl; and Number 4 is Ezra Pound's Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest. .

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SALINGER, J.D
        "I'm Crazy" [story in Collier's, December 22, 1945]
      Springfield, Ohio: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. 1945. The complete story "I'm Crazy" in Collier's of December 22, 1945. Folio. A newsstand edition, not obscured by a mailing label, but with a small arrival date stamp near the title. Wrappers lightly rubbed with a touch of waviness at the top and wear at the lower front foredge with a couple of tiny nicks, very good. This issue contains the first print appearance of Salinger's classic literary creation, Holden Caulfield. The story forms the basis for the first two chapters of The Catcher in the Rye including a visit with Mr. Spencer. However, here Caulfield is portrayed as a more repentant figure lamenting his expulsion from school and with an additional sister, Viola. Accompanying the story is a half-page illustration of Caulfield, bags packed, fleeing school wearing not his red hunting cap but rather a more typical fedora. Salinger, who was always protective of his work, never allowed this or many other early stories to be reprinted. Due to this policy, his uncollected magazine appearances are always in demand and this issue, with such a direct connection to his classic novel, even more so. The true first appearance of one of the most enduring characters in American literature. .

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Orwell, George
        Animal Farm
      Secker & Warburg 1945 - A fine second edition published in the same month, August, 1945, as the first printing, in a very good dust jacket with the original price of 6s still visible on the front flap of the jacket, small triangular piece is loose at left top of front dj. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Jacket states second edition. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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ORWELL, George
        Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
      Secker & Warburg, London 1945 - Second edition, printed in the same month and year as the first edition (August, 1945). Green cloth, stamped white spine title. Contemporary owner's gift inscription neatly penned on front fly verso, minimal foxing, else near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with extremities worn, short tears and creases. A brilliant, classic anti-utopian short novel, in which a cast of barnyard animals reenact the events of the Russian Revolution and the betrayal of its more humane elements by Stalin. Well-adapted both as a 1955 cartoon and a 1999 cable movie using the latest animal-special effects, though both versions added upbeat endings to Orwell's harrowing vision. A presentable copy. *Connolly 100*. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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ARP, Hans.
        arp : 11 configurations. 11 gravures originales de jean arp publiées par max bill avec un texte monographique de grabrielle buffet-picabia et une introduction de max bill.
      - Zürich, Allianz-Verlag, 1945. 27,1 : 26,2 cm. 16 unn. Bl. mit 11 ganzseitigen s/w Original-Holzschnitten von Hans Arp. Orig.-Broschur mit Wiederholung des 7. Holzschnittes auf dem Umschlag in grauer Orig.-Leinenkassette. Erste Ausgabe. - Arntz 105-115. - Bolliger Kat. 9, 436. - Eines der XX römisch nummerierten Exemplare der Vorzugsausgabe in Leinenkassette, jedoch OHNE das ursprünglich beigegebene vom Künstler signierte Holzrelief. Impressum von Bill in Bleistift signiert. - Die nummerierte Gesamtauflage betrug 220 Exemplare. - 8. Publikation des Allianz-Verlags, Zürich. - Einleitung und Typographie von Max Bill. - Die Leinenkassette minimal fleckig und mit kleiner Bereibung an einer Kante, sonst sehr schönes Exemplar. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Murtic, Edo
        Zene, Glasajmo Za Sretnu Buducnost Nase Djece (poster)
      Zagreb 1945 - Poster made by Edo Murtic (Velika Pisanica, 4. 5. 1921. - Zagreb, 2. 1. 2005.), the founder of Abstract Croatian painting. Litograph in three colours (blue, red, brown). Combination of photomontage and painting (the upper part of poster, the sky is painted) makes very good impression. Photograph by Georgij (Zorz) Skrygin (Skrigin) (Odessa, Imperial Russia (today the Ukraine) 1910 - Belgrade, 1997), director and art-photographer. In very good condition, in Serbian, Cyrillic script. Latinic version published in 'Hrvatski politicki plakat 1940 -1950', full page print, page 72, Durda Knezevic (ed), Hrvatski povijesni muzej, 1991.

