viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1952

HEMINGWAY, Ernest
        THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
      NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1952) - First Edition, First State, with Scribner 'A', dust jacket author photo tinted blue, and no mention of the Nobel Prize. A near fine example of the book which won its author a Pulitzer Prize. A short novel, it was the last major work published during Hemingway's lifetime and is widely considered one of his two or three enduring masterpieces. Basis for the 1958 John Sturges film starring Spencer Tracy. Certainly, this book was a major contributing factor in Hemingway's winning the Nobel Prize the following year. William Faulkner, in his review of the book, called it Hemingway's best. Near fine in like jacket with but a small chip to the crown of the spine. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Hemingway, Ernest
        The Old Man and the Sea
      Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1952 - Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Scribners, 1952. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This is the first issue (with the Scribner "A" and seal) in a first issue dust jacket (with the lightly blue-tinted author photo on the rear panel and the $3.00 price). Previous owners name to front paste down and very slight damp stain toback board. Slight crease to top left of front panel but the dust jacket spine is brilliant (as is the rest fo the DJ) as if it has been kept stored away from light for decades. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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HEMINGWAY, Ernest
        THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
      New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1952. hb cloth. 8vo, pp. 140. . Bound in light blue cloth, with Hemingway's signature embossed on the lower front board, and silver lettering to spine. 1952 at bottom of the title page. Copyright page has the Scribner's Press seal, but lacks the "A", thus first edition, but not first printing. There is a former owner's ink gift inscription, dated 1952, on the front free endpaper, and a few faint blemishes to the top right of the front board, and to the top left of the rear board. Otherwise, the book is in near fine condition. The first state dust jacket has not been price-clipped, and shows a price of $3.00. The sepia-toned photo of Hemingway is on the back panel and there is no mention of the Nobel Prize in the blurb. The spine is a bit darkened, with just a trace of wear & chipping to the spine ends and folds. The front panel is exceptionally vivid - the best we have seen on any copy of this jacket. Overall, the jacket is in very good, to near fine, condition. .

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Hemingway, Ernest
        The Old Man And The Sea
      Jonathan Cape 1952 - First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy with some very mild foxing and a small spot on the lower board in a very lightly sunned dustwrapper, which is clean and without any tears. Though the U.S. edition is the more desirable one, this one has a strikingly different dustwrapper and is much rarer. Much more so in this condition. The book that finally convinced the Nobel committee to award its price to the all time master of short fiction and big game hunting, some of which is frowned upon today. CHF 600. This item is part of our Catalogue 5: 100 Key Books, a copy of which you can order from us at YGRbooks. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Fante, John
        Full of Life
      Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Signed. First Edition, First Printing. In original dust jacket with price of $2.75 intact. Signed and warmly inscribed by John Fante on the front free end paper to a Los Angeles artist, Edmond Kohn. Inscription reads "For Ed Kohn for painting those delightful pictures of my children, and at such reasonable prices. -John Fante" In Very Good Minus condition, in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean text, though pages are age lightly toned. Boards show toning, with a scuff on the rear. The dust jacket shows sunning to the spine panel, edge wear with a few tears, two of which have been repaired from the verso. Chip to spine panel. Light soiling. A lovely inscription from Fante, offering a peek into his Hollywood life in '50s.

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GELLERT, Hugo
        [Poster]: March for Peace. May 1st 1952
      New York: Provisional United Labor and People's Committee for May Day. 1952. Measuring 14.5" x 22". Poster printed in red and blue. A dove hovers over a protesting crowd, one of whom carries a sign: "Bring the boys home from Korea!" Beneath the illustration are admonitions to: "Save the Bill of Rights! End Jim Crow! Repeal the Smith Act! Stop Lynch Terror..." Top right corner is snipped in an approximately 1" rectangle, a little soiling, else very good. .

