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

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]

        De vliegende Hollander.
      [London], 1944-1945. - Dagblad verspreid door de geallieerde Luftmacht. Sammlung von 66 Heften. 4°. 95 Blatt á 2 SS. mit sehr zahlr. Fotos und einigen Karikaturen. Sprache: Nierderländisch, Erste Ausgabe. - Flugblatt-Tageszeitung der Alliierten für die besetzten Niederlande mit Informationen über den Fortlauf des Krieges. - Vorhanden sind Nr. "September 1944", 47-133, 135-138, "Laatste Nummer, 10 Mei 1945" sowie "Extra Nummer, 5 Mei 1980", dazu zwei Hefte als Korrekturabzüge. - Teils Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt aber gut erhalten. - Einzelhefte auf Anfrage.

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

Christie, Agatha
        Sparkling Cyanide
      Collins / The Crime Club, London 1945 - First edition of this crime novel, small octavo, 160 pages, near fine in very good unclipped dust jacket. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: alain marchet]

International Conciliation.
        The United Nations Charter. The Postdam Declaration. The Bretton Woods Agreements. Two Sections.
      439 - 639 Pages. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace., New York. 1945 - ORIGINAL and historical number of september 1945 no. 413. divided in two sections. Numero historico de esta prestigiosa revista americana: Carta de las Naciones Unidas, Conferencia de Postdam y los acuerdos de Bretton Woods de los que salieron el Fondo Monetario Internacional y el Banco Mundial. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: LIBRERIA CLIO]

Parrish, Anne
        Poor Child
      New York: Harper & Brothers 1945 - 8vo., black cloth stamped in gilt; worn dust jacket. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed, "George and Helen Papashvily, March 1945, and love. from Anne Parrish." Accompanied by 2 holograph holiday cards, approximately 150 words, from Parrish to Papashvily. Papashvily, the author of "Anything Can Happen" (1945), a bestseller, was made into a film in 1952 starring Jose Ferrer and Kim Hunter. A fine association copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts]

Steinbeck, John
        Cannery Row
      Viking 1945 - First Edition, First Printing bound with the Buff Cloth, NOT yellow. An original First Issue dustjacket that has some wear to the spine and edges. The book is in great shape. The boards are clean with minor wear to the panels. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a nice copy of this true first edition. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Quintessential Rare Books, LLC]

J. W. Bailhache
        gouache sur papier du Bar François 1er, par Bailhache
      Gouache sur papier, 50 x 40 cm. Bar François 1er, avenue Montaigne, perspective du bar. Le dessin est daté d'octobre 1945. Trace d'une mouillure en partie inférieure du document, sans trop altérer le dessin. (tv) Bon couverture souple Edition originale

      [Bookseller: Librairie Dejolibelle]

Müller, Heinrich (1903-1978).
        Sinnende. Mischtechnik auf Papier.
      1945 - Um 1945. Bildgrösse 43x43 cm. Unten rechts signiert. In altem Holländischem Rahmen 70x70 cm (dieser unten mit kleinem Defekt). Entstand um 1945 zur Zeit der starken Freundschaft Müllers mit den Gebrüder Gubler. Dieses Werk stark unter dem Einfluss Max Gublers. Das abgebildete Model ist mehrfach auch von Max Gubler porträtiert. In altem Holländischem Rahmen 70x70 cm (dieser unten mit kleinem Defekt).

      [Bookseller: Biblion Antiquariat]

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 superlative, collector grade, British first edition 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 fine in near-fine or better dust jackets.  All five cloth bindings are clean, tight, and square with sharp corners and virtually no wear.  The contents of all five volumes are uniformly clean and tight.  No spotting.  No inscriptions or previous ownership marks of any kind.  All five dust jackets are bright, clean, and unclipped, still bearing the original front flap prices.  The Europe Unite, In the Balance, and The Unwritten Alliance dust jackets in particular are extraordinarily fine examples.  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 Unwritten Alliance has superlative spine presentation and almost none of the endemic streaking.  Please note that Stemming the Tide is the more desirable first state dust jacket.  Dust jacket flaws in the set are few, confined to a trivial wear at The Sinews of Peace spine head and Stemming the Tide spine ends, a few incidental wear spots at hinges, and a .25 inch triangular chip at the top edge of the front face of the Stemming the Tide jacket.  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]

        La nazione del popolo. Organo del Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale.
      Subject: (Giornali). Firenze, 1945, A. II : 35 numeri, tutti variamente interessanti, inizialmente per la posizione di Firenze gi? liberata ed il Nord ancora no; poi per il periodo. Uniamo anche due numeri del 1946, inizio.

