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193744935New York: D. Appleton 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a slight printing flaw to the silvered dustwrapper and some wear at the extremities. Happy Shannon the daughter of an old-fashioned country doctor comes to New York City and dazzles and is bedazzled by the glittering night life. Bellah an aviator and war hero in both World Wars is inextricably linked to John Ford who filmed his stories and novels as Fort Apache She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande and for whom he wrote the screenplays The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Sergeant Rutledge. Very scarce. D. Appleton hardcover books
1980112986Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1980. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Presentation copy with brief signed inscription by Munn to influential F&SF editor and publisher David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #112986 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1958135616Providence Rhode Island: The Grandon Company 1958. Octavo boards. First edition. One of 350 copies. Signed by Munn. The title story first published in WEIRD TALES July 1925 was inspired by and dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft. Also collected here is the sequel "The Werewolf's Daughter" first published as a three-part serial in WEIRD TALES October-December 1928. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-151. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1214. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of dust soiling. #135616 The Grandon Company unknown books
195882494Providence Rhode Island: The Grandon Company 1958. Octavo boards. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by Munn. The title story first published in WEIRD TALES July 1925 was inspired by and dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft. Also collected here is the sequel "The Werewolf's Daughter" first published as a three-part serial in WEIRD TALES October-December 1928. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-151. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1214. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-183. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some soiling to white areas of front panel and rear panel. #82494 The Grandon Company unknown books
1899254261Cambridge: Riverside Press 1899. Limited. hardcover. fine/good. Garrett. With Illlustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Large 8vo cloth backed boards paper spine label. Cambridge: Riverside Press 1899. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Special large-paper edition. One of 250 signed copies. As new in a plain brown wrapper lettered on the spine. The wrapper is dust soiled and chipped at the edges.<br/><br/> Riverside Press unknown books
1877160569Boston James R. Osgood and Company 1877. 1877. First edition first issue with leaf facing title page blank. 8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; dark brown endpapers. Very good a trifle rubbed. No signatures or bookplates. BAL 21134 - account of author’s visit to Jerusalem Damascus Lebanon Cyprus et.al. F. Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. hardcover books
36947NY: Fowlers and Wells 1853. First edition. 7.25" x 4.5". 2 175 1 4pp inserted ads. With frontis and 3 additional wood engravings in text. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth gilt-stamped spine titles yellow endpapers flyleaves. Boards show light wear and soiling; endpapers offset scattered light foxing. A Very Good copy of this popular guide an attempt to establish standards for dental practice ranging from daily cleanliness to medical intervention. Crowley 1886; Weinberger p. 141 . VeryGood. Hardcover . Fowlers and Wells 1853 hardcover books
195865680Chicago: Scott Foresman and Company 1958. Eighth printing. 8vo. 182pp. Green cloth lightly soiled in illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket rumbled and edgeworn. Dust jacket says Albert Whitman & Company Trade Distributor. Copy bears a previous owner's signature and is signed by the author on the half-title. <br/><br/> Scott, Foresman and Company hardcover books
196765682Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan Publishing House 1967. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Blue cloth in white dustjacket illustrated with parakeet on front cover. Very good. Signed by the author Gertrude Warner on the flyleaf. Peter Piper was a companion to the Rev. Leila W. Anderson for over 200000 miles. He grew to have a vocabulary of over 800 words and was a help with shy children in her missionary work. <br/><br/> Zondervan Publishing House hardcover books
17977606London: J. Johnson 1797. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 2xii2120pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Later marbled wrappers. J. Johnson paperback books
19360682New York: The Viking Press 1936. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. MILTON MERLIN'S copy with his name and date in pencil 421pp. bound in red and black pictorial cloth depicting a guitar flag and flower in gilt black and red spine lettering gilt top edge stained black. Nearly fine in unclipped fine dust jacket. Milton Merlin 1905-1996 was a screenwriter during the 1930s and 1940s. In the early 1950s he was blacklist after he refused to tesitfy before the House Un-American Activites Committee. Merlin returned to writing in the early 1960s focusing on television where he penned scripts for such shows as The Millionaire which he also produced and episodes of Bonanza and I Spy. <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
192507877London: Chatto & Windus 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. PRESENTATION TO VIVIAN DE SOLA PINTO AND SIGNED S.T.W. but the inscription may be secretarial with De Sola Pinto's bookplate front pastedown. Vivian de Sola Pinto was a British poet literary critic and historian and a leading D. H. Lawrence scholar who appeared in defence of Penguin Books in the 1960 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" trial. Author's first book 103 pp. Bound in blue and black marbled boards paper spine label. A very good copy with fading spine light scattered foxing. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000105No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Irene Rich Conway Tearle Jane Winton John Miljan dir: Paul L. Stein; Warner Brothers. Before she was radio spokeswoman for Welch's Grape Juice and playing motherly roles in talkies Irene Rich was quite the glamour star of silent cinema. This was a tour de force set in Imperial Russia prior to the Revolution centering on the aristocracy. It was a riches to rags to riches to rags story full of convoluted melodrama and great costumes and sets FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000390No binding. Fine. Photo Vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white print still photo USA. Elizabeth Taylor Brian Keith Julie Harris Marlon Brando dir: John Huston; Warner Brothers. Behind-the-scenes photo of director John Huston on the set of this Carson McCullers adaptation with Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Keith at a card table and Julie Harris seated to their left on a sofa. FINE. unknown books
