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1941141231Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1941. Vintage French pressbook for the 1941 US film. The third film in the "Backyard Musical" series which includes "Babes in Arms" "Strike Up the Band" and "Girl Crazy." Nominated fro an Academy Award for Best Music. <br/><br/>Near Fine with light toning overall and a small closed tear to the top margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
19272072271Jacobsen Publishing Company Inc 1927. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Farrow C.V. Includes scarce original jacket with C.V. Farrow artwork - currently the only copy in the trade that includes it. Ink gift note date 4/7/31 on front endpaper jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc hardcover books
197312946JGreenwich: New York Graphic Society 1973. First Edition. This copy belonged to the “Busby Berkeley girl†actress Gwen Seager and has several inscriptions to her. The book is inscribed by the author Jim Terry: “To Gwen With love and appreciation Jim Terry Sept 14 1973 Ps. You’re still a ‘great looking broad.’†Also inscribed by one of Busby Berkeley’s male dancers actor James Baker: “To Gwen. One of Busby’s lovelies. Jimmie Baker.†Additionally the book is signed by actress Vicki Vinton another of Berkeley’s girls and she has signed it rather charmingly. The title page is a wonderful large two page photograph of Berkeley huddled with a bevy of beautiful women. Vicki Vinton is in the front foreground semi-reclining and Vinton has signed her name on one of her long lithe legs. The definitive coffee-table book on Berkeley written with his cooperation with spectacular illustrations of his film musicals. Contains a foreword by Ruby Keeler. Near fine copy with some slight spotting to the rear board in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear and rubbing at the folds. Difficult to find in this condition. New York Graphic Society unknown books
1955140258Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1955 film "Revenge of the Creature." Featuring a comical image of the film being shot in the water at Marineland Florida while a dolphin show takes place in the background. Half of the gathered crowd watches the dolphin show while the other half has turned to watch the Gill-man attack a diver bathing suit-clad cameramen milling about to the side. <br/><br/>The captive Gill-man Ricou Browning falls in love with the girlfriend Lori Nelson of animal psychologist Clete Ferguson John Agar. When it inevitably escapes and unsurprisingly takes Nelson hostage the police are forced to shoot it. The first 3-D sequel to a 3-D film its far more successful predecessor "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" and the only 3-D film released in 1955. Clint Eastwood makes a hilarious uncredited appearance as an incompetent lab technician who insists a lab rat has been eaten by a cat test subject only to find the rat in his lab coat pocket. <br/><br/>Set in Florida and shot there on location. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Just about Fine. <br/><br/>Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Mystery Science Theater 801. Universal Pictures unknown books
1950117672Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Final Script for the 1951 film "Call Me Mister" directed by Lloyd Bacon written for the screen by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler and starring Betty Grable Dan Dailey Danny Thomas and Richard Boone. With choreography by Busby Berkeley and songs by Frances Ash Earl K. Brent Sammy Fain and Mack Gordon. <br/><br/>"Call Me Mister" was based on a long-running Broadway revue with more than a little off-color humor. Fox grafted a storyline onto the revue cleaned up the dialogue and a wartime musical was born wherein Grable a singer touring USO bases runs into her old husband Dailey. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 314 and copy No. 5 and dated April 18 1950. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lewin and Styler. 123 leaves mimeo rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some edge creasing and slight offsetting bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 319. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
19237326Berkeley California: James J. Gillick & Co. Publishers 1923. Octavo 20 x 13.5 cm. iv 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section not used. Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921 by our editor Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect with a list of officers appears on page ii. There are no local advertisements included but there is a list of individuals and businesses that had contributed to the Church Building Fund in relation to the book. Many of the recipes are attributed. Narrow tideline throughout the text block; some light soiling. In publisher's decorated white oil clothwith an image of a young woman seated with a mixing bowl in her lap and whisk in her hand. Some rubbing to extremities and light soil otherwise very good. Ownership inscription "Mrs. L.T. Sprague Xmas 1923" to free front endpaper. Handwritten recipe "Crisco's Pie Crust" laid-in. OCLC locates eighteen copies; not in Brown. James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers hardcover books
