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193694010Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1936. First edition of Warner's first book a boy's adventure story published in Blackwell's "Tales of Action" series. Set in Egypt and Cyprus where Warner had worked and travelled in his twenties it is "well packed with kidnapping code-breaking escapes car chases and a series of mysterious baroque murders" Reeve p. 10. Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 7 black and white plates by H. R. Millar. Original purple cloth gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket. Gift inscription dated 1941 to front free endpaper. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the bright unclipped jacket that has short closed tears to the spine ends and some nicks to the extremities. N. H. Reeve The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction 1989. hardcover
1927179045London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Gifted from the author to a fellow writer First edition first impression the author's ownership inscription on the head of the front free endpaper and subsequent book label of Daphne Muir on the front pastedown. Muir a South African poet and author moved to England in 1927 and the two authors developed a friendship. Warner records dining and attending classical music concerts with Muir in her diary. Warner wrote Mr Fortune's Maggot as a result of a vivid dream and recalled finishing it in a state of semi-hallucination. The novel "an appealing blend of cleverness oddity and pathos. rich in imagery and extraordinarily sensual descriptive prose" was incredibly popular both in the UK and the US where her first novel Lolly Willowes 1926 had been an unexpected sensation Harman Biography p. 71. Warner was in the centre of an active literary community and was close friends with many of the modernist authors to whom she is now compared. Prior to her novels she published a collection of poetry The Espalier 1925. In her life and writing Warner worked against societal norms: she was active in the Communist Party travelled to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War to work with the Red Cross espoused "unconventional moral fables" in her Kingdoms of Elfin 1977 and lived as a married couple with her partner the poet Valentine Ackland for 38 years. Their love letters were published in 1998 under the title I'll Stand By You and "constitute an extraordinary lesbian love story" ODNB. Octavo. Original black and blue marbled cloth spine lettered in gilt bottom edge untrimmed. Spine cocked and sunned wear to ends and bottom corners foxing to contents: a very good copy. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 3a. Claire Harman Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography 1989; Claire Harman The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner 1994; Vike Martina Plock & Alex Murray "Re-Visiting Sylvia Townsend Warner" Literature Compass Special Issue: Sylvia Townsend Warner December 2014. hardcover
19766710MARVEL 10/1976. 1. softcover. Maloftege! MARVEL paperback
1936355490719332London: Constable 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition First Printing. Publisher's orange cloth with ornate blue lettering to the front board and spine. End-papers faintly offset; cloth a little faded to the spine; text clear in firm binding. A nice VG copy. In the rare D/W which has been price-clipped to the inside flap. The D/W has benefited from some discreet and well-executed archival restoration from a highly skilled paper conservator and now shows as a clean near fine copy. Features Philip Trent a gentleman detective from the right social class. Golf is critical to the plot as Trent takes his main suspect for a round at his home course. A pre and post restoration image is included which shows the limited extent of the restoration. Photographs/scans available upon request Constable hardcover
19122039449British Museum 1912. Very Good. Three-quarters red leather over maroon cloth boards t.e.g. tall quarto 92 pp. followed by 316 collotype plates. Very minor sunning to spine with corners slightly bumped with no fraying to leather though. Scattered foxing mostly in margins of initial leaves. Very sound overall. British Museum unknown
1931167296Los Angeles: Fox Film 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1931 film showing actor Warner Oland in costume as Charlie Chan accompanied by Chang Apana the real-life Chinese-Hawaiian detective who inspired the character. Printed mimeo snipe and Fox Film stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on Earl Derr Biggers' 1929 novel. The second film to feature Oland as Chan and the only known surviving film of the first five films in the series. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Honolulu Hawaii. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Fox Film unknown
199234165BASTEI 1992. 1. softcover. Maloftege! STARKE WESTERN IN GROßER SCHRIFT BASTEI paperback
1920mon0000131071See Comments 1920-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library usual stamps and markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable. See Comments hardcover
1995166024N.p.: Dark Horse Entertainment 1995. Draft script for the 1996 film with rainbow revisions.<br /> <br /> Based on the comic book character created by Chris Warner first appearing in the 1993 comic "Comic's Greatest World: Steel Harbor" and on the "Barb Wire" series published from 1994 to 1996. Pamela Anderson stars as the titular Barb a nightclub owner in a fictional coastal California town "the last free city" in the US which has been divided by a Second Civil War. When Barb's former lover now a freedom fighter arrives at the club asking for help Barb finds herself thrust onto the political stage. Largely panned by critics upon release the film has since attracted a cult following.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Long Beach California and Pascagoula Mississippi.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated 07/03/95 with credits for screenwriters Chuck Pfarrer and Adam Rifkin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 06/08/95 and 07/03/95. Pages slightly wavy else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Dark Horse Entertainment unknown
1921003812Tarrytown NY: Bartlett Orr Press Privately printed 1921. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Folio. 36 by 26 cm. 135 pp. 54 photographic plates 16 of which are in color. The porcelain and jewelry specimens are mostly done in color. Among the arts treated in this lavish book are pottery and procelain jades and crystals bronzes and stone sculpture. Chinese specimens dominate followed by Japanese then Korean. The collector Worcester Reed Warner 1846-1929 was a trained mechanical engineer astronomer entrepreneur and business executive and a philanthropist. The company he co-founded Warner & Swazey manufactured machine tools but was best known for making astonomical telescopes. The cover is moderately soiled but still handsome with its centerpiece gilt Chinese symbol. Within the book is clean and tight. Bartlett Orr Press (Privately printed) unknown
1913mon0000173151Religious Tract Society 1913-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Clean copy in acceptable condition with some spine wear. 1880 PUBLICATION approx. Religious Tract Society hardcover
