Translated James Stern (13 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 3rd Printing. Description: Dust jacket art by George Salter. ''The spark of life, still burning in one soul, can flame up against the forces of evil, can shatter the nightmare and the night.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: blue binding; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 365 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 207 pages."In April 1945. a woman's night-by-night account of how th Russians reavaged a city - and its women." >>Black felt marker to front end page.; minor cover creasing. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Inscribed by Curt Von Faber du Faur, writer, publisher, literary scholar. Cloth boards with color variation, mostly to top margins; foxing. Spine with some fade, soft crease about an inch below head. Edgewear and soft creasing to spine tips and joints. Corners rubbed, bowed; bottom corners with mild fray. Tanning throughout but otherwise good. Staining to top textblock edges. Shelf 8a. …

150 pp, rear wrapper repaired, else very good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Printing. 284pp. Black cloth in jacket. Jacket spine faded, some tears and surface damage to jacket. When the Russians ravaged berlin, one woman- trapped and helpless- made this record of her personal ordeal. Josef Stalin saw rape as a weapon to crush German resistance. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 3rd Printing, December 1957. 207 pp. This is a used book. Please be advised that it is rated "Used-Acceptable" and/or "Poor" due to likely defects such as highlighting, underlining, folds, creases, etc. Pages detached from spine. Moderate damage on bottom of spine. Moderate foxing on pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The memoirs of a German woman and her struggles in the immediate aftermath of the Russian conquest of Berlin. Light, very even toning to pages. Owner's embossing seal. Dust jacket in an archival protector. Scarce hardcover first edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First USA Edition, First Printing. This book is from the estate of Twin Cities collector, Grace Reiter; it is unmarked except for her signature.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.25in. 319pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the bottom extremities shelf rubbed, slight rubbing of the head and foot of the spine, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows slight discoloration of the back panel, slight creasing of the topmost of the spine, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.…

First edition. A rare, inscribed presentation copy from Max Ernst to James Stern. Publisher's black buckram, decorated in gilt to a design by Max Ernst. Illustrated with 19 original photograms by Max Ernst, each with a glassine guard, with the title printed in red. Black endpapers. Housed in a bespoke quarter morocco solander case. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with rubbing and fraying at the spine tips and corners. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. This work is a fragment from Crevel's novel Babylone. The 19 photograms of Ernst's frottages were completed with the collaboration of Man Ray in his studio after days of trials, with Ernst's rubbings on transparent paper serving as the negative. Ernst had developed his frottage technique as a visual counterpart to the Surrealist ideal of "automatic writing," and the dark visions he produces here perfectly capture the darkness of Crevel's own vision, here translated by Kay Boyle. A fine and strikingly original production. Inscribed by the artist in black ink on the front blank "To Jimmy and Tania / Stern / amitié / Xmas 1941 / Max Ernst". One of 200 copies printed on 'finest Bristol Paper'; there was also an edition of 50 on Hollande paper signed by both the author and the artist; and five special copies, each containing four of the original artworks. Whilst the signed edition appears sporadically in commerce, presentation copies by Ernst are genuinely rare (rarebookhub traces not a single example in the last 50 years). Anglo-Irish writer James Stern's friendship with Max Ernst began in Paris during the 1930s, but at the time of this inscription they were both living in New York. Ernst had arrived in the city with his patron, and soon to be wife, Peggy Guggenheim, after she had helped him to escape from Nazi-occupied France. In New York, they formed part of a growing community of exiled European artists and writers, including friends such as Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall. Stern had also moved to the city in 1939, becoming a fixture of such artistic and literary circles; as Malcolm Cowley once remarked to him, "My God, you've known everybody, his wife, his boyfriend, and his natural issue!" This position was reflected through Stern's extensive correspondence with a multitude of leading cultural figures of the period (now largely held in the James Stern Archive at the British Library). Notably, Arthur Miller dedicated 'A View from the Bridge' to Stern, and, when Peggy Guggenheim came to write her memoir, 'Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict' (in which she painted a harsh portrait of Ernst, her then ex-husband), Stern was one of the trusted friends to whom she turned for advice. (Minkoff, George: A Bibliography of The Black Sun Press A41; Roth, Andrew: The Book of 101 Books. Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, 2001, p.66). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…