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201922721ELondon: Universal Pictures International 2019. Beautiful hardbound script bound in full gilt-stamped leather by the Wyvern Bindery in London. The complete screenplay for the feature film which is signed by screenwriter Julian Fellowes director Michael Engler cast members Maggie Smith Imelda Staunton Alan Leech Hugh Bonneville Michelle Dockery and Rob James-Collier. Fine. This special script was one of a small number of specially made copies given to members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Golden Globes Awards consideration. There are only about 90 members of the association. Universal Pictures International hardcover books
195116718Mexico: National Institute of Fine Arts Mexico 1951. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY SIQUEIROS on the first blank endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1951 1st edition of this very impressive monograph on the great Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros 1896-1974. Tight and VG in its dark-blue cloth light smudging at the front panel light soiling along the rear panel's lower-edge in a crisp VG example of the wonderful pictorial dustjacket with light chipping along the spine crown and near the foot of the spine. 2 small pieces of light tape reinforcing the several minor closed tears to the rear panel's edges. Square quarto internally immaculate. Evocative detailed black-and-white reproductions thruout. Text in Spanish and French as well as English. <br/><br/> National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico hardcover books
1930007608Berkeley Heights NJ: The Oriole Press 1930. SCARCE #37 of 210 copies 175 of which were for sale SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR Rose Freeman-Ishill on front end page - "To dear Mr. and Mrs. Bellin with the affection of Rose Freeman Ishill April 26 1931". Rose Freeman-Ishill a frequent contributor to Oriole Press publications was the wife of Joseph Ishill the sole proprietor of the press. Near Fine in original quarter cloth over handmade paper covered boards slight toning to the cloth. 28 pp. An essay by the French art historian Elie Faure. Printed and set with 12 point Garamond the line-cut on the title page after a drawing by the Japanese artist Yosai initials by Frederic W. Goudy. SCARCE the last copy to come to auction was in 1982. Apparently most copies were destroyed in a fire.Ransom W. Selective check lists of press books. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. Limited and Numbered Edition. Cloth and Handmade Paper Board. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. The Oriole Press Hardcover books
1740314896Brussels: Chez R. Fancois Foppens 1740. Rare edition same year as LeHaye edition. xvi 175 1pp. "Préface de l'editeur" est signée : F. de Voltaire et datée : "A La Haye ce 12. octobre 1740". 8vo. Mottled contemporary calf spine darkened edges red. Minor foxing. Rare edition same year as LeHaye edition. xvi 175 1pp. "Préface de l'editeur" est signée : F. de Voltaire et datée : "A La Haye ce 12. octobre 1740". 8vo. OCLC 965245392 Chez R. Fancois Foppens unknown books
1900009672Collection of forty-eight western tokens plus other exonumia composed mostly of merchant "good for" tokens several Pony Express commemorative 'so-called-dollars' a tool-check and a 'dog house' license. These were issued at various locales mostly in Nevada with a couple from California. The tokens were identified by Palazzo John Schilling or Holabird Auctions. Palazzo's old and badly worn cardboard mounts have been replaced with new Lighthouse coin 'flips' and the original information has been transferred. Mixed condition; some near mint and others well-worn as is common with many tokens. One of the images at the link displays a list of all the tokens which will also be provided in hard copy.<br /><br />Trade tokens were a form of unofficial 'minor coinage' made from base metals such as brass copper nickel or aluminum and usually cast as circular disks but occasionally as octagons triangles or in scalloped shapes. They seldom if ever had a value of more than a dollar. Trade tokens sometimes referred to as "Good Fors" because they were usually stamped "Good for" followed by a product service or monetary value first appeared in the United States during the late 1700s and it's been suggested that George Washington used a trade token to attend Bill Rickett's Philadelphia Circus in 1793. <br /><br />Often like some of the tokens in this lot they were issued to be exchanged for a specific product or service such as a loaf of bread game of pool meal hotel room or brothel visit. In the western states company stores and independent businesses made frequent use of tokens in mining towns and camps where coinage was often scarce. As an added incentive for businesses they could only be redeemed at the place of issue and with little if any law enforcement they were a safe substitute for gold and silver. Also if the tokens were never redeemed business owners pocketed a little extra profit.