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A Roller Skating and Photographic Curiosity

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Fort Wright Roller Skating Club

Souvenir. Fort Wright Skating Club., A photographic oddity. Photograph of a comical broadside about a roller skating.club

$180

A Masterpiece

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli

Kalevala., Magnificent edition of the Finnish national epic.

$2500

Thinking of becoming an abstract experssionist?

Hofmann, Hans

Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts

$300

They met in Paris

Davidson, Jo

Original drawing of a nude., Inscribed to opera star Grace Moore.

$650

On the road and off in colonial Algeria

Anonymous

Two photo albums of colonial Algeria, Documenting the Algerian Centennial of 1930 and a road trip

$750

A Gathering of Esperantists

Zamenhof, Ludwig

Real-photo postcard of Ludwig Zemenhof at a 1908 meeting of Esperanto followers, Mailed from Magdeburg, Germany to Perth, West Australia

$275

A form of acupuncture

Baunscheidt, Carl; John Linden (expositor)

Der Baunscheidtismus., "Von Erfinder dieser neuen Heillehre." (By the discoverer of this new medical teaching.)

$150

The original Pinocchio - rare second edition

Collodi, Carlo

Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino. Illustrata da E. Mazzanti. Seconda edizione.

$1850

A Spoof Travel ABC from the 1600s

Anonymous

Seventeenth Century German Manuscript Abecedarium

$650

Fundraiser for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal

Committee of notables

Program of Musical Entertainment to Benefit the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, Cover lettering to put a Fillmore poster to shame

$875

African-American poetry by a Harlem native

Parris, Charles H.

147 Street., No copies located in WorldCat

$350

Souvenir Album Produced at St. Lazare

Anonymous Photographer; Lord Byron (interest)

Souvenir de St. Lazare. Venise 10., Early color photography

$225

Fusion of art and science

Gallé, Emile

Orchidées lorraines. Formes nouvelles & polymorphisme de l'Aceras hircina Lindl., Loroglossum hircinum Reich. (Congrès International de Botanique, Extrait des Actes.), With a second offprint by Gallé in printed wrappers, La floriculture lorraine au concours régional, Nancy, 1894.

$600

Death in Philadelphia

Emerson, Gouverneur, M.D.

Medical statistics; consisting of estimates relating to the population of Philadelphia, with its changes as influenced by the deaths and births, during ten years, viz. from 1821 to 1830, inclusive., With a presentation inscription linking two social activists of the time.

$300

Czarist-era school readers

$100 or less

Struve, Yu. P. / Sokolov, N. I. and Panov, V. N.;

Kniga dlya Chteniya. / Khrestomatiya. "Okhota pushche nevoli."

$100

Radical Cartography

Fahlström, Öyvind

Sketch for World Map Part 1 (Americas, Pacific).

$950

Leisure Reading in the New Electric Age

Archer, Charles Maybury (Ed.)

The London Anecdotes., Four volumes in two. Evocative of the world of steampunk.

$200

Celebrating Lima's 400th anniversary

Gamarra, Francisco González

Kosko. Ensayos musicales., With neo-Incan decorations and notes by the composer. Lyrics in Quechua.

$775

"Race Picture" Press Book

Dreifuss, Arthur (director), Frank Wilson (story), Donald Heywood (score)

Murder on Lenox Avenue, Press kit for a 1941 movie set in Harlem

$165

A rare, short-lived paleontology journal

Charlesworth, Edward (Ed.)

The London Geological Journal, and Record of Discoveries in British and Foreign Palaeontology. Nos. 1 and 3., Two of three issues published. In original wrappers. With marvelous lithographic plates.

$250

Record of construction of a national paper factory

Borsodi, Géza (photographer)

Fabriksbau der vaterlandischen Papierfabriks-Aktien-Ges. in Fűzfő. Erbaut nach den Planen des Ing. Josef Schöngut. Schlussfertig übergeben vom 13.III-11.X 1928 in 174 Arbeitstagen., Hungarian title: Hazai Papírgyár Részv.-Társaság Fűzfői Gyártelépenek Építkezése.

$1650

Running a bookshop and fighting for suffrage

Wayfarer's Bookshop, Washington, DC

Woodblock advertisement for an aesthetically inclined bookshop, Founded in 1919 by two suffragists

$150

Tales from Tehran

Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon)

Persian-language children's bobks, Sumptuously illustrated by Farshid Meshgali and others

$250

Black Dance from Many Places

Dunham, Katharine

Group of programs from the 1940s and 1950s

$225

Comprehensive and Valuable Survey

Locke, Alain (Ed.)

The Negro in Art. A pictorial record of the Negro artist and of the Negro theme in art., Edited and annotated by Alain Locke. With the spectaculaar foldout of the Amistad murals by Hale Woodruff.

