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New York City Ny: Sadakichi Hartmann / Egmont H. Arens Jr. / George H. Davis, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 109 Pp. Brown Cloth. #327 Of 3000 Numbered Copies, This Being A… Plus…

New York City Ny: Sadakichi Hartmann / Egmont H. Arens Jr. / George H. Davis, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 109 Pp. Brown Cloth. #327 Of 3000 Numbered Copies, This Being An Unopened Copy (Pages Still Attached Along Fore Edges). Inscribed By William Gropper To Esther (Poodgrein?) "With Compliments From Me & Apologies From Christ". Per Wikipedia, Carl Sadakichi Hartmann (1867 - 1944) Was An American Art And Photography Critic, Notable Anarchist And Poet Of German And Japanese Descent. Hartmann, Born On The Artificial Island Of Dejima, Nagasaki, To A Japanese Mother Osada Hartmann (Who Died Soon After Childbirth) And German Businessman Carl Herman Oskar Hartmann And Raised In Germany, Arrived In Philadelphia In 1882 And Became An American Citizen In 1894. An Important Early Participant In Modernism, Hartmann Was A Friend Of Such Diverse Figures As Walt Whitman, Stéphane Mallarmé And Ezra Pound. Around 1905, Hartmann Was An Occasional Performer At The New York City Miner's Theater. His Act Involved A Device Which Dispensed Perfumes In A Manner Intended To Be Analogous To Notes In A Symphony, Which Was Poorly Received By The Crowd. His Poetry, Deeply Influenced By The Symbolists As Well As Orientalist Literature, Includes 1904'S Drifting Flowers Of The Sea And Other Poems, 1913'S My Rubaiyat And 1915'S Japanese Rhythms. His Works Of Criticism Include Shakespeare In Art (1901) And Japanese Art (1904). During The 1910S, Hartmann Let Himself Be Crowned King Of The Bohemians By Guido Bruno In New York's Greenwich Village. Hartmann Wrote Some Of The Earliest English Language Haiku. He Was One Of The First Critics To Write About Photography, With Regular Essays In Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes. Hartmann Published Criticism And Conducted Lecture Tours Under The Pseudonym "Sidney Allen." He Made A Brief Appearance In The Douglas Fairbanks Film The Thief Of Bagdad As The Court Magician. Later Years Found Him Living In Hollywood And, By 1942, On His Daughter's Ranch Outside Banning, California. Due To His Age And Health Conditions, Hartmann Was One Of Only A Few Japanese Americans On The West Coast To Avoid The Mass Incarceration During World War Ii, Although The Fbi And Local Officials Visited The Ranch Often To Conduct Investigations. A Collection Of His Papers Is Held At The University Of California, Riverside, Including Correspondence Related To His Obtaining Permission To Remain In Banning During The War. The Dedication To This Book Is To Aileen Pringle (Born Aileen Bisbee; 1895 - 1989), An American Stage And Film Actress During The Silent Film Era. Born Into A Prominent And Wealthy San Francisco Family And Educated In Europe, Pringle Began Her Acting Career Shortly After Her 1916 Marriage To Charles Mckenzie Pringle, The Son Of A Wealthy Titled British Jamaican Landowner And A Member Of The Privy And Legislative Councils Of Jamaica. One Of Pringle's First High-Profile Roles Was In The Rudolph Valentino Film Stolen Moments (1920). Many Of Pringle's Early Roles Were Only Modestly Successful, And She Continued To Build Her Career Until The Early 1920S When She Was Selected By Friend And Romance Novelist Elinor Glyn To Star In The 1924 Film Adaptation Of Her Novel Three Weeks With Matinee Idol Conrad Nagel. The Role Catapulted Pringle Into Leading-Lady Status And Her Career Began To Build Momentum. Although Disliked By Some Hollywood Insiders, Aileen Pringle Often Was Dubbed By The Press As The "Darling Of The Intelligentsia" Because Of Her Close Friendship With Such Literary Figures As Carl Van Vechten, Joseph Hergesheimer, Rupert Hughes, And H.L. Mencken Who Became A Lifelong Friend Of The Actress. Ralph Barton, American Artist, Was Also A Devoted Friend And Used Her As The Model For Dorothy In His Illustrations For Gentlemen Prefer Blondes By Anita Loos. Another Admirer Was George Gershwin Who Met Her In Hollywood And Wrote Much Of The Second Rhapsody At Her Santa Monica, California, Home. Her Wit, Keen Intellect And Sparkling Personality Made Her A Sought-After Companion. In 1944 - 1946 Pringle Was Married To The Author James M. Cain., Sadakichi Hartmann / Egmont H. Arens Jr. / George H. Davis, 1920, 3, NL- Davaco 2014. Hardcover with dusjacket, in 4to. 141 pp., including 186 illustrations (91 in color) Cloth bound with dustjacket. English. ISBN 9789070288099. Anthonie van Borssom was a resident of Amsterdam his entire life, active primarily as a landscape artist, who is associated with Rembrandt at the onset of his career. Werner Sumowski catalogued many of Borssom's drawings and paintings in 1979 and in 1983, respectively, in the sixteen volumes he devoted to fifty-four members of Rembrandt's school. Hollstein (1951) lists eight Borssom etchings of domestic animals and birds in landscape settings. A comprehensive monograph has not been published, and some confusion remains concerning aspects of the artist's life, including the year of his birth. New information about Anthonie van Borssom's life is presented in the introductory essay for this updated catalogue of his watercolors and ink wash drawings. There is a growing consensus that Borssom's true talent and originality find their best expression in his drawings, and not in his largely derivative paintings. The new attention paid to his works on paper has brought a clearer understanding of his production. Besides elucidating the artist's biography and the complexities involving his name, the introductory text presents a discussion of his subjects (mostly Dutch landscapes, garden scenes, birds and animals, five church interiors, three allegorical series, and a few figures); the trips and excursions he made to depict identifiable sites in The Nether-lands and at Cleves, just over the German border; and the characteristics of his style which help secure attributions to his hand. New attributions are reported in the essay, involving both his contemporaries (mainly from Rembrandt's school) and also his dedicated followers in the 18th and 19th centuries. The catalogue of Borssom's drawings is limited to those accepted by the author as authentic, and for which an illustration is