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19718211971. TILLIS Mel. THE MEL TILLIS STORY. Nashville Tennessee: Roger Talent Enterprises 1971. Quarto printed wraps. First Edition. Signed by Tillis on the front cover. Also on the center-fold page is a photograph of Mel's band with six autograph signatures of which the only one I can recognize is Terry Bethel. A scarce Mel Tillis book!! Near fine. $85.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
198814695ENew York: Viking 1988. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Mel Torme to actress Anna Lee: “For Anna With love admiration and great gratitude. Always Mel.†Illustrated. About fine with a faint spot on the foreedge in a near fine dust jacket with just a hint of fading to the spine. The jazz singer’s autobiography. Anna Lee was a British born actress who appeared in many films including Seven Sinners with Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne My Life with Caroline opposite Ronald Colman John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley and Fort Apache etc. as well as playing Lila Quartermain on two popular television soap operas General Hospital 1978 to 2004 and Port Charles 1997 to 2003. Viking unknown books
1961WRCLIT67564Hollywood: Rosser's Film Continuity Service for Selznick / RKO 1961. 85 leaves. Legal format. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectors only. Stapled at top with stencil printed coversheet on green paper. Last leaf neatly detached from staples but very good or better. A late Combined Continuity script of the 1945 RKO/Selznick production directed by Robert Siodmak starring Dorothy McGuire George Brent Ethel Barrymore nominated for an Oscar Rhonda Fleming Elsa Lanchester et al. The screenplay adaptation of White's novel was by Mel Dinelli. In 1961 the then owners of the rights for various Selznick films many had passed through several hands to United Artists commissioned new 16mm combined continuity scripts for many of the titles rationale unknown to posterity. This is such an example and preserves a literal record of the film. Duplicate from the Selznick archive. Rosser's Film Continuity Service for] Selznick / RKO unknown books
1961WRCLIT67563Hollywood: Rosser's Film Continuity Service for Selznick / RKO 1961. 85 leaves. Legal format. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Stapled at top with stencil printed coversheet on green paper. Soft crease to lower corner of first few leaves but very good or better. A late Combined Continuity script of the 1945 RKO/Selznick production directed by Robert Siodmak starring Dorothy McGuire George Brent Ethel Barrymore nominated for an Oscar Rhonda Fleming Elsa Lanchester et al. The screenplay adaptation of White's novel was by Mel Dinelli. In 1961 the then owners of the rights for various Selznick films many had passed through several hands to United Artists commissioned new 16mm combined continuity scripts for many of the titles rationale unknown to posterity. This is such an example and preserves a literal record of the film. Duplicate from the Selznick archive. Rosser's Film Continuity Service for] Selznick / RKO unknown books
1995007716New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. First edition. Thick decorated bound wrappers with french flaps. 318 page book published to coincide with an exhibition at Yale in 1995. Book has two small library stamps to front emdpaper and to second endpaper else a tight clean near fine example. <br/><br/> Yale University Art Gallery paperback books
200444578Moose Lake MN: Blacklock Photography Galleries 2004. FIRST EDITION limited to 5000 copies. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Moose Lake MN: Blacklock Photography Galleries 2004. Introduction by Jim Brandenburg. FIRST EDITION limited to 5000 copies. Signed each by the author and photographer. Copious b/w photographs. 29 plus 100 plates pp. Hardcover. Large square 4to. Deep maroon cloth. Light creases to endpapers. Else a nice signed copy. Very good/Very good. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Blacklock Photography Galleries hardcover books
1949008582San Pedro CA: Mel Steiner 1949. RARE. Very Good wrappers loose from staples "D-59" in faded marker rear wrapper. 108 pp. Numerous articles bios photographs results and statistics for the 1949 racing season on the West Coast. . First Printing. Magazine. Very Good. 11" x 8 1/2". Mel Steiner Paperback books
19601299500Cleveland OH: World Publishing Company 1960. First Edition First Publishing. Hardcover. Quarto picture book unpaginated VG/VG; red DJ yellow lettering: spine faded pink lettering clean and legible; overall mild wear to DJ 2½" closed tear from middle of spine to middle of front cover lettering to spine and illustration to front cover somewhat affected yet legible/clear; "$2.50" to front flap DJ protected by mylar; bright yellow matte paper boards red lettering to spine red illustration to front board: very mild overall wear to boards front board somewhat shaken binding strong; light age-toning to interior text/black-and-white illustrations legible/clear fully illustrated by Silverman; INSCRIBED with unique pen-and-ink drawing to ffep; shelved Case 14. 1299500. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. World Publishing Company hardcover books
