Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1947

Tavenner, Eugene, Ed
        The Classical Journal (227 issues from 1947-1979)
      George Banta Publishing Co, Menasha, WI. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Journal Collection of 227 issues of the Classical Journal dating from 1947-1979. Covers topics in Ancient classics through Medieval literature. All issues are very clean, tight and crisp without tears and showing minimal shelf wear. Freight on board shipping for this collection. Total weight of collection is around 80 pounds. Freight will be at cost. & & "PUBLISHED BY THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND SOUTH WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC STATES."& Size: 6 3/4" x 9 3/4". Item Type: Journal. All issues are free of marks. Bindings are tight, covers and spines are fully intact. Each issue has clean edges. All issues are not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 027722. .

      [Bookseller: Dickson Street Bookshop]

Dieterle, William (director); Robert Nathan (novel); Paul Osborn (screenwriter); Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten (starring)
        Portrait of Jennie (Original screenplay for the 1948 film | June 24, 1947 draft)
      Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. SPIN. & & FILMBLURB. AWARDS. & & Salmon studio wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 16, dated June 24, 1947, with credits for screenwriter Osborn. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. 123 leaves, mechanically reproduced. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Dieterle, William (director); Robert Nathan (novel); Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis (screenwriter); Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten (starring)
        Portrait of Jennie (Original screenplay for the 1948 film | Treatment dated May 18, 1946)
      West Hollywood, CA: Vanguard Films, 1947. Treatment script for the 1948 film.& & Painstakingly developed by Selznick International and then released under the auspices of Vanguard Pictures (to whom Selznick International was sold),"Portrait of Jennie" is a romantic fantasy so strange and concept-driven that it has always eluded mass popularity. Joseph Cotten portrays a struggling artist who becomes enamored with a little girl named Jennie who inexplicably begins to grow to womanhood over a period of weeks. & & Blue studio wrappers, noted as a Treatment script, rubber-stamped copy No. 29, dated May 18, 1946, with credits for novelist Nathan and screenwriter Barneis. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. 50 leaves, carbon mimeograph on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

WORCESTER, G. R. G
        THE JUNKS AND SAMPANS OF THE YANGTZE. A Study in Chinese Nautical Research. China. The Maritime Customs. III. Miscellaneous Series: No. 53 and 54. Two Volumes
      Shanghai:: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs,, 1947. Near Fine. TWO VOLUMES. Complete Set. Dated 1947-1948. Two Near Fine hardback First Edition Thus First Printings in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering spine and front covers. Minimal cover edge wear, toning endpapers and page edges. 4tos. xxviii, 245 pp. xv, pp. 247-506. A Rare set particularly in such nice condition.

      [Bookseller: By The Book, LC ABAA-ILAB]

Clouzot Henri-Georges (director); Stanislas-Andre Steeman (novel), Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier (starring)
        Quai des Orfevres (Original French Grande Poster)
      Rialto, 1947. Original French affiche poster for the 1947 French film noir, "Quai des Orfevres," directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, based on the novel by "Legitime Defense" by Stanislas-Andre Steeman, and starring Louis Jouvet and Bernard Blier. One of Clouzot's undisputed masterpieces, a Simenon-esque story in which a guilty man's complex murder scheme is systematically deconstructed by a patient and very tenacious police inspector (Jouvet). Not only one of the classics of French noir, but important in that much of it was shot in several famous French burlesque halls that were subsequently leveled, as well as much location footage from the grittier parts of Paris circa 1947. Near Fine, 47 x 63 inches, on linen. Criterion Collection 193. Buss, French Film Noir, p. 197.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

SILVA REGO (António da)
        DOCUMENTAÇÃO PARA A HISTÓRIA DAS MISSÕES DO PADROADO PORTUGUÊS DO ORIENTE. - ÍNDIA.
      - Coligida e anotada por. Divisão de Publicações e Biblioteca. Agência Geral das Colónias. Ministério das Colónias. Lisboa. 1947, 1949 e 1950. De 23x17 pags. Com 473, 390, 581, 599, 538, 501, 582, 537, 649, 838, 1008, e 941pags. Brochados. Ilustrados.Exemplares com capas de brochura plastificadas; assinaturas de posse nosanterrostos e ex-libris oleográficos nos rostos. Obra com transcrições das chancelarias régias; transcrições dos livros das Monções; traduções e transcrições de manuscritos portugueses em bibliotecas estrangeiras; transcrições de informações e roteiros sobre as Molucas depositados na BNP; transcrições de cartas das missões do Japão e na China; trancrição de cartas e epiítolas de S. Francisco Xavier; transcrição de material das Gavetas da Torre do Tombo; etc, etc. 1º volume 1499-1522; 2º volume 1523-1543; 3º volume 1543-1547.4º volume: 1548-1550; 5º volume 1551-1554; 6º volume: 1555-1558; 7º volume 1559; 8º volume: 1560-1561; 9º volume 1562-1565;10º volume 1566-1568; 11º volume 1569-1572; 12º volume 1572-1582. Location/localizacao: 4-1-F-1