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DICKINSON, Emily
        THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
      New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase slightly bumped. Scarce in this condition. Helen Sewell. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full top-grain black sheepskin with a morocco grain and the title stamped in gold leaf on the front cover and spine; 320 pages. Each sheet is printed in black and brown. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with pen drawings by Helen Sewell. Copy #1277 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

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Heinlein, Robert A[nson].
        THE ROLLING STONES .
      New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952] - Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63. Mild bruises to lower corner tips, small owner's inked name at top edge of front free endpaper, a nearly fine copy in bright, near fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.50 on the front flap) with touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, two short closed tears along upper spine folds professionally mended by a paper conservationist, and a faint horizontal crease at top edge of rear panel. A nice copy of one of the more elusive Heinlein books written for young adults published during the 1950s. (#113342) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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SCHRÃ–DINGER, ERWIN
        Are There Quantum Jumps
      Edinburgh and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of SchrÃ¶dinger's consideration of quantum jumps and the future of physics. Complete in two parts. "Throughout his life, SchrÃ¶dinger sought to discredit Bohr's concept of quantum jumping. His forceful attacks culminated in the 1952 paper 'Are There Quantum Jumps?' In this paper he also presented some objections against Born's collision treatment and probabilistic interpretation..." SchrÃ¶dinger also "repeated his old arguments, enveloped in a good deal of rhetoric. Physical science is at present in danger, he argued, of being severed both from its glorious history and from its cultural milieu. Physicists must concern themselves, not only with ingenious theoretical constructs and their agreement with experimental data, but also with the suitability of their concepts to be absorbed into a general spiritual culture of mankind: 'Science is not a soliloquy. It gains value only within its cultural milieu, only by having contact with all those who are now, and who in future will be, engaged in promoting spiritual culture and knowledge.' "Not all concepts, according to SchrÃ¶dinger, are destined to survive: 'A theoretical science... where the initiated continue musing to each other in terms that are, at best, understood by a small group of close fellow travelers, will necessarily be cut off from the rest of cultural mankind, in the long run it is bound to atrophy and ossify'. The 'abbreviated language' of quantum jumps, SchrÃ¶dinger argued, is not a suitable candidate for long-term survival. There were other 'ingenious constructs of the human mind that gave an exceedingly accurate description of observed facts and have yet lost all interest except to historian,' for example, the epicycles of planetary motion. The modern analogue of epicycles, SchrÃ¶dinger prophesied, are the quantum jumps" (Beller, Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution). IN: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol III, No. 10 (pp. 109-123); Part II, Vol III, No. 11 (pp. 233-242). Edinburgh and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., August and November, 1952. Octavo, original wrappers. A few marginal (scientific) pencil notations (not in SchrÃ¶dinger paper). Part I with a little chipping and small ink stain to spine end wrappers and patch of soiling to rear wrapper. Part II fine. An extremely well-preserved copy, rare in original wrappers.

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WILLIAMS, Tennessee
        [Typescript]: First Draft of Final Version of Camino Real
      [1952]. Carbon typescript. Quarto. 133pp. Sheets bradbound in the blue "Liebling-Wood" folder of Williams' agent, Audrey Wood. The light blue wrappers have light wear at the extremities, near fine. A drama that was expanded from Williams' one-act play, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, after Elia Kazan showed interest in the original story. It debuted on March 15, 1953, and was the first of Williams' plays to feature fantasy elements with a story that follows various literary characters, such as Don Quixote and Casanova, trying to escape an isolated and unidentified Spanish town. This copy, which is divided into 14 blocks instead of 16, as in the final published version, includes a typed note at the bottom of the first page that reads: "This draft is to be kept 'under cover' - only for Audrey Wood, Kazan, and possible producer. T.W."Some key differences indicate this draft was written prior to a November 17, 1952 letter from Kazan to Williams outlining his thoughts on the play but before any changes were made by Williams. This copy includes the characters Mr. Big and Miss Small but not any of the additional lines created for the Kilroy character, as suggested by Kazan and played by Eli Wallach, or Esmeralda's prayer in the final scene that sums up the play's message and showcases Williams at his most poetic. Unfortunately, none of these changes worked because the play received some of the worst reviews of Williams's career. One of the harshest comments came from New York Herald Tribune theater critic Walter Kerr who said "Williams is our greatest playwright and this is his worst play." Needless to say, the play did not do well, running for only eight weeks and 60 performances. A revival was produced in 1970 by director Jules Irving with Al Pacino, Jessica Tandy, and Susan Tyrrell to similar success. .

