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1928140906Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue who starred in the film. <br /> <br /> Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script here under the working title "Southern Skies" four vintage photographs each with a mimeo snipe on the verso one with a press stamp as well and a later 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film signed and dated by Blue with his bookplate on the front pastedown. <br /> <br /> MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie" as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br /> <br /> Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. <br /> <br /> Carbon typescript draft:<br /> <br /> Cream colored titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338 dated November 29 1927 with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated November 161927 with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> 1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:"<br /> <br /> Early The Century edition from 1921 first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good lacking jacket. Front hinge split with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1909032889London and New York : William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co 1909 A good to very good copy of the 1st limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham in the original full vellum binding with tipped in frontispiece and 14 further tipped in colour plates. No 116 of a 1000 printed. Top page edges gilted remainder untrimmed. The untrimmed edges are slightly spotted. Plates on brown stock paper with captioned tissue-guards. Numerous black and white designs and illustrations. The binding has bright gilt decoration and titles but the vellum is pitted throughout. There is light wear to corners. The remains of the original ties are present. Internally the book is complete and in near fine clean condition. There is the odd spot mainly to tissue guards and light toning to pages adjacent to the brown stock paper that supports the plates. The final page and the half title which are adjacent to the brown endpapers are also lightly toned. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co hardcover
2008DBS-9783540768326Springer 2008. 2nd. New. Springer unknown
2008DBS-9783540768326Springer 2008. 2nd. New. Springer unknown
1957447978Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A free adaptation for the theater by Mary Manning. Ownership signature of actor Michael Clarke-Laurence. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with faint toning on the spine. Letter laid in from director and screenwriter Mary Bute on the stationary of Expanding Cinema to Michael Clarke-Laurence offering him a part in the adaptation. Bute eventually directed the film in 1966; it was awarded as Best Debut at the Cannes Film Festival; Clarke-Laurence did not appear in it. Harvard University Press hardcover
17522111902160200218Kikuya 1752. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kikuya paperback
1885505253Cambridge at the University Press 1885. First Edition. Leather. VERY GOOD. First Edition First Printing of the complete one-volume Revised Version of the Bible preceded only by the 5 volume 'Presentation Edition' of the American Committee with matching fine binding published simultaneously with two larger formats. x 696 xv 204 pp; 8 15 engraved color maps Indexed Atlas to the Holy Bible. 8vo 20.5 x 13.5 cm bound in a fine-grained leather over boards with 5 raised bands both covers and spine ruled in blind with gilt stamped spine lettering gilt ruled turn-ins 'Sewn with Silk' with reinforced inges; all edges art gilt marbled endpapers purple place ribbon; printed with Minion font in dual colums with marginal references. Some trivial wear to the extremities family tree in pen to flyleaf;some notes on prophecy related to WWII in a neat miniscule hand to FFEP verso and some erasable pencil notes to rear flyleaf; otherwise a sound and handsome binding with clean fresh text. A copublication between the two royal-privileged printers Oxford and Cambridge though printed solely by C.J. Clay at Cambridge. The Revised Version was the product of over a decade of British and American collaborative work co-financed by Oxford and Cambridge in exchange for exclusive co-copyright on the text. Received with great acclaim and criticism it shot Oxford's number of Bibles printed per-annum over 2 million for the first time. The RV committee was a spectacular assembly of scholarly prowess who made enthusiastic use of the most recent scholarship including the new critical Greek text of Westcott and Hort. Conspicuously absent from the committee were the more literary voices of King James's translators and the somewhat wooden style of the RV suffers for it though exegetes have prized it for exactly the same reason. A surprising inclusion in this royally-convened committe was a large team of Americans: 'In every instance the suggestions from America were treated with the same consideration as those proceeding from members of the English Company and were adopted or rejected on their merits. It was a part of the terms of agreement with the American Company that all points of ultimate difference between them and the English Revisers should be placed on record found in the appendix . Many of them will be found to be changes of language which are involved in the essentially different circumstances of American and English readers; others express a preference for the marginal rendering; others again involve a real difference of opinion; but all shew that they have been dictated by the same leading principle the sincere desire to give to modern readers a faithful representation of the meaning of the original documents.' from the Preface Darlow & Moule 2041; Simon Eliot The History of Oxford University Press Vol. II. Cambridge at the University Press unknown
