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1941314Austin: The University of Texas 1941. 258p. wraps worn some internal creasing and handling wear. The University of Texas publication no. 4143. November 15 1941. Chapter titles include: A cowboy strike 1883; United Mine Workers in Texas 1884-1927; The Negro in the State Federation of Labor; The Oil Workers' Union 1903. The University of Texas unknown books
1935106083Austin: The University of Texas 1935. Paperback. 105p. wraps very good condition. Study of Electricians and Longshore workers in Houston Texas. Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences study no. 15. The University of Texas paperback books
198230174Hovikodden: Henie - Onstad Kunstsenter 1982. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong stapled quarto. Unpaginated. A scarce catalog from a 1982 exhibition in Norway. Text in both English and Norwegian. Illustrated in black and white. A very good example. The artist juxtaposes mirror images of famous artists including John Cage Joseph Beuys Jean Tinguely and others. Henie - Onstad Kunstsenter paperback books
1955140546Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from Season 1 of the Imogene Coca variety show. Snipe printed on the verso. <br/><br/>A half-hour variety show and sit com starring Imogene Coca. The program debuted following the closing of "Your Show of Shows" which frequently featured Coca. Unfortunately "The Imogene Coca Show" was extremely short lived only lasting a single season. <br/> <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a red holograph pencil notation to the verso. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1988427168Albany Inst of History & Art 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards hardcover. 319 pp. B/w and color illustrations. Light shelfwear. Spine of jacket lightly sun-faded with a price sticker to rear cover. Very good in a very good jacket. Albany Inst of History & Art hardcover books
197045144NY:: Henry Z. Walck. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0809820056 . A later printing. INSCRIBED by the authors with a small drawing. Near fine in a near fine both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . Henry Z. Walck, hardcover books
2008179097Rome: Gangemi 2008. Hardcover. VG. White boards color illustrated with black lettering 239 pages some folded richly illustrated in bw and color. Essays in Italian and English. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Complesso del Vittoriano Rome Italy Dec. 16 2008-Jan. 31 2009. Includes bibliographical references. Gangemi hardcover books
195429184New York: Oxford University Press 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Wide hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 48 pp. A handsome near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Illustrated with pictures by Mimi Love. Nice copy. Oxford University Press hardcover books
19627414Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1962. Octavo 21.5 x 15.5 cm. 176 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A compendium of pancake recipes from Ruth Ellen Church the food editor of the Chicago Tribune. Her column there and most her books were written under the pseudonym Mary Meade. While at the Tribune she established the first newspaper test kitchen and she has been called the first American to have a regular wine column. In publisher's pale blue cloth with some light spotting to top edge. In color-printed dust jacket with some light wear to edges and a bit of spotting to same. Near very good. Rand McNally & Company hardcover books
1992266968Gabbs Nv.: Published by the author. 1992. 1st Edition. Pictorial wraps. . A very good copy with no dust jacket as issued ink name to title page. . 28x21.5 cm. . The only comprehensive history of this remote area of Nevada. Numerous photo illustrations maps on verso of cover. Published by the author. paperback books
197632028Austin: The Univerisity of Texas 1976. 1st edition. Copy G of 26 lettered copies bound with a special color photograph of Ann Estelle Rice's portrait of Mansfield. Original brown cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & printed paper onlay to front board. A Nr Fine copy. 63 5 pp. Illustrated in b/w. With tipped-in photograph on colophon page. 8vo. <br/><br/>Laid-in presentation card from Ruth Mantz who wrote the opening essay for the catalogue. The Univerisity of Texas hardcover books
198059933London: Hutchinson 1980. First edition. 141 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Fainlight on the title page. London: Hutchinson unknown books
23420London: Turret Books 1973. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 29 pp. 1/100 numbered copies signed by Fainlight. Fine in a fine jacket. London: Turret Books, 1973. hardcover books
501952See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good FARLEY Ruth. VINTAGE Photograph by Seymour of Chicago signed and inscribed in green ink. 10" x 8". Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
161383Vintage Photograph by Seymour of Chicago signed and inscribed in green ink. 10" x 8". AUTOGRAPHS VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. unknown books
191838399Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1918. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; xii4229pp.; 15 leaves of photographic plates printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear else Near Fine. Red Cross nurse's memoirs of serving in Serbia during World War I. Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown books
19826456Burlington VT: University of Vermont 1982. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Clipmark at the top of wrap inscribed by related artist else tight bright and unmarred. Brown paper wraps silver gilt lettering. Small 8vo. 52pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>Exhibition catalogue held on the 25th anniversary of the Janus Press. Foreword by Richard Janson. Explores the history of Claire Van Vliet's press and provides a checklist. B/W images printed by Stinehour Press. Inscribed by renowned artist Jerome Kaplan with laid in related card "Mush Off!" "This is not art" etc. A very handsome copy with a nice assocation. University of Vermont, paperback books
1959128009Cleveland OH: World 1959. First Edition. First Edition. Briefly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Ruth / Love / Peter / April 30 '66." Ford has paper-clipped an excised photograph of the author in his youth with another inscription beneath the photograph: "Get well / Love / Peter."<br/><br/>Ruth Ford was an American stage and film actress sister to the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. She began her career as a model for the likes of Harper's and Mademoiselle and early on was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. With Welles' help she went on to land work in Hollywood. Her best known films include "The Keys of the Kingdom" 1944 Anthony Mann's "Strange Impersonation" 1946 and Frank Perry's "Play It As It Lays" 1972. <br/><br/>Her persona was as important-if not more important-than her career in film and on the stage. For more than 40 years her apartment in the Dakota the gabled fortress-like building on 72nd Street welcomed the likes of William Faulkner Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally Stephen Sondheim and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to the pair's collaboration on "West Side Story."<br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped and a touch of rubbing to the top page edges. Moderate shelfwear to the jacket extremities slight toning to the folds and fading to the spine and faint indentations to the flap from the paperclip affected the front endpaper. <br/><br/>From the estate of Ruth Ford. World unknown books