185610301NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo Pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing A no sequence established; Binding 2 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
198513097Boston: Photographic Resource Center Boston University 1985. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Collaboration between these two video artists on the subject of Northern Ireland. A very good copy in tall stapled illustrated wrappers. Only three cc found in world institutions. <br/><br/> Photographic Resource Center Boston University paperback books
1844TB31669Worcester Mass.: Warren Lazell 1844. Reprint of 1844. Good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with gilt decorations and gilt text on the spine. The edges of the text block are marbled. A small quarto of 9 by 5 1/2 inches with the leather worn through over the front and rear joints the lower edges of the boards and the tips of the boards. There is an early prior owner's name written in ink at the upper edge of the title page. The contents are generally foxed on the margins and the fold-out hand-colored map is partially tanned it is in undamaged condition. 624 pages of text illustrated from 200 woodcut engravings and the hand-colored fold-out map. The first edition of this title was published by Dorr Howland of Worcester in 1839. Armstrong Bibliographies of New England History 103; Howes B-123 Warren Lazell hardcover books
1839TB29065Worcester Mass.: Dorr Howland & Co. 1839. First Edition. Very good in full brown leather covered boards with a rebacked spine of leather with a gilt stamped dark brown leather spine label. The rebacking retained the original marbled paper end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches. The leather is worn through at the tips of the boards and the front and rear hinges have been reinforced with modern cloth. The contents are in excellent condition with 624 pages of text with occasional spots of foxing to the pages throughout. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and small engraved vignettes throughout within the text. The hand-colored four-color fold-out map is in place following the front index and is in perfect undamaged condition. Illustrated throughout by the author's 200 line drawings and wood cut engravings. Howes B-123 Dorr, Howland & Co. hardcover books
1846TB31670Hartford Conn.: H. S. Parsons & Co. 1846. Third Edition of 1846. Very good in its original full leather covered boards with extensive gilt tool work and gilt text on the spine with the edges of the text block marbled. An octavo of 8 by 5 inches with rubbing to the boards and the edges of the boards The contents are mildly foxed in the margins throughout. The fold-out map is missing. 624 pages of text illustrated a frontispiece and from "numerous" woodcut engravings. The first edition of this title was published in Hartford in 1840 and contained only 576 pages. Howes B-124 H. S. Parsons & Co. hardcover books
19385014181938. "Warner Baxter" in dark blue fountain pen ink on 3/4 length shot wearing a plaid sport coat over a light color sweater vest and polka-dot silk tie with his left arm leaning on the upraised let. Photograph is on heavy weight stock; 8" x 10"; very good. 1938. Signed and inscribed: "To Stanley with heaps of good wishes always Warner Baxter 1938.". No Binding. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. unknown books
193621927New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 324pp 2. Hint of darkening to spine boards slighlty dusty with foxing to endpapers and some vertical streaking to preliminary pages; Very Good. The Arthur Hawkins-designed dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 lightly shelfworn with small bruises at mid-spine and front panel with two stains along lower edge of same; Very Good or better. Bentley's follow-up to his 1913 novel Trent's Last Case co-written with his friend H. Warner Allen. HUBIN p.31. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1936145365Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1936. Two vintage photographs of director Howard Hawks on the set of the 1936 film one with actors Warner Baxter June Lang and Hawks' secretary Mata Carpenter the other with Hawks and actor Fredric March. Mimeo snipe and holograph annotations on the verso of each<br/><br/>One photo shown. Please inquire to see the other.<br/><br/>Lt. Denet Fredric March rivals with Capt. La Roche Warner Baxter for the love of nurse Monique June Lang set amidst trench life in World War I. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
181722200Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell and Sold by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown London 1817 1817. First edition. Fleeman 88.3L/6; Courtney page 169. Edges a little rubbed; very good copy. 8vo contemporary black half calf marbled paper sides gilt rules decorations and lettering. ¶ An collection of over 70 letters compiled and edited by Rebecca Warner of Bath who clearly had a scholarly interest in the literature of the 18th century. She assembled correspondence of John Gay Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson Elizabeth Montague William Gilpin et al. and introduced each with "Biographical Illustrations." Warner was the author of one novel Herbert-Lodge 1808 and another similar collection Epistolary Curiosities 1818. <br/><br/> Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell and Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1817 unknown books
1958138556London: Maurice Cowan / Rank Productions 1958. Original program for the 1958 UK film. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and color stills from the film as well as reproductions of watercolor illustrations showing scenes from the film. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11.75 inches. 10 pages. Very Good plus in saddle stapled wrappers. Lightly soiled overall with a faint diagonal crease to the upper corner else bright and without loss. Maurice Cowan / Rank Productions unknown books
605753"Ellen Olney Kirk" in black ink on bifold leaf 4 1'2" x 6 7/8" 1 1/4 pages. Germantown June 6 n.y. Very good old tape on top of page 3 from pervious mounting. To Miss Swift: In part: "Your note reaches me just as I am on the point of leaving. . .for a week - but in order to allow your request. . .I seize a moment to sign myself. . .". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