      [Bookseller: Livraria Castro e Silva]

BELLOW, Saul
        The Victim
      New York: Vanguard, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Some darkening to the jacket spine and light soiling to the rear panel. A very fragile jacket. Price of $2.75 on the jacket flap. The author's second novel in which the protagonist, Asa Leventhal, must deal with what he believes is bigotry and racism.

      [Bookseller: Sawtooth Books]

Hunter, Dard
        Papermaking in Indo-China
      Chillicothe Ohio: The Mountain House, 1947. First edition, no. 17 of 182 copies signed by the author. "The paper used in printing this edition was made in 1932 in my mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut, the only handmade paper mill in America. The title page device was printed from a woodcut found in Tonkin...". 4to (11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches). Illustrated with 16 plates and 2 mounted paper specimens. Original quarter red morocco & pictorial boards, bound by Peter Franck, Sherman, Ct. Almost fine. Bookplate. With prospectus laid in with original price $38.50

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]

(TOWNSEND WARNER, Sylvia) WHITE, Gilbert
        The Portrait of a Tortoise
      London: Chatto and Windus., 1947. Extracted from the journals and letters of Gilbert White with introduction and notes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Octavo. Original blue/green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Rev. Gilbert White. Cloth slightly dust-soiled, toning to text block, dust jacket slightly tanned and chipped, still an excellent copy. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Sylvia Townsend Warner on the front free endpaper, "Nancy, from Sylvia, February 1947, with love". It is very possible that the inscription is to Sylvia Townsend Warner's close friend Nancy Cunard, with whom she shared as much a passion for writing as for political activism.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

DIETRICH - BRÜLLMANN, Erwin.
        Begegnung mit Adolf Dietrich.
      - Amriswil, Bodensee-Verlag, 1947. 22,3 : 18,1 cm. 32,(2) S. Mit 8 (1 ganzseit.) Illustr., 1 Tafel u. 1 lose beiliegende Orig.-Lithographie von A.Dietrich. Orig.-Umschlag. In 550 numerierten und vom Künstler im Druckvermerk in Tinte signierten Exemplaren erschienen. Mit einer in Bleistift signierten Lithographie des Scherbenhofes in Weinfelden (Aussenansicht, es wurden verschiedene Lithographien des Scherbenhofs beigegeben). Einmalige Ausgabe zum 70. Geburtstag des Künstlers in der Offizin H.Tschudy, St.Gallen gedruckt. - Sehr schönes Exemplar der seltenen und gesuchten Publikation. - Ammann/Vögele, Adolf Dietrich, Oeuvrekatalog der Ölbilder und Aquarelle, S. 20. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Zähringer]

Frost, Robert [Samuel French Morse]
        Steeple Bush
      Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Printing of the First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost to poet and Friend: "To Samuel [French] Morse / from his fellow in the art / Robert Frost / in great hopes for us all" Light rubbing to board ends, and slight tanning to spine of jacket, else both book and dust jacket in fine condition.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

      [Bookseller: Idler Fine Books]

Olson, Charles
        CALL ME ISHMAEL. Signed
      New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947 Presentation Copy & First Edition of Olson's first book, a study of Melville's, Moby Dick. A very good or better copy in yellow cloth, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh dustwrapper with light overall use. 8vo. 119 pp. Beautifully Inscribed and dated by Olson on the front endpaper to his good friend and mentor, Jonathan Williams of Contact Press: "O Jonathan! To be furious is to be frightened out of ear...Olson".. Signed by Author. First Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

