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1957500113<p>"Ray" on light blue personal 6925 Neptune Place letterhead La Jolla June 3 1957. 4to. 2 pages on separate leaves stapled together. To Edgar N. Carter at N.H. Swanson Company in West Hollywood: "Would it make any difference to a TV deal if I agreed to write the dialogue not the story -- only I suppose what you could call a polish job. Of course the writer would loathe me. I must make it clear that any work I should do would on be done in any TV studio since it might be from Tahiti or Tasmania. I understand that changes might be made because some actor might say "This line just isn't me" or some director might like George Marshall have an itching pencil. I ought to have something to say about who is to play the part. I think the actor is more important than the summer radio shot. I think you have the job of convincing these lauatics that if a show is to last it must cost not too much and must have some sort of special quality. Marlowe is a character of some nobility of scorching wit sad but not defeated lonely but never really sure of himself. It is impossible to think that such a man would not have a sex life but so many writers of this sort of story have made it too blatant and too vulgar. Marlowe would get almost any woman into bed with him by a certain obscure technique which depends almost entirely on making a woman feel that you respect her. Some of this has to go into Philip Marlowe if his is to be any good. If it is not possible to achieve this I think we should forget the whole thing. After all a great many writers have been trying to steal him from me for 15 years and they have never done it yet".</p> unknown books
19272221662<p>WITH ORIGINAL BOREIN DRAWING</p><p>First edition. 11" x 7 3/4". Illustrated with color frontispiece and 16 b/w full page drawings by Edward Borein and several vignettes. Two page introduction by Owen Wister. Original red stamped pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Very good. 76 pages.</p><p>With a large signed original detailed ink drawing by Borein of two cowboys on horseback inscribed to Frank E. Bliss and dated 1927. Most original drawings by Borein in books tend to be much less detailed and smaller.</p><p>Engraved bookplate of Francis E Bliss on front pastedown.</p><p>Borein 1872-1945 was a noted Western illustrator and painter. His cowboy drawings appeared in "Land of Sunshine" with encouragement by Charles F. Lummis.</p> Wallace Hebberd hardcover books
1951302752<p>First edition so stated first issue with back panel portrait of Salinger credited to Lotte Jacobi and "$3.00" on the front flap. Octavo. Original black cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket designed by Michael Mitchell unclipped; tiny chips to head and tail of spine and to corners; few small chips; front flap detached at fold. Very good. 277 pages. Enclosed in a red and black leather drop box. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
19282221726<p>First edition first printing. Octavo. Illustrated with 5 plates by J. Allen St. John frontispiece pages 56 142 222 354. Original green cloth stamped in black spine a little faded. The original color pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price in spine unclipped; small chips; several tears; old tape repairs on verso. Very good. 377 pages.</p><p>Presentation copy signed and inscribed by Burroughs on the front free endpaper: "To Eddie Gilbert wishing him a Merry Christmas Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzana Dec. 25 1928."</p><p>Burroughs was married to Gilbert's sister actress Florence Gilbert from 1935-1941. He never remarried.</p><p>This is the last Tarzan title published by McClurg.</p><p>Heins T13.1; Zeuschner 682.</p> A. C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
1924222704<p>First English edition. Small octavo. Full gilt stamped red morocco t.e.g. Very good-fine. Rare. Boldly signed by Zane Grey in his signature purple ink on the front free endpaper and signed again in purple ink on the title page. With Zane Grey's small rainbird bookplate on the front free endpaper. Tipped-in is a facsimile Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Ernest Hodder Williams sending Christmas and New Years greetings and best wishes. Deluxe issue bound for Hodder and Stoughton by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for presentation to Zane Grey. There was only one copy each of these special leather bound copies done for Zane Grey by Hodder and Stoughton. Provenance: Collection of Betty Zane Elizabeth Grey Grosso.</p> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
19272221661<p>WITH ORIGINAL BOREIN DRAWING</p><p>First edition. 11" x 7 3/4". Illustrated with color frontispiece and 16 b/w full page drawings by Edward Borein and several vignettes. Two page introduction by Owen Wister. Original red stamped pictorial boards joints cracked and a bit warped. No dust jacket. Good. 76 pages.</p><p>Signed by Perkins on front free endpaper January 1928.</p><p>Together with an original ink drawing by Borein of cowboy on horseback signed and dated 1928.</p><p>Small red leather bookplate of John Stuart Groves.</p><p>Borein 1872-1945 was a noted Western illustrator and painter. His cowboy drawings appeared in "Land of Sunshine" with encouragement by Charles F. Lummis.</p> Wallace Hebberd hardcover books
