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191225822London: Lather Pioneer Mission n.d. 1912. Second edition small 8vo pp. xii 274 1; frontispiece portrait map and 14 plates showing 29 photographic illustrations; very good sound copy in original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Pioneer missionary among the Lakhers a tribe of easternmost India south of Assam this text deals with the Lather people from Mizoram and the role of the Lather Pioneer Mission in their development. <br/><br/> Lather Pioneer Mission, n.d. hardcover books
1936123984Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1936. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Milton Merlin in pencil dated 1936 on the front endpaper. Merlin was a television producer and writer during the 1950s and 1960s most notably for "The Millionaire" "I Spy" and "Bonanza" as well as the screenplay for the 1939 film "The Kid from Texas." Very Good plus or better in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean spine ends lightly bumped and brief offsetting at the endpapers. Brief chipping at the jacket extremities with scattered dampstains and light soil at the spine panel. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1978279378Washington: New Republic Books 1978. First. hardcover. fine/very good. 48 color plates 250 b/w Illus. 228pp. Oblong 4to green cloth d.w. Washington D.C.: New Republic Books 1978. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> New Republic Books unknown books
1961128445New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. <br/><br/>Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8 1961 opened the following day an for over 200 performances and closed on June 2 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award as were producers Coe and Cantor. <br/><br/>Gideon Campbell witnesses the Angel of the Lord March who enlists him to perform a miracle in battle and to kill an idolatrous Hebrew. Gideon refuses and suggests that his pity for man is above God's law. God begrudgingly concedes. <br/><br/>Basis for Wilhelm Semmelroth's West German film 1966 and for George Schaefer's Emmy nominated television movie 1971. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with paper title label on the spine. Title page present undated with a credit for playwright Chayefsky. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-2-41 Act 2 Scene 2 Page 41. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor unknown books
1989146380Minneapols MN and New York: Walker Art Center and Harry N. Abrams Inc 1989. Second printing. Softcover. Foreword by Caroline Hightower. Introduction by Mildred Friedman. Essays by Joseph Giovannini Neil Harris Estelle Jussim David Kunzle Maud Lavin Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller and Lorraine Wild. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations along with interview of these designers by Steven Heller: Saul Bass Aaron Burns Matthew Carter Ivan Chermayeff Muriel Cooper Milton Glaser Richard and Robert Greenberg April Grelman Tibor Kalman Alexander Liberman Leo Lionni Cipe Pineles Paul Rand Luis Silverstein and Bradbury Thompson. A tight and clean very near fine copy in wrappers. A very good reference. Walker Art Center and Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1995142875Chichester W. Sussex and New York: John Wiley and Sons 1995. Paperback. x 215p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. On the impact of AIDS on individuals their families and health workers. John Wiley and Sons paperback books
1987700974Berkeley CA: Lady Jane Press. 1987. First Edition in wrappers only. Very Good. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Lady Jane Press paperback books
2004915781NY: Knopf. 2004. Signed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Knopf hardcover books
1990282545Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1990. paperback. very good. Illus. 413pp. 8vo pr. wrs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1990. Very good<br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
1996Embry 191296Harvard U. Press 1996. First edition first printing. Fine in near fine lightly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Harvard U. Press, 1996. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1989147765Detroit: Black & Red 1989. Paperback. 155p. slightly edgeworn wraps with corner bumped illus. Black & Red paperback books
1989137993Detroit: Black & Red 1989. Paperback. 155p. wraps illus. very good condition. Black & Red paperback books
2011174721Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing 2011. Hardcover. VG. Beige stamped boards with white spine lettering. Red-oranged paper band with black and white lettering. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Text in English and Spanish. Schilt Publishing hardcover books
1968014934New York: Frederick Fell Inc. 1968. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 180 pages of text. Hardcover binding in almost new condition with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with moderate sunning on the spine a few tears and scuffs and a small stain to the top edge of the rear panel; protected in archival mylar. Minor browning to the front endpaper. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Frederick Fell, Inc. Hardcover books
1975130297Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1975. Early Draft script for the 1977 film issued roughly two years before the film's release. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from a woman at the Paul Kohner agency to actress Maria Schneider. Based on the 1964 novel by Joanne Greenberg written under the pseudonym Hannah Green. <br/><br/>One of the great unsung literary adaptations of the 1970s taking a terrifically complex novel about a young woman who has completely retreated into fantasy following the death of her sister. A film that suffered inevitable comparisons to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" but actually far more internal and horrific an actor's film brought to life by Bibi Andersson and a young Kathleen Quinlan. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for novelist Green and screenwriter Mann. 102 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