OLSON, Charles
        CALL ME ISHMAEL with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) and a TYPED LETTER SIGNED IN TYPE
      New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Very Good dustwrapper. Author's first book, a study of Melville's MOBY DICK. This copy with two letters to Richard Tobin, journalist and editor of SATURDAY REVIEW, including an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the author and a TYPED LETTER signed in type by Olson. The holograph letter is 3 pages written from Gloucester addressed to Dick and SIGNED "Olson": "This scrabbled note-- for a bed!" Most of the @125 word letter, written in dark ink, pertains to travel plans and expresses hope of staying with Tobin. The typed letter, signed in type as Olson and also addressed to Dick from the John Winthrop House in "Cambritch," is 1-page, single-spaced, and @300 words. The purpose of the letter is to recommend a young journalist, but Olson's jagged sense of humor comes through from the first paragraph: "I've got your hat on at this moment. Why? I guess cause I just got in. It has a hole in the front and a hole in the back cause as you know it was too small and to pull it down over my longer and longer hair (I'm cheating the barber for a hell of a good reason - no gold) forace has been necessary thus the holes and thus it looks like a hat that did come out of the Flood. But thanks anyhow. I've liked it." Near the top of the letter is a neat hole representing the hole in the hat.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Sendak, Maurice. (Eidinoff, Dr. Maxwell Leigh and Ruchlis, Hyman)
        ATOMICS FOR THE MILLIONS
      New York: McGraw Hill, (1947)., 1947 First Edition, first issue of Maurice Sendak's first book with the paper quality statement on the copyright page. A fine copy in the publisher's navy blue cloth covered boards, faux morocco red label stamped gilt on the spine in a very good indeed price clipped dustwrapper, showing overall light wear with some minute closed tears. 8vo. 281 pp. Sendak was asked to illustrate the book by the author, Hyman Ruchlis, who was Sendak's high school physics teacher as an insentive for Sendak to improve his grades. This is the first time any of Sendak's illustrations appear in print. An extremely good copy.. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

Canetti, Elias [Wedgwood, C. V.: Translator] [Salter, George]
        The Tower of Babel [Signed by Canetti and by Salter]] [Auto-Da-Fe; Die Blendung]
      New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. A Very Good + copy of the first US edition, first printing (fading to the board extremities and to the spine, modest shelf wear, spine ends pushed, fading to the topstain) in a Very Good + George Salter-designed dust jacket (spine moderately sunned, moderate rubbing and small chipping to the spine head, light wear to the spine tail and jacket edges, typical toning to the panels and to the flap extremities), SIGNED BY ELIAS CANETTI on the half-title and SIGNED BY GEORGE SALTER on the dust jacket's front flap. First published as Die Blendung ("The Blinding") in 1935 and later banned in Nazi Germany, the book was translated to English in 1946 by C. V. Wedgwood then published in the UK as "Auto-Da-Fe" and in the US as "The Tower of Babel". As Canetti did not become widely-known until his "Crowds and Power" was published in 1960, both the Knopf and the Cape first editions are rather scarce. (Canetti intended the novel to be the first installment in a eight-volume series. As he did not write the rest of the planned installments, "The Tower of Babel" is not only his debut novel, but also is the only novel he ever published. Both "Crowds and Power", a work of nonfiction, and "The Tower of Babel" explore how an individual is affected by his or her participation in a group.) Canetti won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power", and "The Tower of Babel" is, in our estimation, his best-known work. Of this novel, Salman Rushdie stated: "...no one is spared. Professor and furniture salesman, doctor, housekeeper, and thief all get it in the neck. The remorseless quality of the comedy builds one of the most terrifying literary worlds of the century". As noted above, George Salter designed the book's striking dust jacket and signed this nice example of it at the bottom of the front flap. Born Georg Salter in Germany (1897), Salter was naturally left-handed and, after receiving a grade of only "satisfactory" in handwriting, taught himself to write and to draw with his right hand. A set designer by trade who also worked as a freelance book and dust jacket designer, Salter emigrated to the United States in 1934 and began to design dust jackets for US Publishers, ultimately designing hundreds of dust jackets and numerous magazine covers. Salter created some of the most mesmerizing dust jackets ever to grace a book, such as those for the US editions of Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom" and "The Hamlet", Kafka's "The Trial", George Mandel's "Flee the Angry Strangers", Graham Greene's "This Gun for Hire", Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", Ignazio Silone's "Bread and Wine", William Styron's "Lie Down in Darkness", and, of course, Canetti's "The Tower of Babel". Each of his dust jackets evoked the book's content and without a doubt helped increase the sales of the books which wore his works. Signed copies of Canetti's books are scarce, signed copies of any English translation of his books are scarcer still, and signed copies of any English translation of this title, the work for which he is best known, are extraordinarily so. Furthermore, not only are signed copies of Canetti's works scarce, but signed copies of George Salter's wonderful dust jackets are real hen's teeth in the market. Coming from the Estate of decorated Naval Officer and famed Actor Douglas Fairbank's and carrying his elegant bookplate to the front pastedown, this book's Provenance only adds to the book's rarity and desirability. A Very Good + copy of an uncommon book, SIGNED BY ELIAS CANETTI, with the DUST JACKET SIGNED BY GEORGE SALTER, and having a wonderful Provenance. RARE INDEED.

