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196318812New York: Harper and Row Publishers 1963. Pictorial boards. Very Good . Maurice Sendak. A crisp surprisingly well-preserved copy of the 1963 correct 1st edition with the olive green/gray cloth spine the Library of Congress # AND the 1963 copyright on the title page. Bright and VG to Near Fine in its Sendak-illustrated boards with one small name and date at the front free endpaper. Otherwise clean as could be and legitimatley approaching Near Fine to Fine. Oblong quarto wonderfully illustrated throughout by the great maestro. Lacking the dustjacket. <br/><br/> Harper and Row Publishers hardcover books
198311427Paris: Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot 1983. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy of the 1983 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Quarto 200 pgs. crisp black-and-white photos thruout. <br/><br/> Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot hardcover books
1942KC16628Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1942. Paperback. Near Fine. Santa Barbara Museum of Art April-June 1942; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum July-August 1942 California 1942 32pp. 8.5 x 10.75 in yellow stapled paper wrappers with yapped edges. Important reference material published on the occasion of a traveling exhibit on the art of the pre-European Americas and prepared under the direction of Maurice Ries. Includes two exhibition essays The Codex Fernandez Leal and Ancient American Art a detailed list of 221 items full-page black and white photographs and notes from both the Curator and museum Directors. Ries states: Ancient American Art is a victim of its own individualityjudged by our habitual European standardsrather coldly impersonal and ritualistic. and briefly touches on the historical and esthetic essentials of ancient cultures: Archaic Tarasca Olmec Maya Huastec Totonac Zapotec Mixtec Toltec Chichimec Aztec Ulua Incas and others. A nearly fine softcover with a hint of wear to the yapped edge. <br/><br/> Santa Barbara Museum of Art paperback books
1988W12FRNew York: Harry N. Abrams 1988. Olive green cloth with orange lettering and decoration. A little bowing and canting but without other defects. Pictorial dust jacket is very good with no chipping tears etc. Filled with color and black and white photographs of Guimard's creations. A giant of the art deco era. Includes 29 of his most significant buildings as well as his work in the decorative arts. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Felipe Ferre. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. Harry N. Abrams Hardcover books
1920148871Paris: Editions Nilsson 1920. First French Edition a trade softcover original preceding the first English language edition by nine years. Text in French. Cover illustration by Maggy Monier. Rare.<br/><br/>A seminal horror novel written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the early twentieth century. The basis for several films including the classic German silent film starring Conrad Veidt "The Hands of Orlac 1924 and its American rival the sound version starring Peter Lorre "Mad Love" directed by emigre Karl Freund for MGM in 1935 and today considered one of the greatest horror films of the 1930s. <br/><br/>Very Good in illustrated wrappers. All edges uncut. Slight lean some vertical wrinkling to the spine small chips at a couple of corners and wrappers foxed particularly rear wrapper.<br/><br/>Barron 1999 4-125. Bleiler 1948 US. Clute & Nicholls US. Hubin 1994 US. Locke US. Reginald 12140. Senn US. Editions Nilsson unknown books
1929133042New York: E.P. Dutton 1929. First Edition. First Edition in English and first edition in hardcover preceded by the French edition "Les mains d'Orlac" in 1920. With the publisher's wraparound band. <br/><br/>A seminal horror novel rare in dust jacket written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the early twentieth century. The basis for several films including the classic German silent film starring Conrad Veidt "Orlacs Hande" The Hands of Orlac 1924 and its American rival the sound version starring Peter Lorre "Mad Love" directed by emigre Karl Freund for MGM in 1935 and today considered one of the greatest horror films of the 1930s. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with the publisher's wraparound band "The Dutton Prize Mystery for November". The jacket's deco design is bright and striking with some toning to the spine jacket and band a chip at the crown affecting a portion of the title "The Ha" and part of "n" a portion of the publisher name at the heel the "Du" in "Dutton" and a few tiny chips nicks and closed tears. <br/><br/>Barron 1999 4-125. Bleiler 1948 US. Clute & Nicholls US. Hubin 1994 US. Locke US. Reginald 12140. Senn US. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1985150497N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Maurice Pialat on the set of the 1985 film. <br/><br/>Brutish and jaded police detective Louis Mangin Gerard Depardieu in one of his strongest performances investigates a Tunisian drug gang and begins to fall for the girlfriend Sophie Marceau of one of the criminals. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris France. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Olive Films 1326. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1988150005Los Angeles: Davis Entertainment 1988. First Draft script for the 1990 film. <br/><br/>After accidentally killing her sister Enid a young woman and her lover Enid's husband Harry attempt to conceal the crime from local law enforcement. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location throughout New Mexico. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated 11/30/88 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for director and screenwriter Maurice Phillips and screenwriters A.J. Tipping and James Whaley. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Davis Entertainment unknown books
1981280865Greenville S.C.: A Press Inc 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. There is a previous owner gift inscription on the endpaper; otherwise a very bright and clean copy. The front board is slightly bowed. Very Good binding. A Press, Inc unknown books
197418895London: Heinemann 1974. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good . A handsome copy of the 1974 1st UK edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp VG to Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo translated from its original French by Joseph Bien. <br/><br/> Heinemann hardcover books
