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1942140937387New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1942. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. vii ii 1013 pp. Original cloth with black and gilt lettering green topstain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear no fading. A very nice copy of the mammoth posthumously-published utopian novel. Farrar & Rinehart Inc unknown books
194253478New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1942. First Edition. First Printing publisher's colophon on copyright page. Octavo 19.5cm; tan buckram boards decoratively titled in black and gilt on the front cover and spine; map endpapers; green topstain; dustjacket; 1013 pp. Spine ends gently nudged; mild toning to the upper board edges and joints; small spot of finger soil to the half title and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 with nicks and short tears to the extremities; chip to the crown; mild soil to the rear panel and flap edges; Very Good.<br/><br/>Author's first and only book published posthumously. "Islandia a place easily described as a Utopia.is an enormous book ostensibly describing the travels of a visitor to the island and in fact providing an extremely elaborate picture of an invented alternative society and it's richly drawn inhabitants." CLUTE and NICHOLLS p.1349; SARGENT p.111; NEGLEY 1215; CURREY P.557. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1920184421Benson Printing 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Cloth boards and endpapers have dust soiling. Hinges are tender but not started. No marks or notations. Full of pictures and maps. 338 pages. Benson Printing hardcover books
1911118688Boston: The Society for Americana Inc 1911. Hardbound. Very good clean and tight; museum ex-lib. but a great copy. Blue chambray with brown leather title block on spine and gold lettering; 564 pp. with 15 illustrations. A collation of all items of personal and historic reference relating to american affairs printed in the newspapers of the Provincial Period beginning with the apperance of the present state of the New-English affairs 1689 publick occurrences 1690 and the first issue of The Boston News-Letter 1704 and ending with the close of the Revolution 1783. The Society for Americana, Inc hardcover books
1911244353Boston: Society for Americana 1911. hardcover. good. to American Affairs Printed in the Newspapers of the Provincial Period. Massachusetts Series. Volume One. All published. Illus. facsimiles. 564pp. 8vo rebound in later blue cloth with red leather label cloth and margins throughout dampstained lacks front flyleaf. Boston: Society for Americana 1911.<br/><br/> Excerpts from Boston newspapers from 1689 through 1707.<br/><br/> Society for Americana unknown books
19051273Boston: The Society Americana 1905. 8vo. Frontis. 63 1 blank pp.; 7 plts. 2 double-spread. <br><br>Massachusetts series volume one." This is a digest of Massachusetts press items to 1783 containing matters of historical interest. The plates include facsimiles of Massachusetts newspapers and portraits of important figures e.g. Increase Mather. Good. In printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled with front wrapper and frontispiece detached; partially unopened and untrimmed. The Society Americana unknown books
19893089Dayton Ohio: The Dayton Art Institute 1989. VG. Blue wraps. 76 pp. 34 color 35 bw plates. Catalogue lists 48 works. Essays by Peter Bacon Hales Sublime Commodity: The Nineteenth-Century American Landscape and Naomi Vine A Certain Slant of Light. Vine has also written the essays on the artists. Nice plates 1500 copies printed. The Dayton Art Institute paperback books
1996151769London: Balafon Books / Outline Press 1996. First Edition. First Edition one of 6000 numbered copies this being No. 2686. <br/><br/>Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket with a touch rubbing to the gold foil of the jacket spine. In a Near Fine publisher's slipcase. Balafon Books / Outline Press unknown books
1953012375NY: Simon & Schuster 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition inscribed Merry Christmas in 1953 year of publication by Thurber for himself and wife Helen in blue ink in Thurber's exuberant hand on the ffe to married couple friends of him and his wife Helen in Cornwall CT where the Thurbers had a country house for decades. The dustjacket design by Paul Bacon which cleverly integrates Thurber sketches mostly dogs and people some local landmarks into a map of the Housatonic River whicj t forms the western border of Cornwall CT and runs through Litchfield Couny . Unclipped dustjacket has shallow chipping at spine ends a short closed tear at front fold and about an inch chip bottom edge rear panel. Still quite presentable. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1905340601Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1905. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. 84pp. Maroon cloth. Narrow tideline on bottom page edges front fly loose and laid in hinges cracked cloth soiled and chipped a fair to good only copy. Typed pages. Library of Congress hardcover books
1994214358San Francisco: Semillero-Lea 1994. Magazine. 16p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches texts in English and Spanish illustrations photos articles on immigration reform Chiapas etc. very good magazine in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Closely affiliated with the CTG a day laborer organization in San Francisco Cover stories on Chiapas Prop 187 and attacks on immigrants in California. Semillero-Lea unknown books
199469270San Francisco: Semillero-Lea 1994. Magazine. 20p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches texts in English and Spanish illustrations photos articles on the Clinton immigration reform Chiapas etc. very good magazine in stapled glossy yellow pictorial wraps. Closely affiliated with the CTG a day laborer organization in San Francisco. Semillero-Lea unknown books