      [Bookseller: Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC]

Guthrie, A.B., Jr
        The Big Sky (Signed First Edition)
      William Sloane New York: William Sloane, 1947. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "For Miss Margie / With sincere good wishes always / Bud Guthrie / Lexington, Ky. / April 28, 1947." Not to be confused with the signed limited edition, printed in an edition of 500 copies.& & Basis for the 1952 Howard Hawks film, scripted by Dudley Nichols, starring Kirk Douglas as a frontier fur trapper coming to the aid of scene-stealer Arthur Hunnicutt. Jacket art by Alan Haemer. & & Very Good plus in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, faint offsetting to the endpapers, and a touch of fading to the topstain. Jacket front flap clipped, spine moderately faded, with brief chipping at the extremities.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Gauguin, Paul
        NOA NOA : Voyage de Tahiti
      Stockholm: Jan Forlag. 1947. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Good dust jacket, multiple chips and tears.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .

      [Bookseller: Rare Book Cellar]

SEUSS,DR
        McELLIGOT'S POOL
      1947. 1. SEUSS,DR. McELLIGOT'S POOL. NY: Random House (1947). 4to, dark green pictorial boards, slight cover marks else fine in frayed dust wrapper with old tape marks on verso, not price clipped. 1st ed., 3rd state with correct copyright notice. Seuss's first book since 1940 - delayed due to Seuss's military service. Fabulously illustrated in full color by Seuss. See Bader p. 308. Very scarce.

      [Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.]

TRAVEN, B
        A Collection of B. Traven Letters to Ruth Ford with Related Material Including Three Books
      A magnificent archive consisting of 21 Typed Letters Initialed (as either "H." or "H.C.") from the elusive and fiercely private B. Traven, nearly all of the letters to the actress Ruth Ford, for whom he professes great love in many of the letters. Accompanied by three books, including a first American edition of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and assorted clippings. All of the letters Initialed by Traven as "H.C" or "H." as Hal Croves. Croves, one of several aliases used by Traven, was invented by the author in order to present himself as Traven's literary agent, and used mostly in his interaction with legendary film director John Huston throughout the development and filming of Traven's novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The letters start in early 1947 and end in 1961, but the majority of them were written during 1947 and correspond with the production of the classic film. Many include references to day-to-day events of the film's production. These are dense letters, nearly all being single space typed. The letters average more than 500 words each, and one letter is over 2000 words. All of the letters have folds from mailing but are otherwise fine with about half of them accompanied by the original postmarked envelopes. Further details available upon request. .

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

(ARMSTRONG, Louis) GOFFIN, Robert
        Horn of Plenty. The Story of Louis Armstrong
      New York: Allen, Towne & Heath, Inc.,, 1947. Translated from the French by James F. Bezou. Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, treble clef in embossed to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece. Slightly rubbed, a little bubbled on the upper board, differential browning to the endpapers, marginal toning, a very good copy. First edition in English, published in French as Louis Armstrong. Le Roi du Jazz, in Paris in the same year. This copy signed by Armstrong beneath the portrait. Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, poet and author, a Stormy Petrel of the Nazi invasion, and who fled to the USA in 1939. In 1932 he had published Aux Frontières du Jazz., one of the earliest serious analyses of the jazz, and contributed "The Best Negro Jazz Orchestra," translated by Beckett, to Nancy Cunard's Negro anthology. In exile he supported himself by his writings, including a number of novels on the Nazi occupation of Belgium - La Colombe de la Gestapo and Passeports pour l'Audelà - and lectures, in 1942 collaborating with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis, held at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Goffin and Armstrong were close friends, and although Goffin is credited as the author, Armstrong's involvement in the book went far beyond acting as the co-operative subject. The 1999 publication of the Goffin Notebooks, part of the Louis Armstrong In His Own Words collection, showed that Satchmo was paying Goffin to act as his amanuensis, much of the material being drawn from his won manuscript autobiography covering his life from 1918-31. Having allowed his 1936 "autobiography" Swing that Music to be heavily ghosted, he decided to set the record straight.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Hugues Panassie
        Louis Armstrong (1947) (Signed)
      Paris: Editions Du Belvedere, 1947. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Louis Armstrong and 7 Jazz Musicians. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover, Very Good; This book used to belong to a French amateur musician who knew many jazz musicians. A line on the first page of the book says it was dedicated at the Jazz Hot Club in Toulon, France. AUTOGRAPHED!!! SIGNED by LOUIS ARMSTRONG in green ink on title page; and on the preceding page signed in dark blue ink by JACK TEAGARDEN, BARNEY BIGARD, EARL "FATHA" HINES, ARVELL SHAW, BIG SID CATLETT, BOB WILBER, and VELMA MIDDLETON. 107 pages [2] pp., frontis., b&w photographic plates of the mastermusician/entertainer, including frontispiece portrait. The first volume in the Maitres du jazz series, in French only; Dust Jacket Condition: Good, original paper wrappers with small chips at extremities, especially along the top. Scarce first edition of this biography by one of Armstrong's closest friends in the Jazz world. At rear is complete 15pp. discography by Charles Delaunay. Assumed First Edition. Very desirable, extremely rare, collectible. A real find of a lifetime! Guaranteed to be the gem of your collection..

