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1942136737Los Angeles: David O. Selznick 1942. Mimeograph story reproduction for an unproduced film taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1908 book "Round the Fire Stories."<br/><br/>A private train on a journey from Liverpool to London disappears and a nameless private detective thought to be Sherlock Holmes writes into a newspaper explaining how he believes the crime was accomplished only to be vindicated eight years later when the criminal mastermind behind the job admits to his actions for use as a bargaining chip. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers dated June 11 1942 with credits for story writer Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 22 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. David O. Selznick unknown books
1954131088Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1954. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. The fifth of seven films in the popular "Francis the Talking Mules series all made in the 1950s. Copy belonging to technical advisor Major Lane Carlson with his name in holograph blue ink on a label affixed to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Carlson acted as a consultant on the military aspects of the film as the film involves Francis joining the Army going to the Pentagon etc. <br/><br/>Salmon titled wrappers noted as Final Screenplay on the front wrapper dated February 9 1954. 157 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-17-54 and 4-5-54. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus in a three ring binder used during production. Universal Pictures unknown books
1938014662Pittsburgh: A. M. Byers Company 1938. 6th Printing. 59p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. A. M. Byers Company unknown books
195133523Pittsburgh: A. M. Byers Company 1951. 2nd edition 8th printing. Hardback. Yellow & blue dust jacket. NF po name stamp/VG light wear/po name stamp. vi 97 1 blank pp. Illustrated with many from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/> A. M. Byers Company hardcover books
195627062Pittsburgh: Byers 1956. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with photos. 101pp. Thin 8vo cloth d.w. Pittsburgh: Byers 1956. Later printing very good.<br/><br/> Byers unknown books
16119ASTON James and Edward B. Story. WROUGHT IRON ITS MANUFACTURE CHARATERISTICS AND APPLICATIONS. Pittsburgh: A.M. Byers Co. 1941. 8vo. Cloth dust jacket. vi 97 pages. Sec edition. Being a handbook for the manufacture and use of wrought iron. Black and whit photographs as well as charts and tables within the text help to provide grea insight. Dust jacket rubbed and spine darkened spine of cover spotted otherwise this is a very good copy. unknown books
193822369Pittsburgh: A.M. Byers Co 1938. 5th printing. Green cloth binding. Dust jacket. VG pos at front pastedown & ffep/light edgewear/VG extremities darkened/edgewear. 59 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 23.5cm x 15.5cm. <br/><br/> A.M. Byers Co hardcover books
19471337152Pittsburgh: A. M. Byers Company 1947. Second Edition Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G Hardcover w/ Dustjacket; Yellow and Blue spine with Yellow text; Dustjacket protected by mylar cover some edgewear some shelfwear small open tears along spine edges small open tears at corners of both covers; Boards strong slight edgewear slight shelfwear rubbing to corners; Textblock clean; 97 pp. 1337152. FP New Rockville Stock. A. M. Byers Company hardcover books
195716096JHollywood May 28 1957. Original 12 page carbon typescript on yellow paper bradbound in blue studio wrappers dated May 28 1957 a year before the final finished film Attack of the the 50 Foot Woman was released on My 18 1958. Taken from her home high in the Himalayas ala King Kong from Skull Island a 100-ft tall woman is brought to NY city.  The opening paragraph synopsis: “Think of Esther Williams; now think of Anita Ekberg. Think of them both -- physically. Then after turning them both slowly over in your mind of course dwell on the most luscious attributes lavished on each by a bountiful Nature. … Take that result and multiply IT by about twenty. Now you have Gigante. She’s something over a hundred feet tall and most ALL of that vast loveliness is quoted practically verbatim under the skimpy animal skins she being feminine to the ultimate has managed to piece together into a garment of sorts.  …. she is found in the limitless unknown of the brooding Himalayan mountains of Mongolia by our intrepid adventurer…later in New York jealous of the attention he pays to another woman she runs amok… Up Broadway and down Fifth Avenue she strides casually kicking taxis trucks and busses out of her way…a squadron of fighter planes are warming up.†Ultimately the final screenplay was written by Mark Hanna who wrote such B films as The Undead Not of This Earth and The Amazing Colossal Man a sort of male precursor to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Hanna turned the story into a dramatically changed sci-fi picture with film noir crime film aspects using certain elements from this story idea like the giant woman Gigante her smashing of automobiles her obsession with a man and a rival woman Gigante hunting down her female rival because she knows that her man will be near her rival and Gigante reaches into the building with her giant hand to find them. As envisioned by Beck and Birdwell the film was way too expensive with its elaborate New York location and set scenes with the New York City sequence too close to King Kong Hanna transferred the location to a small American town with inexpensive science fiction alien effects which were suited to the budget of the B movie that was desired to be made cheaply. George Beck wrote the screenplays for several B-movies during the 30’s and 40’s before moving into television where he wrote scripts for GE Theater Make Room for Daddy The Thin Man Lassie The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and others. Russell Birdwell spent 25 years as a studio publicist doing the publicity for such films as Gone With the Wind Rebecca Nothing Sacred The Outlaw The Alamo etc. before writing the screenplay for Jim Thorpe - All American and several other B-films. unknown books
19451341395New York: Dell Publishin 1945. First Edition first printing. Other. Four-color comic book; Slabbed and professionally graded at 5.5; RH Consignment; Shelved case 4. 1341395. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Dell Publishin unknown books
