Aka Jan (22 results)

Bob McMahon (illustrator). soft cover, 135 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches, 3rd printing 1990 as new book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile non-fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the fourth thriller novel by Friedman. SIGNED on the title page as Mickey Friedman. Price clipped otherwise in fine / fine unread condition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing of the fourth novel by Margaret Summerton under this pen name. Light edgewear. Light age toning to the dustjacket. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

Hardcover. 109p. in a landscape layout, 33 lithograph illustrations, first US edition hardcover bound in dark gray cloth boards with silver spine titles in an unclipped dust jacket, all in very good condition. Originally published in German in 2003. Posthumous publication.

Audio-CD. Condition: Gut. B1072-181 4018939104849 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Softcover, unpaginated; in Polish and French, very good condition, except light rubbing and edgewear to covers with abrasion form removed price sticker; small piece missing from upper right corner of first few pages; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

A good copy of the First Edition in original publishers cloth.8vo.xii.85pp plus inserted advertisement leaf for "DROUGHT A South African Parable" by the same author writing as Jan van Avond.The poets Roy Campbell and Anthony Delius were great supporters of Slater, claiming him as a " Pioneer of "Indiginous English Poetry" and that "with the publication of Karroo and other poems in 1924 he began to distil the South African scene into imagery which prepared the field for indigenous English verse.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 264 Seiten - Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie Internet-basierte künstlerische Produktion im realen Raum formuliert und wie dabei ein Präsentationsmodus entwickelt werden kann, der für beide Seiten das Internet und den Ausstellungsraum gleichermaßen angemessen erscheint. Diese Gruppe aus KünstlerInnen, KuratorInnen und AutorInnen arbeitet auf der Basis zeitgenössischer visueller, textueller und netzwerkartiger Handlungsfelder.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Octavo in dustjacket with heavy edgewear and creasing. British tan coloured cloth with brown lettering and brown tooled illustrations. 'Nudists' posing before a river on end pages front and back. Mild wear. Well cared for. Scarce. [163 pages].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Preface by Polish poet Stanis?awa Balin?skiego. Text in Polish. Modest wear and toning, very good or better. Inscribed in Polish to Eve Curie ("Evie Curie"), daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and winner of a National Book Award for her biography of her mother, on the front fly. [POET BIO].

First edition of Valtin's bestselling autobiographical narrative. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Ben Mandel, who helped. Jan Valtin November 1940." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by George Salter. A bestseller in 1941, described as". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been." The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920's and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade's attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin. From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties. Writing at age 36 under the name Jan Valtin, Krebs lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotiondisillusionment and lossin a world full of revolutionary promise gone immeasurably wrong."An exciting, real book without a trace of unnecessary melodrama" (H.G.Wells).

Condition: Good. Sq. 8vo. 21.5 x 16 cm. [16], 308, [288PP. Elaborate gilt stamped calf 19th Century binding.OCLC Number: 800942581 In-8 (22 x 15,5), plein veau olive poli du XIXe siècle, dos à 5 nerfs, compartiments décorés, double encadrements de jeux de filets dorés sur les plats avec fleurons aux angles de l'encadrement intérieur, médaillon au centre, tranches rouges, filets sur les coupes. Titre gravé, lettrine et ornements gravés, 12 figures gravées par Galle.

First edition of Valtin's bestselling autobiographical narrative. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion and his wife, "To Polly and Gene Tunney with admiration and cordial fond wishes from Jan Valtin June 1, 1941." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by George Salter. A bestseller in 1941, described as". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been." The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920's and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade's attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin. From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties. Writing at age 36 under the name Jan Valtin, Krebs lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotiondisillusionment and lossin a world full of revolutionary promise gone immeasurably wrong."An exciting, real book without a trace of unnecessary melodrama" (H.G.Wells).

[TOY BOOK] [ACTIVITY BOOK] [JUVENILE]. Folio (13" x 9 ½"); [8] leaves; color pictorial front wrapper showing the completed paper crèche, 2 crèche pieces printed on the rear wrapper; assembly directions printed on the verso front wrapper; 8 leaves printed with numbered and lettered shapes to be cut-out, a diagram of the completed scene is on the first leaf; fine. OCLC locates one copy at the Herder Institute in Germany. A later copy is located at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An unused booklet of color-printed figures to cut-out and stand up to form a crèche in the style found in the early 19th century Czech town of P?íbram. The scene features a walled city on a hill with an angel soaring over the church dome. On the first level, a cave houses the Holy Family, and villagers head toward the manager with gifts. Sheep and goats graze on the hill and in front of the manger. Thirty-three numbered figures with self-stands to fold over are ready to be cut-out and placed around the village. First published in 1970, this is a reprint from 1990 by the same Prague publishing house, Albatros. Albatros was founded in 1949 and continues to be a publisher of children's and young adult books. The artist, Jan ?aka (1929-2018), was born in Prague but his family was from the town of P?íbram in the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic. ?aka worked for a uranium mining company in P?íbram as a cartographer, but was involved in Scouting and was a lover of the Czech countryside and nature. He wrote several books but they were prevented from being published and were destroyed by the Communists. His interesting life can be explored on the English portion of the Czech website: poznejpribram dot cz/en.

