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1969140941329New York: The Orion Press 1969. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Signed by Jan Benes on the dedication page inscribed to former owner with a cartoon of a cat and the Czech flag dated October 30 1969. xii 161 3 pp. Publisher's cloth lettered in metallic purple. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Laid in letter on Publishers' Weekly letterhead about the author from an unknown woman cryptically noting that in Paris "he Howard and Helena are so busy playing James Bond that they have kind of lost track of the fact that the real name of the game is Russian roulette!" An uncommon signature from a Czech author and dissident who emigrated to America in 1969 staying until the USSR fell then moved back to the Czech Republic. This novel set in a Czech labor camp in the1950s was forbidden to be published by the communist authorities. The Orion Press unknown books
190776976Little Rock: Arkansas Churchman's Publishing Co 1907. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index xvi 323p. Original blue cloth. 20cm. Light cover soil and some cover spotting. No Jacket. Brown an Episcopal Bishop supported segregationist views when he wrote this book. Brown was later tried and convicted of heresy by the Episcopal Church after he revealed that he found Darwinism and Marxism more appealing than orthodox Christianity and then wrote about his new thinking in "Communism and Christianism" published in 1920. Brown next became a bishop of the Old Catholic Church and continued to agitate and write in favor of leftist causes until his death in 1937. <br/><br/> Arkansas Churchman's Publishing Co hardcover books
1966116Viking 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. This is the first trade edition published in 1966. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover books
1977146589Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television miniseries originally aired on NBC from February 19-21 1978. SPIN. <br/><br/>Based on Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels: "The Trees" 1940 "The Fields" 1946 and "The Town" 1950. The story follows a young woman who has recently moved from post-revolutionary Pennsylvania to the unsettled Ohio Valley frontier navigating the struggle to survive and carve a community out of the wilderness. <br/><br/>Set in Pennsylvania and Ohio shot on location in New Salem Illinois. <br/><br/>Yellow custom titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 10 1977 with credits for screenwriter James Lee Barrett and novelist Conrad Richter. 215 leaves with last page of text numbered 211. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light dampstaining to the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers Television unknown books
19262310601New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company Inc 1926. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Volume I: Top page ridge lightly stained page ridge lightly foxed. Minor general wear to all volumes. 1926 Large Hardcover. Five volume set. A history of Pennsylvania from before its founding through the early 1900s. Includes a directory of counties and black-and-white plates. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc hardcover books
187119479Mattoon Illinois: T. E. Woods ca. 1871. First edition. Some slight soiling browning and light wear; in very good condition. Unbound pamphlet stitching evidently renewed 7.63 x 5.25 inches 8 pages. Full page woodcut of an unnamed rose variety. OCLC notes two 1871 examples of Montgomery price lists in the Gilbert Seed Catalog Collection at the National Agricultural Library but not this one. Comparison to digitized copies suggest this undated version of Montgomery's price list had lower production values--perhaps a result of a post-1873 economic downturn Or the simple charms of a small-town downstate printer T. E. Woods, unknown books
18963383New York: Burr Printing House 1896. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1896 1st edition. VG in its original maroon cloth with bright gilt-lettering to front panel and spine and decorative blindstamping to the panels. Very light limited soiling along the upper spine. Thick quarto 583 pgs. "the first written history of Danbury". Small neat former owner signature to front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Burr Printing House hardcover books
