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1995131319London England: The British Library 1995. cloth gilt-stamped spine. 4to. cloth gilt-stamped spine. xii 524; iv 525-10411 pages. 2 Volumes. Preface by William St. Clair of All Souls College Oxford. Historical introduction to the Location Register Project by the editor. Notes on the text listing of members of the advisory group and staff acknowledgments. Appendix with names and addresses of participating institutions. Second volume misbound. The British Library unknown books
1930025955St. Louis MO: C.V. Mosby Company 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 347 pages with more than 200 illustrations. The story of an African-Asiatic expedition 1929-1930. The two chapters "Kiswahili" and "The Wambulu people" were written by Richard L. Sutton Jr. Inscribed and signed by the author to Dr. William J. Mayo founder of the Mayo Clinic stamp of Dr. Mayo who then inscribes it as a gift to Dr. Donald C. Balfour. His expertise at the Mayo Clinic was on gastrointestinal surgery becoming the Director of the Department of Surgery in 1937 and a charter member of the World. Bound in orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettering in gilt spine lettering gilt endpapers are maps. A lovely near fine copy. C.V. Mosby Company unknown books
193452751London: Chatto and Windus 1934. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; brick red cloth stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; 312pp. Faint foxing to text edges and margins of preliminary leaves gentle sunning to spine with some light wear to spine ends; Very Good to Near Fine with the topstain bright and even lacking the dustjacket. <br/><br/>First English language edition of Traven's first novel originally published as Das Totenschiff in Berlin in 1926. The novel was translated from the German by Eric Sutton for the UK edition though Traven himself would create a new translation for the 1934 Knopf edition. A novel set in the aftermath of World War I centered around a group of merchant seamen who lack citizenship money and papers; it is in equal part an adventure novel and a scathing indictment of abusive labor practices and authority. TREVERTON 31; AHEARN 652. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1974267845New York: Hastings House 1974. First edition. With photographs. 334 pp. Red cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. First edition. With photographs. 334 pp. Joseph Francis Charles Rock 1884 - 1962 was an Austrian-American explorer geographer linguist and botani autodidact. He moved to Hawaii in 1905 and became an authority on its fauna. Hastings House unknown books
1941148712Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 574 and copy No. 7 studio "Received" dated Dec 9 1941 and "Permanent Legal Records" all rubber stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. One annotation in holograph pencil of three names on the verso of page 156.<br/><br/>Congress reestablishes a military academy at West Point lead by a strict commander Laird Cregar who pushes the young men in hopes of breaking their spirits. After a grueling trial the remaining ten men are sent to the Indiana territory to fight with General William Henry Harrison Douglass Dumbrille. <br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>Set in West Point NY. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as REVISED SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 7 and production No. 574 dated DECEMBER 9 1941. Title page present dated December 9 1941 noted as Shooting Final. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered 1. Memeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/9/42 and 3/5/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with faint dampstain on front wrapper fading text bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
19262844031926. First. unbound. very good. Very scarce sepia signed photograph "John Bland Sutton - 1926" 5.75" x 8.25" adhered to a larger matte 7.5" x 10" a waist-up image of the surgeon attired in a suit and top coat. Embossed with photographer William Surrey's studio signature aback-stamp. Very minor surface striations to the left of Bland-Sutton's image - otherwise in Fine condition.<br/><br/> British pioneering surgeon who became the first to identify the thyroid gland and the pathology associated with it - and to then proceed with the first intentional removal of a cancerous tumor from the thyroid a full decade before Felix Mandl's procedures.<br/><br/> unknown books
1662045255London: Printed by R.I. for Henry Mortlock 1662. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Later paneled calf rebacked black lettering piece added marbled endpapers. Small burn mark on front corner. Two bookplates: Thomas Maitland of Dundrennan & Geddes MacGregor. Internally some age toning light soiling scattered small tears to corners. 24 416 i.e. 418 2 31 1pp The second edition with an appendix concerning excommunication of Stillingfleete's first work - it attempts to heal divisions in the Protestant church following the Interregnum. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 045255. <br/><br/> Printed by R.I. for Henry Mortlock hardcover books