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GREEN, F.L
        Odd Man Out
      London: Michael Joseph. (1945). First. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper, tanned on the spine and with some other light wear. Inscribed by the author to publisher J.J.H. Gaute, welcoming him to Ireland: "To Joe Gaute who conquered the North and South of Ireland in three weeks from F.L. Green, Belfast May 1945." A brief note from Gaute laid in explaining the inscription. An excellent thriller about a wounded Irish rebel leader who is hunted by police after a robbery, it was the basis for the classic Carol Reed film featuring James Mason. A rare novel, published in wartime, and the only signed copy we've seen. .

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Green, F[rederick] L[awrence]
        ODD MAN OUT
      London: Michael Joseph Ltd.,. [1945]. Octavo,. cloth.. A fine copy in about near fine dust jacket with a bit of age-. darkening to spine panel, light shelf wear to spine ends and front. corners, and mild dust soiling to rear panel. A nice copy of a. fragile book. (#125709). First edition. Novel about a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as "Gang War." Filmed again in 1969 as "The Lost Man" with Sidney Poitier.

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MAC ORLAN (Pierre).
        L'ANCRE DE MISÉRICORDE. Eaux-fortes originales de Pierre FALKÉ.
      1945 - Paris, sans nom d'éditeur [Pierre Falké], 1945. Petit in folio (260 X 340) en feuilles, couverture rempliée entièrement illustrée en couleurs ; (1), faux-titre, frontispice, titre illustré, 243 pages, (1). Dos de la chemise bruni, quelques rousseurs en marge des premier et dernier feuillets blancs. BELLE ÉDITION ILLUSTRÉE. Elle est composée de 79 EAUX-FORTES originales dont couverture à double-page, frontispice, page de titre, 21 hors-texte dont 1 double-page, 55 lettrines et culs-de-lampe. TIRAGE limité à 216 EXEMPLAIRES, celui-ci UN des 35 imprimés et numérotés sur papier de Montval (n°53) contenant une SUITE DES EAUX-FORTES en premier état sur papier d'Auvergne à la main. L'ouvrage a été imprimé aux dépens de Pierre FALKÉ, avec le concours de Roger Lacourière. Les eaux-fortes originales ont été tirées par J. Frélaut, P. Molinié et J. Herrera, sur les presses à bras de Roger Lacourière et coloriées par M. Beaufumé. Exemplaire en BEL ÉTAT. NICE COPY. PICTURES AND MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST.

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AAVV
        VALENCIA ATRACCION. Revista del Fomento del Turismo de Valencia. 408 números. Desde el nº120 del año 1945 al nº 527 del año 1978
      1945 / 1978, Valencia 1945 - 17 Volúmenes cada uno con las revistas de dos años. Cada revista 20 pags c/u aproximadamente 21x31 Cartone, lomo tela con sus cubiertas originales Buen Estado Diferentes artículos, ilustraciones, publicidad, etc.

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Hjul, James H.
        Building Plans, Elevations, and Perspective for Duart Manufacturing Co., 6th St. 35; North of Clementina St., San Francisco. Current address 251 or 261 6th St.
      San Francisco: James H. Hjul, Structural Engineer, October 1945. - Original pencil drawings on tracing paper. Sheet size primarily 19" x 30". 6 sheets. Job #218. File #2347. James Hansen Hjul (1882 - 1957), a structural engineer, constructed many buildings in San Francisco. He was the founder of the J.H. Construction Company and was listed as a contractor, civil engineer, structural engineer and construction engineer in San Francisco City Directories from 1907 to 1958. Most of his work occurred in the South of Market area on warehouses and industrial buildings.

