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1944151740Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1944. Original story script for an unproduced film Nathaniel Hawthorne's unedited 1844 short story here reproduced by Vanguard Films dated August 8 1944.<br/><br/>Hawthorne's short story was first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. It has been adapted into two plays and several operas as well as a section of the 1963 horror anthology film "Twice-Told Tales" directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Vincent Price and Sebastian Cabot.<br/><br/>A researcher's daughter having been raised to tend to his garden of poisonous plants becomes resistant to the poisons but becomes poisonous herself to others including a young suitor.<br/><br/>Set in Padua Italy.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated August 8 1944 with credits for author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Title page integral with first page with credits for author Nathaniel Hawthorne. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 39. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three small metal brads. Vanguard Films unknown books
2005221252New York: Be Beautiful 2005. Paperback. 208p. English-language translation of Japanese yaoi manga comic novel erotic images very good trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Be Beautiful paperback books
1965147917Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film of Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson with Karen Dotice and Matthew Garber. <br/><br/>Based on Travers' 1934 novel and subsequent books. <br/><br/>Julie Andrews is a magical nanny briefly employed by a dysfunctional Edwardian London family in this classic Disney feature that combines both live action and animated sequences.<br/><br/>The film won five Academy Awards and was nominated for another seven including Best Picture making "Mary Poppins" the highest-awarded Walt Disney feature ever.<br/><br/>Novelist Travers famously voiced her objections to the Disney adaptation of her character particularly the animated scenes and musical numbers for which the film later gained so much acclaim. <br/><br/>Set in London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1998162871Santa Fe: Twin Palms 1998. Hardcover. 108p 10.25x8.25 inches landscape layout monograph of explicit b&w homoerotic photos accompanied by Homes' story "Ballad for the Beautiful Boy or Why I Like Photography" very good first edition of 4000 copies in glossy red boards and unclipped black dj. A favorite of this bibliographer on page 81 titled "Johnny Rey Waits for Wood" with a bored Johnny bent over a bench waiting for his partner to rise to the occasion surrounded by crew. Twin Palms hardcover books
1960148058N.p.: British Lion Film Corporation 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Maurice Denham and Lionel Jeffries with Peter Sellers David Lodge and Bernard Cribbins behind from the 1960 film. <br/><br/>Dodger Lane Peter Sellers and two of his prison mates plan to break out of prison the day before their release steal a fortune in diamonds and break back in before anyone notices.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in West Sussex Surrey Berkshire and London England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine light edgewear. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Dayrl Lee "The Heist Film. British Lion Film Corporation unknown books
1972164517London: Sphere Books Limited 1972. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Test-tube bred bureaucrats run the country with high efficiency." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 162. "Art Henry was quite inconsiderate: he should never have survived his heart attack according to the tidy computations of his Orwellian society. And to walk the streets playing his trombone as he searched for his lost poodle simply didn't fit the orthodoxy of an England dosed dazed and dumbfounded by a welfare state the sprayed its proles like crops and bred its executives in test-tubes." - publisher's blurb. "Rabelaisian good humour" - Oxford Mail. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 336. A fine copy. #164517 Sphere Books Limited unknown books
19581320108Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin Quarto; unpaginated; G-/Fair; blue/white checkered spine with black text; dust jacket has noticeable chips to edges; slight soiling to exterior; slightly sunned exterior; price clipped flap; mylar wraps; cloth shows rubbed edges; lightly sunned exterior; sturdy boards; text block has mild tone to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; interior clean; profusely illustrated; intact binding;. 1320108. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
198419222ELos Angeles: Columbia Pictures 1984. First Edition. Single sheet two-sided 8 1/2†x 11â€. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film ‘A Soldier’s Story’ for reviewers and members of the motion picture industry specifically for Academy Award consideration. The film is based on the play by Charles Fuller who also wrote the screenplay was directed by Norman Jewison and starred Howard Rollins Jr. Adolph Caesar Art Evans Denzel Washington and David Alan Grier. Fine in printed wrappers. The film was nominated for Oscars for Best Picture Best Actor in a Supporting Role Adolph Caesar and Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Columbia Pictures unknown books
2012240252012. ISBN-13: 9781886363717; ISBN-10: 1886363714. Story Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause Explaining the True Nature Reasons and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix Containing Important Public Documents Illustrative of the Constitution. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers 1865. 372 pp. Reprinted 1999 2012 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363717; ISBN-10: 1886363714. Hardcover. New. $28.95 Reprint of the 1865 edition. A manual on the Constitution for the Everyman by an early master of that document. Designed to follow the order of Story's well-known Commentaries on the Constitution this work is written in language geared to the student or layman nevertheless showing great breadth and profundity in his explications. unknown books