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NEWMAN, Elias, edited by
        1952 Improvisations: Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Hotel Astor, May 15. Spring Fantasia
      Artists Equity Association, New York Chapter, New York 1952 - First edition. Thick quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated. Plastic spiral bound illustrated wrappers. Owner's name, age-toning, and small tears on the wrappers, a few pages are a little pulled from the spirals, but overall this is a nice, very good copy. Copy number 1570 of 2000 numbered copies. Very uncommon thick program with illustrations printed rectos only. Consisting almost entirely of ads from New York businesses, illustrated mostly in black and white on colored paper by different artists including Milton Avery, Max Weber, Ben Shahn, Chaim Gross, John Myers, Elias Newman, Alexander Alpert, Raphael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Moses Soyer, Josef Presser, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henry Billings, Bertram Goodman, Gerrit Hondius, Lewis Daniel, John Groth, T. Lux Feininger, Reginald Marsh, Leo Lionni, Jack Levine, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Gwathmey, Georges Schreiber, Antonio Frasconi, Sam Adler, Alex Redein, Hans Hoffman, and Clara Klinghoffer. Includes additional color lithographs by Chaim Gross, Adolf Dehn, and Milton Avery. *OCLC* locates one copy at the Art Institute of Chicago. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Voltaire - Henry Lemarié
        Candide. Illustré par Henry Lemarié.
      Paris, Editions du Rameau d?or, Paul Cotinaud, [1952] - 8°, 169 S., 55 mehrfarb. Pochoirs-Reproduktionen der Aquarelle., Kart.-Umschlag, darin Broschur m. Transp.-OU u. losen Bogen, in Schmuckschuber., Schuber etwas gebräunt. Kart.-Umschlag ebenfalls am Rücken gebräunt. Bücher sonst tadellos. Teilweise Farbabklatsch der Illustrationen - insgesamt schönes Exemplar. Text franz. Nr. 769 von 1200 Exempl. sur Velin d'Arches. Cet ouvrage a été tiré sur les presse de Raymond Jacquet, imprimeur d?art. Les aquarelles d?Henry Lemarié ont été magistralement reproduites aux pochoirs dans l?atelier de Maurice Beaufumé. - Henry Lemarié (1911- 1991) est, sans conteste, le miniaturiste français le plus célèbre et le plus apprécié de notre époque. Son oeuvre est la plus recherchée des bibliophiles: en effet, à ses qualités picturales il a su adjoindre une parfaite maîtrise de l'illustration. 1100 gr. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Burnett, W.R., [H.N. Swanson]
        Archive of screenplay and manuscript material by W.R. Burnett
      - An archive of 19 mimeograph manuscripts and screenplays, many never published or produced, by W.R. Burnett. All identified by stamp, label or cover sheet as being from H.N. Swanson, Inc., Burnett's literary agent. Swanson, is himself a figure of note, having begun as a movie producer and then becoming one of the most famous literary agents of his day in Hollywood, representing the likes of William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, and, of course, W.R. Burnett.Published and produced manuscripts include "Vanity Row" (manuscript, Knopf, 1952), "Mi Amigo" (manuscript, Knopf 1959), "The Abilene Sampson" (manuscript, Pocket Books, 1963), "Little Men, Big World" (manuscript, Knopf, 1951), "The Goldseekers" (manuscript, Doubleday, 1962), "Bitter Ground" (manuscript, Knopf, 1958), "Underdog" (1956 screenplay, published as a novel by Knopf in 1957), and "The Ivory Tower" (manuscript with tear sheets from publication), "Good Housekeeping," (March 1945).Presumed unproduced or unpublished material (circa 1950s) include: "Pay As You Exit" (screenplay), "A Glance from a Green Eye" (screenplay treatment), "4 for the Road" (television series treatment), "The Texas Story" a.k.a "The Bandit" (screenplay), "The Sun Chasers" (screenplay). "Little Girl, Big Town" (2 copies, short story or story treatment), "Man With a Thousand Enemies" (manuscript), "Babylon USA" (manuscript), "The Big W" (manuscript), and "Night at Shark Bay" (2 copies, manuscript).A superb collection of unpublished and presumably non-researched material from one of the great novelists and Hollywood screenwriters of the twentieth century.

