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1897705881897. Wheeler Alexander Strong 1820-1907. Reminiscences of an Old Lawyer: An Address by Our Fellow-Member Mr. A.S. Wheeler Delivered Before the Commercial Club of Boston December 18 1897. Printed by Request of the Club. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press 1898. 20 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Sewn pamphlet in stiff wrappers printed title label to front cover. Light shelfwear light toning to text. $50. Wheeler a Boston lawyer was a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School. unknown books
192643008New York: The Century Co 1926. First edition 8vo pp. v 3 325; frontispiece and 3 plates of illustrations by Manning DeV. Lee; original cloth in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket jacket faded to tan chips and tears along edges; interior fine. Advertisement for the series St. Nicholas Stories printed on back jacket cover. "A great adventure story of fire at sea of treasure islands in the South Pacific of mutiny typhoon and the mystery of the tropics." <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
2015626742015. ISBN-13: 9781616194567; ISBN-10: 1616194561. Story Joseph. Horowitz Valerie L. Editor. The Unsigned Essays of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Early American Views of Law. Introduction by Morris L. Cohen 1927-2010 Professor of Law Yale Law School. Clark New Jersey: Talbot Publishing an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2015. xxx 387 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616194567. ISBN-10: 1616194561. Paperback. New. $55. Written anonymously for the Encyclopedia Americana 1829-present and now gathered in one volume this work presents eighteen articles about major legal subjects by Joseph Story Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first Dane professor of law at Harvard Law School. The articles are virtually unknown today because they were unsigned and never republished in any other form. Ranging from "Law Legislation and Codes" "Common Law" and "Congress of the United States" to "Law of Nations" "Natural Law" and "Prize" these extended essays are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. The Encyclopedia Americana was edited by Story's friend Francis Lieber 1798-1872 who wrote the "Lieber's Code" and was a distinguished professor at Columbia Law School who helped establish the field of political science in the United States. The book includes an introduction by Morris L. Cohen that describes the genesis of Story's involvement in writing the pieces and some of their main ideas. The appendix offers texts of rare related materials. With an index. "After the American Revolution the United States caught fire as a commercial republic. But adaptation of the common law to the needs of a trading nation required a broad erudition and a long view of America's role in the world. That combination was supplied by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story - who was the faithful partner of Chief Justice Marshall and a New Englander who understood America's commercial future. Now -- in a literary event that should excite every lawyer -- these extraordinary essays published anonymously in the serial volumes of the 19th century Encyclopedia Americana are again available. The detective work of historian Valerie Horowitz in identifying the essays and the preface by Yale's celebrated law librarian the late Morris Cohen. unknown books
201922894ELos Angeles: Netflix n.d. 2019. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4†152 pages. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Original Screenplay. Shooting script for the film Marriage Story written by Noah Baumbach. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Hint of handling else fine in printed wrappers. The film was directed by Noah Baumbach and stars Adam Driver Scarlett Johansson Laura Dern Julia Greer and Wallace Shawn. It won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress Dern and was nominated for 5 more; Best Picture Best Actress Johansson Best Actor Driver Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score. Laura Dern also won a Golden Globe for Supporting Actress and the film received 5 nominations. Netflix paperback books
1987006385Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1987. Episode aired 20 February 1988 in season 1. Red brad bound wrappers 3 57 pp. printed rectos only on pale blue paper. . First Edition. Brads. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paramount Pictures Paperback books
1942145488Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1942. Vintage photograph of cinematographer Joseph Walker director Al Hall and actors Janet Blair and Rosalind Russell on the set of the 1942 film. With a mimeo snipe photographer's rubber stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Sisters Ruth Rosalind Russell and Eileen Janet Blair move to New York City from Ohio to pursue writing and acting. They end up living in a basement in Greenwhich Village and encounter a strange cast of characters while they piece together their new lives. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films. Columbia Pictures unknown books
