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199837600New York: American Printing History Association 1998. Small 4to 27.3 cm; 10.75". vi 181 8 pp. <br><br>One of 500 copies and no. 50 of 50 special copies signed by the designer Roderick Stinehour and bound by Judi Conant at Guildhall VT with the inclusion of => three wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka printed by the Merrymount Press in addition to the many reproductions prepared for this volume. The correspondence was edited by Elizabeth French Lathem and Edward Connery Lathem and the text and illustration together well exemplify the collaboration between two giants of the Book Arts during the first half of the 20th century.<br>Â Â Â Â => The wood engravings are absolutely stunning.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Quarter blue cloth with gray paper spine label over lovely marbled paper; issued without a dust jacket. The least scattering of light foxing-spots to lower fore-edges not margins of last few leaves; indeed a => bright clean copy. American Printing History Association 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
1970144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink throughout. <br/><br/>Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. <br/><br/>Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1974120090San Francisco: Revolutionary Marxist Collective Berkeley - San Francisco 1974. Pamphlet. 37p. wraps rear wrap detached and heavily creased 8.5x11 inches mimeographed. Trotskyist viewpoint. Revolutionary Marxist Collective (Berkeley - San Francisco) unknown books
19652190Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's 1965. First edition. . 16 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies printed. Robin Blaser Robert Creeley Richard Duerden Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg Leroi Jones Joanne Kyger Ron Loewinsohn Charles Olson Gary Snyder Jack Spicer George Stanley Lew Welch and John Wieners. Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's unknown books
18969706BERKELEY UNIV P 1896 1896. LIGHT GRAY WRAPPERS GOOD-VERY GOOD. Soft cover. BERKELEY, UNIV P, 1896 paperback 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
192330355Berkeley CA 1923. 1st thus. Bound in full grey limp leather binding embossed lettering & campus scene to front cover. VG pos Zoe King/newspaper clipping affixed to preliminary leaf. An uncommon UC item. Unpaginated though 54 pp. Illustrated. 6" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>A program of activities for the week along with rosters & a class roll. hardcover books
197374140Greenwich:: New York Graphic Society. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0821205145 . More than 250 black and white photographs. Stated first printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . New York Graphic Society, hardcover books
190383708New York: James Pott & Co 1903. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis photos xii 292p. Original decorated red cloth. 19cm. Tabard Inn Library label on endpaper. No Jacket. <br/><br/> James Pott & Co hardcover books
195047558n.p. 1950. 1st Printing. Blue textured card stock wrappers gold lettering to upper wrapper white glossy leaves printed in black. Stapled. One white paper slip scotch-taped in to lower wrapper printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light rubbing to edges and corners of the wrapper couple surface tears to verso of upper wrapper pos to head of title page light age toning and foxing to leaves. Last leaf is an "Autograph" page with seven signatures. Overall clean and bright. 16 pp. and one slip. Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/> unknown books
1984013473Lubbock TX: Texas Tech University Press 1984. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 107 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minor shelfwear and numerous small spots of foxing to the edges. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the rear endpaper and his initials on a page of index. From the collection of Louis Marder Shakespeare historian and collector of books by on or referring to William Shakespeare. Texas Tech University Press Hardcover books
19531340919Austin: University of Texas Press 1953. Hardcover. Small Octavo; G/G Hardcover w/ Dustjacket; Tan spine Red text; Dustjacket has some edgewear some shelfwear fraying and small open tears at corners and along head edge of spine black stains on front cover and spine; Boards strong some edgewear some shelfwear color fading to both covers; Textblock has staining to endpapers spotting on some pages; 278 pp. 1340919. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Texas Press hardcover books
19292307973New York: Charles Scribner 1929. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Light stain along bottom edge top page ridge lightly foxed very slightly musty. 1929 Small Hard Cover. lvi 480 6 pp. "George Berkeley /brkli/;45 12 March 1685 Charles Scribner hardcover books
39913Berkeley CA: Berkeley Women's City Club n. d. 1st edition presumed. Ca. 1934 date taken from OCLC. Yellow color printed & patterned paper wrappers. Moderate wear to wrappers chip to front fore-edge black stain to front wrapper. Otherwise a VG example. 285 7 advert & index pp. B/w illustration of the city club designed by Julia Morgan advertisements scattered throughout. 9" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>"The Purpose of the Berkeley Women's City Club in Compiling this Book was to give an Opportunity to its Members to Exchange their Favorite and Tried Recipes rather than to Make a Comprehensive Cook Book." Rare in the trade. Berkeley Women's City Club unknown books