1912936F30London: British Museum; Longmans & Co 1912 . First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 13" by 10". Not Stated. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated recreation of Queen Mary's Psalter produced for the trustees of the British Museum. A first edition.This impressive work reproduces the pictorial material including miniatures and drawings found in Queen Mary's Psalter which included the Old Testament cycle and calendar followed by Canticles Litanies and prayers. Queen Mary's psalter was actually produced centuries prior to her birth possibly for Isabella of France 1295-1358 Queen of England and consort of Edward II. The was was produced in England perhaps in London or East Anglia circa 1310/20 by a single artist now known only as the 'Queen Mary Master.'.Illustrated with 316 collotype plates. Collated complete. In a half morocco binding with cloth covered boards. A touch of rubbing to back strip head and tail and to joints otherwise externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed British Museum; Longmans & Co hardcover
1977BN128945Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 1977. 1977. Hardcover. Handbook of the Psychology of Aging <br/><br/>Handbook of the Psychology of Aging Birren James E.; Schaie PhD K. Warner Van Nostrand Reinhold Company hardcover
1991169054N.p.: Castle Rock Entertainment 1991. Rainbow Revision Shooting script for the 1992 film. Copy with the marker annotations of "Set Copy / Please Do Not Take" written on the front wrapper and a manuscript marker annotation of copy number "193" on the top of the title page.<br /> <br /> Billy Crystal's directorial debut about the rise and fall of a standup comedian named Buddy Young Jr. The film was adapted for the stage in 2021 with Crystal reprising his performance as Young. <br /> <br /> Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated September 26 1991 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Billy Crystal Lowell Ganz and Babloo Mandel. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green goldenrod and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/27/91 and 10/31/91. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Castle Rock Entertainment unknown
1940146331Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final draft script for the 1940 film. Notation on front wrapper in manuscript purple ink adding ."9A" to the production number. Notations in manuscript pencil in script adding tics to dialogue and names on the verso of pages. Laid in are 3 blue "retake" pages dated after principal photography had been completed.<br /> <br /> A remake of T. Hayes Hunter's 1920 silent film of the same name. Irving Pichel's "Earthbound" finds Nick Desborough Warner Baxter called away from his honeymoon with Ellen Andrea Leeds for business in Paris only to find his ex-mistress Linda Reynolds Lynn Bari sent the telegram. Linda rejected by Nick shoots and kills him and her husband Jeff Henry Wilcoxon is arrested and tried for the crime. Nick's ghost helps guide Ellen to clear Jeff and convict Linda so he can rest in peace.<br /> <br /> Set in Paris and Switzerland. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 33 and production No. 1884 dated January 12 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated January 12 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Samuel G. Engel. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with Blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/15/40 and 2/21/40 with laid in Blue Retake pages dated 3/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
194660373Paris: Editions de la revue Fontaine 1946. Fine. Editions de la revue Fontaine Paris 1946 12 x 19 cm broché first edition of the French translation on current paper. Rare autograph signed by Rex Warner in English to Pierre Dumayet. Back insolated paper yellowed as generally. Editions de la revue Fontaine unknown
1929179044London: Chatto & Windus 1929. A tender historical romance First edition first impression signed by the author on the title page and uncommon thus. Warner stated that the novel which retells the story of Cupid and Psyche from Apuleius was "inspired by a creek running slowly" that she had discovered on a walk in the Essex marshes. The work was contemporarily praised for its "humour lyricism and tenderness" Orlando. In her writing Warner "shares as many similarities as differences with the high modernists who dominated the literary landscape of the interwar period" Plock & Murray p. 725. She was close friends with many of those modernists and alongside her novels published a collection of poetry The Espalier 1925. Warner worked against the societal norms throughout her literary career as well as in her own life: she was active in the communist party travelled to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War to work with the Red Cross espoused "unconventional moral fables" in her Kingdoms of Elfin 1977 and lived as a married couple with her partner the poet Valentine Ackland for 38 years. Their love letters were published in 1998 under the title I'll Stand By You and "constitute an extraordinary lesbian love story" ODNB. Octavo. Title page woodcut by Ray Garnett. Original black and blue marbled cloth spine lettered in gilt bottom edge untrimmed. Spine cocked and faded as often top edge dust toned contents clean: a very good copy. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 6a. Vike Martina Plock & Alex Murray "Re-Visiting Sylvia Townsend Warner" Literature Compass Special Issue: Sylvia Townsend Warner December 2014. hardcover
1995Manohar-9780710304919Kegan Paul International 1995. Hardcover. New. Kegan Paul International hardcover
1995Manohar-9780710304919Kegan Paul International 1995. Hardcover. New. Kegan Paul International hardcover
1905297670Doubleday 1905. Hardcover . Good. 377 pp. covers worn with bookplate tears to crown and base of spine corners bumped study of the Jewish people in various disciplines through history to the present and the influences. a negative anti semitic portrayal in scholarly guise Doubleday hardcover
192871181New York: D. Appleton and Company 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a very attractive about fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. A novel set in London about the lost chapters in the lives of men and women. Bellah is best known for the western movies that were based on his stories including She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Fort Apache and Rio Grande as well as several screenplays he wrote including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. A lovely copy. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1945Alibris.0029612The American Philosophical Society. 1945. Trade paperback. Fair. tears at top & bottom of spine tape residue along spine cover is age-toned bookplate inside front cover pencil notes on table of contents small chip on back cover edge binding is loose but all pages are bound. 398 p. Includes: illustrations maps bibliography. . Expedition on auroral phenomena bacteriology botany cosmic rays glaciology magnetism medicine meteorology micropaleontology ornithology petrography and petrology physiography physiology seismology structural geology and zoology. The American Philosophical Society paperback
1957561433New York: Comet Press Books 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning rubbing and edgewear. Author's first book. Comet Press Books hardcover
