viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1945

        Rudolph, Wilhelm. - Das zerstÃ¶rte Dresden. - "Das Ende".
      . Holzschnitt, 1945/1946. Von Wilhelm Rudolph. 24,3 x 39,8 cm (Darstellung / Druckstock) / 37,5 x 50 cm (Blatt). Rechts unter der Darstellung in schwarzer Feder signiert. - EigenhÃ¤ndiger Abzug bzw. Abrieb des KÃ¼nstlers. - Umlaufend breiter Rand. Sehr guter Zustand. Wilhelm Rudolph (1889 Chemnitz - 1982 Dresden). Dresdner Maler und Grafiker. 1906-08 Lithografenlehre. 1908-14 Studium an der Akademie der KÃ¼nste in Dresden bei Robert Sterl, MeisterschÃ¼ler von Carl Bantzer. 1914-18 Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg. Ab 1920 freischaffend in Dresden tÃ¤tig. Mitglied der "KÃ¼nstlervereinigung Dresden". 1932 Aufnahme der LehrtÃ¤tigkeit an der Dresdner Akademie der KÃ¼nste, 1935 Professur. 1938 Entlassung und Ausstellungsverbot. 1945 Verlust des fast gesamten kÃ¼nstlerischen Werks durch die Bombenangriffe auf Dresden. 1946-49 erneute LehrtÃ¤tigkeit an der HfBK Dresden. 1961 Nationalpreis der DDR, Martin-Andersen-NexÃ¶-Preis der Stadt Dresden, Kunstpreis des FDGB. 1979 EhrenbÃ¼rger der Stadt Dresden. 1980 Nationalpreis der DDR..

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JARRELL, Randall
        LITTLE FRIEND, LITTLE FRIEND with his most famous poem in his hand
      New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight uneven sunning to the boards from the missing sections of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Fair dustwrapper lacking most of the spine and with a few small tears and chips. His second book published in an edition of 2000 copies. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper for Dorothea Garritson and SIGNED by the poet below Jarrell's handwritten poem, the last poem of the book and perhaps his best known, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," with its famous last line: "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. In his review of this book Robert Lowell said it "contains some of the best poems on modern war, better, I think, and far more professional than those of Wilfred Owen, which, though they seem pathetically eternal to us now, are sometimes amateurish and unfinished. The determined, passive, sacrificial lives of the pilots, inwardly so harmless and outwardly so destructive, are ideal subjects for Jarrell" ("With Wild Dogmatism," NEW YORK TIMES, 7 October 1951).

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Chaim Weizmann
        Chaim Weizmann writes to Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin, a future member of the First Cabinet of Israel
      Typed letter signed "Chaim Weizmann", 1 page, 5" x 7", on The Jewish Agency for Palestine letterhead, in Hebrew, Jerusalem, January 12, 1945. Weizmann (1874-1952), the first president of the State of Israel, writes to Israel Declaration of Independence signer Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin concerning a meeting.In full: "The Honorable Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin, International Order of Agudath Yisrael, P. O. Box 326, Jerusalem 12 Jan 1945 - Greatly Honored Rabbi, I herewith acknowledge with thanks receipt of your letter of 22 Teveth 5705 [January 7, 1945] which was included The Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. I will be happy to meet with you and to converse/discuss, but I am in Rehovot practically all the time and I don't want to trouble you to come to Rehovot. I propose, therefore, that we meet during the time of my upcoming visit to Jerusalem and I will let you know in advance in order to set a time that's convenient for his honor. With blessings (signed) Chaim Weizmann". Following the est

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First Edition
        Lovinger, Jay
      LIFE Celebrates: 1945 The Old Order Dies, A New America Is Born: Special CollectorÃ•s Edition June 5 1995. Time Incorporated, New York. 152 Pages. Full of large fabulous colour and black/white photos - very nostalgic. Two page colour spread of all covers of 1945. Articles Include: 1945, January 1 - May 8 1945, Into The Future: Social Revolution, May 9 - September 2, 1945, Into The Future: Suburbanization, September 3 - December 31 1945, Into The Future: World Order, Voices of 1945, Faces of 1945, Life Goes On./Softcover. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book Interior AS NEW/ Covers As New. Book Never Opened GIFT QUALITY. Book-type glued binding, not side stapled. A lovely edition. Coated stock. Front cover is grey with 1945 in gold and LIFE title block in red/blue, lettering white/black, 4 black/white photos on front, colour ad on back. Covers and spine are flat, clean, bright, no rips, no bent corners, no spine creases, no stains, no subscription label, no edge wear. Inside of book is tight, clean, clear, bright, flat. . Vintage

