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

CARROLL. LEWIS. HOGFELDT. ROBERT. Illustrates
        ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
      Jan Forlag. Stockholm. 1945. FIRST HOGFELDT EDITION. Large 8vo (9.2 x 6.6 inches). 10 full page colour plates plus 30 line drawings throughout the text, many full page. Finely bound, by Bumpus of London, in early full deep red morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments lettered in gilt. Double gilt rule on inside of boards. White endpapers. Top edge gilt. Originally issued in stiff paper boards with a full colour illustrated dustwrapper. The illustrated front board and front panel from wrapper are bound in at the end of the book. A couple of minor marks to the boards but overall a near fine copy of this delightful book. Hogfeldt's illustrations are amongst the best interpretations of Carroll's fantastic characters and have a charm and humour all of their own.

      [Bookseller: Paul Foster Books]

Trier, H.A
        "St. Vedast / 24-3-45": Original pencil rendering of the blitzed London church and surrounding buildings, captioned and dated
      London, 1945. 10 x 13-1/2 inches. . . The name (in another hand) "H.A. Trier" printed in lower right corner. A very fine on-the-spot rendering of this London church, with faint color notations, suggesting that this was a preliminary study for an oil or watercolor

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]

Hjul, James H
        Building Plans, Elevation, and Perspective for James J. Noble on 7th St. 80' North of Brannan, San Francisco.[796-8 Brannan or 575 7th St. ]
      San Francisco: James H. Hjul, Structural Engineer, November 1945. Original pencil drawings on tracing paper. Sheet size primarily 19" x 27.5". 5 sheets. Job #219. Current address 796-8 Brannan or 575 7th St. File #2389. 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.

      [Bookseller: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts]

        TAK TIL RAGNHILD
      Privattryk. Trykt hos F.E. Bording 1945. Med 3 træsnit af Povl Christensen. 12 s. Indlagt i blankt omslag og bogæske.. Sang på melodien "Mandalay" som "Tak til Ragnhild for 25 Aars tro Tjeneste som Lods for fire mandlige Medlemmer af Familien Bruun" Holst nr. 57. Oplaget er ukendt, men dette eksemplar, er så vidt vides, det eneste kendte

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

BRORSON, HANS ADOLPH.
        Salmer.
      Forord og udvalg ved Kai Friis Møller. Illustreret af Povl Christensen. København uden år [1945]. 60 sider. I original, lidt slidt kassette. Uopskåret.. Holst 55.Indeholder 28 originale træsnit på indklæbet japanpapir, trykt og signeret af kunstneren.Nr. 13 af 150 nummererede eksemplarer, signeret af kunstneren

      [Bookseller: Mandøes Antikvariat]

PEDERSEN, CARL-HENNING:
        Drømmedigte.
      Kbhvn.: Helhestens Forlag (1945). Illustr. med orig. litografier af Carl-Henning Pedersen. Opl. 300 numr. og sign. ekspl. Orig. dek. kart. With orig. lithographs by Carl-Henning Pedersen. Limited to 300 numb. and signed copies. Publisher's decorated boards

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

BRORSON, HANS ADOLPH.
        Salmer.
      Forord og udvalg ved Kai Friis Møller. Fischers Forlag, 1945. 4to. 54+(8) sider, med 26 orig. træsnit på indklæbet japanpapir, trykt og signeret af Povl Christensen. Heftet med orig. omslag og orig. pergamynomslag. Indlagt i en lidt defekt kassette, men ellers meget velholdt.. Sjælden. Poul Holst 55. Et hovedværk i dansk bogillustration.** Nummer 143 af 150 eksemplarer

      [Bookseller: Vangsgaards Antikvariat]