available. The independent sheets are grouped by medium (watercolor; brown ink with brown wash; brown ink with grey or grey and brown wash; grey ink and black chalk), organized by size (larger to smaller). The most important work is the artist's sketchbook preserved at the British Museum, which is fully illustrated here. Sumowski (1979) reproduced six pages from the sketchbook, and illustrated 78 independent drawings by Borssom, while mentioning twelve more as authentic works. This catalogue contains 122 independent sheets (not always in agreement with Sumowski's selection), some with sketches on their versos (likewise illustrated), in addition to the 94 complete sketches (sometimes several to a page) in the British Museum book. The independent drawings are supported by full entries: heading, inscriptions/marks, watermark, chain lines, provenance, literature, exhibitions, and notes. The volume is completed by a full bibliography (books and articles, exhibition catalogues, and sale catalogues) and two indexes (present collections and owners)., NL- Davaco 2014, 0, Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2011. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2011. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 90 pages. The author's fictional account. One of Brian Dillon's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. It is neither a British nor American Edition as it was published in Berlin, Germany. As such, it is a German Edition even though it is in English. An austerely elegant production by Sternberg Press: Very small-size volume format. Blue cloth boards with red titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Brian Dillon. Matching red page edges. Printed on archival stock paper in Berlin to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Brian Dillon's "Sanctuary". Dissolves the arbitrary line between essayistic speculation and pure fiction: The narrative as philosophical essay, Irish Roman Catholicism vis-a-vis European cosmopolitanism. "Set in the ruins of a Modernist building on the outskirts of a city in Northern Europe. The structure, a Catholic seminary built in the 1960's and abandoned twenty years later, embodies the failure of certain ambitions: Architectural, civic, and spiritual. But it is the site, too, of a more recent disappearance. A young artist, intent on exploring the complex and its history, has gone missing among the wreckage. Months later, his lover visits the place, unsure what she is looking for, and finds herself drawn into the strange nexus of energies and memories that persist there. A story about what survives of bodies, ideas, objects, and the artistic or literary forms that might describe them in the wake of catastrophe. Invokes key works of the last century: The fiction of Samuel Beckett and Alain Robbe-Grillet, the art of Robert Smithson, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, and Andrei Tarkovsky" (Publisher's blurb) . An absolute "must-have" title for Brian Dillon collectors. This copy is very prominently, beautifully, and elaborately signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Brian Dillon. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant essayist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BRIAN DILLON TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1933128879., Sternberg Press, 2011, 5, London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2021. Quarto, 396 x 261 mm, cloth in slipcase, pp. 392, extensively illustrated. New copy. The authorized monograph on one of the most influential and respected artists of our time, written with the full co-operation of Baselitz himself. A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media, predominantly painting and sculpture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school in East Berlin in 1956 for socio-political immaturity, and moved to the western half of the city. By the late 1950s, he had rejected the dominant tendencies of both sides of the country and his singular achievement was to reintroduce the figure, compromised and discredited though it was by both Nazism and Communism, into art. By drawing attention to art by outsiders, such as psychiatric patients, and invoking a Parisian model of existentialist art and literature, Baselitz proposed an alternative European tradition that did not eliminate the human subject. In alluding later to movements in German painting such as Expressionism as well as to artists like Munch, he also consciously rehabilitated the kind of art that was condemned by Hitler as degenerate. The book follows the development of Baselitzs unique style from his earliest work through to the most recent creations of his eighth decade. Calvocoressis masterful construction of a chronological narrative helps us to evaluate Baselitzs work in terms of the disruptions of his life historical upheavals witnessed alongside an astonishing career. With 406 illustrations in colour Richard Calvocoressi is currently a director at Gagosian Gallery, and is a former Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He wrote the catalogue text for Baselitz's first exhibition in a commercial gallery in London, and in 1983 was author of the main catalogue essay for his first retrospective in Britain at the Whitechapel Gallery. As curator responsible for German art at Tate, Calvocoressi was instrumental in the acquisition of his works for the UK national collection., 0, Lisbon, Typographia Universal de Thomaz Quintino Antunes, Impressor da Casa Real, 1874.