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195318827London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1953. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 138pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket price-clipped with a touch of light edgewear and rubbing. A story written in the form of a film scenario - the dramatic tale of the murderers Burke and Hare which came to trial in Edinburgh in the mid-1800's. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd unknown books
198618908Leamington Spa: Sixth Chamber Press 1986. First Limited Edition. One of 175 numbered copies signed by the author. Quarto; black clothwith illustrated title label printed in black brown and gold on buff paper affixed to front panel; 30pp; illus. A Fine copy. A short Christmas story by Theroux illustrated with three typographical constructions by Sebastian Carter. Sixth Chamber Press unknown books
197822134ELos Angeles: Columbia Pictures n.d. 1978. First Edition. Paperbound 8 1/2†x 11†when folded. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film of the Oscar nominated film The Buddy Holly Story screenplay by Robert Gittler based on the book by John Goldrosen directed by Steve Rash starring Gary Busey in the title role as legendary early rock & roll singer Buddy Holly with Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith. The film won an Oscar for Best Music - Original Score and Its Adaptation and received two more nominations; Best Actor Busey and Best Sound. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Busey. Near fine with just a trace of edge wear in printed wrappers. Columbia Pictures unknown books
195622094ELondon: Beverley Books 1956. First Edition. Paperback Original. Illustrated 40 pages small format 4†x 6 3/8â€. A movie tie-in edition issued to accompany the release of the bio-pic The Benny Goodman Story starring Steve Allen as the ‘King of Swing’ clarinetist and jazz bandleader Benny Goodman co-starring Donna Reed Berta Gersten Herbert Anderson Sammy Davis Jr. and Dick Winslow. Very good bright copy with some minor handling. Beverley Books paperback books
1949140729Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1949. Vintage double weight still photograph from the 1949 film noir. Mimeograph snipe and photographer's rubber stamp to the verso. Seen here under the alternative title "Hounded." and featuring William Geer George Raft and Nina Foch aboard a speeding boat. <br/><br/>George Raft plays an ex-mobster turned undercover agent helping the Treasury Department root out a right wing counterfeiter George Macready attempting to bring down the government by flooding the US with false currency. And hey so what if he just so happens to win over the gangster's girl Nina Foch in the process<br/><br/>Set in California and Florida. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1985147576Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1985. Collection of seven vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1985 film. <br/><br/>Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko Mikhail Baryshnikov is an expatriate Soviet dancer whose plane is forced to land on Soviet territory and prohibited from leaving. Forced to live with the American defector tap dancer Raymond Greenwood Gregory Hines and his wife Isabella Rossellini he must plan an escape but doesn't know who to trust.<br/><br/>Rossellini's screen debut.<br/><br/>Winner of the Academy Award for Best Song and nominated for one other.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Russia England Finland Scotland and Portugal. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1985147575Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1985. Two vintage color double weight studio still photographs one of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines dancing the other of Hines and Isabella Rossellini from the 1985 film. <br/><br/>Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko Mikhail Baryshnikov is an expatriate Soviet dancer whose plane is forced to land on Soviet territory and prohibited from leaving. Forced to live with the American defector tap dancer Raymond Greenwood Hines and his wife Rossellini he must plan an escape but doesn't know who to trust.<br/><br/>Rossellini's screen debut.<br/><br/>Winner of the Academy Award for Best Song and nominated for one other.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Russia England Finland Scotland and Portugal. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1950132169Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1950 film. Distributor rubber-stamp and blindstamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on an original story by Horace McCoy about a runaway orphan who becomes a champion roller-skater and the women he meets along the way. Mickey Rooney stars as the orphan and Marilyn Monroe has a small role as one of his romances. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light corner creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
198424190Paris: Casterman 1984. First printing. Stiff French fold paper wrappers paperback. A near fine copy with a hint of darkening. 62 pp. 2. Illus. with color drawings. Large trade format. Influenced by Tintin taught by Rene Goscinny Tardi is one of the great cartoonist / graphic story creators. This work by Benjamin Legrand' is a "New York-based Martin Scorsese-inspired political/psychological thriller" Kim Thompson in Graphic Story Monthly. Casterman paperback books
1951148055Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1951. Vintage studio still photograph of Tim Holt and Richard Martin from the 1951 film. <br/><br/>Cowboys Tim Holt and Chito Rafferty Richard Martin help Dave Collins Ross Elliott recently released from prison from getting roped back into crime from his old outlaw friends Turk Thorne John Dehner and his gang. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Santa Clarita and the Andy Jauregui Ranch and Walker Ranch in Newhall California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good edgewear some creasing and fading on the right side and light soiling in top and right margins. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
