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606183not signed on a full length shot of Franchot Tone in costume as Emperor Franz Josef from the 1936 film "The King Steps Out." Photograph is on single weight stock; 8" x 10"; very good minor signs of handling; 1936. Information slip on the back reads: "Franchot Tone as he appears in Columbia's 'The King Steps Out'. PLEASE CREDIT COLUMBIA PICTURES.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1978143699New York: Turkish Democratic Students Association in the U.S. 1978. 24p. wraps 5.5x8.5 inches. OCLC lists only one holding at UC Davis. Turkish Democratic Students Association in the U.S. unknown books
19621340913Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc 1962. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; off-white spine with black text; dust jacket shows slight smudges to exterior; minor edge wear; light foxing to spine; cloth has minimal exterior wear; strong straight boards; text block edges have slight tone; tight binding; interior clean; pp 336. International Series in Applied Mathematics. 1340913. FP New Rockville Stock. Prentice-Hall, Inc hardcover books
2011129738Tokyo Japan: Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan; Mainichi Shinbunsha 2011. Softcover. NF. Black paper wraps with titling black/red/blue illustrated dust jacket. 191 pp. 249 monotone historical photographic images throughout some in color. In Japanese with list of works in English. Catalog of an exhibition held at Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan July 26-Sept. 4 2011 marking the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution in which Sun Yat-sen played a pivotal role and the Japanese industrialist Umeya Shokichi continually provided him material and moral support. Included are photographs of the twilight years of the Qing Dynasty many taken around 1901 of the ruined state of the Forbidden City. Others feature Sun Yat-sen and Umeya Shokichi and record life in a more modern China as the 400-year history of the Quing Dynasty closed and the new government was established. Finally a collection of 19th century historical photos feature life in many countries around the world as well as China and Japan. Excerpted from the foreword and list of works text. Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan; Mainichi Shinbunsha paperback books
2004106485Perugia: Quattroemme 2004. Hardbound. VG/VG. Red gilt-embossed cloth with yellowish golden color pictorial dustjacket. 669 pp. somewhere around 270 bw and 400 color plates and illustrations including 6 very large folding color plates showing altars. A huge book and a huge undertaking. This book is the first complete monograph on Niccolo Alunno a major figure of the Italian Quattrocento as well as on other contemporary artist's. Contains a chronological catalogue raisonne. Quattroemme hardcover books
1928140436Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. <br/><br/>Lon Chaney plays a heavily-scarred wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from a cage that gruesomely attacks her. Lon Chaney's penultimate silent film and the last of his collaborations with director Tod Browning. The film was released with a Movietone music and effects soundtrack that could be played alongside the film. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 10751 and production No. 415 dated Dec. 31 1928 with credits for producer Irving Thalberg. Title page integral with the first page of the text with credits for story writers Tod Browning and Harry Sinclair Drago and screenwriter Waldemar Young. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1953002891Lamar MO: Journal Publishing Company 1953. Very good. Fifth edition originally published in 1949; 6 x 4; pp. 22; beige wraps printed and ruled in black and decorated with a small vignette; illustrated with several in-line images; minor wear and age-toning to margins of wraps; in very good or better condition. An interesting and somewhat-bizarre booklet it contained chapters on hunting locations weapons crow cooking recipes and ultimately the reasons for hunting crows. Journal Publishing Company paperback books
1980390390San Francisco 1980. Unbound. Fine. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on oblong 8.5" x 11" paper. Fine. An original flyer promoting Timmy and the Sluts with VKTMS at the San Francisco venue I-Beam. Timmy and the Sluts were a California minimalist/synth punk band. unknown books
1978206146Vancouver: New Star Books 1978. Paperback. 176p. map photos illustrations personal inscription to Betty Elder Thomas signed Margaret Randall very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. First-person exposé of Samoza and the repression of the Nicaraguan people co-written by Randall an activist/author/photograph who has done extensive work in Latin America and Spain. Personal rousing inscription to lawyer/activist Betty Elder Thomas wife of Piri Thomas. From His collection. New Star Books paperback books
197768547New York: Monthly Review Press 1977. Hardcover. xvi 346p. first edition in cloth boards author's inscription "For Elsa with deepest love and warmth" very good condition in like dj. Monthly Review Press hardcover books
