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184432820731<p>Ten volumes in five. Complete with half-titles. Contemporary half calf. Light rubbing some foxing. A very good untouched set.</p><p>First edition of Sue's<em> The Wandering Jew</em>. This is the rare first edition in book form preceding the far more common illustrated and popular editions that soon followed.<br />Sue's <em>Le Juif Errant</em> a classic of French nineteenth-century popular fiction was written at the height of the age of Balzac Dumas and Hugo.</p><p>According to Sue's novel the Huguenot Rennepont family lost its wealth during the French Catholic persecution. What little remained was entrusted to the Jewish banker Samuel who with his heirs turned the money into a fortune over 150 years. The terms of the arrangement called for the descendants to meet at a certain address in Paris in 1832 to divide the inheritance. This book is the story of the seven remaining members of the family and the efforts of the Jesuits to eliminate them and claim the fortune for themselves. The old Jewish banker appears at the novel's end proclaiming an end to the curse of the Wandering Jew.</p><p>"Eugene Sue wrote his <em>Juif Errant</em> in 1844. From the latter work … most people derive their knowledge of the legend" <em>Jewish Encyclopedia</em>. The medieval story of the Wandering Jew describes a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to his crucifixion saying "Go on more quickly." Jesus replied "I go but thou shalt wait till I return" thereby condemning the man to roam the earth until the Second Coming. Oral tradition song and popular literature perpetuated the long-lived anti-Semitic legend and described supposed sightings of the Wandering Jew.</p><p>"Sue was like Dumas an improviser and possessed remarkable fecundity and invention. To these qualities add the instinct for portraying the weird and the terrible and it is not hard to understand why he was popular in his day and retains a good share of that popularity still" Warner.</p><p>The first edition is rarely encountered in a contemporary binding complete with all half-titles. Only one set appears in the auction records of the past twenty-five years.</p> Paulin hardcover
1962151448London: Jonathan Cape 1962. First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo original black cloth. Boldly signed by eleven cast members of the 1977 film adaptation on the title page and facing page including: Roger Moore Caroline Munro Olga Bisera Sue Vanner Shane Rimmer Eva Rueber-Staier Marilyn Galsworthy Valerie Leon Edward de Souza Vernon Dobtcheff and director John Glen. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning and rubbing. Written with Vivienne Michel. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. A unique example. In light of the novel's immense presence as a classic thriller it's amusing to learn that it was at first poorly received. The novel was banned in several countries due to its heightened sexual writing. The reception was so bad that Fleming wrote to Michael Howard of the Jonathan Cape publishing company to explain why he wrote the book: "I had become increasingly surprised to find my thrillers which were designed for an adult audience being read in schools and that young people were making a hero out of James Bond . So it crossed my mind to write a cautionary tale about Bond to put the record straight in the minds particularly of younger readers . the experiment has obviously gone very much awry" Chancellor 2005. Upon Fleming's request no reprints were made until after his death in 1964. It was the basis for the tenth film in the James Bond series starring Roger Moore Barbara Bach and Curt Jürgens. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum. Jonathan Cape hardcover
199016147JNew York: IBM Corporation 1990. Sue Grafton’s original electric IBM Selectric Personal Wheelwriter 2 Typewriter used by her in writing a number of her acclaimed Kinsey Milhone Alphabet mystery novels before she eventually changed to using a computer. In excellent working order. The typewriter bears the label of the Santa Barbara California business machines store from which she purchased the machine. An estate label noting it is from Grafton's library is affixed to the bottom of the machine. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Sue Grafton estate. Grafton lived in Santa Barbara and the city is the scene of her mystery series in which she named the town Santa Teresa. IBM Corporation unknown books
