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022664Good. Autograph Letters Signed. Small collection of documents from the estate of John Warner a farmer and merchant of Wethersfield Connecticut. Collection consists of 10 separate papers including business letters and accounting sheets. Papers are all folded and exhibit foxing and toning. Many have tears and chipping along the folds. The script on most of the documents is fairly challenging to read though all are still legible. The documents mostly concern the sale and shipping of onions. Collection includes 5 business letters and 5 sheets of accounts. The account sheets have dates ranging from 1815 to 1840 and contain lists of names and figures with arithmetic done on the margins. The letters also contain a range of dates with one from 1818 two from 1819 one from 1823 and another from 1833. The letters appear to be from business partners and largely discuss the transportation of onions and prices in various cities in the eastern United States. This collection of 10 documents gives a glimpse into an agricultural business operating in the first half of the 19th century. . unknown books
1938152342N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage matte-finish photograph of Canadian-American film mogul Jack Warner and Warner Brothers sales manager J. Walton Brown in conversation with an unknown third man circa 1938. With the stamp of photographer Schuyler Crail on the verso along with holograph ink and pencil annotations.<br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus evenly toned overall with tape reinforcements to the top corners of the verso. N.p. unknown books
30750<p>1817 Leading Philadelphia bookseller-publisher and cartographer lauds "Western Emigration"</p><p>quarto one page plus stamp-less address leaf in very good legible condition.</p><p> Happily responding to Guilford's offer of honorary membership in the Society: </p><p> "… Being convinced that a very imperfect knowledge is generally possessed by persons on the Seaboard Section of our country in relation to their trans-mountain brethren and of their country I rejoiced to find an association instituted for the purpose of defusing information of the fairest portion of our favored land and I cannot hesitate to believe but that great facilities will be derived by the enterprising emigrant to our shores who is seeking a peaceful asylum for himself and a secure and happy establishment for his posterity … it will give me pleasure to add any feeble assistance I can give in promoting the objects of its institution…"</p><p> Warner was a young Quaker bookseller and publisher of Philadelphia – he also had bookshops in Charleston and Richmond Virginia the latter managed by John Grigg later founder of the Lippincott firm. As publisher Warner's notable imprints included an 1818 edition of the Federalist Papers and in 1820 possibly the earliest separately issued folding map of the United States to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast based upon cartographer John Melish's classic 1819 wall map as well as the "western detail" maps of Lewis and Clark Humboldt and Pike. As such it "galvanized geographic ideas" about "tenuously explored lands beyond the Rocky Mountains."</p><p> The letter makes clear Warner's abiding interest in American lands to the west – and sympathy for the courageous Emigrants who were then flowing westward. Perhaps Warner shared this interest with Melish in a friendship unrecorded by history. Two years later Melish published 'Information and Advice to Emigrants to the United States and from the Eastern to the Western States." Their sympathies were controversial at the time especially in Connecticut whose retained "Western Reserve" lands extending across the northern part of present day Ohio were the center of emigration. In 1817 residents of Connecticut "highly wrought up over the emigration problem" exerted "every influence … to stem the ever growing outward tide of fortune seekers" lured by "glowing descriptions of land speculators" who glossed over the dangers of floods and storms and the fraudsters preying upon the innocence of the newcomers. </p><p> The Western Emigration Society led by Nathan Guilford later to be hailed as "father" of the Ohio public school system was in fact formed to provide both information and philanthropic support to emigrants though Connecticut newspapers "exposed" the organization for promoting a "deplorable species of madness" in "unhealthy regions where men worked themselves into untimely graves" unaware of the "burdensome privations of a land without churches schools and roads."</p> Guilford was indeed a very effective lobbyist for emigration to the West. The same month that he wrote Warner he must have offered "honorary membership" to dozens of other Eastern notables including then General Andrew Jackson. Those letters and their congenial replies appear in the Ohio Historical Society and other archival collections. Benjamin Warner's response may have been one of the most interesting. Warner died prematurely three years later at the age of 35. books
