Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1945

WAUGH, Evelyn
        Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
      London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1945, 1945. First Edition. 8vo. Bound in recent full red morocco, raised bands and gilt to spine, t.e.g. Internally clean and fresh. Original cloth bound in at the rear. A lovely copy in an attractive recent binding of Waugh's glorious tale of love, loss, teddy bears, Roman Catholic guilt and the seemingly unending weirdness of the country house set.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

Evelyn Waugh
        Brideshead Revisited
      Little Brown and Company 1945 Little Brown and Company, Boston 1945. True First American Edition and Book Club Edition. Originally published in the U.K. in 1945. It is a rare occurrence in the book world but this True First American Edition is also the book club edition published in 1945. One year later, 1946, the Little Brown trade edition was issued. Dated 1945 on the title and copyright pages with no additional printings listed. Red cloth boards with black lettering. Rare. Book Condition: Near Fine, clean boards and spine, book is tight and square soft shelf wear, bumped corner, clean pages, very light age toning, tight spine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, wrapped in a new clean removable mylar cover, shelf wear and light chipping at the jacket spine, age toning at the rear panel, short tear at the foot of the front panel.

      [Bookseller: Rare Bookstore 1st Editions and Antiquar]

WILLIAMS, Tennessee
        THE GLASS MENAGERIE
      New York: Random House, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Bottom corners of the book frayed with the board exposed a little. The dustwrapper has light chipping along the top and bottom edges but presents quite well. Very Good in a Good or better dustwrapper. Bound in the publisher's coarse, dark reddish-orange cloth, one of three bindings with no priority established among them. Crandell A1.I.a. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph from the original production. Only 5000 copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama were published. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper "To Marshall/ever/Tennessee Williams." Marshall New was one of the directors at the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, Florida, in 1979 when Williams visited a week to see a production of his obscure play TIGER TAILS, which had its world premiere the previous year in Atlanta.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

BEATON, Cecil
        Far East
      London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1945.. Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in yellow, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece after a painting by the author, 44 black and white photographs on plate paper, 14 illustrations in the text. Cloth slightly creased to upper board, partial tanning to front endpapers. A lovely copy in excellent condition, in the slightly rubbed jacket. First edition, first impression, of this travelogue, the fruits of Beaton's work for the Ministry of Information. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Richard Caldicot Bull, with all good wishes, From Cecil Beaton, London 1945". Bull was an actor who would go on to be most famous for playing the role of "Captain Povey" in the radio sitcom Navy Lark. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers as Lionel Twitchen in the "Gourmet Night" episode.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

CHURCHILL, Winston S
        Typed letter signed to the French writer Pierre Jean Jouve
      London: Downing Street, 22 February, 1945. 1 page, Downing Street letterhead. With the original envelope addressed to Jouve at the British Council offices in Hanover Square. Folded for mailing but fine. Churchill writes to thank Jouve for a copy of his laudatory publication, "Processionnal de la Force Anglaise". Jouve is widely recognised as one of France's greatest C20th poets, best known for his anti-war poetry inspired by his time as a volunteer hospital orderly in Switzerland during the Great War. In 1924 he converted to Catholicism and broke with his pacifist connections to the extent of divorcing his wife. His subsequent writings became suffused with mysticism and psychoanalysis, the latter through the influence of his second wife, who was his English translator David Gascoyne's analyst. The letter is accompanied by a copy of Jouve's pamphlet, a work in which he translates the current conflict to the spiritual dimension where Churchill is one of the most active agents for good, "this Shakespearean clown, this embodiment of war. Winston Churchill, his name will survive in splendour."

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Carson, Rachel
        Silent Spring
      New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Carson's enormously influential work, "credited with creating a worldwide awareness of the dangers of environmental pollution" (Britannica). "Ever since 1945 when she tried unsuccessfully to interest Reader's Digest in publishing an article on the potential hazards of DDT use, Carson had been following the problem of pesticide pollution... Reluctantly concluding that no magazine would publish an article on such a distasteful subject as pesticide pollution, she embarked on a book... The result, Silent Spring (1962), was a powerful critique of the Cold War culture that condoned such crude and short-sighted tampering with the natural world. The book indicted the chemical industry, the government, and agribusiness for indiscriminately using pesticides without knowing more about their long-term effects... [It] caused a sensation. In clear, often beautiful prose Carson demonstrated that chemical pesticides were potential biocides that threatened humankind and nature with extinction. She used the impact of pesticides to illustrate that man, like other species, was a vulnerable part of the earth's ecosystem. "Silent Spring caught the attention of President John F. Kennedy, who called for an investigation of the issues it raised. The 1963 report of a special panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee supported Carson's conclusions... The public responded by calling for state and federal regulation of pesticide control programs and the elimination of the use of some compounds. Carson was acclaimed by the public and received numerous scientific and literary awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters" (American National Biography). New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, very light edgewear and a few small abrasions to dust jacket. An exceptional copy of an extremely difficult book to find in collectible condition.