collana completa natura in posa-le storie di maria de medici di Rubens al Lussemburgo-il Caravaggio e le sue grandi opere da san luigi dei francesi-le pitture nere di Goya alla quinta del sordo-la camera degli sposi del Mantegna a Mantova-i teneri del carpaccio in san Giorgio degli schiaffoni-il greco di toledo e il duo espressionismo estremo-nos non il primo viaggio a Tahiti di Gauguin-la cappella sisitina in vaticano (1)-la cappella sistina in vaticano (2) Rizzoli editore rilegatura in tela con copertina in carta plastificata OPERA COMPLETA IN OTTIME CONDIZIONI
199984453Greeley CO: Suzanne Ruth Sims Schulze 1999. Limited edition number 4 of 9 published. Hardcover. Very good. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.125 inches. vii 1 162 2 pages. Illustrations some with color. Ancestor Chart. Three Appendices including Chronology. RARE. Library-style binding. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. For Linda with many thanks and real appreciation co author co publisher Fondly Sue November 20 1999. The contents cover Family History Childhood Leaving home The Rhode Island Years and the Greeley Years. Linda Anderson was recognized on page vi for her valued assistance in the design and production of this book. The author wrote on page 1 "I have written this volume to try to tell Peter and Liz and their children and eventually their grandchildren where I came from.By and large this tale is chronological. It begins with the earliest members of my family coming to America. After the pages about each of the families I have told about my childhood my growing up years leaving home marrying and having children and about the later years as Pete and Liz have grown up and married and had their own families. I hope whoever picks up this volume and looks it over will enjoy it. I have enjoyed writing it for you." The author's family tree includes the Stringer family from Ireland The Sinclairs The Gillieses who came by way of Ontario in Canada. Then the Sims and the Schulzes. At the end of 2022 Ground Zero Books Ltd. was contacted by a member of the family. There was surprise that one of the nine copies had gotten into the rare book and collectibles market. From an obituary found on-line: Sue Schulze 100 of Sherman Texas Good Hart Michigan and formerly Greeley Colorado died peacefully on September 12 2022. She was born in Detroit Michigan on January 14 1922 to Alfred Gapps Sims and Christina Stringer Sims. Sue was married to Robert Oscar Schulze from 1948 until his death in 1999.' She attended the University of Michigan on scholarship and later earned master's degrees in political science and library science. After raising their children and supporting her husband's career at Brown University and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation she became a professional archivist and government documents librarian retiring from a tenured professorship at the University of Northern Colorado in 1989. During her library career she published the definitive works on the vast information available in 19th and 20th Century US censuses. She also became a leading expert on the newspaper editor presidential candidate and US Congressman Horace Greeley. Sue was heavily involved in civic life. She helped edit massive University of Michigan yearbooks as an undergraduate served on the Michigan and Rhode Island state boards of the League of Women Voters and the Rhode Island board of the American Civil Liberties Union was president of the Joint Legislative Council of Rhode Island was appointed by the governor to the Rhode Island House of Representatives reapportionment commission was her district's 1992 Democratic candidate for the Colorado state legislature served multiple elected terms on the board of the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association and was active in numerous other civic and historical organizations in Providence Rhode Island Emmet County Michigan and Weld County Colorado. Suzanne Ruth Sims Schulze hardcover
