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The Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers and Woodcutters Inc. Second State. Signed lower right "John Taylor Arms, 1949 ". Fine. In envelope. Second State. Signed lower right "John Taylor Arms, 1949 "
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. Chandler's fifth novel, wherein Philip Marlowe tangles with depravity in Hollywood. BRUCCOLI A8.2.a; HANNA 659; HUBIN, p.75. First Printing, one of 12,500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); first issue binding of red-orange cloth, with titles and design stamped in blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 249pp. Hint of a forward lean, some minor hand-soil to boards, with light wear to spine ends and extremities; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a faint vertical crease at mid-spine and a horizontal crease running the length of the jacket; Very Good.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1949. First Editon. Grey Cloth. Near Fine Book/Good DJ. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Printing 270 Pp. First Printing, 1949. A Near New Book, Very Slight Bumping At Spine Ends And Upper Front Tip. Inscribed By The Author To A Los Angeles Corporate Executive And Philanthropist, Harry J Volk, Thanked With His Own Short Paragraph In The Acknowledgment Pages, "Whose Vision And Enthusiasm Greatly Encouraged Me In The Writing Of This Book", "To Harry With Thanks Again For Your 'Vision And Enthusiasm'. Ed. Nov. 28, 1949". Dj Unfaded, Little Wear But With 3/4" X 1/2" Chip At Base Of Spine Which Removes The "Y" And Part Of The "E" In The Publisher's Name, Other Small Chips And Tears At Edges, Not Price Clipped ($4.00).
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised Final Script for the 1949 film, "Family Honeymoon," directed by Claude Binyon, based on the 1948 novel by Homer Croy, written for the screen by Dane Lussier, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred Macmurray. Producer John Beck's copy, bound in green leatherette with the film title and his name stamped in gilt on the front board. This an original copy of the revised shooting script, with 28 black-and-white silver gelatin still photographs from the film mounted in sequence throughout. Also included is a bookkeeping summary of the film's cost, a record of the amount of film shot (including dates when production began and ended), and a cast and credits list. The last of seven films to pair Colbert and Macmurray, one of the greatest film comedy teams of the 1930s-40s, about a bachelor who marries a widow, followed by a honeymoon that involves all three of her children. Green padded cowhide, stamped in gilt on the front board and the spine. Title page present, with a credit for screenwriter Lussier. 138 leaves, mimeograph with blue and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 5/28/48 and 7/27/48. Pages and binding Near Fine, with a couple of removal-related bruises to the patterned front endpapers.
New York And London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. /Chapman & Hall, Limited. Very Good+. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; First edition. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4". Full gray cloth lettered in navy. Pp. Xvi, 270. An important book by Edmund Berkeley, a computer scientist who co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947. Berkeley was "the first electronic computer consultant and the first popularizer of electronic computing." Giant Brains was "the first popular book on electronic computers . . . Published [at a time] when electronic computers were virtually unknown to the general public." (Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 457 and 463). Signed by Berkeley on the front free endpaper. We've compared this to other Berkeley signatures and believe it to be authentic. We guaranty its authenticity in perpetuity. If it is ever deemed inauthentic, you may return the item for a full refund including shipping. Condition: Very good plus: minimally worn, with a few flecks of spotting; toning to front endpapers presumably from a (now perished) laid in clipping. Lacking the dust jacket. Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information and/or photos and we will respond promptly. We package our items carefully, ship daily, and have a no hassle returns policy--your satisfaction is guaranteed. We are members of the Texas Booksellers Association and the Independent Online Booksellers Association and adhere to their rules of ethics. ; Signed by Author .
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in association with the Book Society in 1949. A very good book with moderate marks to the covers and a little fading to the spine, with some spotting to the page edges. In a very good clipped wrapper with a chip to the foot of the spine and front corner and to the top edge and some corners. SIGNED without dedication to the title page by Nancy Mitford Rare.
491. 4 Mars 1949. Rédaction Michel Tapié.
