Harper's Magazine, October 1950, Centennial Issue 1850-1950
New York: Harpers, 1950. Paperback. 11 x 8.25, wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers, text very good, bit toned. With a story by Faulkner, poem by Auden and much else.
New York: Harpers, 1950. Paperback. 11 x 8.25, wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers, text very good, bit toned. With a story by Faulkner, poem by Auden and much else.
Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 1965. First edition. Hardcover, 566 pp. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light foxing to front flyleaf and fore-edge of text-block. Light rubbing to DJ. 1-inch closed snag to bottom edge.....
Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer, 1945. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, very good, no jacket, light offsetting to endpapers. Ownership signature of George Wald, Nobel prize winning biochemist (for his research on rhodopsin and vision) and anti-war activist. 888 pp., collects some of Mann's most famous stories including Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger.....
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1930. Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, book very good, early ownership signatures on title page, jacket good with some wear, loss and stains along spine, light wear and loss to corners. One of his masterpieces, and rarely seen in dust jacket.
New York: Knopf, 1924. First American Printing. Hardcover. Vol. I only. Publisher's black cloth stamped in red, very good, no jacket, light mellowing of spine color, fraying to spine head. First edition of this translation with no subsequent printings listed.
Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1955. Hardcover. Printed paper covered boards in original plastic wrap, octavo, 68pp., not illustrated. Book has toning to edges of boards, wear to spine ends, binding tight, PO signature to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ. Text in German.....
Berlin: Fischer, 1922. Later printing. Paperback. 1922, later printing. Softcover, original wraps. 226 pp. Old German script. Good. Wraps edgeworn and starting to loosen; clean contents.
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1935. Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing, "Siebente und achte Auflage", 1935. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 270 pp., clean unmarked copy, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, soiling or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, dust jacket with some soil and discoloration, wear.....
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1947. First Printing. Wraps. 9 x 6 inches, wraps, good, some tanning, light soil and wear to covers, previous owner's name in ink on front cover (Ernest S. Frerichs, a fairly well known Biblical scholar and author, 1925-2013), mild stain to top of rear wrap.....
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, C. 1926. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo, pictorial boards in slipcase; book good with some light wear along spine, spottiness and tanning to covers, contents very good, rare slipcase with light wear and tanning.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, feels unread. DJ has sun to spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners.
Amsterdam: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1940. Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing ("7.-11. Tausend"), 1940. Pictorial hardcover in slipcase with paper spine labels, 229 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good slipcase, soil or discoloration to the outer pages, soiling and discoloration to the covers and also to the slipcase.....
New York: The Nation, 1940. Wraps. 11.5 x 8.5 inches, wraps with Georges Schreiber cover, very good, general light tanning to covers and pages. Terrific and rare issue, with FDR's "A Message to The Nation," MacLeish, "The Art of the Good Neighbor," Sandburg's "Memory," Eleanor Roosevelt's "Fear Is The Enemy,".....
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1931. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1931. Softcover, 197 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy, age-toning or discoloration to the pages and page-edges, soiling to the covers, covers also with wear to the edges including some creasing, tearing, or loss. Text in German.
Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1929. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, paginated 97-191.