1977138667Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1977. First Draft script for the 1975 film. File copy belonging to Filmways Inc with annotations indicating same in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on E.G. Valens' 1966 book about Jill Kinmont Boothe a champion skier who at the age of 18 was involved in a near-fatal accident resulting in paralysis from the neck down. She would become a teacher of special education after rehabilitation and married a trucker named John Boothe in 1976. She was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1967 and died in 2012. <br/><br/>Director Peerce's notable film debut as director "One Potato Two Potato" 1964 was a groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage and one of the first films to portray such a relationship. He would later marry and divorce Marilyn Hassett who plays Jill in the film she won a Golden Globe for her debut role. Beau Bridges costars as her love interest. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Set in Bishop California shot on location throughout California. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as "Office Copy Cover" in ink on the front wrapper copy No. 74-1-82. Title page present undated noted as First Draft with a credit for screenwriter Seltzer. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1983141874Culver City CA: Mikas 1 1983. Fourth Draft script for the 1985 film. Here under the working title "Spooks." Laid in is a letter from Farkas' manager James Reed to Walter Kohner dated October 31 1983 <br/><br/>While ripping off ATMs using manipulated bank cards two engineers discover a plot of a shadow organization to crash the computers at the Federal Reserve Bank. They follow the trail all the way to Washington where the FBI will not take them seriously. <br/><br/>Set in Washington DC shot on location in DC as well as Virginia. <br/><br/>Velo binding with a clear front wrapper and black vinyl rear wrapper. Title page present dated November 1 1983 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Michael Farkas. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with black velo binding. Mikas 1 unknown books
196452266NY:: McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. B0006BLJIU . First edition. Errata sheet laid in. Previous owner's name on half-title page else very good in a very good minor edge wear with one small chip and closed edge tear dust jacket. ; 293 pages . McGraw-Hill, hardcover books
1905869891905. HALLOCK Ruth Mary. MONTGOMERY Frances Trego. CHRISTMAS WITH SANTA CLAUS. Akron Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co. 1905. Containing all 16 called-for illustrations by Ruth Mary Hallock of which 6 are full-color plates. 154 pp. Near square quarto. 22.5 x 19.5 cm. Bound in color-illustrated paper-covered boards. Binding is worn at fore-corners and the paper is somewhat chipped along edges. One plate is detached. Clean within. A very good copy. unknown books
196420123New York: Blue Beat Yowl Publications 1964. First edition. Paperback. Fair. Tall side-stapled wrappers. Yowl Press editors Montgomery and Kiviat mimeo magazine. This copy in only fair condition. Front cover loose from staples. Rear cover presumed missing. Small chips and wear to edges. Paper loss to last page table of contents. Introduction by Kirby Congdon. 41 pp plus a page of notes at rear. Printed on rectos only. Includes contributions by Berrigan Tuli Kupferberg Gerard Malanga John Keys Judson Crews and much more. One of only 207 copies. Cover art by Alex Wiener. According to Clay and Phillips this was the only issue published. An early Lower East Side poetry mag that rarely shows up for sale. Sold as-is. <br/><br/> Blue Beat (Yowl Publications) paperback books
1892WRCLIT82840New York: Harper & Bros. 1892. ix12115pp. Large octavo. Publisher's blind-decorated calf over boards quite edgeworn rebacked with later gilt calf fore and bottom edges untrimmed t.e.g. Heavily illustrated. Internally very good. First edition of Schuyler's influential articles about US architectural styles and trends published while he served as editor for Harper & Bros. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
2001233535New York: Vendome 2001. hardcover. fine/fine. Profusely illustrated with 300 color photographs. 256pp. Large square 4to blue boards d.w. New York: Vendome Press 2001. First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Vendome unknown books
2001150753New York: The Vendome Press 2001. Hardcover. NF/VG. Navy cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-photographic dj with white lettering on blue spine. Oversize and heavy. 256 pp. with 300 color illus. Covers 40 manor houses each one beautifully photographed and accompanied by text describing the families that created these marvelous homes centuries ago and in most cases whose descendants still inhabit them. Full of history architectural ideas and decorative details. Includes a list of the houses an introductory essay and a helpful glossary of terms. The Vendome Press hardcover books
