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1969Embry 157917Walker/Weatherhill New York: 1969. Number 119 of 150 copies of the deluxe edition. Light offsett to title page from frontis jacket lightly worn overall a fine copy in near fine minimally rubbed slipcase. Twenty-one woodblock illustrations by Haku Maki each printed signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. White goatskin backed linen boards in handmade-paper dust jacket and publisher's wooden slipcase. Signed and sealed by the artist in the colophon. Walker/Weatherhill, New York: 1969. Number 119 of 150 copies of the deluxe edition. hardcover books
1927136896Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1927. Vintage hand color tinted lobby card for the 1927 silent film. Pictured are a curly haired Louise Brooks looking past an oblivious Wallace Beery and toward a typically sly Adolphe Menjou. <br/><br/>Based on the French play "L'homme en habit" "The Man in Evening Clothes by Andre Picard and Yves Mirand. Today considered a lost film. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1976147460Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1976. Two Revised draft scripts Part I and Part II comprising the complete script for the 1977 television film which was broadcast in two parts on CBS on April 13 and 14 1977.<br/><br/>First script titled "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" on front wrapper and titled "'Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes' Part I" on first page of script has several annotations on front wrapper. In holograph ink on top left is written "Prod Thur 11/18/76" center right is the name "Tommy Lee Jones" with phone number below not in Jones' hand and an "I" immediately following title as well as a "9" in holograph pencil on upper right corner. Script contains two title pages of two revisions first yellow page has the underlined name "Norma" preceded by an asterisk as well as two underlines below the text "REVISED" on lower left in red holograph ink. The second pink title page has "33" on the upper left and a "Part I" on top center left in holograph pencil. Four pages contain strikes in holograph ink. Script contains a few copied annotations on the first 3 pages of script revision date some action changes and a strike with date "Tues 12/21/76."<br/><br/>Second script "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes Part II" has "33" on upper left of title page and "Part II" top center in holograph pencil. Three pages contain copied annotations revision date character direction and dialogue and a strike with date "Tues 12/21/76."<br/><br/>Based upon the 1972 Howard Hughes biography "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" by Hughes' long-time associate Noah Dietrich and AP Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas. The first of several film depictions of Howard Hughes as an young obsessive perfectionist and an elderly hypochondriac. An early break through role for Tommy Lee Jones.<br/><br/>"Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" script:<br/>Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one dated November 26 1976 the other dated November 16 1976 both noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter John Gay and authors Noah Dietrich and Bob Thomas. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/5/76 and 12-20-76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>"Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes Part II" script:<br/>Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 16 1976 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter John Gay and authors Noah Dietrich and Bob Thomas. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 117A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/5/76 and 12/20/76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown books
199543743Austin Texas: W. Thomas Taylor 1995. 1st edition thus 1/50 cc. Cf. Basic Texas Books 189; Bradford 5116; Final Howes S733; Graff 3872; Rader 2948; Sabin 85099 for the 1st editiion of 1900. Specially bound in tan quarter leather over decorative paper boards. A Fine copy. Accompanied by the original Taylor 6/14/94 sale invoice for this book. xvi 293 3 pp. Original piece of Texas currency "One Hundred Dollars" housed in pocket at back. Frontispiece. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 7-1/8" <br/><br/>Smithwick a blacksmith moved to Texas in 1827 served in the war for Texas independence and later as a Ranger though leaving the state in 1861 as he had Union sympathies. The volume includes anecdotes on James Bowie Sam Houston Stephen Austen David G. Burnet Gail Borden Padre Michael Muldoon R.M. Williamson and others. Dobie calls this work "The best of all books dealing with life in early Texas." Jenkins says it's "the most fun to read." This edition adds scholarly commentary by its editor with this specially bound version of the edition with the real Texas currency being relatively uncommon on the market. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books
1994150023N.p.: N.p. 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film blue and pink revision pages throughout and with a holograph ink annotation on a post-it note affixed to page 28 addressing editorial changes. <br/><br/>A group of young graduates decide to stay on campus for the foreseeable future fearing the uncertainty of the outside world. Noah Baumbach's directorial debut an incisive influential film for a generation of young adults unable to reconcile their college aspirations with the stagnation of the professional world of the 1990s. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated 7/30/94 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 8/1/94. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 349.<br/><br/>Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1999149053Beverly Hills CA: Imagine Entertainment 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot which originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going Sabrina Grdevich Carlos Jacott Heidi Schanz and Eric Stoltz. <br/><br/>From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis.<br/><br/>An early darkly comic screenwriting effort from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach best known for "Kicking and Screaming" 1995 "The Squid and the Whale" 2005 and "Marriage Story" 2019 following a group of friends struggling to adapt to life as adults. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 4/29/99 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach and director Thomas Schlamme. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only with one white revision page dated 4/23/99. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Imagine Entertainment unknown books