WALD, Abraham. & H.A. Freeman.
        Sequential Analysis of Statistical Data: Theory [with] Sequential Tests of Statistical Significance [with] Sequential Analysis of Statistical Data: Applications.Washington: National Defense Research Committee, 1943-1944. All three first editions, first issue..
      An exceptional set of the three classified reports in which Wald's groundbreaking work was first announced. About Wald's later journal paper from 1945 Kotz and Johnson write in their 'Breakthroughs in Statistics': "Probability theory came of age with the advent of Kolmogorov's axiomatics in 1933 and the subsequent developments in limit theorems and stochastic processes. Statistical inference came of age with the advent of the Neyman-Pearson theory in 1933 and the subsequent formalization of hypothesis testing, estimation, and decision theory. In the present paper, Wald unified the two seemingly dissimilar areas most elegantly. To probabilists, he offered gems of new results in random walks, martingales, stochastic processes, and limit theorems. He also pointed out indirectly how they can seek probability questions from statistical inference and use the latter area as a testing ground for their abstract theorems. To statisticians, he showed that statistical inference is not just the analysis or 'significance' of an existing body of data; it also entails their entry into the very process of experimentation and continual analysis of the data as they come available. The sequential probability ratio test embodies this aspect. Wald also showed them how results from 'pure' mathematics, particularly probability theory, can be adapted to put statistical inference, in general, on stronger footing without losing sight of its practical nature. ... Wald's theoretical results first appeared in a 'restricted' report in September 1943 [first reprt offered], and a companion report on applications by H.A. Freeman appeared in July 1944 [third report offered]. The term restricted meant that the Defense Department considered the results significantly important to the war effort and, therefore, decided not to disseminate them to the general public for a while. Nevertheless, a 10-page synopsis of Wald's results, entitled 'Sequential Tests of Statistical Significance' [second report offered], was allowed to be circulated as a memorandum in April 1944 to a select group of individuals including some statisticians who are well known today: R.E. Bechhofer, J. Berkson, G.W. Brown, J.H. Curtiss, G.B. Dantzig, W.E. Deming, H.F. Dodge, J.L. Doob, B. Epstein, W. Feller, F.E. Grubbs, S. Kullback, J. Neyman, E.G. Olds, H. Scheffé, J.W. Tukey, J. von Neumann, and S.S. Wilks in the United States, and G.A. Barnard, M.S. M.S. Bartlett, R.A. Fisher, J.O. Irwin, E.S. Pearson, E.J.G. Pitman, R.L. Plackett, and F. Yates in Great Britain." <b>Thus, a complete set of the original reports pre-dating Wald's journal paper <i>Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses</i> first published in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, June 1945</b>.. First report: Small 4to (230 x 180 mm), original printed wrappers. Upper right corner with a slight bump. Previous owners initials to front wrapper W.L.D. Stamped RESTRICTED. IX, (1)179, (3: blank) pp. Second report: 8vo (244 x 153 mm). Original printed wrappers, fine. 10, (2: blank) pp. Third report: Large 4to (285 x 220 mm). Original ring binder containing the six sections in original printed wrappers together with the two appendicies, aslo in wrappers: [S1:VIII,16]; [S2:II,22]; [S3:II,22]; [S4:II,22]; [S5:II,18]; [S6:II,18]; [A1:II,14]; [A2:II,22] pp. In very good condition. Also included is the mimiographed distribution list of the third report: 1 sheet typescript, printed on both sides. All three reports are in the rare original issue with the text: "This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act, 50 U.S.C., 31 and 32, as amended. Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law". <b>OCLC lists 8 copies of the first report, 1 of the second (National Institute of Standards and Technology), and the third report is not located in any library</b>

      [Bookseller: Sophia Rare Books]

WHITE, E.B
        Stuart Little
      New York: Harper, 1945. First. hardcover. fine. WILLIAMS, Garth. Black & white illustrations by Garth Williams. 131 pp., slim 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 tan morocco, marbled boards. New York: Harper, (1945). First Edition. Fine.

      [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store]

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.; Edited by Edmund Wilson
        The Crack-Up
      New York: New Directions, 1945. First edition, first printing. Octavo. In very good condition, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Edmund Wilson, who served as editor to this posthumous Fitzgerald work, "To Frangeon L. Jones with the best regards of Edmund Wilson Peterborough Aug. 16, 1964". Laid into the book is the newspaper article from August 17,1964 regarding Edmund Wilson&#39;s presentation of the Edward MacDowell Medal at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald&#39;s sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Contains letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot and John Dos Passos. Of course all life is a process of breaking down ...." So begins a collection of essays which can be seen as a reflection of the low point of Fitzgerald&#39;s career. Indeed, the essays were poorly received when first published in Esquire magazine in 1936, and many were critical of his personal revelations. Nonetheless, their popular has resurged and "[t]he essays stand today as a compelling psychological portrait and an illustration of an important Fitzgerald theme." (Tracy Simmons)

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

AUDEN, W.H
        The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden
      New York: Random House, 1945. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated vignette on title. 466pp. 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 dark green morocco, tan leather spine label, gilt stamped and lettered spine with raised bands. New York: Random House, (1945). First Edition. A fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store]

Larkin (Philip).
        The North Ship
      Fortune Press, 1945 - End-papers and fore-edge very slightly foxed, otherwise a very nice copy in very fragile price-clipped, slightly marked dust-wrapper which has a few minor chips and a closed tear, repaired, at the foot of the upper panel Bloomfield A1(a), estimating that the edition probably did not exceed 500 copies First Edition, variant in pale grey-green cloth

      [Bookseller: Bertram Rota Ltd]