      [Bookseller: Rare Finds Booksellers]

ALLAIS, Maurice
        Économie & Intérêt;
      Paris: Imprimerie Nationale,, 1947. Présentation nouvelle des problèmes fondamentaux relatives au rôle économique du taux de l'intérêt et de leurs solutions. 2 volumes, octavo. Original printed paper wrappers, neatly rebacked to style, small portion at head of first front wrapper renewed without affecting printed area. Custom cloth solander case. Wrappers and endleaves evenly browned, a good copy. First edition, presentation copy to his former pupil Gerard Debreu, inscribed by the author at the head of the first title, and with Debreu's ownership inscriptions to each front free endpaper. An outstanding presentation between two Nobel economics laureates: Maurice Allais (1911-2010), 1988 winner for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources, to Debreu (1921-2004), 1983 winner for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of general equilibrium theory, much of which work elaborated on Allais's. The two men were working together in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris at the time of publication, where Allais was director of a research unit and Debreu was an assistant. Economie et Intérêt is Allais's second major publication, a massive work on capital and interest which has formed the basis for the so-called "golden rule of accumulation". This states that to maximise real income, the optimum rate of interest should equal the growth rate of the economy. Allais did not publish in English until late in his career and as a result was slow to receive the international recognition that was his due: Debreu beat his former teacher to the Nobel prize in 1983 after he became an American citizen.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

        L'Apocalypse. Traduit du Grec et préfacé par Alain Guillermou. Avant-propos de Louis Réau. Illustré de ... gravures par Georges A. de Pogédaïff
      Paris, Coulouma (Druck) 1947-50.. 4 Bde. gr.-4°. 89 (7); 79 (9); 97 (9); 93 (9) S. MIt 88 tlw. ganzseit. Orig.-Radierungen. Auf Bütten, in Lagen. 4 OKart. u. OHLn.-Einbanddecken. In OSchubern EA vgl. Vollmer III, 605f.; Bénézit II, 6 - Eines von 199 Expl. Jeder Band mit eh., mehrzeil. Widmung des Künstlers im Kolophon. Auf Velin-Bütten. Zweifarb. Textdruck in Rot u. Schwarz. Deuxième volume avec préface de Pierre Mornand. 3me: Loys Masson; 4me: Daniel-Rops; Der russische Maler Pogédaïff (Pozhedaev Georgiy Anatolevich), (1897 Kursk - 1971) , russisch-französischer Bildnis-, Landschafts- Stillebenmaler und Illustrator, studierte an der Akademie in Moskau, war in Sankt Petersburg, Moskau, Berlin und Paris tätig.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Burgverlag]

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
        Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
      London: William Heinmann Ltd, 1947. 1 volume, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers rulled in gilt, gilt cornerpeices, covers gilt with the matching images to the original cloth binding, Alice holding the pig on the front cover and the Cheshire Cat on the rear, gilt dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, by Zaehnsdorf. Hinges fine a VERY FINE COPY IN AN ATTRACTIVE BINDING.

      [Bookseller: D&D Galleries - ABAA]

Morison, Samuel Eliot
        History of United States Naval Operations in World War II *Volume 1-15*
      Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1947. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size=6."x9.. Frontis, Maps & Photos. (full book description) Little, Brown and Co., Boston, MA, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing, VG+/VG, Hard Cover, DJ with Mylar. Size=6."x9.", Frontis, Maps & Photos. First Printing Edition with DJ's. First 14 volumes are all First Printings, Volume 15 (Supplement and General Index, not price clipped but doesn't say First Edition, but doesn't list another printing. Ink gift note on Volume 14, ink names, dates on Volumes 3,5,6,7 & 8. Ink name label on Volume 15 front endpaper, o.w. rest of books are clean, tight and bright. DJ's vary from Good (1 chip or so) to VG+ with a small tear or 2. All volumes have DJ's that have clear plastic protective covers.Great First Printing Set. 99% OF OUR BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN CUSTOM BOXES, WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE!