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary tree sheep (foot of spine slightly defective; other minor wear to extremities), flat spine gilt in romantic style, dark green morocco lettering piece, gilt letter, marbled endleaves. Good to very good condition. x, 190 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this collection of essays. Chapters are titled "Alma e arte nova"; "Um drama allemão em palco portuguez"; "Uma poetisa brazileira"; "Na platéa"; "Em Mafra"; "Um poeta hespanhol"; "Uma estrêa"; "Um novo poeta"; "Um poeta brasileiro" (about Gonçalves Crespo); and "Actores e actrizes". Luciano Cordeiro's work as a literary and theater critic, though largely neglected today, is of considerable significance. He contributed to, founded or served as editor of various newspapers and reviews. Considered a member of the "Geração de 70" along with Antero de Quental, Oliveira Martins, and Teófilo Braga, Cordeiro was influential in introducing German and French literary doctrines to Portugal. Luciano [Baptista] Cordeiro [de Sousa], a native of Mirandela, Trás-os-montes who spent most of his early years in Madeira (1844-1900), was a Portuguese author, literary critic, historian, geographer, and politician. He founded the Sociedade Geografica de Lisboa in 1876, and was very actively involved with that institution. As a parliamentary deputy he represented Mogadouro in the legislature of 1882-1884, and Leiria in that of 1884. In addition to various government posts relating to education, he was administrator, on behalf of the government, of the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro da Zambézia, and defended Portuguese interests in Africa at the Colonial Geographical Congress in Paris in 1878, and the Berlim Conference of 1884.*** Innocêncio XIII, 325 (giving an incomplete collation, without mention of the x preliminary pp.); on the author see also pp. 322-7; Aditamentos, p. 267. See also Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 139; Ernesto Rodrigues in Biblos, I, 1280-1; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 267-8. Porbase locates five copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Biblioteca Geral de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do Porto. Jisc locates a single copy, at British Library., Lisbon, Typographia Universal de Thomaz Quintino Antunes, Impressor da Casa Real, 1874., 0, New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1971. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good +. 8vo. xliv, 648; iv, (649)-1356pp.; (6), 278pp. Later acetate dust wrappers over dark olive cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, 15 photographic plates and 5 text drawings. Text mostly in English with some German, Hebrew, French and Romanian. (Volume III is almost entirely in Hebrew). Minor bumping at foot of spines and a trace of shelf wear at lower tips. Moses Gaster (1856-1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation (London), and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. This 3-vol. set is a "collection of the author's collected essays on folklore studies in general, and Jewish folklore in particular (first published in 1928). The first two volumes include articles and texts mainly in English, but also in German, French, and Romanian. The third volume is devoted primarily to Hebrew texts and essays. The subject of these essays reflect the wide scope of Moses Gaster's scholarship and range from Romanian folklore to Samaritan legends to Jewish Haggadah apocrypha and mysticism." (From the Preface)., KTAV Publishing House, 1971, 3, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1961. First edition, stated. HUMANISM AND EVOLUTION--SIGNED FIRST EDITION COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY 20TH CENTURY LUMINARIES ASSEMBLED BY JULIAN HUXLEY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding with publisher's gilt logo to cover, gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers, signed on title page, "Julian Huxley/ Cleveland/ May 10, 1962", 432 pp. Faint water stain bottom edge of endpapers, otherwise very good, no dust jacket, in archival mylar cover. FROM PREFACE: "This book is an attempt to present Humanism as a comprehensive system of ideas. It is no sudden venture, but the natural outcome of a long process of gestation and development, begun more than half a century ago in an attempt to reconcile or integrate various aspects of my life- my biological training, my twin loves of nature and poetry, my wrestlings with the problems of morality and belief, and continued in the effort to extend the concept of evolution over the widest possible range of phenomena. The gist of the book can be summed up in a few sentences. There have been two critical points in the past of evolution, points at which the process transcended itself by passing from an old state to a fresh one with quite new properties. The first was marked by the passage from the inorganic phase to the biological, the second by that from the biological to the psychosocial. Now we are on the threshold of a third. As the bubbles in a cauldron on the boil mark the onset of the critical passage of water from the liquid to the gaseous state, so the ebullition of humanist ideas in the cauldron of present-day thought marks the onset of the passage from the psychosocial to the consciously purposive phase of evolution. A prerequisite for the safe passage of this critical threshold, and for the efficient working of the evolutionary process in its new self-conscious State, will be the emergence of a new comprehensive pattern or system of ideas, beliefs and guiding principles which are of general validity for the entire human community. I hope that this book will help in indicating the outline of that pattern and in laying foundations on which that system can later be erected." 0SIR JULIAN HUXLEY (1887 - 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association. WALTER RUSSELL BRAIN (1895 - 1966) was a British neurologist. He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, and longtime editor of the homonymous neurological medical journal titled Brain. He is also eponymised with "Brain's reflex", a reflex exhibited by humans when assuming the quadrupedian position. CONRAD HAL WADDINGTON (1905 - 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology. He had wide interests that included poetry and painting, as well as left-wing political leanings. In his book The Scientific Attitude (1941), he touched on political topics such as central planning and praised marxism as a "profound scientific philosophy". JACOB BRONOWSKI (1908 - 1974) was a British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book. EDWARD FRANCIS WILLIAMS (1903 - 1970) was a British newspaper editor. He worked on the Bootle Times and then the Liverpool Courier, and was convinced of socialism by the conditions he saw. He then moved to London to take up a post as a financial journalist on the Evening Standard, but soon moved to the Daily Herald, a paper with views closer to his own. In 1936, he accepted the editorship of the Daily Herald, serving until 1940. In 1941, he became Controller of Press Censorship and News at the Ministry of Information, and for his work he was awarded a CBE in 1945. He then