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38557Framed in mahogany and matted. A fine model beautifully framed and matted. Framed size: 8 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches; image size: 5 1/2 x 19 inches. Laser cut relief. Manufactured by RC Models San Pedro California. The S.S. Norway began life in 1960 as the SS France built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique; later purchased and refitted by the Norwegian Cruise Line she was decommissioned in 2004 and scrapped in 2008. unknown books
193327526New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine copy with cloth particularly bright in a bright dust jacket which is rubbed at spine panel with a few minor nicks and tiny tears at edges. The only Philo Vance mystery with a pictorial dust jacket. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1943184014Hannover: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag 1943. G text block is separating but intact. Map is good and color plates bright and clear. Black cloth covers with silver numerals to spine and silver SS runes to front cover. 2 days per day diary with additional 63 pages of text 24 full page coloured plates and a fold-out map of Europe and the World. Scarce item and in good condition. No slipcase for this title. Has pprtrait of Himmler on ffep. Pages are blank - never used. Adolf Sponholtz Verlag unknown books
1993140195Moskva: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya/ Great Russian Enclyclopedia 1993. Hardcover. VG clean and tight with museum ex-lib. book plate inside front cover; light rubbing to covers. Black cloth with gold lettering and decoration; 862 pp.; no illustrations. Text in Russian. Each entry has extensive narrative text. Entries arranged according to the Russian alphabet obviously!. This is the first of two volumes published beginning in 1993. The material herein is based on research and writings of eminent Russian theologians prior to the Russian Revolution. A scarce and valuable reference manual. Please note a three-volume set of the same material also was published at the same time. Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya/ Great Russian Enclyclopedia hardcover books
1923140939429New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Sheets printed in the UK so presumably following the Chatto & Windus edition that same year. viii 286 pp. with fold-out facsimile letter plate at rear. Original blue cloth with cream title stamping. Cloth head and upper tips slightly chewed else Near Fine with foxing to fore edge. In Very Good double-sided dust jacket some rubbing and soiling especially to spine panel small closed tear near foot pencil mark to front flap price intact $2.75. Verso of jacket lists Knopf titles. Rare in jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1934149204Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1934. Final Draft script for the 1934 film. <br/><br/>Based on S. S. Van Dine's 1934 novel featuring Van Dine's recurring character Philo Vance. A party guest at a wealthy Manhattan estate vanishes presenting a new case for foppish bon vivant and New York detective Philo Vance. The only film adaptation of Van Dine's long-running series to feature actor Warren William as Vance.<br/><br/>Set in Manhattan.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 53. Distribution page present with receipt removed dated 5/5/34. Title page present dated 5/5/34 with credits for screenwriters Rian James F. Hugh Herbert and Robert Lee. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
193616208New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1936. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good . NICELY INSCRIBED BY S.S. VAN DINE TO MYSTERY WRITER WILLIAM C. WEBER on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition with both the letter 'A' and the Scribner colophon on the copyright page. Tight and VG light rubbing to the silver-titling on the front panel in a crisp price-intact $2.00 VG dustjacket with very light creasing along the panel edges. Thick 12mo the 10th title in Van Dine's wonderful "Philo Vance" series. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1929150618Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Vault Copy Draft script for the 1929 film stamped three times with "Vault Copy" and annotation of the name of uncredited crew member "Mr. Cohn" on front wrapper in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on the 1928 novel by S.S. Van Dine the fourth of twelve Philo Vance mystery novels. The body of man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found at an archery range with an arrow through the heart and a chess bishop left as a clue. Basil Rathbone's only portrayal of the stylish New York P.I. Philo Vance. He would take on the role of Sherlock Holmes for which he is best known beginning in 1939.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers with M.G.M. label dated AUGUST 10 1929 with credits for author S.S. Van Dine and director Nick Grinde. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Lenora J. Coffee. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with chipping and closed tears at extremities and closed tears to spine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
192820962ENew York: Scribners 1928. First Edition of the third Philo Vance novel. Signed and inscribed by the author S.S. Van Dine to actor and screenwriter George O’Hara in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: “To George O’Hara New York 1929 - or bust! If the Greene is shot and you are not there I’ll be unhappy. S.S. Van Dine Hollywood 1928.†Slightly cocked else a very good lightly used copy with some fading to the cloth at the spine and some edge wear without dust jacket. The basis of the 1929 film directed by Frank Tuttle starring William Powell as Philo Vance with Jean Arthur Ullrich Haupt and Florence Eldridge. George O’Hara 1899 - 1966 began his film career working for early Hollywood director Mack Sennett and is best known for starring in Fighting Blood 1923 When Gale and Hurricane Met 1923 and California or Bust 1927. His screenwriting notables include Night Parade 1929and A Single Man 1929. Scribners hardcover books