      [Bookseller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company]

Webb, Robert (director); Lowell Brentano, Irving Cummings, Jr., W. Scott Darling, Jo Eisinger, Charles Fulton Oursler (screenwriter); Richard Conte, Ann Savage (starring)
        The Spider (Original screenplay for the 1945 film)
      Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Revised Final Script for the 1945 film, "The Spider," directed by Robert Webb, written for the screen by Lowell Brentano, Irving Cummings, Jr., W. Scott Darling, Jo Eisinger, and Charles Fulton Oursler (with only Cummings credited here), and starring Richard Conte and Ann Savage. & & Perhaps the only crime film of the 1940s to be shot on location in New Orleans, "The Spider" features Richard Conte as a gumshoe hired by a carnival psychic to find a long-lost sister. & & Red studio wrappers, stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped project No. 39 and copy No. 46, dated May 17, 1945, and with the holograph file notation "Env. 1539." Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, with a credit screenwriter Cummings (who was hired late in the story development process to revise dialogue). 111 leaves (with 5 pages of added scenes stapled to the inside rear wrapper), mimeograph, with an unusually large number of blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 5/22/45 and 6/19/45. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus with a single closed tear at the fore-edge of the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

CASTRO DA SILVA CANEDO (Fernando de)
        A DESCENDÊNCIA PORTUGUESA DE EL-REI D. JOÃO II.
      - Por. Tenente-Coronel de Infantaria, Comendador da Ordem de Avis, Cavaleiro da Ordem de Christo, Sócio do Instituto Português de Heráldica, etc. Edições Gama. Lisboa. MCMXLV-MCMXLVI. [1945-1946]. Obra em 3 volumes. De 27x19 cm. Com 603, 413 e 479 pags. Encadernações da época inteiras de pele, com lombadas cansadas. Ilustrado com várias estampas em separado, além de numerosas árvores genealógicas em folhas desdobráveis. Obra da maior amplitude e vasta erudição genealógica, é considerado pelo Conde de São Payo, como obra «por certo a mais extensa, volumosa e exaustiva e onde os investigadores encontrarão fartas informações que os haverão de auxiliar e interessar, que marcará a historiografia portuguesa como uma fonte a que o futuro muito se haverá de proveitosamente recorrer». Edição de cuidada execução gráfica impressa em papel de elevada qualidade. Location/localizacao: 6-2-A-12

      [Bookseller: Livraria Castro e Silva]

First United States Army
        First United States Army Report of Operations, 1 August 1944 - 22 February 1945 (with) Annexes 1 through 14 (4 Volumes, Complete)
      np: First United States Army, 1945. 1st edition. VG/no dust jackets (as issued), several nicks to spine of volume 1. 174 p., 175 p., 184 p., 294 p., photos, fold out maps, large foldout map laid in, fold out charts, tables, folios;

      [Bookseller: Barbarossa Books Ltd.]

Waugh, Evelyn
        Brideshead Revisited
      Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945 First America edition, limited to 600 copies printed before the first American trade edition. Near in a good to very good jacket with toning and chipping to spine, a few tiny tears, a few small stains to the front flap, else very good.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

      [Bookseller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA]

CHRISTIE, Agatha
        Sparkling Cyanide
      London: for The Crime Club by Collins,, 1945. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Small bookplate. Slight fading at ends of spine. An excellent copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with some nicks and fraying at the ends of the spine panel. First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the same year under the title Remembered Death.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Hughes, Langston; E. McKnight Kauffer (illustrator)
        Shakespeare in Harlem
      New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Hard Cover. 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.

      [Bookseller: The Kelmscott Bookshop]

LEWIS, C.S
        Out of The Silent Planet
      New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. The first volume in the Space Trilogy. First issue. A clean and tight very near fine copy in an about near fine price clipped dust jacket that still has the $2.00 on the front flap with a few tears to the front panel, some very minor wear to the spine ends and a couple of tears to the rear panel. Still, one of the best copies I've seen in recent years.

      [Bookseller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA]

Shumlin, Herman (director), Robert Buckner (screenwriter), Graham Greene (novel), Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Peter Lorre (starring)
        Confidential Agent (Original Film Pressbook)
      Warner Bros, 1945. Original pressbook for the 1945 film, "Confidential Agent," directed by Herman Shumlin, based on the 1939 novel "The Confidential Agent" by Graham Greene. Written for the screen by Robert Buckner, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, and Peter Lorre. Denard (Charles Boyer), an anti-Fascist agent during the Spanish Civil War, attempts to buy fuel in London, where he meets the sympathetic Rose (Lauren Bacall) and runs from both Fascist agents and hostile Brits. & & Pressbook is done in the style of a newspaper, with numerous "articles" and two copies of an eight page "Advertising Section" and one four page "More Ads for Confidential Agent" laid in. 14 pages, saddle stitched, 11 x 17 inches. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Very Good plus condition. Minor starting to the spine fold, some light rubbing to the front panel. Laid in sections Near Fine with light toning and very minor fray to the page edges. Bacall's second film. & & Hannsberry, "Femme Noir," p. 9, Selby, p. 202. Spicer, p. 407.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