1930282112New York: The John Day Company 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. A sturdy copy of an interesting work on the social structure of ants by a Belgian playwright poet philosopher and social scientist. Pages are clean with toning on pastedowns and endpapers and no markings of any kind. Binding shows signs of curving and fading on the edges. Dustjacket is priceclipped with chips and closed tears and toning. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket. The John Day Company unknown books
1912221351st Detmold illustrated edition. 4to full green cloth pictorial gilt cover 13 tipped-in color illustrations by Edward J. Detmold plate opposite p. 44 creased else a fine copy protected by the worn but scarce original publisher's box.<br /><br />The gilt cover of this has often been reproduced as an example of Detmold's design work and it has been superbly preserved here inside this box. The delicately colored watercolors done for these plates were some of Detmold's finest work. The flowers here play as important a part in the illustrations as the various species of bees pollinating them. Unusual in this condition particularly with the original box very rarely seen. Dodd Mead & Co. hardcover books
1901290640London: George Allen 1901. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Bookplate of Alexander Blair Thaw son of the extremely wealthy business magnate William Thaw Sr. and half brother of the infamous Harry Kendall Thaw who killed the architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses but was ruled not guilty due to insanity. Toning to the endpapers and foxing to the preliminaries. Moderate wear to the spine and joints. Green cloth with gilt lettering and designs. Top edge gilt. Good binding. George Allen unknown books
194512223Paris: Editions Neveu-Brunier 1945. Cloth. Very Good . Jen Trubert. A bright clean copy of the 1945 1st edition. Crisp and VG to Near Fine in its wonderful pictorial boards. Very light scuffing along the rear panel and just a touch of rubbing to the front panel. Tall quarto nicely illustrated thruout in vivid color by Jen Trubert. Charming call to American and English-speaking European tourists to come back to a post-War France on the mend. <br/><br/> Editions Neveu-Brunier hardcover books
41494Oakland CA: Oakland Chamber of Commerce and Alameda County Supervisors n. d. Ca 1925. Color illustrated wrappers. Light wear to wrappers rubbing. Withal a VG example. Unpaginated but 4 pp. B/w photographic reproductions throughout wrappers illustrated by Maurice Logan. 9-1/8" x 8-1/8" <br/><br/>Includes sections such as: Oakland -- California's Third Largest City Oakland Wealthy in Scenic Attractions An Empire's Gateway and Education and Play. Oakland Chamber of Commerce and Alameda County Supervisors unknown books
196329868Paris: Paris-Theatre 1963. Wrappers very good. <br/><br/> Paris-Theatre unknown books
1948250891London: The Cresset Press 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 277pp. No pencil or ink markings in text; blue cloth binding; some sunning across very top of front board. Very Good binding. The Cresset Press unknown books
1922286845New York: The James A. McCann Company 1922. Soft Cover. Good binding. Maurice J. Grainger's Amateur Radio; How and Why of Wireless with Complete Instructions on Operation of Receiving Outfits. With in text printed diagrams and illustrations. Heavy wear to the spine and spots of loss to the rear cover; some separation at the front joint. Previous owner's name and notes on the preliminaries most in pencil. Paperback. Good. Good binding. The James A. McCann Company unknown books
1953WY716-046New York NY: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. 316 pp. Color-gravure frontispiece Introduction by Eric Shipton Foreword by Maurice Herzog Preface by Lucien Devies 25 black-and-white gravures two additional color gravures 8 maps by Maurice Ichac glossary 1 fold-out map of list of routes at the rear; text clean and unmarked. Cloth spine stamped in silver; binding square and tight with light tanning LACKS jacket. Paul Elder's Books San Francisco bookseller ticket on rear paste-down. WY716-046. Good. This volume is the first American edition of the English translation by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith originally published in London in 1952 then in America in 1953. Maurice Herzog's seminal mountaineering text tells the story of the 1950 French expedition to the Himalayas the first-ever expedition in history to summit and return from an 8000-meter peak. This edition includes copious illustrations and maps. Also laid in is a loose full-page newspaper clipping a color image of the Annapurna film 1953. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
1990190323Spellmount 1990 1990-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Spellmount, 1990 hardcover books
1905132854Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons 1905. Hardcover. Good plate 47 is ripped as are a few tissue guards.Age toning to the paper where plates are mounted. some creased corners. ex-library with ink stamps and perforated stamps on title page and elsewhere. each plate is stamped with library ink stamp on corner. Black library buckram. 39 pp 100 bw plates and 1 frontispiece with tissue guards. Early survey of the work of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875. Of two hundred copies this is number 143. James Maclehose & Sons hardcover books
197925619New York: Everest House 1979. Later printing Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Everest House unknown books
1980001698Crown 1980 1980. Book. Very Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-517-541955. Crown, 1980 Hardcover books
1952132396London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1952 UK release of the 1951 US film. <br/><br/>In 1858 France Emperor Napoleon sends military officers to Normandy in search of a group of rebels. They encounter a masked cavalier and his companions including an heiress to the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and a hint of rubbing. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
S1713Notre Dame IN: Office of the "Ava Maria". Collectible - Acceptable. Notre Dame IN: Office of the "Ava Maria". 1893. 5.25x7". Light green cloth hardcover w/dark green lettering & design. No dust jacket. 418 pp. Ex-Library. Spine ends worn. Pages fairly clean. Notre Dame, IN: Office of the "Ava Maria" hardcover books