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1992176442New York: Aperture 1992. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. A collection of intimate black and white photographs by Mann of her own family. Features an afterword by Reynolds Price. An interesting copy with the ownership signature of photographer John Loengard on the front free endpaper. Loengard was also the longtime photo editor for Life Magazine. A near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and minor wear to the top of the spine. A nice copy with an interesting provenance. Aperture unknown books
193005838Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. One of 695 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder paper there were an additional 75 copies on vellum. Spine of book slightly tanned. Otherwise a fine copy in a very good original publisher's box also somewhat tanned at edges but intact. This brief autobiography was not re-issued in English for another 30 years. <br/><br/> Harrison of Paris hardcover books
183336802Bedford PA 1833. Folio sheet folded to 8" x 9-1/2". Written on the first two pages in ink manuscript. Docketed on final blank "5th Dec. 1833 D. Mann ansd." Addressed "Samuel M. Barclay Member H.R. Harrisburg Pa." Circular postal cancel "Bedford PA Dec 7". Folded for mailing wax seal with tear of blank margin where opened. Several fold splits repaired no loss. Good. <br/><br/> In 1832 and 1833 Pennsylvania conducted a marathon contest for the election of U.S. Senator chosen in those days by the legislature of each State. The term of Senator George Dallas came to an end in March 1833. "The Pennsylvania General Assembly consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate convened on December 11 1832 for the regularly scheduled Senate election for the term beginning on March 4 1833. A total of thirty-six ballots were recorded. Ballots 1-17 were recorded on four separate dates 11th 12th 13th 15th in December 1832. Ballots 18-21 were recorded on two separate dates 9th and 10th in January 1833. Ballots 22-29 were recorded on two separate dates 19th and 20th in February 1833. The thirtieth ballot was recorded on March 12 1833 followed by three additional ballots on April 2. Following the thirty-third ballot on April 2 the election convention adjourned sine die without electing a Senator" wikipedia; "U.S. Senate Election - 1832-33" Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006 Wilkes University Website accessed 7/21/2020. <br/> On December 7 1833 two days after David Mann wrote this letter to his friend in the Pennsylvania legislature the Democrat Samuel McKean Mann's least favorite candidate emerged as the winner. <br/> The writer of this Letter David Mann 1782-1859 of Bedford County had been County Clerk Recorder Prothonotary under Governors Snyder and Findlay a member of the State Senate from 1822-24 and County Auditor General. The Letter's recipient Samuel M. Barclay 1802-1852 was a Bedford lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in August 1826; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1833; and to the state Senate in 1837 Website of the Pennsylvania State Senate. Job Mann 1795-1873 appears to have been a cousin of David Mann. He was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1835-1837 and a Democratic member from 1847-1851. He also served as the Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1842-1848. unknown books
184853652Boston: William B. Fowle 1848. 8vo pp. 31 1; fine copy in original printed green wrappers. First published in Washington the same year but with only 20 pages here "revised and improved in better style and in larger type than any previous edition." This edition is also Mann's final text. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark advocating Congress's right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories and in a letter in December of that year he said: "I think the country is to experience serious times. Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel." <br/><br/> William B. Fowle unknown books
1926771411926. MANN Thomas. LUBECK ALS GEISTIGE LEBENSFORM. Lubeck and the Intellectual Life. Lubeck Otto Quitzow 1926. 8vo. 55pp. First edition. A lecture given on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Lubeck where Mann lived until his eighteenth year. Subtitled "The origins of Buddenbrooks" referring to Mann's first novel written at the age of 25. Small marginal spot to pp. 40-41; Light spotting to endpapers and edges of text block else fine in cream cloth with picture of "Buddenbrook-Haus" in red. Dust jacket smudged with small chips and edge tears. unknown books
