december 1944 (21 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. IN Yiddish. 255, (1) pages. 20 x 15 acm. Title page detached. This is a Yiddish translation of ROlland's 1911 biography of Tolstoy. WorldCat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 1. Printed on poor quality paper and so leaves are yellow and brittle. Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 - 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. He was a pacifist, vegetarian, and at the same time an unwavering admirer pf one of the greatest monsters the world has ever seen: Stalin. Perhaps Rolland would have benefited from sessions with his good friend Sigmund Freud.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey paper covered boards, cream paper title and author lettering to the grey cloth spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains (xiv), 276 [iv] printed pages of text. Light foxing to the closed page edges, off-setting to the end papers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. The Times newspaper review of the book by John Drinkwater from October 13th 1927 loosely inserted. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History].

Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, green title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 6½''. Contains 258 printed pages of German text with colour and monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. A few tan age spots to the end papers and in near Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORWAY & NORWEGIAN.

Hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5½''. Edward Keble Chatterton was a sailor and prolific writer who is best known for non-fiction works. His voyages across the English Channel, to the Netherlands, around the Mediterranean and through the French canals led to many periodicals, magazines and books. Joining the R.N.V.R. at the outbreak of the First World War he commanded a motor launch flotilla, leaving the service as a Lieutenant Commander. In 1918 he was appointed to the Naval section of the Official History Committee, where he worked until 1922. Unquestionably one of the most important and vivid nautical authors of the past century using both first hand accounts from the people that were there at the time, and having the opportunity to access to official documents. Chatterton recorded the maritime history of Britain at its most momentous point of change, from sail to steam, from the advent of the submarine to the carrier. This account was at the time of publication the only book dealing with the naval and seafaring aspect of the withdrawal from Dunkirk of the British Expeditionary Force, it includes first hand information obtained from ship owners, and the officers themselves who took part in the evacuation along with official information. A valuable source for those interested with the naval and seafaring aspect of the withdrawal from Dunkirk, it is an authentic account of the coasters and cargo steamers, yachts and motor cruisers, sailing barges and lifeboats, excursion paddle vessels, destroyers and sloops, even dinghies, that took their part day after day, night after night, and effected what experts at the time had considered impossible. Contains 256 + iv pp with 31 monochrome photographs throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).

New edition with an additional chapter during the war and after. Hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy designed cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered cream back and front. 8vo. 8½'' x 6½''. Contains colour frontispiece, (xxii), 380 pp with over 140 monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout, 9 plans on two folding plates at rear. Pencil name to the front free end paper, light rubbing to the boards and in Very Good condition, acetate protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. SAILING BOATS (Yachting).

First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original black buckram covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 9'' x 6¼''. Contains (xi)-blank, 364 pp. Spotting to the closed text block edges and in Very Good bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Folded Hayward Gallery Exhibition Flyer - Catalogue | 12th January - 3rd March 1974. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains 4 pages with monochrome photographs. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORWAY & NORWEGIAN.

Publisher's original colour illustrated laminated card covers. Folio 12½'' x 10¼'' 96 pages. ISBN 3822805696. Colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published, unused and unopened new book. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORWAY & NORWEGIAN.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff French flap card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 11½'' x 9¼''. Contains 213 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs and colour works throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued, originally published and sold for £25.00. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 3791328832 NORWAY & NORWEGIAN.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original lime green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 9'' x 6¼''. Contains 204 pp with 6 full-page single-sided monochrome illustrations throughout. Spotting to the closed text block edges and end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition Eugene Hastain illustrated dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine ends and corners, spine slightly age darkened, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [softback] with deep French flaps. 4to 10½'' x 9½''. Contains 208 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs and colour artwork illustrations throughout. Minimal rubs to the cover edges, light sun fading to the back cover and in very near Fine clean unopened condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1903973651 NORWAY & NORWEGIAN.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in silver to the front board. 4to. 12½'' x 10''. Contains monochrome illustrations through 32 pp English text followed by 32 single-sided tipped-in colour plates with title below each. Spine cover absent, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORWAY & NORWEGIAN.