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Pierre Mac ORLAN / Roger WILDE (ill.)
        PARADES ABOLIES. Impressions Foraines.
      - Paris, Jarach, 1945, 27x35. En feuilles, sous couverture repliée et dans un double emboîtage cartonné rose. Joliement illustré en couleurs par Roger Wild. Tirage à 282 exemplaires, celui-ci l'un des 240 sans suite (70). Bel envoi de l'artiste : "A mon très cher ami, George Lambelet, j'apporte mon Miel et ma fidèle amitié". La dédicace est datée de 1948, tout comme le justificatif de tirage. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Nihon Gendai Shashin-shi
        History of Contemporary Japanese Photography [Two volume set]: Volume I: 1840-1945 / Volume II:1945-1970
      Heibonsha; Tokyo, Japan - An exceptionally important, early and rare pair of slipcased and profusely illustrated books documenting the history of Japanese photography. This two volume set was one of the first attempts to chronicle the sometimes turbulent, but always brilliant achievements in photography. Texts are in Japanese, and it is arguable that attention to the overall arc of Japanese achievements in the field were not adequately appreciated outside of Japan until decades later in the 1990s. Both volumes are bound in black cloth with no dustjacket, as issued. Both are encased in photo illustrated printed cardboard boxes, as published. Interiors of each volume are in excellent, pristine condition. Outer boxes show a bit of tanning and a few very minor chips and light spotting, but are otherwise in fine condition. Spine and covers of each are in fine condition, save for some light scratches on the spine of Volume II. Volume I, published in 1971, 516 pp.; Volume II, published 1977, 589 pp. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Racz, Andre:
        REIGN OF CLAWS
      New York: [Published by the Artist], 1945.. [4]pp. plus eight copper plate engravings and interleaves. Folio (53.5 x 37 cm). Loose sheets laid into wrappers, enclosed in a folding cloth portfolio, stamped in black. Small spot in lower corner of upper portfolio board, some creases to tissue interleaves, else about fine. One of only fifty numbered sets, signed by the artist on the justification, and with each individual print signed and numbered as well. The upper wrapper incorporates yet another engraving (not signed). A sequence of striking engravings (one in color), ranging from 4 x 16 to 14 x 10 inches, printed by the artist on Chatham handmade paper, with the prelims printed on Japanese handmade paper. A fine, early work by the Rumanian-born artist, published contemporary with his studies at Atelier 17 and the New School under Stanley Hayter. The images are strong and angular depictions of crustaceans and shells, and were engraved while Racz summered at Vinalhaven, off the coast of Maine. The somewhat literal depictions of the some of the subjects are none the less made captivating by the style and techniques characteristic of Racz's early influences by Hayter, Picasso and the surrealists, while others are far less literal and assume an almost monstrous appearance.

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BOEHME, Jacob
        Mysterium magnum.
      - Traduit pour le Ière fois en français avec deux études sur J. Boehme de N. BERDIAEFF. T.I et II (complet). Aubier (Bibliothèque philosophique), Paris, 1945, 2 vol. pet in-8, br., 592 - 516 p. E.O. de cette traduction. Très bon ex. non coupé [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Gardiner, Frank William.
        Aviators Flight Log Book.
      Washington D.C. Navy Department- Chief of Naval Operations. May 1944 - Sept 1945. - Small 8vo. (7" x 5"). Bound in imprinted cloth over boards. Monthly flying log of ARM3c Frank William Gardiner. Detailing training and combat missions 5/44-9/45. Most flights, including combat missions are noted as being flown in the Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon and occurred in the Pacific Theatre of War. Noted are patrol missions, many designated as "Rocket", sub-hunting, with various notations of bombing activity. Also accompanying the log is a rare propaganda leaflet, the likes of which were dropped in profusion over Japan to worn the citizenry of their impending doom. This leaflet presents Japanese text with a large photograph of a B-29 formation unloading their bombs. Further accompanying these items is a small black and white photograph of an airborne PV2 (presumably Gardiners), which bears the ink inscription on the back reading " Good old Y092". This associates with Gardiners log book entry of his craft noted as PV237092. Red crew name stamp to front pastedown. Flight assignment designation strip laid-down to front free endsheet. Very light soiling to rear cover. A Fine copy of a wartime log with extremely interesting additions. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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DURRELL, Lawrence.
        The Parthenon.
      [Rhodes: for the author, 1945 or 46] - Quarto. Single leaf folded and sewn into decorated card covers printed in blue and black. Wrappers a little rubbed and toned with creases at the fore-edge affecting the contents. An excellent copy. First edition, sole printing being one of about 25 copies produced for the author at the Government Press in Rhodes as his Christmas card for the winter of 1945. This copy with the author's compliments slip. Dispatch may have been delayed until after Christmas with the consequent doubt over the correct year of publication. [Attributes: First Edition]

