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Pages 177-264 plus 16 pages of wonderfully nostalgic ads. Features: Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part 1 of the amusing account of the travels of a husband and wife with their donkey; The Diamond Smuggler; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part 6 of 6; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part 4 of 4 of an important cinematograph expedition to the interior of Africa to film wild animals - article with many great photos; Two Robinson Crusoes - surviving three months on a desert island; Sorcery and Spiritualism in Papua - restoring the dead to life, table-rapping and curses that kill - photo-illustrated article; The Little Brass God - a planter's odd experience in India; Poaching on a King's Preserves; Through the East by Air - Part 6 of 6 of a wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a ten-month expedition to view middle-eastern cities by air; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 1- the amazing life story of a man who was once banished to Guiana; Afloat with a Madman - a fireman goes mad aboard the "Algerian Prince" in the Bay of Biscay; Capturing 'Coperhead' - the story of a murderous Kentucky feudist in the mountains near the Kentucky - West Virginia border; photo of man standing in front of the largest saw blade in the world, a 108" diameter product made by Henry Disston and Sons, of Philadelphia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: reproductions of two short articles from 'The Pierce-Arrow Salesman'; Organizational Chart of the Pierce-Arrow Company, circa 1918; Evaluating the 'Dymaxion' car, by Maurice A. Thorne (Pierce-Arrow Experimental Engineer, 1929-34); reproduction of an interesting "Alemite Equipment Sheet" circa 1920, which was mailed to a customer by his Pierce-Arrow dealer; Reproduction of a 1973 news story about the renovation of a 1924 Pierce Arrow Truck at Burlington County Votech - many photos; Large original factory photo of a 1914 Pierce-Arrow runabout; Six-page article entitled "Old Days Service Garage Experiences", by John M. Powers - includes chassis diagram of a 1915 48-B-3 Pierce-Arrow which shows 93 (!) greasing points; Service Section - New Haven Station is Model - nicely illustrated 2-page article about a P-A dealership in New Haven; Three *great* pages of photos and text about the Clarke-Leu Company, the P-A dealer in Albany, NY; Recollections about the Famous Pierce-Arrow Cars, by A.C. May; Pierce-Arrow Epigrams, circa 1916, are reproduced inside back cover; On back cover is a reproduction of a 1920 dealer's quote for a five-ton dual valve Pierce-Arrow dump with four-yard steel body ($7242.40). Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of kids roller skating by Russell Sambrook; News bits include - The Basic Need is Goodwill, Life Goes On, The Right of Free (Speech) Utterance, Arguing That Gets Nowhere, The Taks of Re-Confederation, Austria and Tariffs, A Poet's Obituary - Gabriele d'Annunzio; Very nice one-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad for their St. Lawrence Seaway service; Black Gold in Our Empire's Defence - fascinating photo-illustrated article on the world's oil industry; The Shot at Dusk (short story); The Fatted Calf (short story); Love is a Winged Thing (short story); Salvage at Scapa Flow - photo-illlustrated article on German battleships - sunk by their own officers in 1919 - which end their days in British Dry-Dock; Sunrunner's Madness; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part III of this short story); Putt-Putting - photo-illustrated article on power boating, with photo of Doug Fonda, U.S. High-point outboard champion; Nice one-page Colgate toothpage ad features the Dionne Quints; Land of Wish-it-Were (verse); Classy one-page photo ad for the 1938 Chevrolet; Nice one-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Palmolive soap ad features photo of Mrs. Clarence Beairsto of Winnipeg; Parker Vacumatic pen ad features photo of author Kenneth Roberts; Investment news; Movie news with photos of Ann Gillis, Rita Cansino, Dixie Dunbar, Phyllis Brooks, Donald Barry, Tony Martin, John Hall and Gordon Jones; Lux soap ad features photos of Loretta Young and Irene Dunne; Nostalgic half-page ad by the Canadian Association of Ice Industries, Inc. includes photo of man placing block of ice into icebox; (fridge); Exhibit 'A' - Your husband; Article on raising a son; Cooking article; Nice one-page Frigidaire fridge ad includes photo of man holding their new silent 'meter-miser'; World Sayings; Handsome colour ad for the De Luxe Ford V-8 for 1938 shows maroon car in driveway with car jockey speaking to woman of the house; Nostalgic back cover colour ad for the Simmons Slumber King bed spring; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1953 Mercury Monterey Custom Coupe inside front cover; Life with Five Governors-General (part 1 of 2) - the Bessboroughs, the Byngs and the Willingdons; The Binghams Came to Blows (fiction); Who will succeed Sir Winston Churchill?; How to sell a house (humour); Tom Thomson - The Rebel Painter of the Pine Woods - article with photos and colour reproduction of "The Pointers"; The Keys to the Car (fiction); Barrister Arthur Martin, QC - His clients never hang; The Corpse That Hoaxed the Nazis (conclusion) - the elaborate story of how the Allies tricked the Nazis into thinking Sardinia would be invaded, rather than Sicily; Fantastic 'mom and apple pie' General Motors of Canada centerfold colour illustration shows a 'Happy Community" - smiling pedestrians, sunny sky and roads full of GM of Canada cars; Gorgeous full-page colour ad for a yellow Oldsmobile '98' Holiday Coupe; uncommon ad for IEL (Industrial Engineering Limited) power chain saws; Interesting colour ad for Atlas tires on back cover shows the 61 license plates of the US states and Canadian provinces; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