197265679Chicago IL: Albert Whitman & Company 1972. The third Albert Whitman edition. 8vo. 154pp. 2. Glossy red cloth illustrated with a boxcar on the front cover. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. <br/><br/> Albert Whitman & Company hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000736No binding. Fine. Photo Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Ellen Burstyn Max von Sydow Lee. J. Cobb Kitty Winn Jason Miller Linda Blair dir: William Friedkin; Warner Brothers. A tense moment with Kitty Winn Jason Miller and Linda Blair in William Friedkin's exploration of a girl possessed by a mysterious entity. Today this is considered one of the essentials of 1970s cinema FINE. -EXCORCIST -LindaBlair -WilliamFriedkin -HorrorFilm unknown books
WALTER-FILM000231Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Book Vintage original 17 x 11"" 43 x 29 cm. pressbook; folio pictorial wrappers 24 pp. USA. Dick Powell Adolphe Menjou Gloria Stuart Alice Brady Hugh Herbert Glenda Farrell dir: Busby Berkeley; Warner Brothers. Post-Production Code musical extravaganza was small on plot this time with a mother attempting to marry her daughter off to a millionaire while staying at a posh hotel -- but the film was huge in production numbers. These were some of Busby Berkeley's most sophisticated intricate and best. Amongst them were ""The Words Are In My Heart"" and the iconic ""Lullaby of Broadway."" By 1935 Warner Brothers had branded the ""Gold Digger"" franchise and the promotion was as spectacular as the films. Wonderful fun in these pages of exploitation production details and accessories. There are a variety of still campaigns articles including those on the previous Berkeley films song sheets novelties of Warner Brothers stars and posters for the film. Gold foil cover in good condition there is tape along the binding edge and a crease at the top right corner. Pages are all in fine condition and fully intact ABOUT FINE. paperback books
WALTER-FILM003020No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 7 1/2 x 9 1/2"" 26 x 33 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Lauren Bacall is seen taking a break in her dressing room while working on THE BIG SLEEP. The classic noir made during the war had her utilizing her downtime to autograph portraits for GIs in the Army hospital according to the attached paper blurb on verso. Photo appears to have been printed borderless. Some slight creasing at the top and bottom right corners JUST ABOUT FINE. unknown books
1955WALTER-FILM004295Set of three 3 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white print still photos USA. FINE. Liberace; dir: Gordon Douglas; Warner Bros. Warner Brothers books
WALTER-FILM000054No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Ricardo Cortez June Travis Jane Bryan Craig Reynolds dir: William C. McGann Alan Crosland; Warner Brothers First National. From the Erle Stanley Gardner novel THE CASE OF THE CARETAKER'S CAT came this Perry Mason film entry. Mason is asked to come during dead of night to a mansion to write a granddaughter out of her invalid grandfather's will to keep her from marrying a man the family does not approve of. The old man mysteriously dies and his two grandsons inherit all. The will stipulates that they must keep the caretaker and his cat on the premises however and the cat is suddenly in danger. Perry moves in to discover the old man's death was not as it seemed. June Travis as Della Street and Ricardo Cortez as Perry Mason seem appropriately startled in a moment of mystery in this card. Veteran director Alan Crosland started making this film but died during production. Small repair to extreme blank top right corner overall NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM004144No binding. Fine. Memorabilia Gordon Parks screenwriter director Vintage original 12 x 12"" 30 x 30 cm. vinyl record in a blank white paper sleeve JUST ABOUT FINE. THE LEARNING TREE was the first movie directed by an African American that was financed and distributed by a major studio. It was Parks' first feature film and adapted from his novel of the same name an autobiographical work about a black teenager growing up in Depression-era Kansas. This is a rare record not sold to the public but sent only to radio stations where they could play any of the various ads for the film contained on the record unknown books