<br /><br />The towns and cities represented in this collection include Aztec Blair Carson City Crystal Duckwater East Ely Elko Fairview Goldfield Los Angeles McGill Mound Hill Reno Tonopah Tuscarora and Winnemucca. Today some of these places are ghost towns. <br /><br />The lot includes tokens distributed by the American Borax Company general stores drug stores tobacco stores billiard parlors hotels and saloon/brothels. <br /><br />Four of the most interesting tokens in this lot are<br /><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">Two different tokens from Goldfield Nevada's most famous saloon The Northern. One of these tokens was originally bimetallic with an aluminum ring around a copper or brass disc. The disc is missing on this token just as it is on almost all the others that have survived. Tex Rickard and his silent partners Wyatt and Virgil Earp opened The Northern in 1905 and Wyatt briefly managed the establishment during its first year of operation. In time Rickard became a very successful fight promoter; he promoted the championship fight between James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson. He later used his fortune to build the third iteration of Madison Square Garden--which lasted from 1925 to 1968. During his Garden's second year of operation Rickard formed a professional hockey team to play there Tex's Rangers known today as the New York Rangers.<br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">A 12½ cent token for the Red Top Bar one of Goldfield's notorious brothels.<br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">Two 5-cent tokens from the Jeffries & Kipper Billiard Parlor and Gentlemen's Café in Los Angeles which the two men opened in partnership in 1907. Kipper was a frustrated boxer who eventually became the manager of the Los Angeles Coliseum. Jeffries was the legendary Heavy Weight Champion James J. Jeffries who was lured back into the ring for a $1 million payday in today's dollars six years and an additional 110 pounds after he retired as the "Great White Hope" to fight the then-current champion Jack Johnson. </p><p>For additional information about trade tokens see Rulau's <i>Standard Catalog of United States Trade Tokens 1700 to 1900</i> Ascarza's "Mine Tales: Trade tokens were used widely but are rare today" in the 9 Dec 2013 issue of the <i>Arizona Daily Star</i> and "John Bill Ricketts and the Ricketts Circus" at Circuses and Sideshows online.<br /><br /> A fascinating physical record of commerce in the boomtowns of the American West. Recent auction results found at Worthpoint suggest the total value of this lot to be just under $1600.</p> books
1756690221756. London 1756. 4th edition. London 1756. 4th edition. Attributed to Matthew Bacon Robert Foley Sir Geoffrey Gilbert and Henry Pooley Gentleman of the Middle Temple. A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery &c. With Several Cases Never Before Published Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; With Notes and References to the Whole. And Three Tables The First of the Names of the Cases The Second of the Several Titles With Their Divisions And Subdivisions; And the Third Of the Matter Under General Heads. London: Printed by and For Henry Lintot 1756. xxviii 417 27; xxiii 780 pp. Folio 13-3/4" x 8-3/4". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands and lettering pieces to spines endpapers renewed. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to margins in a few places tiny library stamps to title pages and a few other leaves. $750. Fourth edition "Corrected." First published in 1732 this set of reports has been attributed to Matthew Bacon Robert Foley Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Henry Pooley or a combination of these authors. Marvin believes about half of the reports were by Pooley "a lawyer of great eminence in his time." Viner says Pooley was the sole reporter. Marvin Legal Bibliography 48. Viner A General Abridgment of Law and Equity XXI:489. English Short-Title Catalogue T97047. unknown books
179730892Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Steiner und Kammerer und H. Kammerer jun 1797. Bound in contemporary calf raised spine bands clasps. Relief-cut frontispiece. Pages 8 148 8 585 43. Printed in double columns. Endpapers spotted. A Very Good copy in an attractive contemporary binding. Early ink writing on front free endpaper modern bookplate. <br/><br/> "First edition of this song-book and hymnal which includes much musical notation" Jenkins.<br/>Evans 32100. III Jenkins 745. ESTC W6293. Gedruckt bey Steiner und Kammerer, und H. Kammerer, jun unknown books
1973221075Boston Little Brown and Company 1973. 1973. Uncorrected galley proofs bound up in page format and hand numbered. 8vo. 158 pages no illustrations. Original stiff printed salmon wrappers stamped in black. Very good. An important association copy. George Cukor was the first director of this film. David O. Selznick replaced Cukor with Vicor Fleming. From the library of noted Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the verso of front wrapper. F. Soft cover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company [1973]. paperback books