19211391822Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co 1921. First Edition Later State. Hardcover. Large Octavo 312 pages. In Good Minus condition. Spine dark grey with black lettering. Bound in pictorial cloth boards. Bumping with slight material loss/fraying to corners top and bottom edges of boards towards hinge and to middle of fore-edge. Front board hinge detached and fraying. Binding loosening. Minor denting with staining. Slight wear and wrinkling to edges of illustration affixed to front board. Textblock sunken. Age-toning wear to text-block age-toning to margins of leaves very occasional scuff marks/minor imperfections to interior text/illustrations unaffected. Contains all 12 colored plates incl. frontispiece. Shelved Case 14. 1391822. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Reilly & Lee Co hardcover
19771368New York: Condé Nast Publications Inc 1977. Octavo digest size; illustrated wrappers by Kelly Freas; 178pp; illus. Some trivial edgewear short diagonal creases to lower right corner of front wrapper with a faint tiny dampstain to upper right corner of front wrapper; a solid Very Good copy still bright with the spine unbroken. The first appearance in any format of Orson Scott Card's Hugo Award-winning novel 'Ender's Game' preceding the novel's release by 8 years. Originally written as a novella for Analog this version fuses Chapters 10 and 14 from the finished text significantly textually different with entire sections expanded and omitted the name spelling of several key characters changed and a decidedly different ending. It is also the first illustrated version of the novel. An attractive copy and an important debut of one of the genre's greatest characters. Condé Nast Publications Inc unknown
199352273Connecticut: Better Place Publ. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1882436024 . SIGNED without inscription by singer Johnny Cash on the free front endpaper; a crisp tight bright unmarked copy in clean glossy illustrated boards; nearly as new; first printing with no later statements; Johnny Cash is featured in the book as the Man in Black and also performed the theme song and the narration on the audio cassette which normally comes with the book but THE AUDIO COMPONENTS ARE NOT INCLUDED WITH THIS COPY; photos available ; Signed by Author . Better Place Publ. hardcover
1955049716Istanbul 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. Original manuscript letter in a brilliant poetic style sent to Turkish female poet Halide Nusret Zorlutuna 1901-1984. Dated 10.14.1955. In Ottoman script. It starts as "Halide Nusret hanimefendiye.". <br/> <br/> paperback
192832694New York: Street & Smith Corporation 1928. Mild tanning to text paper light wear and closed tears to yapp edges of cover slight paper loss at base of spine several light scratches to front cover upper corner of last page torn away not affecting any text and upper left third of rear cover missing a very good copy. 32694. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Agatha Christie "The Solving Six and the Golden Grave" - Miss Marple Johnston McCulley Edgar Wallace J.S. Fletcher Christopher B. Booth and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 148-151. Street & Smith Corporation unknown
1972158416New York: American International Pictures AIP 1972. Collection of 10 vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film housed in their original envelope stamped "Savage Sisters / 10 Stills / Story in Tens" with the original three-page press release of descriptions for all ten photographs. <br /> <br /> Pam Grier and Margaret Markov escape from a remote women's prison aided in part by Markov's revolutionary boyfriend. What follows is an almost comical series of bloody shootouts pitting revolutionaries and drug dealers and the authorities all against each other. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in the Philippines. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Arrow Films. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1968140420Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage borderless still photograph from the set of the 1968 film. Featuring Mia Farrow on a horse during filming with Jo Losey and Elizabeth Taylor in the background. <br /> <br /> A dark psychologically twisted film in which Elizabeth Taylor plays a boozy prostitute who stumbles upon a family drama between young wealthy Mia Farrow coming off her success in "Rosemary's Baby" and her stepfather played by Robert Mitchum. Taylor plays a matronly role in Farrow's life though she is unable to tell which of the family members is lying about the other until Farrow kills herself to escape her stepfather's sexual predation and Taylor exacts a bloody revenge. <br /> <br /> 7.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Newman 35. Universal Pictures unknown
1950160936Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1923 short story "My Old Man" by Ernest Hemingway. John Garfield stars as a crooked washed-up expatriate jockey on the run from a racketeer for not throwing a race while trying to redeem himself for the sake of his son. Remade in 1979 as the CBS television film "My Old Man" directed by John Erman and starring Kristy McNichol and Warren Oates.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California.<br /> <br /> 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1972149818N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti from the 1972 Italian film. <br /> <br /> Based on an unpublished short story by Alberto Moravia. Unhappy housewife Giorgia Vitti after accidentally participating in a women's rights meeting begins hearing a voice commanding her to perform actions that are out of the ordinary for her such as going to the seaside and making love with a lifeguard. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Rome and Veneto Italy. <br /> <br /> 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1944148705Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "Two-Faced Quilligan." Production No. 911 and copy No. 6 rubber stamped on the front wrapper with SHOOTING FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation in the script in holograph pencil noting three names on the verso of last leaf.