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Winston CHURCHILL. The Second World War - ALL FIRST EDITIONS - 1948 - 54
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston S.
TITLE: The Second World War. (The Gathering Storm - Their Finest Hour - The Grand Alliance - The Hinge Of Fate - Closing The Ring - Triumph and Traged...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Books
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Leather
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, First Blakiston Edition, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1940. First Blakiston Edition. Rebound in quarter navy leather...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition in Original DJ, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher’s beige cloth boards, first issue dust jacket. P...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
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Paper
Liquidation of The Entire Stock of The NY Store of Yamanaka & Co., 1944, Cat. #1
Located in valatie, NY
Parke-Bernet Galleries Catalog, By Order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, Liquidation of The Entire Stock of The New York Store of Yamanaka & Co. Inc., Oriental Art, Part One, New York, 1944, 190 pages. with 939 lots. One of the three catalogues of the auctions held at the Parke Bernet Galleries in 1944. Lots included graeco buddhist, Cambodian, Siamese and Chinese sculptures and bronzes, Chinese porcelains, pottery, jade, coral carvings, pearl necklaces, Chinese paintings, lamps and screens, Chinese and Japanese furniture. The Yamanaka Company was owned by the seventh generation of the family of Ichaguro Yamanaka, who founded this worldwide business by opening a small curio...
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American Vintage 1940s Books
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Paper
RARE !!! Original german military second world war 2 - WWII poster - 1940
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1940, Germany
- blitzkrieg
- original, no reprint
- marked
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Category
German Art Deco Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Painting and Decorating Craftsman's Manual and Textbook, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Painting and Decorating Craftsman's Manual and Textbook. 1st Ed hardcover. Published by Theo Audel & Co Publishers, 1949. With original fold out paint chart. A valuable resource for ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
This I Remember, Signed and Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt, First Edition, 1949
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers , 1949. Stated First Edition. Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the first free endpaper, in black ink. In the origin...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Picasso by Gertrude Stein
Located in valatie, NY
Picasso by Gertrude Stein. B.T. Batsford, LTD, London, 1948. 3rd Ed hardcover no dust jacket. With 64 illustrations in color and B&W. The famous writer ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Books
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Paper
Marcel Duchamp & André Breton Le Surréalisme en 1947 Iconic First Edition
By André Breton
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rare first edition of Le Surréalisme en 1947, a seminal work curated by André Breton and featuring the iconic cover design Prière de Toucher by Marcel Duchamp. Published in Paris by ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
The Works Of Martin Luther - PHILADELPHIA EDITION - 6 vols. - IN A FINE BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: LUTHER, Martin.
TITLE: The Works Of Martin Luther.
PUBLISHER: Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1943.
DESCRIPTION: THE PHILADELPHIA EDITION. 6 vols., bound in 1/4 green cal...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather
Paul Laszlo Catalog from 1947
By Paul Laszlo
Located in New York, NY
Scarce, self-published, 102-page catalog with laminated boards showcasing Paul Laszlo's work in and around Beverly Hills between 1937-1947. The Hungarian born and Vienna-educated Las...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Wire
Christmas: A Story, by Eleanor Roosevelt, First Edition, in Original Dust Jacket
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Christmas: A Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Twelvemo. In the publisher's colorful original dust jacket and printed pictorial boards.
This...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Oeuvres Completes De Colette. Complete Works of Colette - FIRST COLLECTED EDITON
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle.
TITLE: Oeuvres Completes De Colette. (The Complete Works of Colette).