10616New York: Bulletspace 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Rubber Wrapper. Limited Edition. Hardcover. It took nearly a decade to bring this remarkable urban/rural art project to fruition. 177 artists writers and fracktivists contributed between 2010 and 2020. Contributors are listed below but notably include: John Fekner Anton Van Dalen Sue Coe David Sandlin Tom McGlynn Yoko Ono Ellen Cantarow Alexandra Rojas Mike Bernhard Carlo McCormick Woody Guthrie and many others. <br /> Printed at Bullet Space an anarchist squatter community since 1982 a Lower East Side workshop. The work is the result of a tremendous outpouring of work talent passion and the willingness to push for change. The final line of the forward to Your House is Mine reads "We have taken this opportunity to unite the following people in this collaborative project as a statement of 'art as a means of resistance.'" That statement continues to drive and define the work of Bulletspace. <br /> "A majority of our politicians and elected officials no longer do their appointed jobs. They don't protect our health safety well being or quality of life in any substantial way. As engaged citizens we have to step up as the muckrakers of the early 20th century such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed the excesses of the nascent oil industry and the brutish destructive power of monopolies." Intro<br /> <br /> WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS<br /> SARAH FERGUSON; ANN-SARGENT WOOSTER; KATHARINE DAWSON; MIKE BERNHARD; YOKO ONO; SEAN LENNON; AKIRA OHISO; CRAIG STEVENS; MARIANNE SOISALO; TONY PINOTTI; CARLO MCCORMICK; CAROL FRENCH; TERESA WINCHESTER; GERRI KANE; TOM MCGLYNN; JEREMY WEIR ALDERSON; SANDRA STEINGRABER; ANTON VAN DALEN; ALEXANDRA ROJAS; MICHAEL CARTER; ELLEN CANTAROW; LIZ ALDERSON; CARL WATSON; ANDREW CASTRUCCI; WALTER GURBO; THOMAS GRAY; BEN GONZALEZ; CAROLINE TISDALL; ANDREW LEE; FRANK MORALES; ANNIE LENIHAN; KEN FOGERTY; ANDREA LISCA; AMY CLAMPITT; VIC WESTGATE; PETER APANEL; MARY TWITCHELL; WOODY GUTHRIE; MARY JO LONG; JUN YOUNG LEE; ALBERT CRUDO; JOHN FEKNER; IGOR LANGSHTEYN; LUCAS FOGLIA; WALTER SIPSER; JOSEPH BEUYS; EUNYOUNG CHO; JON CAMPBELL; SEHEE LEE; BEN JURA<br /> <br /> POSTERS<br /> SAM VAN DEN TILLAAR "Fracktured Lives"<br /> ANDREW CASTRUCCI "Diagram: Rude Algae of Time"<br /> ALEXANDRA ROJAS "Protect Your Mother"<br /> HYE OK ROW "Water Life Blood"<br /> ANDREW CASTRUCCI "Empire State"<br /> CAMILO TENSI "Pipes"<br /> IGOR LANGSHTEYN "7 Deadly Sins"<br /> KAREN CANALES MALDONADO "Bottled Water"<br /> MARIO NEGRINI "This Land is Ours"<br /> ANDREW LEE "Drill Bit"<br /> TOM MCGLYNN "Red Earth"<br /> TOM MCGLYNN "Mob"<br /> SOFIA NEGRINI "No"<br /> RENZO CASTRUCCI/A. CASTRUCCI "Mother Fucker"<br /> ITALO ZAMBONI<br /> "There is Something Wrong."<br /> HOLLIS MOLONY "Tearing Our Resources"<br /> IGOR LANGSHTEYN "Lighter"<br /> SEBIT MIN "Caution"<br /> GABRIEL GONZALEZ "Fracktured."<br /> EUNYOUNG CHO "X Red Circle"<br /> DAEWOOK DO "NY Fracking"<br /> ADAM FRATINO "No Drill-No Spill"<br /> KERRY MURDOCH "Rotten Apple"<br /> CATALINA RODRIGUEZ "To Frack or Not to Frack"<br /> SAM RUSSO "Gold Water"<br /> MARIA RODRIQUEZ "Fracking Delicious"<br /> YOON DEOK JANG "No Fracking NY"<br /> DORAN FLAMM "Flaming Cocktail"<br /> SEHEE LEE "Frack You"<br /> IGOR LANGSHTEYN "Secret Formulas"<br /> SEYOUNG PARK "Hard Hat"<br /> CAROLINA CAICEDO "Shell"<br /> FRANCESCA TODISCO "Up in Flames"<br /> CURTIS BROWN<br /> "Not in my Fracking City"<br /> WOW JUN CHOI "Cracking"<br /> JENNIFER CHEN "Dripping"<br /> LINA FORSETH "Water Faucet"<br /> NICHOLAS PRINCIPE "Money"<br /> ANDREW CASTRUCCI "F-Bomb"<br /> MICHAEL HAFFELY "Liberty"<br /> JUN YOUNG LEE "No Fracking Way"<br /> MORGAN SOBEL "Scull and Bones"<br /> JAYPON CHUNG "Life Fracktured"<br /> GABRIELLE LARRORY "Drops"<br /> CHRISTOPHER FOXX "The Thinker"<br /> KHI JOHNSON "Government Warning"<br /> DANIEL GIOVANNIELLO "Make Sure to Put One On"<br /> DAVID SANDLIN "Frackicide"<br /> KIRSTEN KARKANEN "Your Waters Fracked"<br /> JOHN KIM "H2O"<br /> VICTORIA MOYA "Grocery List"<br /> CHRISTOPHER ALBORANO "Fire/Water"<br /> BEN GRANDGENETT "U.S. Drinking Water"<br /> CORIN TRACHTMAN/SEAN MITCHELL ".but Not a Drop to Drink."