19035696Berkeley California: The Church; Printed by thePress of Standard Publishing Company 1903. Octavo 23.25 x 14 cm. iv 171 i pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle author statement and publisher. A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke Mussel Bordelaise Clam Patties Spanish Meat Pie Coffee Fruit Cake Lemon Cocoanut Cake Cookies with Sherry Monterey Pudding Gooseberry Pudding Pineapple Blanc-Mange Strawberry Mousse. ~ Congregationalists answered the call from President Daniel Coit Gilman 1831-1908 of the University of California to build a hall and organize a fellowship of moral vision within reach of the campus community. The "local church" emphasis of Congregationalist governance had already attracted the largest Protestant presence in San Francisco. After ten years of planning members of Berkeley First Congregational were called to new quarters by a recently cast bell on 30 September 1884 at the corner of Durant Avenue and Dana Street. Thus the early version of The Berkeley Cook Book subtitled A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes celebrated the dedication of the 1884 church while its younger sibling of 1903 would have appeared in time to honor the building's twentieth anniversary. ~ In another twenty years they would move again to a grander brick complex on Channing Way still only a few city blocks from campus designed by the Bay Area architect Horace Gardner Simpson. It served successive generations for ninety years but in September 2016 was gutted by fire and the building's fate is undetermined as of this writing. ~ Clean and bright. Lightly wear at fore-corners and spine. Stapled in olive wrappers titled in brown. Very good. OCLC locates three copies also four copies of The Berkeley Cook Book: A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes by the Ladies of Berkeley Oakland: Pacific Press 1884; Cook page 27; Brown 57 with different pagination; not in Cagle. [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company unknown books
1931126489London: Mundanus Ltd/Victor Gollancz Publisher 1931. Octavo printed wrappers. First edition. Berkeley's masterpiece which takes the reader into the mind of the murderer. "Iles was the innovator the father of those techniques so evident in much of today's crime fiction." - Pederson ed. St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers 4th edition. Light tanning to edges of text block slight lean some soiling to covers crease to front cover some light rubs a good to very good copy. #126489 Mundanus Ltd/Victor Gollancz Publisher unknown books
1947140197Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Revised Final script for the 1948 film here under the working title "Mary O'Hara's Green Grass of Wyoming." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur who play Ken McLaughlin with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil and holograph pencil annotations to his scenes throughout. Laid in are three additional pages and two film negatives. <br/><br/>A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion angering the mare's owner Beaver Greenway a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile Ken McLaughlin Arthur returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Wyoming shot on location in Wyoming Utah and Ohio USA. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 166 and production No. 133 dated May 16 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated May 16 1947 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between June 25 1947 and July 18 1947. Pages Very Good with dampstaining wrapper Fair to Good complete with dampstaining pages not affected and fray at the extremities bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970141060San Francisco: University of California Berkley Museum 1970. Original poster for one of the most important events in the Bay Area of California in 1970 a performance by Steve Reich to celebrate the opening of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. With a striking triangular design mounted as issued with a label on the verso crediting the Richell Gallery of Houston Texas for the archival framing. <br/><br/>The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the university from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann of forty-five paintings plus $250000. A competition to design the building was announced in 1964 and the museum opened in 1970. In 1966 the Pacific Film Archive was founded and began screenings in 1966. Today the museum continues to be a great success and operates under the name of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive or BAM/PFA. <br/><br/>The performance for the opening included four early works by Reich: "Four Organs" "My Name Is" "Piano Phase" and "Phase Patterns." The event marked an important moment in San Francisco Bay Area new music history with the triumphant return to the East Bay by Reich who studied at Mills College with Luciano Berio and who performed the 1964 world premiere of Terry Riley's now-legendary work "In C" at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. <br/><br/>Three sided poster each side measuring 26.3 inches mounted as issued. Unexamined out of frame no glass. Some fading and minor spotting to the recto Very Good overall. University of California Berkley Museum unknown books
