Search Results: Authors starting with A from ZH BOOKS

Chicago: A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company, 1905. First Edition. Very good. Trade catalog, n. d. (ca 1905); oblong folio, 18 1/4 x 13; pp. [58], recto only; textured, olive wraps, 1/4 cloth, and large rivets (as published); a small cut to cloth on spine; wraps with a few spots to margins and nicks and cuts along edges of paper; faint vertical crease; numerous, sepia-tone illustrations; very good condition.A beautiful, lavish, trade catalog for the A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company - established in 1869 and known for manufacturing luxury furniture. Each page featured an entire suite, ie. beds, bureau, chifforette, vanity, foot stool, etc., the materials the pieces were made of (Mahogany, Walnut), the style of the furniture (Queen Anne, Hepplewhite, William and Mary), and the dimensions.

Brooklyn, NY: By the Author, 1920. Softcover. First edition presumed, n. d. (1920s [?]); 24 cards on orange card stock, with text and illustrations in black; lithographed card stock box; very minor wear to cards, near fine condition; directions on the back panel of the box; chips and cuts to edges, good to very good condition.A mystery card game, it was intended to be played at parties and gatherings and, according to instructions, "each crazygram should be given to the one the title on the crazygram signifies. After all have been read, the host or hostess should select the one who laughed the least and make him or her do as the crowd wishes." Although most of the cards are good-naturedely funny, some are slightly offensive, too, including: "To the Dumbest Girl! Will you accept a position as professor of Internal Trouble..." and "To the Gold Digger! I am proposing marriage to you. Am sending this craqzygram collect..."

S. l. (Royalton, Vermont): s. n., 1900. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (ca 1900); 10 1/2 x 6; white stock, printed and ruled with an elaborate border in black; a tiny nick and a small, closed cut to bottom edge and corner; several faint crease lines; in about very good condition.A beautiful program for a Methodist Episcopal Church function in early 20th-century Vermont.

Moskau (Moscow): Universitats-Buchdruckerei (Katkoff & Co.), 1875. Hardcover. Very good. First edition; 9" x 6"; pp. [4], 1-122, [2] + a large, fold-out, chromolithographed map by V. Bakhman; full, embossed, brown morocco; gilt title to front board; gilt page edges; rubbed spots with small loss to tips of spine and edges; a minor nick to one of the folds on the map; very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author to Russian nobleman and politician Count Mikhail Khristoforovich Reitern (Michael von Reutern) [1820 - 1890].Hermann Abich [1806 - 1886], known as the Father of Caucasian Geology, was born in Berlin in, then, Prussia. He was the grandson of famous German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth [1743 – 1817], who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) and the nephew of renowned ethnographer and orientalist Julius Klaproth [1783 - 1835], who instilled in Hermann an interest for the history and natural history of Caucasus. He… Read More

New York: By the authors, 1852. Very good. Three documents, printed and partially filled in manuscript; approx. 6 x 12; illustrated with small engravings; a few small nicks to edges and mild age-toning; in very good condition.Abraham Bell (1778 - 1856) was born in a prominent Quaker family in Northern Ireland. Immigrating to New York in 1797, he co-founded Abraham Bell & Company with several partners, of which he would become the sole owner and which would be renamed Abraham Bell & Son in 1844. A shipping firm and commissions merchant, it imported and exported a variety of commodities, though it specialized in the export of Southern cotton to the British Isles. During the potato famine of the 1840s, Bell transported thousands of immigrants from Ireland. The three current bills addressed the shipping, via various vessels, of bales of cotton to Liverpool, rosin to Glasgow, and embroideries to Richmond.

London: Flegon Press, 1963. First edition thus; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; pp. 29; stapled yellow wraps; mild foxing along margins of covers; small nick to fore-edge of front cover; previous owner's name stamp to corner of front cover and title page; one large b&w illustration; very good condition.Fedor Abramov was a Russian author and literary critic known for his affinity for writing about the hardships of the Russian peasants. His essay "Around the Bush" also centered on the difficult kolkhoz lives.The publisher of the essay, Alec Flegon, was the owner of "Flegon Press" and a controversial figure in the samizdat publishing circles in London in mid-20th century. He was the first to publish Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Heart of a Dog' and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' as well as various versions of Pasternak's 'Doctor Zhivago.' He did not pay royalties to the authors under the pretext of helping them more than… Read More

S.-Peterburg: Tipografiia tovarishchestva "Obshchestvennaia Polza", 1891. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [5], 6-79, [1]; beige wraps, printed in black; illustrated with portrait frontis of Benjamin Franklin; previous owner's personal stamp and manuscript note to front wrap; some loss of paper from head of spine (text block solid); in about very good condition.A well-written biography of Benjamin Franklin, it covered his childhood, his contributions to the American society and to the world before and after the Revolutionary War, his founding of the first public library in the US, etc.