Francis PICABIA
        Thalassa dans le désert.
      Fontaine 1945 - - Fontaine, Paris _1945, 11,5x14cm, broché. - Edition originale, un des 25 ex numérotés Arches, le nôtre non justifié, tirage de tête. Maquette de Mario Prassinos d'après une composition originale de Max Ernst. Une petite déchirure recollée en pied du dos, légères piqûres marginales sur le deuxième plat, agréable état intérieur. Rare. . [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]

Erni, Hans
        Plakat - Gesellschaft Schweiz-Sowjetunion. Lithographie - Wolfensberger, Zürich.
      1945 1945 - 128 x 90,5 cm, Zustand A Höhepunkt der Schikanen von Bundesanwaltschaft und Bundesrat war das Verbot eines Plakates für die Petition zur Wiederaufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen mit der Sowjetunion. Der international bekannte Schweizer Maler Hans Erni hatte das einprägsame Plakat mit dem neuen Logo der GSS 1944 zur Unterstützung der Unterschriftensammlung gestaltet:In der oberen Hälfte das GSS-Logo mit der Schweiz und der Sowjetunion auf einer stilisierten Europakarte, wobei von der kleinen Schweiz vier Kreise wie Funkwellen die Sowjetunion umschliessen. In der unteren Hälfte verbinden sich ein dickes und ein dünnes Tau zu einem fotorealistischen Schifferknoten. Der Kunsthistoriker und Essayist Konrad Farner schrieb, auf dem Plakat seien ?die Grössenverhältnisse eindeutig dargestellt, und wiederum sind, indem sich die beiden Seile gleichberechtigt vereinigen, die Möglichkeiten und Notwendigkeiten vor Augen geführt. Im Knoten werden die zwei verschiedenen Qualitäten beider Länder in einer neuen, einheitlichen Qualität vereinigt.? Diese Darstellung und der harmlose Plakattext ?Wir erstreben freundschaftliche und vertrauensvolle Beziehungen zwischen unserm Lande und der Sowjetunion? waren der Schweizerischen Bundesanwaltschaft und dem Bundesrat trotzdem zuviel. Am 27. Februar 1945 beschloss der Bundesrat, gestützt auf Art. 102, Ziffer 8 und 9 der Bundesverfassung, den Anschlag des Plakats in der ganzen Schweiz zu verbieten. Die darin enthaltene ?Propaganda für eine kriegsführende Macht? sei ?aus Gründen der Neutralität unzulässig?.Hans Erni wurde dafür zum Landesverräter gestempelt und von den Behörden observiert. Eine von ihm gestaltete und bereits gedruckte Schweizer Banknotenserie wurde zurückgezogen. 1200 gr.

      [Bookseller: antiquariat peter petrej]

MARLOWE Christopher] NORTH Marcel :
        The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" *
      [Messeiller, Neuchâtel 1945]. - Intégralité des illustrations gravées pour ce "Faust", non signées dans ce dernier, qui ravira un amateur d'art voulant s'épargner la tentation d'une lecture, ou ne pratiquant pas la langue anglaise, ou.dans laquelle l'ouvrage fut publié, ou un troglodyte habitant une case minimaliste, ou ou ou.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

GAMA BARROS (Henrique da)
        HISTORIA DA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PUBLICA EM PORTUGAL
      - nos Séculos XII a XV. Por? 2ª edição dirigida por Torcato de Sousa Soares Professor da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Livraria Sá da Costa ? Editora. Lisboa. 1945, 46, 47, 49, 50 e 1954. Obra em 11 volumes. De 25x16 cm Com 432, 524, 476, 540, 471, 638, 564, 537, 554, 463 e 525 pags. Encadernações da época com lombadas e cantos em pele de carneira natural com nervos e finos ferros ouro. Location/localizacao: 1-A1-C-14

      [Bookseller: Livraria Castro e Silva]

Rumeu de Armas, Antonio.
        Piraterias y Ataques Navales contra las Isla Canarias.
      Madrid Instituto Jeronimo Zurita() 1945 - 3 vols. in 5. 28 x 20 cm. Original Blue Cloth with gilt back. Slightly blotchy. En la presente obra se aborda el estudio de uno de los capitulos de la Historia Universal mas llenos de dramaticas emociones, y, no obstante, de los menos estudiados y conocidos. La pirateria nace en los albores de la Humandidad, pues sus origenes se confunden con los de la navegacion y el comercio. La pirateria es una de las mas antiquas actividades humanas. Las primeras referencias acerca de ella coinciden con los mas remotos testimonios relativos a los viajes y al comercio. La conocieron los pueblos del oriente mediterraneo, cuna de las primeras civilizaciones; se difundio bajo el imperio romano; adquirio nuevos brios en la Edad Media con los normandos y los arabes, y llego a la cima de su prosperidad en los albores de Edad Moderna. Los descubrimientos geograficos, las nuevas tierras del oro y las especias, la sed de aventuras y la expansion colonizadora, fueron otros tantos moviles que hicieron del siglo XVI el verdadero Siglo de Oro de corsarios y pirates.; - With numerous Illustr. and some folded Maps. - Paper bronzy, four volumes cover hinge inside broken, a few pages relaxed, Binding tight, otherwise in clean condition. Spanish Language. 1.100 gr. Original Blue Cloth with gilt back. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Peter Hassold]