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George S. Patton Jr
        Eight signed Patton letters - seven are war-dated - his Third U.S. Army cloth patch, and a scrapbook owned by Miss Mary Jane Krieger to whom Gen. Patton corresponded with until the day before his fatal car accident
      Miss Mary Jane Krieger?s scrapbook, 12.5? x 15.5?, 45 sheets of manila paper with 1945-1947 newspaper clippings and photographs about Patton affixed onto the pages with now yellowed plastic tape. She undoubtedly sent her earlier clippings to Gen. Patton as mentioned in ?The Patton Papers.? Many of the sheets are chipped at the outside edges; some sheets are loose.?The Patton Papers: 1940-1945? (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) was compiled, edited, and annotated by Martin Blumenson who served on Patton's Third Army headquarters staff. Blumenson writes, in part, ?On December 8 [1945], Patton wrote his last letters ?" to Mrs. Coughlin of Brewer, Maine, and Miss Mary Jane Krieger of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, thanking them for their ?constant support,? clippings, and Christmas boxes ... to Ed Fansler ... and to Emil Ludwig...?On the first sheet of her scrapbook, Miss Krieger has written ?Property of? and penned her name and address in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the second sheet is affixe

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Woody Guthrie
        Woody Guthrie writes Moe Asch and several other about his duties while stationed at Scott Field
      Autograph Letter Signed ?Woody Guthrie? 7.5? x 9.5?, 2 p to Moe Asch & others, October 8, 1945, Scott Field, Illinios. Very Fine.Fantastic ALS to Asch from Scott Field where Woody was stationed on October 8, 1945 reads, "Dear Moe, Marion, Herb, Harris, Pop and Union Square in general, I know how it is to have north wind blow cold and pile snow in under your door. I never had a door that didn't leak snow. The air strip here is on the north from up where the wind is born and it hits my barracks and my bed first of all the other ones down here. Marjorie says she has dropped in on you a few times. I'm glad, she said that she got a look at the cover of American Document # One. She said that she likes it. I thought I would get a two week furlough before I get sent on to my next job for the army. Instead I'm getting out on account of so many wives and kids. Some time around December. (then I can hit you up for work. I'll be a real genuine legal World War Two veteran.)

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Paper Toy: Illustrated By Edina Altara
        Il Libro Giocattoli
      Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1945. Color printed paper wraps, slight edgewear and minor age-toning to cover. This is a marvelous activity book, completely uncut and unused. The book includes paper finger puppets, a soldier scene, a carousel, a cut-out magician and his various tricks, and an aquarium scene with a window, the interior of which is meant to spin so that the scene constantly changes. There is an 8-page instruction manual also included with the book. The artwork was created by Edina Altara, a well-known Italian artist who worked in collage, theatrical set design and a ceramist. . Near Fine. Illus. by Edina Altara. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

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Walt Disney
        Signed Disney Courvoisier color cel set-up from the beloved 1945 feature ?Three Caballeros?
      Original Courvoisier color cel set-up, 8.5? x 7.5?, prepared by the Walt Disney studio, matted to 14.5? x 14?. Boldly signed on the lower right of the matte in blue crayon, ?To Donna Jane / Best Wishes / Walt Disney.? Plastic tape on verso attaching cel set-up to matte. Written on the matte in another hand at lower left edge beneath image, now virtually indiscernible, is ?From Three Caballeros.? Between the actual cel and Disney?s signed inscription are clearly, but faintly written, in an unknown hand, ?original? and, within a small circle, ?WD / P? (Walt Disney Productions). Matte is browned at edges. Disney?s handwriting is dark. Fine condition.A cel from ?The Cold-Blooded Penguin? segment of ?The Three Caballeros,? released on February 3, 1945. In this seven minute short, the narrator (Sterling Holloway) tells Donald Duck the story of Pablo, a penguin who decides to leave the South Pole and head north towards South America to a warmer climate.The cel here offere