191116927Paris: Masson 1911. Masson unknown books
199844496New York: Random House 1998. 16mo pp. vi 376; lexicon in double column; wrappers in blue plastic dust jacket from the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum; small dampstain on top textblock fore-edge else fine. Signed by George H. W. and Barbara Bush with short note printed on the former president's office letterhead: "President Bush was happy to sign the enclosed item for your auction. It comes with his best wishes for a successful event." <br/><br/> Random House unknown books
198652201Herzlia: Palphot Ltd 1986. Edition not stated. Oblong quarto ca 25cm x 33cm; glazed boards; unpaginated; illus. Signed by illustrator Jossi Stern on title page with a full-page original drawing by him on final preliminary leaf a self-portrait in which a seated Stern is being patted on the head by a beneficent angel mal'ach; captioned and signed at lower right "M. Katz and Jossi Stern." Fine copy but lacking the publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/>An attractively-produced Haggadah published as a gift book for attendees of a fundraising dinner for Ezrath Nashim Hospital in Jerusalem April 3 1986. Includes 27 full-page four-color illustrations after watercolors by Stern. Bilingual text Hebrew and English. Stern 1923-1992 a prolific and highly-regarded Hungarian-born Israeli painter and illustrator his works still widely published and exhibited in Israel. Palphot Ltd unknown books
196731258New York: Riverside Museum 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled wrappers. 16 unnumbered pages. Text provided by representatives from Farleigh Dickinson University. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Each artist is represented by a page of text and a page of illustration. A very good example. Publisher's promotional sheets for the event laid in. Scarce. Riverside Museum paperback books
1902022556New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1902. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd printing. Frontispiece 365pp. including index folding map at rear. Lewis and Clark were the first to explore the valleys of the upper Missouri Yellowstone and the Columbia and its tributaries. These were uncharted territories for the white men. The first authoritative narrative of the expedition was not published until 1814 although the expedition occupied parts of the years 1804-1806. A near fine fresh copy bound in green cloth centrally stamped with the head of a Bison in brown lettering in black and gilt pictorial spine lettered and decorated in black brown and gilt depicting a tepee no names or bookplates no foxing or fading. A very nice copy with sharp corners and with just a few tiny spots of rubbing. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1970151307N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless black and white photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Robert Redford and Erin O'Reilly.<br/><br/>Two motorbike riders-one a callous womanizer one a shy and unsuspecting young man-find their friendship tested by the arrival of beautiful young runaway at their racetrack. <br/><br/>Shot on location throughout Arizona and California including at the Ascot Park Speedway and the Sonoma Raceway. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1937254783New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints 1937. hardcover. very good. Ed. by Harry R. Warfel. iii 48pp. 12mo brown boards. New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints 1937. Very good<br/><br/> Facsimile of the Hartford 1785 edition. " .he Webster became one of the earliest advocates of a strong federal government and in 1785 printed his views in a pamphlet called Sketches of American Policy a pamphlet which won interest of Washington and Madison." Dictionary of American Biography XIX p. 595<br/><br/> Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints unknown books
19012290971Charles Scribner's Sons 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Yohn F.C.; Catlin George; Frost A.B.; St Memin; Seton-Thompson Ernest. First edition. Includes folding map following text. Faint stain to top marginal corner of some pages front free endpaper removed some tiny white spotting on rear board paint spatter. 1901 Hard Cover. xii 2 365 3 pp. 8vo. Olive cloth gilt and black titles buffalo head vignette and braided border on front board tepee vignette on spine. An account of one of the most important exploring expeditions in American history the Lewis and Clark Expedition A.K.A. the Corps of Discovery Expedition. Brooks details the progress of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania through the Continental Divide and terminating at the Pacific Coast. They passed through a great deal of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase mapping the area as they went and established a practical route to the western half of the continent that allowed the westward expansion of the United States to outpace the ambitions of Great Britain and other imperial powers. Includes black-and-white photographs maps taken from Clark's original survey and illustrations from drawings by F.C. Yohn George Catlin A.B. Frost St Memin and Boy Scouts of America co-founder Ernest Seton-Thompson. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1967144917New York: Cineaste 1967. Volume One Issue Four of the long running and influential "Cineaste" magazine. <br/><br/>Published quarterly "Cineaste" publishes reviews criticism and interviews and continues to be published today. Early issues of the magazine are difficult to find.<br/><br/>8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled. Very Good plus with light toning and soil. Cineaste unknown books