        Il Politecnico. Diretto da Elio Vittorini.
      Subject: (Riviste letterarie). Milano, Einaudi, dal n 1 (29 settembre 1945) al n 39 (dicembre 1947) trentanove fascicoli in eccellente stato di conservazione, i primi 28 ripiegati in quattro e tutti contenuti nell'originale (e introvabile) cofanetto cartonato. Collezione completa di tutto il pubblicato di questa notissima rivista. (Hard Cover)

      [Bookseller: LIBRERIA PIANI]

MESSIAEN, Olivier 1908-1992
        Autograph letter signed to Léon Deshais in Grenoble
      1 page. Octavo. Written from "l&#39;heure bleu" (sur le grand lac), Petichet par Laffrey, (Isère)," July 26, [1945]. In French. With integral autograph address panel (stamp intact) with Messiaen&#39;s name and address to lower right corner. & & The composer complains about the high costs of renting and transporting a piano for the summer - "200 francs rental, that&#39;s nothing. But to pay 1,500 francs for transport - plus 200 francs for loading and unloading - and to repeat this operation upon my departure, which would make a total of 3,400 francs just for transportation... this seems impossible! Next year, I will try to organize myself better..."& & Creased at central fold. Small perforations to edges, as issued. . A French composer, organist and teacher, Messiaen "was a musician apart. The sources of his music may be traced on the one hand to the French organ tradition and on the other to the innovations of Debussy, Stravinsky and Bartók, but right at the start of his career he found a modal system that has a completely individual sound, and to this he remained true, even when he vastly extended the possibilities of his style after World War II. He was alone, too, among major 20th-century composers in his joyously held Catholic faith, which again was unswerving, however much he came to value non-European cultures, especially Indian and Japanese. As a teacher he instructed many of the most prominent composers of the next two generations..." Paul Griffiths in Grove online& & Messiaen&#39;s correspondent is possibly the author of L&#39;Art des Origines à Nos Jours, a well-respected survey of the history of art and architecture first published in Paris by Larousse in 1932.

      [Bookseller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC]

HEERUP, HENRY - SARVIG, OLE:
        4 Digte / Poems.
      Mappe udsendt i Anledning af Aarskiftet 1945. Hvert digt af Sarvig trykt på eget folioblad. Biografi af Ejler Bille. Kbhvn: Carit Andersen, trykt hos J. Chr. Sørensen [1944]. Med 4 farvelitografier af Henry Heerup, heraf 2 signeret i tryk, samt med 2 orig. farvelitografier trykt som omslag på karton, foromslaget er signeret i hånden. Folio. Oplag 350 numr. og signerede. eksemplarer.Portfolio with 6 original colourlithographs by Heerup, front- and backcover printed on board, frontboard signed by hand. Limited to 350 numbered copies.. Moestrup nos. 16-21

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosells Antikvariat]

RONSARD Pierre de :
        Les amours de Cassandre - Les amours de Marie - Les sonnets pour Hélène *
      Aux Portes de France, Porrentruy 1945. - Brochés 21 x 19, couverture rempliée à la typographie bicolore. Tranches insolées, format insolent. L'un des 5 exemplaires de tête réimposés sur Guarro Molivell. Bel exemplaire de grand luxe de cette trilogie, ayant échappé au compostage [Pour travailler sur ma mienne, qu'est-ce que j'en ai composté de l'humus à idées - Ndr]

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

AFANASSIEFF :
        Ivan, fils de taureau *
      Au Verseau, Lausanne 1945. - En feuilles 39 x 30, sous cartable souple à attaches, couverture décorée rempliée. L'un des 160 exemplaires numérotés sur Vergé. C'est dans cette littérature épique que réside en partie l'origine de "L'Histoire du Soldat" de Ramuz et Strawinsky, puisque y fut trouvée l'idée du Diable - voir l'ouvrage de Véra Pagin "Histoire et histoires de l'Histoire.", n'en jetons plus !L'illustratrice avait également ymagé un ouvrage régionaliste sur la Vallée de Joux, "Paysans que nous sommes" de Rochat-Cenise pour Pierre Cailler.Dédicacé par l'artiste en 1972 à Estavayer.Exemplaire de luxe également disponible.Frais et pimpant. Image visible sur site céleste.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