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Mossen Jacint Verdaguer; Alexandre Coll
        QUE DIUEN ELS OCELLS (LITOGRAFIES ACOLORIDES A MA)
      . Zustand: Excelente Einband: Encuadernacion de tapa dura. Sabadell. 1945. Cartone. Bibliofil. 163Pag+9f (index). 32x26. Aquest exemplar, estampat sobre paper de fil Guarro es de tirada curta de 360 examplars (nÂ°313). Litografies D'Alexandre Coll magnificament acolorides a ma. Alfred Gallard es feu carrec de la revisio d'aquesta gran obra de bibliofil amb 16 litografies, publicada en commemoracio del centenari del neixament del poeta. L'Obra son Interpretacions a diverses comarques dels paisos catalans del cant de l'oreneta, la mallarenga, la calandria, la merla, el teuladi, el mussol, l'oriol, el gaig i molts mes. Les expressions corresponent principalment al mon rural, fenomens de la natura, i traspassen valors morals o religiosos. Ref 1.6 Biblioteca D.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
        The Crack-up
      New York: New Directions, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. New York: New Directions, 1945. 233 pp. First edition, first printing, first issue. (Title page in reddish brown and black with colophon at pg. 348. Publisher's first issue binding, salmon pink cloth-backed boards with pink spine label, and pink top-stain.) Very Good condition hardcover in Good condition original jacket. Clean pages and sturdy binding; Cover worn away in a few small spots. No plates or inscriptions. Jacket is a little shorter than book (must have been trimmed) with chipping at head and wear at tips. Original price intact ($3.50). Jacket is mylar-protected.One of only 2,520 copies of the first printing of Fitzgerald's essays, edited by Edmund Wilson.

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Alexy Brodovitch
        Ballet (Unique Binding and Display Box)
      New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. This is a first edition, first printing of the critically acclaimed photobook, Ballet published by J.J. Augustin, New York in 1945 with a limitation of 500 copies. The book has been rebound by artist Richard Tuttle in an incredible binding of lamb skin over sculpted boards that capture the movement of dance contained in Brodovitch\'s remarkable photography. The book is housed in a custom made walnut presentation box with etched glass featuring ballerinas in various poses with the title etched in the same font as the original front cover. Included with the book is a signed artist statement by Richard Tuttle on the making of Ballet. The book, binding, and presentation box are in FINE condition.

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DARWIN] COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
        Commission of Inquiry concerning the circumstances connected with the attack made by Japanese Aircraft at Darwin on 19th February, 1942
      L.F. Johnston, Government Printer, Canberra 1945 - Foolscap folio, 44 pp. (last blank), quarter crimson crushed morocco by Sangorski with gilt spine lettering. The bombing of Darwin. Official report on the Darwin bombings, here preserved in a fine binding from the collection of Dr. Robert Edwards. The brief for this report was exhaustive, and encompasses the army, navy, air force and civil authorities. Sections include: the degree of preparation for aerial attack; damage and casualties sustained; the degree of co-ordination between existing services in the aftermath; efforts taken to repulse the attack; failure of command; and lessons to be learned for future defence of the nation. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Bacon, G W
        Commercial and Library Atlas of the World. Containing One Hundred Double Page Maps and One Hundred Inset Maps
      G W Bacon & Co. Hardcover. This is a large and scarce volume, it warrants a full and detailed description, please read all of it to be fully informed. The book has been photographically documented with all 100 maps present and photographed, also the exterior, internals and any damage mentioned has also been photographically recorded and is available at request. Starting with the exterior, the base level corners are buckled, all edges are rubbed heavily with splits to both the cloth of the open edges and the leather of the corner caps. The spine has been re-wrapped with a leather reinforcement - this has worn fairly heavily and is rippled on the front edge where is is partially unstuck. It does however remain very strong. The spine reinforcement has caused the initial pages to be slightly mis-aligned without significant effect other than making opening the volume initially uneven. As a general description of the interior, there are no structural issues, the outer gilt edging is a little tarnished and the pages are clean with a light edge tone, all indexing tabs are present and age-soiled. There is no owner's mark, but this volume is believed to have belonged to a Member of the British 8th Army during the Second World War, there are 9 maps through the volume (which will be mentioned in detail) that have had some military information added to them including dates, troop movements, battle lines and where leave was taken, through France and Italy. Should you wish to see any of the pictures or ask any further questions about this doubly collectable piece, please do not hesitate to ask. Additional detailed information - (maps not mentioned can be considered to meet the general description): Map 9 - Slight tear at the index tab. Map 10 - Slight tear at the index tab. Map 11 - Slight tear at the index tab. Map 12 - Very slight tear at the index tab. Map 13 - Very slight tear at the index tab. Map 14 - Very slight tear at the index tab. Map 15 - There is a clean and closed tear running halfway across the right hand page originating from the index tab. Map 16 - Some light red ink markings made, circling of place names etc noting advances from the French Coast. Map 17 - Red ink marks and one ink spot showing movement towards Germany dated March 1945, slight tear at the index tab. Map 22 - Several place names on the Norwegian Coast have been underlined in black. Map 24 - Has a small tear to the upper right hand corner and both base edges have mirrored tears. Map 28 - Small tears to base edges. Map 29 - Small tears to base edges. Map 33 - Red underlining and arrows showing troop advances towards Paris from the West. Map 35 - Red underlining and arrows showing troop advances towards Paris from the South-West. Map 45 - Has several underlined place names. Map 53 - A number of cities are boxed in blue ink and the "Senio Line" is marked and noted, as is "Leave here" showing the advancing engagements of the 8th Army through Italy. Map 54 - Notations and underlined place names, "Airfields" noted and other military movements. Map 55 - Several ringed place names and notation of "train journey". Map 77 - Has a slight shift from small area of loosening in the tabs holding the map. Map 84 - Has detached from the tab holding the map, it has done so without damage and can be easily re-attached, it has developed some edgewear and a small tear at the base edge from being mobile. Map 94 - Small tear at the base edge. . Good. 1893.