$675

Emigration trumps Malthus

Matthew, Patrick ("Discoverer of the principle of natural selection")

Emigration Fields. North America, the Cape, Australia, and New Zealand. Describing these countries and giving a comparative view of the advantages they present to British settlers.

$1450

World War I Soldier Art

$100 or less

A soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army

Fanciful hand-drawn scene of fighting in the South Tyrol / Alto Adige., Unique.

$85

Asserting the Monroe Doctrine in Music and Song

Dewing, E. B. (words) and J. P. Webster (music)

Get out of Mexico! Song and chorus.

$425

The "Bix Six" Celebrates Horace Greeley

Greeley Committee

One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Horace Greeley, First President of Typographical Union No. 6, New York Theatre, February 5, 1911

$150

Sicilian Photographs

Gallifi-Crupi, Francesco

Five real-photo postcards - four of beautiful young people and one domestic street scene, In the style of Wilhelm von Gloeden.

$225

Egypt as a Bzritish Protectorate

Weinthal, Leo, F.R.G.S., and Philip Taylor

Egypt 1907-1908. Special to "The African World and Cape Cairo Express..", Supplement to "The African World and Cape-Cairo Express," Saturday, November 30th,

$180

Giant Photograph of an Engineering Marvel

Reinhardt, Anton

Albula Bahn. Lehrgerüste der Eisenbahnbrücke bei Solis., Photograph of a trial framework for a gorge-spanning bridge

$450

Carlisle Indians Take on the Ivy League

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Harvard Vs. Carlisle Soldiers Field, Cambridge November 10, 1906, Folding football game program with a half-tone photograph of the Carlisle team

SOLD

Gillrray Outdoes Himself

Gillray, James

Presages of the Millenium; With the destruction of the faithful . . ., A restrike from the original copper plate.

$375

German Master Binding

Bible (New Testament); Martin Luther translation

Die vier Evangelien Markus, Lukas, Matthäus, und Johannes in der Übersetzung von Martin Luther., Typigraphy by Rudolf Koch

$800

All aboard!

Kunhardt, Charles P.

Small Yachts. Their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice. With numerous plates and illustrations, First edition.

$300

Fine copy of a German-Jewish children's book

Wagner-Tauber, Lina

Jüdische Mãrchen und Sagen dem Midrasch nacherzãhlt., Fine copy In original wax-paper wrapper.

$200

Beregovski, M. and Feffer, I.

Yidishe Folks-Lider. [Jewish Folk Songs.], Given by his father to Leonard Bernstein

$400

Goodbye to All That

Chicago Seed Collective et al.

Group of issues of the Chicago Seed, Brilliant graphics

$450

A Key Photo Book and Classic Penn

Penn, Irving

Moments Preserved. Eight essays in photographs and words.

$150

A Friendly New Deal Competition

Civilian Conservation Corps in Idaho (interest)

Big July 4th Celebration and Rodeo in the "Sticks" at VO Dude Ranch - Clark Cox, Johnson Creek.

$325

A Charitable Performance

$100 or less

Mrs. Mark Emanuel

Sixth Performance and Dance. Mrs. Mark Emanuel Presents Margie. In aid of crippled and blind children.

$100

Staffed by a Who's Who of the Left

League of American Writers; Rockwell Kent, Richard Wright, Marc Blitzstein, Art Young, et al.

White Mountain Writers Conference. Jefferson, New Hampshire August 18th to September 2nd, 1941.

$150

New items will be added as items are sold and extra items will be displayed starting Saturday at 10am

Alexanderplatz Books

Martin Janal

32 Washington Square West
New York, NY, 10011
United States

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Phone: 2124736723
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Text only to 646 515 2950. Telephone orders must be confirmed by email. All offerings in good antiquarian condition guaranteed as described. Kindly inquire if you have any questions before committing to purchase. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Prices are net. New York State sales are subject to 8.875% sales tax. Institutions can request post-payment with a purchase order. Customers wishing to pay by credit card can do so through PayPal. We do not process credit cards at this time. In certain cases we may require payment by an inviolable method, e.g., certified check or bank transfer. Customers in the United Kingdom and the European Union can pay in their own currencies; please inquire for details. Payment can otherwise be made by a guaranteed cash equivalent such as a bank transfer. Customs charges are the responsibility of the buyer. Shipping additional to prices; domestic shipping by Priority Mail only, international shipments only by Priority Mail or, if warranted by value, Express Mail or a comparable service.

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Alexanderplatz Books is located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. We carry a wide range of books and ephemera in all price ranges and many languages.We are open by appointment only and only for the viewing of individual items.

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