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1957164825Universal City: Universal-International 1957. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1957 film showing actors Alix Talton and Craig Stevens being menaced by the massive titular insect. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br /> <br /> A prehistoric praying mantis is freed from the ice and wreaks havoc on the American military stationed in the northern Arctic slowly making its way south. The film utilized a giant paper mâché mantis with an internal hydraulic system for several scenes involving the creature and special effects crew also created two smaller models for scenes where the mantis walked or flew. <br /> <br /> From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Universal-International unknown
1936355490719747London: Selwyn & Blount 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. London: Selwyn & Blount n.d. 1936. First UK Edition. Publisher's salmon pink cloth with the spine lettered in black. The book is dated by the 32-page Spring Catalogue at the rear. Faint offsetting to both sets of end-papers and light foxing to the first few pages of the book overall a bright and clean near fine copy. In the RARE D/W priced 7/6 net to the spine by Youngman Carter which is two-toned each half showing a different scene: to the left in blue has Scotland Yard; to the right in red has a scene on the Thames Embankment with a policeman. The D/W has a slither of loss at the head and tail of the spine not affecting any lettering and has a short 1 cm closed tear and associated crease to the bottom edge of the front panel. Six short stories by leading Detection Club authors each illustrating a perfect murder. Each story is then followed by a superb commentary by Ex-Superintendent Cornish CID detailing how the seemingly perfect murder could have been solved. A much nicer copy than normally seen of this rare book and a very nice copy indeed. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Photographs/scans available upon request. Selwyn & Blount hardcover
193686243London: Selwyn & Bount 1936. First edition first impression a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Stamped on the title page in purple ink "With the Publisher's Compliments". An interesting variation on the conventional detective fiction anthology in which the six authors contribute stories featuring supposedly foolproof murders each followed by an exposition of the flaws in the criminal scheme by the recently retired detective George W. Cornish of Scotland Yard. Octavo. Original salmon pink cloth titles to spine in black. With dust jacket. Slight rubbing to ends and board edges spotting to edges and early leaves a very good copy in the jacket with faint dust-soiling to rear panel and small chips to ends and corners. hardcover
19706725San Francisco Calif: Alternatives! Foundation 1970. Mimeographed folded booklet 22 x 14 cm. 8 unnumbered leaves. Title from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A short guide to the mechanics of communal living or collective settlements. While no author is specified a statement at the rear states "This booklet was written by a Canadian commune and is published by Alternatives! Foundation" leaf 8. OCLC locates just three copies. Alternatives! Foundation unknown books
194526074New York NY: Not Published 1945. A group of 40 letters and cards; correspondence between a young man and a woman friend who he met and worked with at the Jewish summer Camp Achvah; he later became a student at UC Berkeley. He had also attended the Jewish Camp Cejwin. Mostly the letters are from Edwin Finkelstein to his friend Natalie Levy back in New York with a couple of notes to him from her. The Achvah material is mostly camp gossip and scuttlebutt regarding the owners of the camp who according to the writer took advantage of the counsellors and workers: ".Concerning your job. You will have the same job and privileges as a regular counsellor. That is you will have the same hours curfews time off and days off. In regard to a bonus don't make me laugh last year only one person got a bonus.a whole $ 5. The only reason he got it was because his father did legal work form Mr. Barshad.Don't get involved in any counsellor uprisings.be good to your kids and you will get good tipslast year a good percentage of the girls were willing to go out on strike with the boys." Edwin F. works at Steve Cohen Boys' Camp in Hopewell Junction NY 1946 and writes of his work and play there during that summer; he continues to ask about and advise about Camp Achvah where Natalie is a summer counsellor. He notes that ".Achvah is a dump compared with this placehere were are treated like humans not like dirt." Nevertheless there is a great feeling of camaraderie among those who attend and work at the camps many reunions and get-togethers over the years. The last group of 6 letters are from UC Berkeley and the difficulties of coursework and enjoyments of attending that school and living in California. NOTE: ".In the 1920s and 1930s a recognition began to arise that the summer camp might play a significant role in Jewish education and the socialization of the Jewish child into Judaism. Samson Benderly the first director of New York's Bureau of Jewish Education was the first to recognize the unique opportunity that the summer camp offered for teaching modern Hebrew and other traditional Jewish values through immersing children in a Hebrew and Judaic environment. In 1927 he opened Camp Achvah the first Hebrew-speaking camp in Arverne on New York City's Rockaway peninsula. In 1932 he sought to expand the program and purchased a campsite in a rural setting in upstate Godeffroy New York. The expanded program retained the intensive Judaic program but was not Hebrew speaking as had been the program at the Arverne site." ref. Encyclopaedia Judaica 2007 "Jewish Camping" article. Other social and political events are remarked upon in the letter content for instance the high school student strikes and riots in the boroughs of NYC in 1945 which required police intervention and mention of a similar race related riot in Bergen College New Jersey regarding a disqualified black football player. Most letters with their mailers & cancellations intact; some age-wear and soiling; contents clean and in very good condition. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
19702118101Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1970. VIII, (2), 419 Seiten. Mit zeitgenössischen Kriegsdarstellungen auf 19 Tafeln sowie zahlreichen Figuren militärischer Manöver und Taktiken. Gr. 8° (24 x 16 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1985RO90006793LIBRAIRIE DES CHAMPS ELYSEES. 1985. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 155 Pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1947521271947 Ed. Hachette - coll. L'Enigme - 1947 - petit in-8 broché - 190 pages -
1990RO90007008LIBRAIRIE DES CHAMPS ELYSEES EDITIONS LE MASQUE N° 2008. 1990. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 220 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1948R240014662LE PORTULAN. 1948. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 245 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier
1964296791Doubleday 1964. Paper Back . Good. Good Softcover. Moderate shelfwear to covers including rubbing and creasing. Spine has creasing and rubbing. Name on half-title page. Pages yellowing but clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned independent book shop since 1984. Doubleday unknown