19572263076Scribners 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Wrappers lightly rubbed. 1957 Mass Market Paperback. Contains the complete text of his Principles and Hylas excerpts from Alciphron and several other works. Scribners paperback books
1971161688Berkeley: The Co-operative 1971. 53p. 7x8.25 inches ownership name first printing poetry journal/booklet in sunned stapled tan wraps. The Co-operative unknown books
1940M13248New York:: Macmillan 1940. 1940. 8vo. xv 353 2 pp. Frontispiece 7 illustrations. Gilt-stamped red and navy blue cloth; lightly rubbed. Ownership signature of P. N. Jacobsen MD. Very good. Moynihan was a prominent British abdominal surgeon the son of Victoria Cross recipient Andrew Moynihan. "By the end of World War I he held the rank of major-general in the British Army and had been chairman of the Army Advisory Board from 1916 and chairman of the council of consultants 1916–19. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1926 to 1932. He delivered the Bradshaw Lecture in 1920 and the Hunterian oration in 1927. Moynihan was knighted in 1912 and created a Baronet of Carr Manor in 1922. In 1929 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Moynihan of Leeds in the County of York. Lord Moynihan was succeeded in his title by his son Patrick Berkeley Moynihan" Wikipedia. Macmillan, 1940. hardcover books
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
1939137986Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 film musical based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical play of the same name. With a printed snipe on the verso along with the stamp of Culver Pictures photo bureau a date stamp of "Dec 1939" and holograph annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the finale of the musical in a scene spoofing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the FDR's fireside chats. This scene was cut from the film after Roosevelt's death and believed lost until it was rediscovered and restored in 1990s. Rooney received a Best Actor nomination for his role in the film. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good. Pinholes to the corners with pinholes at the corners and light wear to the margins. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 167. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
197828549New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. First edition; 8vo; pp. xviii 2 565; numerous illustrations in the text; very good in good jacket with tears no loss and wrinkles on extremities. Co-edited by Herbert E. Klingelhofer and Kenneth W. Rendell. Sponsored by The Manuscript Society. Inscribed by Ken Rendell and contributor Diana Rendell "for 'the girls of Chicago' with best wishes 12/20/78." A comprehensive work valuable to any collector. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
197884948New York: Charles Scribners's Sons 1978. 1st ed. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. illustrations index xviii 565p. Original cloth. dj. 24cm. Two errata sheets laid in. <br/><br/> Charles Scribners's Sons paperback books
180025312Philadelphia: Way & Groff 1800. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound and resewn. Apart from some staining a very good copy. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author argues that the class of medicines commonly known as 'sedatives' are actually stimulants.<br/>He considers the likes of digitalis opium nitre and saccharum.<br/><br/>Scarce: OCLC locates 5 copies. Evans 36942 Way & Groff unknown books
19175752fdPhiladelphia: W. B. Saunders 1917. First Edition. Octavo green cloth hardcover 143 15 ads pp. Fine. W. B. Saunders, 1917. First Edition. hardcover books
173235809London: J. Tonson 1732. First Edition. 8vo pp. xiv 350; viii 358. Tipped to the front blank is an engraved portrait of the author by Aveline. There is an ownership signature of "Twells" in the right margin of each title-page and the note: "Given by the author" in a contemporary although unknown hand along the top margin of the title-page in volume 1. Engraved scene on each title-page. Ex-Library copy with stamps on the bottom margin of the first two pages of text. Bound in modern calf backed boards. A very good clean set. Rothschild 374. Printing and the Mind of Man 176n. First edition of Berkeley"s attempt at the refutation of the current forms of free-thinking composed while he was resident in America and including some important observations relevant to that part of the world. The second volume also includes what is functionally the third edition of his ESSAY TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF VISION first published in 1709. Praised by Adam Smith as "one of the finest examples of philosophical analysis that is to be found either in our ownor in any other language" the New theory of vision was accepted in France by Voltaire Condillac and Diderot Keynes pp. 7-8<br/> Bishop Berkeley was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism summed up in his dictum "Esse est percipi" "To be is to be perceived". The theory states that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects not abstractions such as "matter J. Tonson unknown books