KEROUAC, Jack; O'HARA, Frank; OLSON, Charles; GINSBERG, Allen; CORSO, Gregory; JONES, LeRoi; ASHBERY, John; WHALEN, Philip; etc
        COMPLETE SET OF 44 ROYALTY CHECKS, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS ON VERSO
      - Complete set of cancelled royalty checks made out by editor Donald Allen to 44 authors who appeared in the landmark poetry anthology THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY: 1945-1960, all SIGNED on the verso by the individual authors. In addition to his check, which he endorsed on the wrong end, Kerouac has written "For Sterling Lord Agency to re-process." The check for James Schuyler has been SIGNED by him as well as by his lover, artist Fairfield Porter. Denise Levertov has SIGNED both her maiden and married names. Many like Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, and Brother Antonius have added their addresses or an endorsement. Along with a TYPED NOTE SIGNED by Donald Allen and dated 1998 explaining the contract he signed with Grove Press for the anthology and how he pro-rated the royalties earned by the poets and continued to do so until the book went out of print in 1980. A very scarce collection, one of apparently only two in existence, with a fine collection of autographs of many of the important new poets of the time.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB]

LE SAGE.
        DIABLE BOITEUX.
      - 1 dessin original de l'artiste alsacien, Robert Beltz exécuté sur la page de faux-titre. AUTEUR: LE SAGE. TITRE: DIABLE BOITEUX. LIEU: EDITEUR, DATE: LIBRAIRIE AUGUSTE BLAIZOT, 1945. Tirage à 220 exemplaires sur vélin Lana. Un des 180 exemplaires numérotés de 41 à 220. Celui-ci porte le N°21. COLLATION: 261 pages (complet) FORMAT: In-folio (28 x 38 cm) RELIURE: Volume en feuilles, sous une couverture à rabats. Accompagné d'un double emboitage (étui et chemise). ILLUSTRATIONS: Illustré moderne comportant de très nombreuses compositions originales en couleurs de Robert BELTZ gravées sur bois par Théo SCHMIED in-texte (Grandes vignettes & lettres ornées et culs-de-lampe). Premier ouvrage illustré par Robert BELZ ETAT: Intérieur frais. Bon exemplaire. Quelques traces de frottements par endroits du double emboitage. POIDS: 4.290 Kg [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Gribaudo Vandamme]

WAUGH, EVELYN
        Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder
      Chapman & Hall, London 1945 - Newly bound in full brown morocco with green leather title labels to the hubbed spine. Gilt lettering and decorations.Top edge gilt .Marbled endpapers. Housed in brown cloth slipcase. The classic novel in first edition bound beautifully. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB]

WAUGH, Evelyn.
        Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memoires of Captain Charles Ryder.
      London: Chapman & Hall, 1945.. First edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, small private owner's book label to the front pastedown with another's faint ownership inscription beneath. Tear with loss to the lower front corner of the jacket and the adjacent flap, minor nicks and tears elsewhere occasionally with old clear tape repairs on verso, small light mark to the foot of the title, otherwise the book in very good condition.

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, ABA, ILAB]

Phillips, Walter J
        Ski Trail [Original Colour Woodcut Print on Paper]
      1945, edition of 200-300. () Fine. 10.5 X 7.5 CM (4 X 3 inches) original colour woodcut print on paper. In 1.5 CM (0.6 inch) ribbed brushed gilt wooden frame with only very slight wear. Off-white acid free matting (with embossed simple embossed frame around image) and Tru Vue UV protectant conservation glass. In extremely good condition, with no fading or acid burn. Crisp, clear colours. Frame measures 37.5 X 23.5 CM (14.75 X 9.25 inches). Metal wire hanger across back. To the bottom right below the image is Phillips&#39; signature (in pencil). With Master&#39;s Gallery provenance label on back. Boulet MBL240. At least 200-300 prints were produced in 1946 as Phillips&#39; Christmas greeting card. An interesting image showing two skiers amidst the trees. The detail in the clothing and face of the closer skier provides a beautiful contrast to the simple green outlines of the trees behind. The excellent quality of framing and pristine condition makes this print especially desirable. Walter Joseph Phillips (October 25, 1884 &#150; July 5, 1963) was an English-born Canadian painter and woodcutter, acclaimed as one of Canada&#39;s most famous printmakers and for popularizing the colour woodcut in the style of the Japanese. His artistic career spanned from the 1900s through the 1940s, during which time his work was exhibited throughout North America and Great Britain. In 1940 he was asked to become a resident artist at the Banff Centre, then known as the Banff School of Fine Arts, where he played an important role in the development of their visual arts program- It&#39;s Walter Phillips Gallery, which focuses on contemporary art, is named after him. The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta holds an extensive collection of Phillips works and a research archive..