196522540Newtonville MA: International Data Corporation 1965. Near fine in printed vinyl binder. First Edition. Quarto sheets in three-ring binder. Advertisement for Honda laid in. Proceedings of an early commercially oriented computer conference held on November 19th 1964 in Newtonville Massachusetts. The notebooks describe a wide range of computer equipment and applications. Speakers included computer science pioneer and antinuclear activist Edmund C. Berkeley known for having designed "Simon" the first "personal computer" in 1950. In January 1963 Berkeley was also the first person in print to describe an image as "computer art" upon publishing an image created by Israeli computer scientist Efraim Arazi in the magazine "Computers and Automation". Co-speaker Patrick J. McGovern had begun the EDP Industry & Market Report a year prior in 1964; that publication would eventually morph into both Computer World and PC World as well as spawning the "For Dummies" book series. McGovern achieved massive financial success; at time of death in 2014 his net worth was estimated by Forbes at in excess of five billion dollars. Overall a fascinating document from just before the dawn of the microprocessor revolution. Newtonville, MA: International Data Corporation unknown books
19013264New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1901. First edition. First edition. Original color pictorial decorated cloth with superb and scarce original color illustrated dust wrapper. With illustrations by the author and a frontispiece by F. Hopkinson Smith. Interesting cooperation between father and son. A most scarce and early fine dust wrapper. Book very fine. Most scarce thus. <br/><br/> Funk & Wagnalls hardcover books
1938133673Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film. From the library of producer Mark Hellinger who wrote the film's screenplay bound in red three-quarter leather with gilt titles and designs marbled endpapers raised bands trimmed edges and Hellinger's name in gilt on the front board. Also included is a typescript on onionskin stock with the title and credits for Hellinger and story writer Faith Baldwin on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Finally laid in is a typed letter signed by Bette Davis dated March 31 1939 on Davis' stationery thanking Hellinger for kind words regarding her film "Dark Victory" 1939 and discussing her dismay with the script for "Comet Over Broadway" and her resulting decision to part ways with the film. <br/><br/>Mark Hellinger's first screenplay for Warner Brothers. His other credits include the noir antecedent "The Roaring Twenties" 1939 screenwriter "It All Came True" 1940 producer and his notable series of foundation noir films "High Sierra" 1941 associate producer "The Killers" 1946 producer and "The Naked City" 1948 producer. <br/><br/>Based on a story by Faith Baldwin published in "Cosmopolitan" in 1937 about Eve Appleton Francis wife of garage owner Bill Appleton Litel and aspiring actress. Bill gets into an argument with an actor over Eve and accidentally kills him. Eve takes her infant daughter and tries to make her way on Broadway while Bill is imprisoned. Set in New York. <br/><br/>Bound script:<br/><br/>Noted as FINAL on the distribution page dated 3/28/38 with credits for Hellinger Robert Buckner N. Brewster Morse Fritz Falkenstein and Frank Cavett on the following page flatsigned by Walter MacEwen. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 155 leaves mimeograph duplication dated August 19 1938 and August 22 1938 screenwriters' credit page. Pages and binding Near Fine. <br/><br/>Typescript:<br/><br/>Blue wrappers. "Comet Over Broadway by Mark Hellinger / after a story by Faith Baldwin" in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Hellinger and story writer Baldwin. 78 leaves typed watermarked "MILLERS FALLS." Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Bette Davis letter and envelope: <br/><br/>Light soil and a closed tear to the envelope. Letter folded horizontally else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1966246050Portland Oregon: Touchstone Press 1966. First edition one of 100 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 111 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Simulated tan calf. Fine copy. First edition one of 100 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 111 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Copy. Scarce and interesting history of this Oregon sporting club situated in the descutes River Canyon. Bruns S-216; Heller 1:752 "only about 100 copies printed" Touchstone Press unknown books