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Nin, Anais
        This Hunger (limited edition of 50)
      New York: Gemor Press, 1945 New York: Gemor Press, 1945. First Edition. Signed by Nin and by illustrator "Ian Hugo", that being also her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiller. #28 of the very short limited edition of 50 (not the simultaneous edition of 1,000 copies) with color wood block prints, uncut etruria paper, and numbering-with-signature by Nin. Octavo, 185 pp. through the last wood block print, followed by the limitation page and endpapers. Some soiling to covers (cleanable, but I won't do that), light toning to the interior, some foxing opposite the hand-executed color wood block prints. In addition to being one of fifty now-apparently quite-rare copies of the shorter limited run, this copy was signed and inscribed by Hugo on the ffep, "To Leo Katz, with the admiration and appreciation of Ian Hugo", in hand print, not script (see scans). Depending on which Leo Katz that may have been - presumably the one who wrote the foreword to Hugo's "New Eyes On The Art Of Engraving", in which case affording some association status as well. Verso of the ffep has the penned words, "Leo Katz Art Library / August 1953". Presumably also deaccessioned from the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, those words appearing on the title page. I haven't read The Hunger, but it concerns several adventurous women; and it might - I don't know - stem from Nin's noted diary statement:"Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst." All in all, about as collectible a Nin piece as one could seek. L17

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(MILITARY)
        Engineer History - Fifth Army - Mediterranean Theater
      [Germany:] Printed for Engineer Section Headquarters, Fifth Army,, [1945]. 3 volumes, quarto. Volumes I and II, plus Appendices. Original pictorial card wraps. Numerous maps, some coloured, text profusely illustrated from photographs. Errata slip loosely inserted. Wraps a little tanned, else very good. First edition, designated "Confidential." Minutely detailed internal history of the US Army Engineers' operations in Italy; "No campaign in military history has presented more engineering problems than the battle of Italy. No one contributed more to the successful conclusion of this campaign than the Fifth Army Engineers. I am proud of them; their country is proud of them; they should be proud of themselves." Frank O. Bowman, Brig. Gen. Us Army, Army Engineer. Uncommon, OCLC lists no copies outside of the US apart from that in the US Army European Library, IWM appears to have Volume I and Appendices only.

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POPPER, K. R
        The Open Society and its Enemies
      London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd,, 1945. Volume I The Spell of Plato. [Volume II The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath]. 2 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spines gilt. With the dust jackets. Extremities a little rubbed, a couple of minor bumps and nicks to top edges of boards, short split to head of rear joint of Volume II. An excellent, bright, set in chipped and tanned jackets, Volume I with tape repairs to the verso. First edition, first impression, of the author's influential first book. Popper's classic debut contains within its analysis the seeds of his groundbreaking, if somewhat idiosyncratic, new methodology of inductive reasoning. In The Open Society and Its Enemies he traces, analyses, and refutes theories of historicism, or the idea that history progresses inexorably according to a series of laws. Beginning with Plato, he proceeds to Hegel and Marx, ultimately arguing that historicism is founded on a misunderstanding of scientific principles and that it usually forms the philosophical foundations of totalitarian regimes. Scarce in this condition.