19859780848801717-2025Amereon Ltd 1985. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Anthony Berkeley</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Amereon Ltd</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780848801717</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1985</p> Amereon Ltd hardcover
19859780848801717-2025Amereon Ltd 1985. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Anthony Berkeley</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Amereon Ltd</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780848801717</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1985</p> Amereon Ltd hardcover
1932156657London: Victor Gollancz 1932. First UK Edition and true first. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 classic film noir "Suspicion" starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.<br /> <br /> Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has a tiny nearly imperceptible tear at the front hinge. Jacket is slightly sunned at the spine with only a few nicks and tiny closed tears plus a few small archival tape mends to the verso. Scarce in jacket. In a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell box.<br /> <br /> The Dark Page I: 1940-1949 p. 20. Victor Gollancz unknown
1970feb17667Univers 1970. Used. 1970; Romanian Edition of Cutia cu bomboane otrivite; For more details please contact me Univers unknown
1933Alibris.0009915Doubleday Crime Club 1933. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. moderate shelfwear po name in pencil first stated. 296 p. Doubleday Crime Club hardcover
193930849New York: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday Doran & Co 1939. Very Good. New York: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday Doran & Co. 1939. First Edition stated. Octavo 20 cm; xii 273pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in mauve cloth with dark blue stamping. Blue top stain and fore edge deckled. Boards worn at corners with bumping to spine ends and minor discoloration to margins. Binding slightly cocked but sturdy. Endsheets toned with off setting from spine glue. Crime Club Selection blurb on first page has some text lifted to the facing page from sticky residue an eager and eating reader perhaps. Brief and unobtrusive pencil marks throughout. A Very Good copy of one of England's prolific mystery writers of the early 20th century. The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown
1934006516UK: Hodder & Stoughton 1934. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Panic Party by Anthony Berkeley First Edition Hodder & Stoughton 1934. A fine copy. Contents and edges unblemished. No inscriptions or signs of ownership. Covers are unmarked and have no bumping or rubbing to corners. In a bright fine and remarkably well preserved dust jacket that has no loss or tears and no fading to spine. Priced at 7/6. An excellent copy. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd. <br/> <br/> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
19632090502128705671Shinchosha 1963. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 266 pages Size: Paperback Number of books: 1 Shinchosha paperback
1927288470New York: Simon And Schuster 1927 Yellow/Red Covers Spine Bumped. Central News Co. Portland Maine Stamp Fep. Panel Flap Od Dj Pasted Inside Cover Which Has Narrow Section Cut Out. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Owner's Name. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Simon And Schuster hardcover
193817396Penguin London 1938. 1st Edition . Book Soft cover. Good. Cover stained and splitting at spine ends. Foxing to outer block and pages tanned. No inscriptions. Penguin, London paperback
193030449New York: The Crime Club: Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. Hardcover. Stated First Edition First Printing. 5 x 7.5in. 339pp. Publisher's cloth boards. GOOD. Shows the extremities well rubbed with some loss and fraying former owner gift inscription at the front paste-down over-opened in several place which have been neatly repaired otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is unmarked and the boards remain distinct. As pictured. The Crime Club: Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
1936mon0001630245Penguin 1936. Paperback. Acceptable. . Paperback. Tanning to pages. Ex-Library book. First edition. Penguin paperback
19919780862208202-2025John Curley & Assoc 1991. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Anthony Berkeley</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> John Curley & Assoc</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780862208202</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1991</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 256</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Reissue of one of the great puzzle mystery classics of England's Golden Age of crime fiction; plot involves a group of upper-crust amateur sleuths who set out to solve a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard; catnip for fans of Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham.After arriving at his London club at 10:30 am precisely which he has been doing every morning for many years Sir Eustace Pennefather a known womanizer whose divorce from his current wife is pending receives a complimentary box of chocolates through the post.Disapproving of such modern marketing techniques Sir Eustace is about to throw away the chocolates in disgust but changes his mind when he learns that Graham Bendix another member of the club whom he hardly knows has lost a bet with his wife Joan and now owes her a box of chocolates.Bendix takes the box home and after lunch tries out the new confectionery together with his wife. A few hours later Joan Bendix is dead whereas her husband who has eaten far fewer chocolates is taken seriously ill and hospitalized.</p> John Curley & Assoc hardcover
19919780862208202-2025John Curley & Assoc 1991. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Anthony Berkeley</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> John Curley & Assoc</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780862208202</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1991</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 256</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Reissue of one of the great puzzle mystery classics of England's Golden Age of crime fiction; plot involves a group of upper-crust amateur sleuths who set out to solve a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard; catnip for fans of Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham.After arriving at his London club at 10:30 am precisely which he has been doing every morning for many years Sir Eustace Pennefather a known womanizer whose divorce from his current wife is pending receives a complimentary box of chocolates through the post.Disapproving of such modern marketing techniques Sir Eustace is about to throw away the chocolates in disgust but changes his mind when he learns that Graham Bendix another member of the club whom he hardly knows has lost a bet with his wife Joan and now owes her a box of chocolates.Bendix takes the box home and after lunch tries out the new confectionery together with his wife. A few hours later Joan Bendix is dead whereas her husband who has eaten far fewer chocolates is taken seriously ill and hospitalized.</p> John Curley & Assoc hardcover
