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During the War, Albert Einstein Assists an Old Friend and Relative to Get a Visa to Leave Europe and Immigrate to Mexico by Albert Einstein

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Title: During the War, Albert Einstein Assists an Old Friend and Relative to Get a Visa to Leave Europe and Immigrate to Mexico
Author: Albert Einstein
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 20/12/1941. Brigitte Kaufmann was born in Germany, but when the Nazis came to power in 1933 she fled to Paris. In France, Kaufmann worked as an actress under the name of Brigitte Châtel, and translated documents. She met her future husband, Alfred Alexander-Katz in Paris, and they married in 1939; the following day, her husband was taken to an internment camp. He was given the choice of being interned in a labor camp or joining the Foreign Legion and chose the latter. Alexander was then sent to Clermont in Vichy France and the family relocated there.Dr. Walter Rudlin was a social science professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and actively involved in anti-fascist activities. He was the author of “The Growth of Fascism in Great Britain”. In September 1942 he left his position and joined the U.S. Board of Economic Welfare, whose chair was Vice President Henry Wallace. His wife Eryl was interested in bringing Jews in Europe out of harm’s way, and she knew the Alexander-Katz family.So Eryl sought to get Brigitte and her family safely out of Europe to Mexico, and sought Einstein’s help. On March 12, 1941, Einstein responded, noting that Brigitte is his relative. “Thank you very much for your letter of March 11th. I am very gratified indeed to learn that our mutual friends, Fred and Brigitte Alexander-Katz, have some prospect to receive a visa into Mexico. I am certainly willing to vouch for their reliability and integrity, both personal and political. I have known Mrs. Brigitte Alexander-Katz - whose family is related to mine - since she was a little girl. Her husband, a very able engineer, will certainly be useful to any country which receives him. If you will send me the address of the proper Mexican authority, I shall gladly send any letter of recommendation desired.” This was a warm letter indeed, expressing true concern and friendship for the Alexander-Katz family.On April 3, 1941, Einstein again wrote Rudlin, noting “Enclosed I am sending you the requested letters in the hope that they may be successful.” But there were delays and no visa, so Rudlin wrote Einstein seven months later, asking him to take the matter up with the Mexican government.Typed letter signed, on his blind-embossed letterhead, Princeton, December 20, 1941, to Mrs. Eryl Rudlin, saying that he expects the visa to be granted, but does not feel he ought to approach the Mexican government directly. “The Mexican authorities know that I am interested in the case of the Alexander-Katz family; they have kept me informed about the whole development of the matter. I have no doubt that admission to Mexico will be granted as it has been granted to hundreds of people in the same situation. I can give Mr. Alexander-Katz a recommendation but it is out of the question that I ask the Minister of Education to send him an official invitation. I have already done what could be done without intrusion.”Despite what he writes here to calm Mrs. Rudlin, Einstein might have exerted some gentle pressure on Mexico by contacting the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Gilberto Bosques; or the Alexander-Katz visas may have already being granted at that moment. The Einstein Archives is silent on this subject. But soon after Einstein soon wrote this letter, in 1942 a telegram to the young Alexander-Katz family arrived stating that Einstein and Rudolph Uhlman, a lawyer in New York, had secured visas through Ambassador Bosques for them to escape to Veracruz, Mexico aboard the ship San Thomé.In Mexico Brigitte she became a noted author, actress, director and translator. She became the first woman in Mexico to produce and direct television programs. Speaking five languages, she also worked as a translator for UNESCO and Amnesty International. Her daughter Susana and granddaughter Sophie also became actors.

Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland by Dodge, M.E. [Mary Mapes]

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Title: Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland
Author: Dodge, M.E. [Mary Mapes]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: James O'Kane, 1866. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt. Twelvemo. 346, [2, ads] pp. Complete with four plates (including frontispiece). A bright copy with a small smudge to lower board and just a bit of foxing to endpapers and preliminary blanks. Otherwise clean and fresh throughout. Small contemporary ink gift inscription to preliminary blank. A Near Fine copy. Hans Brinker, the story of a Dutch boy who hopes to win a pair of silver skates in an ice skating race, is one of the most successful books in the history of children's literature (ANB). The novel introduced American children to a charming Dutch backdrop inspired by Dodge's readings on the history of the Netherlands and the firsthand accounts of her Dutch immigrant neighbors. Notably, the novel also popularized the legend of a Dutch boy who saves his city by plugging a hole in a leaky dike with his finger (in Hans Brinker, the story is recounted in a classroom scene); the legend has inspired many American retellings, including a poem by Dodge's family friend Phoebe Cary, since the novel's publication. Along with writing many books for children, Mary Mapes Dodge (1831 - 1905) also edited the periodical St. Nicholas Magazine, a companion to Scribner's Monthly intended for a juvenile audience, for over thirty years. Dodge was skilled at soliciting contributions from both popular, sought-after writers and new talent: the works of Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, and Rudyard Kipling appeared alongside that of emerging writers like Frances Hodgson Burnett, who serialized her first major success, Little Lord Fauntleroy, in the magazine. Dodge's work on St. Nicholas Magazine set the standard for other juvenile magazines and helped launch the careers of influential writers who would shape the genre of children's literature; in other words, the magazine left "an indelible imprint on American juvenile publishing" (ANB). Near Fine.