KERTESZ, Andre
        Day of Paris
      New York: J. J. Augustin,, 1945. George Davis, Editor. Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to front cover and spine in black. With the photographic dust jacket. Illustrated with 103 black and white photographs. Spine lightly and sparsely spotted, dust jacket rubbed and chipped to edges, white back panel rubbed, with a small light blue ink stain. First edition, first printing.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Wallis, J. P. R., Constance E. Fripp, V. W. Hiller, I. Schapera [Edited by]
        Oppenheimer Series Volumes One To Nine Inclusive Containing Series 1 [in 2 volumes]: The Matabele Journals of Robert Moffat 1829-1860; Series 2: The Matabele Mission of John & Emily Moffat; Series 3 [in 3 volumes]: The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines First Journey 1869-1870, First Journey 1870-1871, Second Journey 1871-1872; Series 4: Gold and the Gospel in Mashonaland 1888; Series 5: Apprenticeship at Kuruman 1820-1828; Series 6: The Zambesi Journal of James Stewart 1862-1863; Series 7: The Barotseland Journal of James Stevenson-Hamilton 1898-1899; Series 8: The Southern African Diaries of Thomas Leask 1865-1870; Series 9 [in 2 volumes]: The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone 1858-1863 and The Journals Continued with Letters and Dispatches Therefrom [Government Archives of Southern Rhodesia and Central Africa] Titles 1-9 in 13 Volumes Complete
      Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd, 42 William IV Street, London First Editions 1945 to 1956. First edition unbroken run of uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original finely grained scarlet buckram covers, gilt title, author and volume lettering to the spines, large gilt insignia to the upper panels, top edges gilt. Royal 8vo. 10'' x 7''. Contains printed pages of text with colour plates, monochrome illustrations, photographs and maps throughout. A little foxing to the closed untrimmed fore edges, the hinges to volume 2 are cracked. Near Fine condition books in Very Good condition dust wrappers with small tears to the spine ends and a little soiling to the pale cream paper, volume 1 and 2 are without a dust wrapper. Dust wrappers supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

      [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA]

Freidrich A. Hayek foreword by John Chamberlain
        The Road to Serfdom
      Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This stated eighth impression is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and basically unmarked (a couple of very faint, marginal, pencil check marks) in a very good dust jacket in mylar. The dust jacket is clipped and has some edge wear with very light chipping at the ends of the spine and upper front corner. The book is lightly rubbed at the bottom of the spine. It has 248, bright, clean pages, red edged at the top. The boards are covered in rust colored cloth with a moire pattern.

      [Bookseller: mdpinc Books]

Posnansky, Arthur
        Tihuanacu: La Cuna del Hombre Americano Tomo I-II / The Cradle of American Man Volume I-II
      New York: J.J. Augustin. Good; 9.5 x 12 Hardback in Good condition. Ex-library with minimal marks.. 1945. Hardcover. Illustrated by Many color and black and white plates; Extensive studies of an early and historic site in Bolivia on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Two volumes in one. Spanish/English text.; 6.5; 246 pp. .

      [Bookseller: RugBooks.com]

WHITE,E.B
        STUART LITTLE
      1945. 2. WHITE,E.B. STUART LITTLE. NY: Harper & Brother (1945). 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4"), tan cloth, Fine in dust wrapper (dw with a 1/8 chip off top of spine and sl. soil else VG+, clean and presents well). 1st edition (first printing) of White's 1st book for children, Illustrated by GARTH WILLIAMS with color dw plus 87 black and whites in text. Sold with this copy is the ORIGINAL GARTH WILLIAMS ILLUSTRATION THAT APPEARS ON PAGE 24 OF THE BOOK. The drawing is on paper 9" wide x 6" high with pencil notations in the margins. The image is a pen and ink drawing of George sitting disheartedly on an old discarded rowing machine that he found while looking for Stuart who had gone missing. The image is greatly reduced in the book and actually measures 7 1/2" wide x 4? high. Both the book and the artwork are sold together.

      [Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.]

WHITE, E. B
        Stuart Little
      New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1945. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine, two raised bands, multi-coloured pictorial onlay of Stuart Little to the front board, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by Garth Williams. A fine copy. First edition, first printing.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

White, E. B
        STUART LITTLE
      New York:: Harper & Brothers, 1945 From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. "When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son was born, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse." First Edition of E. B. White's first children's book, a classic of Children's literature and winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. A fine copy in oatmeal cloth, green and white titles in a bright, fresh near fine pictorial dustwrapper with some very light use. 8vo. 131 pp. Spirited illustrations by Garth Williams. An excellent copy in jacket. "To say that "Stuart Little" is one of the best children's books published this year is very modest praise for a writer of E. B. White's talent." Malcolm Cowley, The New York Times.. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

WHITE, E. B
        Stuart Little
      New York: Haper Brothers, 1945. Decorated beige cloth with titles in white. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket has small chips to back panel and head and heel of spine. White's first book for children is a classic.. 1st. Cloth. VG+/VG. Illus. by Garth Williams. Octavo.