      [Bookseller: Aquila Books]

[KENNEDY, Robert] KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald
        AS WE REMEMBER JOE
      Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed, 1945 [1965]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small scratch to rear cover. A fine, bright copy. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and the title in gilt on black on the front cover. Illustrated with photographs. One of 250 copies of the Second Issue, with the title page printed entirely in black, printed by Robert Kennedy in 1965 with most copies distributed by him at Christmas 1965. The First Issue consisted of 360 copies published in 1945. A privately printed book by the University Press memorializing the oldest brother of the Kennedy clan, a Navy pilot killed in action during World War II. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by Robert F. Kennedy: "For Georgeann and George/Bob Kennedy/Christmas1965." Georgeann was Robert Kennedy&#39;s sister-in-law, Ethel Kennedy&#39;s sister. Books authentically signed by Robert Kennedy are uncommon; those with such a personal association are scarcely encountered.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Sartre, Jean-Paul - Prassinos, Mario (ill.)
        Le Mur, La Chambre, Erostrate, Intimité, L&#39;Enfance d&#39;un chef. Avec trente-trois [en fait 35] illustrations gravées sur cuivre en couleurs par Mario Prassinos
      Paris: Gallimard, 1945. Livre. Illus. by Mario Passinos. Très bon. broché. Grand In-4. Paris, Gallimard, 1945 (1946 à l&#39;achevé d&#39;imprimer). 34 x 26,5 cm, grand in-4, 235 (6) pp., 35 (et non 33) gravures sur cuivre en couleurs par Mario Prassinos dont 8 à pleine page, broché sous couverture crème imprimée, chemise et étui. Premier tirage des cuivres de Mario Prassinos. Tirage à 398 exemplaires. Celui-ci l&#39;un des 33 exemplaires de tête sur vélin pur fil Montval comportant une SUITE des gravures sur vélin de Rives (n° 21). Quelques rousseurs aux cinq premiers feuillets ainsi qu&#39;au portefeuille protégeant la suite, sinon très bon. (MONOD, 10169) (4,5 kg).

      [Bookseller: Des livres autour (Julien Mannoni)]

Frost, Robert:
        A MASQUE OF REASON
      New York: Henry Holt, [1945].. Cloth. A few spots of dulling to cloth, a couple bumps to edges, else a good copy in worn and chipped dust jacket. First trade edition. Presentation copy to Wilbert Snow, inscribed on the date of publication by the author on the front free endsheet: "To Bill from one of the oldest friends of him and all his works Robert Wesleyan March 26 1949". With pencil markings (presumably in Snow&#39;s hand) in the margins and traces of erased pencil annotations throughout the text. Charles Wilbert Snow (1884- 1977), a poet of the Maine seacoast (especially near Spruce Head, Maine) and a professor of English at Wesleyan University (from 1921-1952), often arranged visits of varying lengths for Frost at Wesleyan. "During those visits the two poets became affectionate friends, although the Socialist liberalism of Snow&#39;s political views and activities offended RF&#39;s conservatism." (SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, ed. by Lawrance Thompson, N.Y., 1964, p. 393). CRANE 27.1.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]

Winston S. Churchill
        The Postwar Speeches, a full set of jacketed first editions: The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite, In the Balance, Stemming the Tide, and The Unwritten Alliance
      Here is a superior, jacketed set of all five of Churchill's post-WWII speech volumes.  These volumes span the period from Demobilization in late 1945, when Churchill was Leader of the Opposition, through his second Premiership (1951-1955) into a time when Churchill passes "into a living national memorial" of the time he has lived and the Nation, Empire, and free world he has served. The events encompassed by these years are in many ways no less dramatic than those of the war years - the unraveling of the British Empire, the post-war recovery, the onset of the Cold War, Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb, development of the hydrogen bomb, and the beginning of the space age (to name a few).  These postwar speech volumes are much more scarce than Churchill’s War Speeches volumes; all five of these books had only a single printing each.  Moreover, collectors should note that the fifth and final volume, The Unwritten Alliance, is the last of Churchill's books published in his lifetime and was issued only in Britain, with no U.S. edition.  All five volumes offered here are near-fine volumes in jackets that range from very good plus to near-fine.  All five cloth bindings are clean and square with virtually no wear.  The contents of all five volumes are uniformly clean and tight.  We find no spotting in the set.  The only previous ownership marks in the set are confined to The Sinews of Peace front pastedown - a pencilled date of "8/48" and a tiny Oxford bookshop sticker.  The page edges show only mild soiling and age-toning.  All five dust jackets are bright, clean, and highly complete with only trivial chipping to a few spine ends.  All five dust jackets are unclipped, still bearing the original front flap prices.  Please note that Stemming the Tide has the more desirable first state dust jacket.  Stemming the Tide has a two inch closed tear and some wrinkling at the bottom of the front face, but no loss associated with this tear, which is unobtrusive beneath the dust jacket protector.  This flaw aside, the five dust jackets show only minor wear at  extremities and a few trivial imperfections in the black background color.  Dust jackets for The Unwritten Alliance were notoriously poorly printed, and consequently are almost always rubbed or streaked, with orange showing through the black background.   This example of The Unwritten Alliance has excellent spine presentation, with two vertical streaks of orange color confined the front face.  We note almost invisible closed tears near the upper front hinges of Europe Unite and The Sinews of Peace, but these two jackets are nonetheless unusually clean and complete examples.  In the Balance is likewise an unusually bright example.  Assembling full, jacketed sets in such condition has become difficult.  The dust jackets are protected in removable, archival quality clear covers.  Bibliographic reference: Cohen A241.1, A246.1, A255.1, A264.1, A273; Woods/ICS A124(a), A128(a), A130(a), A137(a), A142; Langworth pages 184, 296, 301, 309, 338