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NORTON, Mary
        The Magic Bed-Knob
      London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.,, 1945. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Octavo. Original white cloth with title and colour pictorial design to spine and upper board. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout, some full page and in colour. Covers rubbed and marked, but entirely sound, a very good copy in the faintly marked jacket. First UK edition (following the 1943 US edition published under the title The Magic Bed-Knob, or How to Becomes a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons), first impression, of the author's first book. This copy inscribed on the dedication page under the printed dedication of Robin and Chick, "with more love than she can tell you, from Mary". The book was the basis for the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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        Identity documents and ephemera of Sgt. Gerald McDowell, U.S.A.F. as prisoner of war in Stammlager XVII B [Stalag 17B], Krems, Austria, 1943- 1945
      [Krems, Austria, 1943-1945] - Identity documents and ephemera of American Air Force tail gunner Sgt. Gerald McDowell (1923-2002). McDowell and the flight crew of the B17 nicknamed Hell's Belle survived being shot down over Germany in 1943 and were interned at Stalag 17B in Austria. At the war's end, the camp guards marched American prisoners west to meet the U.S. Armored Division at Braunau and avoid the Soviet troops occupying eastern Austria. McDowell wrote a memoir of his war experiences, A Tail Gunner's Tale (1991). Stalag 17 gained notoriety from the 1953 Hollywood film of the same name staring William Holden. Comprising: 1. Camp identification document for Gerald McDowell, no. 100478, with two photographs (side and profile, with chalk board identity number). Old fold (splt repaired on verso). With corresponding stamped metal badge. Illustrated at p. 114 of his book 2. [Broadside:] Kgf.-M.-Stammlager XVII B. Teillager der Luftwaffe. Lagerführung. Gneixendorf, June 11th 1944. Warning ! 1.) Any P.o.W. touching or crossing warning wire during day-time will be fired upon immediately. [-] Stencil printed, signed in ink by "E-" above stencil legend: Hauptmann and 1st Lageroffizier. Old folds. Tipped onto card. Illustrated at p. 90 of his book. Of extreme rarity. 3. BATCH, D.B. [Pencil portrait of Gerald McDowell] Signed and dated lower right, D.B. Batch, P.O.W., 13/1/45, Krems, Austria. 9 x 6 inches. Tipped onto card. Framed. 4. Recipes for "D-Bar Spread", "Chocolate Cream Pudding", "Gallop", and other P.O.W. dishes, using D-Bars, C-Rations, "Jerry" sugar, etc. 5 small cards, closely written on versos of typed prisoner ID fiches (4 x 2 inches). Tipped onto card. Toned. [with:] 5. PHELPER, Ben H. Kriegie Memories [title from cover]. Photographs and handwritten text. [64] pp. [Aurora, Illinois: Printed by Barker printing Co., 1946]. Blue leather grained cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. OCLC: 85169189 (4 copies). Inscribed by the author on the first blank, "Jerry: May you always be free and happy. Good luck, Ben". Rare privately printed account of experiences inside Stalag 17B, by "Luftgangster No. 113204," with photographs of camp life and of the march towards liberation in May 1945. With a dozen annotations by McDowell, usually in red ink, indicating himself or other fellow inmates in the photographs, including a picture in the "Cardboard Playhouse" of McDowell in a dress, captioned in the text "a glamour shot of one of our boy actors - Some of the lads sure did look good when they made up as a girl." Presentation copy of an astonishing illustrated narrative 6. MCDOWELL, Gerald. E. A Tail Gunner's Tale. [Vantage Press, 1991]. Review copy, as new (WORLD WAR II) 4to and smaller. . Some toning, overall very good [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        CANDIDO settimanale diretto ed animato da Giovannino Guareschi - 1945 - 1961 - TUTTO IL PUBBLICATO , Milano, Rizzoli, 1945
      Famoso periodico politico satirico magistralmente diretto da Giovannino Guareschi. La vita del giornale attraversa anni cruciali della storia italiana. .La ricostruzione dopo la guerra, le elezioni del 1946 e 1948, la guerra fredda e la situazione politica italiana, con la contrapposizione DC e PCI. Sono anche gli anni dei racconti (molto saggi) con Don Camillo e Peppone, che ebbero e che hanno tuttora un seguito incredibilmente ampio in ogni strato sociale, le vicissitudini di Guareschi ed i processi in tribunale con Luigi Einaudi (articoli sul vino prodotto a Dogliani) e De Gasperi (presunte complicitÃ per bombardamenti su Roma) , che lo portarono in carcere. Ogni numero di Candido Ã¨ sempre arricchito dalle caricature pungenti di Guareschi (spesso da sole valgono un editoriale o un articolo di fondo) e di Walter Molino, Mosca, Palermo, Angoletta, Giaci Mondaini, Carlo Manzoni ed altri; inoltre sono assai interessanti tante inchieste sociali e politiche, sempre condotte con grande rigore da G.G. Formati dal 1945 al 1951 pp. 4 - 8 e cn, 41 x 57 Dal 1952 al 1959 pp. 32 e cm. 28 x 38 Dal 1960 al 1961 pp. 16 e cm. 34 x 50 La nostra raccolta, ricostruita dopo anni di pazienti ricerche, Ã¨ mediamente in buone condizioni salvo qualche strappetto e dorsetti da sistemare, e mancano soltanto CIRCA 30 giornali - SU UN TOTALE USCITO DI 828 - (a richiesta daremo dettaglio) La collezione Ã¨ a giornali sciolti e solo alcune annate sono rilegate LA RARA COLLEZIONE VIENE OFFERTA A