197024869Schuylerville New York: The Artisan Press Barry Targan Prop. 1970. Artists' book with this traditional nursery rhyme illustrated printed in two colors with 12 accordion-fold panels. Approx. 4 1/2" x 6 3/4" size; bound in patterned-paper covered boards; light wear binding a little darkened; little bit of off-setting to the colors; in very good condition and a charming rendition of this story in pictures & prose. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Arleen Targan. The Artisan Press, Barry Targan, Prop. hardcover books
1964147638New York: Janus Films 1964. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. <br/><br/>"The Troublemaker" was inspired by The Premise an improv group begun by Theodore J. Flicker in 1960 and starred all but one of the original members of the group George Segal.<br/><br/>New Jersey chicken farmer Jack Armstrong Tom Aldredge moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house with the help of his friend lawyer T.R. Kingston Buck Henry.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near FIne. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Janus Films unknown books
1925138534Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph of Rudolph Valentino from the 1925 film. Typed mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Pushkin's 1841 novel "Dubrovsky." Dubrovsky Valentino is a Cossack in the Russian army who becomes a masked vigilante and attempts to save his family from an evil carpetbagger. Unfortunately he falls in love with the carpetbagger's daughter. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small cello-tape repair a tiny tear and a tiny chip. United Artists unknown books
1939147885Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Vintage studio still photographs from the 1939 film here under the working title "The World on Parade." "Silver Screen Archives" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Scientist Douglas Cameron William Henry invents the "Iconoscope" a television device that can broadcast across the country and finds himself pursued by international spies.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine light creasing at corners. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1953110846Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. <br/><br/>A former professional fighter John Payne is framed for the murder of his unfaithful wife Peggie Castle by her lover Brad Dexter. With the help of an aspiring actress Evelyn Keyes he must clear his name before the killer flees the country. <br/><br/>11 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Near Fine condition starting only slight at the hinge fold. Laid in is four-page supplement on newsprint in Fine condition. A compelling and unusual film that has been rediscovered as one the late classics of the noir cycle. <br/><br/>Grant US. Lyons US. Silver Classic Noir. Selby Canon US. United Artists unknown books
1943145007N.p.: Pine-Thomas Productions 1943. Vintage photograph of members of the crew on the set of the 1943 film. <br/><br/>A nitroglycerine trucker teaches his girlfriend's brother how to manage such the dangerous job until he eventually gets into a tragic accident. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Pine-Thomas Productions unknown books
2015626022015. ISBN-13: 9781616194543; ISBN-10: 1616194545. Story Joseph. Horowitz Valerie L. Editor. The Unsigned Essays of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Early American Views of Law. Introduction by Morris L. Cohen 1927-2010 Professor of Law Yale Law School. Clark New Jersey: Talbot Publishing an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2015. xxx 387 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616194543. ISBN-10: 1616194545. Hardcover. New. $65. Written anonymously for the Encyclopedia Americana and now gathered in one volume this work presents eighteen articles about major legal subjects by Joseph Story Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first Dane professor of law at Harvard Law School. The articles are virtually unknown today because they were unsigned and never republished in any other form. Ranging from "Law Legislation and Codes" "Common Law" and "Congress of the United States" to "Law of Nations" "Natural Law" and "Prize" these extended essays are fascinating distillations of Story's jurisprudence. The Encyclopedia Americana was edited by Story's friend Francis Lieber 1798-1872 who wrote the "Lieber Code" and was a distinguished professor at Columbia Law School who helped establish the field of political science in the United States. The book includes an introduction by Morris L. Cohen that describes the genesis of Story's involvement in writing the pieces and some of their main ideas. The appendix offers texts of rare related materials. With an index. "After the American Revolution the United States caught fire as a commercial republic. But adaptation of the common law to the needs of a trading nation required a broad erudition and a long view of America's role in the world. That combination was supplied by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story -- who was the faithful partner of Chief Justice Marshall and a New Englander who understood America's commercial future. Now in a literary event that should excite every lawyer these extraordinary essays -- published anonymously in the serial volumes of the 19th century Encyclopedia Americana -- are again available. The detective work of historian Valerie Horowitz in identifying the essays and the preface by Yale's celebrated law librarian the late Morris Cohen goes to show that antebellum l. unknown books