      [Bookseller: Churchill Book Collector]

WHITE, E. B
        STUART LITTLE
      New York: Harper & Brothers, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Early owner name dated Nov. 1945 at the top of the front pastedown. Near Fine in a Near Fine example of the proper dustwrapper (priced $2.00) with a very small chip at the top of the spine not affecting the lettering and very mild soiling to the rear. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated by Garth Williams. White&#39;s first children&#39;s book.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Collectif :
        Poëmes français écrits en Suisse au temps de l'Exil *
      [Portes de France] Porrentruy, en la fête de St.Mathieu 1945. - Broché, couverture décorée rempliée. Préfacé par Charly Guyot, une anthologie poétique signée de divers pseudonymes et, parmi ceux signant à visage découvert, Pierre-Jean Jouve. Nous n'avons pu identifier aucun des auteurs présumé masqués; il est vrai que la plupart des ouvrages traitant de littérature publiée durant l'occupation allemande sont peu bavards sur ce que cette dernière a généré dans l'édition suisse. Un thème inédit pour un chercheur d'ici ? Édition originale. L'un des 25 exemplaires de tête numérotés (II) sur Marais, avant 1000 vélin et 100 S.P.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

BRETON André :
        Le surréalisme et la peinture *
      Brentano's, New York 2.4.1945. - Relié toile noire 26 x 18, vignette contrecollée, titres argentés. Suivi de "Genèse et perspective artistique du surréalisme" et de "Fragments inédits", dont un essai sur Duchamp, avec une préface de l'éditeur et un index. La plus belle édition de ce titre.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

Plaksin, Michail,
        Auschwitz].
      [Moskau, um 1945]. - Darstellungsgröße: 36 × 24,5 cm. Signierte Orig.-Lithographie. Sprache: Russisch, Die sehr eindrucksvolle Lithographie zeigt eine Gruppe von KZ'lern in Lagerkleidung vor einem Maschendrahtzaun. - Plaksin (1898-1965) war Schüler Alexander Jakowlews. - Vgl. Slg.Costakis S. 341. - Frisches Exemplar, am Rand mit Passermarken.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Frank Albrecht (VDA/ILAB)]

        GARBANCITO DE LA MANCHA. Reproducción directa de la maravillosa película de dibujos animados producida por Balet y Baly. Dibujos originales de A. Moreno.
      Ed. Ruiz Moreno, S.l - Apaisado, 30x20, port, 30h orladas con 240 cromos color (4 por página), 1h. Cartoné editorial con espiral, cub. con ils. color. - Dirigido por Arturo Moreno y basado en un cuento del falangista Julián Pemartín, fue el primer largometraje de animación del cine español. Se estrenó en 1945 y el público acudió en masa a ver esta película, muy digna, claramente influida por Disney. s.f

      [Bookseller: Escalinata, librería]

BAUDELAIRE Charles :
        Le spleen de Paris *
      A. Gonin, Lausanne 1945. - En feuilles 28 x 22, sous couverture gris-vert rempliée, titre en vert dos muet, double emboîtage demi parchemin, titré en sépia au dos. L'un des 43 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé Guarro Molivell, avec suite sur Japon impérial léger. Volume de semi-luxe de cet illustré un brin austère, pour un texte il est vrai peu joyeux .

