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1939116042New York: The Derrydale Press 1939. First edition of this collection of reminiscences by Derrydale's best-selling author. Octavo original publisher's half buckram over blue cloth-covered boards illustrated by Churchill Ettinger. Introduction by Kenneth Roberts. One of twelve hundred and fifty numbered copies this is number 158. In near fine condition. Here Derrydale's best-selling author shares nine stories of hunting woodcock and quail and fishing for salmon and trout. The collection includes The Happy Road Cash in Hand The Fog Blew Over The Mountain The Old Men's Pool and Rendezvous. The Derrydale Press hardcover books
1991TB20481Lyon Mississippi: The Derrydale Press 1991. Limited Edition of 1991. Fine in dark blue bonded leather covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with a gilt decoration on the front board with all edges of the text block gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. A collection of nine short stories about hunting and fishing with a forward by Kenneth Roberts. One of only 2500 copies printed. The original edition was published in 1939 in a printing of only 1250 copies. With illustrations by Churchill Ettinger. 240 pages. The Derrydale Press hardcover books
1939WN60736ANew York: Derrydale 1939. Original blue cloth boards and beige linen spine with leather label. This is #990 of 1200 copies. The introduction is highly entertaining as it was written by none other than Kenneth Roberts a friend of Williams and a highly successful novelist in his own right. Williams' own accounts of his hunting adventures is highly entertaining even to the reader who would never pull a trigger on a turkey. For joy in humor here is your book for the doldrums of winter. Gift inscription on ffep. Limited Numbered. Linen Backed Cloth Covered Bds. Very Good/No D.j. Illus. by Ettinger Churchill. 4to. Limited. Derrydale Hardcover books
1939TB22697New York: The Derrydale Press 1939. Limited First Edition of 1939. Near fine in 1/4 off-white buckram and blue-gray cloth covered boards with gilt text on a black leather title box on the spine and with gilt text stamped on the front board. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of the "original" Derrydale printings of which only 1250 copies were produced. This copy is identified as number 609 on the copyright page. 240 pages with black and white illustrations by Churchill Ettinger. A collection of nine short stories about hunting and fishing with a forward by Kenneth Roberts. The Derrydale Press hardcover books
19919012073Lyon Mississippi: Derrydale Press 1991. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 2500 copies. Bound in publisher's original imitation blue leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt <br/><br/> Derrydale Press hardcover books
1939009322New York: The Derrydale Press 1939. Limited. Cloth. Near Fine . Ettinger Churchill. 561 of 1250 copies. Beige spine and teal boards. Edges and corners sharp. B&w illustrations throughout. Text clean binding tight. The Derrydale Press unknown books
19398320New York: The Derrydale Press 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Minor shelf/edge wear touch of toning to spine and board edges light toning at preliminaries owner bookplate at front pastedown else tight bright and umarred. Quarterbound beige buckram spine blue cloth boards blue leather spine label gilt lettering frontispiece. 8vo. 240pp. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 533 of 1250. <br/><br/> The Derrydale Press hardcover books
1966492Paris. The Trianon Press. 1966. Folio. Loose within stiff wrappers. 135 xxivpp. Illustrated by Ben Shahn. The illuminated pages were reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil. The frontispiece and title-page are original lithographs with color applied by hand through stencils. The frontispiece is signed by Shahn. This is the first edition of the Haggadah for Passover copied and illustrated by Ben Shahn published in a total edition of 292 copies each bearing the artist's signature and cipher on the frontispiece. This edition is one of 20 copies numbered I to XX and is printed on Arches Grand Velin pure rag paper. It includes an extra set of the color plates on Arches Vergé paper; a set of the plates left uncolored on Arches Vergé; and a proof state of the lithograph frontispiece all contained in separate folders. All contained in a full vellum folding box with brass latches. Fine condition. The Trianon Press books
198463920New York: Simon & Schuster 1984. hardcover. near fine/very good. 431 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster 1984. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Examination of the social and economic trends in America.<br/><br/> Simon & Schuster unknown books
1984035559Philadelphia: University Museum University of Pennsylvania 1984. Photographs by Eric Mitchell. 48p. colored and b/w illus. quarto format original stiff wrappers. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania unknown books
1963119478New York: Taplinger 1963. hardcover. very good/very good-. Illustrated. Sketches by Alice Caddy. xvi 257pp. 8vo red cloth. New York: Taplinger Publishing 1963. A very good copy in a very good - dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Taplinger unknown books
2001118857San Francisco: Self-published 2001. 32p. 4.25x7.25 inches 6 illustrations in linocut style including cover inscribed to comic illustrator Rik Livingston and signed by the autho very good first edition chapbook in original stapled pictorial wraps. Canadian writer transplanted to Oakland. His first chapbook. Co-founder of The Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund. Publication date of September 11 2001. Self-published unknown books