3508Washington: The Society 1907. . Single sheet of parchment 15 1/2 x 20 inches engraved on one side only. with manuscript additions; the shields of the original thirteen states are engraved along the top and right-hand side plus a decorative printed ribon representing the District of Columbia and with the blue and yellow ribbon and red wax seal of the Society attached at the lower left. Signed at lower right Tiffany & Co. Signed in ink at the foot of the document by the President and Secretary of the Massachusetts chapter and also by the President and Secretary of the National Society. Mrs. Samuel Cutler Bigelow was accepted into the Colonial Dames by virtue of her ancestor John Thaxter. It is interesting to note that she was accepted into the Daughters of the American Revolution by virtue of another ancestor Lt. William Munroe of Massachusetts. Samuel Cutler Bigelow was born in Cambridge Massachusetts graduated from Williams and Harvard Law School. He moved to California in 1853 to oversee his father's investments. He was elected to the State legislature in 1862. In 1866 he started on a long series of travels "visiting nearly all parts of the world accessible to white men except South Africa and Australia; was the first American to go over the route of the Suez Canal before its completion." Upon his return he married Miss Otis his second wife in 1875. Washington: The Society, 1907. unknown books
1905262143Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley 1905. Pamphlet. 18p. stapled pamphlet in plain printed dun wraps 8.5x5.5 inches a crisp clean copy with mild pervasive toning. Very good to fine. Hubert Howe Bancroft sold his research collection in '05 it having been housed in a two-storey brick building in San Francisco which smelt musty. [University of California at Berkeley] unknown books
194815956JLos Angeles: Argosy Pictures 1948. Screenwriter Frank Nugent’s personal copy of his screenplay. Original 116 page mimeographed shooting script that was for the classic John Ford directed western starring John Wayne Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. Hardbound in full gilt-stamped blue leather with Nugent’s name stamped on the front board in the lower left hand corner. With marbled endpapers. Nugent has hand-corrected a couple of typographical errors and at one point has written in dialogue that was was missing. The Three Godfathers was the first western directed by John Ford filmed in color. Frank Nugent was a New York journalist who reviewed over 1000 films for The New York Times. Director John Ford turned Nugent into one of Hollywood’s most respected screenwriters. He wrote 11 screenplays for John Ford directed films including The Searchers The Quiet Man Fort Apache She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Wagon Master Mister Roberts The Last Hurrah The Rising of the Moon Two Rode Together Donovan’s Reef. Nugent was respected by other directors as well and he wrote The Tall Men for director Raoul Walsh Angel Face for Otto Preminger Paratrooper for Terence Young and others. Nugent was elected President of the Writers Guild of America West WGAW from 1957 to 1958 and he served as the guild’s representative on the Motion Picture Industry Council from 1954 to 1959. Argosy Pictures hardcover books
197519220ELos Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1975. First Edition. Single sheet two-sided 8 1/2†x 11â€. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film ‘Three Days of the Condor’ for reviewers and members of the motion picture industry specifically for Academy Award consideration. The film was directed by Sidney Pollack and starred Robert Redford Faye Dunaway Cliff Robertson Max Von Sydow and John Houseman. Fine in printed wrappers. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Film Editing. Paramount Pictures unknown books
201322416ELos Angeles: CBS Films / Studio Canal 2013. First Edition. Paperbound. 10†x 6â€. Specially printed in a small number for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for Oscar nominations of the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri written and directed by Martin McDonagh starring Frances McDormand Woody Harrelson Sam Rockwell and Peter Dinklage. Illustrated with stills from the film. Fine condition. The film won 2 Oscars; Best Actress McDormand and Best Supporting Actor Rockwell and was nominated for 5 more; Best Picture Best Supporting Actor Harrelson Best Original Screenplay Best Original Score and Best Film Editing. CBS Films / Studio Canal hardcover books
19241326934New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1924. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with red and black print on white banner; DJ in mylar has small tears at spine ends and flap corners mild edgewear price-clipped; Boards in tan cloth with brown print light wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has tan-tinted top edge clean and tight; 180 pages. 1326934. FP New Rockville Stock. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1936103983New York: Workers Library Pub 1936. Pamphlet. 64p. wraps slightly soiled else very good condition 5x7.25 inches. With foreword by V.J. Jerome on relevance to American workers. Workers Library Pub unknown books
