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19277084JNew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1927. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the silent film epic of air warfare directed by William Wellman and starring Richard Arlen Gary Cooper Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow. Fine clean copy in a near dust jacket. The front panel of the dust jacket is a striking color painting of World War I planes in aerial combat. Wings was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1927141142New York: Grosset and Dunlap 1927. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1927 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper winner of two Academy Awards including Best Picture the only silent film to win that award. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Owner name to the front pastedown with some light bruising from attempted removal. Jacket is lightly nicked with short closed tears to the heel and crown but bright and unfaded. Grosset and Dunlap unknown books
2000172060New York: Gagosian Gallery 2000. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with cream red and black lettering. 90 pp. Color illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held May 4-June 30 2000 at the Gagosian Gallery. Gagosian Gallery hardcover books
1935260354Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Features illustrations from the MGM movie starring Wallace Beery and Maureen O'Sullivan. Binding sound with light to moderate edgewear. No markings in text. In remarkable condition considering how one usually finds Big Little books. Very Good binding. Whitman Publishing Company unknown books
2000173468Toronto: Toronto Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 2000. Softcover. VG. Illustrated wraps 79 pp profusely illustrated in color. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre June 17-September 4 2000 and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art North Adams MA June 3 2000-Apr. 15 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Essays by Philip Monk Laura Steward Heon and Doug Harvey. Toronto Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery paperback books
1964149332N.p.: N.p. 1964. Collection of five vintage oversize borderless photographs and two contact sheets with 59 images of the Thelonious Monk Quartet in performance at the La Maison de l'ORTF Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise in Paris on February 23 1964. Photographs with the stamp of photographer Alain Dessalles on the verso.<br/><br/>The quartet here includes saxophonist Charlie Rouse bassist Butch Warren and drummer Ben Riley. They would also back Monk on his 1964 album It's Monk's Time the tracks for which were recorded at in January February and March one of five albums Monk would release that year. <br/><br/>According to Robin Kelly's Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original the quartet was in the midst of a 17-stop tour through Europe when these photographs were taken. The images capture the legendary pianist at the height of his creative powers and three days later on February 28 1964 Monk became just the fourth jazz musician to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. <br/><br/>Photographs 8 x 12 inches contact sheets 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
198048319Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 1980. Paperback. Very good. 254pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> St. Vladimir's Seminary Press paperback books
1926WRCLIT70816Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. Some foxing to cloth but a very good copy in slightly sunned dust jacket with internally mended edge tear. First edition of the poet's first book. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
1926WRCLIT46885Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. Boards irregularly darkened some offset on endsheets tiny nick in top-edge of three leaves but a good sound copy. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
19981338183London: The Harvill Press 1998. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; red white blue spine with red black and blue text; scarce; first UK edition; first printing; dust jacket shows slight soiling; mild dings to edges; cloth has very light exterior wear; slightly cocked spine; text block exterior edges have light wear; interior clean; pp 215. 1338183. FP New Rockville Stock. The Harvill Press hardcover books
19383162qsLondon: Blackie & Son 1938. First Edition. Octavo blue cloth hardcover 223 pp. Near-Fine in a torn and tape-repaired dust jacket. Blackie & Son, (1938). First Edition. hardcover books
2000120045Los Angeles CA: Laband Art Gallery Fritz B. Burns Fine Arts Center -Loyola Marymount University 2000. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran January 14 through February 19 2000. Essay by curator Christopher Miles. Includes 6 color illustrations. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Laband Art Gallery, Fritz B. Burns Fine Arts Center -Loyola Marymount University unknown books
199734927Northvale: Jason Aronson 1997. Hardcover. Very good. xxi 252pp index. Very good hardback bound in publisher's boards and issued without a jacket. <br/><br/> Jason Aronson hardcover books
1959019540London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. 226p. b/w illus. original blue cloth slightly frayed at head of spine ex libris. Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
