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1959130326Los Angeles: Luna Productions 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1960 film. <br/><br/>An expertly shot low-budget space exploration film about a cozy spaceship carrying scientists engineers and researchers from all over the world with the moon as their destination. Captain John Anderson Clark juggles a crew with a variety of nationalities dealing in particular with conflicts between the German and Israeli crew members over Holocaust issues. Once on the moon the crew discovers an entire civilization of peace-loving extraterrestrials. <br/><br/>Though working with a pitiable budget the producers at Luna Productions managed to hire noted cameraman John Alton then nearing the end of his career. Alton worked on every manner of film but is best remembered for his work in film noir salient examples being "Hollow Triumph" 1948 "The Amazing Mr. X" 1948 "The Big Combo" 1955 and a number of important noir entries by director Anthony Mann. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper dated March 31 1959. Title page present dated March 31 1959 with credits for screenwriter Bodeen story writer/producer F. O. Gebhardt director Bradley and associate producer Fox. 104 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper about Fine bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Mystery Science Theater 524. Luna Productions unknown books
1936150762Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1936. Vintage press photograph of Mitchell Leisen Myrna Loy and John Howard from the preview party at Leisen's house for the 1936 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. <br/><br/>What should be a routine transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco is complicated by its shady passengers which include three jewel thieves a strange nobleman and a beautiful socialite. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Alhambra California and Beaver Dam Wisconsin. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <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
9048n.p. n.d. Essex Shipbuilding Museum. 4to. Unpaginated. <br /><br />Approximately 1100 vessels organized by name year built and builder. Comb binding printed wrappers. Very good condition. n.p., n.d. (Essex Shipbuilding Museum) books
197220743New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670258873 . no discernible wear to book; jacket shows only light surface- and edge-wear. The MGM Library of Film Scripts Series B&W photographs In their second M-G-M outing Groucho Harpo and Chico now permanently Zeppo-less take on the medical profession with Groucho as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush a horse doctor posing as the medical director of a sanitarium. Both the original script and the dialogue and action from the film as released are presented it sez here "because the final film differs so much from the script." As with all the books in this series the hardcover printings are much less common than the simultaneously-issued trade paperbacks. . The Viking Press hardcover books
182833114Boston: Hilliard Gray Little and Wilkins 1828. 1st edition American Imprints 35420; Bradford 5255; Sabin 92299. INSCRIBED by the author in the t.p. top margin "To his Honor / Lieut Govr Winthrop / with the Respects of / The Author". Disbound. Chemised and housed in a custom brown quarter-leather slipcase with marbled paper boards. Slipcase - Fine. Pamphlet - Top trimmed from first 2 words of inscription. Lacks lower right corner of title leaf otherwise VG. 90 pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Story the famed Supreme Court Justice known for his Commentaries on the Constitution 1833 was the youngest attorney ever be nominated to the court at 32 here inscribes this work to Winthrop while Winthrop was serving as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1826 - 1833. Hilliard Gray Little and Wilkins hardcover books
2012591882012. ISBN-13: 9781616192723; ISBN-10: 1616192720. 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 2012 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616192723. ISBN-10: 1616192720. Paperback. New. $19.95 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
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
1747231201Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company 1747. First edition. 4 iv 768 8 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary paneled calf. Boards detached spine label chipped internally Fine. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. First edition. 4 iv 768 8 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Sabin 92324 Printed by Isaac Thompson and Company unknown books
1940147936Universal City: Universal Pictures 1940. Vintage studio still photograph of Gloria Jean and orchestra performing from the 1940 film. <br/><br/>The unofficial sequel to 1939's "The Under-Pup" which introduced Jean to the screen "A Little Bit of Heaven" finds the twelve year old singing sensation singing on a radio quiz show and hired to a big-bucks contract. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good with both right corders chipped and two small chips on upper right. Universal Pictures unknown books
1945137348Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1945. Original pressbook for the 1945 film based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. <br/><br/>12.25 x 15 inches. 28 pages saddle stapled. Light fading to the front edges lightly rubbed and soiled about Near Fine overall. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1945137328Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1945. Original complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1945 film based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus. Lightly soiled with pinholes but still bright. Paramount Pictures unknown books
193318555Mount Vernon: Old Colony Press 1933. First Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Caldwell and illustrator Alfred Morang. Slim octavo 17cm; light brown stapled wrappers with titles printed in black on front cover; 4 11 1pp; illus. A few faint stress creases else a Fine copy of this scarce and fragile chapbook. A single story written as an elegy to a man's lost lover. Old Colony Press unknown books