      [Bookseller: Ed Conroy Bookseller - edconroybooks.com]

Francesco Petrarca (Picasso and Aragon)
        Cinq Sonnets de Petrarque, avec une eau-forte (etching) de Picasso.
      Francesco Petrarca (Picasso and Aragon) Cinq Sonnets de Petrarque, avec une eau-forte (etching) de Picasso. Cinq Sonnets de Petrarque. La Fontaine de Vaucluse, MCMXLVII (Paris, 1947) With an original etching by Picasso (Bloch 370), translated in French by Louis Aragon. One of 100 copies on Arches wove of a total edition of 110. Each copy is inscribed with a different handwritten proverb by Louis Aragon, in lieu of his signature, and is numbered in ink by Aragon. This book includes five sonnets from the Canzoniere conceived and written by Francesco Petrarca after the death of his beloved Laura on 1348. Picasso's etching for the book is a beautiful oval face surrounded by flowing hair, representing the idealized portrait of Laura, but it was the homage of Louis Aragon to Elsa Triolet, a Russian he met in 1928 after a suicide attempt, and who changed his life. In the dedicatory epigraph Aragon wrote: "They said Laura was somebody Else" the printing of the capital letter E make a possible equation between Laura and Else, or Laura and Elsa. Ref: Cramer 47, Bloch 370, Bloch books 43.inscribed : a short note written by the author or a previous owner in the beginning of a book, generally accompanied by a signature.

      [Bookseller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB)]

BRADBURY, Ray
        Dark Carnival (Signed)
      Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. First edition / First printing.. Hardcover.. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. Octavo. First printing of the first edition of the author's first book. One of 3,112 copies printed. Collects twenty-seven classic short stories. ~SIGNED by Bradbury and dated May 21, 1948 in black ink on the front flyleaf. An almost fine copy (but for it's age) in a near fine dust jacket, with slight wear and creasing at spine ends and corners, and bit of rubbing at folds. An otherwise excellent copy of a title seldom found in such condition. Especially scarce signed within a year of publication.

      [Bookseller: Bloody Rare Books, LLC]

Ray Bradbury
        DARK CARNIVAL
      Sauk City: Arkham House 1947 1st ed, 1947. First edition. Inscribed by Bradbury on bookplate: For - - This copy of D.C. signed with good wishes by - Ray Bradbury. The first printing of Bradbury's first book being one of only 3000 copies. A hardcover book with dustjacket in good condition. Book is slightly bowed with some offsetting on endpapers else clean and tight. Dustjacket has mild wear along its edges; some sopil to the white portion of the rear panel; and two tiny 1/4-inch chips at the crown of spine.

      [Bookseller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA]

Bellow, Saul
        THE VICTIM. Signed
      New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947 Lovely example of the First edition of the author's second book. Signed by Bellow at the top of the title-page in black ink. First edition. 8vo., 294pp., black cloth, lettered in light blue to spine, top edge stained blue. A fine copy in dustwrapper, price-clipped, showing minimal use; The delicate powder blue dustwrapper just a bit faded at the spine, a couple of short closed tears. By far a better than usual example of this important Burgess 99 Novel.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

BELLOW, Saul
        The Victim
      New York: Vanguard, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book with light edgewear in a very good plus dust jacket. Some offsetting to the endpapers. Some darkening to the jacket spine and light soiling to the rear panel. A very fragile jacket. Price clipped. The author's second novel in which the protagonist, Asa Leventhal, must deal with what he believes is bigotry and racism. But who is the ultimate victim? Signed by Bellow on the title page. Signed by the author.

      [Bookseller: Sawtooth Books]

Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking, Fujen
        Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking. 1947 Annual. Fujen
      Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking, 1947 - Text in CHINESE language. Quarto, 26.6*18.6cm. 118 pages (72 full-page photos). An extremely rare album that chronicles the development of a prestigious catholic university in old China. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Chinese Art Books]

MARAN, René - P.-E. BECAT.
        Batouala.
      - Georges Guillot, Editeur, 1947, 1 volume de 235x300 mm environ, 185 pages, en feuillets sous chemise rempliée et emboîtage rouille avec dos toilé noir portant titre rouge. Exemplaire numéroté (N° 383), un des 350 exemplaire sur Arches à la forme, illustré de 18 gouaches de P.-E. Bécat, gravées par Louis Macard. Frottements et petits accrocs sur les coins de l'étui, sinon bon état.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Diogène]

Charles Baudelaire
        Les Fleurs du Mal
      Baudelaire, Charles illustrated by Matisse, Henri. Paris: La Bibliothèque Française, 1947. 29 portraits of women in which Matisse captures expressions and gestures of the passionate and loving feminine nature. With one original etching on chine appliqué (frontispiece), 33 full-page photo-lithographs, 38 line-drawn decorations (10 full-page), of which 2 on the covers, and 33 wood-engraved lettrines; all by Matisse. Large 4to. Decorate wraps, designed by Matisse. Slipcase and chemise. One of 300 numbered copies on papier de Rives, signed by Matisse in the colophon, from the limited edition of 320 in all. Etching printed by R. Lacourière, lithographs by Mourlot Frères, wood-engraving by Theo Schmied.

