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19552305239Rochester New York: The Rochester Times-Union 1955. Signed Copy. Signed Copy. Near Fine/No Jacket. Bradley Wallace. Signed by author. Signed by author with inscription "To Rose Sold Hoch half of a team it's a pleasure to work with." No jacket. Smudge on bottom edge of front board. 1955 Hard Cover. x 140 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4. A collection of stories written by Howard C. Hosmer for his column in the Rochester Times-Union entitled It's This Way. The Rochester Times-Union unknown books
19295168New York: The Mcmillan Company 1929. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. An impressive association copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE SERVING SECRETARY-OF-STATE under Herbert Hoover and Governor General of the Phillipines Henry L. Stimson. A well-preserved copy to boot of the 1929 1st edition. Solid and VG in its navy-blue cloth. Bright gilt-design and lettering at the front panel and spine. Octavo 327 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> The Mcmillan Company hardcover books
192315928JNew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1923. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the classic Universal Pictures silent film starring Lon Chaney Sr. and Patsy Ruth Miller. This copy is signed three times by Patsy Ruth Miller on individual photo plates from the motion picture. The film that made Chaney an international star in his role as the deformed hunchback Quasimodo. Patsy Ruth Miller came to acclaim as well. Some moisture staining to the outer margin of one plate else very good in a dust jacket with some light chipping and small tears. The front panel depicts Miller sitting on a cart with her legs stretched out in a fetching pose. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1906168757Hawthorne Press: Elizabethville PA 1906. Second and Improved edition. Hardcover. VG- front hinge fairly loose contents tight covers are soiled and darkened. Tartan cloth covered boards withg paper label applied with red printing. 116 pp. Elizabethville, PA hardcover books
191147743Elizabethville PA: The Hawthorne Press 1911. First Edition. Octavo 23pp; brown cloth ribbed stamped in gilt; VI 192pp. Boards soiled rubbed about extremities; lower corners bumped; spine creased. Textblock toned and foxed throughout; bindings slightly shaken. Overall Good.<br/><br/>Harvey Monroe Miller—better known as Solly Hulsbuck—published four books of poetry and prose over his lifetime as well as many letters to Pennsylvania newspapers mostly in the Pennsilfawnish Deitsh dialect. While much of his work was issue-based in nature he usually blended any criticism with a healthy dose of the good-natured humor that made him a popular writer in Pennsylvania-German communities. This was his second book and his first collection containing prose as well as poems. The Hawthorne Press unknown books
192522276Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A collection of 21 short stories including "Happy New Year" by Zona Gale. Lavender cloth binding with blue lettering. Mild bump to the top corners. In the scarce dust jacket which browned moreso along the spine and folds with some general rubbing and soiling; otherwise a crisp very good copy. <br/><br/> Small, Maynard & Company hardcover books
1953UHUNGEO01RJBGovernment Printing Office 1953. Good. Hunt Charles B. Geology and Geography of The Henry Mountains Region Utah United States Geological Survey USGS Professional Paper 228. Averitt Paul; Miller Ralph L. Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1953. 234pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Wraps. Book condition: Good. Rear wrapper map folder detached with chipping along spine and light bumps to extremities leaving light creases and very small closed tears. Light bumping to frontal extremities also with minor stains along fore-edge. Government Printing Office paperback books
19536141Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in orig. but chipped glassine overwrapper. 38 pages. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press hardcover books
1953WN44240Pittsburgh PA: Univ.Pittsburgh Press 1953. Original dark blue cloth gilt with some wear and sunning on spine and on edges. Top edges lightly foxed. Warmly inscribed by author on ffep. . Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Univ.Pittsburgh Press Hardcover books
1953008854Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press 1953. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. viii 39 pages of text including an index. Blur hardcover binding with minimal shefwear. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of Penn by Inman a facsimile of Penn's bookplate and several facsimile pages of early Penn texts. Previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly to front pastedown endpaper. University of Pittsburgh Press Hardcover books
1958BL2218Pittsburgh:: Hunt Botanical Library 1958-1961. 1958. 3 vols. Large 8vo. lxxxiv 517; ccxliv; ix 655 pp. Frontis. plates some with color indexes. Dark green cloth gilt-stamped cover illustrations and spine titles. Burndy bookplates. Fine. Limited to 750 sets. Describes in full 764 rare botanical books printed before 1800. Each entry contains full collations and extensive annotations. Hunt Botanical Library, 1958-1961. hardcover books
1953BL2219Pittsburgh:: University of Pittsburgh Press 1953. 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 38 1 pp. Small title vignette plates index. Blue cloth gilt-stamped cover signature and spine title; extremities lightly rubbed else near fine. Burndy bookplate. Includes facsimile reprint of published letter written by Penn "Containing a General Description of the said Province Pennsylvania it's Soil Air Water Seasons and Produce both Natural and Artificial and the Good Increase thereof. With an Account of the Natives or Aborigines." University of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. hardcover books
19536446Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Minor shelf/edge wear warmly inscribed by the author else tight bright and unmarred. Navy blue cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 38pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/> University of Pittsburgh Press hardcover books
198451813Vicksburg MI: privately printed at the Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing 1984. Edition limited to 150 copies printed at the private press and typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing of which 100 are fort attendees of the Fourth American Typecasting Fellowship Conference and 50 for the Typocrafters' fall meeting; small 4to pp. 16; original plain wrappers brown printed dust jacket; fine. A brief history of the Scottish typefounders Miller & Richard and the complete text of H.R. 3671 an 1876 legal brief for the relief of the firm against efforts by American typefounders seeking to make it harder for Miller & Richard to import their type to San Francisco. Fourth Decade p. 23. <br/><br/> privately printed [at the Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing unknown books
