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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4° - 338pp - Color & B/w reproductions. Exhibition catalogue: Roberto Matta (1911-2002) Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art across the Americas and Europe. First edition, text in French language. Original boards. In Very good condition.

Decorated Cloth. Thomas Seccombe (Illus.) / Ford Madox Brown (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, cloth boards, fountain design (with flowers, birds, butterflies) stamped in gilt, silver and black upper board. gilt lettering and publisher's device to spine, all edges gilt, frontis portrait (bust in circular design), single title page, b&w plates, text illustrations and decorations, all page prdered in red, pp xx 604. N.d. (1881). Light rubbing to head and foot of spine. The second free endpaper has a gift insciption and a second short inscription dated 1892. The tissue plate to the frontis is foxed, otherwise all is generally very clean. Binding firm. Very good condition. An attractive and unusual edition of Lord Byron's work, introduced by the poet William Rossetti. This printing matches one in The British Library, which is catalogued as "Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe [or rather, by Ford Madox Brown]". (It is not clear why Ford Madox Brown would be using the name of another artist as a pseudonym.) This edition also matches the description in The British Library: "Without the additional titlepage and the frontispiece, the latter being replaced by a portrait. With different illustrations from the [1880] edition, that facing p. 410 signed: "M. W. Ridley.".

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by Bransom, Paul (illustrator). First Edition. This highly controversial issue featured an article by Milton Mayer entitled "The Case Against The Jew" in which he argued that "The Jews of America are afraid that their number is up. they know that the postwar collapse will remind a bitter and bewildered nation that 'the Jews got us into the war.'" - page 18. The Post subsequently received thousands of complaints, resulting in the magazine announcing that it "deeply regrets the misunderstanding" and that "the Post has never been, is not now and never will be anti-Semitic in belief or expression." (Reference: JTA April 16, 1942). Mayer [1908-1986], was born into a Jewish home and went on to write "They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45", which studied the citizens of Hitler's Germany. Other Features: Heroes Wholesale - Uncle Sam sets out to find men to man the planes of the Air Force; There is Only One Mistake - To Do Nothing - Advice to critics of the war effort by Charles F. Kettering of GM; The Terrible-Tempered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes - Another visit to the pyrotechnist of the art world - article with color photos (2nd of 4 article); Where Do We Go From Rio? - Hemispheric solidarity. Stories: Two Soldiers; Master of Dialogue; The Mamma Bull; Football Dance; Tall in the Saddle (8part 4 of 8); Murder in the OPM (conclusion). Back cover color-photo Camel cigarette ad features figure skater Dorothy Lewis. 92 pages. Complete, clean and unmarked with light wear. A very well preserved copy of this fascinating WWII-era issue.; Cover Art; Folio.