<br/><br/>Patrick Michael Quilligan William Bendix captain of a barge named Mary named after his mother meets and falls for two women Joan Blondell and Mary Treen who remind him of his beloved deceased mother inadvertently marrying both.<br/><br/>Set in Brooklyn and Utica New York. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 6 and production No. 911 dated DECEMBER 21 1944. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated December 21 1944 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Arthur Kober. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/2/45 and 2/28/45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with large chip on right edge of front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1938144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodd's who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. <br/><br/>Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. <br/><br/>Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1953134790Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road" based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. <br/><br/>Notable for its nearly all-black cast "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
133025London: British Lion Film Corporation. Early Draft script for the 1950 British film "Into the Blue" seen here under the early working title "Rendezvous in Cannes." The film was released in the US under the title "Man in a Dinghy." Copy belonging to sound recordist Peter Handford with his name in blue holograph ink to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Hal Erickson: A film much enhanced by the presence of two veteran British movie favorites. Jack Hulbert and Constance Cummings as John and Kate Ferguson who embark upon their first vacation in years. Traveling from England to Norway by yacht the Fergusons are joined by their taciturn skipper Bill Edward Rigby and romantic leads Nicholas Foster top-billed Michael Wilding and ship's cook Jackie Odile Versois. A quiet story one whose strongest suits are its stars and its location photography. Set on the Seine river and other waterways between Norway and England. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with a yellow cloth tape spine marked copy No. 14. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Wilcox and Taylor and dialogue and story writer Phipps. 124 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good perfect bound. British Lion Film Corporation unknown books
1952143716Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1952. Final White script for the 1953 film. <br/><br/>A loose adaptation of the popular 1925 silent film directed by James Cruze retelling a largely fictionalized account of the formation of the US mail system. Charlton Heston plays a gritty Buffalo Bill Cody and Forrest Tucker plays Wild Bill Hickock. In reality however Wild Bill Hickock never rode for the Pony Express Buffalo Bill Cody was only fourteen when he rode for the route and the route itself ran for only eighteen months of service before being superseded by the transcontinental telegraph. <br/><br/>Set between Missouri and California shot on location in Utah and Arizona. <br/><br/>White titled self wrappers noted as FINAL WHITE on the front wrapper noted as production No. SF 88972 dated May 21 1952 with credits for producer Nat Holt and writer Frank Gruber. Distribution page present with receipt removed rubber stamped as copy No. 84. Title page integral with the distribution page dated May 21 1952 noted as FINAL WHITE with credits for writer Frank Gruber. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fin wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1941156662Culver City CA: Walt Disney 1941. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1941 film showing three animators working on designs for a number of classic Disney animated characters including Mickey and Minnie Mouse Goofy and Pluto.<br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 short story by Kenneth Grahame. A behind-the-scenes documentary about Walt Disney's animation process including the cartoon short of the title which in later years was often exhibited separately from this film. The first Disney animated feature to include live-action footage.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with moderate soil overall and wear at the corners. Walt Disney unknown
1977143667N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. <br/><br/>A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first screenwriting credit. <br/><br/>Black titled leatherette wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lincoln Kilpatrick and J.S. Cardone and story writers Lincoln Kilpatrick and Bill Nolan. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948042804NY: CAPITOL PUB. CO. spiral pictorial boards clean unmarked copy! cricket toy working mylar plastic present. slight back cover crease. . VG. Hardcover. 1948. CAPITOL PUB. CO. hardcover
1918333560Omar Khayyam Club of America 1918. One of 15 copies reserved for the Rosemary Press 1R to 15R thius is 11R. Frontispiece. 13 pages printed recto only. Printed at the Rosemary Press. 12mo. Bound in full scarlet American morocco with blue ceramic bug onlay on upper cover. some wear at top of spine. One of 15 copies reserved for the Rosemary Press 1R to 15R thius is 11R. Frontispiece. 13 pages printed recto only. Printed at the Rosemary Press. 12mo. Omar Khayyam Club of America unknown
1947144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
31786NY: Harper & Brothers 1973. 4to; pictorial boards; hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; Japanese text; controversial book in the south when it was first published due to characters being black and white bunnies; removed from the Alabama Public Libraries for a time; lightly edgeworn else a very good clean tight copy. <br/><br/> NY: Harper & Brothers (1973) hardcover