2002332425Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Very light adhesive residue on front pastedown.; The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition. Easton Press hardcover
192320518Boston: R. H. Hinkley 1923. 8vo. 14 vols. 70 plts. <br><br>This handsome and much-sought edition of the King James Bible was printed at the Merrymount Press and limited to 2574 sets: 1000 on wove paper 1000 on laid paper 488 on handmade paper and 86 on Japan paper. This set is #233 printed on handmade paper and contains 70 fine plates usually 5 per volume and mostly photogravures after paintings. The edition was designed for smooth reading and the text is set in ordinary paragraphs without chapter and verse numbers.<br>Â Â Â Â This work has a complicated and as yet not fully explained printing history. It was probably first printed in 1904 with sheets reissued or reprinted at various times in the subsequent two decades. Even the name of the publisher on the title-page varies; "The Grolier Society" sometimes appears in place of Hinkley.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's quarter tan pigskin spine leather over deeply grained polished bare wooden boards with bevelled edges on the three outer sides in the style of incunable and 16th-century books. Raised bands on spines; spine panels tooled and lettered in blind. Unusual and attractive. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Smith 209; Hills 2155 for the 1904 edition and explanation of reissues. Bound as above with top edge gilt other edges uncut. Spines darkened and some chipped. One cover detached and present. Much enjoyment. R. H. Hinkley hardcover books
17811099761781 Un volume In-16 (9,5 x 16cm environ), reliure pleine peau, filets, et fleurons dorés au dos, tranche marbrées en couleurs, reprenant le motif des gardes - Cinq ouvrages reliés en un volume intitulé "Recueil II" à l'aide d'une pièce de titre au dos, répartis comme suit : (1) A Amsterdam; et se trouve à Paris, Chez Méquignon l'aîné, Librairie, rue des Cordeliers - M. DCC. LXXIX. 1779 - 46 pages - (2) A Berlin, et se trouve, à Paris, Chez l'Auteur , Barrière de Reuilly; Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine. Et Chez Belin, Librairie, rue Saint-Jacques - M DCC LXXIX. 1779 - 35 pages - (3) A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, rue Croix des Petits-Champs, Maison de M. Bourdet, Chirurgien-Dentiste du Roi. et Chez Blaizot, Librire du Roi, rue Satory, à Versailles - Avec Approbation et Permission - M. DCC. LXXXI. 1781- 139 pages - Cul-de-lampe - (4) A Amsterdam; et se trouve à Paris, Chez Bastien, Libraire, rue du Petit-Lion, Fauxbourg Saint-Germain - M. DCC. LXXIV. 1774 - 56 pages - (5) A Paris, Chez Saugrain, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, près de la rue Pavée - M. DCC. LXXXI. 1781 - 116 pages
19002092902141000194Geisha-do 1900. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Geisha-do paperback
19992092902140400880enterprise 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. enterprise paperback
1785Dublin1785<p>GILPIN John aka COWPER William -- Adaptation: The life of John Gilpin taken From divers Manuscripts in the Possession of the Family and now published for the first Time by their Permission for the Gratification of the Public Curiousity respecting so extraordinary a Character. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Burnet White Burton H. Whitestone Byrne Cash M'Donnel and Marchbank 1785. 12mo viii 144pp complete but lacking front and rear blank free endleaves; early brown tree-calf scuffed outer hinges and corners worn.</p><p>Rare first Irish edition of a little known entirely spurious and understandably comedic prose 'life' of the fictional draper from Cheapside John Gilpin star of William Cowper's ballad 'The diverting history of john gilpin'. Cowper's verse which follows Gilpin on an intended journey to the Bell Inn Edmondton during which he became separated from his family and was taken by an out of control horse to a town ten miles distant had first appeared anonymously in the Public Advertiser 1782. The poem's popularity was immortalised in a series of performances at Freemason's Hall by the acclaimed Shakespearean actor John Henderson 1747-1785 and well capitalised upon by the London ballad and print trade as well as by provincial stage-managers. This present attempt in thirteen chapters at telling the earlier and post ballad-journey life of the unfortunate Gilpin is perhaps unsurprisingly given the desire for popularity by association dedicated to Henderson. It includes a narrative re-telling of the abortive trip to the Bell as Chapter X 'How he intended to have dined at Edmondton and was carried Ten Miles beyond it' as well as reprinting the verse original 'as read repeatedly with the greatest applause by Mr. Henderson'. All editions of this fictional work first published by S. Bladon London 1785 and reprinted twice there in the same year are rare; ESTC locates only four copies of this first Irish edition in the British Isles BL Cambridge Dublin and NLI and just three elsewhere Princeton Rutgers and Nebraska-Lincoln. ESTC T99012.</p> Burnet, White, Burton, H. Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, M'Donnel, and Marchbank, hardcover