San Francisco, California: Carlos White Printing Co., Steam Printers, 1884. First Edition. Good. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 4-71; off-white wraps, printed and ruled with an elaborate border; chips to tips of spine; faint spotting and foxing to wraps (not affecting readability); in good condition.A scarce work from an illusive San Francisco publisher, it documented the proceedings of the California branch of the Grange - officially named The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. The social organization, being the oldest American agricultural advocacy group with a national scope, was founded after the Civil War - in 1867. It would claim credit for the ideas of rural free mail delivery, the Farm Credit System, etc. What was most unusual of the organization at the time was that women and teenagers, "old enough to draw a plow," were encouraged to participate in it. Furthermore, it was mandatory that four of the organization's elected positions could be held… Read More

Chicago: Adams & Elting Co., 1909. Very good. Two brochures, ca 1909; four-fold and tri-fold, 8 1/2 x 3 1/4 and 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 folded; one illustrated with drawings, the other lithographed; 18 color paint chips laid on in each; generally mild wear to edges and margins; in very good condition.Beautiful advertising brochures, they showcased various shades of 'Hygienic Kalsomine' - a sanitary wall finish in brilliant, uniform colors.

Oakland, CA: By the author, 1934. Very good. Typed letter, signed in ink; 12 x 8 1/2; single sheet, text to recto only; mild, uniform age-toning; old, horizontal fold lines; in very good condition.Albert Adelson (1850 - 1943) was a Russian-American resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, allegedly claiming to be one of the founders of the Russian Republic and author of their constitution. Known for his crusades against social injustices and for his relentless letter-writing to US presidents, senators, and other political figures, in this particular letter he addressed "His Excellency, President of the United States," in connection with President Franklin Roosevelt's 1934 visit to Devils Lake in North Dakota. The president's campaign against the drought and the desperate economic situation in the midst of the Great Depression prompted Adelson to offer a "genious invention, titled: Overhead-Irrigation and Fire-Extinguisher Wizard." According to him, it could cover the… Read More

Moscow: Vysshaia Shkola, 1973. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. 3-175, [1] including text to last page; bright fuchsia wraps printed in white; small chips to head and tail of spine and some rubbing to edges; internally clean; signed and inscribed by author; very good or better.An authoritative work on the development and the changes in the German language from the beginning of the 18th century to the present. OCLC lists copies in European institutions only.

San Francisco: By the author, 1912. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-12; speckled grey wraps, printed in black; very minor fading and spotting to wraps; faint discoloration to fore-edge of first several leaves; very good condition.An exuberant sermon on life in the City by the Bay by Baptist Preacher Charles F. Aked, it was delivered at The First Congregational Church of San Francisco on March 3, 1912. Aked was born in Nottingham in 1864 and, while still very young, became famous for taking on a dying church at Pembroke Chapel in Liverpool and quickly revitalizing it. His first lecture tour of the United States in 1893 was a roaring success. He would eventually accept the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York in 1907.

New York: Tovarishchestvo Zarubezhnykh Pisatelei, 1969. Softcover. Second revised edition; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. 24; textured white wraps printed in black; light rubbing to tips of spine, else minor wear; small handwritten "Akhmatova" to spine; near fine condition. Signed and inscribed by Russian poet and literary historian Gleb Struve, who also wrote the postscript to the current book, to Russian-born American physicist and author Iakov Lvovich (Alpert): "Iakov Lvovich, with thanks for your review of recent scientific publications. G. S. April 1970."Universally hailed as Anna Akhmatova's masterpiece, the lyrical cycle of poems "Requiem" was written between 1935 and 1940 but because of its explicit condemnation of Stalin's Terror - it was not published until the leader's death in 1963 and then only in Germany. The book was not printed in Russia until 1987. Most of the poems reflected her grief for her son Lev Gumilev's 18-years-long imprisonment in… Read More