180165512Boston MA: Printed by Russell and Cutler 1801. First edition. 12mo. viii 9-155 pp. Original drab paper boards and tan paper spine. Soiling and cracking to paper spine paper chipping from boards text clean. A good somewhat tender copy. STODDARD and WHITESELL 702. WEGELIN 1157. <br/><br/> Printed by Russell and Cutler 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
19799011011Chicago: University Of Chicago Press 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. <br/><br/> University Of Chicago Press hardcover books
1829707451829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story Joseph 1779-1845. Oliver Benjamin L. 1788-1843 Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. xv 709 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper below small struck-through signature. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to a few leaves. $450. Second edition. This is both the first legal work bearing Story's name and the first American book of entries of precedents. According to Marvin the work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special pleading." Story was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a professor at Harvard Law School and the most respected and prolific legal writer of his time. Edwin Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9275. unknown 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
2008489412008. ISBN-13: 9781584778233; ISBN-10: 1584778237. "A Legal Classic of High Character" Abbott Charles. A Treatise on the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Four Parts; I. Of The Owners of Merchant Ships; II. Of the Persons Employed in the Navigation Thereof; III. Of the Carriage of Goods Therein; IV. Of the Wages of Merchant Seamen. With the Copious Annotations of Joseph Story. Originally published: Exeter N.H.: Published by George Lamson 1822. xxvii 1 668 xxviii pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778233. ISBN-10: 1584778237. Hardcover. New. $135. Reprint of the third American edition. Abbott's treatise is "a legal classic of high character." This edition enriched by Joseph Story's scrupulous and impressive scholarship evident in his own notes often mini-essays in their own right kept separate from Abbott's. Marvin 47. First published in 1802 it was the first English treatise devoted exclusively to the law of shipping. unknown books
1957130504London: The Rank Organization 1957. Vintage program for the 1957 British film noir. <br/><br/>Based on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene expanding on Greene's story about a crooked businessman on the run who steals a man's passport in order to hide out in Mexico only to discover that the passport belongs to a wanted political assassin. A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. <br/><br/>Full color saddle stapled self wrappers 8 pages 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Phillips US. Spicer US. The Rank Organization unknown books
1963143918Paris: Ucinex 1963. Original pressbook for the 1963 French release of the 1961 Hungarian film here under the French title. Black-and-white film stills surround a brief synopsis with dramatic portrait images of Samoylova and film distribution and publicity credits. <br/><br/>Based on a true love affair between a Hungarian doctor and a Russian girl during World War II. Hajnal Gabor recalls through flashback the parting words of the girl Samoylova "I'll Come Back." Direcot Szemes best-known film winner of a Silver Prize at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival 1961. <br/><br/>Single sheet folded once vertically 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Very Good overall with small tears creases and light foxing. Ucinex unknown books
1979127202New York: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Original Program for the classic 1979 science fiction film. A striking program for what can easily be described as an essential Scott film if not his finest. <br/><br/>This deluxe program reflects Scott's use of H. R. Giger's alien designs throughout the film with landscapes just as seemingly cold as the creatures that inhabit them evolving a completely original concept of space. <br/><br/>Illustrated in full color saddle-stapled wrappers 9 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine with a hint of rubbing. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976144164Tel Aviv: DAFNA International Films 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>On her drive to work Edna is rear ended by Dave an American musicologist. Dave promises to pay for the damage and uses this commitment as an excuse to get close to and seduce Edna who is raising her young son on her own. <br/><br/>Set in Tel Aviv.<br/><br/>Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for screenwriter Eli Tabor novelist Ram Oren and producer Shimon Arama. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Offset printing. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two staples. DAFNA International Films unknown books
1938135920Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Revised White script for the 1939 film seen here with the title "I Robbed a Bank" which has been stricken through on the title page. <br/><br/>A gang attempts a bank robbery only to find that one of the gang member's sisters works there. The gang abducts her and a truck driver while attempting their getaway and the hostages must secretly try to help the cops find the fugitives. <br/><br/>Written by well loved humorist S.J. Perelman and his wife Laura Perelman "Ambush" marks a significant but entertaining departure from their best-known works such as their co-writing work on Marx Brothers films "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers." <br/><br/>White side-stapled titled wrappers dated December 13 1938 noted as production No. 1198 and copy No. 0038. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 115 eaves with last page numbered D-28. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated between 10-10-38 and 10-21-38. Very Good plus lacking rear wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown books
19791341339Ohio: Self Published 1979. FIrst Edition. Other. Staple-bound comic; VG. Minor creasing to cover. Corners very slightly rounded. Cover white pages cream. Several pages have small cuts at lower margins from flaws in paper. Mild creasing/wrinkling of some pages ~1" in from spine. Staples original and centered but somewhat rusted. RH Consignment; Shelved case 8 1/4. 1341339. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Self Published unknown books
