-. One side of a plain, unprinted card, approx. 3-12/ X 5-1/2 in. Karl Muck (1859-1940) was a prominent conductor. His stint at the Boston Symphony Orchestra coincided with the U.S. entry into the First World War. After a scurrilous rumor had been spread in the press that Muck had...
-. One and a half pages, on a bifolium, approx. 4-1/2 X 7 in. Felix Philippi (1851-1921), journalist and playwright in Munich and Berlin, later the author of several novels.
Baltimore: R.H. Woodward Company, 1896. First edition. 8vo, 500pp; publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in silver, gilt and black. The massacres of 1895-96 presaged the Armenian genocide that occurred in 1915. At the age of 75, Red Cross founder Clara Barton undertook one of her last humanitarian missions, traveling to...
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First American edition. 2 vols, 8vos, 352 & 384pp; three-quarter cream cloth and striped boards in black and silver. One of 2000 numbered copies in the edition. The fifth part of "Remembrance of Things Past" in its first English translation. The heavy books...
New York: n.p., 1936. First edition. 8vo, 104pp; original silkscreened wrappers. Proceedings of the First American Artists' Congress Against War and Fascism, held at Town Hall and the New School for Social Research February 14, 15, and 16, 1936. With contributions from a remarkable roster of artists and creative people...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1980). First edition. 8vo, 62pp; cloth, illus. A presentation copy, inscribed "All good things to Joe and Therese. Love, Lillian, May, 1980" The recipients were fellow New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell and his wife.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 442pp; cloth. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Ross to fellow New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell: "Love to Joe from Lillian, Feb. 6, 1964."
-. Two pages, on a single leaf of Hotel Windermere (Chicago) stationery, approx. 5-1/2 X 6-3/4 in.; together with a small calling card, signed in full by Stern. Otto Stern (1888-1969) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943, the first time the award had been given since 1939. His...
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, photographic frontispiece, 95pp; cloth-backed boards. One of 500 numbered copies, chiefly sought after for the frontispiece portrait of Waldo Frank, which is an actual photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. In this copy, as usual, the photograph is affected by some oxidation and...
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 292pp; green cloth, patterned endpapers. Jacket illustration is by Reginald Marsh.
Madison: Red Ozier Press, (1977). First edition. 16mo, unpag. pamphlet in wrappers of handmade paper; saddle-stitched. One of 175 copies, the entire edition, signed by Wakoski, printed and with a title page print by Steve Miller, showing the influence of mentors Mary and Walter Hamady.
Various places: United States Treasury, 1943-44. Multiple formats and sizes. Archive contents include: printed brochures for the third, fourth, and fifth sales drives for War Bonds during the late stages of the Second World War, gearing up for the D-Day attack. Along with the brochures are mimeographed instructions for the...
Lawrenceville, NJ. Single small leaf of Wilder's printed stationery. Wilder writes to one of the editors of the literary magazine "Palms" declining to contribute a critical piece: "I admire many of the things in this Palms. But I have never been able to generalize about Art of Poetry etc etc....
New York: Rizzoli, (1996). Frankenthaler, Helen. First trade edition. Cloth. 8vo, unpag.; burgundy cloth. Published for the trade, following the preceding portfolio edition of 35 (plus a/p copies) suites of seven original intaglio prints. The text, in addition to Frankenthaler's brief preface, is the poem "St. Valentine," reprinted from The...
(New York): Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1944. First edition. 8vo, 285pp; cloth. Essays by the prominent reform rabbi and activist, here in a significant association copy, inscribed: "To Ruth Gruber, PhD, with deepest appreciation of a great job grandly done, Stephen S. Wise, September 1, 1944." The recipient, the prolific...