185168103Philadelphia: T.K. Collins Jr. 1851. original brown cloth. 8vo. original brown cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xii 7-367 pages. B1-488. First edition. History of the settlement of Wilmington followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Covers worn with parts of hinge covering cracked partially detached. Old ink inscription at top of title page. T.K. Collins, Jr. unknown books
196648059NY: Viking 1966. First Edition. 4to pp. 497. Bibliography index. With a foreword by Henry Francis du Pont and photographs by Gilbert Ask. Over 525 illustrations some in color and information about individual cabinetmakers and their materials and manufacturing processes. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Edges slilghtly soiled o/w a nice copy in little chipped and scuffed dj. Very heavy. Viking unknown books
1926292913London: Duckworth 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition copy of this vinous book with frontispiece and all 50 additional plates present. This copy signed with a personal inscription to literary gadfly Montgomery Evans II by the author wine connoisseur and writer Andre Simon. Mr. Evans' striking bookplate by S. H. Sime is on the pastedown. There is a different owners blindstamp on the title page.~~In the publisher's orange cloth binding lacking the dustjacket. There is some minor foxing and toning to the first 20 or so pages. Very Good binding. Duckworth unknown books
1896TB31842Danbury Conn.: Burr Printing House and Danbury Relief Society 1896. First Edition. Very good in its original blind embossed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 10 by 6 3/4 inches with rubbing and light wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. The first 15 pages has minor chips to the margin of the lower edges of the pages. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 583 pages including an index chronology and text. Illustrated from facsimiles of historical documents and images from black and white photographs. There is a significant section of the text devoted to the British raid on Danbury which occurred in April of 1777 during the American Revolution. Burr Printing House and Danbury Relief Society hardcover books
1896TB31322Danbury Conn.: Danbury Relief Society 1896. First Edition. Very good in its original blind embossed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 10 by 6 3/4 inches with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. There is a former owner's name pasted on a strip of paper on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 583 pages including an index chronology and text. Illustrated from facsimiles of historical documents and images from black and white photographs. There is a significant section of the text devoted to the British raid on Danbury which occured in April of 1777 during the American Revolution. Danbury Relief Society hardcover books
183468523Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1834. original brown cloth paper spine label. 8vo. original brown cloth paper spine label. xxviii 29-278 2 12 pages. Volume 1 of two volumes. First edition of author's first book. BAL 1152. With a 12 page publisher's catalogue at the end of each volume - being state B in the first volume "Just Published . Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte". No priority assigned by BAL. Robert Montgomery Bird was a well-known Delaware author that resided in New Castle. "Fun fact: my parents bought Robert Montgomery Bird's home in New Castle DE at 212 Delaware Street. My mother actually still lives there today!" -Rob Fleck Director Oak Knoll Books. <br /> <br /> Label chipped. Spine faded. Boards rubbed. Carey, Lea & Blanchard unknown books
1947WRCLIT27398Phila. & New York: Lippincott 1947. Cloth. First U.S. edition of SWAN SONG. Fine in very nice price clipped dust jacket with minor chip at crown of spine. Lippincott hardcover books
1904WRCLIT60358New York: Life Publishing Company 1904. Small octavo. Pictorial boards printed in red and black. Illustrations by the author. Crown of spine very slightly worn otherwise near fine without dust jacket in later glassine wrapper. First edition. A relatively early collection in book form of Flagg's cartoon work accompanied by humorous verse. Life Publishing Company hardcover books
1986WRCLIT62278London: Constable 1986. Large octavo. Cloth. Plates. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author to novelist/bookseller George Sims and his wife with Sims's bookplate. About fine in dust jacket. Constable hardcover books
1970WRCLIT44871London: Hamish Hamilton 1970. Gilt cloth boards. Frontis and illustrations. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication to George & Beryl Sims: ".Souvenir of a happy visit to Peacocks With the author's nicest wishes Harford Montgomery Hyde & Robbie the book's dedicatee." Top edge a bit darkened some dust marks on edges of text block else very good or better in dust jacket. Booklabel of George Sims. Hamish Hamilton hardcover books