192608530Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1926. Hard Cover. Near Fine. John R. Neill. Early Printing with color plates coated on both sides. Color plates were discontinued after 1935. Damaged type to hyphen on the last line page 21. Bound in brick cloth with color paste-on illustration front cover black lettering spine. Black and white illustrated endpapers. 12 color plates including frontispiece. A nice near fine copy. Bibliographia Oziana XX p. 93. <br/><br/> Reilly & Lee hardcover books
607795not signed on a 3/4 length shot of Marshall Thompson with a large cobra ready to strike in a scene from the 1955 film "Cult of the Cobra." Photograph is on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; 1955. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
197021957New York: Popular Library 1970. First Edition. 12mo 17.25cm.; original black photo-illustrated card wrappers all edges stained green; 128pp. Minor rubbing along spine edges a few dampstains affecting edge stain textblock uniformly toned as usual else Very Good or better apparently unread. Novelization of the 1964 film of the same title starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln about a black railroad worker and his attempt to maintain his dignity in a small deeply racist town in Alabama. Popular Library unknown books
196921955New York: Popular Library 1969. First Edition. 12mo 17.25cm.; original white pictorial card wrappers all edges stained green; 128pp. Spine creased with textblock beginning to separate from wrappers minor toning to wrappers and textblock else Near Very Good. Novelization of the John Wayne and Rock Hudson film of the same title. Popular Library unknown books
1918255081Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons 1918. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A scarce Scottish shooting book. Less than ten copies located in OCLC with only three in this country. Illustrated with four black and white photographic images. Fragments of the original dustjacket laid in. Very Good binding. James MacLehose and Sons unknown books
2000CNJL1125Llandogo Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lemaire Angela. Number 91 of 220 quarto size 42 pp. signed by Angela Lemaire with prospectus. Thomas the Rhymer also known as Thomas of Erceldoune was a famous poet and prophet who lived in the thirteenth century. While wandering the forest lands of Melrose Abbey Roxburghshire Thomas saw a beautiful "lady of another country" riding on a palfrey who he later discovers to be the Queen of the Fairies. What follows is a fantastic journey related in a visionary poem which has been retold in numerous ballad forms and several romance-prophecies the latter version being the text used here. Angela Lemaire prepared an appropriately mystical set of engravings to illustrate this edition as well as an illuminating afterword.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original green paper covered boards illustrated by the artist stamped in gilt on backstrip red endpapers title-page and frontis printed in black within linocut borders of sienna-yellow ink twenty-one wood engravings including frontis; Van Djick type Zerkall mouldmade paper quarto size 11" by 8" pagination: 1-6 7-38 39-41 1 colophon limited edition this number 91 of 220 copies signed by the artist on the colophon. Housed in a teal cloth slipcase with inset of printed engravings repeated from the text. With prospectus a postcard-shaped piece with glossy photograph of the book on one side and a description of the book on the other.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy with clean binding straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; slipcase is clean with no age toning or fraying; like new. The prospectus card is fine clean and without wear.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Old Stile Press hardcover books
1916287978London: T. C. & E. C. Jack Limited 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. the. Memoirs of one best known as friend of the greats -- particularly Rossetti and Swinburne. The two volume set in publisher's blue cloth with bright gilt titling and decorations to the spines. The boards are spotting and the preliminary leaves but not the text has foxing. There is no writing or other marks in the books. Very Good binding. T. C. & E. C. Jack, Limited unknown books
1714284353London: Printed in the Year 1714. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good binding. A lampoon on Jonathan Swift often attributed to Thomas Burnet or Richard Steele entitled Essays Divine Moral and Political. This variant has the "Religon" typo on the title page. Frontispiece of Swift riding a horse captioned "In State Opinions Alamode." Surely a biting critique. 4 xiv 82 pp. Disbound. A Good copy of a uncommon variant. ESTC T67383. Good binding. Printed in the Year unknown books