      [Bookseller: LIBRERIA PIANI]

CABASINO Salvatore
        IL FIGURINO NEL TEATRO ITALIANO CONTEMPORANEO. Con prefazione del Conte di Sanmartino e un saggio introduttivo di Duilio Cambellotti. Roma, Danesi Editore, 1945.
      Bella bross. editoriale, sovr. illustrata e con marginali restauri, cm 35x24, pp 107, (3), , 38 su 39 splendide tavv a colori applicate su cartoncino colorato, numerosissime ill. b/n. Note biografiche degli artisti. Edizione a tiratura limitata. Ottimo esemplare. Costumi disegnati, tra gli altri, da Brunelleschi, Cambellotti, Casorati, De Chirico, De Pisis, Guttuso, Mafai, Onorato, Prampolini, Severini, Tamburi.

      [Bookseller: Editoriale Umbra]

Winston S. Churchill
        The Second World War, Volume I, The Gathering Storm, a pre-publication galley proof with comments
      This exciting find is a galley proof of the first volume of Churchill's history of the Second World War. This offers a snapshot of Churchill's masterwork being prepared for publication. This is the only such galley proof we have seen on the market in memory. In July 1945, so near the victory he did so much to secure, Churchill lost the premiership to the Labour Party. Writing his history of the Second World War consumed most of the years he spent as Leader of the Opposition, before his second premiership in late 1951. Seldom, if ever, has a statesman had such singular ability to both make and write history. The sixth and final volume of The Second World War would not be published until 1953 - the year Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. A galley proof is an early printing of a work, usually produced after a manuscript has been typeset but before proofreading. They are typically printed for the author, editors, and proof readers. They are normally produced on long sheets of paper with wide margins (for comments) and bound inexpensively. While galley proofs can also be used by publicists or sent to book reviewers, their primary purpose is the editing process. More polished Advance Reading Copies (ARC) come later, more closely resemble the final published form, and are typically produced in greater numbers for circulation to reviewers. This galley proof of The Gathering Storm measures 12 by 7 inches and bulks 1.5 inches. It is produced on long, single-sided sheets, untrimmed at the top and bottom edges and unpaginated. The manuscript is bound in plain brown paper with a simple title and author label printed black on white paper affixed to the front cover. It is printed with wide blank side margins, with the text occupying a centered column 4.25 inches wide. Textual differences between the U.S. (true first) edition and the later British first edition attest that this is a U.S. edition galley. This galley was evidently produced early enough in the pre-publication process that it lacks the preface, table of contents, acknowledgements, moral of the work, theme of the volume, and maps and diagrams of the published text. The text appears to closely conform to that of the published version. This copy bears extensive comments which appear likely to have been made by an early stage reviewer, whose identity is unknown, as is the precise date of publication. However, we know that "The Gathering Storm" title was not selected until at least early February 1948, with publication of the U.S. edition on 21 June 1948. The extensive margin comments appear consistent with those of a reviewer than those of an editor or proofreader. The reader's comments and underlining are in pencil, extending 29 pages into the text. A total of 17 pages bear notation and/or comments, these being pages 1, 3, 4, 6, 9-11, 14, 15, 20, 22-24, 26-29. All notations appear consistent in style and handwriting, indicating that they were made by a single reader. Several margin comments either dissent with or augment certain points of history addressed in the narrative, particularly with respect to the deficiencies and draconian demands of the Treaty of Versailles. The reader shows detailed knowledge of events, as comments sometimes name specific individuals. Moreover, there is some indication that the comments may be those of an American reader, since there is sharp criticism of England both expressed and implied, as well positive comment about Wilson; however, this is interpretative speculation. Overall condition is very good given the perishable nature of such an item. The brown paper binding is square, tight, clean, and complete, though dog-eared at the corners and with some wear and separation at the spine ends. The contents are clean and bright with some wear at the page edges of the first few dozen pages of text, as well as the final few pages. A hint of spotting is confined to the text block fore edge.