PUBLISHER: Paris: Flammarion, Le Fleuron, 1948-1950,
DESCRIPTION: THE FI...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather
Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley by Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Located in valatie, NY
Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. Published by Bonanza Books 1942, New York, NY. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrat...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
The Americana Collection of the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell. Part 6, Parks-Bernet
Located in valatie, NY
The Americana Collection of the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell. Part Six. Parke-Bernet NY Feb. 10th, 1945. Mrs. J. Amory Haskell was a preeminent collector of early American decorative a...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Kenneth Patchen Artist Book with Original Painting
Located in New York, NY
Panels for the Walls of Heaven, a square octavo volume of poems, abstract illustrations (based on paintings by the author) and outre typography, by experimental poet and artist Kenneth Patchen, published by Bern Porter...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck, First Edition
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck. Hardcover book, first edition, published in February 1947 by The Viking Press of New York. Printed in the United States of America by Kingsport Pre...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Authentic Reproductions Sales Cat. of the H.C. Valentine & Co. with 10-Booklets
Located in valatie, NY
Antiques - Authentic Reproductions Sales Catalogue of the H.C. Valentine & Co., Antiques Co., East Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia VA, c1940. A hard-cased catalog containing 10-booklets: English Sheffield Silver, Lawn & Garden Furniture from Old Virginia...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Mahogany, Paper
America's Best Small Houses Inscribed by William J. Hennessey
Located in New York, NY
1949 survey of small modernist houses in America, compiled and edited by William J. Hennessey based on selections by a jury of architectural photographers in...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Notable Paintings by Old Masters: from the Late Mr and Mrs Charles E. F. McCann
Located in valatie, NY
The Art Collection of the Late Mr and Mrs Charles E. F. McCann, Together With Property from The Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries. 91 lots some photogra...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Ephemeral Decorations in Paris French Book by André Granet Original 1948 Edition
By General Decoration
Located in Atlanta, GA
Décors éphémères: Les Expositions Jeux d'Eau et de Lumière, (Ephemeral decorations: water and light games exhibitions,) French book by André Granet, Original edition 1948, Preface by...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Catalogue of the Vernay Collection A Special Sale Prior to Retirement, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Catalogue of the Vernay Collection of Early English Furniture, Porcelains, Old English Silver, Glassware and Other Art Objects, "A Special Sale Prior ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Property of Mrs Dorothy Draper Hamlen, Important Early American Miniatures
Located in valatie, NY
Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York , “An Important Collection of Early American Miniatures and Silver. Property of Mrs Dorothy Draper Hamlen Removed from Her Home in Wayland, Mass...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Raoul Dufy Original Lithograph Book - 9 Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dufy Treasures of the French Painting book. Original Raoul Dufy lithograph book containing 9 plates. Each plate could easily be framed. Very rare Raoul Dufy d...
Category
French Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Paintings by 19th C & Contemporary American Artists, the Collection Samuel Shaw
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings by 19th century and Contemporary American Artists, from the Collection of The Late Samuel T. Shaw, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 21, 1945. Softcover, 89 pp. 15 b&w plate...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Van Der Elst, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Joseph Van Der Elst. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. An in-depth look into art of the Middle Ages. Contents: 1. The Times and the Men who Made Them: Men of Flanders; The Flemish Parade; The Good Black Earth; The Rise of the Towns; The Medieval Guilds; Of Love, the Dream; The Upward Glance; Pt. 2. The Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck; Petrus Christus...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Book "Logos Volume 1, Arduino Panaro Method" and Wooden Rappelling, 1940s
Located in taranto, IT
Extremely rare book Arduino Panaro Bari "logos" method, volume 1, 1930s / 40s, over 400 illustrated pages, signed by the author, equipped with a wooden rappelling team
Spignese il...
Category
Italian Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Important Collection of the Late Emil Winter, Parke-Bernet, 1st Ed, 1/15, 1942
Located in valatie, NY
Collection of the Late Emil Winter: Important Barbizon and Other Paintings, Bronzes By Rodin and Barye, French and Italian Furniture, Tapestries, Rugs, Silver, Auction Sale, January ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Early American Bottles & Flasks & Other Rare American Glass Collected, Maclay
Located in valatie, NY
Early American Bottles & Flasks and Other Rare American Glass Collected by the Late Alfred B. Maclay. Parke-Bernet NY softcover auction catalog....
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
CAPOTE, Truman. A Tree Of Night - 1949 - FIRST EDITION - PRESENTATION COPY.
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CAPOTE, Truman.
TITLE: A Tree Of Night and Other Stories.
PUBLISHER: NY: Random House, 1949.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., 8-3/8" x 5-3/8", inscri...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Fabric
Ida, A Novel by Gertrude Stein, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Ida A Novel by Gertrude Stein. New York: Random House, 1941. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. Gertrude Stein wanted Ida to be known in two ways: as a novel about a woman in the age of celebr...
Category
Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
White Pillars Early Life & Architecture Of The Lower Mississippi Valley, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
White Pillars: Early Life & Architecture Of The Lower Mississippi Valley Written by and Illustrated by J. Frazer Smith. New York: William Helburn, 1941. 2...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Leather Bound Volume of the San Francisco News, 1940-41
Located in San Francisco, CA
Leather bound volume of San Francisco news, 1940-41 (World War II period) with hundreds of newspaper pages.
Category
American Other Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Animal Skin, Paper
Green Mansions A Romance of the Tropical Forest, First Edition Thus
Located in valatie, NY
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by William Henry Hudson. New York: Knopf, 1943. First Edition thus hardcover. With a foreword by John G...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article
Located in valatie, NY
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article. July 1943 Americana Illustrated Volume XXXVII, Number 3. This was a publication of "The American Historical Company," New York City. Wi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, First Edition, 1943
By Ayn Rand
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition printing. Octavo. Rebound in modern half red Moroccan leather and marbled boards, with gilt tooling and titles to the spine, and the original dust jacket bound-in.
Presented is a first edition printing of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1947-1949 The Works of Jane Austen
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful six volume edition of the works of Jane Austen, in calf bindings, and with the original glassine and slip case.
First and early printings of Hamish Hamilton's 'Novel Lib...
Category
British Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Great Bookstore in Action by Adolph Kroch, Signed First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
A great bookstore in Action by Adolph Kroch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. Second edition hardcover with paper label on spine and cover. 32 pages. The autographed editi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
MONTHERLANT, Henry de.. La Reine Morte. 1944 - BOUND BY JACQUES BLANCHET
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MONTHERLANT, Henry de.
TITLE: La Reine Morte.
PUBLISHER: Paris: Aux depens d'un groupe de bibliophiles, 1944.
DESCRIPTION: BOUND BY JACQUES BLANCHET. 1 vol., 12-3/4" x 9-...
Category
French Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather
Marlborough: His Life and Times, by Winston Churchill, First Edition Thus, 1947
By Winston Churchill
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Churchill, Winston S. Marlborough: His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1947. First Edition Thus. Two Volume Set. Rebound in tan Moroccan leather boards, with rai...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Mona Lisa’s Mustache by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings
Located in Stamford, CT
1947 First Edition hardcover Mona Lisa’s Mustache by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings.
Hardcover with as found Mylar covering.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Tennessee Williams, Five Young American Poets, Signed First Edition, 1944
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: Williams, Tennessee.
TITLE: Five Young American Poets. Third Series 1944.
PUBLISHER: Norfolk: New Directions, 1944.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST ...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Fabric
Carl Sandburg, 'Henry Flannery', Bronze Wood, Limited Signed Edition, 1941
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Sandburg, Carl ( Henry Flannery ).
Title: Bronze Wood.
Publisher: San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941.
Description: limited signed edition. 1 vol., 8-3/4" x 11-...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather, Fabric
Mobili di Ulrich by G. Morrazoni, 1945
Located in CA, CA
Mobili di Ulrich by G. Morrazoni
Milano, Luigi Alfieri, 1945. Excellent red cloth hardback with embossed gold title. 26 pages of text and 78 pages containing 133 photographs and 24 ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Victory Through Air Power By Major Alexander P. De Seversky, Signed, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Seversky, Alexander. Victory Through Air Power. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. First Edition. Signed and inscribed. In the publisher’s original unclipped dust jacket and boards....
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Wrath in Burma by Fred Eldridge, First Edition, In Original Dust Jacket, 1946
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Eldrige, Fred. Wrath in Burma: The Uncensored Story of General Stilwell and International Maneuvers in the Far East. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946. First Edition. In the publisher’s original dust jacket and green cloth boards. With a new archival green cloth slipcase.