2010573302010. ISBN-13: 9781616190989; ISBN-10: 1616190981. "An Epoch in the Law" Story Joseph. 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. Originally published: Boston: Hilliard Gray and Company 1834. xxv 1 557 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190989; ISBN-10: 1616190981. Paperback. New. $29.95 Reprint of the first edition. In his History of the American Bar Warren says "it is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority.it also received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts" 545. The first systematic work on the subject it synthesized the standard sources of the day and arranged them in a manner useful to practitioners. It was held in high respect in North America Great Britain and Europe. Warren A History of the American Bar 545. unknown books
19685222Santa Barbara CA: University of California Santa Barbara. Art Gallery 1968. Softcover. VG faint library stamp at base of cover. Wraps. 86 pp. 63 bw plates. Catalogue lists a total of 87 works. Chronology list of exhibitions selected bibliography. Essay written by and pictures selected by Ala Story. Scarce catalogue. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Santa Barbara CA: Art Galleries at UCSB Feb. 6 to Mar. 3 1968 three other locations. University of California, Santa Barbara. Art Gallery unknown books
19642286The Art Gallery University of California Santa Barbara 1964. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 3 color 42 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1964-1965 series of exhibitions of artwork by American artist William Merritt Chase. With an extensive illustrated essay by Ala Story. Includes a bibliography list of collections chronology awards list of exhibitions plates. A significant exhibition and a nice introduction to the artist. The Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara unknown books
1894134315Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Co 1894. Hardcover. VG some wear ends of spine bookplate and old style pocket at rear T.E.G. Green cloth with thin gilt line around edges gilt title on spine. 293 pp. No illus. Very uncommon in this the ORIGINAL dition and not a reprint. Minor binding defect to ffep otherwise a seldom used copy. Story was also a well-known American Artists and Sculptor. Houghton, Mifflin and Co hardcover books
1895134316Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Co 1895. nineteenth edition. Hardcover. VG some wear ends of spine bookplate and old style pocket at rear T.E.G. Green cloth with thin gilt line around edges gilt title on spine. 109 pp. No illus. Very uncommon in this the ORIGINAL dition and not a reprint. Minor binding defect to ffep otherwise a seldom used copy. Story was also a well-known American Artists and Sculptor. Houghton, Mifflin and Co hardcover books
195224100New York: Random House 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm.; original simulated cloth photographic plate mounted to upper cover cream pictorial dust jacket dark blue topstain; 10195pp.; photographically illustrated double-page title page two leaves of photographic stills. A few tiny short closed tears to jacket extremities spine a bit toned else a Very Good copy. Play based on a 1947 short story by Somerset Maugham first produced by the Theatre Guild New York City in 1952 and starring Adrienne Corri and Basil Rathbone. Random House unknown books
191462821New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co 1914. Hardcover. Good. Frances Brundage. Illustrations. Stiff pictorial card covers backed in cloth. 37cm. Cover scuffed and edgeworn. Contents sound but with some soiling and foxing. No jacket. Top edge of cover loosely shaped around Dolly's hat. <br/><br/> Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co hardcover books
198919595New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto; illustrated boards; dustjacket; 37pp; illus. Remainder mark to lower edge of text else Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. A children's book one of several collaborations between Eco and reknown illustrator Eugenio Carmi. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
20011337899Norfolk VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers Inc 2001. Softcover. Booklet 5x7; VG/paperback; red covers show minimal wear to exterior; black titles to front; mild edge wear; intact binding; text block clean; pp 10<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in 15's ephemera box 10 in Netdesk office. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 2001 Bouchercon. 1337899. FP New Rockville Stock. Crippen & Landru Publishers, Inc unknown books
19721325642New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Large Thin Octavo; unpaginated; G/G-; beige spine with black and red text; dust jacket has some toning toward exterior edges; minor chips to edges; mylar wraps; cloth has mild wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has light toning to exterior edges; frontispiece; light foxing to some pages; illustrated;. 1325642. FP New Rockville Stock. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
20091340365New York: Universe Publishing 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; black/red/yellow pictorial spine with gray and red text; first edition; no jacket; cloth has only light wear to exterior; strong straight boards; text block clean; pop up illustrations; unpaginated. 1340365. FP New Rockville Stock. Universe Publishing hardcover books
1995TB26111Gloucester Mass.: Ten Pound Island Book Company 1995. First Edition. First printing Fine in blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10" by 9" with a prior owner's name and date on the title page. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 369 pages including an index appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of earlier works of art black and white photographs and line drawings. The history of 300 years of ship building in Essex Massachusetts. Ten Pound Island Book Company hardcover books
1990158497NEW YORK WARNER BOOKS 1990 1990. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NEW YORK, WARNER BOOKS, 1990 hardcover books
1884WRCLIT23708Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1884. Small octavo. Limp parchment wrappers printed in red. First edition one of five early printings all but the second indistinguishable from the others BAL binding A. Very nice copy. BAL 19307. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
199319598New York: Orchard Books 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto; tan paper-covered boards with titles stamped in red foil on spine; dustjacket; 29pp; illus. Bookplate signed by Tyler loosely laid in. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Lovely copy of Tyler's first children's book. Orchard Books unknown books
30696Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. The Diary of Richard Madox Fellow of All Souls. Hakluyt Society London 1976. 365 pages clothbound no jacket very good condition. . Other hardcover books