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Hughes, Langston; E. McKnight Kauffer (illustrator)
        Shakespeare in Harlem
      Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1945 - Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY signed by the author "to Gay Dallman, with the good wishes of Langston Hughes New York, July 12, 1947." Elaine Gay Dallman was a poet, bibliophile, and socialite in San Francisco. This is a nice copy of the second printing. Very good in black cloth with orange cloth spine and purple title to front board and spine. Slight fading to spine and bumping to bottom corners. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with green spine panel and black title to spine. The jacket is worn along the edges including a chip to the head of the spine and a short closed tear. There is also a scuffmark to the front panel and the interior of the front flap has light dampstaining. There is no evidence of dampstaining to the boards or to the exterior of the jacket. 125 pages. POE/04291. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Kertesz, A
        Day of Paris
      J. J. Augustin, New York 1945 - 102 black-and-white photographs. Original tan cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black. Original black-and-white photographically illustrated dust-jacket printed in black. Dust-jacket has soiling to back panel with chips on the spine but with no loss of paper. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket that could easily be restored to excellent condition by a paper restorer. This is a first edition and features 102 of the photographs of Kertez who came to Paris from Budapest in 1925. The dust-jacket is by Alexey Brodovitch. Kertez was one of the most influential photographers to have worked in Paris during the twenties and thirties. A signed presentation copy of this book was available some time ago and the asking price was £2750.00. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Blackstone Studios, et al.
        A collection of portrait photographs of speakers inscribed to Dr. Albert Rappaport, founder and director of San Francisco's Town Hall.
      San Francisco, Calif.-1948. 1945 - Collection of 37 photograph portraits inscribed by the subjects, including Lewis Cotlow, Robert LaFollette, Harlan Stetson, William Mandel, Archduke Felix of Austria, Austen West, Aubrey Williams, Fritz Leiber, Jay Allen, Ruth Draper, H.R. Knickerbocker, Ybarra, Walter Duranty, Agnes Macphail, Tibor Eckhardt, Maxime Vollmer, Louis Auspacher, Andre Michalopoulos, Carveth Wells, Richard Wilmer Rowan, Sydney R. Montague, Walter Duranty, Frederick Machetanz John W. Verndercook, et al.

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Hughes, Langston
        The Weary Blues
      Knopf, New York 1945 - With an introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Hughes's most famous book, with the original jacket design by Miguel Covarrubias. A later printing (10th - 1945), but nicely inscribed by Hughes to Alain Bosquet, dated New York April 28, 1950. A fine copy in lightly chipped dustwrapper. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Gras Elias, Francisco.
        TARRAGONA EN 1811.
      176 Páginas + IX Ilustraciones. Publicaciones De La Agrupacion De Bibliofilos De Tarragona., Tarragona . 1945 - ATENCION : EDICION PRIVADA DE 101 EJEMPLARES NUMERADOS EN PAPEL DE HILO. Este el ejemplar 054/101. LOS LIBROS ORIGINALES DAN MAS PRESTIGIO Y VALOR A SU BIBLIOTECA Size: 4º.ilustrado [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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De La Fouchardière, Georges (novel); Lang, Fritz (director)
        LA RUE ROUGE (SCARLET STREET) - ORIGINAL FRENCH PRESSBOOK
      Universal Film S.A., Paris 1945 - Large quarto; single sheet of matte stock (18 X 24.25 inches), folded to make a four-page pressbook, which opens into a poster with printed synopsis; text and illustrations printed in red, black and white. A stunning, Fine example of the French film pressbook for Fritz Lang's 'Scarlet Street,' based on Georges de la Fouchardiere's 1930 novel 'La Chienne' (The Bitch), published in English the same year as 'Poor Sap.' Together with a Fine silver gelatin still from the film, measuring approx. 9.5 X 12 inches.

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SARTRE, Jean-Paul
        LE MUR, LA CHAMBRE, EROSTRATE, INTIMITE, L ENFANCE D UN CHEF.
      Gallimard,, Paris, 1945 - Exemplaire N° 195/376. SARTRE, ecrivain et philosophe francais, est ne a Paris, en 1905, et meurt dans la meme ville, en 1980. Il fut l auteur d une oeuvre prolifique. Il est connu aussi pour avoir ete le compagnon de Simone de Beauvoir. Ouvrages celebres : L ETRE ET LE NEANT, LES MOTS, L EXISTENTIALISME EST UN HUMANISME, etc. 239 pp. in-4, Reliure plein velin, dos lisse peint, 1er plat peint, sous emboitage.