1991431716New York: Oxford University Press 1991. Softcover. Fine. First edition wrappered issue. About fine in wrappers. Oxford University Press paperback books
1957185003San Francisco California: The Porpoise Bookshop 1957. Softcover. VG folder has scuffs scratches & creases; lower corner creased. plates clean. grey textured folder w/ green printing. 10 loose color lithos on deckled edge paper. One of 150 Copies. A nice copy of this scarce edition. The Porpoise Bookshop unknown books
1952136903London: Faber & Faber 1952. hardcover. very good. A Dictionary of Factories Artists Technical Terms et Cetera. Color frontispiece some color plates many black & white illustrations index of letters and names. 788pp. thick 4to green cloth. London: Faber and Faber 1952. Very Good .<br/><br/> Faber & Faber unknown books
001216London Faber and Faber 1949. original green cloth spine a bit sunned. Leather spine label. The first of two volumes published the latter appearing in 1951. First edition. London Faber and Faber (1949). hardcover books
1975133559Burbank CA: William Heinemann 1975. Collection of 12 vintage black-and-white single weight borderless still photographs from 1975 film. Mimeo tags affixed to the versos some tags are detached but present and the tape used has left faint discoloration to the stills. <br/><br/>Based on Macdonald's 1950 hard-boiled detective novel about a detective named Harper Paul Newman who investigates a blackmail scheme that involves his ex-girlfriend Iris Joanne Woodward and her wild daughter Melanie Griffith in her second credited role. <br/><br/>The second adaptation of Macdonald's "Lew Archer" novels the other being "Harper" 1966 with Paul Newman's character renamed "Harper."<br/><br/>Set in Louisiana and shot on location. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches a couple of stills slightly smaller. Slight discoloration else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. William Heinemann unknown books
1981139023London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1981. Original British "bus stop" poster for the 1981 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. <br/><br/>An ambitious sprawling historical farce made by Mel Brooks in the heat of his success as a film director. Brooks plays Moses Tomas de Torquemada King Louis XVI and Jacques "Jacques le garcon de pisse." Part I begins of course with the Dawn of Man and covers The Old Testament The Roman Empire The Spanish Inquisition and The French Revolution ending with a "preview" of Part II never made in keeping with Sir Walter Raleigh who was beheaded before he could write his Part II. The preview includes Hitler on Ice a Viking funeral and "Jews in Space."<br/><br/>40 x 60 inchesfolded folded as issued. Faint foxing and brief annotations in ink and pencil to the verso light creasing else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1954140091Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures / Vanguard 1954. One sheet poster for a circa 1954 rerelease of the 1945 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1933 novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White. One of the best "old dark house" noirs with Hitchcockian touches both in terms of being a thriller and in terms of featuring multiple insidious characters all placed in the expert care of director Robert Siodmak who in another Hitchcockian touch has an uncredited appearance in the film: he plays "the killer's eye". <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches. Near Fine with a tear to the top margin light toning and pin holes. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures / Vanguard unknown books
256197New York: Book Collectors Society. Limited Edition number 57 of 100 copies. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 788pp. Full bound in publishers green morocco with title and decoration in gold on the spine; spine is sunned to brown but still presents well on the shelf; a stately volume illustrated throughout with in text and some full page including 4 plates in color; scarce thus; previous owner name on the first blank page else contents clean and binding sound; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding. Book Collectors Society unknown books
200122376ENew York: Conde Nast 2001. Original issue of The New Yorker magazine Dated May 7 2001 signed on the front cover by Mel Brooks “All the Best Mel Brooks†on the front cover illustration by Barry Blitt titled ‘Furor on Broadway’. The drawing shows a theater audience laughing and applauding while Adolf Hitler sits amongst them clearly unappreciative of the show in reference to the Broadway production of Brooks’ hit play The Producers and it’s satirical elements toward Naziism. A very complimentary theatre review of The Producers by John Lahr is included in the issue. About fine bright copy with just a hint of handling. The play won Tony’s for Best Musical Best Book and Best Score. The play is adapted from Brooks’ 1967 film The Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder for which Brooks won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It was made into another film released in 2005 starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. Conde Nast unknown books
199989142New York: Simon & Schuster 1999. First edition of Gussow's frank and vivid biography of award-winning American playwright Edward Albee. Octavo original half-cloth illustrated. Signed by Albee beneath his frontispiece portrait. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc Cohen. This critically-acclaimed biography of three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee offers an intimate glance into the subject's struggles and triumphs with frankness and critical acumen drawing on extensive conversations with him. "A fascinating and illuminating account of a great dramatist in search of his identity" Sir John Mortimer. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
2011149099Chicago Illinois: The Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. VG A few remnant fingerprint smudges on the back of the dust jacket; otherwise clean and nice. Tan cloth black & illus. dust jacket Issued in conjunction with a 2011-2012 exhibition. "In just a little over a decade Chicagoan and Art Institute of Chicago trustee Irving Stenn Jr. has amassed a compelling collection of 170 drawings by at least 90 artists. Concentrating on works from the 1960s -- a period that saw a fundamental change in the way works on paper were made used and appreciated-Stenn's stunning collection features multiple works by Mel Bochner Sol LeWitt Brice Marden and Fred Sandback along with pieces by Agnes Denes Eva Hesse Jasper Johns Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly. This focused assembly of 130 works 100 of which are promised gifts to the museum not only showcases Stenn's personal taste vision and passion as a collector but also offers a window into an era when artists reconsidered and reinvented the medium of drawing." museum site With essays by Mel Bochner and Mark Pascale a collector interview conducted by Mark Pascale an exhibition checklist arranged by artist name and the many full-color plates. At the time of the exhibition the drawings were merely on loan from Stenn's residence. In April 2015 Stenn donated them officially to the Art Institute of Chicago. They are now part of the museum's permanent collection. "These drawings belong in the public hand" Stenn said. Scarce. The Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press hardcover books
1202New York: William Morrow and Co. 1970. ADVANCE PROOFS. This copy is an honest to goodness advance proof copy obviously issued in very limited numbers. It is simply the galley sheets printed on one side only with plain cardboard covers stiched through three holes with white binders twine holding it all together. On the cover is pasted publisher's information. This copy appears to have been used by a reviewer as it has a paper clip mark and one story notably "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" removed but gratefully laid back in. A landmark anthology that set the stage for an explosion in Black women writers and their success. books
197124653Kingston R.I.: University of Rhode Island 1971. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Wide stapled booklet. 8 unnumbered pages including covers. Published to coincide with an exhibition of Bochner's work at the University of Rhode Island in 1971. Near fine condition. Booklet measures just under 8" square. With black and white illustrations and reproductions of pages of text from the artist's journals. A scarce catalog from early in the artist's career. University of Rhode Island paperback books
1947WRCLIT67669Culver City: Vanguard Films 1947. 1180 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers with rubber-stamped script number. About fine. A rerun from original stencils of an unspecified draft dated 15 May 1946 of this fully developed adaptation to the screen of Baker's 1940 supernatural fantasy. Baker wrote his own adaptation for a 1950 BBC television broadcast starring Margaret Rutherford which was in turn translated to performance at the Royal Court Theatre Club in London. However we find no record of an actual film adaptation. In the 15 years following WWII Dinelli was associated as writer with a number of filmed thrillers and noir-staples including THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE and THE WINDOW. BLEILER SUPERNATURAL 77. Vanguard Films unknown books
1947WRCLIT67382Culver City: Vanguard Films Inc. 1947. 1109 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in typed wrappers with Vanguard property leaf. Trace of rust from brads to inside of wrappers script number stamped on upper wrapper else near fine. A first draft of this adaptation of Bentley's 1913 novel evidently unproduced in this version. It was realized on the screen for the third time in 1952 but based on a script by Pamela Bower. In the 15 years following WWII Dinelli was associated as writer with a number of filmed thrillers and noir-staples. His screen credit just prior to this project was THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE. Vanguard Films, Inc. unknown books
20049019874Moose Lake: Blackloc Photography 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. One of 5000 copies bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Signed by both authors on the title page. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white. <br/><br/> Blackloc Photography hardcover books
14479New York and Paris: Sonnabend Gallery No Date. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Square quarto. 66 pp. Essay by Bruce Boice. Some toning to covers. A very good copy of this uncommon title. Illustrated in black and white. <br/><br/> Sonnabend Gallery paperback books
