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Concentration Camp Dachau has been sold.


Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435


On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 8:53 AM Allington Books <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings to All.
> Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the
> below-described seven items at remarkable discounts:
> Schiller, Friedrich
> Schiller's Werke [a collection-distinguishing set in original bindings and
> box]
>
> Stuttgart und Tübingen: Verlag der J. G. Cotta schen Buchhandlung,
>  1822-1826. First Thus. Paper-covered boards and in the Original Box. A
> Very Good set of Friedrich Schiller's Works in 18 volumes, with such
> volumes having differing dates ranging from 1822 through 1826 inclusive.
> The volumes are bound in paper cover boards, each having a spine label with
> the set's name written thereon in black ink. (On a few of the volumes, the
> spine writing has been obliterated.) The set is housed in the RARE ORIGINAL
> BOX which measures approximately 15 inches across X approximately 5 1/2
> inches high X approximately 3 3/4 inches deep. Each Volume wears its
> original paper-covered boards and, as expected, each shows general wear --
> including some rubbing through. The open-faced cardboard case is in good
> condition with general wear (particularly to the bottom edge) and shows
> some splitting to the seams. Nevertheless, the box is still holding itself
> together. The book bindings are provisional and buyers would most likely
> have had the volumes rebound and would have discarded the box as being of
> no further use. A RARE SET IN THE ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND BOX, the set is is
> MENTIONED ON PAGE 64, on which page an image of this set also is provided,
> of Mark Godburn's excellent work titled "Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets"
> published by Oak Knoll Press in the US and by Private Libraries Association
> in the UK. As to this set, Godburn there states: "Another German box, one
> of the largest recorded from this period, held an eighteen-volume set of
> Schiller's Werke (1823-26). This box had marbled paper on the outside and
> the same green paper on the inside that covered the bindings. The books fit
> snugly in the box and probably were not issued with dust-jackets. The plain
> board bindings had handwritten spine labels and would not have warranted
> jacket protection for one thing. For another, the cumulative thickness of
> the thirty-six panels of eighteen dust jackets would have strained the box,
> possibly preventing all the volumes from fitting into it. The box served to
> keep the volumes together until sale, but...probably had no more intended
> permanence than the bindings." Complete sets such as this one with the
> volumes in their original provisional bindings and still residing in their
> large original box, one of the earliest -- and possibly the earliest --
> such box still surviving, are EXCEEDINGLY RARE TO THE MARKET AND A PART OF
> BOOK PUBLISHING HISTORY WHICH WOULD ADD DISTINCTION TO ANY COLLECTION. Very
> good. Item #2824
>
> Price: $2,850.00save 40% $1,710.00   *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR
> $550.00*.
>
> Herriot, James; [Wight, James Alfred: OBE, FRCVS]
> All Creatures Great and Small [Rare Association Copy with Signed Herriot
> Letter]
>
> New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
> A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (binding mildly
> askew, spine ends pushed, tiny rub through the cloth to the spine tail's
> lower right corner) in a Very Good + dust jacket (some general wear and
> tear, some handling soil, light sunning to the spine panel, short crease
> line to the front flap's upper right), being the copy of Sir Frederick
> Hervey-Bathurst, Bart. (the eighth baronet in the Hervey-Bathurst
> baronetcy), signed Signed and Dated by him on the front free endpaper in
> the year of publication, with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and
> with an ORIGINAL TYPED LETTER SIGNED FROM JAMES HERRIOT TO SIR FREDERICK
> tipped-in to the rear free endpaper. The book is a combination of James
> Herriot's first two semi-autobiographical books, originally published in
> the U.K. as "If Only They Could Talk" (1970) and "It Shouldn't Happen to a
> Vet."(1972), as well as (per wikipedia) a portion of his then-next book
> then in progress which would later be published as "Let Sleeping Vets Lie"
> (1973) and to which Herriot makes reference in the attached letter. Those
> first two novels, "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a
> Vet" provided the basis for the 1975 film of the same starring Simon Ward
> and Anthony Hopkins as the Yorkshire vets James Herriot and Siegfried
> Farnon, and the film was given the same title as this 1972 US compilation
> volume of these two novels. This book's title (and, of course, the film's
> title) came from the Hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful". Having
> excellent content, the [undated] Signed letter begins with Herriot thanking
> Sir Frederick for Sir Frederick's earlier letter and the "...nice things
> you say about by book.....You, in particular, know what I'm talking bout
> with your farming upbringing and those years in New Zealand." [Sir
> Frederick grew up at the family estate Somborne Park (a property which has
> been in the Hervey-Bathurst family since 1594), an Estate which includes a
> farming operation.] Herriot also notes that he has "another book coming out
> in England in April and am busy on yet another one. If all goes well, I
> should thing that St Martin's Press might take them and publish them in one
> volume in due course. They are a follow up to the events in ALL CREATURES
> GREAT AND SMALL." [These books would have been "Let Sleeping Vets Lie"
> (1973) and "Vet in Harness" (1974) which would have been published together
> in the US as "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (1974).] Herriot then
> mentions that he remains a "full time vet" and that he writes only in "the
> odd hour in the evenings" and that he "shouldn't like to give up my real
> work and become a full time author." Copies of "All Creatures Great and
> Small" are quite uncommon to the market, Signed letters from James Herriot,
> as well as Association copies of his most notable work, are EXCEEDINGLY SO
> and the two together make this an EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE ENSEMBLE. Near
> fine / very good +. Item #2808
>
> Price: $2,550.00save 40% $1,530.00   *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR
> $575.00*.
