Search Results: Titles starting with K from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: The Jewish Socialist Federation, 1918. First Edition. Good. 193 pages. Bound in red pebbled cloth, somewhat mottled by time and sunlight; crown and heel a little rubbed. A Karl Marx reader in Yiddish published on his hundredth anniversary.

ca. 1880. Very Good. Albumen-silver photograph on paper, 270 x 212 mm, mounted on board removed from an album (board size375 x 290 mm). Signed and titled in plate. Lightly toned to sepia.

After 1867. Acceptable. Silver albumen photograph on paper. 275 x 215 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Toned to sepia. Edges a bit chipped in places. Crease across lower right portion of image. Number 149 in the photographer's "Souvenirs d'Orient" series. Felix Bonfils (1831-1885) was an active and prolific pioneer of photography in the Middle East, yet details of his life and work remain obscure. "All we know of Bonfils", said photographic historian Beaumont Newhall, "is that he was a genius." Recent information gathered under the direction of Harvard Semitic Museum curator Carney Gavin shows that Bonfils, a French bookbinder and printer, moved to Beirut with his family in the 1860s. His training in photogravure in France prepared him for his career as photographer in the Middle East, where, together with his wife and son, he enterprisingly produced souvenir photos and books for European travelers. The books were all hand-made, each photograph printed from the original glass negative and… Read More

London and Edinburgh: Marshall Brothers, 1910. First edition. Acceptable. 23 cm; Book xi, 291 pages, mounted color frontispiece with letterpress overlay, 11 half-tone plates, and folding map printed in blue and red. Bound in orginal cloth, titled in gilt on spine with white-stamped vignette of Ubangi on spine. Binding very good, but text in fair condition with one gathering loose and scattered light foxing.

New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. First edition. 26 cm; 1 preliminary leaf, 5-11, [1] pages illustrations, 22 plates on 11 leaves. Bound in original illuistrated wraps. Wraps a bit discolored toward the edges, which are somewhat frayed, with some watermarks toward the bottom edge. Contents unblemished. The original printing is now rare.

Praha (Prague): Sfinx-B. Janda,, 1929. Acceptable. 19 cm; 231 pages. Title page in red and black. Autographed on title page by Teige, and initialed by him in pencil on last text page, dated 9 December 1942. Bound in blue cloth decorated in red and gold on upper board by Teige. A bit tired and shaken in binding. Boards spattered. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate,' his papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades.

Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 30cm; x, 215 pages, including over 100 full-page half-tone images. Bound in original cloth. Page vii-viii loose but present. Some very light foxing to endleaves. Few light scratches on upper board.