19521332283New York: Simon and Schuster 1952. Hardcover. Booklet 6x7; unpaginated; G; silver/black spine without text; no jacket; pictorial front and rear; a Little Golden Book; boards show some creases to exterior; some wear to corners; intact panels; text block has light soiling to exterior edges; pictorial pastedowns; previous owner's name to front pastedown; mild foxing to interior edges; illustrated. 1332283. FP New Rockville Stock. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
192917091106London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1929. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . Rackham Arthur. Octavo size 123 pp. With Ex-Libris of J.M. Barrie which apparently is not unique there being one other copy online as of this writing with the same plate. The ink looks genuine but the signatures are the same; interestingly the library bookplates are tipped onto different pages. We can come up with several scenarios for the existence of these bookplates but since the bibliographies are silent on it we cannot state anything with certitude. Mary Clarissa "May" Byron 1861-1936 was an author in her own right but was best known for her abridgements of J.M. Barrie's works for children. This work with six full-colour plates and fifteen black and white illustrations all by Arthur Rackham was an excellent gift for young readers. <br/><br/>Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 born into a "typical middle-class Victorian family" showed an aptitude for drawing from an early age especially with "fantastic" subjects. In the autumn of 1884 he enrolled in the Lambeth School for Art; upon graduation he began working on his illustrations part-time submitting them to various periodicals and publishers while working as a clerk. Success found him in 1905 with the publication of his "Rip Van Winkle" which "decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period". His work remained popular and highly sought for decades through his final illustrated book "The Wind in the Willows" completed just a year before his death in 1939. N.B. above quotes from Derek Hudson "Arthur Rackham His Life and Work". However important Rip Van Winkle and The Wind in the Willows are it is perhaps for his depictions of Peter Pan that Rackham remains most remembered and this book geared towards children is a delight and a joy.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in green cloth with dark green lettering on the front and spine dark green vignette of Peter Pan after the illustration on the dust jacket front endpapers only have half-page map in black and white of "Peter Pan's Map of Kensington Gardens" the verso of the front free endpaper has the bookplate of J. M. Barrie as referred to above likely not his original hand frontispiece is a coloured illustration by Rackham of "Peter Pan is the Fairies' Orchestra" plate not included in the book title page vignette of Peter Pan the same image as on the front board volume not dated printed in 1929 per the bibliographies; six illustrations in colour fifteen other illustrations in black-and-white all by Rackham octavo size 8" by 5.75" pagination: i-iv v- viii 9-123. Lovely pictorial dust jacket with the full colour illustration of Peter Pan referred to above lettering in red and green on the front panel and black on the spine black and white illustrated rear panel listing the three May Byron re-tellings of Peter Pan this title being the last listed; price of 2/6 on the spine.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume near fine the binding clean and the green lettering deep the corners straight and unrubbed a strong square text block with solid hinges clean pages the "Barrie" bookplate is in fine condition and the volume is entirely free of prior owner markings; some foxing to the top edge of the text block and a couple of light marks to the bottom edge some mild offsetting to the endpapers else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is very good plus with some mild edgewear most noticeably to the head of the spine no loss to text and some light dustiness.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Latimore & Haskell pp. 65-66; Riall p. 168.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Hodder and Stoughton Limited hardcover books
197186621NY:: Golden Press Western Publishing Company. Very Good. 1971. Hardcover. A Big Golden Book # 10453. Color illustrations by the Walt Disney Studio - adapted by John Hench and Al Dempster - throughout. Twenty-fifth printing thus. Boards are slightly splayed else very good in oversize glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Golden Press (Western Publishing Company), hardcover books
1935147721Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1935. Draft script for the 1935 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period.<br/><br/>Based on F. Britten Austin's 1923 short story "The Drum."<br/><br/>During WWI British Officer Michael Andrews Cary Grant is captured and awaiting execution when local Turkish commander helps him escape revealing he is British intelligence officer John Stevenson Claude Rains. Convalescing in Cairo Andrews falls in love with his nurse Rosemary Haydon Gertrude Michael who reveals she's secretly married to a man she'd briefly known a few years before John Stevenson.<br/><br/>Tall white self wrappers in the 1930s Paramount style. Title page dated May 15 1935 rubber-stamped production No. 967. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered C-52. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine saddle-stapled with three staples. Paramount Pictures unknown 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
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
1957118260Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1957. Early Draft script for the 1957 film "The Beginning of the End" directed by Bert I. Gordon based on a story by Gordon indicated here though not credited in the film written for the screen by Fred Freiberger and Lester Gorn and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. <br/><br/>One of two Republic features produced by AB-PT or American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres "The Beginning of the End" is one of the more famous monster cheapies in which Department of Agriculture functionary Graves and photojournalist Castle discover huge grasshoppers that are part of a gone-awry experiment in radioactivity. The US Army finds out too late and the first target is Chicago. <br/><br/>White card wrappers with the stamp of the Sunset Script Service in red on the inside rear wrapper and the film title in black on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for director Gordon original story and screenwriters Freiberger and Gorn with Gordon's name address and phone number at the bottom right corner. 101 leaves mimegraph rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with foxing and some tears at the punch-holes bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Martin 43. Republic Pictures unknown books