became the public relations advisor to Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee for two years. From 1951 to 1952, he was a governor of the BBC. Williams served as Regents' Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and Kemper Knapp Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin from 1967 until his death. MORRIS GINSGERG (1889 - 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of The Sociological Review in the 1930s and later became the founding chairman of the British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President (1955-1957). He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943, and helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question. HAROLD JOHN BLACKHAM (1903 - 2009) was a leading British humanist philosopher, writer and educationalist. He has been described as the "progenitor of modern humanism in Britain". Joining the Ethical Union, Blackham drew the organisation further away from religious forms and played an important part in its formation into the British Humanist Association, becoming the BHA's first Executive Director in 1963. He was also a founding member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), IHEU secretary (1952-1966), and received the IHEU's International Humanist Award in 1974, and the Special Award for Service to World Humanism in 1978. In addition he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. His book, Six Existentialist Thinkers, became a popular university textbook. ERIK HOMBURGER ERIKSON (1902 - 1994) was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T. Erikson, is a noted American sociologist. Although Erikson lacked even a bachelor's degree, he served as a professor at prominent institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Erikson is also credited with being one of the originators of Ego psychology, which stressed the role of the ego as being more than a servant of the id. According to Erikson, the environment in which a child lived was crucial to providing growth, adjustment, a source of self-awareness and identity. FRANCIS HUXLEY (1923 - 2016). A botanist, he was the son of the biologist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, nephew of the writer Aldous Huxley, half-nephew of the Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, grandson of the writer Leonard Huxley and great-grandson of "Darwin's bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley and the literary professor Thomas Arnold the Younger. He traveled widely, particularly in the Americas, as an anthropologist working for various universities and institutions. He undertook major field work among a tribe of Brazilian Indians, exploring 17,000 miles of the Amazon basin and studying its native populations; he did early work with Humphrey Osmond in Canada, has reported on the use of psychedelic snuff by Yanomamo Indians, and documented the early use of LSD in the West and in the third world. MORTON HUNT (1920-2016 ) was a science writer who has notably written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's. Educated at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania, he worked as a freelance writer from 1949, specializing in the social and behavioral sciences; he wrote at least 18 books and more than 450 articles. WILLIAM GRAHAM HOLFORD (1907 - 1975) was a British architect and town planner. Holford was heavily involved with the development of post-World War II British town planning and was largely responsible for drafting the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. SIR MICHAEL KEMP TIPPETT (1905 - 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage. Having briefly embraced communism in the 1930s, Tippett avoided identifying with any political party. A pacifist after 1940, he was imprisoned in 1943 for refusing to carry out war-related duties required by his military exemption. SIR STEPHEN HAROLD SPENDER (1909 - 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. In 1936 he became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Harry Pollitt, head of the CPGB invited him to write for the Daily Worker on the Moscow Trials. In 1937, during the Spanish civil war, they sent him to Spain. His mission was to observe and report on the Soviet ship Komsomol, which had sunk while carrying Soviet weapons to the Second Spanish Republic. OLIVER LESLIE REISER (1895 - 1974) was an American philosopher known for his pseudoscientific views on evolution. Reiser is most well known in humanist groups because of his book Promise of Scientific Humanism (1940). He also founded the International Committee on Scientific Humanism in the 1950s. Reiser had used the term "Cosmic humanism" influenced by the work of Albert Einstein to define what he termed a pantheist philosophy of science. The main belief of Reiser was that geomagnetic forces were directing evolution of species based on a very specific complex cyclical process. He also advocated the view that a "memory field" existed around the earth which could also influence the evolution of organisms, he called this field the "psychosphere". PATRICK MEREDITH (1904- ) was a physicist, mathematician and psychologist. His liffe-long interests were astronomy and language. HERBERT LIONEL ELVIN (1905 - 2005) was an eminent educationist. Elvin was the son of Herbert Henry Elvin, General Secretary of the National Union of Clerks, and brother of George, who became General Secretary of the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians. MICHAEL YOUNG (1915 - 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy". Young served under the Labour Party government led by Clement Attlee, but left in 1950. He began studying for a PhD at the London School of Economics in 1952. ROBIN MARRIS (1924-2012) worked closely with the Labor party, and when in 1964 Harold Wilson's incoming government established a Ministry of Overseas Development, Robin was recruited to advise its first two ministers, Barbara Castle and Anthony Greenwood. Robin was best known to economists for his major contribution to our understanding of corporations. SUDHIR SEN (1916-1989). was an economist who specialized in agricultural development and rural electrification in India and on behalf of the United Nations. From 1947 to 1954, Dr. Sen was the chief executive officer of the Damodar Valley Corporation, a dam builder in India. From 1956 to 1966 he served as United Nations