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200052135Newtown: Bird & Bull Press 2000. Edition limited to 150 copies 13 leaves plus enrgraved title sheet; fine encased in a plain paper folder. Morris had originally intended for Gaylord Schenilac to provide the engravings for his book The foresters but he ended up so pleased with Bates' work that he obtained permission to print and offer them as an independent set. Fourty-Four C37. <br/><br/> Bird & Bull Press unknown books
1959134256Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. A collection of 8 vintage still photographs from the 1959 film. Included are 4 stills from the US release and 4 stills from the UK release under the title "Mr. Teas and His Playthings." From a cursory glance one can immediately see the differences with regard to nudity paid by both US and UK publicists the UK stills decidedly more liberal with regard to the "forbidden flesh."<br/><br/>The US stills were taken directly from scenes of the film and the UK stills appear to be from either a deleted scene or a mock setup designed for foreign publicity with Mr. Teas seen in a bathhouse with the "Buxom Bath House Beauties" Baby Dahl Chicky Fricase Frenchie Tost Teri Clawthe that were not seen in the final cut. The UK stills purport "Monstrous Murder!" and "Sizzling Suspense!" taglines however the final cut features neither murder nor suspense. <br/><br/>The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br/><br/>Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br/><br/>For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>All stills 8 x 10 inches some differ slightly in size. Two US stills Very Good plus others Near Fine. UK stills Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
197317612No Place: Arif Press 1973. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Limited edition of this poetry volume SIGNED by McClure and with an original water-color drawing by Wesley Tanner. One of only thirty copies this one hand-labeled "XX". Near Fine condition in silk string-tied wrappers. One of the scarcer McClure or Tanner items one is likely to find. <br/><br/> Arif Press paperback books
1961134255Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Original pressbooks two variants for 1961 re-releases of the 1959 film. Featured are the two most commonly seen layouts used for publicity: the full-color illustrated "hat" variant and the other with Mr. Teas surrounded by a bevy of well-developed women the female leads of the film from left to right: Ann Peters Michele Roberts Dawn Danielle and Marilyn Wesley. <br/><br/>The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br/><br/>Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br/><br/>For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Both pressbooks 11 x 17 inches folded horizontally. "Hat" variant includes a 9 x 12 ad mat dated "Fri. Aug. 18 1961." Light rubbing overall rubber stamps from "Sack Amusement Enterprises" in Dallas Texas and a few light creases and tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
1983184541Washington D. C.: Office Of Air Force History 1983. Hardcover. VG- ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges IDs to lower spines internal stamps usual markings etc. scuffs smudges scratches to cloth. bumping rubbing or curling to corners. vol1 pgs 223-284 has crimping/creasing to upper corners & edges w/ some chipping to pgs. Blue cloth over boards with gilt titling at spines gilt illustration at front covers; 788 pp. vol. I 896 pp. vol. II 947 pp. vol. III 824 pp. vol. IV 877 pp. vol. V 807 pp. vol. VI 666 pp. vol. VII; Profusely illustrated with bw photos maps and tables including some foldouts. Volumes have have inspected and have some instances of underlining highlight and notations but overall clean and bright. Due date cards had two removal stamps. An updated reprint of the 1948 edition. Complete seven-volume set; Volume One: Plans and Early Operations January 1939 to August 1942 Volume Two: Europe -- Torch to Pointblank August 1942 to December 1943 Volume Three: Europe -- Argument to VE Day January 1944 to May 1945 Volume Four: The Pacific -- Guadalcanal to Spain August 1942 to July 1944 Volume Five: The Pacific -- Matterhorn to Nagasaki June 1944 to August 1945 Volume Six: Men and Planes Volume Seven: Services Around the World; Very heavy set; 30 Ibs. Office Of Air Force History hardcover books
1947RMORUTA01DGUtah State Historical Society 1947 1948 1949. Fine. Morgan Dale Introductions. Utah Historical Quarterly Vols. 15-16-17 in two books: The Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 and The Exploration of the Colorado River and the High Plateau of Utah in 1871-72. Powell John Wesley; Powell Walter Clement; Gregory Herbert E. SLC: Utah State Historical Society 1947 1948 1949. 270 540pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Handsomely bound in dark brown pebbled cloth. Book condition: Near fine with very light rubbing to corners; small stamp on front free end sheets. Utah State Historical Society hardcover 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
197313126No Place: Arif Press 1973. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Limited edition of this poetry volume SIGNED by McClure and INSCRIBED by Wesley Tanner who provides a full page original water-color drawing. One of only thirty copies this one hand-labeled "Artist Copy" and inscribed by Tanner to Robert Baldock. Fine condition in silk string-tied wrappers. One of the scarcer McClure or Tanner items one is likely to find. <br/><br/> Arif Press paperback books