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MERIMÉE, Posper. [Edición en papel japón.]
        CARMEN.
      Ed. Orbis. Barcelona, 1945 - . 24,5 cm. 110 pág., 2 h. Ilustr. con 8 aguafuertes a colores y un dibujo, originales de Marta Ribas. Edición de 11 ejemplares, tirados sobre papel japón imperial, conteniendo los estados definitivos de cada plancha, un dibujo inédito y un grabado a punta seca, no puesto a la venta, numerados del I al XI (ej. VIII), de un total de 222 ejemplares. Elegante enc. en plena piel chagrín verde, nervios, florones, ruedas en ambos planos, cantos y contracantos, cortes dorados. Presentado en petaca. Bibliofilia, Literatura francesa. Bibliofília Libros modernos a partir de 1830 francés [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Zaglada Zydostwa Polskiego: Album Zdjec - Extermination of Polish Jews: Album of Pictures
      Centralna Zydowska Konisja Historyczna W Polsce [c 1945], Lodz - Oblong quarto. [19], 104pp., [15]. Original paper wrappers. Illustrated with 252 contemporary photographs documenting the debasement and destruction of European Jewry with pictures of cities, ghettos and the camps. Text in Polish, Russian, English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew. Wrappers are creased and cracked. Otherwise in good condition. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Benavente, Jacinto
        OBRAS COMPLETAS ( Edición de 11 Vol.)
      Editorial AGUILAR 1945-1951 - Madrid . Vol I : 1945 1189pag. ; Vol II : 1945 1195pag. ; Vol III : 1945 1200pag. ; Vol IV : 1945 1163pag. ; Vol V : 1946 1217pag. ; Vol VI : 1946 1107pag. ; Vol VII : 1946 1187pag. ; Vol VIII : 1947 1111pag. ; Vol IX : 1951 1065pag. ; Vol X : 1956 970pag. ; Vol XI : con el índice de los 11 Vol. 1958 1128pag. Encuad : Plena piel verde , papel biblia , cinta registradora , cortes bellamente decorados , retratos del autor o de actores en cada volumen . Libros en muy buen estado .

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KERTÃ‰SZ, ANDRÃ‰
        Day of Paris
      New York: J.J. Augustin. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, complete with 103 evocative black and white KertÃ©sz photographs and the rare original dust jacket designed by Alexey Brodovitch. "In 1945, when AndrÃ© KertÃ©sz published Day of Paris, his first book in America, he'd been living in New York for nearly a decade. Like so many other exiled European artists, he'd left Paris before the German invasion, so the photographs in his book were all taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Arranged in a loose progression from morning to afternoon to night, these pictures of a peaceful, bustling city were particularly poignant, coming as thy did at the end of the war, and their nostalgia was certainly part of their appeal. Though Day of Paris is full of cityscapes... the photographer is always alert to the human heart of the city, and even his pictures of figures passing on the street are engaging... Some of KertÃ©sz's most famous photos (the disconcertingly fragmented view through a glass clock face at the Louvre, the surreal suburban scene with viaduct and toylike train) are included here." Alexey Brodovitch "provides a leisurely understated design that allows for double spreads. shrewd juxtapositions, and unexpectedly grand expanses of white space for this small format" (Roth 101). Parr/Badger, Vol I, p.200. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. Quarto (242x110mm / 9.5x7in), original cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth with mild discoloration to top of rear board (as often), residue of tape on the front and rear free endpapers; dust jacket with light edgewear and a few patches of browning to spine. An excellent copy of a notoriously difficult book to find in collectible condition.

      [Bookseller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company]

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[DALI, Salvador.] SANDOZ, Maurice
        The Maze
      New York, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1945. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt on a red ground. With a supplied dust jacket. 12 black and white illustrations and jacket art by Salvador DalÃ. Wear to spine tips, label lifted from pastedown, dust jacket lightly toned. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist on the half title 'Bon Jour ... DalÃ, 1968.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

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