<br /> ITALO ZAMBONI "Halliburton Loophole"<br /> BRANDIE FERREIRA "700 Chemicals"<br /> BEN JURA "War"<br /> WALTER SIPSER "Pipeline"<br /> SUE COE "NY Bans Fracking"<br /> ANDREW CASTRUCCI "Zero Sense"<br /> FEKNER/CASTRUCCI "NYDK 4EVER"<br /> WALTER SIPSER "Arm"<br /> WALTER SIPSER "Bad Trade"<br /> JOSSELIN ACTERE "WTR". Tight bright and unmarred. Full embossed metal binding red ink plywood boards post-bound rubber hinges. 21x24x2" 25 pounds. 36pp of text 65 silkscreened images. Illus. color and b/w plates. All posters signed by the artists. Numbered limited edition of 50 copies. Bulletspace hardcover
In-folio, (32) carte, inclusa antiporta, 560 [i.e. 558] pagine, (30) carte, errori di numerazione. Bellissima antiporta figurata allegorica incisa in rame da Conelis Bloemaert su disegno di Giovanni Angelo Canini, ritratto di Innocenzo X, 1 grande tavola più volte ripiegata, 5 incisioni in rame a piena pagina (di Pietro Miotte), numerose xilografie nel testo, iniziali xilografiche, testo in carattere romano, corsivo, arabo, greco ed ebraico, marca tipografica in fine volume, brunitura su qualche carta, legatura in pergamena coeava, piccoli difetti.
JGE00005<p>An excitedly flawless first edition of the first book in Sue Grafton's iconic "Alphabet" series signed boldly on the title page. Dust jacket is fine with only a barely perceptible fold to the front flap. Includes two fine/fine book club copies for lending or display. The bottom line is if you've been looking for the genesis of modern American detective fiction's most beloved female sleuth Kinsey Millhone here's a copy. Signed first editions are increasingly scarce.</p> hardcover
196909167London: Peter Owen Limited 1969. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. Small Octavo. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY SUE GRAFTON to Chuck & Sandy Parkhurst. Signing witnessed by bookseller Charles Parkhurst. Bound in original orange boards spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket with price in pounds sterling on front flap. Author's second and rarest book. Only two copies show in the auction record. Armorial bookplate is laid in. The source of the 1970's movie "Lolly-Madonna XXX" starring Rod Steiger. Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. Ms. Grafton decided not to publish the book in the U.S. and never allowed it to be reprinted. Together with Set designer Jim Payne's copy of the film script for the 1972 MGM movie quarto 105 pages inscribed on front wrapper "to Chuck & Sandy." Together with Jim Payne's set notes typed several pages Jim Payne's summary of petty cash expenses and 4 pages of itemized set expenditures in pencil. Together with Five color Polaroid photos of various sets 3 x 5 inchs and 73 black and white photos of various sets 8 x 10 inches. <br/><br/> Peter Owen Limited hardcover books
152093Washington D.C.: National Space Institute 1976. First edition of this biography on the legendary father of modern rocketry. Octavo original cloth astrological endpapers illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Boldly signed by Wernher von Braun on the half-title page. Lengthily inscribed by aerospace industry pioneer Dr. Carol Sue Rosin who worked closely with von Braun at Fairchild Corporation on the verso of the front free endpaper "Dec. 76 Marcy and Freddy Happy New Year! Not only is my personal life happy but professionally - fantastic. Working with Dr. von Braun has been an incredible experience. Hope you've had a happy '76 too and wish you so many more!!! Love Carol Sue." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dr. Carol Sue Rosin is space policy advocate and missile defense consultant whose career occupies a singular position at the intersection of aerospace history peace activism and space demilitarization. She became the first woman executive in the American aerospace industry as Corporate Manager at Fairchild Industries where she also served as spokesperson for the late Dr. Wernher von Braun the father of rocketry a role she assumed when von Braun was in the final years of his life dying of cancer and required a surrogate to carry his vision of peaceful space development to public audiences. Her first speech on his behalf was delivered to 18000 educators at a National Education Association conference where she introduced satellites as a tool for teachers and together with von Braun she created the award-winning "It's Your Turn" educational program to expand the participation of youth women and minorities in science and technology. She is perhaps best known as the original political architect of the movement to prevent the weaponization of space and stop the Strategic Defense Initiative and Anti-Satellite Weapons programs and in 1983 she founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space whose original honorary chairman was Sir Arthur C. Clarke with Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell serving as advisory board chairman. She co-authored the Outer Space Security and Development Treaty draft with distinguished colleagues including Apollo Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell Commander Will Miller of the U.S. Navy Dr. Abe Krieger a thirty-seven year Boeing executive and Dr. C.B. Scott Jones military intelligence specialist and senior adviser to Senator Claiborne Pell and has testified before the U.S. House Senate and the Presidential Commission on Space on multiple occasions in pursuit of a legally binding international ban on space-based weapons. An exceptional association. Reputedly the father of rocket technology and space science in the United States German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun moved to the United States after WWII as part of Operation Paperclip. While working for the United States Army von Braun developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 and acted as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. Von Braun recieved the National Medal of Science in 1975 and has been featured in countless movies television series and novels including Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and the 1998 television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. According to one NASA source he is "without doubt the greatest rocket scientist in history. His crowning achievement was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969." National Space Institute hardcover
25480Sydney : Gwen Harrison and Sue Anderson 2012. Folio 545 mm tall full dyed kangaroo with goatskin detail pp. 28 etched endpapers folding etched plates presented in a clamshell box. Edition limited to 7 unique copies signed by the artists. ""The work reveals the three artists' response to one of Sydney's darkest historical colonial sites Cockatoo Island an imperial prison industrial school reformatory and jail. The text also invokes the present day situation of refugees and refers to ""those other islands we use as a noose -- Nauru Christmas Island Timor Malaysia"" asking: ""When will the time come . when compassion will span the dark waters like an indestructible bridge uniting us and the best part of our dreams for the future with the best part of their dreams for the future."" - SLNSW website ""A collaboration between Gwen Harrison painter & printmaker; Sue Anderson letterpress printer & designer binder; Peter Lyssiotis artist & writer who contributed the prose. Multi-plate intaglio prints using handcut etched & found & manipulated steel plates chine colle & letterpress. Handset Gill Sans & Perpetua Gothic wood type. Charbonnel ink on Maguani Corona 310 gsm"" - from the Colophon. Two copies recorded in Australian collections National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales a third in the Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem Sydney. unknown