      [Bookseller: Churchill Book Collector]

REVERDY (Pierre)
        Plupart du temps. Poèmes 1915-1922.
      1945 - NRF Gallimard, 1945. In-12 (couv. légèrement usée), 382 pp. EO, UN DES 24 PUR FIL, second papier après 5 Hollande. * Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s).

      [Bookseller: Chez les libraires associés]

[SZYK, ARTHUR]
        Lord&#39;s Prayer"
      NY, 1945. A stunning original painting in ink and gouache by the renowned illustrator Arthur Szyk, signed and dated by the artist. The painting measures 7 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches, on illustration board measuring 12 by 9 1/4 inches. This illustrated Lord&#146;s Prayer is comprised of fourteen calligraphed lines, illuminated in bright colors in the style of a medieval manuscript. Along the left margin of the page is an intricate border, incorporating portraits of people praying, including a little boy kneeling with his hands folded. A floral border extends along the bottom of the page, and tiny, delicate curls of tracery fill in the border and extend along the top edge. Szyk&#146;s work is characterized by its minute detail, and his style is very much in the tradition of Eastern miniaturists. Szyk was born in Lodz, Poland in 1894. His artistic talents became evident at an early age, and he was sent to Paris to study at the Académie Julian when he was a teenager. He was a prolific illustrator of books, many of which were of Jewish content, including his masterpiece, The Haggadah. After World War II, Szyk moved to the United States, where he became one of the chief artists for the Limited Editions Club and contributed illustrations and caricatures to several magazines. This illustration was published in the January 1946 edition of Coronet magazine, inside the front cover. Mounted and framed. On the sheet of illustration board, around the illustration, are publisher&#146;s notes. Two small spots of tape residue, light soiling to margins, light toning; the painting is in fine condition.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

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.]

Comanducci A.M.
        Dizionario illustrato dei Pittori, Disegnatori e Incisori Italiani Moderni (1800-1900).
      Milano, 1945. 1945 Due volumi in 4°, pagg. 922 complessive interamente illustrate con foto in nero e tavole a colori. Legature uso pelle editoriale rossa, titoli oro ai piatti e al dorso. Seconda edizione riveduta da L. Pelandi. Ottimo stato.

      [Bookseller: Biggio Giuseppina]

COMANDUCCI A. M.
        DIZIONARIO ILLUSTRATO DEI PITTORI E INCISORI ITALIANI MODERNI (1800 - 1900) SECONDA EDIZIONE RIVEDUTA DA L. PELANDI
      Grafitalia 1945 Milano, Grafitalia, 1945; 2^ Edizione, prima ristampa di 1500 copie numerata in macchina e firmata dal revisore; (esmplare n° 1228) 2 volumi, mz pelle con angoli, piatti marmorizzati, titolo in oro al dorso, in-4°, cm 23 x 30,5; fogli di guardia colorati; (picc. manc. in alto a un dorso, vedi foto) pp. (14),411; 922,(4) (numeraz. continua); con centinaia di ill. in b.n. nel t., 150 tavole f. t.(80 b/n 70 a colori). Ottime condizioni.

      [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Arrighetto]

LOBEL-RICHE - VERLAINE Paul
        Chanson pour Elle
      33 puntasecche di soggetto erotico del pittore-incisore Almery Lobel-Riche (23x17; 14,5x14,5 circa) ed un disegno a sanguigna originale firmato e dedicato in antiporta (cm 17x21,5) L'impression typographique a été exécutée sur les presses du maitre-artisan Raymond Jacquet a Paris. Les cuivres ont été tirés sur la presse de Manuel Robbe Fioriture leggere (Some light yellowing) Molto buono (Very Good)

      [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Marini]