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Georges Duhamel
        La chronique des Pasquier
      Albert Guillot éditeur. 1952 - En feuillets sous jacquette rempliée et emboitage de couleur sur chiffon du Marais filigrané à la signature de G. Duhamel ?Complet des 10 titres : Cécile parmi nous, Notaire du Havre, Suzanne et les Jeunes Hommes, Le Jardin des Bêtes Sauvages, La Passion Pasquier, Les Maitres, Vue de la Terre Promise, Le Désert de Bièvre, La Nuit de la Saint-Jean, le Combat des Ombres? illustré par : Yves Brayer, Paul Lamagny, Marguerite Louppe, André E. Marty, Ch. Picart Le Doux, Patrick de Manceau, Berthommé Saint-André, Grau-Sala, Gaston Barret et A.D. Steinlen. Exemplaire n°1715/1850.

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(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor
        XXe SIECLE (VINGTIEME SIECLE): NOUVELLE SERIE NO. 3 (DOUBLE) - JUIN 1952: ART ET POESIE DEPUIS APOLLINAIRE - WITH ORIGINAL GRAPHICS BY JEAN MIRO, ALEXANDER CALDER, HENRI MICHAUX, AND ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
      (XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. XXe SIECLE (VINGTIEME SIECLE): NOUVELLE SERIE NO. 3 (DOUBLE) - JUIN 1952: ART ET POESIE DEPUIS APOLLINAIRE - WITH ORIGINAL GRAPHICS BY JEAN MIRO, ALEXANDER CALDER, HENRI MICHAUX, AND ALBERTO GIACOMETTI. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1952. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good. 88pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover design after Guillaume Apollinaire. This third installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features original lithographs by Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Henri Michaux, and Alberto Giacometti. The contents include contributions on or by Herbert Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, Futurism, Gino Severini, Poetry and Text in Art, Jean Arp, Jean Cassou, Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Pierre Courthion, Henri Michaux, Michel Tapie, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Eluard, Milena Milani, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, American Abstract Art, Michel Seuphor, Antonio Corpora, Gustave Singier, Julio Gonzalez, Amodeo Modigliani, Henri Laurens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Igor Stravinsky, Vittorio De Sica, and more. A handsome copy showing a slight soft-crease through the textblock at the lower foredge corner. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016582&

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Cartier-Bresson, Henri:
        Images a la Sauvette. Photographies par Henri Cartier-Bresson.
      Editions Verve., Paris. 1952 - Erste Ausgabe / First Printing. Paris. Editions Verve. 1952. Folio. 154 unpaginierte S. OPappband mit einer Einbandzeichnung von Henri Matisse in handgefertigter Leinenkassette / Illustrated paper over boards by Matisse in a perfect made private blue cloth slip-case. Unter Verwendung des Original-Buchrückens perfekt und kaum sichtbar restauriert, ohne jeden Papierverlust. Der Einband etwas angestaubt mit wenigen kleinen Fleckchen, teils marginal gebräunt. Insgesamt dennoch sehr gutes Exemplar des meist stark beschädigten Bandes / Spine expertly repaired with no loss, cover slightly dusty with some small stains, else very good. Erste Ausgabe. Auf dem Vortitel eine dreizeilige handschriftliche Widmung Cartier-Bressons an einen Düsseldorfer Künstler, handschriftlich signiert. Cartier-Bressons wohl bedeutendste Publikation spiegelt, keineswegs "auf die Schnelle" sondern eindrucksvoll und besonnen, in 126 Fotowiedergaben in Duoton Menschen in vielen Teilen der Welt vor und in der unmittelbaren Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Das fachkundig und perfekt restaurierte Buch in einer aufwändigen, handgefertigten, mit dunkelblauem Leinen bezogenen Kassette. Frühe Widmungsexemplare des französischen Fotografen sind ausgeprochen selten. Unter Verwendung des Original-Buchrückens perfekt und kaum sichtbar restauriert, ohne jeden Papierverlust. Der Einband etwas angestaubt mit wenigen kleinen Fleckchen, teils marginal gebräunt. Insgesamt dennoch sehr gutes Exemplar des meist stark beschädigten Bandes / Spine expertly repaired with no loss, cover slightly dusty with some small stains, else very good. OPappband mit einer Einbandzeichnung von Henri Matisse in handgefertigter Leinenkassette / Illustrated paper over boards by Matisse in a perfect made private blue cloth slip-case. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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(WAYNE, John, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracey, Bob Hope, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Alan Ladd, Joseph Cotten, Doris Day, Jennifer Jones, Shirley MacLaine, William Holden, Sandra Dee, Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Kim Novak, Gary Cooper
        [Lobby Cards]: A Collection of Motion Picture Title Cards from the 1950s
      [No place: no publisher]. 1952-1960. A collection of 25 decorative title cards for a range of motion pictures released between 1952 -1960. Each measures approximately 14" x 11". There is some wear to the extremities, a few scattered creases, and a bit of rubbing, but overall near fine with surprisingly bright colors. Each card has been screenprinted on the verso of a movie poster that was trimmed to match the dimensions of a typical lobby card. Movie theaters would occasionally commission local sign makers to produce lobby cards for display. The production symbols on many of the cards indicate they were created in the same years as the films they represent. Among the most notable titles in the collection are: From Here to Eternity, Shane, Duel in the Sun, Stalag 17, and Gidget. An attractive set of mid-century film memorabiliaA complete list is available upon request. .