      [Bookseller: Contact Editions]

TSCHICHOLD, JAN
        Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst, Meisterwerke der Kalligraphie aus Vier Jahrhunderten auf Zweihundert Tafeln
      Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 1945. Oblong quarto. 199pp. First edition. Illustrated on each page, in black & white, with two hundred examples of lettering. The book is a treasury of the art of writing, providing examples of masterpieces of calligraphy spanning four centuries. The author, Jan Tschichold, who provides the Introduction, was first introduced to calligraphy by his father, a sign painter. Tschichold became fascinated with lettering and went on to study typography and the reproductive arts under Professors Hermann Delitschs and Heinrich Wieynck. He soon developed into the leading advocate of modernism in typography and had an enormous influence on commercial printing by publishing extensively on the subject of assymetric typography in a manner that made it easy for printers to adapt it to their work. This copy bound in paper-covered boards decorated with a floral pattern and backed in cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Dust wrapper printed in red and black. Boards slightly sunned, minor fraying to foot of spine, front blank a bit creased. Dust wrapper with tape on three corners, small cluster of ink stains on back panel, worn at hinges and fore-edges, and with some toning. A near fine copy in a good dust wrapper.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

Ellison, Ralph:
        RICHARD WRIGHT'S BLUES [wrapper title]
      [Np]: Reprinted from The Antioch Review, Summer 1945.. [16]pp. Stapled printed self wrappers. Slight rusting to staples, otherwise a fine copy. First separate printing of Ellison's seminal essay on Wright, catalyzed by the appearance of BLACK BOY. A somewhat mysterious item, not reported in any of the ordinary bibliographic references. It is not an offprint from the periodical, but a new setting of the text for this printing. Two clues as to its origin may rest with the italicized acknowledgement printed on the verso of the upper wrapper ("Courtesy of Mrs. J.C. Guggenheimer"), and with the Union Printer's slug in the corner of the rear wrapper, which includes the digits '52' to the right of the logo, possibly indicating the year of printing as 1952. Obviously, if this printing was made in the year of the appearance of the essay, it would precede INVISIBLE MAN by over six years; if it was indeed printed in 1952, it may or may not precede the novel. Either way, it is an uncommon and highly important Ellison item.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]

Max Ernst and Paul Eluard
        Les Malheurs Des Immortels [Inscribed by Eluard and Signed by Ernst]
      Paris: Editions De La Revue, 1945. Paperback. Very Good. #558 of 1800cc. Pages tanned as usual, otherwise a very good copy in publisher's printed wraps and translucent jacket. Signed by Ernst on the front free endpaper and above that, additionally inscribed by Eluard.

      [Bookseller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA]

Bloch, Robert
        THE OPENER OF THE WAY (Author's First Book, INSCRIBED)
      Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. Bloch, Robert. THE OPENER OF THE WAY. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. First edition. A FINE COPY in a FINE DUST JACKET, a beautiful example of the author's first book, INSCRIBED to pioneer collector and friend Ed Kuss at the 1955 Worldcon: "To Ed Kuss, even though this is a convention, I hesitate to offer a conventional sentiment. I'd rather extend my very best wishes and appreciation! Yours sincerely, Robert Bloch. September 1955." Limited to 2,065 copies printed. Robert Bloch (1917-1994) was not only best known as the writer of the novel PSYCHO which serves as the source for the legendary Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation of the same name. He was also one of the prize pupils of his mentor H. P. Lovecraft and Bloch was the ONLY individual to whom Lovecraft ever dedicated a story. Winner of a lifetime achievement Hugo award as well as an Edgar Allan Poe award. Author of several Star Trek scripts. Excluding stories written for the pulps, THE OPENER OF THE WAY was his first hardcover book publication (a collection of stories, contributions to the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s) and it was the first step toward his final tally of several dozen novels and short story collections, twelve of which were adapted into motion pictures. While Bloch was generous in signing books for collectors in later years, contemporary or early inscriptions to people whom he knew well are rare!. Signed. First Edition. Fine/Fine.

      [Bookseller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ]

Gwendolyn Brooks
        A Street in Bronzeville
      Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Harper & Brothers, New York 1945. First Edition / First Printing. Stated First Edition on the copyright page with no additional printings listed. Black cloth boards with gold lettering. Signed by Gwendolyn Brooks on an unattached letter. The letter contains a note from the author thanking a fan for interest in her work. It also mentions that future correspondence be directed to her agent and includes the agents 1945 Chicago work address. The inscription and letter are 100% Guaranteed Authentic. Book Condition: Near Fine, soft shelf wear, clean pages, tight spine, mild age toning, intriguing decorative bookplate at the front endpaper reminiscent of Charlotte's Web which was published seven years later. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+, wrapped in a new clean removable mylar cover, original jacket priced at $2.00 at the front flap, author's photo at the rear panel, list of previous publication's all from magazines and newspapers, buy war bonds ad, shelf wear and chipping, paper loss at the spine.