19381341488New York: Dell Publishing 1938. Saddle-stitched. Comic Book; VG/FN. Wear to cover creasing wrinkling and edge wear with ½" triangle-shaped tear and missing piece; minor soiling possible water damage to bottom of front cover; back cover has two small partial tears: ¼" tear adjacent to spine and ½" tear of lower corner; date stamp back cover; wear and stress marks to spine; pages show age toning with ¾" tears along edges of pp. 3 and 5. RH consign; shelve case 8 1/4. 1341488. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Dell Publishing unknown books
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189849345New York: Frank Tousey 29 West 26th Street 1898. 1st Printing. Printed paper newspaper format. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning & browning to paper which is becoming brittle. Possibly removed from a bound volume stab holes along spine. An About Very Good copy. 16 pp. Text quadruple column. Adverts. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. Internal wood engravings. 14-1/8" x 10-5/8" <br/><br/>"USS Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor in February 1898 contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. American newspapers engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction. The phrase 'Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!' became a rallying cry for action. Although the Maine explosion was not a direct cause it served as a catalyst that accelerated the events leading up to the war." Wiki <br /> <br />Happy Days jumped on this bandwagon as demonstrated by this issue. and like most publishers wishing to hook their readership many stories of the stories herein are published in installments requiring the buyer to purchase a number of issues in order to read the entire tale. Frank Tousey, 29 West 26th Street unknown books
189449261New York: Frank Tousey Nos. 34 & 36 North Moore St 1894. 1st Printing. Printed paper newspaper format. Folded now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning & browning to paper which is becoming brittle. Some edge chipping noticably at the end of the fold. Penciled pos to top margin of first page. A Good copy of this exceedingly uncommon survivor. 16 pp. Text quadruple column. Adverts. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. Internal wood engravings. 13-1/4" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>The rare second installment from Tousey's celebrated story paper which would remain in print through 1924. Frank Tousey, Nos. 34 & 36 North Moore St unknown 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
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
189019522Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes blue cloth; 7" x 5"; ex-library with numbers on spine bookplates "hole-punch" library name on title page; otherwise both volumes are a bit edgeworn dusty - but internally clean and sound. . Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
2006425272006. ISBN-13: 9781584776185; ISBN-10: 1584776188. Story William Wetmore. A Treatise on the Law of Contracts. Revised and Greatly Enlarged. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1856. Two volumes. cxi 782; viii 820 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776185. ISBN-10: 1584776188. Hardcover. New. $250. Reprint of the fourth edition the final edition edited by the author. The son of Joseph Story William Wetmore Story 1819-1895 wrote two textbooks that were standard works during the nineteenth century. This was one of them. First published in 1844 it went through five editions the final appearing in 1874. "This work bears internal evidence of a careful and thorough examination of the cases and the principles to be deduced from them are stated with precision and in a concise and vigorous style.": Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 674 review of the first edition. unknown books
2001284942001. 2 Vols ISBN-13: 9781584770718; ISBN-10: 1584770716. Story Joseph. Story William Wetmore Editor. Life and Letters of Joseph Story Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University Edited by his Son William W. Story. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1851. 2 volumes. xii 574; viii 676 pp. Frontispiece. Reprinted 2001 2018 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770718; ISBN-10: 1584770716. Hardcover. New. $95. From Story's vast correspondence his son William has selected those letters that describe his childhood and youth education life at the bar and judicial and professorial life. Taken along with his various published treatises and his monumental work on the Constitution Commentaries on the Constitution 1833 this assemblage illuminates the fine mind that was Story's. Story 1779-1845 was appointed the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1811 and in 1829 became the first Dane professor of law at Harvard. unknown books
185162801Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1851. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. xii 574pp.; viii 676pp. Original brown cloth spine ends worn with chipping to ends. Vol. 1 has a small piece that has been glued back on the top of spine. Scattered foxing throughout. <br/><br/> Charles C. Little and James Brown hardcover 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
189310647Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Co 1893. 3rd edition. Hardcover. VG some wear ends of spine bookplate T.E.G. Brown cloth. 295 pp. No illus. Includes chapters on "Michel Angelo" "Phidias and the Elgin Marbles" "The Art of Casting in Plaster Among the Ancient Greeks and Romans" "A Conversation with Marcus Aurelius" and "Distortions of the English Stage As Instanced in 'Macbeth'" 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
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