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Secondari, John H
        Coins In The Fountain
      J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, New York 1952 - Signed and Inscribed by the author on the front end page (in Italian, though the book is in English - the author lived in the U.S. from the age of 4 until his career took him abroad again as an adult). Stated First Edition and it is the First Printing. The book is in Near Fine condition - straight, clean, tight with no writing in it other than the author's inscription. It is bound in green cloth with silver gilt printing on the spine and the front panel. It has only a small amount of shelf and handling wear to the cloth at spine ends and 1 lower corner tip to keep it from being Fine. The dustjacket is price intact, bright, clean and unfaded with just a touch of shelfwear to spine and flap fold ends, a very short, completely closed tear (no material loss) to upper back edge, and a small amount of rubbing along the spine folds. The dustjacket was printed just a tad shorter, about 1/32", than the book - not noticeable unless you're looking for it. Great condition, and a very scarce book - particularly signed. Made into a 1954 U.S. romantic movie set in Italy called 'Three Coins In The Fountain' - that reputedly vastly increased U.S. tourism in Italy as nominated for an Oscar. As was the song from the movie (same title as the movie). That song was an enduring romantic favorite for a couple of generations and won the 1954 Oscar for best original song. The story was remade as a musical in 1964 called 'The Pleasure Seekers' and then in 1990 was made into a TV film. The song from the original movie was a #1 single in the U.K. as recorded by Frank Sinatra, and was also recorded both by The Four Aces (another #1 single, in the U.S.) and it was yet again recorded by Dinah Shore (take your pick; they were all done extremely well). ; 8.25" x 5.75" x 1.25".; 320 pages; Signed by Author LOC 52-8785 [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Steinbeck, John
        Red Pony
      Viking 1952 - First Edition, First Printing. This is the true first edition with all the first issue points re-bound in fine leather with gold trim. An attractive copy of this exquisitely hand crafted book. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the panels. The pages are clean with new decorative endpapers. There is no writing, or bookplates in the book. Overall, a unique and spectacular copy of this true first edition re-bound in fine material. Trades and offers welcomed. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Orwell, George
        Homage To Catalonia
      Harcourt Brace [1952], New York - With an introduction by Lionel Trilling. Advance copy label pasted onto the front free end paper. Unbound sewn signatures with wrap around dust jacket slightly taller. The dust jacket has chips at the head and the heel of the spine and minor wear to the extremities, otherwise very good. Text block is fine. Publisher's printed advance copy slip with the release date and price hand written in ink tipped in on the front free end paper. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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(CAMUS, Albert). WILDE, Oscar
        La Ballade de la geÃ´le de reading [The Ballad of Reading Gaol] [Inscribed by Camus]
      (Paris): Falaize. (1952). An out-of-series copy of this bilingual edition of 3000 numbered copies of Wilde's poem, printed here with Camus' "L'Artiste en Prison," which delineates Wilde's journey from themes of ideal beauty to existential suffering. Inscribed by Camus (in French): "to Sylvestre,/ a remembrance of Iguape/ and with the friendly thoughts/ of Albert Camus." While context does not give explanation to the reference to Iguape, one of Camus' last stories, "The Growing Stone" -- the final story in Camus' last collection, Exile and the Kingdom -- is set in Iguape, Brazil. It has been said that this story is the clearest manifestation of Camus' ideals: in it, the protagonist sacrifices himself to help a friend, and behaves morally despite his own understanding of the absurdity of the world. Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, the year Exile and the Kingdom was published, and the Prize committee cited his "clear-sighted earnestness [which] illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times." As best we can tell, this is the first appearance in print of "L'Artiste en Prison," which was translated into English and published in Encounter magazine two years later. A very near fine copy in French wraps. Books inscribed by Camus are uncommon; the author died in 1960 in a car accident, at the age of 46. First Edition. Softcover.

