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193552764New York: Samuel French 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; vertically-ribbed green cloth boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; deckle edges; dustjacket; xiv89-223pp. Spine ends gently pushed light rubbing to the gilt titles with a few faint partial ring marks on front cover; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 edgeworn gently sunned and dust-soiled with a 1" loss at crown affecting two words in the title and several smaller losses at heel and corners; just Very Good. <br/><br/>Author of The Jazz Singer. Accent on Youth was the basis for three films: the first directed by Wesley Ruggles 1935 starring Astrid Allwyn and Lon Chaney Jr.; Mr. Music 1950 directed by Richard Haydn starring Bing Crosby Nancy Olson and Charles Coburn; and But Not for Me 1959 directed by Walter Lang starring Clark Gable Carroll Baker Lilli Palmer and Lee J. Cobb. Samuel French unknown books
194432229France: Ceux de la Resistance 1944. First edition. Color printed boards cloth back edges a little rubbed. 60 unnumbered pages : 12 full-pagebbcolor illustrations ; 32 cm. The authorship is perhaps not surprisingly a little obscure. The authors' full names as above are listed in the 1946 Catalog of Copyright Entries and the on-line catalog of the Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Museums while the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin substitutes "Samson" for "Nebelska". The BNF lists only the pseudonymous attributions. Wanda Stefanowska-Nebelska b.1919 under the nom-de-guerre "Christine" is listed in the database of the Musée de la résistance en ligne as a member of the Polish resistance in France. Maurice Denier if the author here is the same person was a playwright of the 1890s his identity slightly concealed by the reversed spelling. Published by C.D.L.R. Ceux de la Résistance for Christmas 1944. The cover illustrates the two devils on either side of the Cross of Lorraine with "V" for Victory. Two little devils join the FFI Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur and make things hot for the Germans. A 1946 sequel appeared 'Asfer et Sato en Alsace au service secret'. <br/><br/> Ceux de la Resistance hardcover books
1949014154Cambridge MA: University Press Inc. 1949. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xxx 474 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with several chips including a large one at the base of the spine and numerous small tears and creases; protected in archival mylar. Contains 26 black & white illustrations. First edition. Text is in Spanish. Includes a typed letter signed by Alejandro Orfila on Organization of American States letterhead. University Press, Inc. Hardcover books
196456242n.p. 1964. Hardcover. Good. 257p. Somewhat worn original boards. 33cm. Printed on one side. Inked notes on endpaper and some underlinings by Professor Leonard Thompson to whom this copy was INSCRIBED by Guma. Dissertation in the Department of Bantu Languages in the University of South Africa. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1950S8569No place:: Biological Bulletin 1950. 1950. 8vo. 331-332 pp. Single leaf; extremities a bit worn. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. A FINE GROUP. Gross was associated with the Rockefeller Institute New York. All of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: GROSS. "Heterokaryosis Between Opposite Mating Types of Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: American Journal of Botany vol. 39 no. 8 1952. 8vo. 574-577 pp. Printed wrappers; water stained. Full list available on request. Biological Bulletin, 1950. unknown books
1961291691961. SAMSON P. HAH-FI! Cedar Falls Iowa: L.T. Slaughter & Company 1961. 16mo. printed wraps. Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies. Volume One. Near fine. $15.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
195136047NY: Random House 1951. Book club edition. 8vo pp. 152. Illustrated with photographs from the production. VG in worn dj. Random House unknown books
196799213Ibadan: the author 1967. xi56p. 8x13 inches foreword by R. G. Armstrong author bio poem essay footnotes very good in original pictorial wraps. Tribal strife and the military coup considered with references to the persecution of the Jews. [the author] unknown books
19425691New York Random House 1942. 1942. First edition so stated. 8vo. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. New York, Random House [1942]. hardcover books
194224195NY: Random House 1942. First printing. 8vo pp. 172. Author's presentation on flyleaf. Vg in some chipped and torn dj. A play. Random House unknown books
194224364New York: Dramatists Play Service. Very Good. c.1942. Acting Edition. Softcover. slight discoloration to covers short diagonal bend at lower right corner of front cover also affecting first couple of pages tiny tear in bottom edge of front cover; one-time owner's signature on ffep. frontispiece photo of stage setting Comedy about a snooty drama critic who is brought down to earth and taught the facts of life by a free-spirited playwright somewhat modeled after William Saroyan at least in the opinion of Brooks Atkinson in the NY Times. The original 1942 Broadway production starred Alexander Knox and Nicholas Conte who changed his name to Richard Conte when he became a full-time movie actor after World War II and ran for a respectable 125 performances. . Dramatists Play Service paperback books
193838911Paris 1938. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 64pp. Covers slightly browned and foxed; internally clean and unmarked text unopened; Very Good. Late single issue of this notable anarchist-literary journal which ran from 1917 to 1939 under the single-handed control of Maurice Wullens a Flemish-born schoolteacher anarchist and later accidental collaborationist with national socialism. Uncommon. unknown books
