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1971151346Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1971. Vintage press kit for the French release of the 1971 documentary film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing five black and white photographs and three pages of promotional reading material.<br/><br/>A documentary following the star-studded 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival which featured Crosby Stills Nash and Young Joan Baez Joni Mitchell and many others. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Big Sur. <br/><br/>Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
198013181JNew York: Macmillan 1980. First Edition First Printing. Signed by Fred Crane and Cammie King who both appeared in the 1939 classic film. Fred Crane who played the role of Brent one of the Tarleton twins and he speaks this first line to Vivien Leigh and has signed the book with his name and as well of that of his film character. Cammie King played Clark Gable’s and Vivien Leigh’s daughter Bonnie Blue Butler in the 1939 film classic produced by David O.Selznick. She has signed the book with both names. “Cammie King ‘Bonnie Blue.’†King was also the voice the character Faline in the Walt Disney’s 1942 animated film classic Bambi and was the step daughter of Dr. Herbert Kalmus who created the stunning color film process Technicolor which was used to film Gone With the Wind. The book itself prints the shooting script for the film is illustrated with production stills and contains a fine historical essay on the writing and production of the film by Richard Harwell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Macmillan unknown books
196011711JNew York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy 1960. First Edition. Signed by the author Joseph Mitchell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rarely found signed by Mitchell. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy unknown books
1909018493Very Good. 1909. Photo album with 25 silver-gel photographic prints of Muir Woods California taken in 1909. Album covers are brown burlap with title label on front; covers measures 11 ½" x 7 ¼"; black album leaves all have been used. Photos measure between 3 ½" x 3 ½" and 6 ½" x 4 ¼"; a few have captions on the photograph or underneath it in pencil; most have good contrast and detail but a few have poor contrast and focus. Album covers have light wear to edges; photos have light silvering to moderate silvering or deterioration. Overall very good. This album belonged to Virginia and Thomas Palmer-Mitchell. Most of the images depict a group of young men and women posing in Muir Woods all looking carefree and happy among the iconic Redwood trees. Noteworthy images depict the party on the "Gravity Train" up Mount Tamalpais and another shows a cabin in the woods. The log cabin was built in 1905 and was located near the north end of the redwood forest. Although the photo is captioned "A cabin Muir Woods - John Muir's" the nicely situated cabin was likely built for William Kent who donated the land to make Muir Woods National Monument. It is said that John Muir stayed at the cabin at one time Historic Resource Study for Muir Woods National Monument. A nice grouping of early photographs of this popular national monument. ; 14 pp . unknown books
1966146777Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1966 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1961 novel "The Cypher" by Alex Gordon about a professor of ancient languages who becomes involved in international intrigue involving a beautiful spy an oil magnate and a secret message coded in hieroglyphics.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in England and Wales. <br/><br/>82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good overall with no restoration lightly soiled with 2 short closed tears 3 cello tape shadows and some creasing to left otherwise bright and unfaded. Universal Pictures unknown books
1977135932Los Angeles: Tony DiDio / Cal-Am Artists 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Released theatrically in 1978 released on VHS in the early 1980s subsequently labeled a "video nasty" and banned in the UK from 1982 to 2000. <br/><br/>Quintessential exploitation film about a ski-masked maniac Mitchell who wreaks terror on the tenants of an apartment complex dispatching victims with a variety of power tools and other items from his toolbox. <br/><br/>Features a cameo by adult film star Kelly Nichols Jessica Lange's stunt double in John Guillermin's 1976 adventure "King Kong" where she is riddled with nails in a controversial scene involving a nail gun. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Noted as copy No. 28 in holograph ink on the first page. Title page present dated March 15 1977 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Friedenn Easter and Kindberg. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Muir 1970s. Thrower Nightmare USA. Tony DiDio / Cal-Am Artists unknown books
1954150809N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Bound in after the outline are several sets of character descriptions and continuity notes. <br/><br/>Santa Fe's first female doctor Greer Garson wants to introduce modern medical technology to the town but encounters resistance both from the local hospital which is run by a Catholic priest Walter Hampden and from the town's only other doctor Dana Andrews. <br/><br/>Set in Boston Massachusetts and Santa Fe New Mexico shot on location in Tucson the Sonoran Desert and the Sierrita Mountains Arizona.<br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy. Title page present dated 4/13/54 noted as Story Outline with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy and screenwriter Frank Butler. 193 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Pitts 4148. N.p. unknown books