2004198224Oakland: Oakland Museum of California 2004. 28p. 8.5x11 inches coated paperstock throughout with numerous b&w white exhibit photographs very good exhibition catalog in stapled pictorial wraps. The eleventh annual Oakland Museum "celebration Oakland Museum of California unknown books
1935136191Nancy France: Arts Graphiques Modernes 1935. Softcover. G One corner well bumped head of spine is torn and torn into the back cover though book is intact and still quite nice. Tan wraps 95 pp. 77 BW illus. one pull-out illus. exhibition announcement tipped in. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1935 exhibition on the 300th anniversary of the death of French engraver Jacques Callot 1592-1635. This presentation is one of the nicer-looking treatments inside the covers of this artist featuring 77 examples of his engravings and including an engraved depiction of Callot himself. Arts Graphiques Modernes paperback books
1923125371Cleveland and New Haven CT: for the Cleveland Museum of Art by Yale University Press 1923. 300 copies printed. Hardbound. Extremities of covers are rough moderate spoiling top and bottom of spine frayed bookplate. Few library marks inside but none found on plates. Sold as a reference copy not for the collector. Half vermillion cloth with beige rice paper covered boards with applied paper label. 45 pp. followed by 145 bw illustrations. Oversized. A very nice solid reference copy of this uncommon title. The bw plates are generally large and detailed. An important reference. for the Cleveland Museum of Art by Yale University Press hardcover books
199838006Boston: Little Brown and Company 1998. xiv 241p. first printing dj. The African American author a frequent radio commentator presents a collection of short stories and essays about her rural North Carolina background. Bit or scraping and glue residue to lower rear panel. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
2009253292New York: The New Press 2009. Hardcover. xviii282p. red cloth boards dj very good. The New Press hardcover books
1925LD5782Paris: Collection des Arts Les Editions G. Cres & Cie 1925. Hardcover. Fine. Original morocco and leather endpapers in folder and slipcase; 4to; with 84 in-text illustrations in pochoir by Dignimont. Number 291 from a limited edition of 350 copies on Rives paper. First published in 1904. Very fine illustrations remain exceptionally fresh. <br/><br/> Collection des Arts, Les Editions G. Cres & Cie hardcover books
1954116277New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1954. First edition of Roosevelt and Hickok's tribute to women in America. Octavo original cloth. Signed by both Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Uncommon signed. "Eleanor Roosevelt was a figure of considerable historical consequence on two grounds. She embodied the aggressive spirit of feminism that began challenging male domination of American business and politics in the 1920s and she became. the champion of the New Deal's liberal impulse" New York Review of Books. Ladies of Courage coauthored by Roosevelt with her close friend journalist Lorena Hickok honors the struggle and political achievements of women. Hickok who "ranks among the most important woman journalists of the 20th century. entered Eleanor Roosevelt's life at a pivotal moment and became her greatest source of emotional sustenance as she began to redefine the role of First Lady" Beasley et al. Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia 236. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
197224025NY: Random House 1972. First Edition. 8vo pp. 370. A nice copy in dj. Random House unknown books
1668289706Cologne. : Pierre de la Place. 1668. Contemporary leather - lacks front board. . Good lacks front board and endpapers title page tattered and toned at edges old ink name to title page remainder of text very good. . 12mo. 18x7.8 cm. . French text. Memoirs of Henry II the 17th century French adventurer and pretender to the throne of Naples. weight: 0.6 lb. Pierre de la Place. hardcover books
181926090London: vols.I-II published by Messrs. Boydell & Co printed by W.Bulmer & Co; vol.III: published by Hurst Robinson & Co. printed by Thomas Davison 1819. 3 volumes small folio. 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. 2 mezzotint portraits of Claude and Earlom 1 stipple-engraved portrait of John Boydell. 300 etchings with mezzotint all printed in bistre all by Earlom after Claude. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards<br/> <br/>"The first complete edition with the engravings sic. in the best and final state embodying the important drawings from the great English collections of the period" Abbey.<br/> <br/>"This capital work a landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings is . an important forerunner of later publications on Art Collections. It contains 300 etchings of drawings by Claude Lorrain pastoral mythological and biblical subjects and was called Liber Veritatis Book of Truth for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine works from forgeries or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance . The catalogues in each volume give a comprehensive description of each drawing indicating also for whom they were executed which pictures were painted from them and the ownership at the date of publication of the book - in short a real catalogue raisonné" Abbey.<br/> <br/>Abbey Life 200; Lowndes II p.1398. [vols.I-II] published by Messrs. Boydell & Co, printed by W.Bulmer & Co; [vol.III:] published by Hurst, Robinson & Co., printed unknown books
