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1969142322N.p.: Amicus Productions 1969. Revised Draft script for the 1970 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1961 novel by Charles Eric Maine and one of the classics from Amicus Productions in the 1960s. A man has been in a coma since birth and awakens for the first time at the age of 30 with the mind of an infant. <br/><br/>Set in London. <br/><br/>Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated January 2 1969 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriters Stanley Mann and John Hale and author Charles Eric Maine. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Amicus Productions unknown books
19105898Portland Maine: Baker Extract Company 1910. Stapled booklet 13.5 x 10.5 cm. 24 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional book for the Baker Extract Company makers of flavoring extracts toilets waters etc. with offices in multiple states but the Laboratory was in Portland Maine. Recipes include cakes ice creams custards and candies. Interestingly a street address for the company is not provided despite the inclusion of a coupon which "MUST be sent direct to our Laboratory with the owner's name". Some light soiling and small chips to corners of some pages. Staples rusting. Stapled in gray wrappers with a humorous illustration. Good or a bit better. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this title. Baker Extract Company unknown books
1991300321991. Softcover. VG. White wraps. 40 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Essay by Stacey Moss. Catalogue of an exhibition from Mary 2 to July 12 1991. unknown books
195815647New York: Avalon Books 1958. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. The 1958 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp price-intact $2.75 Near Fine dustjacket. The book shows a very thin trace of gum along its edges and the dustjacket shows a bit of creasing to the covers from the publisher's original "Plasti-Kleer" jacket cover now removed. 12mo the dustjacket art by Ric Binkley. This copy directly from the publisher's personal files. <br/><br/> Avalon Books hardcover books
1943243413Le Mans: Le Maine Libre 1943. Pamphlet. 56p. illustrated with b&w photographs fuzzily-reproduced also a sketches and documents in facsimile. Softbound a stapled 9x6 inch pamphlet front cover printed in red and dark blue on buff. Staples rusted with a little migration covers very dirty with dust stain pressure marks handling crimps corner-tip creases; text paper is very toned but not yet fragile with faint staining. A fair reading copy. Le Maine Libre unknown books
19194707New York: The American Historical Society 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblocks Fine. No DJ. Light shelf/edge wear light toning to spines hint of toning to gilt else tight bright and unmarred. Halfbound black cloth spine and tips green cloth boards four raised bands gilt lettering and decorative elements marbled endpages speckled dye at textblock edges frontispieces. 4to. 306pp; 629pp 936pp; 339pp; 425pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. <br/><br/>A detailed and respected history of Maine from the colonial period through the wars and boundary disputes statehood the Civil War and a wide variety of social economic religious and other aspects of the evolution of the state. A handsome set seldom found in such nice condition nor complete with the Biographical volumes. The American Historical Society hardcover books
19872309526New York: Gallery Books 1987. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Jacket edges bumped one inch tear to jacket spine head. Spine slightly cocked top page ridge lightly soiled. 1987 Large Hardcover. 549 pp. "An encyclopedia of French cooking includes over 1200 easy-to-read recipes highlighted by symbols indicating degree of difficulty and cost to prepare. Gallery Books hardcover books
1912312798np 1912. 2 60 pp of typewritten text with a hand-drawn map of the Club property on the Dobsis Stream between "Dobsis" and "Pocumsas" lakes a folding cyanotype map of the region and 23 photographs of the Club and members. 1 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Reverse buckskin with title stamped in blind Dobsis Club 1872-1912 with metal ring binding. Signature "January 1 1912 Lillian W. Larrabbee" on title leaf. Typescript addendum of fishing catches 1919-1920 by H.S. Dennison loosely inserted. Green cloth folding box. 2 60 pp of typewritten text with a hand-drawn map of the Club property on the Dobsis Stream between "Dobsis" and "Pocumsas" lakes a folding cyanotype map of the region and 23 photographs of the Club and members. 1 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches. UNRECORDED. History of the Dobsis Club in the Grand Lake watershed formed in 1872 by Harvey Jewell Lyman B. Jewell E.W. Dennison Cutler Downer V.H. Blackston and F.A. Kennedy with famous Rangeley guide G. L. F. Ball as Manager. In 1879 club buildings were built by Ball on the spit of land between Sysladobsis or Dobsis and Pocumcus lakes. <br/>The first portion of the book transcribes Ball's letters 1872-1894 discussing his marriage money woes and fish hatchery business. Ball who had been a guide in the Rangeley region since the early 1860s worked for the club until 1898 and died the following year. The history includes a calendar of notable dates including construction poker hands an earthquake persons falling into the rivers and the disappearance of N.O. Shaw on 19 December 1907; his body was found the next June. Weather records include Ice Out dates earliest 22 April 1878 latest 16 May 1888 extremes of temperature in summer and winter. There is a long register of fishermen and visitors and logs of fishing catches and game bags. Many names from the Dennison clan appear over the years. The work is illustrated throughout with high quality photographs: portraits of members and views of the club sometimes two to a plate. The last entries for seven members visiting in Spring 1912 are in manuscript.<br/>The club appears to have continued in existence through the early 1940s. unknown books