residential representative in Ghana and Yugoslavia and as a director in the United Nations Development Program. He was also a director of the Great Eastern Shipping Company in Bombay, a visiting economics professor of Brown University and the New York correspondent of the Economic Times of India. HARRY KALVEN, JR. (1914 - 1974) was an American jurist, regarded as one of the preeminent legal scholars of the 20th century. He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Kalven is the coauthor of "The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit," one of the most heavily cited articles in the history of American law, and widely considered to be the foundation of the modern class action lawsuit. HANS ZEISEL (1905-1992). A sociologist and lawyer, Hans Zeisel was a pioneer in social science research and in the empirical study of legal institutions. His most famous works focused on juries, capital punishment, and survey techniques, often ingeniously using what he termed "half a loaf" methods-study designs that were, perforce, less than ideal, but well adapted to cope with the constraints encountered in studying the law in operation. BARBARA WOOTTON (1897 - 1988) was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was one of the first four life peers appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958. She was President of the British Sociological Association 1959-1964. Ethically, she was a supporter of utilitarianism. She supported an "Incurable Patients Bill" in the 1970s which would have allowed doctor-assisted suicide. Her views on abortion which were pro-life but without any religious basis led her to be removed from her position as Vice-President of the British Humanist Association. ROBERT PLATT (1900-1978), was a British physician. His research was on kidney diseases, but he is remembered for the 1940-1950s Platt vs. Pickering debate with George White Pickering over the nature of hypertension. Though Platt's view was favored during his lifetime, Pickering's view ultimately dominated and is the basis of current understanding and treatment policies. Platt held the salaried position of head of the Central Manchester Health Authority, and he later (1957-1962) became the president of the Royal College of Physicians. G. COLIN L. BERTRAM (1911-2001) father or modern sirenology--published on Arctic and Antarctic seals. EDWARD MAX NICHOLSON (1904 - 2003) was a pioneering environmentalist, ornithologist and internationalist, and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund. In 1947-1948, with the then director general of the United Nations' scientific and education organisation UNESCO, Julian Huxley, he was involved in forming the International Union for the Protection of Nature (IUPN) (now International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)). HERMANN JOSEPH MULLER (1890 - 1967) was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis) as well as his outspoken political beliefs. Muller frequently warned of the long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing, helping to raise public awareness in this area. ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY (1894 - 1963) was an English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family. He was best known for his novels including Brave New World, and for non-fiction books, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wide-ranging output of essays. Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. By the end of h, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1961, 0, Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2001. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 100 pages. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful Artist Books of our time. The first appearance of the title in this Special Edition by Steidl. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no American or British Edition. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Gerhard Steidl and Buchergilde Gutenberg: Regular-sized volume format. Gray cloth boards with original art embossed on the front board's center and titles embossed on spine, as issued. Short story by Jorge Luis Borges, interspersed with text excerpts from William Shakespeare and Friedrich Nietszche. The entire text is in German. The English translation is printed on separate pristine-white paper and enclosed in its own plastic sheet. Art by Gerhard Steidl and Buchergilde Gutenberg. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel". One of the greatest essay-stories ever written, re-imagined as an Artist Book that celebrates typography as the basis of the printed word. Borges' story is reproduced at the center of the book, preceded and followed by various sequences exploring typography's dazzling possibilities. They suggest (because they can never exhaust) the inventiveness and infinity that are inherent to the typographer's art, an art that parallels the Borges story's infinite possibilities. Gerhard Steidl and Buchergilde Gutenberg are not typographers-gone-wild. On the contrary, they restrain their fantastic exploration of typeface-as-visual by setting it against a rigorous grid format on every page, which lists, one after another, every known human language, from German to English to French, from Kisuaheli to Nahuatl to Pilipino. Every book has a Note appended at the end about the typeface that was used. The Note is there, but hardly anyone pays attention to it. "Die Bibliothek von Babel" compels our attention by turning the note into the heart and soul of the book, an authentic visual interpretation of and homage to Jorge Luis Borges' story. After all, typeface (an invented set of characters for an alphabet) and typography (the arrangement of that invention) are the very foundation of the book and therefore, of every library, of Borges' "feverish library, whose random volumes constantly threaten to transmogrify into others, so that they affirm all things, deny all things, like some mad and hallucinating deity". An absolute "must-have" title for Jorge Luis Borges collectors. This title is a great Artist Book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (German) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare copy thus. Jorge Luis Borges' body of work is regarded by Harold Bloom, George Steiner, and Susan Sontag as among the canonical works of modern literature. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JORGE LUIS BORGES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3882437782., Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2001, 5, New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1971. Later printing. Hardcover. near fine. 8vo. xliv, 648; iv, (649)-1356pp.; (6), 278pp. Later acetate dust wrappers over dark olive cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, 15 photographic plates and 5 text drawings. Text mostly in English with some German, Hebrew, French and Romanian. (Volume III is almost entirely in Hebrew). Moses Gaster (1856-1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation (London), and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. This 3-vol. set is a "collection of the author's collected essays on folklore studies in general, and Jewish folklore in particular (first published in 1928). The first two volumes include articles and texts mainly in English, but also in German, French, and Romanian. The third volume is devoted primarily to Hebrew texts and essays. The subject of these essays reflect the wide scope of Moses Gaster's scholarship and range from Romanian folklore to Samaritan legends to Jewish Haggadah apocrypha and mysticism." (From the Preface)., KTAV Publishing House, 1971, 4, New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1971. Later printing. Hardcover. near fine. 8vo. xliv, 648; iv, (649)-1356pp.; (6), 278pp. Later acetate dust wrappers over dark olive cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, 15 photographic plates and 5 text drawings. Text mostly in English with some German, Hebrew, French and Romanian. (Volume III is almost entirely in Hebrew). Slight hint of shelf wear at foot of spine, otherwise a near fine set. Moses Gaster (1856-1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation (London), and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. This 3-vol. set is a "collection of the author's collected essays on folklore studies in general, and Jewish folklore in particular (first published in 1928). The first two volumes include articles and texts mainly in English, but also in German, French, and Romanian. The third volume is devoted primarily to Hebrew texts and essays. The subject of these essays reflect the wide scope of Moses Gaster's scholarship and range from Romanian folklore to Samaritan legends to Jewish Haggadah apocrypha and mysticism." (From the Preface)., KTAV Publishing House, 1971, 4, New Britain, CT, REM Miniatures, printed at The Art Press, 1982.. FIRST EDITION 1982, EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES SIGNED BY C. ERNEST MASSMANN THE ILLUSTRATOR ON THE COLOPHON. Miniature book 48 x 48 mm, 1¾ x 1¾ inches (cover size), tiny coloured photograph of Struwwelpeter doll mounted on frontispiece, 6 handcoloured illustrations of Struwwelpeter of which 4 are on the pastedowns and endpapers (1 is a repeat), 16 pages including colophon and title page. Bound in the original publisher's dark green leatherette with mounted hand-coloured circular label on upper cover. In orange thin card slipcase with shaped hand-coloured illustrated label stating Der Winzige Struwwelpeter. A Fine unused copy in Fine crisp clean slipcase. The text of each page is printed in a different direction, so that as the book is read, it has to be turned "in a somersault". Some German text but mainly in English. Essay on and history of the Heinrich Hoffmann character Struwwelpeter. Laid in is the 5 page miniature promotional leaflet with image on the cover. Robert E. Massmann is an author, librarian, and publisher of miniature books under his imprint REM Miniatures. He assembled a major collection of miniature books, and is a founding member of the Miniature Book Society. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST., 0, London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1952. First edition. COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SYNDROMES BY NOTED BRITISH DERMATOLOGIST ASSOCIATED WITH NUMEROUS EPONYMS--SIGNED BY HIM, WTH ALS TO DR. JOHN KRAFCHUK. 10 inches tall hardcover, yellow paper covered boards, printed cover, with hand stamp lower right corner of John D. Krafchuk, M.D. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf "with kind regards and best wishes, F. Parkes Weber"; 72 pp with numerous photographic balck & white figures. Covers lightly browned, spine edges worn, binding tight, very good in custom archival mylar cover. LAID IN: ALS (dictated/signed) from author to Prof. Krafchuk, also return address and handwritten note indicating letter from FPW. Contents include: Osler's love for obscure diseases; The humming man; Death and doctors: Epigrams and art in regard to the relation of death to the medical sciences. FREDERICK PARKS WEBER (1863 1962) was an English dermatologist and author who practiced medicine in London. Weber was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He subsequently studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and abroad at Vienna and Paris. Returning to England, he worked (since 1894) at the German Hospital, Dalston (London), later he became House Physician and House Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was subsequently House Physician at Brompton Hospital and Physician at Mount Vernon Hospital. Weber contributed over 1200 medical articles and wrote 23 books over a period of 50 years. In 1922, he, along with his wife, published a philosophical medical tome called Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art, Epigram, and Poetry. Weber was a prodigious describer of new and unique dermatological terms. A comprehensive collection of Weber's papers is kept by the London Wellcome Library. Eponyms ascribed to him include KlippelTrénaunayWeber syndrome, PfeiferWeberChristian disease, OslerWeberRendu disease, SturgeWeber syndrome, WeberCockayne syndrome, and Parkes Weber syndrome. PROVENANCE: JOHN DAMION KRAFCHUK was an American dermatologist., H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1952, 0, New Britain, CT, REM Miniatures, printed at The Art Press, 1982.. FIRST EDITION 1982, EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES SIGNED BY ROBERT MASSMANN ON PAGE 11 AND BY C. ERNEST MASSMANN THE ILLUSTRATOR ON THE COLOPHON. Miniature book 48 x 48 mm, 1¾ x 1¾ inches (cover size), tiny coloured photograph of Struwwelpeter doll mounted on frontispiece, 6 handcoloured illustrations of Struwwelpeter of which 4 are on the pastedowns and endpapers (1 is a repeat), 16 pages including colophon and title page. Bound in the original publisher's dark green leatherette with mounted hand-coloured circular label on upper cover. In orange thin card slipcase with shaped hand-coloured illustrated label stating Der Winzige Struwwelpeter. A Fine unused copy in Fine crisp clean slipcase. The text of each page is printed in a different direction, so that as the book is read, it has to be turned "in a somersault". Some German text but mainly in English. Essay on and history of the Heinrich Hoffmann character Struwwelpeter. Robert E. Massmann is an author, librarian, and publisher of miniature books under his imprint REM Miniatures. He assembled a major collection of miniature books, and is a founding member of the Miniature Book Society. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST., 0, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. Leather. Good. 7" by 4". None . Two volumes of collected works by various authors, including Joseph Spence, William Hay, and Paul Hentzner. Complete in two volumes. This is an interesting collection of works on society, history, and various other subjects. Some of the authors include Harry Beaumont, the pseudonym used by Joseph Spence, a literary scholar; William Hay, an English Whig politician; Charles Lord Whitworth, a British diplomat who was the Ambassador Extraordinary in Russia; and, Paul Hentzner, a German lawyer who published his accounts of his travels in Elizabethan England. Volume I contains; 'Crito: or, a Dialogue on Beauty', by Sir Harry Beaumont. 'A Particular Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens, near Pekin', a letter from F. Attriet, translated from French by Sir Harry Beaumont. 'Deformity: An Essay', by William Hay. 'Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter Humbly Addressed to the Royal Society', written anonymously. 'A Modern Defence of Gaming', written anonymously. 'The Pretty Gentleman', written anonymously. 'The Polite Philosopher', written anonymously. 'The Plan of an Essay Upon Delicacy', by Nathaniel Lancaster. Volume II contains; 'A Vindication of Natural Society', written anonymously. 'The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Villa of Wheatfield, in the County of Suffolk', written anonymously. 'Fragments of Ancient Poetry', written anonymously. 'An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710', by Charles Lord Whitworth. 'A Journey into England', by Paul Hentzner. 'A Parallel' by Reverend Mr Spence. In the original speckled calf binding. Externally, with some rubbing to the spines, joints and to the extremities. Surface cracks to the spine. Volume II is lacking the spine label. Small cracks to the head and the tail of the joints. Light marking to the boards, heavier to the rear board of Volume II. Front hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper of Volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean, with only some discolouration to the endpapers. Good, R. and J. Dodsley, 1761, 2.5<

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G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Printed on linen paper, in royal octavo size, with proofs on Japan paper of the full pge illustrations, and decor… Plus…

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Printed on linen paper, in royal octavo size, with proofs on Japan paper of the full pge illustrations, and decorative borders in gold and colors. They are whole-bound in English Calf with gilt tops and rough edges, and numbered from 1 to 175. This is #133. Fawn colored calf with gilt decorations and turn ins ruled in gilt. In dk green clock fall down boxes. NF with mild rubbing to edges and spine, uniform light offset from tissue guards. Boxes are new appearing. NOTES: The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle". It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon", which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career. The Sketch Book, along with James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, was the first widely read work of American literature in Britain and Europe. It also helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience. Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" — the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous — other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "Westminster Abbey", "Little Britain", and "John Bull". [wikipedia] beautiful set complete. Four of the plates are by Arthur Rackham, and there are many by FOC Darley and F. S. Church, Allan Baraud, Julian Dix, etc. 25.5x17.8 cm. (10x7") , weighing 11 pounds. Bound for the Knickerbocker Press. Provenance- J Butler signed insided the fall down boxes. 32 full-page Illustrations. Many of his tales leaned on German folklore for ideas. ., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894, 4, Little Brown, Easton Press, Scribners, Transaction, Brandeis University Press, 1976-2001. Hardcover. Very Good. 14 Volumes from the personal library of Walter Z. Laqueur. All volumes have the personal bookplate of Laqueur inside. Titles included in this collection are 1) Thursday’s Child Has Far to Go (9780684194219); 2) Generation Exodus – The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany (9781584651062); 3) Guerrilla Warfare (9780765804068); 4) Terrorism (0316514705); 5) Guerrilla (0316514691); 6) Germany Today (0316514535); 7) A History of Zionism (0030916143); 8) Guerrilla (0316514691) (Rebound in leather, gilt ruled and lettered) 9) Journal of Contemporary History – The Impact of Western Nationalisms; Essays dedicated to Walter Laqueur on the occasion of his 70th Birthday; 10) Journal of Contemporary History – Vol. 25, Nos. 2 & 3; Walter Laqueur Selected Essays Journal of Contemporary History 1967-1998; 11) Russia and Germany – A Century of Conflict (Little Brown, 1965); 12) The Terrible Secret (Little Brown, 1980); 13) The Missing Years (Little Brown, 1980); 14) Farewell to Europe (Little Brown, 1981) <br> Walter Ze'ev Laqueur (May 1921– Sept. 2018) was an American journalist, historian, and political commentator. Laqueur authored more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Freedom and Glasnost and Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations. He was especially influential in the subjects of political violence and terrorism. In 1938 he left Germany, going to the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who could not leave Germany, were killed in the Holocaust. Laqueur worked as a journalist for the newspapers Mishmar, and The Palestine Post. After moving to London he started the Soviet Study, a journal that focused on East European and Soviet culture. The Soviet Study was partly funded by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Later with George Mosse, he founded and edited the Journal of Contemporary History. He was a professor at Brandeis University and Georgetown University. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University, and John Hopkins University. He wrote extensively on Communism and the Soviet Union, the Cold War, fascism, the German Youth Movement, Zionism, post-WW2 Europe, and the middle east. His work on international affairs appeared in many European and American periodicals and newspapers. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US., Little Brown, Easton Press, Scribners, Transaction, Brandeis University Press, 1976-2001, 3, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A two volume set of a collection of interesting essays and works by various authors, including William Hay and Joseph Spence. Complete in two volumes. This is an interesting collection of works on society, history, and various other subjects. Some of the authors include Harry Beaumont, the pseudonym used by Joseph Spence, a literary scholar; William Hay, an English Whig politician; Charles Lord Whitworth, a British diplomat who was the Ambassador Extraordinary in Russia; and, Paul Hentzner, a German lawyer who published his accounts of his travels in Elizabethan England. Volume I contains; 'Crito: or, a Dialogue on Beauty', by Sir Harry Beaumont. 'A Particular Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens, near Pekin', a letter from F. Attriet, translated from French by Sir Harry Beaumont. 'Deformity: An Essay', by William Hay. 'Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter Humbly Addressed to the Royal Society', written anonymously. 'A Modern Defence of Gaming', written anonymously. 'The Pretty Gentleman', written anonymously. 'The Polite Philosopher', written anonymously. 'The Plan of an Essay Upon Delicacy', by Nathaniel Lancaster. Volume II contains; 'A Vindication of Natural Society', written anonymously. 'The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Villa of Wheatfield, in the County of Suffolk', written anonymously. 'Fragments of Ancient Poetry', written anonymously. 'An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710', by Charles Lord Whitworth. 'A Journey into England', by Paul Hentzner. 'A Parallel' by Reverend Mr Spence. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume II, 'Dufferin of Claneboye'. Rebound in a full calf binding with the original boards laid on. Externally, with some marking and discolouration to the boards. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine has resulted in a little loss to the joints, with further light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume II, 'Dufferin of Claneboye'. Ink inscription to the verso of the rear endpaper of Volume II, and to the front pastedown of Volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages with a touch of age-toning, and the odd scattered spots, being heavier to the first and last few pages. Ink inscription and mark to the head of the title page of Volume II, 'A. D. Foster 1792. John Foster'. Very odd ink annotation. Very Good, R. and J. Dodsley, 1761, 3<

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Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: R. and J. Dodsley, London], FUGITIVE PIECES LORD WHITWORTH PAUL HENTZNER MR SPENCE CRITO THE PRETTY GENTLEMAN, A two volume set of a collection of inte… Plus…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: R. and J. Dodsley, London], FUGITIVE PIECES LORD WHITWORTH PAUL HENTZNER MR SPENCE CRITO THE PRETTY GENTLEMAN, A two volume set of a collection of interesting essays and works by various authors, including William Hay and Joseph Spence. Complete in two volumes. This is an interesting collection of works on society, history, and various other subjects. Some of the authors include Harry Beaumont, the pseudonym used by Joseph Spence, a literary scholar; William Hay, an English Whig politician; Charles Lord Whitworth, a British diplomat who was the Ambassador Extraordinary in Russia; and, Paul Hentzner, a German lawyer who published his accounts of his travels in Elizabethan England. Volume I contains; 'Crito: or, a Dialogue on Beauty', by Sir Harry Beaumont. 'A Particular Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens, near Pekin', a letter from F. Attriet, translated from French by Sir Harry Beaumont. 'Deformity: An Essay', by William Hay. 'Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter Humbly Addressed to the Royal Society', written anonymously. 'A Modern Defence of Gaming', written anonymously. 'The Pretty Gentleman', written anonymously. 'The Polite Philosopher', written anonymously. 'The Plan of an Essay Upon Delicacy', by Nathaniel Lancaster. Volume II contains; 'A Vindication of Natural Society', written anonymously. 'The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Villa of Wheatfield, in the County of Suffolk', written anonymously. 'Fragments of Ancient Poetry', written anonymously. 'An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710', by Charles Lord Whitworth. 'A Journey into England', by Paul Hentzner. 'A Parallel' by Reverend Mr Spence. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume II, 'Dufferin of Claneboye'. Rebound in a full calf binding with the original boards laid on. Externally, with some marking and discolouration to the boards. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine has resulted in a little loss to the joints, with further light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume II, 'Dufferin of Claneboye'. Ink inscription to the verso of the rear endpaper of Volume II, and to the front pastedown of Volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages with a touch of age-toning, and the odd scattered spots, being heavier to the first and last few pages. Ink inscription and mark to the head of the title page of Volume II, 'A. D. Foster 1792. John Foster'. Very odd ink annotation. Very Good<