      [Bookseller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books, ABA,]

BRODOVITCH, Alexey
        Ballet
      New York: J. J. Augustin,, 1945. 104 photographs by Alexey Brodovitch. Text by Edwin Denby. Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in grey morocco, title onlaid in white morocco to front board, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, off-white endpapers, silver edges. Full page black and white photographs throughout. A fine copy. First edition, first printing. Between 1935 and 1937 Brodovitch photographed several of the leading Russian ballet companies whilst they were in New York on their world tours. With 104 photographs the contents are divided into eleven segments, one for each ballet performance. On the contents page, Brodovitch introduces each chapter in a typographic style that emulates the feel of the dance it is describing.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Edwin Denby
        "BALLET: 104 Photographs" Ballets Russes 1935-1939
      Of the original publication in 1945 of an edition of only 500,  being offered here is a scarce, uncommonly fine copy of this first edition of  the legendery masterpiece by photographer Alexey Brodovitch in its original grey boards binding and in fine condition throughout. It has acquired the somewhat inevitable minor darkening to edges of the cream colored stock which, in this case, enhances rather than detracts.. Measuring 11" by 8 3/4" with 143 pages and Index.  Each black and white photograph is full page and without flaws of Ballets Russes from the 1930s The dustjacket is unrestored. Front and back portions are sunned and detached from the unusual envelope structure which wrapped the boards. Currently safely encased in 5ml archival mylar jacket. Many articles and comments about this book and the photographer Alexey Brodovitch can be found on the Internet. Wikipedia's entry about this particular book discusses the camera techniques used.  The edition was limited to 500.

      [Bookseller: Efemera Books]

BECKFORD, William (Valenti ANGELO)
        VATHEK, AN ARABIAN TALE. Publisher's Archive of the Original Art for the Book along with Progressive and Repro Proofs
      [New York]: [Limited Editions Club], [1945]. Original Art. Book has wear to the corners and is Very Good. The art has light and expected wear from use. Near Fine and, to use a much abused word today, truly unique. Valenti Angelo. This is a complete set of the ORIGINAL ART, along with the Progressive and Repro Proofs by Valenti Angelo for this book including the 8 full-page miniatures and the borders. With the artist's red stamp on the rear of each work. Along with a copy of the book, duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full orange morocco gilt-stamped with a design by Valenti Angelo. Each page of text features decorative borders by Angelo, and there are 8 full-page miniatures printed in colors and hand-illuminated in gold by Angelo as well. One of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Housed in an envelope from the Limited Editions Club.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Nuremberg Trials
        Nuremberg Defendant Wilhelm Keitel Is Concerned About Evidence the German Army Planned on Massive Civilian Casualties in Its Invasion of Russia
      Nuremberg Defendant Wilhelm Keitel Is Concerned About Evidence the German Army Planned on Massive Civilian Casualties in Its Invasion of Russia & & During World War II, Keitel served as Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, which was known as the OKW. He proved a weak and cautious commander, and never challenging Hitler's orders, was referred to by his colleagues as a "Little Lackey." He signed numerous orders of dubious legality under the laws of war, and unquestionably allowed Himmler a free hand with his policies of racial extermination. On May 8, 1945, Keitel signed Germany's surrender to the Red Army. Four days later he was arrested, and soon faced the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which charged him with a number of offences: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. The commander never expected to be acquitted but pled not guilty with the justification of just following orders.& & Dr. Otto Nelte served as Keitel's defence attorney during the trial which lasted from November 1945 to July 1946, and in his summation for the defence on July 8, 1946, stressed that his client was not trying to minimize the role he had played in the Third Reich, but to clarify its character. As he put it, Keitel was fighting to save not his neck but his face. He further stated that Keitel's sole guiding principles had been loyalty and obedience. His client, he maintained, asked not for acquittal but for his tragic dilemma to be recognized and understood. & & During the testimony in April 1946, a key document was entered into evidence that showed that the OKW_(and Keitel) had acknowledged openly that exploitation of Russian food supplies during the imminent invasion was going to entail the mass starvation of native inhabitants. This was recorded at a meeting of state secretaries on May 2, 1941, where it was discussed that & "...umpteen million people will doubtless starve to death when we extract what is necessary for us from the country." In introducing this documentation, the prosecution stated, "If it pleases the Tribunal, another secret document captured from the OKW files, we think establishes the motive for the attack on the Soviet Union. It also establishes the full awareness of the Nazi conspirators of the Crimes against Humanity which would result from their attack. The document is a memorandum of 2 May 1941, concerning the result of a discussion on that day with the state secretaries concerning the Case Barbarossa. The document is initialled by a Major Von Gusovius, a member of the staff of General Thomas set up to handle the economic exploitations of the territory occupied by the Germans during the course of the aggression against Russia. The document is numbered 2718-PS in our numbered series of documents. I offer it in evidence as Exhibit USA-32." & & The production of this document disturbed Keitel who wanted to avoid being associated with it. He wrote Nelte from his cell. Autograph Note Signed, Nuremberg, no date but April 1946, to "Attorney at Law Dr. Nelte." "1. I have to see document number 2718 PS because I want to find out about the author of this nonsense!_a)_During the winter of 1944/45, von Gusovius was still at OKW headquarters. b)_General Schubert!?! 2. I shall, unfortunately, still have to trouble you about that lease. 3. One enclosure: notes!" & & Keitel was right to be concerned by incriminating evidence like document number 2718 PS. He was found guilty on all charges and hanged. &

      [Bookseller: The Raab Collection]