1982138985Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1982. Revised Draft script for the 1983 film. <br/><br/>The third of four films pairing director Carl Reiner and comedian Steve Martin that established Martin's film career. Here he plays a quirky doctor who instigates a comedy of errors after operating on a woman whom he injures in a car accident. Though not as popular as their first pairing the unarguable classic 1979 film "The Jerk" "The Man with Two Brains" nevertheless remains a minor comic gem. <br/><br/>Set in the United States and Vienna shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5/28/82 noted as revisions. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication first generation copy with no copied punch holes with pink revision pages throughout dated 5/28/82. Pages Fine wrapper near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
199327738San Francisco: Norman Publishing 1993. First Thus. Cloth. Fine. First Thus. Variously paginated. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Thick small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Nicely produced much better than other catalog reprints. 2 volumes containing reprints of 17 Queen catalogs. Both volumes still in shrinkwrap. Cloth. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Queen company and their wares. Individual catalogues are expensive to buy when you can find them - we've been working on our own original set for 20 years and haven't done it yet. Norman has done a service to the scholarly community by gathering and publishing them in one place.<br/><br/>"17 different rare illustrated instrument catalogues and circulars published between 1887 and 1890 in the following fields:. Volume I: Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessories Magnifying Glasses Stereoscopes Graphoscopes etc. 1890 Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Ophthalmological Instruments Spectacles and Eye-Glasses 1889 Illustrated Catalogue of Instruments used in Physical Optics 1888 Astronomical Telescopes Transit Instruments Helioscopes Micrometers Chronographs and Clocks Objectives and Oculars etc. 1889 Illustrated Catalogue of Terrestrial Telescopes Telescope Stands Eye-Pieces Achromatic Objectives and Accessories 1889 Special List of New Polariscopes and Polarizing Objects for the Use of Schools and Colleges 1887 Priced and Illustrated Catalouge of Optical Lanterns Stereopticons Photographic Transparencies and Colored Views for Luminous Projections Classified and Illustrated Price-List and Catalogue of Photographic Lenses Cameras Apparatus and Materials 1890 Catalogue of Mathematical and Engineering Instruments and Materials 1887 Volume II: Supplementary Price List of New Physical Apparatus for the Use of Schools and Colleges 1889 Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments Chemical Apparatus and Chemicals 1888 Description and Price List of James W. Queen & Co.'s New Automatic Air Pumps ca. 1881 Description and Directions for Use of Queen & Co.'s New Form of Toepler Holtz Electric Machine with Three Plates 1881 Catalogue and Price List of Electrical Testing Apparatus 1887 Supplementary List of Electrical Test and Measuring Instruments Standards for Electrical Comparison Laboratory Appliances Etc. 1889 Special Circular Important to Electricians Regarding the Testing and Calibration of Electrical Instruments and Apparatus 1889 Catalogue of Chemicals 1887 Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus 1888 Catalogue of Anatomical Models Charts and Osteological Preparations. Auzoux's Papier-Mache Anatomical Models Bock-Steger Models Painted in Natural Colors Human Skeletons 1886 These extensively illustrated and annotated catalogues provide the best available record of the widest range of scientific optical artistic and photographic instruments available during the latter part of the 19th century. All of the original Queen and Company catalogs are rare on the market. Few university libraries or museums own the complete range of catalogues reprinted in this collection and the condition of many of the originals has now badly deteriorated. The Norman Publishing edition printed on acid-free paper with its definitive introduction by Deborah Jean Warner is a comprehensive research tool for the history of 19th-century scientific and medical technology." the publisher. Norman Publishing unknown books