Condition: Very Good. Amsterdam. Very Good. c. 1603. 17th century map in original hand-coloring of Germany, western Poland, western Austria, northern Italy, eastern France, Belgium, the Netherlands and proximal areas showing mountain ranges, forests, bodies of water, towns and cities. Three decorative cartouches. Latin text to verso. Some foxing, otherwise an attractive copy. Please see image. Plate size approximately 15 1/8 x 19 in (385 x 480 mm). Overall size approximately 16 1/2 x 20 1/4 in (420 x 515 mm).; 1 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Map. Condition: Very Good. Amstedam. Very Good. 1640. Map. Image size 19"x 15 1/2". Paper size 17"x23". Orginal 17th century hand coloring. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Condition: Very Good. Anmstedam: Johanne Janssonius. Very Good. c. 1640. 17th century map with original, hand-colored outlines of Bologna, Italy. Decorative cartouche. Latin text to verso with historiated initial. Please see image. Plate size approximately 21 1/4 x 17 in. Overall size approx. 21 x 18 in (545 x 450 mm).; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. colour printed map, separately published; folds as issued; some tiny holes in cross folds; o/e exc. cond. A most stunning promotional map of the World published for the French chocolate company Menier, centred on the Pacific and outlining a route across the globe, starting and finishing in Paris. Below the map is a table to stick on 120 coupons which could be found in selected bars of chocolate. Once completed and having solved three 'enigme' along the route, one was supposed to sent off the completed table to Menier, resulting in most maps missing the lower part. This fine example has the table still intact. Jannot aka Jan-Loup was an artist and illustrator a French magazine from the 1950s to the early 1960s, and he also designed scarves for the fashion house Hérmes. The Menier Chocolate company was founded by Jean Antoine Brutus Menier in 1816. Though not trained as a pharmacist, he sold a variety of different powders for medicinal purposes and used chocolate as an ingredient to make the medicine more palatable. In 1836, Menier was the first company to introduce blocks of chocolate, covered in greenish-yellow wrapper which became iconic for the brand. And in 1893, the company started a poster advertising campaign, created by Firmin Bouisset, showing a little girl writing the name 'Chocolat Menier' on a wall with a piece of chocolate. The company is still going strong though the Menier family withdrew from management in 1959.

Condition: Very Good. Image size is 17"x 14". Paper size is 19" x 16 1/4". Original 17th century hand coloring. Verso text in Latin. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Map. Condition: Very Good. Amsterdam. Very Good. C.1640. Map. Verso text in Latin. Orginal 17th century hand color. Foxing to lower edges. Image size 19 1/3"- 15 1/2". Paper size 20 1/2"- 15 1/2" ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Condition: Very Good. Very Good. c1660. 17th century map with original, hand-colored outlines of Trento and the Italian Alps. Decorative cartouche. Some foxing, most apparent to margins. Otherwise, a handsome copy. Please see image. Plate size approximately 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. Overall size approx. 22 x 16 3/4 in (557 x 425 mm).; 1 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Six original paintings, each measuring 17" x 25". Gouache on artist boards. Near fine with some toning to the edges of a couple of paintings and tape remnants on the rear of each, but each image is still exceptionally fresh and vivid. The six images depict various animals - squirrel, owl, lion, dog, bear, and rooster - all with military hats and one with a complete uniform (except for pants). Several of the paintings appear to reinforce wartime ideals of conservation (squirrel storing nuts), education (the owl reading), and military service (the lion sitting on a pile of money with the various bills labeled "Security," "Leadership," "Welfare," "Prestige," and so on). The rear of two paintings have the fading stamp of the Simmons-Beal Agency that was located at 3 E. 40th Street in New York City from the 1930-1990s. We could find no specific information on the artist aside from references to several children's books he may have illustrated during the 1950s. That is, until we were contacted by the artist's great niece who revealed Johnson also worked under the pseudonym Jan Pfloog, who is credit with a number children's book, including *The Farm Book*, *Kittens Are Like That*, and *The Puppy Book*. Regardless of his identity, Jonston's artistic skills are quite apparent. An amusing and clever collection of mid-century paintings promoting attractive American virtues in support of the military.