(ITALIAN CAMPAIGN WWII)
        24th Guards Brigade Operations August 1944 to May 1945
      Trieste: [printed by Smolars] For the Brigade,, 1945. Foolscap quarto. Original dark green cloth-backed card wraps. 76-page duplicated typescript. 10 large coloured and folding maps. Text lightly browned, otherwise very good, together with the original envelope. Designated SECRET, this copy No. 78 of 200 copies printed at Trieste in 1945, distribution list appended to the text accounting for just 95 of these. COPAC shows just a copy at the IWM, OCLC adding none. Excellent intelligence report issued immediately after events, includes the Brigade's crossing of the Arno, and advance to the Gothic Line; the battles of the Argenta Gap; the advance to the Po; and the concluding operations of the Brigade in Italy, culminating ion the liberation of Trieste. Brigade composed of the 5th Grenadiers, 2nd Coldstreams, 1st Scots Guards, 1st Royal West Kents, support units of the RA and RE, and other units periodically under command such as 'B' Squadron North Irish Horse, 'A' Squadron 10th Royal Hussars, 9th Commandos, and Section 59th Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit. Highly detailed narrative, tabulated casualties and staff lists. Together with original buff HMSO envelope, overstamped SECRET and addressed in ink to Capt. O.H. Bovill 2 CG, with pencil annotation "3 Coy.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

HODGKIN, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
        Structure of Vitamin B12. [with:] The X-ray Crystallographic Investigation of the Structure of Penicillin [with: six other offprints]
      1945-65. Exceptional collection of inscribed offprints, from the library of crystallographer Jack D. Dunitz, of Hodgkin&#146;s most important papers, in which she solved the molecular structure of penicillin and vitamin B12, the last which revealed the existence of a hitherto-unsuspected chemical grouping, the corrin nucleus. Lawrence Bragg compared these achievements with &#145;breaking the sound barrier&#146;, and in 1964 Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work.<br/><br/>& [Papers 1-2:] &#147;The structure of vitamin B12, published in Nature in July 1956, represented a giant step forward for x-ray crystallography. The Oxford-Princeton collaboration had provided structural information that was not available from traditional methods of organic analysis, which Hodgkin described in an earlier paper as &#145;for any crystallographer something of a dream-like situation.&#146; Even more impressively, the planar group of B12 was a novel chemical entity, for which the term corrin nucleus was later coined.&#148; (DSB). After the first announcement, in the journal Nature, Hodgkin and her team published a series of papers detailing their discoveries in the Proceedings of the Royal Society [see &#145;Landmarks of Science & Medicine from the Library of Andras Gedeon&#146; lot 156]. Offered here is the rare offprint from Nature annotated by Dunitz together with the offprint of the first of the eight parts from the Proceedings inscribed by Hodgkin.<br/><br/>& [Paper 3:] &#147;In collaboration with Charles Bunn and Anne Turner-Jones at ICI&#146;s Northwich laboratories, who analyzed the sodium salt using the &#145;fly&#146;s eye&#146; method of modeling diffraction patters, they solved the penicillin structure by 1945. With the help of the scientific service run by L. J. Comrie, they calculated the complete three-dimensional structure on a Hollerith punched card calculator, one of the earliest examples of chrystallographic computing. News of the success gradually leaked out into the crystallographic community: what had begun as a wartime secrecy continued after VE-day as commercial secrecy to protect the interests of the US firms who had undertaken the mass production of the drug, and the penicillin structure was not formally published until 1949 [citing the offered paper no. 2]&#148; (ODNB). Offered here the very offprint inscribed by co-author Barbara Rogers-Low to Dunitz. &#147;Hodgkin&#39;s work on penicillin made her internationally famous. Britain&#146;s top scientific body, the Royal Society, elected her to membership in 1947; she was only the third woman to receive this honor.&#148; (Yount, Woman in Science and Math).<br/><br/> & [Paper 4:] Inscribed offprint of her Nobel lecture. &#147;Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was the sole Nobel Laureate in chemistry in 1964, receiving the prize for her work on the determination by X-ray techniques of the structure of several important biochemical compounds, including vitamin B12 and penicillin. She was the third woman [after Marie and Irene Curie], and the first Englishwoman, to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry&#148;. (James, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901-1992).<br/><br/>& [Paper 6:] &#147;With Carlisle she solved the complete three-dimensional structure of cholesterol iodide, including all the bond lengths and angles. This was the first crystallographic study she had pursued to its conclusion, and the first anywhere of such complex organic molecule.&#148; (ODNB). <br/><br/>& &#147;Unlike other crystallographers of her generation, Dorothy Hodgkin was not associated with any particular technical breakthrough. She was always at the forefront in the use of computers to carry out crystallographic calculations. However, like others who had cut their teeth on more intuitive approaches, she did not welcome the day when x-ray analysis became automated. Hodgkin&#146;s main contribution was in developing an approach to x-ray analysis that filled the gap between the trial-and-error methods used by W. L. Bragg and Linus Pauling in the 1920s and the brute force methods that became feasible in the late 1950s. This approach required profound insights into chemistry and crystallography but was capable of providing unambiguous structural information about organic molecules too complex for more traditional and indirect methods of analysis&#133;<br/><br/>& &#147;In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry &#145;for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.&#146; The following year, she was only the second woman ever to be appointed to the Order of Merit, a group of twenty-five distinguished living citizens selected by the British sovereign.&#148; (DSB)<br/><br/>& Provenance: All items are from the library of Jack David Dunitz, British chemist and one of the greatest chemical crystallographers. Together with Sydney Brenner, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton he was one of the first people in April 1953 to see the model of the structure of DNA, constructed by Francis Crick and James Watson. 1. &#145;Structure of vitamin B12&#146;. Co-authored with Jennifer Kamper, Maureen Mackay, Jenny Pickworth, Kenneth N. Trueblood, John G. White. Offprint from Nature, Vol. 178, pp. 64-66, July 14, 1956. Original self-wrappers, filing holes, serial number ink stamp, small diagram in ink on first page, numerous annotations to the molecular structure diagram, by Dunitz;<br/><br/> & 2. &#145;The structure of vitamin B12, I. An outline of the crystallographic investigation of vitamin B12&#146;. Co-authored with Jennifer Kamper, June Lindsey, Maureen Mackay, Jenny Pickworth, J. H. Robertson, Clara Brink Shoemaker, J. G. White, R. J. Prosen, K. N. Trueblood Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, volume 242, pp. 228-263, 1957. Original printed wrappers, filing holes, serial number ink stamp, inscribed &#145;with best wishes Dorothy&#146;; <br/><br/>& 3. The X-ray crystallographic investigation of the structure of penicillin. Co-authored with C. W. Bunn, B. W. Rogers-Low, A. Turner-Jones. Offprint from The Chemistry of Penicillin, pp. 310-67, 1949. Original printed wrappers, filing holes, serial number ink stamp, inscribed &#145;For Jack [Dunitz] with Greetings Barbara [Rogers-Low] ´49&#146;; <br/><br/>& 4. The X-ray analysis of complicated molecules. Offprint from Les Prix Nobel, 1964, 22 pp., inscribed &#145;with greetings & special thanks Dorothy&#146;; <br/><br/>& 5. X-ray crystallography and sterol structure. Offprint from Vitamins and Hormones, Volume II, pp. 409-61, 1944. Original printed wrappers, serial number ink stamp; <br/><br/>& 6. The crystal structure of cholesteryl iodide. Co-authored with C. H. Carlisle, D. Crowfoot. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, volume 184, pp. 64-83, 1945. Original printed wrappers, serial number ink stamp; <br/><br/>& 7. Structure of calciferol. Co-authored with J. D. Dunitz. Offprint from Nature, vol. 162, p. 608, October 16, 1948. Original self-wrappers; <br/><br/>& 8. X-ray crystallographic studies of compounds of biochemical interest. Offprint from Annual Review of Biochemistry, 1948, pp. 115-46. Original self-wrappers, serial number ink stamp. &

