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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
196971967London: Peter Owen 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition first printing. Signed by Sue Grafton on the title page. The author's second published novel and far and away the scarcest of her books preceding the first volume in her Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet" mystery series. A work of mainstream fiction it concerns two families living in a bleak sparsely populated area whose quarrel over a plot of land that separates their farms erupts into a violent feud. The novel was adapted into the 1973 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture Lolly-Madonna XXX directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Rod Steiger Jeff Bridges Randy Quaid and Gary Busey. This is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer file copy with four MGM ink stamps to the front endpaper. Small octavo. Original orange cloth binding with gilt titles. Mild bump to the top corners with some light rubbing along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good or better. Peter Owen hardcover books
1982053844New York: Holt Rinehart Winston 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8 1/4" Tall. 26 Volumes All First Printings Fine In Fine Unclipped Dust Jackets All Signed Without Inscription By Sue Grafton With Two Exceptions: "D" Is Inscribed To The Recipient And "F" Has Light Foxing Spots Along The Top Edge Of The Page Block. A Is Generically Inscribed. All Are Bright Clean Fresh Apparently Unread. Fully Insured Shipping A But Several Hundred Dollars Extra For Insured International Shipping. <br/> <br/> Holt Rinehart Winston hardcover
1942140947577Yellow Springs OH: The Antioch Press 1942. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Virginia Simmons on the front free endpaper and inscribed "For Princess Red Rock With warmest regards! Virginia Simmons." Princess Red Rock also known as Wah Nese Red Rock was a Canadian Native American singer and activist she sang at both Harry Truman and Frank D. Roosevelt's inaugurations and in 1947 during Truman's dedication of the Everglades National Park. <p>Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in white. 79pp. Very Good with light edge wear mottling to cloth. Offsetting and spotting to endsheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning light soiling and edge wear foxing to blindside. A scarce prose collection from African American poet Virginia Simmons. Simmons graduated from Bennett College and served as their Dean of Students during the 1941-1942 school year. Foreword by Sue Bailey Thurman a political activist and the first non-white student to earn a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. The Antioch Press unknown
1969016271London: Peter Owen 1969. Her second novel and scarce. Only published in England. This book is from author's own library and has her personal blindstamp with her name and initials on front endpaper. This was only done on a few of her books. lOrange textured cloth with gold lettering on spine still bright. One lightly bumped tip. No other markings. Tight and square. Basis for film with Rod Steiger Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. Textblock supple and clean. Price intact jacket has light edgewear at spine ends and bottom of front fold and some faint rubbing but overall a nice copy. Photograph of the young author on real panel with a brief bio. Red lettering on jacket still bright even on spine. In mylar. . First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Peter Owen Hardcover
196733602New York: Random House 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. A significant presentation copy<br /> <br /> This outstanding copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper to the woman who inspired this work: <br /> "To Mabel Frohlich who is the model for my heroine. Sue Kaufman". <br /> <br /> As there is no formal printed dedicatee this particular presentation comes about as close to the mark as we're going to get. Basis for the 1970 Frank Perry film of the same name starring Carrie Snodgrass and Richard Benjamin. An important 60's title which shared the morphing cultural and cinematic stage and screen with "The Graduate".<br /> <br /> First Edition. 8vo. 313pp. Very good or better in original red cloth boards with gilt stamping in a near fine fresh dustwrapper with some shelf wear. Slightly cocked back spine housed in a red slipcase. Random House hardcover
199491202Museum. New. 1994. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 60 pages; 27 color illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Museum paperback
1967124902New York: Random House 1967. First edition of this classic bestselling novel of Central Park West ennui -- and a seminal piece of urban women's fiction. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper 'To Kornby with love Sue Kaufman." Additionally signed by actor Richard Benjamin who starred in the film bearing the same name. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Larry Ratzkin. Rare and desirable signed. Made into a major motion picture that garnered an Oscar nomination Diary of a Mad Housewife is a classic of women's fiction that gave a wry voice to the nascent feminist stirrings of the 1960s and helped incite a revolution in the consciousness of a generation. It is the basis for the 1970 film starring Carrie Snodgress Richard Benjamin and Frank Langella. Random House hardcover