THE SPECTACULAR ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR A PICTURE BOOK CREATED BY MELBOURNE ARTIST IRENA SIBLEY FOR HER GRANDSON. ONLY ONE COPY OF THE BOOK WAS PRINTED. Acrylic on paper, comprised of 16 painted panels (title page 295 x 245 mm, 3 single panels 295 x 300 mm, 12 double panels 295 x 560 mm) arranged in the order of the original book layout, most painted directly onto (but a few laid down on) 15 sheets of aquarelle arches paper (each 540 x 720 mm, 2 sheets of half-size), the text in the form of a calligraphic caption beneath each illustration, the cover illustrations painted directly onto and occupying the entire space of 2 additional sheets (each 540 x 720 mm). Irena Sibley (ne Pauliukonis) was a highly respected Australian children's book illustrator, artist, writer, teacher and environmentalist. She arrived in Australia as a child in 1949 with her Lithuanian emigré family, and grew up in Sydney and Bathurst. After her marriage to the artist Andrew Sibley in 1967, the couple resided in Melbourne, and later both worked from their artists' studio in Flowerdale, in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range. Sibley is best known for her children's books An alphabet of Australian wildflowers (1988), The Bilbies' First Easter (1994), The Bilby and the Bunyip (1998) and Grandma Bilby Mr Budge and the Easter Tree (2000). Among the creatures are kind koalas, welcoming wallabies, excited emus, curious cockatoos and bold bunyips. The most empathetic illustration - and indeed the one which encapsulates the theme of the book - portrays a lonely llama with a tiny tear running down his cheek, an image which instantly evokes compassion and, one imagines, would leave a lasting impression on a young child. There seems little doubt that had this counting book been intended for publication in a full commercial edition, it would have established itself as a favourite Australian picture book among children and educators alike. Shortly before she passed away in 2009, Sibley created this breathtakingly beautiful counting book for her grandson, Michael. The illustrations, with their exquisite and varied palettes, are full of humour, warmth and benevolence towards the and the Australian habitats which they depict. Among the creatures are kind koalas, welcoming wallabies, excited emus, curious cockatoos and bold bunyips. The most empathetic illustration - and indeed the one which encapsulates the theme of the book - portrays a lonely llama with a tiny tear running down his cheek, an image which instantly evokes compassion and, one imagines, would leave a lasting impression on a young child. There seems little doubt that had this counting book been intended for publication in a full commercial edition, it would have established itself as a favourite Australian picture book among children and educators alike.
DEE GOONG AN: THREE MURDER CASES SOLVED BY JUDGE DEE.
First UK edition, First published in England in 1949 stated on copyright page. Rare in dust jacket. Front and rear free end paper missing. Some tape on inside of dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down; handwritten name on half-title page.
1949. Fine. STIMSON, Henry L. MY VACATIONS. [n.p.] Privately printed, 1949. Inscribed presentation copy: "To - with love from Mabel and Harry." 180 pp. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Near fine with a touch of sunning to heel. Interior fine; illustrated with b/w photo reproductions. Dogs, hunting in the great American West, mountaineering in the Alps, more. Heller 379. Scarce.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ludwig Von Mises on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. Rare signed. Human Action is the single most important work by Von Mises and one of the most influential economic works of the twentieth century. "It should become the leading text of everyone who believes in freedom, in individualism, and in the ability of a free-market economy not only to outdistance any government-planned system in the production of goods and services for the masses, but to promote and safeguard . . . those intellectual, cultural, and moral values upon which all civilization ultimately rests" (Henry Hazlitt).
1949. LEWIS, Sinclair. THE GOD-SEEKER. NY: Random House, . 8vo., green-blue cloth in dust jacket; 422 pages. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Sinclair on the front endpaper. Very Good (little fading spine & edges; contents clean & tight); little edgewear & short tears (some scattered browning); $3.50 price is present) d/j. $500.00.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. Very Good. Pale wraps printed in brown. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Very Good with staining, creasing and wear to wraps. Small chip to the rear cover, joints worn at ends. Pages toned, with several corners creased. States "First American Edition" on the copyright page.