1968128044Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1968. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on a laid-in slip: "For Sister / Happy Easter! / B." The inscription is written on stationery presumably the authors: "From the desk of / OPERATION MINOTAUR." Ford has annotated a few of the rear leaves in holograph pencil and paper-clipped two leaves where her name is mentioned with brief marginal annotations in pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Ruth Ford was an American stage and film actress sister to the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. She began her career as a model for the likes of Harper's and Mademoiselle and early on was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. With Welles' help she went on to land work in Hollywood. Her best known films include "The Keys of the Kingdom" 1944 Anthony Mann's "Strange Impersonation" 1946 and Frank Perry's "Play It As It Lays" 1972. <br/><br/>Her persona was as important-if not more important-than her career in film and on the stage. For more than 40 years her apartment in the Dakota the gabled fortress-like building on 72nd Street welcomed the likes of William Faulkner Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally Stephen Sondheim and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to the pair's collaboration on "West Side Story."<br/><br/>About Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Binding slightly cocked. Jacket extremities slightly toned with a hint of shelfwear. <br/><br/>From the estate of Ruth Ford. University of Oklahoma Press unknown books
1965127977New York: Atheneum 1965. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Ruth Ford / My favorite metaphysician / Fred Morton / New York / March 1967." Paper-clipped to the front flap is a postcard from the author addressed to Ruth Ford: "Dear Fellow Philosopher / Don't think that sending you a Morton book isn't still one of my favorite categorical imperatives / Will do so soon as I've shaken off the snow week after next / Yours in Kant / Fred."<br/><br/>Ruth Ford was an American stage and film actress sister to the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. She began her career as a model for the likes of Harper's and Mademoiselle and early on was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. With Welles' help she went on to land work in Hollywood. Her best known films include "The Keys of the Kingdom" 1944 Anthony Mann's "Strange Impersonation" 1946 and Frank Perry's "Play It As It Lays" 1972. <br/><br/>Her persona was as important-if not more important-than her career in film and on the stage. For more than 40 years her apartment in the Dakota the gabled fortress-like building on 72nd Street welcomed the likes of William Faulkner Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally Stephen Sondheim and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to the pair's collaboration on "West Side Story."<br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint indentation where the paper clip meets the front endpaper and a tiny dampstain to the top page edges. A few tiny closed tears three with cello-tape repairs at the verso and chips a faint dampstain to the front panel noticeable only at the verso and slight toning to the spine and folds. <br/><br/>From the estate of Ruth Ford. Atheneum unknown books
1975128002New York: Atheneum 1975. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the title page: "For Ruth / With thanks for kindness and with strong good hopes / From / Reynolds Price / 6 Feb. 75."<br/><br/>Ruth Ford was an American stage and film actress sister to the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. She began her career as a model for the likes of Harper's and Mademoiselle and early on was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. With Welles' help she went on to land work in Hollywood. Her best known films include "The Keys of the Kingdom" 1944 Anthony Mann's "Strange Impersonation" 1946 and Frank Perry's "Play It As It Lays" 1972. <br/><br/>Her persona was as important-if not more important-than her career in film and on the stage. For more than 40 years her apartment in the Dakota the gabled fortress-like building on 72nd Street welcomed the likes of William Faulkner Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally Stephen Sondheim and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to the pair's collaboration on "West Side Story."<br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light shelfwear and a tiny stray mark to the rear board. Light shelfwear and a few tiny closed tears at the jacket extremities. Jacket design by the author. <br/><br/>From the estate of Ruth Ford. Atheneum unknown books
1986128064New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1986. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For dearest Ruth / Much love / James." Purdy has also signed the page a second time. <br/><br/>Ruth Ford was an American stage and film actress sister to the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. She began her career as a model for the likes of Harper's and Mademoiselle and early on was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. With Welles' help she went on to land work in Hollywood. Her best known films include "The Keys of the Kingdom" 1944 Anthony Mann's "Strange Impersonation" 1946 and Frank Perry's "Play It As It Lays" 1972. <br/><br/>Her persona was as important-if not more important-than her career in film and on the stage. For more than 40 years her apartment in the Dakota the gabled fortress-like building on 72nd Street welcomed the likes of William Faulkner Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally Stephen Sondheim and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to the pair's collaboration on "West Side Story." Ford adapted James Purdy's "Malcolm" 1959 for the stage in the early 1960s. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight spine lean spine ends lightly bumped slight rippling to the front pastedown and a few tiny corner creases. <br/><br/>From the estate of Ruth Ford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson unknown books
1982167405Hovikodden Norway: Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter 1982. First edition. Oblong softcover. 24 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 11 through April 11 1982. Text in English and Norwegian by Ole Henrik Moe and Raphael Sorin and with an artist statement as well. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Uncommon. Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter unknown books
1992029871New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1992. With an intoroduction by Peter Gay. xiv 298p. colored and b/w illus. dj quarto format. Yale University Press unknown books
200560692bdVirginia Beach VA: The Donning Company Publishers 2005. Quarto full-color photograph illustrated glossy boards hardcover 223 pp. Near former-owner signature; otherwise Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The Donning Company Publishers, (2005). hardcover books