      [Bookseller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB)]

(MATISSE) Rouveyre, André
        Repli. Gravures de Henri Matisse
      Paris (Éditions du Bélier), 1947.. 163, (7)pp. 12 original lithographs hors texte, of which 6 printed on white stock and 6 on grey. 6 linocut lettrines and culs-de-lampe (2 printed in red, 4 in black). 4to. Portfolio; all contents loose, as issued. Wrapper, printed in yellow pochoir with a cut-out composition designed by Matisse. Publisher’s chemise and slipcase (heavy boards, slightly rubbed). Édition de tête: one of 25 numbered copies (of 35) printed on Montval vélin à la forme and accompanied by an extra suite of the lithographs on chine, signed by Matisse and Rouveyre in the justification, from the edition of 335 in all, the remainder of which was printed on Arches. Lithographs printed by Mourlot Frères, gravures by Feuquet et Baudier. A cycle in two parts, commemorating, in poems and images, the end of a love affair between Rouveyre--shown in six portraits by Matisse--and an unnamed woman, similarly depicted in brilliantly elegant line drawings, to whom the poet had dedicated two other works in the 1930s. The lemon-yellow design of the wrapper recalls the cutouts of Matisse’s “Jazz,” published in the same year. A few tiny foxmarks; a fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Ars Libri Ltd]

Durrell, Lawrence [ Lear, Edward.]
        CEFALU
      London: Editions Poetry, (1947)., 1947 Durrell, Lawrence. Durrell, Lawrence. CEFALU. London: Editions Poetry, (1947). First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's satirical novel, republished as The Dark Labyrinth. A fine copy in oatmeal cloth, gilt titles to the spine, pages browned as is usual, in a bright, fresh dustwrapper without the usual sunning to the spine, some light use and a couple of minor closed tears. Small 8vo. 238 pp. "Lawrence Durrell is a virtuoso, capable of extraordinary feats of prose and poetry. His command as a writer is supreme, as a creative artist, Durrell may be aptly likened to Mozart". The New York Times. [From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition]. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

COLLINS, Cecil
        The Vision of the Fool
      London: The Grey Walls Press Ltd,, 1947. Tall octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 31 plates of which 2 are in colour. Lightly rubbed at extremities, endpapers toned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and toned jacket with some small chips. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Alex Comfort with best wishes from Elisabeth and Cecil Collins. September 19th, 1947. Cambridge". Comfort was a poet and novelist, physician, and the author of both the first monograph on Collins' artwork and the best-selling Joy of Sex.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Schulberg, Budd
        THE HARDER THEY FALL. Inscribed
      New York: Random House, 1947 Excellent Presentation Copy. First Edition. 8vo., 343pp. A very good or better copy showing light use in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper to Hall of Fame sportswriter Jimmy Cannon dated in the year of publication: "For Jimmy, / who takes a game / with athletes and makes a world / with people / With admiration and warm / regards / Budd / July 15 1947". An explosive novel exposing the fight world's manipulation of prizefighters by their managers & racketeers. Basis for the critical 1956 Mark Robson directed film noir starring Rod Steiger, Max Baer, Sr. & Humphrey Bogart in his strong final role. An excellent unique Association Copy linking Schulberg & Cannon; two of America's greatest [sports] writers - both listed in the International Boxing Hall Of Fame. Schulberg is the only non-boxer honored as a "Living Legend of Boxing" by the World Boxing Association.. 1st Edition.

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

SCHULBERG, Budd
        The Harder They Fall
      Random House, New York,, 1947. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in red and blue, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue cloth folding box. An excellent copy in the little creased and frayed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

[Masson, André.] Leiris, Michel and Limbour, Georges
        André Masson et son univers
      Geneva/Paris, Trois Collines, 1947.: Art; Books / Art; French Literature; illustrated; Modern Thought; Rare Books; Signed; surrealism. [Collection 'Les Grandes Peintres Par Leurs Amis' - Vol. 3].. 4°.. First edition. No. VI of XL numbered copies on vélin d'arches a la forme, pur chiffon, signed by Masson, Leiris, and Limbour. An ample survey of Masson's oeuvre, containing about 100 reproductions, many on coated paper, two in color, with accompanying essays by fellow surrealists Leiris and Limbour. A very near fine, partially unopened copy in publisher's illsutrated stiff self-wrappers with a short edge-tear to head of spine, still bearing the publisher's protective glassine, the latter rather darkened.