1867005330Salem OH: Hudson & Son Printers 1867. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. ii printed wrapper with verso blank 12 pages of text followed by ii blank rear wrapper. Moderate soiling and age-toning to wraps with a few small tears to edges and a few tiny stains on front wrapper. Includes a Preamble 23 Articles and Resolutions. At this the First National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic; it is likely that General John M. Palmer Major B. F. Stephenson surgeon of the Fourteenth Illinois regiment and General S. A. Hurlbut were present and involved in the formation of the national rules. First edition. Hudson & Son, Printers Paperback books
1719650651719. London: Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1719. London: Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1719. A Rare English JP Manual Based on Young and Blackerby Great Britain. Justices of the Peaces. The Justice of Peace's Vade Mecum: Being a Compleat Summary of All the Acts of Parliament Relating to Justices of Peace; Shewing the Various Offenses by Statute And the Particular Power of One Two Three Or More Justices In Their Proceedings and Determinations As Well In as Out of the Sessions Under Several Distinct Heads. To Which are Added Some Adjudged Cases Concerning Justices of Peace And the Several Branches of Their Business; Instructions for Drawing All Manner of Warrants Commitments &c. In All Common Matters. The Whole Done in an Alphabetical Method With an Exact Table. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1719. xiv 250 pp. 12mo. 5-1/4" x 3-1/4". Handsome period-style paneled calf by J. May London outer sections speckled raised bands lettering piece and gilt ornaments to spine black rules along pastedowns. Light rubbing to extremities front board beginning to detach but secured by hinge which is just starting at head. Title printed within ruled border. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in a few places rule at lower corner of title page touched by trimming due to printer error. Early owner annotation to front endleaf early owner signature to head of title page. $750. Only edition. According to the preface this anonymous work is drawn from the most useful parts of Blackerby's Justice of Peace 1711 and Young's Justices Their Vade Mecum and Cornucopia 1620 with additional material by the author. OCLC and the ESTC locates 5 copies worldwide 3 in North America 2 in law libraries Harvard University of Minnesota. English Short-Title Catalogue N6821. unknown books
1904277506New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1904. First Edition. Very Good binding. One of the more peculiar children's tales we've encountered about a pyromaniacal little girl who burns off her head; it is replaced by a kettle with features drawn into place and held in place with a sunbonnet. Her parents are pleased as any good parents would be. A clean copy in the publisher's paper-covered boards back in blue cloth; the boards have edgewear and soiling but overall an attractive copy. Scarce; we locate four copies on OCLC. Very Good binding. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
1837011001Edinburgh: Blackie & Sons 1837. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hill D. O. engravings of. Uncommon complete set of the "new" edition of Hogg's works - certainly after 1837 perhaps as late as 1860s but decorated cloth bindings are more typrical of the 1840s - uniformly bound in narrow ribbed cordovan/brown cloth elaborately blind stamped with harp in ivy surround gilt stamped front cover and elaborate ivy-pattern and titles in gilt to spine. Each volume with binder's polished yellow endpapers some with Blackie's publisher list front some back some not. Corners bumped worn and minor loss on some spines a wee cocked and some show minor cloth loss spine tips. Spines a tad faded but uniformly so. A fine exemplar of publisher's decorated cloth of the period and seldom found uniform in such a large set of works. Blackie & Sons hardcover books
1854004407London: Lovell Reeve 1854. Third edition. Half Calf. Very Good. Extra-illustrated with 23 original pen and ink mostly whimsical drawings by the Hewlitts. 12mo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 240 pp. With the Hewletts' original drawings inserted. These original drawings are larger than the original text by about 2 cm and so the book when opened has an unusual eccentric appearance. Rubbing along joints and corners. Scattered light foxing. <br /><br /> Lovell Reeve books
1847009164Camp Lucas St. Louis Missouri to Warren Court House Pennsylvania 1847. Very good. This one-page stampless folded letter measures 15.5" x 10" unfolded. It is dated "Camp Lucas May 30th 1847." The cover must have been delivered by hand outside of the postal system as it is unfranked and bears no postmarks. It is in nice shape. A transcript is included as is a copy of Masters's service summary showing he was assigned to Lt. Col. Powell's Missouri Volunteers. <br /><br />In the letter John Masters informs his father that he has been appointed an ensign in "1st Battalion of St. Louis Volunteers Comp E" and will be departing for Santa Fe the next morning. He asks his father to pay a $15 debt he incurred with a St. Louisan and informs him to address future letters to him in care of the battalion at Santa Fe noting that mail for Santa Fe departs St. Louis on a monthly basis. <br /><br />Masters's official military records show that he had enlisted as a private in Lt. Col I. E. Powell's Battalion of Missouri Mounted Volunteers also known as Mounted Battalion