1928133223N.p.: N.p. 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928 showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto shows Lee Tracy later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen Osgood Perkins and Frances Fuller. The second a oversize 11 x 14 uncredited but by White Studios in New York City shows the star Walter Baldwin later played by Cary Grant onscreen Osgood Perkins and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and most famously the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940. N.p. unknown books
192880799New York: Covici-Friede 1928. First Edition. First Edition. <br/><br/>Hecht and MacArthur's most important book and easily the rarest in jacket. A drama that is the basis for three key films: "The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and most importantly of all the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940. <br/><br/>A cornerstone film source title by two of the greatest screenwriters of Hollywood's golden era. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket. Easily the grandest copy we have ever seen. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. Covici-Friede unknown books
1960116966New York: M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow and Co. 1960. Octavo boards. First edition. Posthumously published book collecting two novelettes "Lady in Hiding" first published as "The Frightened Lady" in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST and "Lady With a Past" first published as "Spell of Evil" in BLUEBOOK. The first is set in Boston the second in New York. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #116966 M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow and Co. unknown books
1973129857New York: Schocken 1973. hardcover. very good/very good. Eight Reports from the Field Work of The Minority Rights Group. Introduction by Milovan Djilas and Philip Mason. Frontis. 342pp. 8vo black cloth d.w.; dust wrapper rubbed. New York: Schocken Books 1973. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Schocken unknown books
2009Embry 165800St. Martin's Press 2009. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with a small soft crease to upper front panel in mylar cover. St. Martin's Press, 2009. First U.S. edition. unknown books
192322858New York: Boni and Liveright. Good. c.1923. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket reading/reference copy only; soiling to covers and edges of text block dampstain at upper page corners affecting about the first 25 pages stains/smudges on several other pages. B&W frontispiece 4 plates Mystery novel the protagonist of which is "Prince Julien de Medici -- of Broadway." Basis for the 1935 film of the same name directed by Robert Florey with which Hecht himself does not appear to have been involved. NOTE that a prefatory note about the Wallace Smith illustrations refers to "the five illustrations contained in the following pages" but in fact one of those is the frontispiece preceding that note and therefore only four illustrations are actually to be found in "the following pages." . Boni and Liveright hardcover books
192377257New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers 1923. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-12 13-14 17-256 257-258: blank note: text complete despite gap in pagination; last leaf is a blank five inserted plates with illustrations by Wallace Smith original pictorial oatmeal buckram front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. ". a fine novel by a master writer."- Pronzini and Muller 1001 Midnights pp. 353-54. Filmed in 1935. Hubin 1994 p. 389. Slight spine lean a problem common to this book hint of tanning to spine panel a nearly fine copy. #77257 Boni and Liveright Publishers unknown books
19231309749New York: Boni and Liveright 1923. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine tan with black print; Boards in tan cloth with black print worn corners tattering to spine caps stains to front lower corner cocked spine; Text block has slight stains to endpapers stain to lower right corner throughout hinge torn at rear endpapers intermittent spine breaks; 256 pages frontispiece illustrated. Stock Image. 1309749. FP New Rockville Stock. Boni and Liveright hardcover books
197738637Toronto: Lester & Orpen Limited 1977. First edition. 228 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Limited unknown books
1884019197New York NY: Fords Howard & Hurlbert 1884. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 599 pages of text including an index. Rebound in red cloth with the original red cloth backstrip and front cover cloth laid-down. Small red numbers stamped on the front endpaper which is also signed and inscribed by the author "To my friend Coleman from the author signed Ben C. Truman". The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Fords, Howard, & Hurlbert Hardcover books
WELLER9780062824127New. New book. unknown books
1992164484New York: Nan A. Talese - Doubleday 1992. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Booker Prize winning novel from the author of "Songs of Enchantment." A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Nan A. Talese - Doubleday unknown books
1992017180NY: Nan Talese. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st US ed. of this Booker Prize winner for 1991. Fine in fine dust jacket with slightly rough top edge. . Nan Talese hardcover books