1976148808N.p.: N.p. 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. <br/><br/>American International Pictures AIP third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy beginning with "The Food of the Gods" 1976 directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring Marjoe Gortner and Pamela Franklin and followed by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" 1977 directed by Don Taylor and starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York.<br/><br/>Another classic "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon following "King Dinosaur" 1955 "The Amazing Colossal Man" 1957 "Earth vs. the Spider" 1958 "Village of the Giants" 1956 and "Food of the Gods" 1976 this time featuring giant ants mutated by radioactive waste which attack a shady land developer and her prospective clients and threaten to take over a whole island town.<br/><br/>Set in the Florida everglades and shot on location in Fort Pierce Belle Glade and Jensen Beach Florida. <br/><br/>Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 8 1976 noted as REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jack Turley and story by Bert I. Gordon. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1930857New York: Bibo & Lang Exclusive Distributors 1930 First edition second issue. Quarto 12" x 9" 15 & 1 pages plus covers. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps.<br /><br /><p>Moderately soiled & rubbed wraps beginning to separate about 3 inches brief wear at edges & corners light foxing a Very Good copy of a fragile book. </p><p>The second issue of the first Mickey Mouse book which adds Bobette Bibo's age on the title page revises the lyrics of The Mickey Mouse Song removing "Kill Him" & adds two comic strips. The game board & adjacent perforated sheet with the games pieces so often lacking are present & uncut.<br /></p> Bibo & Lang paperback books
1969151541London: United Artists 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers on the set of the 1968 film from the 1969 UK release of the film. British United Artists snipe and provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso.<br/><br/>Edwards' most outrageous collaboration with Sellers the only one that wasn't a "Pink Panther" film. Sellers in a role that today would be considered racially insensitive plays Hrundi V. Bakshi an Indian actor who inadvertently and ever-so courteously causes chaos and mayhem at a Hollywood party. Sellers' legendary and hilariously painful performance is assisted by an increasingly drunk waiter a wonderful performance by Steve Franken an adorable psychedelic-painted baby elephant and much more. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Faint creasing else Near Fine.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
1956132360Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Vintage full-color still photograph from the UK release circa 1956 of the 1956 US film. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Richard Connell's story "The Most Dangerous Game" about a novelist spending his days in a self-imposed exile in Central America. A reporter tracks him down in the hope of a good story and the novelist falls in love with her. The two take a trip to Mexico City and their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals who won't let their new guests escape alive. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Pinholes at the corners else Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1952133067Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Original Pressbook for the 1952 film released on a double-bill with "The Secret Sharer" and collectively given a new title "Face to Face." This pressbook was produced prior to release and only advertises for 1 film. <br/><br/>Based on the story of the same name Stephen Crane and written for the screen by James Agee. A two-part film released as "Face to Face" in 1952 with the second half of the film based on Crane's story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and the first half based on a Joseph Conrad story "The Secret Sharer" starring James Mason and Gene Lockhart. Equal parts nautical drama and hilarious western unique during its time with no apparent connection between the two segments. <br/><br/>4 pages folded 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with a horizontal fold at the middle a corner crease and light soil. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
192517481New York: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation. Fair. c.1925. First Edition. Softcover. NOISBN . worn copy rear cover detached pages browned and somewhat brittle chipping/flaking at corners creasing to covers etc. Popular Plays and Screen Library Series B&W photographs Novelization of the 1926 MGM film THE BLACKBIRD starring Lon Chaney Renée Adorée and Owen Moore and directed by Tod Browning. The book bearing a 1925 copyright date seems to have been issued prior to the release of the film itself -- which obviously had an 11th-hour title change -- in January 1926. The three photographic plates in the book itself are full-page portrait shots of Adorée Moore and Tod Browning -- the only example I've seen where a film's director was thus featured. Chaney himself is depicted on the front cover and in a minature portrait gallery on the rear cover with six small shots of some of his memorable screen characters including the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Not in fantastic condition but extremely uncommon. It's unfortunate for today's collectors that many of the tie-in books for Chaney's MGM films were issued in these ultra-cheap non-durable Jacobsen paperbacks instead of as Grosset & Dunlap or A.L. Burt hardcovers. . Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation paperback 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
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