1919307722Boston 1919. 291 photographs usually four to a page on 75 black album leaves captioned throughout in white ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Post bound album in black leather over limp boards edges rubbed front joint tender. A few photographs loosened but all present and complete one photo folded at left edge long ago. Black cloth folding box. 291 photographs usually four to a page on 75 black album leaves captioned throughout in white ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An excellent and fully captioned photograph album of summer trout fishing and camping in the Rangeley district at Loon Lake Maine and other places of interest. The photographer is unnamed but evidently from Boston or the north shore with some connections further south on Long Island.<br/><br/>The album records two trips to Maine: the first to Loon Lake in 1915 and the J. Lewis York family fishing camp including several fine images of York often with a bear cub on a lead 66 photographs on 17 leaves ; and the second undated to Green Lake Mike Marr's camp at Indian Pond to Squaw Mountain Pond with Fred Lessor guide and to Moosehead Lake and the Kennebec 36 photographs on 9 leaves. <br/><br/>Three trips to Nova Scotia in 1914 1919 and 1923 to the Kedgemakoogee Rod and Gun Club on Kedgemakoogee Lake the Shelburne River and other trout fishing excursions 139 photographs on 37 leaves. In the June 1923 trip Irving Lake Dam on the Shelburne is described as the best fishing water of the trip. A few participants are identified: E.L. Matlack O.H. Muir and Wilson Forrest and the unidentified grinning angler with a large string of trout may well be the compiler. <br/><br/>As well as scenes from the Piping Rock Horse Show Long Island noting Miss Lansdale up in several snapshots 22 photographs on 5 leaves; and a trip to Atlantic City at the end with the Shriners parade and seaside scenes 27 photographs on 7 leaves. Cf. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 186 for a similar album unknown books
19038541Portland 1903. 12mo. xvi 2 1016 XXXIXpp. Original cloth light wear. Colton's color folding map. Very Good. Excellent map many advertisements. unknown books
1971279012Washington: Library of Congress 1971. paperback. near fine. Many Illus. 86pp. 4to pictorial red wrs. Washington: Library of Congress 1971. Near Fine<br/><br/> Library of Congress unknown books
194590241London: John Westhouse 1945. hardcover. very good. 129pp. thin 8vo cloth; lightly rubbed. London: John Westhouse 1945. First edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> John Westhouse unknown books
193821310London: John Murray 1938. First edn. 8vo pp. 286. Photographs. Cover little worn and stained little foxing flyleaves stained o/w VG. A biography of Roosevelt. John Murray unknown books
1935011477London: Hutchinson 1935. 289 1p. b/w illus. original blue cloth. Hutchinson unknown books
195790276London: Epworth 1957. hardcover. very good/good. Introduction by Sir Compton Mackenzie. 156pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; dust jacket worn and chipped. London: The Epworth Press 1957. A very good copy in a good dust jacket.<br/><br/> Epworth unknown books
1972325927New York: Nelson Doubleday 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book club. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Nelson Doubleday hardcover books
196710205NY: Ballantine Books 1967. 1st edition. PBO. Wrappers. NF. <br/><br/>1974 Hugo Nominee. Ballantine Books unknown books
1959164720New York: Ballantine 1959. First edition. Softcover. A paperback original. A tight very good plus copy in wrappers with some toning to the pages and a former owner signature to the title page. Ballantine unknown books
196126558London: Hodder and Stoughton. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped nice tight clean copy just the teensiest bumping to the lower front corner; the jacket is virtually flawless downgraded from Fine only because of the price-clipping and a touch of soiling to the rear panel. "John Soames is thirty years old and physiologically speaking alive. But by some trick of fate he has never become conscious. He is awoken and brought to full consciousness by a surgeon's knife a newborn baby with the body of a healthy young man." Basis for the 1970 British-American film of the same name starring Terence Stamp and Robert Vaughn; a critical and box-office disappointment on its original release the film has gained a bit of a retrospective cult reputation with one online critic calling it "a dark gem and a worthy pretender to the British horror hall of fame." Uncommon in the first edition all the more so in such outstanding condition. . Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
195988054New York: Ballantine Books 1959. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Ballantine Books 360K. Issued earlier in Britain as Count-Down 1959. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-269. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 116. Reginald 09560A. A fine copy. #88054 Ballantine Books unknown books
1961105070London: Hodder and Stoughton 1961. Octavo boards. First edition. Slight spine lean some foxing to top and fore-edges of text block bruise to lower right corner of front cover a very good copy in good dust jacket with some wear wear foxing and soiling and clipped price. #105070 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1958139759London: Hodder and Stoughton 1958. Octavo boards. First edition. "Nuclear tests cause the oceans to drain away under the Earth's crust. A stiff-upper-lipped British disaster novel of the old school and one of Maine's better books. Following the drought of 1976 it was revised and reissued in the UK as THIRST!" - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition. p. 373. Brians. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 369. Small book label of Dr. Anthony R. Michaelis editor of Discovery affixed to front free endpaper. Top edge of pages a bit dusty and foxed else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with soiling and age-darkening to spine panel shelf wear at edges small chips from front corner tips and 15 mm closed tear at lower rear spine fold. A scarce book seldom found in jacket. #139759 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1955158323New York: Rinehart & Company 1955. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. Early owners signature at top edge of front free endpaper. Age-darkening to text block common to this book a nearly fine copy in good plus dust jacket with wear and shallow chipping at edges and age tanning to rear panel. #158323 Rinehart & Company unknown books
1956143881New York: Bantam Books 1956. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam Books A1470. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. Light wear to cover edges a very good copy. #143881 Bantam Books unknown books
1955105071New York: Rinehart & Company 1955. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. A novel of time travel about a "murdered" scientist lost in a chain of endless futures trying to get back to his own time. Based on the author's radio play "The Einstein Highway" broadcast by the BBC. 21 February 1954. Mild age-darkening to text block common to this book a nearly fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with light wear mostly along top edges rubbing along rear spine fold and dust soiling to rear panel. #105071 Rinehart & Company unknown books
