Venice, CA: Sewell Archives, (1986). Softcover. Sm. elephant folio. 70pp. Original wraps illustrated with color reproduction of a painting by Don Bachardy of Billy Al Bengston. Main magazine was a hip bi-monthly Venice publication with featured food, design, architecture, fashion, music, humor, art and more. It was circulated at carefully..... More
Jena: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, 1984. Softcover. 8vo. 145pp. Original illustrated wraps. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the East German Zentralschule (Central school) of the DTSP (Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik). Collection of lectures on the Olympic Movement delivered at a conference held in Bad Blankenburg on June..... More
Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1929. Softcover. 8vo. vi, 85pp. Original wrappers bound in modern blue cloth. Minor scuffing and staining to cloth. Title handwritten in black on spine. Front wrapper detached but present, age toning to wraps. Pages unopened. "Eine kulturgeschichtliche Studie von J. Ostrup, Professor an der Universität Kopenhagen." Interesting..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Ex library. 8vo. xiv,331pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original pictorial dj. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Some creasing, chipping and few closed tears on dj. Frontispiece. Small stamp of Hebrew Union College, Jewish..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Hardcover. Ex library. 4to. 577-1160 pp. Gilt-stamped olive cloth and spine. An annual report on various aspects of Native American life, compiled by the Bureau of Ethnology. Delightfully illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions and a few color plates, one in fold-out. Library number in white..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1954. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 529, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with blue and yellow lettering on spine and blue lettering on front cover. Captivating work being a collection of 30 essays grouped in 8 main sections. One group of essays based on the..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 326pp., (32pp. advertisements). Original illustrated mocha cloth with black lettering on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Basil Thomson served in the colonial service in Fiji and as Prime Minister of Tonga and..... More
Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 1960. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. XIV, 463, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Frontispiece portrait of Emile Durkheim. Written by thirteen outstanding scholars from the social sciences, philosophy, and literature, the essays in this volume..... More
Wien und Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vii, 491 (1)pp. Original decorative gray pebbled cloth with black and gilt ruling and gilt lettering on black label of cover and spine. Top edge red. Publisher's logo on title page. Ribbon marker. Treatise of the race problem and the..... More
Paris: Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres" 1981. Hardcover. Octavo. 154, [2]pp. Original orange cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine, and printer's device on front and back cover. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work, being one of the first treatises on Physiognomy: method based on the idea that..... More
Bad Homburg: Verlag Gehlen, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 328pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dj. Corners bumped. Creasing, chipping, staining and some tearing to dj. Frontispiece of Weber. A Festschrift by friends and colleagues of Gottfried Weber the former Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe..... More
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, n/d. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,268pp. Decorated brown cloth with red title-plate in original dj. Some creasing, discoloration and chipping to dj. Tipped-in frontispiece of de Boor. A Festschrift commemorating the 75th birthday of the German Philologist Helmut de Boor (1891-1976). Text in German. Dj in good, book in..... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust jacket. Interesting collection of articles relating to New York, taken from various works of modern German literature. Text in German. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor creasing and..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1956). Hardcover. octavo. 208pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Provocative interpretation of the culture of the American people by philosopher, Horace M. Kallen. With comments by Stanley H. Chapman, Stewart G. Cole, Elisabeth F. Flower, and others. Some..... More
Köln: Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1958. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 348pp. Original printed wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of Alice Salomon. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable study compiling the life and work of the celebrated German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Spine and edges of wrappers..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. Later printing. Octavo. xiv, 566pp. Index. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. A near fine copy in a later acetate dust wrapper. Contents: The dusk of the nation -- The symptoms -- Diagnosis -- Etiology -- The psychology of mysticism --..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, [1], 247, [2]pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Rosenberg looks at two fundamental themes of all modern history: the drift into political and administrative centralization, and the importance of the professional classes..... More
Chicago: Research Institute for Group Work in Jewish Agencies in cooperation with The American Jewish Committee, (1965). 8vo. vii. 264pp. Paper. Head of spine slightly rubbed, small tear on tail of spine and back cover. Covers and edges slightly stained and soiled. Volume 2 of a series published by the..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1934. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv,373pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. "This book is an attack upon the claims made for the objective validity of conscience as a means of determining good and evil. It maintains, however..... More
Hamburg: NP, 1951. Softcover. 8vo. 95pp. Original wrappers. Some staining and discoloration to wraps. Spine sunned. "Die Aufgabe der vorliegenden Schrift ist die Untersuchung der ideologischen Werke "Eurindia" und "El Cristo Invisible" von Ricardo Rojas. Band 22, Hamburger Romanistische Studien, B. Ibero-Amerikanische Reihe." Text in German. Wraps in good-, interior..... More
Zurich: [s.n.], 1985. Softcover. 8vo.191pp. Illustrated pink wrappers with red lettering to front wrapper. Fascinating sociological study on street prostitution and middle class morale, with the example of the city of Zurich. Originally written as a doctoral dissertation. In German. In fine condition. Part of a series: Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen..... More
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudew, 1963. Softcover. 8vo. Original wrappers. Some discoloration and minor staining to wraps. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA to inside of front board. Text in English and French. Wraps in good, interior in very good..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. LXIV, [2], 445, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Although several translations of Simmel's articles have appeared in the United States, the present volume is..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. VII, [1], 133, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over yellow cloth with blue lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial front endpaper. Charming work telling the story of ordinary Russian people, its characters founded upon those whom the author worked..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv (iii), 395pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering on label on spine. Historical account of China with special emphasis on functions and structure of the family in society. Binding rubbed with some wear along edges and some soiling on..... More