      [Bookseller: Old Head Books & Collections]

Chester Charlton McCown; Joseph Carson Wampler
        TELL EN-NASBEH EXCAVATED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LATE WILLIAM FREDERIC BADE . [CT IN 2 VOLS]
      Berkeley/ New Haven: Oriental Research,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Palestine; Holy Land; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Half green cloth and board; very good. From a seminary library, pocketed and minimally stamped accordingly. Richly illustrated. Contents generally fine. Folding map in rear pocket in FINE condition. Vol I: Archeological and Historical Results. II: The Pottery. .

      [Bookseller: poor mans books]

Williams, Tennessee
        A Streetcar Named Desire
      New York: New Directions. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION of Williams's masterpiece, SIGNED BY WILLIAMS on front free endpaper. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. "A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century... After highly successful tryouts in Boston, New Haven, and Philadelphia, Streetcar opened on 3 December 1947 at the Barrymore Theatre and almost immediately entered the world of mimesis and memory. Thomas P. Adler claimed that Williams's play 'may arguably be the finest play ever written for the American stage.' Running for 855 performances over two years, Streetcar was the first play to capture the Pulitzer, Donaldson, and New York Drama Critics' Circle awards. Williams received a thirty-minute ovation on opening night, and was greeted by Howard Barnes 'as the Eugene O'Neill of the present period.' Louis Kronenberger hailed Streetcar as 'the most creative new play... the one that reveals the most talent, the one that attempts the most truth.' Not surprisingly, Streetcar quickly became a staple on the world stage, one of the major theatrical experiences and experiments of the twentieth century" (Philip C. Kolin, Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire). New York: New Directions, 1947. Tall octavo, original decorated cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, a hint of fading to dust jacket extremities (much less than usual). Overall, in exceptionally fine condition, particularly rare signed.

      [Bookseller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company]

MICHENER, James
        TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
      Macmillan, New York 1947 - Michener's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy with the typical browning to the paper though not as bad as usually found. The endpapers and pastedowns at front and rear have some foxing that does not enter the text. The dustwrapper has the $3.00 price horizontally at the bottom of the front flap and is quite bright with just a little edgewear at the corners and spine tips and no tears, chips, or creases of any significance. You are not likely to find a better copy, and anyone who tries to sell you a Fine/Fine copy should be court-martialed. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper and very scarce as such [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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

WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE
        A Streetcar Named Desire
      (NY): New Directions, (1947). First edition. This is Williams's most famous play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the year it was published. Legend has it that the audience applauded for half an hour after the debut performance ended. Williams also wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film, which garnered fame equal to (and perhaps surpassing) that of the original play with defining performances by Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. However, many of the more sensitive aspects of the play, such as Blanche's rape and references to homosexuality, were altered or omitted in order to comply with the film industry's censorship codes. A fine copy in printed boards with a tiny nick at the top of the spine and some light rubbing. There is no fading to the spine of the book. The dust wrapper is slightly faded on the spine and has two short, closed tears, else a fine example of a book that is notoriously difficult to find in such a state.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

MICHENER, James
        TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
      New York: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition. cloth. Good copy only, but a great, early inscription. Michener's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy with a very early INSCRIPTION dated 27 May 1947 SIGNED by the author: "Dear Jim,/The first serious writing I/did came your way. This one/had a better fortune, thanks to the/passing of time and some millions of/acres of the Pacific. It's been a treat knowing you./Jim Michener." We can only speculate who Jim was, but obviously he was of some importance to Michener very early in his career. The brittleness of the cheap paper, found in every copy we have seen, is much in evidence with a very short tear at the top margin running through nearly every page of the book. The covers also have short tears near the spine at the top and bottom. The upper front corner is bumped, and a darker shade at the very head of the spine indicates that a dustwrapper was present on this book for quite some time. All that is left is the rear flap which is laid in. Housed in a handsome and recent navy blue half morocco clamshell box.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

Michener, James A
        Tales of the South Pacific
      Macmillan, 1947. First Edition (first printing). The debut by the celebrated and prolific author of THE SOURCE and CARIBBEAN, stories of men and women caught up in the drama of the Pacific Campaign during World War II. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for the Broadway play and film, SOUTH PACIFIC. This is the issue with the $3.00 price printed sideways on the top corner of the dust jacket flap. Near Fine/Near Fine but for the usual/seemingly inevitable browning to the pages due to the cheap paper used in production and a couple of tiny chips at the head of the dust jacket spine. The front jacket flap has been clipped but no print is affected by this -- also, the number "237" has been discreetly hand written at the corner of the rear end paper. Overall, a copy that is significantly better than most, with bright clear colors and no soiling to the fragile jacket. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

      [Bookseller: Bill Leone, Bookseller ABAA]