1968135478Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1968. Collection of one color and two black and white vintage double weight studio still photographs from 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow and Elizabeth Taylor. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1962132605London: Rank Organisation / Independent Artists 1962. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to and distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. <br/><br/>A classic slapstick comedy about a cyclist and a businessman who get involved in an accident after which the cyclist falls for the businessman's daughter who persuades him to give up the bicycle buy a sports car and learn to drive. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9 inches with no borders as issued. A tiny tear to 1 still and slight light creases at the extremities else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Rank Organisation / Independent Artists unknown books
1954135948Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1954. Revised "partial" script for an unproduced film dated 10/21/54. Based on the 1948 short story by Max Shulman this adaptation possibly written by Shulman though no credit is given. Shulman's short story was originally published in the April 18 1948 issue of the Spokesman-Review a newspaper published in Spokane Washington. <br/><br/>Selznick Productions commonly issued "partial" scripts such as these for content review. We have never seen a more complete version of this title. <br/><br/>Shulman is best known for having created "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" a beloved television series that ran from 1959 to 1963 and the play "The Tender Trap" that became the basis for the 1955 Frank Sinatra film. <br/><br/>An fantastical adventure story wherein a bored couple living in the fictitious town of Grainbelt Minnesota encounters the opportunity to take a trip to New York City and claim an inheritance. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as Revised Script on the front wrapper dated 10/21/54. 19 leaves on eye rest green stock with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication with yellow revision pages throughout all dated 10/15/54. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. David O. Selznick unknown books
1956132545London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Collection of 5 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. One still with a cinema The Lorne showing times tag affixed on the verso. <br/><br/>A star-studded but typical Hollywood biopic based on an original story by John O'Hara "Ten North Frederick" 1955 about a successful 1920s musical writing team DeSylva Brown and Henderson. They score several hits on Broadway but tensions between the three writers mount as two begin to feel neglected. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Moderate rubbing to a couple of stills and faint creases overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 356. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970144963Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of director Roy Ward Baker and cinematographer Moray Grant on the set of the 1970 Hammer horror film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1872 story "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu about a female vampire named Marcilla Karnstein Ingrid Pitt who comes back from death renamed Mircalla and spreads havoc. She kills the daughter of General Von Spielsdorf Peter Cushing who swears revenge on the beguiling seductive bloodsucker. <br/><br/>Set in Styria shot on location in England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Johnson and Del Vecchio p. 317. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1952145487Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage double weight photograph of director Rudolph Mate cinematographer Charles Lawton and actors Loretta Young and Kent Smith on the set of the 1952 film noir. With a mimeo snipe holograph annotations and studio stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Distraught after her second miscarriage and learning that she will never have children Paula Rogers Loretta Young accidentally injures a child while driving at night. In a rush to attend an event honoring her husband she does not follow the child to the hospital but later volunteers there in order to help the child. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1950125431Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1950. Original pressbook for the 1950 film noir. Based on a story by Virginia Kellogg published in "Colliers" on June 3 1950 written for the screen by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. <br/><br/>The gradual transformation of one woman at first innocent and shy into a hardened and knowing criminal. Eleanor Parker gives the best performance of her career and Hope Emerson as always makes for an intimidating and villainous female. An unusually realistic representation of prison life. <br/><br/>16 pages 11 x 17 inches saddle stapled. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears at the stitching light soil and a small chip at one corner. <br/><br/>Lyons US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1943135060Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Two vintage still photographs from the 1943 US film. One still is a black-and-white reference still and the other is a full-color studio still. <br/><br/>Based on a story by W.R. Burnett. Lieutenant Ward Stewart Power is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. Before sailing he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett Baxter and seduces her unaware that she's the sweetheart of Lieutenant Dewey Connors Andrews his newly appointed commander. At sea the men bond unaware of their shared love interest. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award for Best Effects. <br/><br/>Both stills 8 x 10 inches. Slight light edge creases. Very Good plus overall. <br/><br/><br/>Davenport p. 81. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2008517852008. 8th ed ISBN-13: 9781584778455; ISBN-10: 1584778458. The Final Edition of the First Systematic Treatise on the Conflict of Laws Story Joseph. Bigelow Melville Madison Editor. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws Foreign and Domestic in Regard to Contracts Rights and Remedies and Especially in Regard to Marriages Divorces Wills Successions and Judgments. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1883. xxxix 901 pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778455. ISBN-10: 1584778458. Hardcover. New. $69.95 Reprint of the eighth and last edition. Along with William Kent Joseph Story 1779-1845 shares the distinction of having had the greatest influence on American law during the nineteenth century. Marvin considers Story's Conflict of Laws to be the first systematic work on the subject. Story collected material from all available sources and systematized it in a manner useful to all practitioners. "No work on international jurisprudence merited nor received greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for the extensive learning of Mr. Justice Story.": Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 670-671. unknown books
1937130723Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1937. Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the 1937 film. <br/><br/>A wagon train headed from Independence Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico is being tracked and planned on being thwarted on behalf of Alfredo Dupray whose commission as Spanish authority will be over upon the wagon's arrival. His sabotage attempts are repeatedly thwarted by a mysterious Rider on a Painted Stallion. <br/><br/>White brad-bound titled wrappers. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good. Republic Pictures unknown books
1941126200Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1941 film "Horror Island" along with a script for a "Double Bill Trailer" in which this film was featured with another George Waggner film of the same year "Man Made Man-Made Monster." The latter film was based on a story called "The Electric Man" written by H. J. Essex director of "I the Jury" 1958 Sid Schwartz and Len Golos with Joseph West Waggner as screenwriter. <br/><br/>Hal Erickson: "It has been alleged that 'Horror Island' was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s second features. While it certainly looks that way it remains an enjoyable outing from fade-in to fade-out. In the tradition of 'Ten Little Indians' a group of disparate types are lured to a supposedly haunted mansion on a remote island. Their 'host' is peg-legged privateer Tobias Leo Carrillo who possesses half of a valuable treasure map. One by one the treasure-hunters are killed off by a mysterious assailant with Tobias the first victim. <br/><br/>White wrappers production No. 1132 dated March 22 1941 with credits for cast members Dick Foran Leo Carrillo Peggy Moran Fuzzy Knight John Eldredge and Lewis Howard as well as director Waggner. 133 leaves mimeograph duplication. <br/><br/>The "Double Bill Trailer" script is in white wrappers side-stapled rubber-stamped copy No. 6883 production nos. 1137 and 1119 dated March 29 1941 with credits for both films and "Central Files" in holograph pencil in the upper left corner. 8 leaves mimeograph duplication. <br/><br/>Pages Near Fine with a small corner crease to the first page. Wrapper Very Good plus or better with a touch of toning and short corner creases to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Wrappers encapsulated in archival mylar. Universal Pictures unknown books
1947151525Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1947. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>An unproduced screenplay adaptation of Ben Hecht's short story "The Shadow" in which the magician Sarastro seeks vengeance against his brother for the having taken his wife. Wikipedia attributes this script to Australian-born screenwriter and playwright Ivan Goff and his frequent collaborator Ben Roberts. While it generated interest particularly on the part of Warner Bros. it didn't see production. Both Goff and Roberts enjoyed long prolific careers as screen and television writers. <br/><br/>Light gray titled wrappers with rubber-stamped copy No. dated October 24 1947. 115 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three silver brads. David O. Selznick unknown books