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Popper, K.R
        The Open Society and Its Enemies
      London: George Routledge and Sons, 1945. Two volumes complete - Volume One - vii, [1], 268pp and Volume Two - v, [1], 352pp. Original cloth in DJ's. DJ spines browned and chipped with small amount of loss, DJ spine to volume two with closed tear to bottom section, chipped to edges and corners with small amounts of loss, generally slightly browned. Internally some light browning, occasional pencil marginalia, small repair to foot of H16 in volume two, but generally fairly bright and clean. From the library of Rush Rhees, (1905-1989), a lecturer in philosophy at Swansea University and one of Wittgenstein's literary executors, with his pencil marginalia and separate notes on the book laid in loosely throughout. Uncommon in the DJ's. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

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POST, Emily
        ETIQUETTE: The Blue Book of Social Usage
      New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1945. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good jacket. DJ has small chip to front panel and larger one to base of spine. A couple of tiny closed tears. Small spot of soil front panel. Else bright and sharp. One page of book tape-repaired with some offsetting to pages on either side. Else clean and sound. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in year of publication by Post to front free endpaper: "To / Jennie Prince Black / with all best wishes / From Emily Post / Easter week / 1945." Laid in is a promotional flyer for Post's book, CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE. 645pp. with index. First printing of the "Completely Revised " 1945 edition (and 10th overall), "rewritten and reset, including military and post-war etiquette." In the words of Booktryst's Stephen Gertz, "one of the most important and influential non-fiction American books of the first half of the twentieth century." ETIQUETTE, now in its eighteenth edition, has never been out of print. And beginning with this edition, Post arguably attained her greatest reach and fame, as millions of returning GI's and their wives sought to attain "the Best Society" Post championed. Books inscribed by Post are scarce, and in this, her most famous and enduring work, rare.

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(Lohmann, Paul; Bednarek, Fred) (Red.)
        PW. Halbmonatsblatt deutscher Kriegsgefangener, Nummer 1, Februar 1945 bis Nr. 15, 15. Oktober 1945. 15 Hefte u. 1 Sonderbeilage "Österreich" in 1 Band.
      Fort Devens, Massachusetts, USA, Eigenverlag/Lagerdruckerei, 1945,. 4to (27,5 x 19 cm). Mit zahlr. Illustrationen v. Bodo Gerstenberg, Erich Schwinger, H. Merz, Willi Krause, Werner Schmidt. Je Heft 12-16 Seiten, auf gelbem Papier gedruckt. Einzeln fadengeheftet, modern gelumbackt in Pp.-Mappe m. transparentem Plastik-Vorderdeckel.. Vollständige Reihe aller gedruckter Nummern 1-15, 3 weitere Nummern bis zur Auflösung des Camps Mitte 1946 erschienen nur hektografiert und liegen hier nicht vor. - Wohlerhalten.