19691619Garden City: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. B0006BYM66 . Illustrated by the author. First edition. Near fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Doubleday hardcover books
1913238650New York: Privately printed 1913. First edition #96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth titled in gilt on upper board. Bixby bookplate of Mohican Point house on front pastedown. Fine. First edition #96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on flyleaf "Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Payne names partly effaced with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby St. L. 5/18/14"<br/>"Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass lake trout and land-locked salmon. one of the few early books to contain as much material on fishing in Lake George" Heller.<br/>An important and rare book. Plum Adirondack Bibliography 568; Bruns S27; Heller 1:716 Privately printed unknown books
1997031917London: Rubicon Press 1997. Revised Edition Reprinted. xvii 150p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Rubicon Press unknown books
194792933Paris: Millieu Du Monde 1947. paperback. very good. Illustrated. 277pp. 8vo original printed wrappers; unopened pages browned. Paris: Millieu Du Monde 1947. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Millieu Du Monde unknown books
1991Embry 192532Stackpole Books 1991. Later printing. Bookplate near fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Stackpole Books, 1991. Later printing. unknown books
1939123942New York: Random House 1939. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1941 screwball comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small owner stamp at the front endpaper else about Fine. Jacket extremities moderately toned else about Fine. An attractive copy. Random House unknown books
198261070bdClinton NJ: The Amwell Press 1982. Second Printing. Octavo brown illustrated cloth hardcover gilt illus. of bear to upper cover gilt letters and illus. to spine xvi 238 pp. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; The White bears of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806; Wahb-Seton’s Grizzly; Ben Lilly’s Bears; Faulkner’s Bear; Ben East’s Bears; Phil Moore’s Grizzly; Frank Dufresne’s Bears; Elmer Keith’s Bears; The Glacier Bear; Grizzly Adams and His Bears; Warren Page’s Grizzly; O’Connor’s Bears; Monarch; Of Grizzlies and the River; Bears that Make my Memory Sweat; The Day the Bears Come Out; Polar Bears; Brown Bears the Hard Way; Grizzly Bears; Plenty of Bear. The Amwell Press, (1982). Second Printing. hardcover books
197960116Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1979. First edition 1/1000 copies signed by the author illustrator and the publisher Jim Rikhoff. 8vo. xvi 250 pp. Line drawings color frontispiece. Contributors to this anthology include Teddy Roosevelt William Faulkner Elmer Keith Fred Bear and Jack O'Connor among others. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated black leatherette slipcase. 6858. <br/><br/> Amwell Press hardcover books
1903226746London Alexander Moring The De La More Press 1903. 1903. First edition. 12mo. Frontispiece. Edited and with a 27 page foreword by Sir Ernest Clarke. Original 1/2 vellum over blue/gray cloth t.e.g. uncut. Very good. Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. 285 pages. Signed and inscribed: "To Sydney Cockerell Esq. With the Editor's kind regards Oct. 1903." Printed by Butler & Tanner. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Alexander Moring The De La More Press, 1903. hardcover books
196828204Ibadan n.d. but 1968. First Edition. Slim folio 32.5cm.; original red pictorial card wrappers; 2iv43pp.; mimeographed text. Fine. Play originally composed and produced while the author was a student at the International Secondary School University of Ibadan in 1963. Amali later described as the only writer in his native language of Idoma is best known for his poetry both English and Idoman see Albert S. Gérard European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa 1986 p. 782n providing the date for this mimeographed edition. unknown books
198160117Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1981. First edition 1/1000 copies signed by the author illustrator and the publisher Jim Rikhoff. 8vo. xii 304 pp. Illustrated from line drawings plates color frontispiece. Contributors to this anthology of grizzly bear hunting include Annabel Frank Hibben Jack O'Connor Elmer Keith Hornaday and Saxton Pope. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated red bonded leather publisher's slipcase. 7261. <br/><br/> Amwell Press hardcover books
1925140940956New York: Brentano's 1925. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing of the dramatic version of a play which entered history when filmed becoming the first "talkie." Bound in publisher's patterned paper cover boards over green spine cloth with paper title label on spine. Fine pages lightly toned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing light fading and light edge wear. A lovely copy scarce in the dust jacket. Brentano's unknown books
19278570New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1927. First Thus. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 248pp. Old private owner's stamp to endpapers; more recent ownership label affixed over ffep stamp and it looks like someone's had a go at removing it with unfelicitous but not dire results. Else this is a bright unworn copy Near Fine in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket which is toned and faintly spotted on spine with mild wear to edges still bright and attractive VG or better. First printing of this novelization of Raphaelson's stage play issued to coincide with the Warner Brothers film production - the first feature-length "talkie." With frontispiece and seven inserted leaves of plates illustrating scenes from the photoplay. HANNA 2959 citing the stage version. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