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

MAUPASSANT Guy de:
        Toine *
      L.Wunderle, Lucerne 1945. - Broché 31 x 26, couverture illustrée rempliée, étui-boîte de toile verte, frappée d'un motif doré à la marque des animateurs de la collection. L'un des 40 exemplaires de tête numérotés et réimposés sur grand vergé de Guarro Molivell. Première plaquette d'une collection (on ignore comment elle se nomme, n'étant point précisée dans le corps du livre) imprimée par Roth et Sauter, consacrée à la louange du pressoir et de l'alambic.Notre exemplaire est imprimé au nom de l'éditeur qui rime avec le meilleur, seuls le tirage de tête étant enrichi de la suite signée. Papillon imprimé bicolore joint, à la date de la nouvelle année qui renforce notre première hypothèse d'une édition destinée à un cadeau d'entreprise.Exemplaire du tirage ordinaire sur demande.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Oh 7e Ciel]

(MILLER, Henry.)
        The Happy Rock. A book about Henry Miller
      Berkeley, California: printed for Bern Porter by the Packard Press,, 1945. Octavo. Original grey linen-backed boards, beige paper sides and endpapers, black titles and red illustration (by Ferdnand Léger) to front board, multicoloured leaves. Portrait illustration of Miller by Abraham Rattner to title page. Corners rubbed, covers and endpapers faintly marked; a very good copy. First edition; one of 3,000 copies (this unnumbered), of which 750 were bound for distribution during 1945, this from the 1947 issue (dated as such on the binding). This copy is inscribed by Miller himself on the front free endpaper, "From Henry Miller, Big Sur 4/20/50, to Hugo or his friend, for whomever - greetings - Salut! "Le cacodaimon" HM." The specific origin of Miller&#39;s persona as cacodaemon, an evil spirit, is untraced, though it fits entirely with the public perception of him as an evil and corrupting literary force, at a time when his Tropic trilogy was still banned in the United States. The printed dedication, fittingly, is "To the Freedom of the Press - should there ever be any", and the book itself collects pieces endorsing Miller by such writers as Lawrence Durrell, William Carlos Williams, Bern Porter (the publisher), Osbert Sitwell, and many more, with some notes by Miller himself, and a useful chronology and bibliography at the rear. The recipient of this copy was Jewish poet Hugo Manning (1913-77), a long-term correspondent of Miller, and also a contributor to this book, in which he writes, "Miller is anomalous, paradoxical... At one moment some will see him as the dead-end prophet, the amoral scavenger of the great twilight. And yet at another moment, they will see within that dead-end its very antithesis: Light. And saint-like wisdom. Many of us went are are still going the way of the Gadarene swine. We need a new piety certainly. Even if it is a rainbow&#39;s end, the act of searching for it will help.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

[GRAPHICS & ORIGINAL ART] GROPPER, William
        Original Drawing: The Bread Basket
      [1945]. Brown crayon on paper, 18" x 15". Professionally matted and handsomely framed in walnut, with original gallery label (Signature Galleries, Chicago) on verso of backing-board. A few trivial spots of foxing, else Fine sight condition. Not viewed out of frame.& & A very fine example of Gropper&#39;s post-War style, depicting a husband, wife and infant, perhaps in a shtetl or ghetto. A decrepit-looking beggar sits in the background. Undated, but likely ca. 1945-50.

      [Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books]

FITZGERALD, F. Scott
        The Crack-Up
      New York: New York,, 1945. With other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters. Together with Letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos. And Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson. Edited by Edmund Wilson. Octavo. Salmon pink cloth-backed boards with a pink title label to spine, pink patterened paper sides, pink top-stain. With the dust jacket. Light rubbing to ends and corners, tanned endpapers. An excellent copy in the spine-tanned and lightly rubbed jacket with a small closed tear, a few tiny chips and one or two trivial marks. First edition, first printing, first issue binding, of this posthumous collection of previously unpublished Fitzgerald material.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Stoddart, Dayton
        Prelude to Night (First Edition)
      New York: Coward-McCann, 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus, unclipped example of the rare dust jacket. Book is bumped at the bottom outer corners and heel with some shelf wear to the bottom edges. Jacket is bright, with no fading, but has nicking and light wear to the corners and spine ends, and a single one-inch closed tear at the bottom of the front panel. Basis for the 1948 film noir, "Ruthless," directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Zachary Scott and Sydney Greenstreet.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Holland, Mary writing as Marty Holland
        Fallen Angel (First Edition)
      New York: E.P. Dutton, 1945. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book shows small bump to the lower corner of the front board, else very bright and clean. The spine and rear panel of the jacket show slight toning, with one crease and light soil to the rear panel and rubbing to the extremities. A very bright, presentable copy of a scarce film source title, basis for the key 1945 film noir directed by Otto Preminger (one of his six noir cornerstones) and starring Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Hjul, James H
        Building Plans, Elevations, and Perspective for the Residence of Mrs. Kenneth M. Hjul on Roosevelt Way, San Francisco
      San Francisco: James H. Hjul, Structural Engineer, April 1945. Original pencil drawings on tracing paper. Sheet size primarily 18" x 24". 5 sheets. Job #217. File #1827. 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.

      [Bookseller: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts]