illus william gropper (6 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Sewn softcover, 7.5x5", 217 pp, b&w illus. Spine creasing, slightly bumped corners, else VG, clean & solid.

Second printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 29pp. Mild external dusting. SEIDMAN G35. An attack on "Reader's Digest" as dishonest, profascist and anti-Soviet.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. First American Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at preliminaries, related clipping tipped in at front pastedown, owner bookplate at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light to moderate shelf/edge wear, several small chips (focused at head and tail), light soiling/foxing, else bright. Blue cloth boards, brown ink labels, gilt lettering. Small 8vo. 125pp.

Softcover. Zustand: vg-. First edition. Large quarto. 48pp [1]. Illustrated b/w wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A single issue of the Yiddish Communist magazine "Der Hammer", featuring a striking b/w cover illustration by renowned Jewish-American artist and cartoonist William Gropper (1897-1977). Text in Yiddish, printed in a two-column format throughout covering the news and cultural stories of the day. Includes some poetry as well, and a few small b/w illustrations and satirical cartoons throughout, including an original image by Yosl Cutler (1896-1935). Text in Yiddish. Wrappers with some light rubbing and chipping along the spine. Sporadic light marginal notes and/or underlining to a few pages in colored pencil. A few minor closed tears along the edges of pages. Wrappers and interior in very good- condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Yiddish: ??? ?????.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition, stated, with no additional printings noted. Small octavo (19.3cm). Illustrated dust jacket with $1.75 price intact; boards in red-orange cloth with black lettering and decoration; [xviii],192pp; Illus. throughout. Jacket shows a few tears along top front, with small chips / tears and some general rubbing along edges, with some toning and smudging to verso. Boards edgeworn with some soiling and smudging to cloth. Spine a bit cocked and darkened. Endpapers toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Collection of quotes and voting records of a number of U.S. Representatives and Senators cast here as either collaborators or just simply wrong in their legislative stance during WWII. Stout's introductory chapter, "The Aims of Nazi Propaganda," begins quoting Goebbels on how the Nazis will "be able to play on many strings [in North America]," and charts a number of ways the Nazis worked to divide American society from 1933 onward.

First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 229pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in the very scarce original dustwrapper, toned and slightly ragged along edges, with small losses as head and heel of spine panel; just about VG. Bleiler-listed pastiche of humorous fantasy vignettes featuring the title character, clearly modeled on the eponymous fictional character invented by Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 18th-century fantasy Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. Brandeis was a long-time attending physician at Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx, and briefly edited the medical humor periodical Medical Pickwick, in which most of these stories originally appeared. Notable mostly for the illustrations by left-wing cartoonist William Gropper; this copy retaining the extremely uncommon Gropper-illustrated dustwrapper. BLEILER (1978) p.30.