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (Inscribed to a poet) by Bukowski, Charles

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Title: Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (Inscribed to a poet)
Author: Bukowski, Charles
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Chicago: Literary Times & Cyfoeth Press, 1965. First edition. Near Fine. One of five hundred copies of the first edition, this copy inscribed on the title-page by Charles Bukowski to poet Jack Grapes. Cover design by Betsy Milam. A Near Fine copy with just a bit of toning to the spine. This chapbook compiles thirteen of Charles Bukowski's poems that had been previously rejected by literary magazines and book publishers. In his "Foreward" [sic], Bukowski writes, "The poems in this book...have been overlooked (or looked-over and shunned) by those people who, for reasons unknown to society, publish collections of poesy. This, I hope, will be the sixth gathering of my work since I began writing at the cobby age of 35, a sad long 9 years back, and these are the poems the editors didn't want for the earlier books...I went through the magazines looking for turned-away poems. I found 20 poems I wish I had never written, 20 I didn't give a damn about one way or the other. The others you will find in here." Jack Grapes is a Los Angeles poet, publisher, and former editor of the poetry journal ONTHEBUS (1989-2017). Notably, Grapes' poems appeared alongside Charles Bukowski's in an issue of the short-lived but influential Loujon Press literary journal The Outsider (1960-1969). Bukowski also corresponded with Grapes and inscribed several books to him. In the spring of 1965, Grapes, then a young poet with a burgeoning career, wrote to Bukowski to share his chapbook This Thing Upon Me (titled from the first line of Bukowski's poem "Old Man, Dead in a Room") and to ask for advice from the more experienced writer. In Bukowski's response, he praised Grapes' poetry chapbook ("the first 4 lines of poem 10 are as good as anybody can write") and added, "Well if you want advice from an old man - the writing comes out of the living and if you've got to sell-out to stay alive, sell as little as possible, save what you can. it's when you give it all up to them that you are dead. don't be in a hurry to make it. it's more important to sit around in the sunlight or sleep. it will come along if you let it...I am honored, of course, that you 'stole' the title THIS THING UPON ME, and hope that you find some poems in CRUCIFIX. I have signed some pages, one of them to you, must get them in the mail so the people can get their books. It seems so strange to be signing pages. is this the way it happens? your turn now. hail, Buk" Krumhansl 16. Near Fine.

Godot: An imaginary staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett by [Arion Press] Wiley, William T., author and afterword; David Littlejohn, introduction; Andrew Hoyem, program note and synopsis

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Title: Godot: An imaginary staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Author: [Arion Press] Wiley, William T., author and afterword; David Littlejohn, introduction; Andrew Hoyem, program note and synopsis
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: San Francisco: Arion Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 286 of 300 numbered copies for sale with 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Signed by William T. Wiley on the colophon. This exuberant and mordantly witty edition of this book was published on the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's most famous work. William T. Wiley (1937 - 2021) was an influential artist and educator who helped found the funk art movement and establish the San Francisco Bay Area art scene as an unfiltered alternative to what he saw as the flagrant commercialism of New York, The funk art movement took its name from "Funk," a seminal exhibition organized by the curator Peter Selz in Berkeley in 1967. It included, among others, Mr. Wiley, the painter Joan Brown, the sculptor Robert Hudson and the ceramist Robert Arneson. None, it seemed, could ever fully agree on what funk art was, only on what it was not [from the NYT obituary of Wiley] For this Arion Press publication, Wiley made fifty-two cartoon-like drawings. In his program note, Hoyem writes that the audience should remember that this is not the play Godot. It is a book about the play with a critic's appreciation and an artist's comments. It is an artist's book by Wiley inspired by Waiting for Godot. The synopsis is only a guide. This book was designed by Andrew Hoyem, who provided the program note that appears before the curtain rises, and a synopsis that runs in five-line segments beneath the Wiley illustrations. The binding of the book and its slipcase have yellow paper sides and blue cloth spines and labels, imprinted with the titling and images by Wiley. Printed on mouldmade Hahnemüle paper using Century Expanded type. The wordplay on the slipcase includes the palindrome "To Dog Godot" and is surrounded by a field of Irish potatoes. [from the accompanying prospectus] This Arion Press edition was provided for free to purchasers of the bilingual Grove Press edition of Waiting for Godot. It is present here. In fine condition. Measures 10 x 15 inches. 68 pages. PRI/112524.

A catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of Their Works (5 Volumes) by Walpole, Horatio. Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park

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Title: A catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of Their Works (5 Volumes)
Author: Walpole, Horatio. Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Scott, 1806. Full Decorated Calf. Very Good. Scarce large paper edition! 4to. 29 by 23 cm. xxxii, 326, x, 352, x, 343, x, 400, x, 408 pp. With 138 copper engraved portraits. Condition: rebacked, with black stamped ornamentation on newer spine, and elaborate gilt decoration on contemporary calf boards. Foxing scattered throughout volumes. Regardless, an appealing copy, both externally and internally.

Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance by AINSWORTH, W. H.

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Title: Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance
Author: AINSWORTH, W. H.
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First. hardcover. very good(+). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ainsworth by Maclise. Illustrated with 14 etchings by George Cruikshank & 4 plates by Tony Johannot; 87 wood-engravings & woodcut title by W. A. Delamotte. xii, 324pp. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son in full navy blue calf with ornate gilt-stamped spine; inner dentelles; uncut edges (light edgewear to leather with minor repairs to joints; scattered foxing throughout). London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Very good (+). First Edition in one volume. Cohn 19.

Mickey7; Antimatter Blues by Ashton, Edward

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Title: Mickey7; Antimatter Blues
Author: Ashton, Edward
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Condition: Fine
Description: Oxford: Solaris, 2023. First British Edition. Fine/Fine. First British edition, first printing of both novels. Each signed by Edward Ashton on a tipped-in page at front. 309, [2]; 314, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's blue or gray paper over boards, silver lettering to spines. Fine in Fine dust jackets; as new. The first novel, Mickey7, inspired the Bong Joon-ho 2025 film Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson.

The Whole Art of Dress! Or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Saving of Thirty Per Cent!!!

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Title: The Whole Art of Dress! Or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Saving of Thirty Per Cent!!!
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Effingham WIlson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo. vii,(1),100pp. Hand colored frontispiece, plus six lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt; cloth boards; vellum corners; marbled endpapers. With the original wrappers bound in at the rear. Without the publisher' s catalogue, sometimes present. Title, frontispiece and plates lightly soiled and stained; the bound-in covers are darkened and badly rubbed. A good copy in a fine binding. None of the bibliographical references assign an author. The front cover shows a “swell” in front of a cheval mirror, surrounded by boots, hats, brushes, combs, etc. The rear cover shows a scruffy gent in a bookshop with the caption “I want The Whole art of Dress!” The plates are of pantaloons, stocks and neck cloths, ties, hats, boots, etc. Rare. Abbey, Life, 422. Hiler, p. 989. Colas 3075.

A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body by Bird, William

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Title: A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body
Author: Bird, William
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Description: 1642. of the Common Law, With Mention of Such Statutes. of the Common Law, With Mention of Such Statutes. "Nobilitie of the Realme" [Bird, William]. A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body of the Common Law, With Mention of Such Statutes as are Incident Hereunto, Upon a Debate of the Barony of Aburgavenny. With a Table of the Heads Contained in this Treatise. London: Printed by A.N. for Mathew Walbanke and Richard Best, 1642. [iv], 157, [1] pp. Woodcut illustrations (genealogical tables). Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules and fillets to boards, gilt-edged raised bands, blind ornaments and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Title page and text printed within ruled borders. Light browning to text, somewhat heavier in places, occasional faint dampspotting, some edgewear to title page and a few other leaves, internally clean. $250. * Only edition. The occasion for this treatise was a contemporary controversy regarding the legitimacy of Edward Nevill's claim to the title of Lord Bergavenny. His claim is the starting point for a general review of peerage law. Another edition, with additions by Sir John Doddridge, was published later in 1642 as The Magazine of Honour; Or, A Treatise of the Severall Degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdome. Both editions are scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies of Treatise in North American law libraries (Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Library of Congress, Ohio State, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, York University). English Short-Title Catalogue R18509.