1995214356San Francisco: Semillero-Lea 1995. Magazine. First four issues various pagination 8.5x11 inches texts in English and Spanish illustrations photos articles very good magazine in stapled glossy yellow pictorial wraps. Closely affiliated with the CTG a day laborer organization in San Francisco. Semillero-Lea unknown books
1998141593Santa Monica: Artisan Entertainment 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. With a single notation in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel by Richard Matheson. A man is hypnotized by his sister-in-law leading to haunted visions and the complete breakdown of his family life. <br/><br/>Set in Chicago shot on location there. <br/><br/>Yellow titled self wrappers dated August 14 1998 with credits for screenwriter David Koepp and author Richard Matheson. Title page integral with front wrapper. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically duplicated with yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1998 and September 18 1998. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Artisan Entertainment unknown books
1934136243New York: Robert M. McBride 1934. First Edition. First Edition. Slim quarto. Collects nearly fifty charcoal portraits of notable people. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Extremities lightly bumped spine slightly toned. Jacket extremities with moderate shelfwear moderate fading to the jacket spine and heavy soil. Robert M. McBride unknown books
19131319215Boston: Sherman French & Company 1913. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine green with gold print; Boards in green cloth with gold print mild wear to corners and spine caps blemish to rear mild shelfwear; Text block has spotting to edges deckle edged intermittent spine breaks some foxing present inscribed in ink on front flyleaf; 275 pages. 1319215. FP New Rockville Stock. Sherman, French & Company hardcover books
191314238Boston: Sherman French and Company 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good . 8vo. Green cloth decorative gold stamped to front spine top page edge gilt. Corners lightly bumped three small spots of discolor to rear otherwise clean bright sound and unmarked. <br/><br/>English text translation of classics in Serbian ballad literature. Sherman, French and Company hardcover books
1913WRCLIT49288Boston: Sherman French & Co. 1913. Large octavo. Gilt cloth t.e.g. First edition. Faint bookplate shadows on pastedowns pencil gift inscription otherwise a very good bright copy. Sherman, French & Co. hardcover books
1993116551Syracuse NY: Light Work 1993. First edition. Softcover. Text by Amy Hufnagel and Jeffrey Hoone. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A very good copy in wrappers with a small tear to the bottom of the rear panel. Light Work unknown books
197446744Darien: Darien News 1974. Hardcover. Very good. xiii 146pp. unnumbered out of series copy of 1000cc. Slight spine lean some rubbing to extremities else very good in publisher's red cloth. <br/><br/> Darien News hardcover books
197445500Darien: Darien News 1974. Hardcover. Very good. xiii 146pp. #571 of 1000cc. Page edges foxed else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth and issued without a jacket. Signed by the illustrator Anne Lee Haynes on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Darien News hardcover books
197431715Darien: Darien News 1974. Hardcover. Very good. xiii 146pp. #753 of 1000cc. Very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth and issued without a jacket. Signed by the illustrator Anne Lee Hayne son the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Darien News hardcover books
1989130299Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film. <br/><br/>17 year old Henri Young Bacon steals five dollars from a grocery store to feed his little sister. He is caught his sister is sent to an orphanage and he never sees her again and unfortunately for him the grocery store also housed a post office making the crime a federal offense. He is sent to Alcatraz where he attempts escape and is foiled by a fellow inmate leaving him sentenced to solitary confinement in the basement of the island prison. Upon his release he has a psychotic episode in which he stabs his betrayer to death with a spoon. James Stamphill Slater is to defend him alleging that Alcatraz drove him insane. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 23 1989 noted as Revised Rewrite with credits for screenwriters Gordon and Ponicsan. 122 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
1928011842NY: Harcourt Brace and Company 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Uncommon juvenile music songbook edited by Untermeyer and charmingly illustrated by Peggy Bacon who became best known for her cartoons in The New Yorker. Large 4to publisher's ribbed blue cloth titles pressed in green in pictorial dustjacket in yellow green and black Dustjacket is soiled worn abot edges and moderately chipped with an inch loss foot of spine. Still presenatble. Internals near fine. A solid copy of an uncommon Bacon title. Harcourt Brace and Company hardcover books
1947140099Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final script for the 1948 film. With a single note on the verso of the last page in holograph blue ink. Shot under the name "Off to Buffalo" as is presented here. <br/><br/>Vaudeville is a fading form of entertainment and prospects are grim for the Norwick family a juggling act struggling to find work. They are forced to find normal jobs and one daughter elopes with her boyfriend leaving Albert's son forced to make a decision as to whether play professional baseball or join his father on a 16 week tour out west. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 152 and production No. 154 dated March 21 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated March 21 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining wrapper Very Good with dampstaining bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 293. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
