1511. Sander, Fritz.

Alte und neue Staatsrechtslehre – Kritische Bemerkungen zu Karl Bindings “Zum Werden und Leben der Staaten”.

Wien/Leipzig, Franz Deuticke, 1920. 8°. 57 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Sonderdruck aus der “Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht” – Herausgegeben von Hans Kelsen. Mit beiligendem Billet “Vom Verfasser überreicht”.

1512. Gogol, Nikolai.

Das Bildnis. Eine Novelle. Mit Zeichnungen von W. Masjutin. Ins Deutsche uebertragen von Alexander Eliasberg.

Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. 96 Seiten. Hardcover / Modernes Halbleder mit Rueckenschild in neuem Spezial – Schuber mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1513. Tawney, R.H.

The Sickness of an Acquisitive Society.

First Edition. London, Fabian Society/Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1920. 21cm x 13.7cm. 86 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Spine-damaged printed red paper wrappers over boards. Else inside text-block very good with a few marginal pencil markings and dampstain to last page.

1514. Pearce, F.B.

Zanzibar – The Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa. With Illustrations and Maps.

First Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. 17.5 cm x 25.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 421 pages. 50 illustrations. Two maps near front and also including the often missing large fold-out map of Zanzibar and Pemba Islands at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Embossment to front board. A little rough but still in Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to corners of boards. Spine cloth frayed at head and tail. Binding is still firm and strong. Some spotting throughout to an otherwise clean interior. With tissue guard in good condition. New endpapers !

1515. Irving, Washington.

Knickerbocker’s History of New York & Knickerbocker Miscellanies.

New York, P.F. Collier & Son, No Year (c. 1920). 14.5 cm x 20 cm. 450. Frontispiece illustration – engraving entitled ‘Dutch Weight’. Original Hardcover. (Black cloth with embossed decoration on front board – title embossed in gilt on spine.) Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor pencil markings on rear endpaper. [The Works of Washington Irving].

1516. Original Earl 20th century German Expressionism in Original Woodcuts – Mann, Thomas.

Der kleine Herr Friedemann.

München, Phantasus-Verlag, 1920. Quarto. [4], 58, [3] Seiten. Mit elf (11) ganzseitigen Original-Bleischnitten und vier (4) kolorierten Bleischnitt-Initialen von Otto Nückel. Hardcover / Originales Halbpergament. Einband minimal fleckig. Sonst in sehr gutem Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

1517. Webster, Charles A.

The Diocese of Cork. With [18] Illustrations.

Cork, Guy & Co. Ltd., 1920. 15.5 cm x 23.3 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 420 pages. 18 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece cleanly detached and loosely inserted. Cracks to valley of index pages near rear of textblock. Binding still good and firm and text block is solid and square. Some untrimmed pages. Foxing to edges and to endpapers and very occasionally to interior. An extremely scarce publication.

1518. Avantgarde Cover Art – Nezval, Vítêzslav / Tzara, Tristan / Babel, Isaak / Ježek, Jaroslav / Capek, Josef / Seifert, Jaroslav and others.

Collection of 27 stunning publications of the Czech Avantgarde, Czech Translations of French, Russian and German Literature and Poetry, Photomontage – Dustwrappers as well as wonderful czech avantgarde-typography of the 1930s and 1940s. The collection also includes seven (7) vintage, original scores of sheetmusic by the famous czechoslovakian avantgarde jazz musician, and composer Jaroslav Ježek.

Praze / Prague, Odeon / Olymp (and others), 1920 – 1990. Octavo. More than 1000 pages, some books with illustrations. Original softcover publications, often with the rare illustrated dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Some of the rare publications with some signs of wear, few publications with some loosened pages (ask for complete list). Overall very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1519. Babcock, Louis L.

The Tarpon [The True First Issue of the First Edition / Inscribed, Signed and dated in March 1920].

Printed for Private Distribution. [Louis L.Babcock], 1920. Octavo. 62 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Spine damaged. Front board and first layer cleanly detached. Needs new binding. Softcover boards slightly frayed. Interior excellent. This is the Extremely Rare, inscribed and signed first edition, meant for private circulation only. Inscribed by Babcock to W.J.Duncan in Buffalo, New York: “Dear Mr.Duncan, please accept this little volume with my regards & good wishes – L.L.B. – Mch 20/20 – Louis L. Babcock – 802-826 Buffalo, N.Y.”.

1520. Sidgwick, Henry.

The Development of European Polity [With Chapters on “Functions of Government and Relation of Law to Government in Greece and Rome” / “Constitution-Making of the Nineteenth Century” and “Political Thought of Hobbes and Locke”]. With a Preface by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick.

Third Edition. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. 14.7 cm x 23 cm. XXVI, 454 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering. Former library-copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of german philosopher Manfred Walther, with a bookmark in the chapter “Constitution-Making of the Nineteenth Century”.