Beer, Allan / Nömmik, Vera / Norén, Karl-Erik / Göran Tholerus / Tell, Lasse
        TENNISTIDNINGEN 1945-1965. ÅRGÅNG 1-20.
      Stockholms Tennisförbund 1945-64, Svenska Tennisförbundet 1965, 20 årgångar om 10-11 nummer, 24-40 sidor per nummer rikt illustrerade, samt introduktionsnummer (1945) och bilagor. Sammanbundna i 10 röda klotband med förgyllda ryggtitlar, samtliga tvåfärgstryckta omslag medbundna; nr 10-11/53 i stencilerad kopia, bakre omslaget i 9/61 och motstående framomslag i 10-11/61 med kakfläckar(?) i nedkant. Förutom nr 10-11/53 en komplett välhållen svit. Volym 1 (1945-47) med många intressanta tennisstjärneautografer, bl a den blott 10-årige Jan-Erik Lundqvists (11/47).. I redaktionen har även medverkat: Sture Cedervall, Sigvard Oettinger, Olle Sturén, Åke Lundqvist, Sven Fröberg, Bertil Sune Halldin, Börje Josephsson, Thomas Sandberg och Elon Ekman. Utgiven av Stockholms Tennisförbund som organ för Stockholms och Västergötlands Tennisförbund (1/45-5/46), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet (6/46), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet; Stockholms, Skånes och Västergötlands Tennisförbund (1/47-10/47), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet; Stockholms, Skånes, Västergötlands och Värmlands Tennisförbund (11/47-3/49), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet; Stockholms, Skånes, Sörmlands, Västergötlands och Värmlands Tennisförbund (4/49-3/51), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet; Stockholms, Blekinges, Skånes, Sörmlands, Västergötlands och Värmlands Tennisförbund (4/51-3/53), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet; Stockholms, Blekinges, Skånes, Sörmlands, Västergötlands, Värmlands och Östergötlands Tennisförbund (4/53-6/53), organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet; Stockholms, Blekinges, Skånes, Smålands, Sörmlands, Västergötlands, Värmlands och Östergötlands Tennisförbund (7/53-2/54) och fortsättningsvis som organ för Svenska Tennisförbundet och ett växande antal av dess distriktsorganisationer

      [Bookseller: Antikvariatet i Norrköping]

Van Vechten, Carl
        Portrait photograph of Rufino Tamayo
      New York december 27 1945 New York, december 27, 1945. (TAMAYO, RUFINO) Apx. 9-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. . Fine . Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was a Zapotecan Indian born in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. He moved to MExico City where he attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas "San Carlos." Tamayo was exposed to the cultural wealth of pre-Colombian MExico as he worked as a draftsman at the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia. While his contemporaries Siqueiros, Rivera and Orozco were advocating art with a message, often political, Tamayo's work focused on plastic forms integrated with a masterful use of colors and textures. He is one of the best known Latin American artists. His exhibitions have been in major museums such as the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, MExico, The Philips Collection in Washington, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid as well as important art galleries throughout the world

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller ]

ORWELL, GEORGE.
        Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
      London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. Original gree full cloth with original printed green and grey dust jacket, not price-clipped. Capitals of cloth spine faded. Dust-jacked with small lacks of paper at capitals (where cloth is faded and a few, small tears at extremities. A very small piece of paper loss at lower part of back on the dust-jacket. Lines of fairly light brown spotting (rust?) to front of dust-jacket. An old owner's name to front free end-paper. All in all a fine and sound, completely unrestored copy - the fragile dust-jacket, which is made of recycled war-time paper, is often found in very poor condition.. First edition of one of the most important literary works of the 20th century, the satirical-political masterpiece that so magnificently reflects the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and brilliantly caricatures Stalinism. As Orwell himself put it, with this work, he deliberately tried "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole". (Orwell, "Why I Write"). "Animal Farm" brilliantly portrays not only the corruption of the revolution, but also how traits of human character themselves corrupt society. The greatest flaw of revolution is not the corrupt leadership on its own, but also the greed, indifference, ignorance, shortsightedness, wickedness, etc. that govern the individuals that make up the masses. The work was written between late 1943 and early 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain, among both the people and intelligentsia. Not surprisingly, it was initially rejected by both British and American publishers, and the publication of it was thus delayed. When it did appear, it became a great commercial success, however, probably not least due to the soon to follow Cold War. The work is generally considered one of the best and most influential literary productions of the 20th century. The original subtitle "A Fairy Story" was dropped when the book was published in the United States, and all but one of the translations omitted it

      [Bookseller: Lynge & Søn A/S]