193912900New York: Combo Press 1939. First Edition. First edition limited to 1000 copies this copy out-of-series. Octavo 22.5 cm; pebbled cloth boards; dustjacket; 256pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover else a clean tight copy in the scarce illustrated dustwrapper generally worn and soiled with brief losses at extremities Good to Very Good. Novel of Depression-era Jewish ghetto life in Chicago by the Yiddish poet Noah Steinberg b. 1889. A member in the teens and twenties of the "Die Junge" school of Yiddish poets and playwrights who consciously avoided the social themes of their "Sweatshop Poet" forebears Steinberg appears by the late thirties to have embraced a more proletarian world view; the current work deals frankly with poverty crime anti-Semitism and "the degeneration of the governing class by power largely misused" from the jacket copy. <br/><br/>The book was composed in English though nearly all Steinberg's earlier published work was written in Yiddish. Text Illustrations rather crudely reproduced by S. Witkewitz Louis Lodowick Rinaldo Cuneo Hilda Katz George Grosz others. Uncommon in dustjacket this is a fairly well-preserved copy. Jacket includes a lengthy cover blurb by Tom Cannon composed as a letter to Upton Sinclair and Jim Tully; also brief comments by Sherwood Anderson and Llewellyln Jones. Combo Press unknown books
193722820New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints 1937. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. Inscribed by the editor Warfel in the year of publication. A fine copy in the original glassine dust jacket glassine worn. A facsimile reproduction based on a copy in the Library of Congress. <br/><br/> Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints hardcover books
192944406Cleveland: Commercial Bookbinding Co. 1929. Miniature book approx. 51 x 38 mm. pp. 799; original grey limp embossed cloth all edges red gilt original silver paper slipcase box; binding a bit loose else very good and sound. On title page: "Employing Bookbinders of America. 10th Annual Convention." Western Reserve and Virginia only in OCLC as of January 2014. <br/><br/> [Commercial Bookbinding Co.] hardcover books
19653613New York: McGraw-Hill 1965. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition 1965. Clean and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with very light rubbing to the panels. Octavo 456 pgs. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1958743New York Public Library 1958. 1st. Hardcover. 1958 1st edition 1 of 500 copies. VG in its original dark-blue cloth with bright gilt-lettering on spine. Thick quarto 655 pgs. <br/><br/> New York Public Library hardcover books
19731215422Lawrence MA: Quarterman 1973. Third edition;. octavo in cloth; VG/VG; spine white black letters; DJ has slight discoloration on spine and price cut; paper has ivory tone; text block clean; illustrations' plates at the end; pp. 246; #424JPH. 1215422. JPH Numismatic Collection. Quarterman unknown books
1960TB29240New York: The Publishers Guild The World Publishing Company 1960. Second Edition. Very good in black cloth covered boards with green type and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A quarto of 11 by 8 1/4 inches with the cloth rubbed through on a small spot at the lower corner at the heel of the spine. Finger tabs are presents for the letters of the alphabet. In a very good unclipped dust jacket rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area together with very shallow chipping. 2129 pages followed by A Pronouncing Dictionary Of Biography A Dictionary Of Noted Names In Fiction Mythology Legend A Dictionary Of Foreign Words And Phrases A Dictionary Of Scripture Proper Names And Foreign Words Abbreviations Commonly Used In Writing And Printing Practical Business Mathematics Forms of Address Tables Of Weights And Measures Special Signs And Symbols Presidents Of The United States Vice-Presidents And Cabinet Officers Of The United States Declaration Of Independence Constitution Of The United States History Of Canada and finally a collection of maps in color. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Webster and small line drawings throughout within the text. The hinges joints and binding for this dictionary are extremely tight and strong with little evidence of use. There are no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Publishers Guild, The World Publishing Company hardcover books
1946146461Universal City: Universal Pictures 1946. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1946 film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the first page.<br/><br/>A reporter believes a long-dead woman's soul has been reincarnated into a black cat which seeks justice for her wrongful death.<br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers noted as CONTINUITY AND DIALOGUE / MASTER COPY on the front wrapper noted as production No. UF069 and charge No. 575. Title page present dated APRIL 17 1946 noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE with credits for director Erle Kenton actors Noah Beery Jr. Lois Collier Paul Kelly and other cast members. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a strip of faint toning to the front wrapper and light rust to the rear wrapper binding bound at the top edge with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
197039628Cleveland: World Publishing Company 1970. Large thick 4to pp. xiv 2129 160 8 leaves of color maps some double page; pictorial endpapers text illustrations throughout; original olive cloth gilt lettering blue and gilt decorative boarders all edges speckled; in tan white and blue printed dust jacket; a bit rubbed a few shallow tears along jacket edges else a fine copy. <br/><br/> World Publishing Company hardcover books
1984185342Springfield Mass: George and Charles Merriam 1984. Hardcover. VG Cover and spine have general wear fading discoloration edge damage. Bookblock has age toning. InIterior pages have age toning foxing discoloration. Some pages have tearing and bending. Brown leather boards. Black title blocks with gil lettering on 5 raised band spine. ccxliv 1512 pages 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations coats of arms portrait. Pictorial edition 1500 illustrations. George and Charles Merriam hardcover books