1923301381<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Pages 9-60 comprise Jack London's "My Hawaiian Aloha." Pages 61-264 are by Charmain. Illustrated with 16 halftone photos; double page map of Hawaiian Islands. Original gilt stamped blue cloth With the rare unclipped original dust jacket. Fine fresh. No other signatures or bookplates. Laid down on the front pastedown is a 1 page Autograph Letter Signed "Charmain London" in blue fountain pen ink January 1928 Waimea Hawaii to Judge and Mrs. David Forbes. See BAL 11984 for the 1922 American printing issued under the title "Our Hawaii".</p> Mills & Boon, Limited hardcover books
19352221831<p>"Gertrude Stein" 2 pages recto and verso n.d. but March 1935 on The Midway Drexel Apartment Hotel Chicago to author Gertrude Atherton. 9 1/2" x 6". Very good.</p><p>In part: "Thanks for all your kindness. and it will be a very great pleasure seeing you again and your daughter whom we remember very pleasantly and it will be fun seeing California again and we do very gladly accept your invitation may it be for a lunch any day that I am not lecturing in the afternoon and the P.E.N. club  will be nice. No I have no relations in Oakland or any where as far as I know in California. I always stay at a hotel perhaps the Palace Hotel. we are hoping that Carl van Vechten will come too. and it would be wonderful if he did come."</p><p>Stein arrived in Pasadena California on March 28 1935. On April 2 she drove to San Francisco arriving on April 8th. On Tuesday April 9 she attended the P.E.N. dinner at The Bohemian Club as the guest of Gertrude Atherton see Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder pages 349-350.</p> unknown books
1956229087<p>First edition. Thin octavo. Original gilt stamped green cloth marbled endpapers top edge stained red. Fine. Clear acetate dust jacket. Enclosed in the original publisher's red board slipcase with a large pictorial label. Publisher's label on spine of slipcase has copy number 562. No other signatures or bookplates. Number 149 of 600 numbered copies signed by Capote on limitation page.</p> Random House hardcover books
1933197722<p>First edition. 4to. With 17 plates reproducing Hearn's letters to Barel. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt large printed paper label on upper ocver. Fine fresh as new. Enclosed in publisher's folding box with printed paper label on the upper front cover and extra limitation label. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>#60 of 250 numbered copies.</p> The Hokuseido Press hardcover books
19052222071<p>First edition October 21 1905. Octavo. Color frontispiece of a painting by Maynard Dixon. Original olive green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt with a design in black cream and red. With the rare dust jacket unclipped; small chips; few nicks; light soiling. Very good. 333 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>With publisher's three page promotional brochure quoting reviews comparing the book to "The Virginian" and to Jack London.</p><p>Ben Blair was filmed in 1916 by Wm. Desmond Taylor.</p><p>William Otis Lillibridge 1878-1909 died at age of 31. His other novel "Where the Trail Divides" was also filmed.</p><p>See Jeff Dykes "Western High Spots" page 36.</p> A. C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
19572221684<p>"Alice Toklas" 1 page Paris Oct 18 1957 to Anita Loos. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4". Fine.</p><p>Together with a typed transcription. Toklas express great pleasure at seeing Loos again and thanks her for her recommendation of a spa treatment at Acqui.</p><p>In part: ".The doctor recommended ten baths during twelve days.I am very grateful to you. It would be lovely to think you would return to Paris in my time.</p><p>Toklas 1877-1967 companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in "What is Remembered" and was the subject of Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."</p><p>Loos 1891-1981 American humorous writer; best known for her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1925; worked for various Hollywood studios as a writer and script consultant; film career from 1912: "My Baby" 1912; "The Telephone Girl and the Lady" 1913; "The Lady in Black" 1913; "San Francisco" 1936; "Saratoga" 1937; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1939; "Strange Cargo" 1940; "Susan and God" 1940; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 1945; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953; "Gigi" 1958.</p> unknown books
19412221771<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with six full page and twenty-three text illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. Full tan morocco by S. David with inlaid green Shamrocks and initials "N d C". Fine. 279 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Enclosed in morocco edged slipcase.</p> Marcel Lubineau hardcover books