1933137009Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Final Script for the 1934 pre-Code film musical "Bolero" directed by Wesley Ruggles written for the screen by Horace Jackson Kubec Glasmon Carey Wilson and Ruth Ridenour and starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. <br/><br/>A stylish Paramount musical that unlike so many others from its time came with a great storyline. George Raft rises from coal mine laborer to be a top dancer in pre-Great War Europe. While weaving his way through romantic entanglements including a fling with Sally Rand who performs her famous fan dance here he secures his own nightclub at which point he meets the real love of his life Carole Lombard after asking her to audition in her underwear in his hotel room. A pre-Code gem that seems almost to have been designed to push the censors buttons simultaneously one of the raciest and moodiest "A" musicals produced by this studio. <br/><br/>Tall self-wrappers as issued stamped FILE COPY and RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT PICTURES INC. on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 171 and dated November 8 1933. Holograph pencil notation at the top left corner reading "P 980." Credits on the front wrapper for screenwriters Jackson Wilson Glasmon and Ridenour. Mimeograph duplication side-stapled. Near Fine condition. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 85. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1929149227Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1929. Final Continuity script for the 1929 film. Copy belonging to assistant director H. Bruce Humberstone with his holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and several pages mostly regarding sequencing for scenes. The film was released in silent and sound versions and included with the script are ten sets of dialogue intended for use in the sound release housed in a tan card folder.<br/><br/>Based on Blair Niles' 1928 novel "Condemned to Devil's Island." A gentleman bank robber is sent to a prison nicknamed Devil's Island where he begins an affair with the wife of the head warden. Actor Ronald Colman's second talking film following "Bulldog Drummond" 1929.<br/><br/>Shot on location at Catalina Island California.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers rubber-stamped on the front wrapper as copy No. 11. Distribution page present with receipt removed noted as SOUND VERSION and rubber-stamped copy No. 11. Title page present noted as FINAL CONTINUITY. Credits for screenwriter Sidney Howard and novel credits for Blair Niles integral with the first leaf of text. Approximately 130 leaves without page numbers. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soil to the front wrapper side stapled with two staples. The Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
1932130968Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script as it was a rewrite issued during shooting. <br/><br/>AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20 1932 date on the script revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23 Sep 1932 HR announced that the script was being rewritten. According to a HR news item on 4 Oct 1932 Lowell Sherman walked off the set after a pay dispute and was replaced by Wesley Ruggles. Hopkins quit the production in early Nov 1932 claiming the role was not suitable for her. Gable was on loan from M-G-M for this film. Gable and Lombard were married in 1939. This was their only co-starring film."<br/> <br/>Based on the best selling novel "No Bed of Her Own" by Val Lewton. Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. While hiding out he meets lonely but somewhat wild librarian Lombard. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city where Gable continues his grifting ways unbeknownst to his new wife. <br/><br/>Salmon self wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 1278 and MASTER FILE dated October 20 1932 with credits for story writers Goulding and Glazer screenwriter Watkins and continuity writer Anges Brand Leahy. Brief holograph annotations on the front wrapper mostly related to filing. Title page integral with front wrapper. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 2 the second page of a summary. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine overall side-stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
191318002Berkeley: University of California Press 1913. First edition of the economist's magnum opus. Quarto bound in full green leather slipcase. With numerous charts and graphs throughout. In near fine condition with a small library blind-stamp to upper right corner of title page. One of the most prominent American Institutionalists Wesley Clair Mitchell almost singlehandedly constructed its concern with "business cycle" analysis. Mitchell was a professor at Columbia and one of the first directors of the New School for Social Research His magnum opus Business Cycles appeared in 1913. The Preface begins: This book offers an analytic description of the complicated processes by which seasons of business prosperity crisis depression and revival come about in the modern world. The materials used consist chiefly of market reports and statistics concerning the business cycles which have run their course since 1890 in the United States England Germany and France. University of California Press hardcover books
19475099New York: Rand McNally 1947. First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo original blue cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "comes to you with greetings from Misty and Marguerite Henry." Near fine in the original dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the spine and wear to the crown. Marguerite Henry's Newbery Honor Book has captivated generations with its thrilling descriptions of true incidents from the tiny island of Chincoteague and its realistic yet wonderfully magical atmosphere. This story of an animal brought into captivity poignantly reveals the powerful opposing forces of humans and nature. Over nearly five decades Henry authored "some four dozen books that introduced young readers to animals in the great outdoors. weaving the romance and history of mankind's association with the animal world into her illustrated texts" New York Times. Of those books Misty of Chincoteague is the best-known and most-loved. The delightful story inspired by a real Assateague horse follows the adventures of the freedom-loving colt Misty and two children who dream of owning her. First printing with "A" on copyright page. With color endpapers and numerous in-text illustrations--many full-page and with two color double-page illustrations--by Wesley Dennis "whose beautiful drawings and watercolor illustrations add great appeal to most of the author's works" Silvey 305. Basis for the 1961 film Misty. Rand McNally hardcover books