1911259144N.p. London 1911. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Full red morocco gilt upper boards titled in gilt spines with raised bands dentelles gilt marbled endsheets a.e.g. Some inoffensive traces of damp along lower portion of boards of Moore volume occasional superficial scuffs otherwise fine. Internally immaculate. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Manuscript Genealogy of Sportsman Clarence Moore Who Died on the Titanic. Monumental genealogical manuscript volumes recording the descent of Clarence Moore of Washington D.C. who died aboard the S.S. Titanic in April 1912 and his second wife Mabille daughter of Edwin Carleton Swift of Prides Crossing Massachusetts. They were married in 1900 and had four sons: Edwin Swift Moore born 1901 died in childhood 1907; Jasper Moore born 1905; Clarence Moore born 1910; and Lloyd Moore born 29 November 1912. In addition to the detailed genealogical reports the volumes include extenisve extracts from historical documents and records in England Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Maryland. The Swift Genealogy William Swyft of Sandwitch and some of his descendants 1637-1887 includes 1296 entries and concludes with a family tree for Mabille Florence Swift. The researches for Moore were conducted by "Hester Dorsey Richardson and Albert Levin Richardson experts in Original Research of Baltimore Maryland".<br/>The Moore pedigree is updated through 1926 noting that Mabille married again in 1915 to Aksel de Wichfeld of Maribe Denmark.<br/><br/>Clarence Moore 1865-1912 a banker and sportsman of Washington. D.C. and M.F.H. of the Loudoun Hunt and the Chevy Chase Hunt had travelled to England to buy a pack of hounds and sailed for home on the Titanic. Survivors reported Moore's heroic conduct. He lowered women and children into the lifeboats and refused to take a place in the boats.<br/><br/>A beautiful and imposing genealogy. unknown books
1930180811003New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from signed S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii 328 5 versos only ads pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with slight crease to prelims edge rubbing in Good unclipped dust jacket with some chips tiny edge tears and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White rather than the popular William Powell as Philo Vance. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1870WRCAM56703Denver: S.S. Wallihan & Co. 1870. 442pp. plus 7pp. of ads at the front 59pp. of ads at the rear and 144pp. of ads interspersed in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear and light soiling to boards. Internally clean. Very good plus. This directory here in its first year of publication is an extremely detailed compendium of information and statistics on virtually every aspect of Colorado territory covering its history geography and geology natural resources etc. "This Directory gives useful information on the early territorial history of Colorado including the various conventions and forms of government in the early days railroads colonization and early mining" - Streeter. The volume also includes an accurate directory for Denver Golden City Black Hawk Central City Nevada Idaho Georgetown Greeley Colorado City Pueblo Trinidad etc. An appendix for the Denver directory includes the noted western artist A.E. Mathews who had recently published GEMS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCENERY and the Chinese tea dealer Tang Fee. This text is further supplemented by more than 200 pages of advertisements for local businesses. A more useful and comprehensive guide to pre- statehood Colorado would be difficult to find. Though published in Denver by Samuel Wallihan who also edited the work this book was printed in Chicago and is therefore also an example of a Chicago ante-fire imprint. However it is not listed in the American Imprints Inventory list of Ante-Fire imprints nor is it in Eberstadt Graff or Decker. Howell paid $110 for the Streeter copy in 1969. HOWES C611. WYNAR 1905 3794. SABIN 72459. STREETER SALE 4280. S.S. Wallihan & Co. hardcover books
190659301Roanoke AL: Mrs. S.S. Smith Birmingham AL: Press of Roberts & Son 1906. First edition of one in a series probably issued annually. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated 15 pp. Illustrated from black & white photographs. Leaves facing wrappers lightly foxed; light offset from illustrations. A very good copy of a very scarce catalogue. Original gray wrappers printed in brown on the front cover and stapled; moderately soiled and lightly edgeworn. A priced catalogue illustrated with pictures of the dolls grouped and numbered of the creator and producer Mrs. Smith of her staff of twelve women doll-makers of their work room with dolls in process and of a child probably her daughter with her collection of the dolls including "the colored 'Mammy' nurse." Customers could choose from seven sizes and 47 styles with further options e.g. they could be "painted to represent any race of people"; her black dolls are thought to be the first manufactured in the South. Prices ranged from $1 for the most basic to $10 for an elaborately dressed model. The Alabama Indestructible Rag Doll also Ella Smith Doll and Alabama Baby had a considerable success in the region. This catalogue gives meticulous detail and instructions firmly warns against patent infringement refers to hygienic concerns and shows a small manufacturing company founded and run by a woman employing women to produce products for women and their daughters. None listed in the NUC or OCLC. #660. <br/><br/> Mrs. S.S. Smith (Birmingham, AL: Press of Roberts & Son) unknown books