8½'' x 5'' flown cover No. 9 of 50 post marked Royal Air Force Squadron 617 Marham Kings Lynn | SIGNED to the front cover 'J. B. Tait' | Royal Air Force stamp to the rear 'Flown on Training Mission on 4th January 1988 in Tornado - Flight Time 2hrs 30mins. One cachet insert. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Gevirt, Binah (illustratore). In Hebrew, vowelized. 74 pages. 197 x 141 mm. WorldCat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 2. Braunstein was an author, translator, educator and one of the leaders of the Zionist movement in Romania. Vladimir Leonidovich Dorov was a founder of a famous circus dynasty. From an early age he loved animals and was interested in animal training. His parents were of noble descent and so intended for their son to be a military man or diplomat. But they died early so he grew up in a foster family. His guardian sent him to a military gymnasium. When he rebelled, he was placed in a boarding house. But his passion was the circus, so he ran away from the boarding school to a circus, where he practiced acrobatics and juggling. Eventually he went into teaching, but after retirement he joined the Hugo Winkler circus, concentrating on animal training. His talents brought him fame, he joined another circus. Among his feats was training two pelicans to dance to the waltz tune and flip through the pages of the book. He also gained popularity both as a clown and as a coach touring Russia with the Snow Circus. In 1912 he bought a house in Moscow, continued his study of animal behavior and training, based not on punishment, but on reward, namely, feeding. His house was a full-fledged laboratory for the study of reflexes of various animals and it attracted famous scientists such as Vladimir Bakterev, Alexander Leontovich, professor Grigory Kozhnikov, professor Alexander Chizevsky. He later published "Animal Training". Parallel with the studies, he put on very popular shows at the "Dorov corner." After the 1917 revolution, all of Dorov's property was nationalized, but he was allowed to stay at home and continue his scientific and circus activities, which made him a household name.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Original business card. 7x11 cm. Written 'Le Khedive'. Abbas Hilmi Pasha was the last Khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan, ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914, after Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I, the nationalist Khedive was removed by the British, then ruling Egypt, in favor of his more pro-British uncle, Hussein Kamel, marking the de jure end of Egypt's four-century era as a province of the Ottoman Empire, which had begun in 1517. Extremely rare. (See. 'Tamga, pençe, tugra, imza' by Kologlu, Orhan. p. 98).

Loose Leaf. Condizione: Very Good. Correspondence from Chettiar in Tamil, from IIL in English. 9 letters from Chettiar and IIL, in manuscript and typescript; 10 pieces of correspondence from IIL on note cards with IIL letterhead; 1 IIL membership card for Chettiar. CONDITION: Overall Very Good, old folds, some splitting and tape repairs along folds of documents by IIL but Chettiar's letters largely free of wear or tear, text legible throughout. All documents now housed in sleeves that are mounted onto backing, but it remains easy to remove documents from enclosures. This collection contains English translations of Chettiar's letters, presumably made by the previous owner, who also wrote captions describing each piece of correspondence on their respective mounts. An evocative collection of correspondence document- ing an Indian nationalist organization's coercion of funds from a member of a prominent money-lending Burmese-Tamil family. These letters show the Indian Independence League's attempt to extort money from a wealthy man whom they had identified as being in a position to help "free India from bondage and for the maintenance of the Indian National Army." This was M.S.M. Somasundarum Chettiar, a 63-year-old merchant who operated his business on Strand Road, in Kyaiklat, a town in the Pyapon District of Burma. A recent historical study by Suppiah and Raja on the Chettiar families of Burma suggests that Somasundaram was part of a "distinguished ethnic group comprising the business class among Malaysian Indian-Tamils," who made their fortunes by lending money to the Indian working class in Burma. The Chettiar ethnic group boasted "a centuries long tradition as an indigenous banking caste in South India," and thus, due to a combination of "stringent business regulations during British colonialism in the Madras Presidency and economic opportunities in the newly opened British colonies in Southeast Asia," both the Indian working class in Burma and members of the Straits Settlement Chinese utilized "Chettiar agents in order to conduct bank transactions?in the middle of the nineteenth century." This reliance upon the Chettiar's services only increased by the turn of the twen- tieth century, as the demand rose for rubber and tin made in Southeast Asia. As "local Chinese and Malays with only small and medium capital sources relied on loans from Chettiar agents to develop land, plant rubber and open mines?Chettiar agents" became "known as the leading moneylenders" in late-colonial Burma. Somasundaram would thus have been part of a known community of capitalists "who accumulated capital for further expansion of their activities at the expense of the Indian working class." The Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army were closely intertwined movements during WWII, both led by Subhas Chandra Bose and governed by the Azad Hind Provisional Government in Exile.They worked to unite the Indian diaspora in Southeast Asia to support the cause of independence and sought military support from Japan to facilitate an armed wing for their movement. Primary source documentation of the Azad Hind government's activities is scant institutionally. We locate a scrapbook created by a member of the Indian National Army, held at the Institute of Social Research in the Netherlands, and a letter from Subhas Chandra Bose asking for a loan from the Hikari Kikan of Syonan, held by the National Library Board of Singapore. This would be the only comparable collection held in North America.A rich collection of correspondence highlighting the conflicting poles between Indian diasporic wealth and Indian nationalists' aspirations for the nation's self-rule (listing credit Pico Banerjee, Peek A Boo Rare Books & Ephemera).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 246, (1) pages. 22 x 16 cm. Original wrappers bound in. A few words are lightly underlined in pencil, easily erasable. Kabak was the recipient of the Bialik Prize for Literature in 1943. Kabak lived in Turkey, Palestine, Germany, and France before studying in Switzerland at the universities of Geneva and Lausanne. He finally settled in Palestine in 1921. A teacher at the Jerusalem Re?avyah Gymnasium, he played a central role in the literary, educational, and civic life of the city. Nizzahon ("Victory," 1923) is set in Germany, before World War I. Zinner, a Jewish sculptor in Berlin, practices "German" art, but is won back to Judaism by a young girl from Palestine.

Hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5½''. Edward Keble Chatterton was a sailor and prolific writer who is best known for non-fiction works. His voyages across the English Channel, to the Netherlands, around the Mediterranean and through the French canals led to many periodicals, magazines and books. Joining the R.N.V.R. at the outbreak of the First World War he commanded a motor launch flotilla, leaving the service as a Lieutenant Commander. In 1918 he was appointed to the Naval section of the Official History Committee, where he worked until 1922. Unquestionably one of the most important and vivid nautical authors of the past century using both first hand accounts from the people that were there at the time, and having the opportunity to access to official documents. Chatterton recorded the maritime history of Britain at its most momentous point of change, from sail to steam, from the advent of the submarine to the carrier. This account was at the time of publication the only book dealing with the naval and seafaring aspect of the withdrawal from Dunkirk of the British Expeditionary Force, it includes first hand information obtained from ship owners, and the officers themselves who took part in the evacuation along with official information. A valuable source for those interested with the naval and seafaring aspect of the withdrawal from Dunkirk, it is an authentic account of the coasters and cargo steamers, yachts and motor cruisers, sailing barges and lifeboats, excursion paddle vessels, destroyers and sloops, even dinghies, that took their part day after day, night after night, and effected what experts at the time had considered impossible. Contains 256 + iv pp with 31 monochrome photographs throughout. SIGNED with different colour ink by 9 participants, R.N.V.R. and Gunners to the front free end paper 'Lieutenant B. Beach R.N.V.R.' (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve); 'T. C . Robinson'; 'R. Hall '41'; Bill Angles 13th April 1941'; 'J. W. Walker'; 'Ian Cleff 14th May 1941'; 'J. H. Alldridge Gunner TI 15th September 1941'; 'S. S. Blimann 14th September 1941'; 'A. T. F. Griffin'. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips and rubbing to the edges, corners and spine ends, not price clipped, 10/6 (War Costs). Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).

Life in Paris. Britisch Dependencies in Africa. 48 S., OBrosch, starke Altersspuren. 3007219 Sprache: Deutsch.

Paper Wrappers. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. In Yiddissh. 16 pages. 216 x 140 mm. Illstrated. Published January 1942. WorldCat does not list a single library worldwide that has copy. The Polish Socialist Party was a socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most important parties in Poland from its inception in 1892 until its merger with the communist Polish Workers' Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party in 1948.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Physicist and astronomer Arthur Eddington tested Einstein's Theory of Relativity at an eclipse in 1919. A lifelong Quaker, his 1929 Swarthmore Lecture explores how science and religion define and look at reality. This copy is the ORIGINAL 1929 first printing in dark blue silk hardback with bright gilt lettering on cover -- NOT PRINT ON DEMAND. It is in excellent condition with a tight, straight binding, and a bright,very good cover with no dustjacket but with bright gilt lettering. An earlier owner's question is written on the inside cover and answered on the back. The book measuring 8.25" x 4.75" will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.