1725557731725. Image of Furnival's Inn by Noted Engraver Sutton Nicholas. Furnival's Inn c. 1725. 13" x 18" copperplate engraving handsomely matted and glazed. Image notably fresh. $400. This engraving which has a caption near the top margin offers a bird's eye view of the courtyard of Furnival's Inn its buildings and the surrounding neighborhood. The appearance of the Inn and the clothing and vehicles of the figures places the date of this image in the early decades of the eighteenth century. Sutton was highly regarded for his topographical engravings. Many were created for later editions of John Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster which is probably the source of this plate. Furnival's Inn was an Inn of Chancery attached to Lincoln's Inn that was founded in 1383. Sir Thomas More was a reader at this Inn; Dickens rented rooms there in 1834 to 1837 the time when he was writing the Pickwick Papers. unknown books
1970144863Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Chrislaw Productions 1970. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. and director Jerry Lewis on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Chris Pepper Peter Lawford and Charlie Salt Sammy Davis Jr. are about to lose their London nightclub. In desperation they turn to Pepper's aristocrat twin brother for help who shortly after they contact is murdered. Pepper assumes his dead brothers identity and together with Salt they try to solve the crime. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Herefordshire and London England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists / Chrislaw Productions unknown books
1975104674New York: Arlington House Publishers 1975. First edition of the second book in the economist's famed trilogy. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication To Anne Gannil with best wishes from the author Tony Sutton August 16 1975." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marge Terracciano. In this major revisionist work on Franklin Roosevelt Antony C. Sutton demonstrates that FDR was not against business - he just didn't like free competition. "FDR and his Wall Street circle were corporate socialists" maintains Sutton "They believed in making society work - for themselves. Underneath the populist rhetoric FDR was an elitist who influenced public policy to benefit special interests the most special of whom was himself." Arlington House Publishers hardcover books
197528380New York: Sunbury Press 1975. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled wrappers. 32 pp poetry chapbook by this obscure yet influential feminist poet hailing from the heydey of the Nyurican poetry movement of the 1970's. Very good condition. The poet's first book. No copies currently circulating in online commerce. Considered by some to be a cornerstone of this movement. Sunbury Press paperback books
183864377Salem MA 1838. Broadside. 59 x 49 cm. Seventeen articles in three columns plus two horizontal columns at bottom with locations of equipment enclosed in typographical border. Articles deal with administration issues deployment of equipment etc. Following the Regulations is a table identifying each of the Engines and Hose Hook and Ladders and Sail Carriages in the Department 15 pieces of equipment in all their location their Firewards an inspection report of each of the Fire Wagons a listing and inspection report on the equipment of each Fire Wagon and an inspection report of each Engine House. The final section is a list of the Location of all of the "Cisterns and Plugs" in the four wards of Salem. Very good. Not in American Imprints. AAS lists a copy. <br/><br/> unknown books
184043649Cuttack: Printed for the American and Foreign Bible Society at the Orissa Mission Press 1840. 8vo pp. 570; contemporary panelled calf black gilt-lettered morocco spine and cover labels; edges scuffed crack to spine head ex-Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library with usual early 20th-century markings and bookplate to front pastedown; pages lightly cockled from damp top textblock edge a bit damaged though not affecting text; mostly very good and sound. Darlow & Moule 7151. <br/><br/> Printed for the American and Foreign Bible Society, at the Orissa Mission Press unknown books
1959145643Culver City CA: Associated Producers Inc 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. <br/><br/>Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly" and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre Brett Halsey takes up his father's work of matter transmission and with his uncle Francois Vincent Price they accidentally produce a monstrous creature a man with the head of a fly. <br/><br/>Title page integral to front wrapper with credits for screenwriter and director Edward Bernds. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mechanical duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between February 24 1959 and February 25 1959. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Associated Producers Inc unknown books