      [Bookseller: SOPHIA RARE BOOKS]

Williams, Tennessee
        27 Wagons Full of Cotton
      New York: New Directions, 1945 First edition, first printing. Presentation copy; signed and inscribed by Williams to cinematographer, Vera Mathews. Fine in a worn and chipped jacket with some loss to the spine ends, chip to upper edge of front panel and a few small tears. One of Williams&#39; scarcer early titles, uncommonly found signed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

      [Bookseller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA]

Souster, Raymond
        WHEN WE ARE YOUNG
      Montreal, N.D. [1945]: First Statement Press, 1945 Fine Presentation Association Copy. Souster, Raymond. WHEN WE ARE YOUNG. Montreal: First Statement Press, N.D., [1945]. First edition of the author&#39;s first book. Plain stiff wrappers in printed dustwrapper. 8vo, pp. 16. Inscribed on the title page: To Ralph Gustafson / from Raymond Souster / Aug 9 /61 / A Great Evening in New York". A fine, fresh copy. Rare Press advertisement present. Number 4 in the First Statement New Writers Series. Rare. $5500.00. Signed by Author. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

Leger, Fernand
        LA FORME HUMAINE DANS L&#39;ESPACE. Signed
      Montreal: Les Editions de l&#39;Arbre, 1945 Leger, Fernand, LA FORME HUMAINE DANS L&#39;ESPACE. Signed. Montreal, Les Editions de l&#39;Arbre, 1945. Outstanding Association Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Leger on the half-title to Alfred Pellan. "A mon ami Pellan / votre confrere / F. leger." First edition. Squarish 8vo, decorated black and red wrappers, pp. 100. 38 pp. of dramatic black and white reproductions. Very uncommon thus. Poem by Francois Hertel, philosophical argument by Leger, critical text by Maurice Gagnon, M. A. Couturier, S. Giedion, S. M. Kootz and James Johnson Sweeney. Entire text In French. The international art community recognized a half century ago, the truly momentous contribution made by Alfred Pellan, to the arts and none more so than Leger himself, whom Pellan called both an inspirational colleague and a dear friend. During the war years, Leger spent time in North America, living for a brief period in Montreal, where he had an opportunity to enjoy Pellan&#39;s company as they had during Pellan&#39;s Paris years. Leger Presentations are Rare and Association Copies Impossible to acquire. A fine copy showing just a hint of rubbing. Superb. [27120] $5250. Signed by Author. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