1966WRCLIT81493Dublin: Allen Figgis 1966. x1011pp. Quarto. Gilt cloth-textured boards. Fifty full-page color plates by the author each with commentary. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Edited by Edgar W. Battle. Gift inscription on front free endsheet otherwise a very good or slightly better copy in price- clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities and a faint ring mark on the lower panel. First edition. After a Sioux uprising Nebraska-born Mitchell 1890 - 1973 moved with her family to Ireland where she eventually married into the Jameson family. Her watercolors as the title suggests record aspects of the city now faded if not forever lost. The number of copies printed was modest and in the full sway of the Celtic Tiger copies realized astonishing sums at auction. Allen Figgis hardcover books
194330877New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1943. 1st edition. Red cloth binding with black spine lettering. Dust jacket. VG/VG bit of chipping to spine ends. 10 253 1 blank pp. Woodcut vignette to t.p. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>"The majority of the twenty stories in this book are about low-life in New York City" hence we speculate the title for McSorely's Old Ale House is the oldest est. 1854 continuously-operated Irish pub in New York City. As a measure of its 'traditionally minded' owners the tavern was men-only until 1970 when the National Organization for Women won a legal suit thereby gaining admission if not welcome. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
194458815New York: The New Yorker 1944. First separate edition originally appeared in the January 1944 issue of The New Yorker. 8vo. 9 pp. printed double-column. A native of eastern North Carolina Mitchell 1908-1996 wrote similar sketches for The New Yorker for decades 1930s-1960s continuing to go to his office every day until near his death though publishing in the periodical nothing of significance after 1965. Cover title: "The Mayor of the Fish Market a Profile." Not in Thornton. OCLC locates one copy New York State Library. Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers rubbed stapled. #5909. <br/><br/> The New Yorker unknown books
188223679Chicago: O.L. Fox & Co. Publishers and Printers 204 Dearborn St 1882. 3.75" x 7". 48pp illustrated. Original printed stiff paper wrappers elaborately illustrated the rear wrap folds over and encases text leaves. Many illustrations of wagons and buggies descriptions provided with each illustration. Light wear Very Good. <br/><br/> A rare catalogue annual from the Company founded by Henry Mitchell who came to Chicago from Scotland in 1834. "His name is intimately connected with the history of wagon manufacture in the West." Indeed "he built the first wagon ever constructed in" Chicago. Mitchell moved to Kenosha Wisconsin in 1839 and then to Racine. William T. Lewis was Mitchell's son-in-law and a Wisconsin assemblyman. The firm had the capacity to turn out one wagon every twenty minutes with an average production rate of 800 wagons each month. Wagons were sold worldwide. See Willshire. The History of Racine & Kenosha Counties 459. <br/>OCLC 31685140 4- U VA Clarke Hist. Lib. Lib. MI IA State Hist. Soc. as of February 2018. Romaine 87 1898 catalog. Not in Winterthur or NUC. O.L. Fox & Co., Publishers and Printers, 204 Dearborn St unknown books
198315278JAustin: Humanities Research Center/University of Texas 1983. First Edition. Signed by Cammie King 1934-2010 who played Clark Gable’s and Vivien Leigh’s daughter Bonnie Blue Butler in the 1939 film classic produced by David O.Selznick. She has signed the book with both names. Cammie King ‘Bonnie Blue Butlerâ€. King was also the voice the character Faline in the Walt Disney’s 1942 animated film classic Bambi and was the step daughter of Dr. Herbert Kalmus who created the stunning color film process Technicolor which was used to film Gone With the Wind. Extensive finely printed 121 page catalogue book of the landmark exhibition of Gone With the Wind material existing in the David O. Selznick Archives. Contains numerous illustrations of important production material including some of the original costume designs reproduced in color. Most of the illustrations have never been reproduced before. Among some of the important documents reproduced are an original Margaret Mitchell letter to Selznick a fascinating memo to Selznick from F. Scott Fitzgerald discussing the character Melanie plus memos to and from Selznick establishing the production etc. Paperbound. Fine. Scarce. Humanities Research Center/University of Texas unknown books
18343245Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1834. Full period color 17 x 20 1/2 inches folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Statistical table laid down on inside front cover. Five insets see below. Minor repairs. This is the second pocket map edition of D. H. Vance's map of New York State with the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell. Mitchell had purchased the plate from Anthony Finley in 1831 removed Vance's name added a new border and included it in his edition of the A New American Atlas 1831. The map was first issued as a pocket map by Mitchell in 1832. With the 1832 edition Mitchell replaced the inset "Profile of the Erie Canal" with four insets: "Vicinity of Albany" "Vicinity of New York" "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." With this 1834 edition the statistical table at right was replaced by an inset "Map of the Hudson River." Numerous new towns are present throughout and distances in miles along roads between towns have been added. New York's first railroads are also included for the first time. The title has been moved from the upper left to the lower left corner. This edition is not listed in Rumsey nor in Phillips. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown books