Missouri Mexican War Volunteers and later as Powell's Battalion Oregon Volunteers just two weeks before this letter was written. <br /><br />When the unit was organized it was originally intended to travel to New Mexico via the Santa Fe Trail to fight in the Mexican-American War. However before it marched Congress determined that a Regular Army force was needed to protect pioneers from attacks by Native Americans while traveling to the Northwest along the "Oregon Route." So the battalion was diverted from its Santa Fe assignment and instead charged with protecting the Oregon Trail until a Regular Army unit could be deployed. <br /><br />By May 30th the battalion had assembled at Camp Lucas on James H. Lucas's pasture just west of the St. Louis city limits at what is now 12th Street Tucker Boulevard and Olive Street. Public records United States Congressional serial set Issue 2711 reflect that by December the battalion had marched through Fort Leavenworth to a point on the Missouri River known as Table Creek now Nebraska City where it established winter quarters. It broke camp in April of 1848 and marched west along the Great Platte River Road where in June it established a fortification-which it christened Fort Childs-on the south bank of the Nebraska Great Platte River just below the head of Grand Island. <br /><br />While there Lt. Col. Powell concluded a peace treaty with the four confederated bands of Pawnee Indians: the Grand Pawnee Loups Pawnee Republican Pawnee and Tappage Pawnee. The battalion remained at Fort Childs which had been renamed Fort Kearny until October of 1848 when its term of service expired and it was relieved by a Regular Army unit after which it was mustered out of the service. Although the battalion never made it to New Mexico Congress eventually approved Mexican-American War pensions for its surviving members in 1889. <br /><br />While Mexican-American War mail from units deployed via the Santa Fe Trail to fight in and defend New Mexico are scarce correspondence from the first military unit sent to protect the Oregon Trail and establish an Army post that eventually became Fort Kearny appears to be non-existent other than this letter. <br /><br />At the time of listing no correspondence from this unit is for sale in the trade and no other correspondence from the unit has appeared at auction per the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows no institutional holdings of correspondence from this unit. <br /><br /> books
1947134886Los Angeles: Mark Hellinger Productions / Universal 1947. Collection of 6 vintage photographs from the 1947 film. 5 are studio still photographs and one is a reference photograph. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 383. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Masterwork US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Mark Hellinger Productions / Universal unknown books
1562710271562. Paris 1562. Interleaved and annotated. Paris 1562. Interleaved and annotated. Interleaved Copy Annotated by a French Nobleman Justinian I 485-565 CE Emperor of the East. Hotman Francois 1524-1590 Editor. Digestorum seu Pandectarum Libri Quinquaginta ex Pandectis Florentinis Nuper in Lucem Emissis Quoadeius Fieri Potuit Repraesentati & In Septem Partes Justiniani Sententia Distincti Adjectis Brevibus Francisci Hotomanni Parisiensis I.C. Clarissimi Summariis. Paris: Apud Guilielmum Merlin in ponte nummulariorum et Guilielmum Desboys 1562. civ 258 pp. Interleaved. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Contemporary vellum armorial devices to boards lettering piece to spine. Soiling and a few stains and minor nicks some wear to spine ends pastedowns loose a few chips to vellum along fore-edge of front board early owner bookplate to front pastedown early owner signature dated 1729 to front free endpaper crack in text block between front free endpaper and title page. Moderate toning to text light foxing to a few leaves occasional faint dampstaining to foot of text block. Annotations in neat contemporary hand some quite extensive to several leaves and about a third of the interleaves occasional early underlining. $750. This volume is first of a seven-volume edition of the Novels one of the four components of the Corpus Juris Civilis. It belonged to a French noble Charles Du Ruisseau "in supremo senatu Patroni." Excepting one page in Latin in a different hand the annotations most likely by Du Ruisseau are in French. Mostly analytical they reflect considerable engagement with the text. Several include cross-references and references to other sections of the Corpus Juris Civilis. unknown books
19491900San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1949. First Edition / Private Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 10 53pp 8pp. Decorative green boards buckram cloth spine with title in gilt over label on spine. Book is signed by former President Herbert Hoover on the front free end paper: "with the affection of Herbert Hoover and -" Other notable signatories include: Stephen T. Early White House Press Secretary for FDR General Mark W. Clark youngest 4-Star General in history Eugene C. Pulliam Newspaper Publisher Herbert Hoover Jr George M. Mardikian Jeremiah Milbank Jr. amongst others. An exceptional collection of signatories. The Bohemian Club is an exclusive organization located near San Francisco which meets annually at a large estate called Bohemian Grove. Its all male membership includes prominent business leaders government officials and former Presidents of the United States. Provenance: From a private collection to University Archives of Westport Ct. The Grabhorn Press hardcover books