1907006192London 1907-1913. Full Morocco. Very Good. A strange lyrical manuscript that celebrates the spiritual the mystical and the beautiful. Oblong 25.5 by 37 cm. 49 pages with content many of which are illustrated with watercolors until the last few unfinished pages which have illustrations sketched in pencil. 21 pages have watercolors not counting painted letters. Two pages have finished well-executed pen-and-ink drawings. Followed by blank leaves constituting half of the album. John de Kay 1872-1938 was an American entrepreneur millionaire author and eccentric. With earnings from publishing ventures he invested in the Mexican meatpacking business becoming in the process the "Sausage King of Mexico". By 1909 his meatpacking business in Mexico had a book value of $22 million which translates to about $500 million in today's dollars although he sold his interest in the business to the Mexican government five years later for just $5 million still over $100 million in today's dollars. With his fortune he produced his own play "Judas" on Broadway with no less a star than Sarah Bernhardt as Mary Magdalen. The play with its depiction of a vampish heroine was shut down by the police after its opening night. It was also banned in Boston and Philadelphia. De Kay reportedly infatuated with Bernhardt showered jewelry and other gifts on her. De Kay went on to pen many other works on a wide range of topics including women's rights the labor movement Mexico and world peace as well as at least one work of poetry. As a man of great wealth de Kay owned substantial properties in both France and England as well as having a lavish apartment in New York. We have not been able to discover anything about the presumed illustrator credited in pencil on the cut out back of the FEP Winifred Elliot whose enchanting work is to us the glory of this manuscript. As far as the manuscript this is an anthology of disparate pieces including poetry prose meditations and apercus some of which might be rightly deemed ruminative essays except the organization tends to be somewhat discursive and the purpose is not so much the setting forth of an argument as much as the gathering of loosely linked insights and observations. The writing style can be epigrammatic but also pompous and pretentious perhaps deliberately so as the tone desired would seem at times to be biblical and prophetic. Topics include the law of beauty the soul on being etc. In one essay entitled "On Civilization" de Kay appears to propound rather radical notions. He writes for instance: "The individual is not to expect any help from a Government so long as that Government is organized upon the theory that it is right that a few men may claim the ownership of the earth. . . " If we wish to flatter de Kay we could say some of his writing prefigures that of Kahlil Gibran. On the other hand it shares some kinship with the fusty belletrists of the Late Victorian period as well. However one might assess the writing on its own we would maintain it has merit in how it complements the artwork which it deserves credit for having inspired. The artwork generally has a strong affinity to the pre-Raphaelite style. Here are opulent floral borders seraphs aplenty Medievalist historicism and fantasy. We especially like a page which abounds with butterflies painted with magnificent detail. Condition: Rebacked with matching navy morocco with most of original spine re-mounted but loss of everything from lowest raised band to below from the original spine. Considerable amount of rubbing of leather along edges with a few minor abrasions to leather elsewhere. One shallow but wide ding on rear upper edge. Silk moire endpapers suffering some edge tattering. The FEP is deliberately scooped out neatly so by edge of turn-ins to reveal on back pencilled information about the book. We have relied on this information for the title and also as solidifying the attribution and dating. The pages have light edge toning and an occasional stray mark or smudge. <br /><br /> books
194696045Playbill Incorporated 1946. Rare original playbill from the 1946 production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida starring Marlon Brando and Katharine Cornell. Octavo original wrappers illustrated. Boldly signed on the front panel by Marlon Brando Katharine Cornell Cedric Hardwicke Oliver Cliff Wesley Addy and Mildred Natwick. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by the entire cast of this important production. Katharine Cornell played the lead role of Candida on Broadway in five different productions the last four of which were for her own production company. She became the actress most closely associated with the role and became so acclaimed that the Actor's Guild forbade any other actress from playing the role while Cornell was still alive. In her final production of 1946 a young Marlon Brando played the role of Eugene Marchbanks. Playbill Incorporated unknown books
1908856521908. DOW Arthur Wesley & Everett Stanley HUBBARD. BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH. Ipswich: Privately printed 1908. No. 103 of approximately 200. 32 pp. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth unmarked with color illustrated front cover only paper covered boards. Covers worn but still attractive; interior near fine small pencil numerals to front pastedown. Eight lovely color woodblock illustrations with other monochrome and two color designs/headpieces. "BY SALT MARSHES is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old North Shore town of Ipswich where he was born and spent most of his life and to his boyhood friend Everett Stanley Hubbard. It is a collaboration somewhat in the spirit of Meteyard Carman and Hovey in their Vagabondia books though Hubbard was undoubtedly a lesser poet and Dow a greater artist. BY SALT MARSHES is his masterpiece and it is evident from the numerous sketches and proofs in the Ipswich Historical Society and the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities - some dating back as far as 1895 - that it was a labor of love. Infinite care and craftsmanship were expended on every detail. The illustrations are color woodblock prints such as Dow described in an article in MODERN ART 1896 entitled "Painting with Wooden Blocks." This was a technique Dow had discovered in the course of his study of Japanese art and he was a master of it using as many as four or five different blocks accurately registered thinly inked to show the grain of the wood and printed in subtle gradations of tone to achieve a luminosity that effectively evokes the quality of the light on the marshes. Although the text is printed from small gothic type the lettering on the cover and title page was also cut by hand in woodblocks after the manner of Meteyard and Dawson-Watson's lettering for the COURIER INNOCENT 1897." Finlay - Artists of the Book in Boston 1890-1910. unknown books