1931130961Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcee looking to remarry. She falls for her physician Dr. Karl Bemis but ends up marrying Bill Hanaway. Bill then has an affair with another woman. <br /> <br /> Tall peach side stapled self wrappers noted as Third Buff Script on the front wrapper dated October 6 1931 with credits for writers Hughes Heath Buchman and Leahy. 205 leaves on peach stock mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Paramount Pictures unknown
71476London: British Broadcasting Corporation 1998. Detective fiction drama An original production-used script for the first episode of the Radio 4 play adapted from the best-selling novel 'A Murder is Announced' by Agatha Christie directed by Enyd Williams starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple with Ian Lavender Judy Cornwell and Graham Crowden. Quarto 31 x 22cm pp.41. Simply bound without covers secured with split pin to top left corner. Housed in manilla folder with title label. Actor's ink signature to title page notations in pencil and black ink including the page numbers of Clithering's scenes and an address and phone number for some friends in Australia; the scenes themselves are annotated and occasionally revised in Crowden's hand and another set of contact details this time of fellow cast member Joanna McCallum and her husband Roger Davenport are scribbled on the verso of p.37. Some expected handling occasional corner turned generally well preserved. First broadcast 9th August 1999. The working copy of Graham Crowden his scenes as Sir Henry Clithering are heavily annotated. Three pages of an additional scene featuring Clithering are bound in at the rear; that scene's pages prior to Clithering's entrance are not present. Radio scripts seldom make it out of the studio their work being done in a day or two and complete annotated copies are scarcer still. Graham Crowden 1922-2010 was a Scottish actor part of the Royal Court's repertory company under George Devine a leading member of the legendary Old Vic/National Theatre companies of the 1960s and 70s. He was known for his many appearances on screen often playing eccentric scientist teacher and doctor characters. Television credits include Black Beauty Father Brown Porridge Doctor Who Rumpole and Foyle's War. His film appearances include The Little Prince Jabberwocky For Your Eyes Only and Out of Africa. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, [1998] unknown
1911143184Toronto: Musson Book Company Limited ca. 1911. viii315 pp. Quarto. Original gilt lettered illustrated blue cloth. White stamped decoration on spine. Fore edge untrimmed. Very slight wear and soiling on the boards. Folding frontispiece. 2 full page maps and plans. 47 photographic illustrations. The boards are slightly bowed otherwise a very attractive clean copy. Spence 262. Taurus Collection 66. Rosove 67 A3. First edition in English but this being the Canadian issue published simultaneously with the UK edition and from the same sheets. Narrative of the voyage of the "Pourquoi Pas" Charcot's second French Antarctic expedition on which exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land Marguerite Bay Mount Boland and Charcot Island which was named after his father Jean-Martin Charcot. He named Hugo Island after Victor Hugo the grandfather of his wife Jeanne Hugo. This Canadian issue is identical to the UK issue expect for the colour of the cloth of the binding. Uncommon in nice condition with little wear. 1911 Musson Book Company Limited hardcover
2000332978San Diego: Thunder Bay Press 2000. Bible; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in leatherbound boards. Gilded text block edges.; Folio 13" - 23" tall. Thunder Bay Press hardcover
17582110502150904918Not Available 1758. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
2091502135500799Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19542080502106912519Gihodo 1954. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Gihodo paperback