Overview Details & Condition A remarkable photo album and scrapbook compiled in Occupied Japan and Thailand by a Far East Air Forces clerk, the historical record of a young American woman's adventures in a world newly opened to her. The compiler, Margaret Barker, graduated in Des Moines, Iowa and worked as a clerk and stenographer just before the Second World War began. When the US entered the war she joined the Air Force and worked in Washington D.C. and Pasadena, and then in Guam with the Far East Air Forces. Barker was stationed at the Tokyo headquarters in 1949, where she remained until the end of 1952, when she returned to the United States and lived in San Francisco, where she worked at the Hamilton Air Force Base. Barker was clearly an engaged traveler, and this album is a superb record of Occupied Japan. It includes original photographs of the Army Hall in downtown Toyko where she worked, urban street scenes, women and children in traditional dress, day-to-day activities in small towns and rural villages, well-known tourist sites, friends and Air Force coworkers, trips and leisure activities, and the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two pages contain Barker's photographs of the Cherry Blossom festival, with a fabulous series depicting schoolchildren and their teachers in kimonos under a blossoming tree. Another series comprises six attractive and carefully staged photos of young women in traditional dress. Barker saved numerous photographs and postcards from trips around Japan, having visited the temples at Kyoto, the famous deer of Nara Park, the smoking Mt. Aso (Japan's largest active volcano), and the iconic floating Torii gate of the Itsukushima Shrine. There are six large, engaging photos of cormorant fishers at work, including night shots, which may be professional shots made for tourists. A full page (containing two photographs by Barker and six that are probably professional photos sold to tourists) is devoted to the Ama, the famous female pearl divers, probably on the Izu Peninsula. There are a number of photographs of a fishing village, probably taken by Barker in the same area. She also visited the ruins of Nagasaki, taking photos of the plaque marking ground zero, and probably Hiroshima, as she has included photos of the skeletal "Atomic Bomb Dome", the remains of the Hiroshima Commercial Exhibition building which is now a peace memorial. Ten pages hold photos from Barker's trip to Thailand with a group of FEAF employees, beginning with photos of Barker and a man (who appears frequently in the album and was probably her boyfriend Ed), in front of a plane at an airfield. There are numerous views of temples, including the famous Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, and many images of Bangkok street life. Among the ephemera are two newspaper clippings about the trip, one with a photo of Barker showing off a piece of souvenir jewellery to a fellow FEAF employee who had also been on the trip. The final four pages contain photographs from a visit with family in the Midwest in 1952 or early 1953. Among the charming ephemera are postcards and greeting cards, cocktail napkins, engravings, business cards, and wedding invitations, and there is also a heartfelt telegram sent from Ed, then in San Francisco, on Valentine's Day, "Love to my Valentine. You are more than ever in my thoughts at this time. I wish we together on this special occasion". The album's themes are attractively reflected in its binding of Japanese-style silk. Overall a fascinating and evocative album documenting the life of an American woman in Occupied Japan. Barker, Marguerite. Photo album and scrapbook recording her life and travels in postwar Japan and Thailand. [Tokyo: 1949-1953.] Folio (370 x 300 mm). Contemporary binding of elaborate, padded Japanese-style silk with silk ties. 36 heavy black paper leaves containing 289 photographs mounted with silver album corners (most taken by Barker but a few being shots sold to tourists), 45 colour postcards, and numerous other postcards, cards, newspaper clippings, cocktail napkins, manuscript letters, telegrams, and advertising ephemera. Minor fraying and untying of the lower silk ties, a few items that were previously mounted now lacking, just a little minor rubbing and mild creasing to a small number of photos. Excellent condition.
TLS. Madrid, 24. V. 1949.
1949. Large 4to. ½ p. To the Viennese psychologist Hermann Swoboda (1873-1963), the father of the so called "Periodenlehre". - On stationery with printed letterhead of the Instituto de humanidades "Aula Nueva".
Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California, 1949. 1st Edition. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Fine Book/Near Fine Dustjacket. 1st Printing Xvi, 492 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Book Is Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Lower Tips, Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks, Hinges Tight. Dj Lightly Used, Price-Clipped, Spine Sunned [Browning], 1/8" V-Chip At Top Of Top Of Front Spine Edge. Scarce In Jacket.
Schriftsteller (1913-1960): Druckfahne (unterer Teil, 14 x 14 cm) einer zentralen Stelle seines Romans \"Der blaue Kammerherr\" mit sehr zahlreichen eigenh. Korrekturen, Einfügungen u. Ergänzungen in Blau, Schwarz und Rot.
New Haven: Yale University Press. Hardcover. B001QJWDYA xv, 889 pp. Index. A comprehensive and systematic treatise on economics, social philosophy, and the social sciences. A survey of the science of human action, its epistemology, its theories derived by reasoning logically from a priori axioms, and their application to specific economic phenomena. A rewritten version of Nationalokonomie, Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens, published in 1940. Usual library markings. Ink markings to page 265. Above-average wear to grey boards. Binding intact. A worthy first edition copy of this, the author's masterwork. Greaves & McGee B-16. Hutchinson 351. Fundaburk 1806. . Fair. 1949. First Edition, First Printing.
John Lehmann, 1949. Hardcover. Fine. A first edition, first printing published by John Lehmann in 1949. A fine book without inscriptions in a near fine unclipped wrapper (a touch of loss to front flap corner and a couple of stains to the front panel). No loss to the spine and no browning - a really lovely example of this book.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1949). First Edition. Presentation copy " For Elizabeth Evans with all my thanks for your reading and writing of my stories...." Evans was the author the Twayne book on Welty.
London : Cassell (1949-1954), 1949. First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim. leaf of vol. 1. Front hinges starting slightly on vols. 1 and 5. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Please note that volumes 2-6 are 1st editions - volume 1 is a new edition, revised and reset, 1949. Physical desc.: 6 v. : illus. ; 22 cm. Contents: v. 1. The gathering storm. -- v. 2. Their finest hour. -- v. 3. The Grand Alliance. -- v. 4. The hinge of fate. -- v. 5. Closing the ring. -- v. 6. Triumph and tragedy. Summary: Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history. World War, 1939-1945 - Causes.
Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in association with The Book Society in 1949. A very good+ (or better) book without inscriptions. SIGNED without dedication by the Author to the title page. In a very good unclipped wrapper which has a patch of loss to the front panel and some light internal strengthening. Rubbing and creasing to the edges. Some light loss to the corners. Exceptionally rare to find any copies of Mitford's great work signed.
London: Hamish Hamilton,, 1949. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very lightly rubbed at the extremities. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks at the ends of the spine and fading of the spine panel and the top edge of the upper panel. First edition, first impression.
Hamish Hamilton, 1949. 1st edition. Hardcover. A near fine book in red boards, faint bookseller's stamp on rear endpaper, pages very clean indeed with no foxing. In a near fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with some professional conservation and looks very bright, with no spine fade. One of the author's perenially popular novels, here in really very good condition.
Paris: Editions Jean Froissart, 1949. Fine. Editions Jean Froissart, Paris 1949, 14x24cm, broché. - First edition with a cover illustrated by Jacquelin. Signed autograph of Antoine Blondin Dr. Fatou: "... this book is vain foolproof Hoping to entertain.." Our copy is covered with kraft paper on which Antoine Blondin registered address of the dedicatee in black ink, the latter having added the name of the author and the book title in blue ink. Nice full exempalire his trailer. - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Première édition comportant une couverture illustrée par Jacquelin. Envoi autographe signé d&#39;Antoine Blondin au docteur Fatou : "... ce livre d&#39;une frivolité à toute épreuve. Dans l&#39;espoir de le divertir." Notre exemplaire est recouvert de papier kraft sur lequel Antoine Blondin a inscrit l&#39;adresse du dédicataire à l&#39;encre noire, ce dernier ayant ajouté le nom de l&#39;auteur et le titre de l&#39;ouvrage à l&#39;encre bleue. Agréable exemplaire complet de sa bande annonce.

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