1947432481947. <p>Berkeley Edmund C. 1909-88. Electronic machinery for handling information and its uses in insurance. Offprint from Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 1947. 36-52pp. 228 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers a few tiny spots almost invisible staple-holes in front wrapper. Very good copy. Former owner's name-stamp Clifford J. Maloney on wrappers. </p> <p>First Edition Offprint Issue. The first published paper on the commercial application of electronic / electromechanical computing in private industry outside of the telephone company. Drawing on material that he would later publish in his famous Giant Brains or Machines that Think 1949 Berkeley described the four large-scale computing machines then in operation—MIT's Differential Analyzer; Harvard's Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator; the Moore School's ENIAC; and Bell Laboratories' Relay Calculator—and discussed the machines' information-processing capabilities and their potential uses in the insurance industry. "It is natural to call these machines mechanical or electronic brains and to speak of them as machinery that thinks. This new machinery is certain to have far-reaching effects in all fields where the handling of information is the bulk of the work. . . . Much of the material in this paper is taken from a forthcoming book on the subject by the present writer and is used by special permission of the publisher" p. 36. </p> <p>Berkeley a seminal figure in the history of modern computing was introduced to computing using punched-card machine methods while working as an actuary at Prudential Insurance. In 1942 he joined the Navy and was assigned to the Harvard Computation Laboratory where he worked with Howard Aiken on the Harvard Mark II. In 1946 Berkeley returned to Prudential where he helped create a prototype premium billing trial for the Harvard Mark I and participated in studies that led to Prudential's purchase of one of the first UNIVAC I computers. He also began working on Giant Brains and in 1947 founded the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1948 he left Prudential to found his own company and in 1951 he began editing and publishing Computers and Automation later renamed Computers and People the first periodical specifically devoted to computing. He also headed his own publishing firm consulted for industry and invented and sold several build-it-yourself electronic computers and small robots Simon Squee Tyniac Brainiac etc. as educational tools. In his later years he became known as the conscience of the computer industry through his often-expressed belief that computers should be used not for military or destructive purposes but only for the benefit of society. </p> . unknown books
1949170923007New York: John Wiley and Sons 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Flat-signed by Berkeley on front free endpaper in black ink. xvi 270pp. Original gray cloth with blue lettering. Offsetting to ffep else Fine in About Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with edge-wear creased tear to bottom of back panel tiny chip near head. A very uncommon signature from the computer science pioneer journalist and mathematician who observed the UNIVAC Simon the first personal computer designed by Berkeley himself and the Harvard Mark I among other early computers in action. This book brought the concept of the computer to the lay public for the first time. John Wiley and Sons hardcover books
1949111716New York: John Wiley & Sons 1949. First edition second printing of this important work which popularized cognitive images of early computers. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Erwin Tomash with warmest greetings for more than 20 years together in the computer field from Ed Berkeley October 11 1975." The recipient Erwin Tomash was an engineer who co-founded Dataproducts Corporation which specialized in computer technology specifically printers and core memory units. He is recognized for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. Tomash led the creation of the Charles Babbage Institute and is responsible for The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology and The Erwin Tomash Library. With Erwin Tomash's bookplate to the pastedown near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association linking these two pioneers in the field. Edmund C. Berkeley became famous in 1949 with the publication of his book Giant Brains or Machines That Think in which he described the principles behind computing machines called then "mechanical brains" "sequence-controlled calculators" or various other terms and then gave a technical but accessible survey of the most prominent examples of the time including machines from MIT Harvard the Moore School Bell Laboratories and elsewhere. In Giant Brains Berkeley also outlined a device which some have described as the first "personal computer" Simon. Plans on how to build this computer were published in the journal Radio Electronics in 1950 and 1951. Simon used relay logic and cost about $600 to construct. The first working model was built at Columbia University with the help of two graduate students. Berkeley founded published and edited Computers and Automation the first computer magazine. He also created the Geniac and Brainiac toy computers. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