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1958140944938Washington D.C.: Corporate Press 1958. First Edition. Good. First edition first printing. Signed and inscribed by Sue Bailey Thurman and warmly inscribed to a former owner. Original publisher's stiff orange wraps printed in black with black plastic comb binding. Good with soiling and wear to wraps paint stains to front cover and plastic comb. One tooth is broken on the comb binding and the wraps are detached edges at several teeth. Pages toned and with occasional creases. Instead of being arranged by course for the chef recipes are instead arranged according to the calendar year linking dishes with famous people and African American traditions celebrating black culture and foreshadowing the notion of "black pride" for up-and-coming authors. A project by the National Council of Negro Women whose mission was to "encourage and effect the participation of Negro women in civic political and economic and educational activities and institutions." The NCNW compiled the favorite recipes of members from seven regional councils. Signed copies are very scarce. Corporate Press unknown
672P29New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1982. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8" by 5.5". None. A fine first edition first impression of Sue Grafton's influential debut detective novel ''A' is for Alibi' signed by the author to the title page. The first edition first impression of this work. In the first state dustwrapper which has '$12.95' printed to the front flyleaf as opposed to the '$16.95' price that appears on the later impressions. Signed by the author to the title page. The first printing of this novel was seven-thousand five-hundred copies. Collated complete. '"A" Is for Alibi' is a crime novel set in the fictional city Santa Teresa in southern California. The novel follows the thirty-two year old private detective Kinsey Millhone who is hired to solve the murder of a prominent divorce lawyer Laurence Fife. He had been killed eight years previously and his recently released wife was arrested for the death. The lawyer's death was linked to a similar death of a woman in Los Angeles. Both had died after taking poisonous oleander capsules which had been substituted for allergy pills. Written by Sue Grafton who is best known for this influential and popular series of detective novels known as the 'alphabet series'. She started writing her detective novels after a bitter divorce and custody battle which resulted in Grafton imagining ways to kill or maim her ex-husband providing inspiration for this detective series. Sadly Grafton died before she was able to finish the series writing a total of twenty-five novels only ending with ''Y' is for Yesterday'. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally fine. Dustwrapper is near fine with a fold down the centre of the spine with two very small puncture marks to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. A small amount of the gutter is visible at the title page though the binding is firm. Fine Holt, Rinehart, and Winston hardcover
19693156London: Peter Owen 1969. First Edition. Well-preserved distinguished copy of the author's second and scarcest book. Set in rural Tennessee the novel is centered around two families living in a bleak and sparsely-populated town who quarrel over a plot of land that separates their farms. "The feud erupts into violence when a girl is kidnapped. Minor provocation leads to acts of planned savagery rape and mass murder" from front flap. The book was published in the UK by Peter Owen when Grafton was only 29 years old and remains the only one of Grafton's books with no American equivalent. Basis for the 1973 film produced by M.G.M. titled Lolly-Madonna XXX starring Jeff Bridges Rod Steiger and Robert Ryan. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; orange paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 45-1893pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Vault copy formerly retained by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library in Culver City California bearing their rubber-stamped markings on front pastedown and endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced 35s / 1.75 net with some light rubbing to joints and extremities. Peter Owen unknown