> Team 306 of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration;
> [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]
> Concentration Camp Dachau; [Conc. Camp Dachau]
>
> Dachau, Germany: International Information Office for the Former
> Concentration Camp Dachau, Circa 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers.
> Original copy of this “Album Conc. Camp Dachau” produced by Team 306 of the
> United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration who took
> post-liberation control of the Dachau Concentration Camp (which was located
> approximately 10 miles from Munich). Opened by Heinrich Himmler in 1933, it
> was the first of the Nazi Concentration Camps for political prisoners and
> its use was expanded in 1938 to include the imprisonment of Jews. The camp
> served as a model for other German concentration camps and was a place of
> torture and murder until the prisoners were liberated by U.S. forces on
> April 28, 1945. This Album includes images of the camp’s facilities and
> grounds, of liberated prisoners, and of groups of those who were murdered
> at the camp. Some images from the album are included in this posting and we
> have purposefully not included the most horrible images — those being of
> murder victims. Subsequent to the camp’s liberation, it was used to hold SS
> soldiers awaiting trial. This small album (which measures approximately 5
> 7/8 inches X approximately 4 inches) is in Fine condition and shows some
> unsurprising toning, light wear, and some minor corner bending to the
> wrapper corners. We have located only 15 copies in OCLC, of these, only 11
> were found in US institutions; A QUITE SCARCE WORLD WAR II ITEM. Near Fine.
> Item #2815
>
> Price: $1,200.00save 40% $720.00    *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR $375*.
>
>
> Heine, Heinrich
> Heine's Werke [HEINRICH HEINE'S WORKS] Illustrated by Wiener Künstlern
>
> Wein, Leipzig, Prague: Bensinger, no date (ca. 1884-88). Wiener Künstlern. Hardcover.
> An attractive set of Heinrich Heine's Works in the RARE dust jackets, with
> all six volumes present, each in its original dust jacket, with each volume
> being beautifully illustrated within. The volumes are in Near Fine to Fine
> condition with the spines and front boards richly gilded (some gentle
> curving to the boards, slight wear, some oxidation to the gilt, tiny spot
> of wear to the medallion on Volume five's front board). The dust jackets
> for the first five Volumes are in Very Good or better condition (showing
> some minor chipping and some tears) and with jacket for Volume six showing
> similar wear as well as some tearing to the spine panel (see images).
> German Poet, Writer, and Literary Critic Heinrich Heine is best known for
> his lyrical poetry set to music by such composers as Robert Schumann and
> Franz Schubert. Heine's radical political views led to many of his works
> being banned in Germany and he spent the last 25 years of his life Paris.
> Heine was a distant relative of Karl Mark who admired Heine's work We have
> posted as many images as ABE and Biblio allow and additional many
> additional images of the volumes can be found at our allingtonbooks site.
> Copies of this set in such nice as is this one are difficult to fine and
> copies in this condition still wearing their original dust jackets are
> SCARCE to RARE. [PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy set and buyer's shipping cost
> will exceed that specified on this site.]. Near fine / very good +. Item
> #2760
>
> Price: $875.00save 50% $437.50   *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR $225*.
>
>
> Nevill, Ralph
> French Prints of the Eighteenth Century [In the Scarce dust jacket]
>
> London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
> An essentially Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in the
> publisher's original light blue cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, the
> front board lettered and decorated in gilt, and the closed page block's top
> edge in gilt as well. The front board shows an elevation to its right lower
> leading corner and the rear board a small push to the top edge. There is
> offsetting to the pastedowns and adjoining free endpapers and some foxing
> to the closed page block's leading and bottom edges. The volume wears the
> SCARCE scarce dust jacket which bears some wrinkling to the front panel's
> upper right and some general edge wear with some small chips. Within there
> are found fifty full-page plates. The book contains information on such
> prints as well as "Detailed descriptions of the most important French
> engravings executed in the XVIIIth century". Copies of the first edition
> are rather uncommon, copies in a condition as nice as is this copy are
> quite so, and copies in the dust jacket, especially when in a condition as
> nice as is this copy, are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE INDEED. Fine / very good +.
> Item #2796
>
> Price: $325.00save 40% $195.00   *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR $75.00*.