1958149420Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage reference photograph of director Delbert Mann directing a passionate scene between Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth on the set of the 1958 film. <br/><br/>Based on Terence Rattigan's 1954 play following several long-term residents during off-season at a seaside hotel where things are not as they appear. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning two for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress for David Niven and Wendy Hiller respectively.<br/><br/>Set in Bournemouth Engand.<br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1965132240Germany: Atlas Films 1965. Original German A1 poster for a 1965 re-release of the 1930 German film. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in Josef von Sternberg's classic tale of love and obsession. Professor Immanuel Rath Emil Jannings is a strict and humorless schoolmaster who is shocked when he discovers the boys in his class have been spending their time at a sleazy cabaret called The Blue Angel where an entertainer named Lola Dietrich keeps the men in thrall and sells suggestive postcards of herself. "The Blue Angel" was shot in both German and English language versions; the German is preferable as most of the cast were obviously more expert in that tongue. Dietrich introduced what would become her theme song "Falling In Love Again" in this film. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches folded. Several short tears at the edges light rubbing. Very Good plus overall. Atlas Films unknown books
1875002648S. l. New York: F. W. Stewart 1875. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-24; beige wraps printed and ruled in black; illustrated with numerous woodcuts; two small chips and a small closed cut to front wrap; a few minor spots to wraps; very good condition. Cameron Mann 1851 - 1932 was an author Episcopal priest the Third Bishop of North Dakota and the First Bishop of South Florida. The Theta Delta Chi Society was founded as a social fraternity in 1847 at Union College New York. Byy the last quarter of the 19th century the society spread rapidly adding charges a term used by TDX brothers to refer to their local organizations rather than the more-commonly used "chapters" throughout the entire country including Stanford Berkeley Brown Tufts UVA Dartmouth Yale etc. The historical poem related to the Civil War was written and delivered by Mann at the closing of the 27th Annual Convention of Theta Delta Chi at a grand banquet at Delmonico's in New York. The illustrations designed by Franklin Burdge combined typography and beautiful unique wood-engraved illustrations to represent the Greek letters by which the charge was known. According to a "Notice to Graduates" at the end of the booklet the engravings were included "partly in order that by an inspection of the wood cuts inserted they may judge of the character of the new Catalog of the Society and have their attention called to the fact that more subscriptions are needed to print it." Not in OCLC not in the trade. F. W. Stewart paperback books
1979279280New York 1979. unbound. near fine. Important letter providing an extensive biographical history of his experiences with European Theater but more importantly defining his goals for the establishment of his lifelong dream in setting up an "American Theatre Training Institute 4 pages 11 x 8.5 inches New York City May 15 1979 to Maria Piscator co-founder with husband Erwin of the Dramatic Workshop which helped launch the careers of Marlin Brando and Tony Randall in small part: ".First here is a compact statement about the American Theatre Training Institute ATTI.which is still the story of a long and as yet unfulfilled desire. In our talk you seemed to respond to the idea of ATTI so hear goes.My major concentration is to develop ATTI so that it can help to continue to create for our country an artistically trained corps of theatre people equipped with a fully professional solid education in theatre arts and techniques -- acting voice speech movement gymnastics history of theatre literature art music etc. -- for a sufficient period of time to provide each one of them with a firmly-based strong and structured craft that will fully prepare them for their profession in the same way that the best European theater people are proudly certain of their craft." Note: Boston University is the repository of Paul Mann's personal papers. Near fine Condition.<br/><br/> Canadian-American film and theatre actor best remembered for his development of Method Acting in America through his founding of the prestigious Actors Workshop. Alumni included Ruby Dee Ossie Davis Cicely Tyson Sidney Poitier Al Lewis and Vic Morrow.<br/><br/> unknown books
192853762London: Martin Secker 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; green cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the cover and title; uncut pages; 271pp. sunning to the spine and board edges; faint dust soil to upper textblock; tiny bookseller's ticket inside rear cover The Seven Bookhunters NYC Very Good lacking the dustjacket. <br/><br/>Inspiration of the film Death in Venice original Italian title: Morte a Venezia a 1971 Italian-French drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen. Martin Secker unknown books
