Sidney Schneider (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight with sound hinges. A few pages show very light foxing; the remainder of pages are completely clean and undamaged. Exterior covers and spine are completely clean with a narrow band of slight fading from sun exposure along the top edge. No bumped corners. Light rub wear to top and bottom edges of the spine, corner tips. The book will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "President's Message" by Sidney Schneider; "Report of the 44th American Philatelic Congress" by Thomas E. Elnen; "Chronological Chart of American Philatelic Congress Books"; "Past Presidents of the American Philatelic Congress"; "Recipients of Congress Awards"; "The Three Cent Issue of 1851-1857: Condensed Plating Information (Revised)" by William K. McDaniel; "Philippine Internal Revenue Stamps used as Emergency Currency" by C. M. Nielsen; "The Hero of Bunker Hill Writes a Letter and Creates the Only Known Letter with a Constitutional Post Postal Marking" by Alvin H. Kantor; "United States 'Ship' Mail" by Gerald J. Neufeld; "Ficticious Corner Cards on Specimen Envelopes" by J.M. Kinabrew; "Roseleur's Balloon Mail in the Siege of Paris" by Ernst M. Cohn; "The Genesis of a New Adhesive Postmaster Provisional" by Daniel T. Gilbert; "Some Notes Concerning Paper and Paper Mesh with Focus Upon the Bank Notes" by Lowell Cooper; and "Austrian Christmas Philately" by Richard Green.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The book has sound hinges. No spine lean. All pages clean and undamaged except for very slight foxing to outer page edges. Exterior covers just slightly soiled. No bumped corners. A little rubbing to top and bottom edges of the spine, corner tips. The book will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "President's Message" by Sidney Schneider; "Welcome Message" by Paul E. Oesterly; "Report of the 43rd Philatelic Congress" by Robert E. Brandeberry; "Chronological Chart of American Philatelic Congress Books"; "Past Presidents of the American Philatelic Congress"; "Recipients of Congress Awards"; "El Salvador--The Seebeck Stamps, Part 2: The Issues of 1896 to 1899" by Joseph D. Hahn and Joseph M. Sousa; "Errata and Addenda, Postal History Kaleidoscope of Post-WWII Germany" by Alfred Heinz; "A Postal Tour of Turn-of-the-Century Exhibitions" by Ray B. Crow; "The General Warren Tavern-An Historic Posting Place" by Arthur B. Gregg; "The Story of the United States Grilled Postage Stamps" by William K. Herzog; "Notes on the New Orleans Postmaster's Provisionals: Plating and Postal History" by Hubert C. Skinner; "Letters, New Hebrides Islands, 1842-1865" by Stanley C. Jersey; "Croatian Postal Rates-They Aren't in the Catalogue" by Henry Laessig; and "A Survey of German Postwar Postal Stationery".

Paperback. 398p., wraps lightly worn, otherwise very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 518 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Lettered In White. First Printing, 1935. Slight Usage, No Marks Or Stains, Clean, Would Be Near Fine But White Spine Lettering Has Mostly Popped Out (Not Worn) With Embossed Lettering Very Strong. Published Inauspiciously In 1935, When Philosophy Was The Least Of People's Concerns.

Draft script for the 1963 play. Laid in is a playbill for the show. With a single notation in manuscript pencil to the title page. Based on the 1948 novel of the same title by Hans Habe. To escape the injustices of Harlem, a black man enlists in the United States Army and is sent to occupied West Germany, where he impregnates and falls in love with a local girl. Without army consent, he marries her and deserts the army when he is to be sent back to America without her. He becomes the head of a gang of criminals and soon escapes to America with his bride, who leaves him because she only married him to get to America. Set in Germany. Black titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter William Hairston. Title page present, dated October 28, 1963, with credits for playwright William Hairston, and author Hans Habe. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.

Draft script for the 1963 play. Laid in are a number of contemporary documents relating to the production, including playwright William Hairston's business card and resumé, a playbill for the show, two reviews by Maxine Keith and John Wingate, two advertisements for the show, and a photocopied article from the "New York Times" about the show. Based on the 1948 novel by Hans Habe. To escape the injustices of Harlem, a Black man enlists in the United States Army and is sent to occupied West Germany, where he impregnates and falls in love with a local woman. Without army consent, he marries her and deserts the army when he is to be sent back to America without her. He becomes the head of a gang of criminals and eventually escapes to America with his bride. Set in Germany. Black titled wrappers, with credits for playwright William Hairston. Title page present, dated October 28, 1963, with credits for playwright William Hairston, and novelist Hans Habe. 105 leaves, with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

[2] pp.; 27.8 x 21.5 cm.; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; mimeograph; Double sided program for films presented at Film-Makers' Cinematheque from April - March, 1965. Films presented include "Forty Guns" and "Shock Corridor" by Samuel Fuller; "The Frantic, Pedantic, Semantic, Antic," by Ira Schneider; "A Fall Trip Home," by Nathanael Dorsky; "Ningen Dobutnen," by Yoji Kuri; "Love," by Takahiko Iimura; a new film by Andy Warhol; "Gardens of Tivoli," by Arthur Tress; the premiere of "The Lark" by Rudy Burkhardt; "Fireworks," "Eaux d' Artifice," "Inaugeration of the Pleasure Dome," "Scorpio Rising," by Kenneth Anger; Mike and George Kuchar retrospective including "A Reel of Home Movies," "The Slasher," "The Naked & the Nude," "The Thief and the Stripper," "I was a Teenage Rumpot," "Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof," "The Lurk," by Rudy Burckhardt; the premiere of "Sins of the Fleshapoids," by Mike Kuchar; Harry Smith retrospective; films of Jerry Joffen; Sidney Peterson retrospective including "Cage," "Lead Shoes," "Mr. Frenhofer & the Minotaur," "Petrified Dog," "Potted Psalm,"; "O, Dreamland," by Lindsay Anderson; "Guernica," by Alain Resnais; "Nu," by Anonioni; "Opera Mouffe," by Agnes Varda; "Pacific 231," by Jean Mitry, "Symphony in No B Flat," by Rudolfo Khun; "World of Paul Delvaux," by Henri Storck; "Hallucinations," by Peter Weiss; "As is Played Today," Joseph Anderson; "The Path," by Richard Meyers; "Private Life of A Cat," by Alexander Hammid; "Object Lesson," by Ch. Young; Odds & Ends," by Jane Belson Conger; "Smoke," by Joseph Kramer; "Krushchev," by Robert Lebar and Howard Kaplan "Metanoia," by Ilya Bolotowski, and Herbert Vessely. Recto contains text of program, verso printed with blue monochrome advertisement for soundtracks by mimeograph design company The Verbatim Service Company, owned and operated by Dick Kern. Good. 1 cm. loss to lower right corner; 1.2 cm. loss to upper left corner; 9 mm. loss to upper right corner; 4 mm. tear to lower left corner. Paper yellow and brittle with age.