1993Q-0821220209Bulfinch Pr 1993-04-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bulfinch Pr hardcover
19370001788BUDAPEST HUNGARY EASTERN EUROPE. Very Good. 1937. On offer is a unique original September 1937 through August 1938 manuscript diary that relates the life a young American girl named Sue as per the gift inscription who travels back to her ancestral country of Hungary for an extended holiday whose purpose was likely to find her a traditional husband. The pressure or desire for her to marry is apparent within days of her meeting her European relatives. 'Went to visit Gene's grandmother and aunt. Real congenial people .they talked to me as if I were to become Gene's wife .some dope thought I would fall in love with him within three days.' Sue writes wonderfully of her times traveling regularly to Budapest and the activities of a 17 year old American teenager abroad. There were movies and shows and skating and shopping and dining and more dining and opera and chess and so much more. She also enrolled in the Fodor School of Music. She begins with her travels crossing the Atlantic on the Normandie and then across Europe to Hungary where she stays with relatives dates dozens of men - mostly doctors - and visits the local sites for nearly a year. She does a super job also capturing the tone of the country and the events in other parts of Europe. In one she comments on Germany annexing Austria and how her parents want her to come home. In another she comments on the "Jewish laws" that they are unfair and that "everything is dead". Sue was insightful and articulate and one cannot but be a little chilled reading her personal account with the knowledge that World War II looms on the horizon. Green leather has a leather strip for locking the diary had to be cut. Overall VG.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF PRE WORLD WAR II WWII HUNGARY TRAVEL AMERICANA BUDAPEST AMERICAN YOUTH IN EUROPE GENDER STUDIES WOMEN'S STUDIES EASTERN EUROPE SOCIAL STUDIES HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
1969015628London: Peter Owen 1969. Nice copy of her second book and the most rare of al her books. Sue Grafton's own copy purchased from her estate. Her circular blindstamp with SG centered and her name underneath are on front endpaper. Unmarked tight and square. In orange textured cloth it is a clean fresh copy with sharp tips. Very faint foxing to top page edges and faint soiling to rear board else fine. . First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Peter Owen Hardcover
1994C91202Museum. As New. 1994. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 60 pages; 27 color illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Museum paperback
1982016636New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1982. Flawless copy of her first Kinsey Millhone mystery. Crisp clean copy. This copy was purchased by Sue Grafton in 2000 from a bookseller in Cambridge Ma for $1500. Receipt for the purchase with her name and credit card number purchased over the phone was laid into book. She kept it until her death. This book and approximately 300 others were purchased from her estate after her death. Provenance can be provided. Signed by author on bookplate that is laid in. Bookplate apparently used for professional purposes as it had her Kinsey Millhone characters name on it as well as her own. In mylar. . Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Holt Rinehart & Winston Hardcover
1930197341930 Huile sur toile, signée du cachet d'Atelier sur le chassis, (1930), 60 x 72.5 cm.
199835115United Kingdom: Bristol Classical Pr. New. 1998. Paperback. 1853995436 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- While the men of Classical Athens were fighting wars and producing great works of art what were the women doing According to some of the male writers of the period they were at home making babies and wool; others thought they were likely to be visiting their friends and partying till the small hours. This text investigates the many contrasting images of Athenian women which the Classical Age produced. Taking as its starting point women in the Parthenon sculptures it examines two levels of feminine experience: the human and the divine. The interplay between womens religious prominence and their domestic obscurity is discussed in relation to the young citizen women who lead the procession; while the great goddesses represented in the frieze are studied in terms of their relationships with human worshippers and on a symbolic level with the mythological females such as the Amazons who appear in the metopes. Finally the book turns to a third aspect looking at the women who do not appear in the Parthenon sculptures -- the prostitutes slaves and alien women who make a vital economic and ideological contribution to the Athenian achievement. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Unmarried women 3. Married women 4. Goddesses and characters from myth 5. Other women 6. Conclusion Suggestions for Further Study Suggestions for Further Reading Index -- with a bonus offer-- . Bristol Classical Pr paperback