1955150127Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph of playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams with director Daniel Mann and Anna Magnani on the set of the 1955 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1950 play by Tennessee Williams. Williams wrote the play for Anna Magnani to play on Broadway which she rejected because she felt she was not yet fluent enough in English. <br/><br/>Grieving withdrawn widow Serefina Magnani apprehensively considers an affair with truck driver Alvaro Burt Lancaster after she learns of her late husband's infidelity. <br/><br/>Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Actress for Anna Magnani and Best Cinematography nominated for five more including Best Picture.<br/><br/>Set in a small Mississippi Gulf town shot on location in Key West Florida. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with brief annotation in holograph ink on upper right margin small bruise on lower right margin two pinholes in lower left margin and faint creases. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1954RWALHOR00afYale University Press 1954. Very Good. Walpole Horace. Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann. 9 Volume set. Mann Sir Horace; Lewis Editor W.S.; Smith Editor Warren Hunting; Lam Editor George L. New Haven Connecticut: Yale University Press 1954. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good. Bookplates on pastedowns of first three volumes. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently discolored and soiled surfaces. Lightly bumped and rubbed spine ends and edges. Spines subtly yellowed. In dust jacket protectors. First three volumes have maps as endsheets. Volumes 4-9 have plain paper endsheets. Yale University Press unknown books
183410325Louisville Wilcox Dickerman & Co. 1834. 1834. First edition first issue with Louisville imprint. Small 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of General George Rogers Clark. Full contemporary calf gilt stamped spine marbled edges upper joint cracked some light foxing through. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Howes USIANA B-1059. F. Hardcover. Louisville, Wilcox, Dickerman & Co., 1834. hardcover books
1976135943Los Angeles: Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. <br/><br/>Based on Paul Gallico's 1970 novel. Bernie Bonnelli Gould is a small-time talent agent down on his luck who discovers a boxing kangaroo named Matilda. Hoping to gain recognition and income he schedules a fight between the kangaroo and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The fight attracts the attention of the local mob boss who wants total control of the marsupial and the attention of animal activists looking to stop cruelty to animals. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in California New York and Nevada. <br/><br/>Illustrated titled wrappers with glassine cover on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 15 1976 with credits for novelist Gallico and screenwriter Galfas. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1968148526N.p.: Omnibus Productions Inc 1968. Treatment script for the 1970 television film which aired on NBC on January 4 1970 and released theatrically in Europe. Annotations on top right and copy number "3" circled all in holograph pencil on front wrapper. Treatment is broken into a prologue three acts then an epilogue which follow character and sets. Producer Frederick H. Brogger is here given a screenwriting credit alongside Jack Pulman.<br/><br/>Based on the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens.<br/><br/>An adaptation told in an extended flashback with the title character Robin Phillips ruminating on his youth while on a deserted beach with an outstanding cast featuring Richard Attenborough Laurence Olivier Cyril Cusack Wendy Hiller Michael Redgrave and Ron Moody among others.<br/><br/>Nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Suffolk and London England and Malta. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated October 16 1968 noted as Treatment/Outline with credits for screenwriters Jack Pulman and Frederick Brogger. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered E/45. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Omnibus Productions Inc unknown books
1968149585Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick. With a mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1966 novel. A brooding New York detective investigates the murder of a gay man-a crime that none of his fellow officers will take seriously due to the victim's sexuality. Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas a box office success and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to explicitly depict and discuss the lives of gay men.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creases to the edges and a light splash to the right edge.<br/><br/>Grant US. Twilight Time. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
186643988Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 306 Chestnut Street 1866. 1st edition McDade 775. Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers. Front wrapper detached. Wrapper chipping along edges and a bit of paper loss at spine base. With a nod to the detached wrapper otherwise a Very Good copy. 120 8 adverts pp. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/> T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street unknown books