190024490Cleveland Ohio: Warner & Swasey 1900. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 2 36 leaves. 4to. 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Tan cloth with black embossed decoration and titling on the front board. Printed in black and white on recto only except for the title page the verso of which shows a view of the factory. Several tears and small blank chip in front flyleaf. Binding is very loose with the signatures detaching and in need of service. Evidence of ex-library status with spine lettering faded to illegibility ghosting on rear pastedown that indicates library pcoket etc. Front and rear flyleaf likely missing or the front glued down. Even withall the essence of the book remains which is a large format trade catalog and/or advertisement for Warner and Swasey highlighting their skill as craftsmen and engineers in this case in the field of astronomical instruments and their housings. Cloth. Ambrose Swasey 1846-1937 was an American mechanical engineer and inventor. With partner Worcester R. Warner he formed the company Warner & Swasey in Ohio. They are perhaps best known for their construction and installation of major telescopes and their mountings they built the Lick Observatory telescope mounting apparatus. The company was acquired in 1980 by Bendix Corporation. <br/><br/>"The number of leading observatories for which we have designed and made astronomical instruments affords us an opportunity to bring together a series of illustrations which we feel will not only be of general interest but also of service in showing the magnitude and completeness of modern astronomical equipment." <br/><br/>While noting the attempt to tell the current state of instruments we find a surprising number of views of building exteriors. In some cases the architects involved with the respective buildings are noted. Plate 1 shows the private observatory of the owners of the company both amateur astronomers and enthusiasts which perhaps accounts for their success in this field. <br/><br/>A useful historical document for those interested in the subject and/or restoration of existing equipment. Printed by Chasmar-Winchell Press New York and Pittsburg. <br/><br/>Not in Romaine or Davis and Dreyfuss. Warner & Swasey unknown books
1888WRCLIT79865Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin 1888. Pictorial cloth. Spine a bit dull slight fraying to spine ends endsheets a bit discolored otherwise a very good copy. First edition 1554 copies printed. An excellent association copy inscribed by Warner in the month of publication to "Joseph H. Twichell Forever Chas. Dudley Warner. Hartford Nov. 1888." Rev. Twichell was an intimate Hartford friend of both Clemens and Warner and officiated at Warner's funeral in 1900. BAL 21168. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1839TB28746Worcester Mass.: Dorr Howland & Co. 1839. First Edition. Near fine in a recent 1/2 brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt black leather text block with gilt text stamping on the spine and new end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. The contents are in excellent condition with 624 pages of text with occasional spots of foxing to the pages throughout. The hand-colored four-color fold-out map is in place following the front index and is in near fine condition with a tiny 1/4" closed tear at the lower margin. Illustrated throughout by the author's 200 line drawings and wood cut engravings. Howes B-123 Dorr, Howland & Co. hardcover books
200289521San Francisco:: Privately Printed. Near Fine. 2002. Hardcover. B004D99IFC . Limited edition: this copy is number 228 of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Previous owner's gift inscription on half-title page else near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 527 pages; Signed by Author . Privately Printed, hardcover books
196541772New York: Random House 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; black and red cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; iv3311pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Deke - This could be and is the motion picture industry as I knew and know it now. Every good wish always / Jack / C.B.E." Faint forward lean else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $5.95 lightly edgeworn with several short tears and attendant creases and a patch of wrinkling to center of rear panel; Very Good. Autobiography of the well-known and highly-decorated head of Warner Brothers Studios. Inscribed to Cartha "Deke" DeLoach head of the FBI's Criminal Records Division and a close confidant of J. Edgar Hoover's. He would eventually rise to the position of Deputy Associate Director during the Johnson administration a position of great political influence in Hoover's FBI. Random House unknown books
1904237763Hartford CT: The American Publishing Co 1904. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. Green cloth paper title labels on backstrips t.e.g. Bookplates of Franklin Murphy. Spine ends lightly rubbed else very good. 15. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. The "Preface to Joseph H. Twichell" appeared for the first time in this edition Vol. I pp. 335-7. BAL 21224 The American Publishing Co unknown books
1904239080Hartford CT: The American Publishing Co 1904. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. Green cloth paper titlel labels on backstrips t.e.g. Spine ends lighty rubbed. Bookplates of Franklin Murphy. Very good. The Backlog Edition. 15 vols. 8vo. The American Publishing Co unknown books
19032823London: James Maclehose & Sons Publishers to the University 1903. Only edition. Hardcover. Very good. Vol. I: William I - Richard I. All published. Folio. 50 full page plates of charters with 77 pp. of text. Original cloth well worn at the head and tail of the spine and at the corners else a very good copy with fine plates. James Maclehose & Sons, Publishers to the University hardcover books
189937783London: British Museum Press 1899. hardcover. very good. Series I. - V. 150 photo lithograph plates with printed transcriptions. Thick large folio 3/4 leather rubbed; hinges reinforced. London: British Museum 1899. Very good.<br/><br/> Includes 85 historical documents of English royalty and statesmen with similar autographs of 6 continental monarchs. The second half of the volume is devoted to the autographs of 53 artists and men of letters with 6 continental autographs.<br/><br/> British Museum Press unknown books
WALTER-FILM000270No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" 55 x 70 cm. half sheet poster USA. Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray dir: Roy Rowland; Warner Brothers. What a piece of 3-D graphic imagery this is with both Stanwyck and MacMurray bursting out of the screen! Stanwyck is presented far more seductively than her actual character for which she was blonde but that's what filmmakers felt it took to draw the audience into the theatre during this time when audiences started to stay home to take part in the new revolution: television. This was the third of four films Stanwyck and MacMurray teamed for -- their chemistry established with Double Indemnity nearly 10 years before. Though the Western was now exploring psychological themes the script offered little challenge to these great actors -- but the 3-D effects had entertainment value. The art is quite fun and the poster on linen is in fine condition. It does not appear to have been folded. A few tears were addressed including a very small one at the near bottom left edge and one inner tear above the ""n"" of ""Moonlighter"" in the title treatment and a small tear at the top of ""K"" in ""Stanwyck."" NEAR FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM003018No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm title lobby card USA. Ronald Reagan John Litel Lya Lys James Stephenson dir: Lewis Seiler; Warner Brothers. Though described as an action thriller this B-film played into the developing genre which became noir Warner Bros. leading the way in the stylistic elements. This story concerned enemy agents and the sabotage of war deliveries. This was Ronald Reagan's 4th starring vehicle. Having made his way from bits to supporting roles in A films he was for a bit of time given a crack at leads in B features. This is a textured linen card. There are pin holes at each of the four corners a pinhole at each margin halfway down the card three minor edge tears and tear area to the left edge of the card which have been addressed with archival tape on the verso VERY GOOD-FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000177No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 27 x 41"" 68 x 102 cm. one sheet poster USA. Claude Rains Joan Caulfield Audrey Totter Constance Bennett Hurd Hatfield dir: Michael Curtiz; Warner Brothers. An atmospheric and unusual layout for Warner Brothers poster art of the time presentation for this stylish film noir thriller. Full of mystery a murder is revealed at the start of the story. From there the curious reactions of the cast-of-characters are examined. Then a character thought killed reveals herself to be alive. Strong cast direction and script make this one of the finest classics of this genre. Folded VERY GOOD. unknown books
1942003222Burbank California: Warner Brothers 1942. CASABLANCA. Original vintage gelatin silver publicity photograph of stars PAUL HENRIED and INGRID BERGMAN single weight 8 1/8" by 10" in Near Fine condition with superb vintage toned gloss. Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Studios 1942. Exceedingly uncommon first release photo. It features the scene where Paul Henreid as Czech freedom fighter Victor Lazlo gently and without judgment queries wife Ingrid Bergman about her possibly romantic past with cynical bar owner Humphrey Bogart. In Very Good or better condition toned a tiny bit of storage wear. Authentic cinema memorabilia from this film is highly desirable and hard to find. Also starring Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Claude Rains Conrad Veidt and Dooley Wilson. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Produced by Jack Warner. Screenwriters included Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the unpublished play by Joan Alison and Murray Burnett. First Thus. Very Good. Photograph. Warner Brothers books