1911197778<p>First edition. Small folio. 66 plates on coated paper 23 in color; portrait. Original green cloth stamped in gilt with color portrait on upper cover t.e.g. Very good.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1923229165<p>First edition so stated; "E-X". Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped shallow chip across top of jacket spine; two short tears. Some foxing top edge. Very good. 406 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Booksellers re-order coupon on rear dust jacket flap intact. BAL 3536.</p> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1953500494<p>On personal letterhead Crescent Beach St. Augustine Fl. May 11 1953. 4to 1 page. Her letters are scarce; To Mr. Miller: "I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that it will be impossible for me to attend the Luncheon in honor of Fanny Butcher. I am dependent on my husband to drive me with my assorted animal family to my summer home. Fanny Butcher has long been a powerful influence in the field of American Letters. While lesser editors have come and gone she has maintained consistent integrity and the highest standards. Of Fanny Butcher the woman I can only say that to know her is to love her. Her warm heart and completely charming personality are a delight to those of us privileged to call ourselves her friends. To many Moore years of her superb editing and her gilt for friendship!".</p> unknown books
199491510NY: Random House 1994. First edition first prnt. Signed by Thompson as "HSThompson" on the front free endpage. Quarter-cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Spine cloth and lettering and board ends minimally rubbed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Fourth book in Thompson's Gonzo Papers series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
19062221908<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with color frontispiece four full page b/w plates and many marginal vignettes by Charles Copeland. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial dust jacket which reproduces the frontispiece. Rare thus. Very good. 296 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Long on front free endpaper: "One Man to Another."</p> Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press hardcover books
19332221631<p>First edition so stated; "H-H". Octavo. Original patterned blue cloth with printed paper label on spine; yellow endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine fresh bright copy. 319 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1923229941<p>First edition published April 1923. Octavo. Original gilt and blindstamped green cloth. Front panel of the color pictorial dust jacket laid down on the front pastedown. Very good. 145 pages 2 pages advertisements. Bruccoli A10.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19572786<p>EXTRA SUITE OF SEVEN PLATES; #72/75 FIRST EDITION THUS</p> GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS hardcover books
19932221757<p>First edition limited. Octavo. With original silkscreen print signed by Bukowski. Red cloth over pictorial boards. Clear acetate dust jacket as issued. Halftone photo of Bukowski by Michael Montfort. Fine fresh copy. 372 pages.</p><p>Copy #252/300. With a silkscreen print and a signed Bukowski drawing of two people in a gondola.</p> Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
19572221951<p>First edition. Octavo. Original morocco and cloth stamped in blind and gilt. No dust jacket. Enclosed in a custom green cloth slip case. Very good. Unpaginated.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Armitage on the colophon to Mr. and Mrs. C. Frank Fox 1957. With printed footnote by Powell indicating this was based on his April 1957 talk to the Zamorano Club.</p><p>All copies were issued in wrappers. Armitage had a few bound in half dark green morocco over tan boards with a blind stamped design and custom designed decorative endpapers.</p> Horace F. Turner for Merle Armitage hardcover books
1934500231<p>in French Paris December 6 1934; to "Mon cher Meral: Happy to receive your letter - and with the hope that it gives me to welcome you damn my wish to be agreeable to you and to Marianne - I request permission to 'beg off'." Octavo. 1 page with integral leaf deckled edges.</p> unknown books
197920552NY: Random House 1979. Limited issue of the first edidtion of 500 numbered copies signed by Styron on the limitation page as issued. Copy #132. Full cloth. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Spine cloth with beginning toning; slipcase with beginning edge toning. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. National Book Award winner and the basis for the 1982 film starring Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep who won her first Oscar for her performance of the title character. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