Presented is a first edition printing of Wrath in Burma: The Uncensored Story of General Stilwell and International Maneuvers in the Far East by Fred Eldridge. The book was published by Doubleday & Company in 1946. It is presented here in the publisher’s original green dust jacket and green cloth boards with gilt tooling to the spine. It is accompanied by a new archival green cloth slipcase, with an original patch recessed into the front of the slipcase.
Wrath in Burma offers a riveting account of General Stilwell's campaigns and Allied operations in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. A tenacious and unrelenting general, Stilwell was assigned to an almost impossible mission, staffed with untrained and ill-equipped men and unreliable and unmotivated allies in China and England...
Category
Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Fabric, Paper
Bombs Away by John Steinbeck, Photographs by John Swope, First Edition, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Steinbeck, John. Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team. New York: The Viking Press: 1942. Illustrated with photographs by John Swope. First Edition. Octavo...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Fabric, Paper
Original poster Loterie Nationale 9E Tranche 1940 by Artist Derouet Lesacq
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1940, France
- framed
- original, no reprint
- Artist:Derouet Lesacq
- Lithograph printed in colour
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Category
Art Deco Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper, Glass
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, Grosset & Dunlap Edition, Circa 1940
By Zane Grey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Grey, Zane. Riders of the Purple Sage. A Novel. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1912 (1940s). Illustrated by Douglas Duer. Presented in full gray...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article
Located in valatie, NY
Jane Peterson Autograph with Magazine Article. July 1943 Americana Illustrated volume XXXVII, number 3. This was a publication of "The American Historical Company," New York City. Wi...
Category
American Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Vintage Hardcover Book: a Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan 1941
Located in San Diego, CA
Title: A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan
The words and music of one hundred and two songs from eleven operettas
Edited: Deems Taylor
Publisher...
Category
American Expressionist Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Giovanni Bellini by Philip Hendy and Ludwig Goldscheider, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Giovanni Bellini by Philip Hendy and Ludwig Goldscheider. ?Publisher Phaidon; 1945. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With 6 tipped in color plates and 122 b&w plates. Giovanni Bell...
Category
English Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Paul Strand: Photograph 1915-1945 - Nancy Newhall - 1st edition, 1945
Located in CA, CA
Published by the Museum of Modern Art, 1st edition, New York, 1945. Hardback, English text.
This exhibition catalogue is the first critical monograph issued by MoMA on a photographer. It was published in conjunction with a planned series of one-man focal retrospectives to bring some of the prominent American and European photographers to the fore, and photography has since then entered the category of fine art as far as MoMA is concerned.
A catalyst and legend among his peers and the photography world at large, Strand’s revelatory photography captures a subtle change of mood, a slipt-second thought; his ‘nature morta’ of a kitchen bowl...
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Vintage 1940s Books
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Paper
Original french travel poster / winter - Czechoslovakei / around 1940s
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1940, France, Czech Republic
- framed
- original, no reprint
- marked by artist
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Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Glass, Paper
Lonsdale Library Book, Hounds and Dogs
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Hounds & Dogs, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Hounds & Dogs, their care, training & working. The book with over one hundred illustrations.
The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, Editors The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, Sir Theodore Cook & Mr. Eric...
Category
English Sporting Art Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude, First Edition Book
Located in CA, CA
Patrick Hamilton -The Slaves of Solitude
Published by Constable, London 1947. First edition.
Hamilton, cult author of Hangover Square and denizen of seedy pre-war literary Lond...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Iconic Limited Edition Fred Stein Photo of Albert Einstein
Located in New York, NY
Stunning large gelatin silver limited edition photograph; one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. One of only 450 in the edition.
“In 1946, when Albert Einstein was in residence at Princeton University, Fred Stein...
Category
Vintage 1940s Books
1940s Jeweled Enameled Brass Daybook Phonebook Note Pad with Stone Buddah
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Purse note pad book, cinches paper in binding, works well with index cards, as shown. Carved Green Stone possibly Jade of a Confucius Asian Man with Long Beard.
Category
Chinese Art Deco Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Brass
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