Official Program: Third Annual Tournament of the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association under the Auspices of the Gunnison Game and Fish Protective Association, Gunnison Colorado, July 22, 23 and 24, 1928 [caption title]

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Title: Official Program: Third Annual Tournament of the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association under the Auspices of the Gunnison Game and Fish Protective Association, Gunnison Colorado, July 22, 23 and 24, 1928 [caption title]
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: Gunnison, CO: The association (Printed by The News-Champion), 1928. Program for the tournament. Narrow 8vo. (19) pp. Includes a description of the gathering, rules for the fly casting and trapshooting tournaments, schedules for the various events, lists of prizes, and a one-page promotional for Gunnison County, Colorado, emphasizing outdoor activities, especially fishing and golf; many ads for local businesses. OCLC Apparently does not locate any material from the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association. Very good. Front wrapper employed as a mailing panel, addressed and stamped. (#6825).

Negro Spirituals for Four-Part Mixed Voices. De Gospel Train

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Title: Negro Spirituals for Four-Part Mixed Voices. De Gospel Train
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Description: New York: Harold Flammer Publisher, 1938. Music and lyrics for this song. 8vo. 8 pp. Very good. Original decorated wrappers. (#6671).

YOU POEMS: The Crowfoot Poetry Series Volume 2 by CARRIGAN, Andrew G.

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Title: YOU POEMS: The Crowfoot Poetry Series Volume 2
Author: CARRIGAN, Andrew G.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description: Ann Arbor: Crowfoot Press, 1979. Limited ed. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed limited edition, one of only 350 copies. A nice association between Carrigan and the Mikolowskis, who had published several of the poems included here via their Alternative Press imprint; a nice edition from another Ann Arbor fine press. Wraps. Small 4to. Plain white card wraps with printed paper dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. ASSOCIATION: INSCRIBED by Carrigan in the year of publication to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press, at title page. Light handling wear to jacket and wraps. Interior bright, crisp, and clean. Good and sound. Unpaginated.

Fighting Trim at Navy Overseas Freight Terminal by Anonymous

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Title: Fighting Trim at Navy Overseas Freight Terminal
Author: Anonymous
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: S. l. (San Francisco): Navy Overseas Freight Terminal, 1944. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1944); 5 1/4 x 4; pp. [30]; beige, mimeographed, stapled wraps; mimeographed illustrations and text to rectos only; a small chip to upper corner of one leaf, else minor wear; in very good or better condition.An unrecorded booklet, it was distributed among the enlisted personnel at the Navy Overseas Freight Terminal in San Francisco and proudly proclaimed: "We count on every man and woman to be ON DUTY every Day. Accidents are sabotage. They wreck equipment, ruin schedules, and injure valued employees. Accidents are comfort to the enemy...this book shows you safe ways to work - to KEEP FIGHTING TRIM." And showing it did, with caricaturish illustrations, how to pay attention to signs, how to work and not horse around, how to realize a mild discomfort is turning into a big deal, and so on. The Navy Overseas Freight Terminal was responsible, among other things, for the sourcing, shipping, and accounting for the vast amount of supplies needed for the war in the Pacific.

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Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir. by ACKERMAN, Diane.

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Title: Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir.
Author: ACKERMAN, Diane.
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ISBN: 9780688036058
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: NY:: William Morrow,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0688036058 . Black and white photographs. First printing. Review copy with slip and publisher's press release laid in. Very good in a very good (age toning to rear panel and flaps) dust jacket. .

The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself

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Title: The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself
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Description: Tucson: See Sharp Press, 2013. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch pamphlet, as New. "This essay was originally published in the United States in 1975 by The Spectacle under the title "Self-Theory: the pleasure of thinking for yourself." An extensively revised edition was published in London in 1985 by Spectacular Times under the title "Revolutionary self-help: a beginner's manual," and it has appeared twice since then in American periodicals under the title "Revolutionary Self-Theory"; in 1989 it was published in a slightly revised edition by OVO, and in 1992 in a further revised edition by No Longer Silent (NLS). The 1992 See Sharp Press (SSP) pamphlet edition was an extensively rewritten and somewhat expanded version of the text that appeal in NLS. This 2013 edition is a revised and expanded version of the 1992 SSP edition." - first page.

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