1969D14201New York: Dover 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; 8vo; pp. xlix 206 15 ads. Covers a little rubbed with wrinkle at top corner. Henry Miller's copy not signed by him but including his underlining and marginalia and a note on the FFEP "note pages xv to xvii on 'Decadence' -- famous passage from Gautier!" <br/><br/> Dover paperback books
1942131688Portland: Binfords & Mort 1942. 62p. 8x11 inches endpaper maps foreword color illustrations very good first edition in color illustrated cloth and matching unclipped dj with edgewear. Third book in the series. Binfords & Mort unknown books
196630370New York: Kauri 1966. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. November 1966 issue of this small press poetry magazine edited by Will Inman. Printed on various color paper. Slightly brittle as with most issues we have seen. A very good example in side-stapled wrappers. Kauri paperback books
200240445New York: Rizzoli 2002. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A wonderfully detailed and lushly illustrated guides to the maps of Washington DC Full-color photographs and map reproductions throughout. Rizzoli unknown books
1994142479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film. <br/><br/>One of the first major thrillers to exploit criminal use of the Internet and in particular Internet hacking which was then just emerging as a concept at the popular level. Sandra Bullock stars as a computer programmer who realizes that she has come into possession of software able to view secret government information. She goes to Mexico on vacation to find that she is wanted by the police and that her identity erased. A high-tech thriller in the Hitchcockian tradition from an era in which the Internet had a mysterious cultural cache. <br/><br/>Set in Mexico and California shot on location in California and Washington DC. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper perhaps as issued dated March 1994 with credits for starring actress Sandra Bullock. Lacking title page presumably as issued. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1989293476Lynchburg VA: H. E. Howard Inc 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding lacking the dustjacket; viii; 188 pages including the Index; this is the First Edition printing signed by J. Michael Miller; the printing is limited to 1000 copies of which this is #866. Near Fine binding. H. E. Howard, Inc unknown books
1987016145Vancouver: Anerica. Good with no dust jacket. 1987. Stapled wraps. White stapled wraps with purple text and blue illustration on front and back. Has protective acetate wrapper. Poems are printed in blue and purple ink and accompanied by illustrations in blue and purple. Diagonal crease running from top to bottom through entire book. Text block is lightly toned unmarked and clean. No loose pages. A collection of poetry from a variety of writers including but not limited to Jill Duerr Jill Macdonald and Stephen Morrissey. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Anerica paperback books
2002275390University of Virginia Press 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A clean copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is bright and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. University of Virginia Press unknown books
1929144757New York: Henry Miller's Theatre 1929. Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End" which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22 1929 and closed on May 17 1930 for a total of 485 performances. <br/><br/>The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London which starred a young Laurence Olivier and was directed by then-unknown director James Whale. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written about World War I following the plight of a British Army infantry company in 1918. <br/><br/>Whale accompanied the play to America for the production advertised here which by late 1929 was being performed by 14 companies in English and 17 in other languages and he would go on to direct the 1930 film adaptation starring Colin Clive David Manners and Ian Maclaren. His film would be the first of numerous adaptations including: "The Other Side" 1931 "Aces High" 1976 and "Journey's End" 2017. <br/><br/>Whale would go on to even greater Hollywood fame later directing "Frankenstein" "The Invisible Man" "The Bride of Frankenstein" and more and was one of the first openly gay directors.<br/><br/>Two-color single leaf folded once 10 x 8 inches. Bright and Near Fine with a few closed tears and edge creases. Henry Miller's Theatre unknown books
195016320Berkeley: Associated Students of the University of California Berkeley 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Spring 1950 issue of Cal Berkeley's literary magazine. Edited by Dale Joe. This issue featuring numerous writings on jazz by Brubeck Kid Ory Turk Murphy and others plus Patchen Miller and more. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. Decidedly uncommon issue. <br/><br/> Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley paperback books
2002SGG213B-6San Francisco; San Rafael; Petaluma:: Cadmus Editions; Mt. Tam Press; Anchor & Acorn Press 2002. Hardcover. Like New. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco the Zamorano Club and "Friends of the Presses." Stapled Pamphlet. 7 x 4 1/4 inches. viii 40 pp. Title page printed within ruled border and with 3 fleurons running heads fleurons in the text 3 printer's marks on the colophon; text clean unmarked. Gray printed wrappers; binding square and tight. Small "Greetings to the Sacramento Book Collectors Club" broadside that reproduces the colophon is mounted inside the front cover with a green dot sticker folds over to the front of the pamphlet explaining these are extra copies printed for the Club's "Show & Tell" meeting held in January 2003. Fine. This is an additional run for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club. The text includes "On the Abuse of the Press" 1788 by Benjamin Franklin; "X-ing a Paragrab" circa 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe; "Fr. Prattle and Three Fables" 1878 & c. 1910 by Ambrose Bierce; "Journalism in Tennessee" 1871 by Mark Twain; and "Journalism in Chicago" 1964 by Kenneth Rexroth. Cadmus Editions; Mt. Tam Press; Anchor & Acorn Press, hardcover books