>
>
> Colwin, Laurie
> Passion and Affect [Signed Association Copy -- copy of Mary Ellin Barrett,
> Irving Berlin's daughter]
>
> New York: The Viking Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
> A Very Good or better copy of the first edition, first printing (age fading
> to the board extremities, a thin strip of sunning to the spine's top edge,
> foxing to the page block's closed edges), in a Fine spine-sunned dust
> jacket, DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED BY LAURIE COLWIN TO IRVING BERLIN'S
> DAUGHTER, MARY ELLIN (BARRETT) on the front free endpaper; Laurie Colwin's
> DEBUT BOOK, a collection of short stories. Of this Debut, Kirkus Reviews
> states: "The short story is by definition almost no more than a sidelong
> glance at people who disappear before you manage to remember their names --
> like Laurie Colwin's almost always attractive characters who are "on the
> verge" of their lives and may not get any place at all. Or just move on
> some place else with someone else. This is a first collection with nothing
> unfinished about it at all (a good many of the stories have had New Yorker
> or Mademoiselle or Redbook appearances)." In her Obituary -- Colwin died
> from a heart attack at age 48 -- the New York Times stated: "Ms. Colwin's
> writing won praise for its intelligence, wit and style. Critics said she
> displayed a keen ear and eye for the ways of the middle- and upper-class
> New York characters she portrayed. Her stories were noted for refreshingly
> happy endings in tales of love, both in and outside of marriage. A New York
> Times review said she "uses her elegant, delicately colored prose to
> explore the effects of a relationship on a psyche." The Village Voice said
> her work "conjures up Manet's picnic painting as it might be reinterpreted
> by Koren," the cartoonist. Judith Rascoe said in Rolling Stone: "I can't
> give you plot summaries that you can retell at your next party. But when
> you've read the stories, your next party may seem to you as if Laurie
> Colwin had written it." Having a fine Association, this copy belonged to
> Irving Berlin's daughter Mary Ellin Barrett, a fellow writer, and is
> inscribed by Colwin to Barrett on the front free endpaper in the month of
> publication, as follows: "1.23.74 // to Mary Ellin, // with love / and
> thanks for / friendship, instruction, / aid and abettment, concern and care
> // with love + devotion // Laurie". [The book was published in the UK under
> the title "Dangerous French Mistress & Other Stories ".] With reference to
> Passion and Affect, Laurie Colwan stated in a letter to a fan the
> following: "Dear Mr. Monte: You certainly are a loyal fan. It's a pleasure
> to sign the books. The hard cover of P&A is almost a rare book. Dealers in
> New York have it for a shaming price but I bet you will find it at a tag
> sale for 25c. Thanks again. Laurie Colwin." (The foregoing quote per
> bookseller Daniel Montemarano who, as of the date this description was
> written, has listed a copy of this book accompanied by such letter.) An
> altogether Very Good or better copy of this DEBUT BOOK; AN EXCELLENT
> ASSOCIATION COPY. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY LAURIE COLWIN IN THE MONTH OF
> PUBLICATION. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Very good / fine. Item #848
>
> Price: $250.00save 40% $150.00   *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR $55.00*.
>
>
> Gilbert, W. S. [Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck]
> Gretchen [Eric Quayle's copy with his bookplate and note]
>
> London: Newman & Co., 1879. First Edition (?). Hardcover. A Very Good
> copy of either the first or the second edition -- see below, (with some
> mild rubbing), in the Publisher's original cloth having an EXCELLENT
> PROVENANCE, being the copy of noted British bibliophile, collector,
> historian, and author Eric Quayle whose bookplate (dated 1965) graces the
> volume's front pastedown. W. S. Gilbert was the famed English dramatist,
> librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with
> composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration which produced fourteen comic
> operas, with the best-known of them likely being "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The
> Pirates of Penzance", and "The Mikado", one of the most frequently
> performed works in the history of musical theatre. "Gretchen" is one of
> Gilbert's scarcest works as attested by a note by Eric Quayle, written and
> initialed in pencil on the verso this copy's front free endpaper reading as
> follows: "a difficult Gilbert / first edition / E.Q." Quayle describes this
> copy as the "first edition" and his bookplate on the front pastedown is
> dated 1965 within the bookplate. Searle in his bibliography of Gilbert's
> works describes this copy as the second edition, but that bibliography was
> issued much earlier (1931) than Quayle's bookplate is dated. Thus, Quayle
> clearly would have had access to Searle's bibliography. If one sides with
> Quayle, this is a first edition copy. Even if Searle happens to be correct,
> putting Quayle's and Searle's determinations together reveals the scarcity
> of this copy even if Searle is correct as to its edition. A Very Good copy,
> with an EXCELLENT PROVENANCE WITH A NOTE INITIALED BY ERIC QUAYLE FROM
> WHOSE COLLECTION IT COMES. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Very good. Item #2736
>
> Price: $225.00save 50% $112.50   *NOW AVAILABLE TO THE LIST FOR $50.00*.
> Multiple images can be found at www.allingtonbooks.com
>
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> Stephen
> Allington Antiquarian Books
>
>
>
> Stephen Johnson
> Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
> Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
> www.allingtonbooks.com
> 336-414-0435
>