Layton, Irving
        HERE AND NOW
      Montreal: First Statement Press, 1945 Layton, Irving. HERE AND NOW. Montreal: First Statement Press, 1945. First Edition of Layton&#39;s uncommon First Book & First Book of the press. Publisher&#39;s plain card covers, grey outer wrapper illustrated in red & black. A fine copy. A unique association copy belonging to iconic Canadian & Canadian poet, F. R. Scott with his ink signature at the top of the front fly leaf. An exceptional example in excellent condition. "HERE AND NOW" is the first book in a series devoted to the work of young Canadian Writers and published as supplement to FIRST STATEMENT MAGAZINE. Other books are in preparation" $4775. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

ALTARA,EDINA
        LIBRO GIOCATTOLI [THE BOOK OF TOYS]
      1945. Paperback. 1. ITALIAN. (TOYS) IL LIBRO GIOCATTOLI [THE BOOK OF TOYS] by Edina Altara. Milano: Hoepli (1945). Folio (13 1/2 x 16 1/2"), pictorial wraps, Fine and unused. There is an 8 page instructional booklet to be used as a guide to construct a variety of toys from nearly 50 leaves of color lithographed pages. The child can make: a Magician with his tricks, an Aquarium (with translucent paper giving the illusion of water), the Toy Soldiers of Zim Bum Bum, an Automaton, a Carousel, Birds in the sky, a Trip to the Moon, a Ballerina, a Convent, a Game of Horses and Keys to the Treasury. There are also several thick card pages used as bases. Edina Altara was a self taught artist who became a popular Italian illustrator. This is a lavish children&#39;s book by any standard but considering the publication year of 1945, it is quite remarkable.

      [Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.]

Orwell, George
        Animal Farm. A Fairy Story
      London: Secker & Warburg, 1945 First edition, first printing. Original publisher&#39;s green cloth, in the fragile dust jacket. About near fine with some light rubbing to the extremities, a touch of fading to the spine ends; in a jacket with some wear and rubbing to the spine, spine ends chipped with minor loss, a few small tears, else very good. A nice, completely unrestored example of the author&#39;s famous allegorical novella.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

      [Bookseller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA]

ORWELL, George
        Animal Farm
      London: Secker & Warburg,, 1945. A Fairy Story. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Couple of minor nicks and short tears, spine minutely faded, a very good copy. First edition, first impression.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Orwell (George).
        Animal Farm; a fairy story
      Secker & Warburg, 1945 - Trivial foxing to end-papers, rear free end-paper creased, otherwise an exceptionally nice, bright copy [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Bertram Rota Ltd]

ANTHEIL, George
        Bad Boy of Music
      Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., Garden City, New York,, 1945. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in a somewhat torn dust jacket with splitting to the folds at the spine and further loss at the top of the spine panel. First Edition. With the composer&#39;s contemporary signed presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, "To Phil and Connie Schener..." Above the presentation Antheil has written a brief musical quotation apparently from his IV Symphony. Antheil will perhaps always be remembered as the man who wrote the score for the seminal dada film "Ballet Mechanique".

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

(Sartre, Jean-Paul]. Vittorini, Elio
        LES HOMMES ET LES AUTRES. (UOMINI E NO). Signed
      Geneva: Editions du Continent,, 1945 First French Edition of &#39;Uomini e No&#39;, (Men and not Men), a novel of resistance against the German occupation of Italy, Inscribed and Signed by the author to Jean-Paul Sartre on the front endpaper. With Cesare Pavese, Vittorini, an acclaimed translator, novelist, (his Conversations In Sicily was published in the United States with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway), editor and anti - fascist, was a pioneer in translating English, French and American authors into Italian. A bright, fresh copy in the original wrappers. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. A significant Association. .. Signed by Author. First Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

STYRSKY, Jindrich and Jindrich Heisler
        Na jehlách t chto dní / On the Needles of These Days
      Praha: Fr. Borovy, (1945). Lightly worn at the edges, else near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers, lacking the plain glassine jacket.. So-called second edition. (The first edition, published in 1941 with original tipped-in photographs is virtually unobtainable.) Octavo. Czech architect Pavel Janak&#39;s copy, with his small bookplate and ownership signature dated in 1945. He was the leading theorist of the Czech Cubist movement, and one of the seminal figures in Czech modernism. 28 gravure illustrations by Styrsky with accompanying text by Heisler. Designed by Karel Teige. A haunting volume with images of dismembered mannequins, shadowy shop windows, decontextualized religious icons, masks, dolls, and close-ups of ruined architecture. Crucial book in the both the Surrealist and Czech canons (Parr / Badger, v1, 197; Roth 116-117; Open Book 140-141; Auer 308).

      [Bookseller: Harper's Books, Inc.]

George Orwell
        Animal Farm
      Martin Secker & Warburg, London 1945 - "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1945. First UK edition first printing with "First Published May 1945" on the copyright page. 12mo [5" x 7.5"], 92 pp. The book is in very good minus condition. Minor wear and soiling to the boards with scuffed edges. Heavy fading at the spine. Gift inscription on the front endpaper in ink. The contents are clean and bright with sound binding. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (C4-2) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Ernestoic Books]