014580New York: Henry Holt Putnam's Sons TWENTY-SIX VOLUMES. A fine complete run of the Grafton alphabet mystery series featuring Kinsey Millhone. They are all in unclipped dust jackets. "A" is inscribed "Yours until "Z" is For Zero" and dated 4-30-88. All others are signed by Sue Grafton on the title-page. "Y" is signed on title-page and not on a book-plate. The author signed very few copies of "Y". The book was issued in August 2017 The author was quite ill at that time and died on December 28 2017. She was unable to complete the alphabet with "Z" Is For Zero". But we have included 26 volumes to include the first British edition of "O" Is For Outlaw" signed. This was the true first edition of the title and was printed in a very small number of only 800 copies. This collection was completed by a single collector most of the signatures obtained by him at various book signings. He was meticulous in obtaining only fine copies in like dust jackets. Sue Grafton 1940-2017 was best known for this alphabet series. She won many awards throughout her career including the Crime Writers Dagger Award the Edgar award Ross Macdonald Literary award Shamus award to name a few. We are pleased to offer this set for sale. You will find a number of other Sue Grafton items including ephemera on our bookshop site. Signed by Author. First American Edition. Various Colors of Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Henry Holt, Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
196908408London: Peter Owen Limited 1969. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. Small Octavo. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY SUE GRAFTON without personalization. Signing witnessed by bookseller Charles Parkhurst. Bound in original orange boards spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket with price in pounds sterling on front flap. Author's second and rarest book. Only two copies show in the auction records. A beautiful copy with small owner address label on front end paper and date stamp on front pastedown. Armorial bookplate is laid in. Includes: the original publisher's contract for "The Lolly-Madonna War" a completely typed agreement with Peter Owen Ltd. of London dated December 10 1968. Three legal-sized pages of typscript outlining rights royalties advance etc. The contract is SIGNED "Sue Grafton Schmidt." Some creasing to the thin paper with a chip in the margin of the first two pages from a removed staple. The source of the 1970's movie "Lolly-Madonna XXX" starring Rod Steiger. Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. Since Grafton decided not to publish the book in the U.S. and never allowed it to be reprinted this is the only contract ever signed for this early effort. <br/><br/> Peter Owen Limited hardcover books
196908408London: Peter Owen Limited 1969. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. Small Octavo. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY SUE GRAFTON without personalization. Signing witnessed by bookseller Charles Parkhurst. Bound in original orange boards spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket with price in pounds sterling on front flap. Author's second and rarest book. Only two copies show in the auction records. A beautiful copy with small owner address label on front end paper and date stamp on front pastedown. Armorial bookplate is laid in. Includes: the original publisher's contract for "The Lolly-Madonna War" a completely typed agreement with Peter Owen Ltd. of London dated December 10 1968. Three legal-sized pages of typscript outlining rights royalties advance etc. The contract is SIGNED "Sue Grafton Schmidt." Some creasing to the thin paper with a chip in the margin of the first two pages from a removed staple. The source of the 1970's movie "Lolly-Madonna XXX" starring Rod Steiger. Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. Since Grafton decided not to publish the book in the U.S. and never allowed it to be reprinted this is the only contract ever signed for this early effort. <br/><br/> Peter Owen Limited hardcover
In-folio (mm 304x205). Pagine [12], 152, [2] con 2 tavole in una carta fuori testo. Numerose figure incise in legno nel testo, anche a piena pagina. Stemma mediceo al frontespizio e grande marca dello stampatore in fine. Piccoli strappi e lacune riparati al frontespizio, rimontato, altro strappo marginale riparato alle carte ff3-ff4 e alla tavola fuori testo in fine, lievi ma ampie gore d'acqua lungo il volume. Legatura inglese settecentesca in pieno vitello spruzzato con cornice a motivi floreali impressa a secco ai piatti e titoli dorati su tassello al dorso. Ex-libris Macclesfield al contropiatto anteriore.