18236109Philadelphia: James Webster 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Full contemporary sheep; spine rubbed at bottom with some loss. Scattered foxing per usual. Contemporary ink name and a few markings. The scarce First American Edition of this important work. 8 copperplate engravings bound at the back. <br/><br/> Philadelphia: James Webster hardcover books
196022519ELos Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. Original 132 page revised first draft shooting script with color rewrite pages for the film Snow White and the Three Stooges written by Noel Langley and Elwood Ullman dated October 24 1960 and November 10 1960. Bradbound. Fine copy in printed studio covers. The film was directed by Walter Lang and Frank Taschlin. With two 8’ x 10†black & white stills from the film - one showing all three Stooges and Edson Stroll as Prince Charming and the other of Stroll about to kiss the sleeping Carol Heiss as Snow White. Both stills are in uniformly fine condition with the one of Edson & Heiss showing two sets of very minor staple holes at the margin. This comic retelling of the classic fairy tale tells the story of an ice-skating Snow White who is forced to flee from her jealous stepmother played by Patricia Medina with the Three Stooges substituting for the Seven Dwarves. The film was released in the U.S. on May 26 1961 in Philadelphia PA. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
192713433ENew York: George H. Doran 1927. First Edition - American. With the publisher’s printed complimentary slip laid in which reads: “A complimentary copy of this book sent for your personal examination at the request of Mr. J. W. Corrigan from George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill New York†and also printed with the elaborate Doran logo. Fine fresh copy in a bright dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears and a hint of dust soiling. The English edition is much more available in dust jacket and has a plain typographical dust jacket whereas the American in dust jacket is much scarcer and has a terrific art deco design of a robed Arab brandishing a sword while riding a camel. George H. Doran unknown books
1923308354London: Cecil Palmer 1923. Illustrated. 60 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Blue-grey pictorial boards. Very good spine toned with short split at lower joint. Bookplate of Lawrence scholar Jeremy Wilson and his signature at head from front flyleaf. Illustrated. 60 pp. 1 vols. Folio. The last issue of Graves' irregular literary miscellany two issues of The Owl were publsihed by Martin Secker in 1919<br/><br/>Contributors include Thomas Hardy David Garnett Max Beerbohm an unpublished sonnet by Enoch Soames Pamela Bianco Siegfried Sassoon William Nicholson a caricature and T. E. Lawrence "Massacre". O'Brien B0017 Cecil Palmer unknown books
1940308295London: The Golden Cockerel Press 1940. First Edition No. 488 of 500 copies. Introduction by A.W. Lawrence. 1 vols. 4to. Original quarter blue Niger morocco and cream linen by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Near fine copy with contemporary ownership signature and also that of Lawrence biographer Jeremy Wilson. First Edition No. 488 of 500 copies. Introduction by A.W. Lawrence. 1 vols. 4to. O'Brien A229 The Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
1939308328London: Williams and Norgate Ltd 1939. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the author. 1 vols. Thick 8v. Brown cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by the author. 1 vols. Thick 8v. Compendium of Lawrence's miscellaneous writings including The Changing East the suppressed introductory chapter to Seven Pillars of Wisdom and others. O'Brien A221 Williams and Norgate Ltd unknown books
1955308285London: Jonathan Cape 1955. First English edition. Limited Issue no. 982 of 2000 Copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue buckram boards dark blue pigskin spine gilt t.e.g. other edges uncut Cockerel marbled endpapers. In original printed publisher's box. Fine copy. First English edition. Limited Issue no. 982 of 2000 Copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Lawrence's partly fictionalized account of his R.A.F. training days which shocked many of his contemporaries and was not widely circulated during his lifetime. O'Brien A172 Jonathan Cape unknown books
1955308312Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday 1955. Second American edition uncorrected proofs. First printed in 1936 in 50 copies to secure American copyright. 250 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Publication date corrected in ink. Spine toned else about fine. Second American edition uncorrected proofs. First printed in 1936 in 50 copies to secure American copyright. 250 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Reviewer's Edition. O'Brien A167 Doubleday unknown books