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Hemingway, Ernest
        The Old Man and the Sea
      Scribner, Scribner(s) 1952 - First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Hemingway on a laid in postcard that includes a letter of authenticity that the SIGNATURE is genuine. A stunning ORIGINAL dustjacket that is vibrant in color with no chips and only slight wear to the dustjacket. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED by Ernest Hemingway housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation and presentation. We buy SIGNED Hemingway First Editions. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Hand Learned
        The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand. Collected, and with an Introduction and Notes, by Irving Dilliard
      Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1952 - Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket A marvelous presentation copy, to Edith Finch, Countess Russell, the fourth and last wife of Bertrand Russell, and a longtime friend of both Learned and Fanny Hand--"To Edith Finch / Whose unsullied / spirit shines for all / those who love her" [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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        The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand. Collected, and with an Introduction and Notes, by Irving Dilliard. First Edition, Third Printing [and] The Spirit of Liberty [one of 375 copies, privately printed by Leonard F. Bahr]
      Alfred A. Knopf [and] Adagio Press 1952 & 1964, New York [and] Harper Woods - Original cloth, gilt [and] printed stapled wraps, both works now housed in a specially designed folding case and cloth box; quite attractive Presentation copy of the only collection of Hand's essays and addresses, "To George F. Goodyear [fellow Harvard Law graduate and upstate New Yorker] / in the belief that the / performance will realize / the promise / Learned Hand / Sep 29, 1952" [Attributes: Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

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XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor
        XXe SIECLE (VINGTIEME SIECLE): NOUVELLE SERIE NO. 3 (DOUBLE) - JUIN 1952: ART ET POESIE DEPUIS APOLLINAIRE - WITH ORIGINAL GRAPHICS BY JEAN MIRO, ALEXANDER CALDER, HENRI MICHAUX, AND ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
      XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), Paris 1952 - 88pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover design after Guillaume Apollinaire. This third installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features original lithographs by Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Henri Michaux, and Alberto Giacometti. The contents include contributions on or by Herbert Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, Futurism, Gino Severini, Poetry and Text in Art, Jean Arp, Jean Cassou, Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Pierre Courthion, Henri Michaux, Michel Tapie, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Eluard, Milena Milani, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, American Abstract Art, Michel Seuphor, Antonio Corpora, Gustave Singier, Julio Gonzalez, Amodeo Modigliani, Henri Laurens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Igor Stravinsky, Vittorio De Sica, and more. A handsome copy showing a slight soft-crease through the textblock at the lower foredge corner. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Leisure Library, Reginald Heade, Jules-Jean Morac, Spike Morelli, Roland Vane, Michael Storme, Paul Renin,
        Leisure Library : 14 Vol.,Thou Shalt Not, A Corpse Spells Danger, She Who Hesitates, Amorous Adventuress, Bertrand and The Blondes, Curtains For Carla, White Slave Racket, This Way For Hell. No Prude, Hot Dames On Cold Slabs, Make Mine A Shroud
      Leisure Library 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,16,18,19,22 1952 - .Digest magazines, fourteen volumes, eleven have cover art by Reginald Heade. All are close to near fine with the following exceptions : 12 Bertrand is vg- due to edge wear, creases, small chips, 2" missing from bottom of spine; 18 Hesitates is vg due to some front cover rubbing. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Terry Nudds]

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GONZÁLEZ MARTÍ (Manuel).
        Cerámica del Levante Español. Siglos medievales. T. II: Alicatados y azulejos. T. III: Azulejos, "Socarrats" y Retablos.
      Barcelona, Edit. Labor, 1952 - Ofrecemos los tomos II y III, de -19 x 27,5-. T. II: XV + 738 págs. + XXVI láminas en color, algunas desplegables, y 975 figuras en color y en varias tintas. T. III: XV + 698 págs. + XXIV láminas en color y 862 figuras en color y en varias tintas. Enc. edit. en tapa dura. (MUY BUEN EJEMPLAR.) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Berceo (Libros Antiguos)]

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