KRISTENSEN, TOM:
        En Kavaler i Spanien.
      3. forøgede Udgave. Kbhvn.: Gyldendal 1945. 206 s. Originalt omslag ( med lidt småskavanker) med illustration af Anton Hansen. Løst eksemplar.. Med dedikation: "28-5-45. Kære Gertrud og Otto Rung; Desværre blev jeg ikke den, jeg var støbt til. Men modtag denne bog om dengang, da der var Magt i mig. Deres taknemmelige Tom". 'Den gang' var i 1926, da bogen udkom første gang

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

ANDERSEN, IB (1907 - 1969):
        DDL. Det Danske Luftfartselskab. Danish Air Lines.
      Litografisk plakat. Andreasen og Lachmann / Anton M. Jensens Bogtrykkeri. 1945. Lysmål 96x59 cm.. Et helt ubeskåret eksemplar med meget friske farver af en af Ib Andersens mest berømte plakater og et af ikonerne i dansk plakatkunst

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

JORN, ASGER - NASH, JØRGEN & ASGER JØRGENSEN:
        Salvi Dylvo.
      Kbhvn.: Helhestens Forlag [1945]. Illustr. med litografier af Jorn. [45] s. Opl. 300 numr. og sign. ekspl. Orig. kart. Illustr. with lithographs by Jorn. Limited to 300 numb. and signed copies. Publisher's boards.. PHH 55. Van de Loo 94. Med dedik. fra Jørgen Nash til en ukendt digterinde (navnet bortraderet). Inscribed by Jørgen Nash to an unknow poet (name removed)

      [Bookseller: Peter Grosell's Antikvariat]

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

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]

Steinbeck, John
        Autograph Letter Signed ("John") to Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard, from Cuernavaca, regarding the filming of THE PEARL, and other matters
      Hotel Marik, Cuernavaca, Mexico, "june - (toward the front)", [1945]. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. One page in ink on recto of a single sheet ruled note paper. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith . UNPUBLISHED letter written from Cuernavaca, while Steinbeck was in Mexico "riding herd" on the shooting of the film version of THE PEARL Dear Buzzy and Paulette: I&#39;ve forgotten where you live. I&#39;ve forgotten Milly&#39;s [i.e., LEWIS MILESTONE&#39;S] street number too but at least I remember his street. We don&#39;t live at the hotel but we get our mail there. I know Paulette knows the place. We have a little house with a big garden about half a mile from the plaza - very pleasant. Will be here until October I guess. We don&#39;t start shooting [THE PEARL] until August. I don&#39;t suppose there is much chance of your coming down after you finish the Chambermaid [ Meredith&#39;s DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID]. Blumey was asking about you the other night when we were in town. We&#39;re getting lots of sun and oddly enough a lot of work done, a thing I can hardly believe. I wonder how your film ["Diary of A Chambermaid"] goes. I have some ideas for the future - too many but perhaps worth discussing some time. Tom grows like a bloody weed. He is so black we will have trouble getting him into a hotel in Georgia. And he is very strong and no intellectual company whatever. Gwyn thrives here. Anyway, we&#39;ll see our picture through here and then go on to New York in October and after that we have no plans. ... The grapevine has nice things to say about your picture. And Renoir is a great man. I&#39;ve always wanted to work with him. The rains are just starting here and the fine big clouds all day. It&#39;s pretty wonderful. Please give our love to Kendal and Milly. And to yourselves. JOHN" [with:] Telegram from Steinbeck&#39;s wife Gwendolyn in New York, to Burgess Meredith in Monterey, Calif., conveying Steinbeck&#39;s address in Cuernavaca: "Dear Buzz, John is in Mexico Address Hotel Marik Cuernavaca Mor. Mexico ... Gwen in New York."

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]

KERTESZ, Andre
        Day of Paris
      J.J. Augustin New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. His first book to be published in the U.S. Produced with the assistance of photo historian Peter Pollock and legendary graphic designer and photographer Alexey Brodovitch. With their help this book has become a high spot of 20th century photography books and a consensus pick on all of the "best of lists.' A bright and clean close to near fine copy in cloth binding with some slight splaying to the binding. No dust jacket. (Parr & Badger v1, 200: Roth 114)

      [Bookseller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA ]