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1958135175Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Revised Final script for the 1959 film. Copy belonging to Clifton Webb with every inclusion of his character's dialogue underlined in holograph ink. Notations on nearly every page in holograph pencil including penciled vertical lines indicating that a scene is complete. <br/><br/>Based on the 1957 play by Ronald Alexander. An older couple Webb and Wyman chases their romance-seeking daughters St. John and Lynley through South America. Shot on location in Peru and Brazil. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 23 dated December 18 1958. Title page present dated February 5 1959 noted as Revised Final Script with a credit for screenwriter Davis. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1959132206London: National Screen Service 1959. Collection of 8 vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1959 US film. <br/><br/>A high-budget comedy with low-budget results about an older couple chasing their daughters through South America while they search for love. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Pinholes to one still and brief light creases overall else Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown books
196223478Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. 320pp index. Very good hardback in publisher's red cloth; no jacket. <br/><br/> University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
57328Volume I and II only 1954-1958. Frontis. 2 vols. thick 8vo Raleigh 1960 1962.<br/><br/> unknown books
1900M6415Philadelphia:: P. Blakiston's Son 1900. 1900. FOURTH EDITION. 233 x 159 mm. 8vo. xii 80 ads 4 pp. Gilt-stamped red cloth; covers water-stained spine faded else very good. Ownership signature of Myra Redfield-Hewitt. Cordasco 00-1540. P. Blakiston's Son, 1900. hardcover books
1860012180Albany: Weed Parsons and Company 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Impressively preserved copy of the 1860 NY State legialstive manual stout 8vo polished red cloth blind-stamped front and rear with gilt to spine with ownership name of O. L Holley gilt-pressed front cover. Speckled edges xxvi 560p two engraved foldouts bound-in at front - one for the Senate chamber the other for the Assembly chamber both in original folds and in near fine condition like the rest of the internals. Covers slightly scuffed. O. L. Holley 1791 -1861 native of Salisbury CT was was an American writer newspaper editor historian and politician. As editor of the Troy Sentinel he was the first to publish the poem that became known as The Night Before Christmas. He also served as New York State Surveyor General from 1838 to 1842. Weed, Parsons and Company hardcover books
18973752New York: D. Appleton 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light/moderate shelf wear tips through light wear at head minor rubbing at hinges/tips spine evenly toned gilt bright else tight bright and unmarred. Halfbound black leather spine and tips blue pebbled cloth boards red dye speckled at text block edges. 8vo. xvii 1117pp. Illus. color and b/w plates one fold-out. Index. <br/><br/>The first real complete and authoritative American text on pediatrics. Cone History of American Pediatrics 104- 105pp; Levinson p.108; Veeder 33-60pp. Overall a handsome copy. D. Appleton hardcover books
1926101666London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1926. Hardbound. VG. Green embossed boards and cloth spine. 341 3 pp. Well-illustrated. A like-new copy of this book. From the library at Normandy Farm once owned by the Strassburger Family in Blue Bell PA. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons unknown books
1908WRCAM11779Baltimore 1908. 2191pp. plus plates. Portrait. Gilt cloth. Very good with the author's printed price slip laid in. Hopkins was a member of the 6th Virginia Cavalry. His memoirs of the Civil War are geared toward the juvenile audience. NEVINS I p.106. hardcover books
1894242457Franklin Falls N.H.: Merrimack Journal Print 1894. Vignette of black gelding. 98 lines of text including ornamental headline and 27-line advertisement for Dr. Goudy's Magic Liniment; 24 lines naming references in N.H. and Vt. 15 inches x 5-1/2 inches. A few tiny marginal flaws. Small tape repair on verso at old fold. Fine. Vignette of black gelding. 98 lines of text including ornamental headline and 27-line advertisement for Dr. Goudy's Magic Liniment; 24 lines naming references in N.H. and Vt. 15 inches x 5-1/2 inches. Informative professional circular for an unusual specialty with related advertisements for liniment and for spaying dogs. Merrimack Journal Print unknown books
187237501NY: The author 1872. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. Illustrated with two mounted photographic portraits and a photographic frontispiece plate of the author signed by him under the image. Largely a Massachusetts and New Hampshire family. Original gilt-stamped cloth. One leaf torn into text no loss some pencil markings otherwise very good. <br/><br/> The author hardcover books
181565189Lenox Mass 1815. Single sheet 24.5 x 20 cm. partly printed completed in manuscript. Old folds heavily foxed. For $60.00 Gale sells one bark mill and grants to Elias Gould of Henniker County of Hillsborough NH "the full and exclusive right and liberty of using the said Bark-Mill in the town and county aforesaid." Signed by Gale and witnessed probably by his wife dated in ink September 11 1815. See RINK 1394 for one copy of an 1818 broadside printed in Lenox which takes note of a patent infringement for this patent; and for the grant of patent right see RINK 1392 which is an 1813 notification that Gale has purchased exclusive right to C. Tobey's patent bark mill. Presumably this is a somewhat different machine than our 1811 Gale patent. This broadside is not listed in Rink or Imprints. <br/><br/> unknown books
W1731BGreen cloth with black lettering on upper board. A very neat and clean book with wonderful tales about the many Beesons. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Genealogy. Hardcover books
1958132871London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Collection of 3 vintage hand-tinted still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>A physicist meets and marries a doctor's receptionist who later develops a heart condition. She decides to adopt an orphan to keep her husband company in the wake of her premature demise. <br/><br/>Shot on location in San Francisco and Palomar Mountain California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing and faint creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1756044602Gotha: Heinrich Hansche 1756. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Undated ca. 1756. Full contemporary calf hinges splitting but binding more or less sound. Scattered foxing and minor stains early pages soiled a few old library marks including to the spine. Old manuscript note on the front pastedown a few marginal notes in pencil. 474pp. A fine edition of the prophets and Apocrypha with commentary and a lovely extra engraved title. Attractively typeset in two columns. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 044602. <br/><br/> Heinrich Hansche hardcover books
1932145965Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." <br/><br/>Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An American naval officer purchases marries and abandons a Japanese geisha named Butterfly leaving her penniless pregnant and increasingly despairing of his return. <br/><br/>Madame Butterfly has been adapted numerous times for opera stage and film although many of these productions have faced increased scrutiny in recent years for their stereotypical portrayals of Japanese people white actors in "yellowface" and inaccurate descriptions of Japanese customs and culture.<br/><br/>Tall white titled self wrappers noted as MASTER FILE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 1083 with credits for screenwriter Zoe Akins. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered G-25. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
22170New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam. Near Fine. N.D. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Wraps fine but for "King" penciled on front cover ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 30 pp . Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam paperback books
16931Martin Luther King Jr. Original silver gelatin print press photo of MLK at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights in 1964. Dr. King is pictured holds hands with two clergy forming a human chain of solidarity. Â 7.5 x 10.75 in. Pasted to verso partial original caption from newspaper and information form on figures. "Fr. Theodore Hesburgh Pres. Notre Dame / Martin Luther King Jr. / Msgr Robert J. Hagarty Archdioceses of Chg. at the end of rally." At the time the Illinois Rally was the second largest Civil Rights demonstration with an estimated 57000 to 75000 people joining the event at Soldier Field. This important event demonstrated unity across various branches of Christianity in support of African American's civil rights. Hesburgh was appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Eisenhower in 1957 and served on the commission until 1972. Creases to upper right edge affecting image of Hagarty. Dated on verso June 21 1964. Good to very good condition. unknown books
17113Matin Luther King Jr. "Nobel Lecture by The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize / Oslo Norway / December 11 1964". Original paper wrapper. 22 pages. 7 x 4.75 inches. Limited printing of 2000 copies: "Two thousand copies of this pamphlet have been printed for distribution to friends of the House and of Dr. King." In 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population." At the age of thirty-five MLK was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. In his Nobel Lecture Dr. King expounds upon his goals for nonviolent direct action and lists Mahatma Gandhi as model: "The nonviolent resisters can summarize their message in the following simple terms: we will take direct action against injustice despite the failure of governmental and other official agencies to act first. We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully openly cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself.This approach to the problem of racial injustice is not at all without successful precedent. It was used in a magnificent way by Mohandas K. Gandhi to challenge the might of the British Empire and free his people from the political domination and economic exploitation inflicted upon them for centuries. He struggled only with the weapons of truth soul force non-injury and courage." Light toning and wear to cover. In very good condition. 1. unknown books
1992UKINIHA01fpHarper 1992. Very Good. King Jr. Martin Luther. I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World. New York NY: Harper 1992. xxx 210pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Harper paperback books
195182416Boston 1951. Typescript autograph letter signed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. requesting housing upon his acceptance to Boston University Graduate School. The letter dated June 15th 1951 and addressed to Dean Charles W. Alter Boston University Graduate School reads "Dear Dean Alter I have been accepted in Boston University Graduate School as a regular student and a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Systematic Theology. I am now interested in finding living accommodations on the campus or at least very near by. A single room would be preferable. If such is possible I would appreciate having it reserved. I am also interested in applying for a graduate Fellowship. Please send me the necessary information at this point along with an application blank. Thanks in advance for your cooperation I am Sincerely yours Martin L. King Jr." King later recalled his experience with housing bias in 1951 Boston in an interview with the Boston Globe in 1965 "I remember very well trying to find a place to live. I went into place after place where there were signs that rooms were for rent. They were for rent until they found out I was a Negro and suddenly they had just been rented." Double matted and framed with a photograph of a young King. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 21.75 inches. This letter offers an extraordinary glimpse into the education of the great African-American Civil Rights leader exemplifying his own experiences with the systemic racism in 1950s American society. Martin Luther King Jr. first received recognition for his outstanding skills as a public speaker as a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta Georgia. He received early acceptance into the Liberal Arts program at the historically black Morehouse College at the age of 15 also in Atlanta and at age 18 decided to enter the ministry. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948 with a B.A. in Sociology King enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester Pennsylvania where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Divinity in 1951. That same year he applied to Graduate School at Boston University where in June of 1955 he received his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology with a dissertation titled A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman. While pursuing doctoral studies King worked as an assistant minister at Boston's historic Twelfth Baptist Church with Reverend William Hunter Hester a friend of King's father who became an important influence on King's later work. unknown books
16101Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Crisis in America's Cities; An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty Discrimination and Racism in Urban " First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover. King's nationwide call to action against urban poverty the most ambitious Civil Rights Campaign in the Northern United States culminating in the 1968 Fair Housing Act with significant differences from King's final speech. King authored this brief but influential treatise after riots spread through the urban north due to intense discrimination and poverty. "The white society did not move and Newark came after Watts and was followed by Detroit. We will have to make them move. We will have to remind them that in the 18th century Thomas Jefferson said 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.'" First Editions of the original speech made by King are extremely rare with only one known in the holdings of the King Center archives. This earlier draft held in the files of King's organization the SCLC is the only known draft of this speech in existence. <br/><br/> On August 15 King delivered what is probably the most fiery of his speeches entitled "The Crisis in American Cities." He pointed a finger at hypocrisy declaring "if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots the hardened criminal would be the white man." The blame for the situation he placed upon "the policy makers of the white society.they created discrimination; they created slums; they perpetuate unemployment ignorance and poverty." With aching eloquence King declared that "Discrimination is the hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." His mission was to end the housing segregation that forced blacks into unsafe and unsanitary ghettos of the urban north. With tensions boiling over during the "long hot summer" of 1967 high unemployment discrimination and unsanitary an crowded living conditions led to riot after riot in cities across the urban north. King's message in "Crisis in America's Cities" was that love not hate was the answer to racial violence. <br/><br/>This speech was never formally published or collected but was released in small numbers of staple-bound 6 page copies with green covers and as a tri-fold printed pamphlet. The King Center Archives holds a single copy of the 6 page green variant. The copy here is an unknown earlier draft 5 pages plus a cover mimeographed all on yellow paper. This draft of "Crisis" is absent from institutional collections and auction records and it is possibly the only copy left in existence. While the theme and most content of this draft is the same as the final it is driven by emotion which is captured and organized by the time the speech reached its final form. Some cuts appear to be for clarity including a sentence on the first page which is lacking from the final draft and reads "After establishing the general cause of outbursts have an emotional content that is a reaction to the insults and depravity of the white backlash." Missing from this early draft is numbered list of points for introduction as well as numerous typos and typed over corrections which are visible through the mimeograph and differences in the distribution of paragraphs. <br/><br/>Period sources state King handwrote his speeches before handing them off to aides who would type a clean copy then mimeograph them for the press typically in a run of about 200 copies. Most if not all were distributed to the press and then lost. Today most documents from the SCLC files exist only in the collection of the King Center. Like those in the King Center this document escaped destruction because it were never distributed but rather remained as the personal copy of King or his top staffers. This can be proven by the fact that all press copies were carefully inscribed with a copyright symbol © while King's copy brought with him to the podium and other internal copies remained blank. This document spent decades in an SCLC filing cabinet where it was exposed to dampening on the left side but is otherwise untouched. It now presents in only fair condition with water staining and rust around the original staple which is still holding. Light grey water stains to left side of document and bottom left corner frayed. All text legible. The right side of the document was apparently more protected in its file and is in very good condition. It was gifted from the Estate of Thomas Offenburger to Stoney Cooks. Both Offenburger and Cooks worked with King at the SCLC with Offenburger as publicist and Cooks as a young Director of Student Affairs. King's mission was rewarded the year after "Crisis" by the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 barring racial discrimination in real estate. Unfortunately King did not live to see it. King's indictment of government for causing urban suffering is extremely rare today with only one final draft Edition of "Crisis" in the King Center Archives and no copies of this early unpublished draft recorded anywhere. unknown books
16361Dr. King Funeral Dr. King's private funeral information sheet with phone numbers for Press transportation housing the March Committee and more; schedule of events: Dr. King lying in state service at Ebenezer Baptist Church march to Morehouse College Service at Morehouse and a Memorial Show at Atlanta Stadium. Single quarto sheet. Green paper printed recto only. Old folds very good or better. Scarce. <br/><br/>Dr. King had two memorial services in Atlanta on the same day. This rare sheet includes the details for the first private service reserved for close friends and family. The service began with Rev. Ralph Abernathy delivering a sermon which called the event "one of the darkest hours of mankind." At his widow's request King eulogized himself: His last sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church a recording of his famous 'Drum Major' sermon given on February 4 1968 was played at the funeral. In that sermon he makes a request that at his funeral no mention of his awards and honors be made but that it be said that he tried to "feed the hungry" "clothe the naked" "be right on the war question" and "love and serve humanity." The private funeral was followed by the loading of King's casket onto a simple wooden farm wagon pulled by two mules. The procession down the three-and-a-half miles from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College was observed by over 100000 people. The public and final service was held at Morehouse College where King was eulogized by college president Benjamin Mays who had given the benediction after King's "I Have a Dream" speech. This information sheet including details for transportation relevant phone numbers and details of the initial private service would have been produced in very smaller numbers since it was not part of the public portions of the service. unknown books
16366Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. About the War in Vietnam. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam 1968. A collection of three speeches from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered from April 1967 to February 1968 regarding America's role in the Vietnam War: "Vietnam and the Struggle for Human Rights" April 1967 "The Domestic Impact of the War in Vietnam" November 11 1967 and "Vietnam Is Upon Us" February 6 1968. He wrote "my conscience leaves me no other choice." <br/><br/>Printed in April 1968 these speeches were published as part of the Committee for Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam CALCAV an organization of over 30 multi-faith leaders which Dr. King helped organize in 1965. King outlined moral and religious reasons to oppose the war that he described as a "nightmarish conflict." His later speeches focus more specifically on how the war is hurting families in the US. To King however the Vietnam War was only the most pressing symptom of American colonialism worldwide. Also included is a folded letter from the CALCAV dated October 1968 introducing the collection and listing all members. A near fine example with minimal tanning to extremities. unknown books
15872KING Martin Luther. "Freedom Day . . . Come March with Dr. King!" Printed flier. February 22 1965. 8 1/2" x 5 1/4" inches. This flier was issued to advertise the Freedom Day event planned for March 1st 1965 which protested the voter suppression tactics targeting African-American citizens of the US. In this demonstration prospective voters led by Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis signed an "appearance book" to indicate their attempt to register. It is illustrated with a shackled hand grasping for the key to freedom--"The Vote." This demonstration followed the first Freedom Day of January 18th 1965 in which King and Lewis led 500 prospective voters to the Selma courthouse for registration who were subsequently turned away. The Freedom Day voter registration efforts were among the events leading up to the famed March from Selma to Montgomery. "Bloody Sunday" transpired the very next week after the events of this flier in which peaceful participants in a Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights were met by Alabama state troopers who attacked them with nightsticks tear gas and whips after they refused to turn back. Some protesters were severely beaten and bloodied while others ran for their lives; The entire incident was captured on national television. As a direct result of the Freedom Day demonstrations and especially the horror of Bloody Sunday the Voting Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6 1965 with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders present at the ceremony. Toning minor foxing. unknown books