674P3London: Macmillan 1997-2009. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6". None. A set of eight first editions of Sue Grafton's popular and tense detective crime novels in her 'The Alphabet Murders' series six volumes signed by the author. The first editions of these works. A collection of seven consecutive novels from 'The Alphabet Murders' series. Six of the seven volumes are signed by the author. The novels are about a young female detective Kinsey Millhone. 'M is for Malice' published in 1996. Signed by the author to the loosely inserted label. The first edition first impression of this work. 'N is for Noose' published in 1998. Signed by the author to the title page. The first edition first impression of this work. 'O is for Outlaw' published in 1999. The first edition first impression of this work. This volume is not signed. 'P is for Peril' published in 2001. The first edition first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. 'Q is for Quarry' published in 2002. The first edition first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. 'R is for Ricochet' published in 2004. The first edition first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. 'S is for Silence' published in 2005. The first edition first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. 'U is for Undertow' published in 2009. The first edition first impression of this work. This volume is not signed. Written by Sue Grafton who is best known for this influential and popular series of detective novels known as the 'alphabet series'. She started writing her detective novels after a bitter divorce and custody battle which resulted in Grafton imagining ways to kill or maim her ex-husband providing inspiration for this detective series. Sadly Grafton died before she was able to finish the series writing a total of twenty-five novels only ending with ''Y' is for Yesterday'. In the original publisher's cloth bindings in the original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally near fine with a very small amount of bumping to the head and tail of the spines. Small tidemark to the reverse of the dustwrapper of 'N'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Macmillan hardcover
196933034London: Peter Owen. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth titled in gilt. First British Commonwealth edition stated. Sue Grafton's own copy with her blindstamp to ffep. PO sticker to ffep. Tight and square with very slight rubbing/soil to cloth edges and a trace of foxing to top block edge one tiny stain to leading block edge. The DJ in mylar is chipped to spine ends and rubbed to joints and faces lighty soiled. Flap price present; bookstore sticker to flap edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Peter Owen hardcover
16-5236Paris : Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française 1921. Large folio. 37 x 52.2cm. Original wraps. Very good. Decorative Textile chemise and black board slipcase. Some light foxing.7 10-148 1 p. : ill. part col. ; 53 cm.At head of title: 1921."Achevé d'imprimer le tome premier d'Architectures à 500 exemplaires"--Colophon.No more published.Illustrations signed: R. de la Fresnaye; Jacques Villon sc.; Paul Vera sc.; lithography by Marchizet Paris.Title printed in red and black.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:458325019.Notes : Les planches gravures sur bois gravures en taille-douce et lithographie de Paul Véra Roger de la Fresnaye André Mare Louis Süe Marie Laurencin Jean-Émile Laboureur Dunoyer de Segonzac et alii comptent dans la pagination. - Tiré à 500 ex. numérotés de 1 à 500 sur papier vélin pur fil des Papeteries Navarre Paris : Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921. paperback
1952140944939San Francisco: Acme Publishing Co 1952. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. A fantastic association copy signed by Sue Bailey Thurman in the year of publication and warmly inscribed "For Alfred G. Fisk native son and pioneer for whom I am indebted for my deep love of California." Alfred G. Fisk was the catalyst for Sue Bailey Thurman's time spent living in California. Fisk a white philosophy professor at San Francisco City College now SF State and a local Presbyterian minister started to meet with colleagues to discuss how they could best bridge the divide "of understanding among the varied races cultures and faiths presented in American society." He envisioned a church where both black and white could pray together seamlessly as equals and reached out to Sue Bailey Thurman's husband Howard a Black theologian who was the Dean of Chapel at Howard University in Washington D.C. Fisk asked if Thurman could recommend a student or colleague for a co-pastor role at the church he was envisioning. <p>"We don't want the church to be in any sense run by whites 'for' Negroes" Fisk wrote to Howard Thurman on Oct. 15 1943. "It should be of and by and for both groups. . We are committed to a real equality between the races in all aspects of church organization" Fisk continued. "The boards of the church the choir the Sunday School and its staff will all be of mixed character. The co-pastors will have absolutely equal status and will alternate Sundays in preaching and in taking other parts of the service." <p>Ultimately it was Howard himself who filled that role as preacher at what would be called The Church For the Fellowship of All Peoples. And it was with his prominence that the church quickly gained popularity and even gained members from afar who couldn't attend services including former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. <p>While in San Francisco Sue Bailey Thurman led the church's Intercultural Committee and co-led a delegation to one of the earliest UNESCO conferences convened in Paris in 1949. <p>Publisher's original comb-bound yellow stiff wraps printed in brown. Near Fine with light wear and toning to wraps. Acme Publishing Co unknown
19964379ml1996. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition : glorious garlic recipes each one beautifully photographd in colour. Soups starters delicious main courses and pasta pizzas grains and vegetable dishes. Step-by-step cooking tips and techniques throughout. AI4 hardcover
18916P., Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921, grand In-folio, 52 X 38 cm, br., sous chemise demi-maroquin brun à bandes et rabats , étui signé Alix.