1937150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary.<br/><br/>During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events.<br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
18599005506Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co. 1859. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in the publisher's original brown boards stamped in black with a black leather spine. Modest wear and soiling to the extremities. Some browning to the endpapers. Very clean internally. <br/><br/> E. H. Butler & Co. hardcover books
183752333Philadelphia: S. August Mitchell and Grigg & Elliot 1837. First edition second issue with "animals" on title page correctly spelled 8vo pp. viii 9-143 1 8 Grigg & Elliot ads; fine folding map of Illinois hand-colored in outline; late 19th- or early 20th-century half red morocco gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 2 t.e.g.; nice copy. Graff 2840; Howes M689; Sabin 32460. <br/><br/> S. August Mitchell, and Grigg & Elliot unknown books
1883W0811WNew Haven: Privately Printed 1883. Original brown morocco spine and tips 5 gilt raised bands and gilt spine lettering. Brown and cream marbled boards. Owner signature from 1891 on ffep. Number 176 of 200 copies. Very complete geneaology of the decendants of Rev. John Woodbridge who settled in Massachusetts in 1634. Large fold out pedigree facing p. 156 has been supplemented in ink with information into the mid 20th century. Beautifully printed with typography with red ruled boxes. Limited/Numbered. Half-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. Privately Printed Hardcover books
1918239055Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern 1918. 247p. first edition hardcover inscribed by Mitchell to a former professor George J. Cummings handwritten letter by Mitchell to Cummings is laid in in the original envelope; minor bumping of one corner endpapers toned else very good condition. Mitchell writes in extensive highly documented detail about the legal aspects of race relations and racism in America. He was an attorney in Philadelphia and a former Treasurer of Howard University. The publishing entity was a project of the American Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the earliest African American publishers. The A.M.E. Book Concern unknown books
183737871Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1837. 8vo. 143 1pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline. Original cloth-backed printed boards soiling & rubbing to boards. Scattered foxing but a crisp copy. First edition second issue "animals" correctly spelled on title page. Howes M-689. <br/><br/> S. Augustus Mitchell hardcover books
1936308858Macmillan and Co 1936. Later edition. 8vo. Grey boards with blue title Very good. Dust jacket has tears along spine edges worn with some additional tears on front and back. Interior is fine. Ownership signature of Justine S. Miner. Later edition. 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown books
19361408068The Macmillan Company 1936. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy. Second Edition. 1936 printed on the title page. Copyright page states: Published June 1936. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Previous owner's personal stamp on the front paste down. Moderate rubbing along the board edges and at the head and tail of the spine. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1839WRCAM29278APhiladelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1839. Folding pocket map 17 x 20 1/2 inches with full period color. Bound into original 16mo. green morocco boards stamped in blind and gilt. Boards rubbed. Minor repairs a bit of staining else good. The fourth Mitchell edition of D.H. Vance's map of New York State with extensive additions to New York's embryonic railroad system both on the main and the inset maps. "Sold by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. No. 253 Market Street" added below neat line and the front covers now stamped" "New-York." With five insets: "Map of the Hudson River" "Vicinity of Albany" "Vicinity of New York" "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." This edition is not in Rumsey or Phillips. S. Augustus Mitchell hardcover books
18393248Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1839. Full period color 17 x 20 1/2 inches folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Statistical table laid down inside front cover. Minor repairs a bit of staining. The fourth Mitchell edition of D.H. Vance's map of New York State. Extensive additions to New York's embryonic railroad system both on the main and the inset maps. "Sold by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. No. 253 Market Street." added below neat line. The front covers now stamped "New-York." With five insets: "Map of the Hudson River" "Vicinity of Albany" "Vicinity of New York" "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." This edition not in Rumsey; not in Phillips. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown books
20192009200Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019. signed limited. as new. Signed Limited Edition. As new unread copy of Limited Slipcase Edition first printing. Signed by Joni Mitchell. Still in shrinkwrap. Small bump at one corner of slipcase. Includes reproductions of hand-written lyrics Joni's drawings and two prints suitable for framing. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt unknown books
200730755Germany: Steidl 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tall hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. First edition of the first major retrospective of this talented New York School painter. This a fine unread copy still in shrinkwrap. A large and heavy book. Steidl hardcover books