Moskva: Zerna, 1918. First Edition. Good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. [4], 7-190, [1]; color lithographed wraps with a Futurist design by Georgii Yakulov; rebacked, with some repairs to upper left margin of front wrap and corners; ffep a bit brittle along hinge; in good to very good condition.The most important poetry anthology of the Silver Age, it embraced Symbolism, Acmeism, and Futurism, and gathered the works of almost all of the most famous figures of the early twentieth-century Russian poetry. Some of the 48 contributors included Anna Akhmatova, Konstantin Balmont, Aleksandr Blok, Valery Bryusov, Ivan Bunin, David Burliuk, Andrey Belyi, Maximilian Voloshin, Zinaida Gippius, Nikolay Gumilev, Sergey Esenin, Ryurik Ivnev, Vasily Kamensky, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Sologub, Igor Severyanin, Vladislav Khodasevich, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Ilya Ehrenburg. Of the 184 poems - 50 appeared here for the first time, including several of… Read More

Moskva (Moscow): Russkii iazyk, 1991. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5; pp. [1], 4-144; bright-orange wraps, printed and illustrated in black and red; light wear along edges and tips of spine; minor age-toning to margins of pages; illustrated with numerous drawings; very good condition.A first-of-its-kind dictionary in Russian lexicography, it describes gestures, body movements, and facial expressions and examples of them in literature and everyday life.

St. Petersburg: Tipografiia M. M. Stasiulevicha, 1911. Hardcover. Second edition; 6 x 9; pp. 492; textured blue cloth over boards; title and decorations in gilt and black; a few rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; handwritten note indicating the book was purchased in 1928 to endpaper verso; small personal stamp to title page; marbled page edges; text clean; overall very good.Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791 - 1859) was a Russian author best known for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life and his books on fishing and hunting. He began writing and publishing in the 1830s after meeting Gogol and recognizing what he claimed to be "a purely Russian genius." It was Gogol who would encourage Aksakov to create his works based simply on everyday life. His two works collected in the current book - "A Russian Gentleman" and "Years of Childhood" respectively published in 1856 and 1858 and meticulously describing the everyday life of the Russian nobility would… Read More

Zheneva (Geneva): Izdanie Soiuza Russkikh Sotsialdemokratov, 1899. First Edition. Very good-. First edition; 6 1/4 x 4 1/4; pp. [1], 2-22; beige wraps, printed in black; wraps detached, with a few small chips to edges; a small piece of tape along spine; text block solid; very good- condition.Pavel Borisovich Akselrod (1850 - 1928) was a Russian Menshevik and the co-founder of the Marxist organization "Osvobozhdenie truda" (Emancipation of Labor) in Geneva in 1883. His open letter addressed a review of an article - "The Goals of the Russian Social-democrats" - which had appeared in the journal "Labor Affairs" and to which Akselrod had written the preface.

Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1972. Softcover. First edition; oblong 8 x 8 3/4; pp. [80]; glossy pictorial wraps; spotting to first and last several pages only, else clean; previous owner's name to front wrap verso; minor wear to tips of spine; illustrated with plates; very good. In Bulgarian with summaries in English, Russian, German, and French.An informative guide to one of Plovdiv's historic monuments - built as a residence in 1847 during the second period of Bulgarian National Revival, now an ethnographic museum.

Wayne State University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. Wayne State University Press, United States, 1991. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine - a small, blue marker mark on top of the pages, visible when the book is closed. Dust Jacket: very good (a couple of tiny creases on the edges). This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both authors on the front flyleaf: "To Lisa with best wishes, Alan Dundes, Feb 10, 1998" and "Best Wishes! Carl Pagter

Chicago: Albert Pick & Company, 1920. Very good. Brochure, n. d. (1920s); 10 x 7; pp. [4]; lithographed illustrations and a technical diagram; a few minor cuts to fore-edge; light ink bleed-through; in about very good condition.Founded in 1857 by Austrian-American Albert Pick, the company was in the "merchandising" business, or otherwise aptly known as being in the business of "problem solving." From their gigantic warehouse in Chicago, they helped furnish much of the American service industry, including restaurants, hotels, school and hospital cafeterias, with furniture, janitorial supplies, appliances, and uniforms. They would be remembered for their Phoenix-like rising from being completely demolished by the Great Fire of 1871 and their swift recovery. The current brochure advertised their various candy refrigerators, with dimensions, prices, and description. It also presented a detailed diagram of the inner workings of the appliances.