joseph kraus editor (8 risultati)

Good condition. Includes "Armored Police Patrol" Wear to the back cover, with rubbing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Crouch, Anthony (book design) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition silver gray linen boards with red spine lettering contained in a very good condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Editor Dedication; Editor's Note; List of Illustrations; A Karl Kraus Chronology; About This Reader and Selected Bibliography. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, two double-page facsimile foldouts in German (left fold-out) and English (right fold-out), and black-and-white portrait frontispiece. Upper dust jacket spine edge wear and lower jacket spine rubbed. All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). A vintage former owner bookplate neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. "My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness." The voice of Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Vienna's legendary satirist, polemicist, and pacifist, today speaks with a timeliness and a freshness that the passing of four decades has not dimininished. Kraus assailed the sins of early 20th-century Europe in vitriolic fashion, often finding himself virtually alone in the unpopularity of his stance. In 1919 Kraus indicated the compass of his themes as follows: "Sex and untruth, stupidity, abuses, cadences and cliches, printer's ink, technology, death, war and society, usury, politics, the insolence of office.art and nature, love and dreams." The present Reader includes samples of Kraus's thoughts and feelings on all these subjects, in prose and in verse, culminating in a readable and performable condensation of modern literature's most trenchant antiwar drama, The Last Days of Mankind. The English-speaking public thus has available for the first time a representative selection from the writings of one of the modern era's most influential and original thinkers." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover has a large chip at top corner and one to bottom corner at spine.; torn at spine joint front for 10 cm; general wear around edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Minor sunning to spine. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Tear at the top corner of front of cover at the spine of about 4 cm and at the bottom. Chip at tail of spine cover. Both front and back covers have pulled away slightly from where it was glued to text block showing staples. Toning to top of page 1 and 112. A few minor marks to covers.

A Festschrift for the legendary bookseller H.P. Kraus. Includes, among dozens of other articles, a bibliography of books printed by Johannes Petreius and a bibliography of books illustrated by Henry Alken (89 items). 4to. Bound in publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. XXII, 856 pages, illustrations : 27 cm.

Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Large magazine format. First and only issue. 112 page magazine consisting of Part 1, (pp. 12-59) "Houdini's Spirit Exposés: Culled from his own manuscripts. Describing his investigations in a tireless search for genuine spirit manifestations and detailing his experiences in unearthing frauds." And Part 2, (pp. 60-107) "Dunninger's Psychical Investigations: The experiences of the author while investigating mediums in his official capacity as Chairman of the Science and Invention Magazine Committee for Psychical Research." Dunninger was a famous magician and mentalist, whose contemporaries included Harry Houdini and Blackstone. Dunninger also wrote a column for Gernsback's Science and Invention magazine. A strong debunker of spiritulalists and mediums he and the publisher's had a standing offer of $10,000.00 ($170,000 in money today) for any medium/psychic to prove they could contact the dead. It was never collected any many phonies were exposed. From the preface, "We do not wish to question anyone's religious beliefs, but we DO wish to take an emphatic stand against all unscientific demonstrations and all spiritistic "hocus pocus" which, as a rule, is designed only to prey upon trusting and believing people, either to extract money from them directly or idirectly." (p. 8). Dunninger (18982-1975) published many articles and books, some ghost written by his close friend Walter B. Gibson, he also appeared on radio and television. A touch of rubbing, slight loss at head of spine and also darkening to spine, a lovely fine copy. Rare in this condition. (31531).