1971137443Burbank CA: Cinema Center Films 1971. Revised Final Draft script for the 1972 film. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Steven W. Carabatsos. A key Western vigilante film John Benedict Holden leads a peaceful life on his ranch until a gang of Comanche Indians led by a white man murders his family and trashes his home. He assembles his own posse of ruthless outlaws guns-for-hire to help him enact sweet revenge on the murderers. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Mexico. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper and production No. 5008 dated January 5 1971 with a credit for screenwriter Mayes. Title page present dated January 5 1971 noted as FINAL DRAFT with a credit for screenwriter Mayes. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication with blue light blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/18/71 and 3/16/71. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Hardy p. 341. Pitts 3402. Cinema Center Films unknown books
183923575London: Smith 1839. First edition. 6360pp. Illus. folding map with some coloring backed. Modern leather backed 12 mo cloth boards spine gold stamped. Ferguson 2799. Mann's account of his Australian stay written on the voyage home includes details of official dealings with the last of the aboriginal Tasmanians in 1838. The final section on New Zealand is according to Hocken "taken chiefly from Rev. W. Yate whose proper dismissal from the New Zealand mission was in the author's opinions the result of the black conspiracy." Hocken p.73. Smith hardcover books
183835636Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1838. Stitched 75pp. Untrimmed scattered foxing Good. 'Senate.No. 26' at head of title.<br/><br/> When Mann took office as Secretary the free public school system was characterized by "short school terms dilapidated and unsanitary school-houses untrained and underpaid teachers and irrational methods of teaching. He brought to his new duties such a degree of courage vision and wisdom that during the brief twelve years in which he held office the Massachusetts school system was almost completely transformed" DAB. This first Report was significant for its "presentation and discussion of school problems of crucial importance. The needs and remedies growing out of these problems are set forth with convincing clearness and with the fervor of a prophet and reformer" Id.<br/> Edward Everett was President of the Board of Education whose membership included Mann Jared Sparks and Robert Rantoul Jr.<br/>FIRST EDITION. AI 51561 5. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown books
179815192Wrentham: Nathaniel Heaton Jun. 1798. 32pp. Disbound scattered foxing else Very Good. <br/><br/> "One of the most notable surgeons of his day" DAB Mann became an army surgeon at age twenty during the Revolution and served in the War of 1812. He "visited Shays's camp during the rebellion of 1786-'7 in order to report to Gen. William Shepard" Appleton; and wrote the highly esteemed Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812. Howes M258. <br/> Mann traces the 'Masonic Art' to its beginnings: "as soon as order began and harmony was spoken into existence by the Supreme Architect of the universe the pillars of the masonic fabric were erected." Masonic history is discussed in a highly learned manner; much comment is provided upon Robison's work. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34043. Sabin 44328n. Nathaniel Heaton Jun. unknown books
1869772251869. MANN Mrs. Horace Mary T. Peabody & Elizabeth P. Peabody. MORAL CULTURE OF INFANCY AND KINDERGARTEN GUIDE WITH MUSIC FOR THE PLAYS. New York: J. W. Schemerhorn & Co. 1869. Second edition materially revised. Frontisp. 266 pp. 10 pp. music. 12mo. Original publisher's binding of brown cloth which is very worn and soiled with loss at heel and crown and weak joints. Ex-library with all of the usual marks. One signature is parially sprung. A scarce title it is offered with all faults. unknown books
1928180618003London: Martin Secker 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 271 pp. First British edition first printing. Publisher's green cloth binding ruled in blind with titles in gilt on upper board and spine. Very Good Cloth a bit mottled and faded at spine. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Pages toned. A nice copy. Martin Secker hardcover books
1940288657New York: Knopf 1940. Limited. hardcover. Translated from the German by H.T.Lowe-Porter. Tall 8vo cloth backed boards N.Y.: Knopf 1940. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Number 124 of 395 signed copies.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1958150167N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Sophia Loren on the set of the 1958 film. With a Photoplay Library stamp on the verso along with the stamp of photographer Bill Avery and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play. A greedy New England farmer marries for a third time after working his first two wives to death. Trouble ensues when his new wife a headstrong Italian woman begins an affair with his youngest son.<br/><br/>Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