1736240Oxford: Printed by John Baskett 1736. Leather Bound. Very Good. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. 4to. 3 ffep 1 marbled a 8 leaves A - F 8 leaf quires G 4 leaves. Printed in two columns. Griffiths 1736/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Authorised King James Version. Oxford: Printed by John Baskett 1736. A - Rrr OT & Apocrypha Qqq - Iiii in 8s NT a - d in 8s Index. Not in Herbert or ESTC. Separate title page for New Testament dated 1735 and stating location as London. Also not in Herbert or ESTC. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre. London: Printed by T. Wood and E. Palmer for the Company of Stationers 1732. A - G 8 leaf quires. Printed in two columns. ESTCT90365. Gift inscription from Maria Rice to Lucy Rice dated 1773 and later gift inscription dated 1855. Occasional loss at edges. All page edges gilt. Bound in beautiful full black morocco with light surface and corner wear. Boards with extensively gilt decorated borders and edges. Spine with five raised and gilt bands and extensive gilt decoration in six compartments. A nice Baskett BCP and an unusual unrecorded Bible in an exceptional 18th Century binding. Printed by John Baskett unknown
2006505950Passim Editions 2006. Hardcover. FINE. Large 4to. Unpaginated but 9 leaves printed on both sides. Calligraphic paper-over-boards backed in black leather housed in a clamshell box composed of calligraphic paper spine over silk boards with a sued-lined interior. Calligraphy by Susan Skarsgard. Designed printed and bound by Wesley B. Tanner of Passim Editions. Limited to 60 copies signed by the calligrapher. Fine in Fine clamshell box. Printed on Hahnemuhle cotton rag paper using a giclee. Text taken from Psalm 148 The Holy Bible King James version. Passim Editions hardcover
191590590New York London Boston: G. Schirmer 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation no later printing information. Paperback. Very Good. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31cm. Vover illustration scuffed with some crease marks. Backstrip chipped at bottom and appears to have been reglued for four or five centimeters above above the chipping. Tape mark next to bottom of backstrip on both sides. Contents sound and clean. Johnson had great success as a lyricist early in the century but found chamged tastes when he attempted a return to song-writing in 1914. He did successfully translate the libretto for this opera which the Metropolitan Opera performed in 1916. Granados the Spanish Romantic composer of the piano pieces from which this opera was adapted attended the premiere but drowned in the English channel upon his return to Europe when a German submarine torpedoed the boat on which Granados was travelling. The libretto appears throughout the music in this edition with Granados's Spanish text immediately above Johnson's English translation. The libretto was also published separately by Schirmer in 1915 as a smaller-format 42-page pamphlet in their series of opera-librettos with Granados's Spanish text and Johnson's English translation appearing side by side in separate columns. We don't know whether either version has publishing priority but both are quite uncommon. G. Schirmer paperback
191591341New York London Boston: G. Schirmer 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation no later printing information. Paperback. Good. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped as are lower corners of front cover. Minor creasing and corner wear. Hard to decipher circular rubber stamp on lower corner of front cover. "Distribuidores exclusivos para Colombia Casa Musical Humberto Conti Bogota .". stamped in black at bottom of title-page. Johnson had great success as a lyricist early in the century but found that tastes had changed when he attempted a return to song-writing in 1914. He translated the libretto for this opera which the Metropolitan Opera performed in 1916. Granados the Spanish Romantic composer of the piano pieces from which this opera was adapted attended the premiere but drowned in the English channel upon his return to Europe when a German submarine torpedoed the boat on which Granados was travelling. The libretto appears throughout the music in this edition with Granados's Spanish text immediately above Johnson's English translation. The libretto was also published separately by Schirmer in 1915 as a smaller-format 42-page pamphlet in their series of opera-librettos with Granados's Spanish text and Johnson's English translation appearing side by side in separate columns. We don't know whether either version has publishing priority but both are quite uncommon. G. Schirmer paperback
197045426New York: Max Ember 1970. Very Good. New York: Max Ember ca. 1970s. Quarto 29.5cm; post-bound mottled gray card wrappers; 1685026ll. printed mimeograph on rectos only. Light wear and toning to wrapper margins chiefly at spine foot front wrapper separating from metal binding clasp and first leaf slightly askew uneven toning to textblock; overall Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Stage script for an adaptation of Joan Didion's 1970 novel which had already been adapted into film in 1972. This adaptation for the stage was presumably written later in the 1970s when Ember's career started to take off after writing the Broadway adaptation of It's a Wonderful Life in 1976 and directing a revival of Death of a Salesman in 1977. <br /> <br /> While we haven't found contemporary press Ember shared with us that the production -- featuring a white box set heavy use of projectors costumes all in white for easy projection etc. -- was staged in Manhattan.<br /> No copies in the trade or OCLC as of September 2025. Max Ember unknown