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Peis, Günter
        NUREMBERG COURT CARTOONS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS : CARTOONS OF THE DEFENDENTS
      Nuremberg : Verlag N?erger Presse, 1945. Nuremberg : Verlag Nürnberger Presse,. 1945. Paperback. Original Paper Wrappers, Large 8vo, [54] pages. 27 cm. In English. Following seven full-page photos of buildings, judges, at prosecutors at the trials, each leaf contains a full-page cartoon on one side and a short biography and description of their crimes, with a facsimile of their signature, on the opposite page. Includes a total of 21 full-page cartoons. Günter Peis (1927-2012) was an Austrian journalist and a pioneer in modern investigative journalism. Following the war, the 17 year old Peis went to an American sponsored program for 10 months, ending up at a journalism school in Munich under the direction of Erich Kästner. From there he was sent as delegate to the Nuremberg trials as an observer, He was the youngest (19) journalist present and was given special access to witness the executions of von Ribbentrop, Keitel, and others. He went on to publish famous accounts of Hess in Spandau Prison (1951) , of former SS Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks who was hiding in Hamburg under a false name, and of love letters between Hitler and Hitlers lover Maria Reiter. Unlike the supposed Hitler diaries published in 1983, these were deemed to be authentic by experts. He also published other works on the Nazis in WW II. (Wikipedia. De, 2012) SUBJECT(S) : uremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 -- Pictorial works. Judges -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- Portraits. Public prosecutors -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- Portraits. War criminals -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- Caricatures and cartoons. Named Corp: International Military Tribunal -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists only 5 copies worldwide (US Holocaust Museum, Wisc Vet Museum, UTexas, NEDERLANDS INST VOOR OORLOGSDOCUMENTATIE, Tel Aviv U) . Rust stains at staples, wear to spine, dampstaining throughout. Otherwise Very Good. (HOLO2-119-6) .

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        METRON.
      Sandron / Edizioni di "Comunità" 1945-1954 In - 4, brossura e tela. Tutto il pubblicato dall?anno 1, n.1 (agosto 1945) all?ulitmo numero 53 - 54 (settembre - dicembre 1954). Importante rivista di architettura illustrata, mensile (dal 1945 al 1952) e poi bimestrale (1952 - 1954). Nasce come mensile di piccolo formato (cm. 21x16), con una veste grafica essenziale; a partire dal n. 25 il formato è più ampio (cm. 27x22) e muta radicalmente dal n. 45 / 1952 con l'impaginazione curata da Censon e Nizzoli. "Metron" documenta l'esperienza del Movimento Moderno e l'architettura organica quali referenti per l'architettura italiana del dopoguerra. Raccolta completa a cui mancano le copertine dei fascicoli dal n. 9 al n. 49 - 50, numeri rilegati in tela, tassello al dorso: gli altri fascicoli sono in brossura. In buono stato (good copy).

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Luitpold, Josef (d. i. Josef Luitpold Stern)
        SIGNIERTE UND NUMERIERTE EXEMPLARE - 72 Nummern "Die hundert Hefte". Gebunden in 6 Orig.-Halblederbänden + 16 Hefte lose.
      Wien, New York Eigenverlag, ca. 1945-1954.. 8°. 72 Hefte mit Orig.-Umschlägen eingebunden in 6 Orig.-Halblederbände. (= Luitpold, Josef: Das Sternbild. Die sieben Bände der gesammelten Dichtungen 1903-1953;. Bde. 1-7, OHNE Bd. 2). - Mit je 1 eigenehändigen Unterschrift Luitpolds sowie handschriftl. Numerierung auf allen 6 Titelblättern. Dieses Exemplar trägt die Nr. 5.. Einbandecken minimal bestoßen. Sonst sehr guter und sauberer Zustand. Die losen Hefte gebräunt und teils randbestoßen.

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Wille, George.
        Principles of South African Law, Being a Textbook of the Civil Law of the Union.
      Cape Town & Johannesburg, Juta, 1945.. Royal octavo. Pp. lviii, 533. table of cases, appendix, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth, spine gilt; endpapers lightly browned, old signature to first free endpaper. In overall fine internal condition. Excellent copy. ~ Second edition. Professor George Wille (1880-1965), read for his B.A.LLB. at Cambridge. Returning to South Africa in 1903, he was a member of the Transvaal Bar for 18 years, where he practiced as an advocate. He became the first full-time professor of law at University of Cape Town in 1920, holding the chair until 1945, and lecturing chiefly on Roman-Dutch law. Many judges in South Africa and Rhodesia studied under him. Wille was one of the best-known legal writers in South Africa. He was known for his liberal outlook and for his support of equal legal rights to South Africa's underprivileged classes. OCLC 9519952..

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