1972290203London: Elek 1972. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated b/w. 250 pages. 8vo. grey cloth spine slightly cocked wrapper slightly sunned and shelf-worn. London: Paul Elek 1972. Overall a very good copy.<br/><br/> Elek unknown books
1931002751New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1931. Fowler Guy. THE FINGER POINTS. NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1931. First Edition. A novelization of the 1931 First National pre-code movie starring Fay Wray Richard Barthelmess and a young Clark Gable. Excellent gangster-era tale in which a news reporter takes bribes from organized crime to cover up misdeeds. A Fine copy in a close-to-FINE dust jacket very uncommon in this superb condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover books
1928151246N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film showing actors George Bancroft and Betty Compson. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on John Monk Saunders' 1928 story "The Dock Walloper." A roughneck sailor on shore leave saves a working girl from suicide by drowning and the two begin a passionate relationship. Widely considered one of director Josef von Sternberg's finest films heightened by the work of cinematographer Harold Rosson and set designer Hans Dreier released at the very end of the silent era.<br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 531. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US Antecedent. N.p. unknown books
1930151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With holograph annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura.<br/><br/>The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film.<br/><br/>Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
1931002628New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1931. Fowler Guy & Saunders John Monk. DAWN PATROL. New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1930. TRUE FIRST EDITION released in tandem with the 1930 First National film of the same name directed by Howard Hawks. A Very Good or better copy in a Very Good just jacket a few tiny chips at the extremities. Attractive cover art on the front panel star photo rear panel eight internal stills. INSCRIBED in ink in the 1960s by THREE OF THE FILM'S FOUR STARS Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Neil Hamilton and Frank McHugh on both the front free endpaper and its verso. This copy bears the bookplate of Art Ronnie a noted studio publicist who later became a TV critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Inscribed photoplays are exceedingly rare. Possibly a unique opportunity for the collector. DAWN PATROL the story of a doomed squadron of wartime aviators was remade several times. John Monk Saunders won the best screenplay Oscar for this film. Laid in is an original cut ad from the 1930 New York Times for the film. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover books
1927WRCLIT30971London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Printed wrappers. Quarto. Covers a bit grubby three-inch split along the spine with a half-inch loss of paper from the bottom edge short tear to lower cover near head of spine but internally very nice with the prospectus laid in. First edition of the Irish poet's third book one of 460 numbered copies printed in France on Arches. The Le Doux illustrations are accompanied by a disclaimer emphasizing their tenuous relation with the text. The Grayhound Press unknown books
192723143London: Greyhound Press 1927. hardcover. very good. 49 hand-colored illustrations by Picart Le Doux. 83pp. 8vo original decorative boards. London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Very good.<br/><br/> One of 460 copies on Arches paper printed in France.<br/><br/> Greyhound Press unknown books
192726343London: The Grayhound Press 1927. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall bound wrappers. One of 460 hand-numbered copies printed on thick arches paper. A very good example. Poems by Gibbon with both color and black and white designs by Picart Le Doux. Remains of the publisher's printed belly band laid in. The Grayhound Press paperback books
190515168London: Virtue & Co 1905. First edition. Paperback. Good. Folios. Two consecutive issues of this magazine devoted to the fine arts. Each issue with a dedicated full page frontispiece protected by tissue guard Robertson in the April issue and Maris in the May issue. Each issue in good condition overall. Covers are slightly larger than the interior pages which has led to some expected creases and wear to cover edges. Internally clean. The word "Whistler" written in red pencil to top left front cover of each issue. Attractive art nouveau cover designs. <br/><br/> Virtue & Co paperback books
198790613NY:: Crossroad. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. 0824500857 . First edition thus paperback. Age toning to covers previous owner's stamp on half-title page else very good in illustrated wraps. . Crossroad, paperback books
1997125292Ontario: Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 1997. Softbound. VG. Color wraps 48pp. with multiple color plates. Catalog to accompany an exhibition contains full color photgraphs with each artist write-up. Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery unknown books
